diff --git a/REPORT.md b/REPORT.md
index 8189628..34b0478 100644
--- a/REPORT.md
+++ b/REPORT.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ demonstration of R-156 and of its fix. 41 fixture tests driving `check()` (the f
 calls); every rule red-proofed.
 
 Registered in `CLAUDE.md` and `REUSE.md`. **Enforcement is convention, not CI** — the catalog repo
-has no CI of any kind. Raising that is proposed as R-160.
+has no CI of any kind. Raising that is proposed as R-161.
 
 ## Method notes worth carrying forward
 
diff --git a/audits/persistence-sweep-2026-08-02/README.md b/audits/persistence-sweep-2026-08-02/README.md
index 5ac80d9..e67c306 100644
--- a/audits/persistence-sweep-2026-08-02/README.md
+++ b/audits/persistence-sweep-2026-08-02/README.md
@@ -632,7 +632,21 @@ the very finding this session was commissioned to act on. **R-156 is the reason
 and it is not in the register.** Whoever files the entries below should carry R-156 and R-157
 across at the same time.
 
-### R-158 — wishlist's data lands in an ANONYMOUS volume: never backed up, orphaned by a redeploy
+**And it happened again, to this document, while it was being written.** The first draft of this
+section numbered its proposals R-158…R-161 on the strength of a register grep showing R-155 as the
+highest filed. Mid-session the parallel session pushed
+`audits/SPIKE-recovery-unit-space-2026-08-02.md` and `audits/CAMPAIGN-10-closeout-2026-08-02.md`,
+both of which **use R-158** for an unrelated finding (recovery-unit space ceiling on mp1) — and
+neither adds it to `ROADMAP.md` or `OPEN-ITEMS.md`, which still stop at R-155. So a grep of the
+register was true when it was run and stale within hours, and two sessions minted the same number
+for different findings on the same day.
+
+These proposals are therefore renumbered **R-159…R-162**, and the number to claim should be taken
+at filing time, not at drafting time. The register being the only source of truth is precisely what
+is not happening: **R-156, R-157 and R-158 are all live in audit documents and none of them is
+filed.**
+
+### R-159 — wishlist's data lands in an ANONYMOUS volume: never backed up, orphaned by a redeploy
 
 **FIXED HERE** (`templates/wishlist/docker-compose.yml`); filed to record the class.
 
@@ -655,7 +669,7 @@ immich ever writes there is invisible to backup. Suggested standing rule for `RE
 must mount every path in its image's `Config.Volumes`, or state why not.* Checkable statically only
 if the image is pulled, which is why it lives in the runtime gate.
 
-### R-159 — gramps-web persisted three paths and wrote to none of them
+### R-160 — gramps-web persisted three paths and wrote to none of them
 
 **FIXED HERE** (`templates/gramps-web/docker-compose.yml`).
 
@@ -669,7 +683,7 @@ Severity above papra's: papra loses documents a customer uploaded, which they ma
 elsewhere. gramps-web loses the family tree — the artefact the customer *built inside the app*, of
 which no other copy exists by construction.
 
-### R-160 — the gate exists, and nothing automated runs it
+### R-161 — the gate exists, and nothing automated runs it
 
 The check R-156 asks for now exists (`scripts/check-volume-persistence.py`, §7). Its enforcement
 level is **convention**: the catalog repo has no CI of any kind (`.gitea/workflows`, `.github`,
@@ -688,7 +702,7 @@ buildable from this repo:
 Interim position, recorded in `CLAUDE.md`: run it when a template's `volumes:` block or image tag
 changes, and at the start of every catalog campaign.
 
-### R-161 — `docker diff` is the only witness, and its failure mode is quiet
+### R-162 — `docker diff` is the only witness, and its failure mode is quiet
 
 A limitation, not a defect. The gate's power comes from `docker diff` excluding mounted paths, which
 makes "in the writable layer" mechanically decidable — an implementation detail of the overlay