diff --git a/docs/LANES/ROUND26_INSTRUCTIONS.md b/docs/LANES/ROUND26_INSTRUCTIONS.md
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@@ -80,10 +80,17 @@ hold, on three rungs:
    zero-console-errors law holds without exceptions. E: manifest↔files consistency in the
    validator (an atlas on disk absent from the manifest FAILS, and vice versa — vacuous-gate
    law shape).
-7. **The beta gate (F).** Per-shop distinctness (no two keyed crates identical — assert on
-   title sets, the R24 pattern), tier provenance visible in gate output (a mint crate never
-   reports as real), zero console errors WITHOUT 404-attribution exceptions (the manifest makes
-   this honest), the ladder re-proof, `qa.sh --strict --matrix`, tag **`v5.0-beta`**, push.
+7. **The beta gate (F).** *(Status, Fable: waves 1–2 are COMPLETE — C/B/E/G all landed. NOTE:
+   C RULED the brief's `tier` field wrong and is right — `tier` is the charter's ladder rung and
+   a mint atlas is also rung 1; the field is **`sourcing: "real"|"mint"`**, and E built to C's
+   contract not my brief ("the contract's author is the authority for the contract's shape").
+   Your gate asserts `sourcing`, not `tier`. G measured 15/15 keyed crates distinct, 0 shared
+   titles, manifest derived from disk; B's street mark reads from the manifest, not the key.)*
+   Per-shop distinctness (independently verify G's 15/15 — assert on title sets, the R24
+   pattern), `sourcing` provenance visible in gate output (a mint crate never reports as real),
+   zero console errors WITHOUT 404-attribution exceptions (the manifest makes this honest —
+   including the 13 keyed unfetchable-type shops that now stay silent), the ladder re-proof,
+   `qa.sh --strict --matrix`, tag **`v5.0-beta`**, push.
 7. **A / D — on-call.** A: nothing pending (your R25 close was clean). D: nothing — unless F's
    distinctness gate wants a crowd check at a stocked shop (patronage at Monster Robot on a
    Saturday feels like a D flourish, not a requirement).