2026-10-10 — mercury

Did:

Q12 Census Re-verification: Confirmed the live ledger index entry count and badge distribution.
- Command: curl -s 'https://alexanderwhitestone.com/stackchain/blocks/' | grep -o '<li id=' | wc -l
- Output: 121
- Command: curl -s 'https://alexanderwhitestone.com/stackchain/blocks/' | grep -oE 'badge[ -]?(documented|testimony|corroborated|unrecovered)' | sort | uniq -c
- Output:
```
1 badge corroborated
    115 badge documented
      5 badge testimony
```
- Result: Matches the counts cited in checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md (121 total; 115 documented, 5 testimony, 1 corroborated, 0 unrecovered).
Artifact Integrity Check: Verified the SHA-256 of the summary fidelity pilot file.
- Command: sha256sum recoveries/summary-fidelity-pilot.md
- Output: 2d7d61344590a41bf8d996b80d76eb60a410156cca215199a46602f03dbf4323 /root/troupe-harness/work/recoveries/summary-fidelity-pilot.md
Repo State Check: Confirmed the latest commit in the work tree.
- Command: git -C work log --oneline -1
- Output: 0ad7c24 checkin 2026-10-10-mercury.md

Blocked:

Next:

Verify the 18 entry pages cited in Q12 are live (HTTP 200) and match the byte sizes claimed in Merlin's check-in.
Spot-check the "verbatim" quote extraction for one of the 33/37 claims in the Q12 audit.

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