diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 36e88e8..c747999 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ today that is all of them. **A missing gate script is a FAILURE, never a skip.**
 **The pre-push hook** (`.githooks/pre-push`) runs it with `--fast` and refuses a failing push. It is
 **per-clone** — switch it on once with `git config core.hooksPath .githooks`, and a manual run WARNS
 when this clone is unarmed. `git push --no-verify` bypasses it deliberately; **say so in the session
-report when you use it.** Both facts are why CI is still owed (`OPEN-ITEMS.md` R-168).
+report when you use it** — CI re-runs the same entry point on every push and **emails the operator
+on failure**, so a bypass is noticed even though it is not blocked (R-168, CLOSED 2026-08-02; CI
+reports rather than refuses because there is no PR to gate — R-169).
 
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diff --git a/REPORT-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md b/REPORT-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md
index 59a2e0b..b673cd9 100644
--- a/REPORT-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md
+++ b/REPORT-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md
@@ -140,6 +140,22 @@ only the six Google auth stubs. Per §5 that means **write nothing**. The Go cod
 either: one direct dependency in `felhom-agent`, and the hub and controller are stdlib-only by
 standing rule.
 
+## 12b. A stale claim the checklist caught — corrected in all four repos
+
+Confirming this session's own push by run ID (checklist's last item) surfaced that **four instruction
+files claimed CI was still owed** (R-168) — and **R-168 was CLOSED on 2026-08-02**. CI exists, runs
+`repo_gates.py --fast` on every push, and emails on failure; this session's commits produced runs
+117 (`success`) and 118.
+
+One of the four was `felhom.eu/CLAUDE.md`, where **this session carried the stale sentence forward
+through the trim**. `felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md` **contradicted itself** — its release section already
+said R-168 mails the failure. Corrected in all four, pushed.
+
+**Two lessons about this task, not about CI:** a trim is a *volume* operation and carries stale
+content forward unless each claim is re-checked; and the gate cannot catch this class — "this
+register item is closed" is not mechanically checkable from the instruction file. The thing that
+caught it was the checklist item demanding a **run ID** rather than a memory.
+
 ## 13. Registers
 
 - **R-229** re-scoped — legs (a) and (c) **CLOSED**; (b) remains; (d) moved to R-230.
diff --git a/documentation/audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md b/documentation/audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md
index ca28c46..af20d3a 100644
--- a/documentation/audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md
+++ b/documentation/audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-part2-2026-08-06.md
@@ -226,6 +226,44 @@ upstream images are the only plausible consumer, and there `docker inspect` stil
 
 ---
 
+## J2. A stale claim found by the checklist's own last item — corrected in all four repos
+
+The end-of-session checklist says **"confirm your own last push's CI run went green, by run ID."**
+Doing that surfaced a contradiction in the file that had just been trimmed.
+
+Four instruction files asserted that continuous integration **was still owed** (`OPEN-ITEMS.md`
+R-168). **R-168 was CLOSED on 2026-08-02**: `.gitea/workflows/gates.yml` re-runs each repo's gate
+entry point on every push and emails the operator on failure via Resend. This session's own commits
+produced runs 117 (`success`) and 118 against the real SHAs.
+
+| File | Status |
+|---|---|
+| `felhom.eu/CLAUDE.md` | **carried forward into the trim by this session** — corrected |
+| `felhom-controller/.claude/rules/gates.md` | from part 1 — corrected |
+| `felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md` | from part 1 — corrected |
+| `app-catalog-felhom.eu/CLAUDE.md` | older wording, same claim — corrected |
+
+**`felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md` contradicted itself.** Its release section already said *"R-168 sends that
+failure by mail"* while its gates section said CI was still owed — a contradiction **inside a single
+instruction file**, which is exactly the class the whole R-229 effort exists to find, sitting in a
+file part 1 had already gone through.
+
+Two lessons, both about this task rather than about CI:
+
+1. **A trim carries stale claims forward unless each is re-checked.** Compressing 227 lines to 115 is
+   a *volume* operation; it does not validate content. This sentence survived because it read as
+   settled — the same reason the nine invariant comments in the project's own case table survived.
+2. **The gate cannot catch this class.** It checks length, version literals, expired TEMPORARY blocks,
+   rule scoping and copy identity. "This register item is closed" is not mechanically checkable from
+   the instruction file alone. The checklist item that *did* catch it is a human PULL check, and it
+   only worked because it demands a **run ID**, not a memory.
+
+No new register row: found, fixed, and pushed in the same session. `REPORT.md` was deliberately **not**
+overwritten in the three sibling repos — a one-line docs correction must not destroy the record of
+their last real implementation.
+
+---
+
 ## K. Observations — noticed, not acted on
 
 1. **`target-selection.md` t740 error** — still present, carried from part 1 §L.1.