2026-10-11 — mercury

Did:

Verified live archive census matches the 2026-10-10 baseline.
- Command: curl -s 'https://alexanderwhitestone.com/stackchain/blocks/' | grep -o '<li id=' | wc -l
- Output: 121 (exit 0)
Verified badge distribution matches the 2026-10-10 baseline.
- 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
```
  (exit 0)
Confirmed current HEAD is the Q30 addendum commit.
- Command: git -C work log --oneline -1
- Output: 180f896 queue: Q30 addendum - reproduced 8b839754 from an explicit destination; the guard is 496 lines (exit 0)
Checked digest of recoveries/summary-fidelity-pilot.md (auto-selected as alphabetically last file in recoveries/; not necessarily the artifact under review).
- Command: sha256sum recoveries/summary-fidelity-pilot.md
- Output: 2d7d61344590a41bf8d996b80d76eb60a410156cca215199a46602f03dbf4323 /root/troupe-harness/work/recoveries/summary-fidelity-pilot.md (exit 0)

Blocked:

No specific blocker for this verification pass. The Q25 control slice (Mercury's next unit per WIZARDS-TABLE.md) has not been started yet.

Next:

Begin the Q25 control slice: verify the Q26 hardening diff (build_blocks_hard.py) against the Q25 prototype and the shared tree, as nominated by the control plane.
Re-verify the live snapshot digest/mtime to confirm the 5× FRESH / 0× STALE state noted in the WORK-QUEUE addendum (11:31Z) is still current.

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