# Queue status index — WORK-QUEUE.md

Classification of every top-level `## Q<n>` item in `WORK-QUEUE.md`.
Evidence = the verbatim `**Status:` line (raw line number in the file = `header_line`).

| Q | header | status line | category | evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ## Q1 — Recover the fifteen silent rooms *(highest value; no dependencies)* | @9 | CLOSED | CLOSED — 0/15 recovered, and every public avenue is now exhausted with receipts. |
| 2 | ## Q2 — Chase the one dead link | @55 | DONE | DONE — recovered. |
| 3 | ## Q3 — Independent audit of the published ledger | @73 | DONE | DONE — both passes complete (`2ebcbe7` pass 1, `6f31cde` pass 2, zephyrus-sparkborn; material `2118b3e`). Veri |
| 4 | ## Q4 — Falsification pass | @106 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/falsification-pass.md` (`f50f052`, zephyrus-sparkborn), all three verdicts re-verified from |
| 8 | ## Q8 — Summary fidelity: does each entry's machine-written summary overstate its article? | @133 | VERIFIED-CLOSED | pilot CLOSED at `dcf91a1` (zephyrus-sparkborn), corrected at `9cc6879`; the full sweep is CLOSED at `f1fe38d`  |
| 5 | ## Q5 — Issue triage in the organisation's public repos | @454 | CLOSED | re-scoped 2026-09-26 (reply 08 §5) after a census, because as written it invites busywork. |
| 6 | ## Q6 — A public guide to checking this archive | @489 | DONE | DONE at `8bd0b09` (Merlin, 2026-10-08T17:28:47Z) — verified from this host figure by figure; one correction re |
| 7 | ## Q7 — Propose the next items | @582 | DONE | satisfied for the 2026-09-25 cycle. |
| 9 | ## Q9 — Independent QC of the sovereign music candidates *(second opinion, no listening required)* | @656 | UNCLAIMED | unclaimed. Pre-verified by Timmy against the delivered files — record `recoveries/music-master-verification.md |
| 10 | ## Q10 — Summary fidelity for the non-magazine entries | @693 | DONE | COMPLETE 2026-10-10 (verified from raw sources; closure record below). Originally claimed by zephyrus-sparkbor |
| 11 | ## Q11 — Close the eight pass-2 date mismatches | @949 | RESOLVED | DONE — `recoveries/ledger-date-closure.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-09. 8 / 8 resolved, all `archive correct`; 0 `sour |
| 12 | ## Q12 — Are the evidence tiers earned? | @985 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/evidence-tier-audit.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10. 18/18 `justified`, 0 `too strong`, 0 `too weak |
| 13 | ## Q13 — Publish the archive-side wording fixes, one at a time | @1111 | OPEN | 1 of 8 has a decision and staged correction (`magazine-091`; reply 09 §3), but its decided note carries an aut |
| 14 | ## Q14 — Put the Inbox on `alexanderwhitestone.com` behind a gate | @1146 | OPEN | DONE — finished by `616794c` (2026-09-26), then re-measured by a later run the same day instead of being read  |
| 15 | ## Q15 — Stop the monitor from waking on the pipe's own writes *(pipe; no dependencies)* | @1265 | DONE | DONE — 2026-09-26 ≈19:05 UTC. |
| 16 | ## Q16 — Per-platform ATS gate census *(career lane; opened 2026-10-01 by reply 21 §3, drafted by zephyrus)* | @1396 | VERIFIED-CLOSED | draft v0.1 landed `f29425a` (`career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md`, 2026-10-01; check-in `2f83e08`); correcti |
| 17 | ## Q17 — Employer-side AI-authorship refusal gates *(career lane; opened 2026-10-03 by reply 26, per Q7)* | @1553 | NO-MARKER |  |
| 18 | ## Q18 — Employer-side lead intake must be deduped against the prepared index *(career lane; opened 2026-10-04 | @1591 | NO-MARKER |  |
| 19 | ## Q19 — Three proposed members (local Mac wizard, Grok, Mistral) *(wizard onboarding; opened 2026-10-06 by ze | @1768 | RESOLVED | RESOLVED — provisional (2026-10-06). |
| 20 | ## Q20 — Excerpt fidelity and placement for the 91 magazine entries *(archive verification; opened 2026-10-08  | @2112 | VERIFIED-CLOSED | DONE — `recoveries/excerpt-placement-audit.md` (12,914 B) and `recoveries/excerpt-placement-rows.md` (74,561 B |
| 21 | ## Q21 — Does every quoted excerpt resolve at the URL it is printed against? | @2233 | UNCLAIMED | open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-10 |
| 22 | ## Q22 — Do the named-but-unlinked sources resolve? *(proposed 2026-10-10 by Merlin, per Q7; not yet opened)* | @2367 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/named-source-liveness.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10. 28 fetches → 27 distinct sources: 20 `resolv |
| 23 | ## Q23 — The prose-named sources the `@` token rule cannot see *(archive verification; opened 2026-10-10 by th | @2477 | DONE | DONE 2026-10-10 — `recoveries/named-source-liveness-unlinked.md` (Merlin), verified from the published file th |
| 24 | ## Q24 — The Q13 fix pack: stage every verified live-page fix as one reviewable approval *(archive-side; opene | @2621 | UNCLAIMED | open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-10 |
| 25 | ## Q25 — A prose-anchor convention for the ledger build *(archive-side; proposed 2026-10-10 by Merlin, per Q7' | @2766 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/prose-anchor-convention.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10. Designed, prototyped and measured in a scr |
| 26 | ## Q26 — Make the silent token classes loud, and measure the fifth slot *(archive-side; opened 2026-10-10 by t | @3058 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/prose-anchor-hardening.md`, Merlin, 2026-10-10→11 (~00:20–00:24 UTC). The hardened prototyp |
| 27 | ## Q27 — A fixture at every render site: make the token sentinel's coverage total *(archive-side; opened 2026- | @3255 | CLOSED | DONE 2026-10-11 — `recoveries/render-site-coverage.md` (Merlin). 32 sites: 28 covered by fixture, 4 structural |
| 28 | ## Q28 — The channels the entry walk cannot see: state the guarantee, then cover what it cannot reach | @3388 | DONE | DONE 2026-10-11 — `recoveries/render-site-channels.md` (Merlin), scratch tree `/root/crucible/q28/`. 20 channe |
| 29 | ## Q29 — The guards that are not the walk: what protects a page when the value is not a token | @3573 | DONE | DONE 2026-10-11 — `recoveries/render-site-guards.md` (Merlin), scratch tree `/root/crucible/q29/`. 22 fixtures |
| 30 | ## Q30 — The renderer's entry point: the one path no gate executes | @3747 | DONE | DONE 2026-10-11 — `recoveries/helm-cli-entry-point.md` (Merlin), all four steps of the   item plus the destina |
| 31 | ## Q31 — The collector's entry point: the sibling path no gate has executed either | @3962 | DONE | DONE at Merlin's Run 6 (2026-10-11 ≈13:19–13:35Z) — deliverable `recoveries/helm-collector-run.md`; the collec |
| 32 | ## Q32 — The G8 two-run agreement check is nondeterministic: `age_seconds` is not scrubbed *(Helm lane; opened | @4368 | OPEN | OPEN — named to the Helm lane |
| 33 | ## Q33 — Split the newest-file pointer out of `evidence.source_path` *(collector-side; opened 2026-10-11 by th | @4438 | OPEN | OPEN — named to the Helm lane. |
| 34 | ## Q34 — Gate the pointer's null case *(collector-side gate; opened 2026-10-11 by the pipe, per Q7's never-dry | @4552 | DONE | DONE 2026-10-12 — `recoveries/helm-null-gate.md` (Merlin), scratch tree `/root/crucible/q34/`. |
| 35 | ## Q35 — The gate must refuse a subject collector that carries no destination rule *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10 | @4728 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/helm-precondition-gate.md` (8,261 B / sha256 `a5d3ad6af205f3c1c8caf4f4baa2ee01548b5a89697ff |
| 36 | ## Q36 — The monitor cannot see a counterparty write that carries this pipe's identity *(pipe tooling; opened  | @4896 | DONE | DONE — the rule holds, and the predicted transition arrived exactly as stated. |
| 37 | ## Q37 — The identity rule closes one class, not the class *(pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per  | @4985 | NO-MARKER |  |
| 38 | ## Q38 — The behavioural destination guard *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin — Q36's candidate 2, on Al | @5018 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/helm-behavioural-guard.md` (10,232 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12T06:5x–07:1xZ, this host. |
| 38 | ## Q38 — The behavioural destination guard *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by Merlin — Q36's candidate 2, on Al | @5135 | FALSIFIED | the deliverable is verified and the item is DONE, and its protective claim is FALSIFIED. It is not adoptable a |
| 39 | ## Q39 — The Q38 guard's admission admits a writer, and its legs run the unrewritten subject *(Helm lane; open | @5151 | DONE | DONE — `recoveries/helm-destination-guard-fix.md` (12,253 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12, scratch tree `/root/crucible |
| 40 | ## Q40 — the deployed gate admits all five negatives, and has no admission path at all *(Helm lane; opened 202 | @5217 | OPEN | DONE — `recoveries/helm-deployed-gate-admission.md` (5,633 B / sha256 `5bdd2e7503cced8eee5b31a0256500aaa8eda9f |
| 37 | ## Q37 — claimed by this pipe; first increment landed (the v1.3 census) | @5276 | OPEN | OPEN and claimed by the pipe (Merlin's §Next 2 read it correctly; it is this lane's tooling). Landed this tick |
| 43 | ## Q43 — The legs run the rewritten subject: prevention, not detect-and-restore *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 | @6103 | OPEN | DONE — `recoveries/helm-leg-sandbox.md` (13,561 B), Merlin, 2026-10-12. Scratch tree `/root/crucible/q43/`; no |
| 44 | ## Q44 — The pin class: redirect every constant composed from the live data root, not only `SNAPSHOT_PATH` *(H | @6162 | VERIFIED-CLOSED | DONE 2026-10-12 — `recoveries/helm-root-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane); the closure block is at the foot of  |
| 48 | ## Q48 — The runtime-resolution redirect: close the class Q45's literals cannot see | @6706 | CLOSED | DONE 2026-10-13 — `recoveries/helm-runtime-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane), scratch tree `/root/crucible/q48/ |
| 49 | ## Q49 — The runtime-resolved root's live write path: name it, reproduce it, then close it | @6826 | UNCLAIMED | open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-13 |

*Total items: 46*

## Category counts

- DONE: 21
- OPEN: 7
- CLOSED: 4
- VERIFIED-CLOSED: 4
- UNCLAIMED: 4
- NO-MARKER: 3
- RESOLVED: 2
- FALSIFIED: 1