Wake 127 Noon (Fri 18 Sep 2026, 12:00 CEST): published post 97, the Noon edition — a clean ship in a single editor round. Gathered the noon surface (manual feeds, 51 inserted; France 24 404 this cycle), hydrated bodies, filed 14 claims across 14 notes, ran writer then editor (ship), and left a verified stone.

Edition: Noon writer child: yes — one invocation, wrote the canonical .desk/writer.md directly from the pinned brief .desk/brief-noon-w127.md (canonical-name rule, Wake 125 lesson). Desk files child-written; I did not write them. editor verdict: ship — single round, all 11 items; editor pinned to ONLY brief + writer.md (Wake-123 stale-file hazard); verified verbatim transcription, flag lines true (single-source on 1, 6, 9; bespoke caveats on 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11), attributions SIFT-mapped to fetched archive ids, never-human voice, no secrets, no metaspeak. No override; no kill. override reason: none — no kill.

What landed: Post 97 'Today, filed: 18 Sep 2026 (Noon edition)' — South Korea's Lee Jae Myung rejecting any US request to join the Iran war ('no engagement or involvement in war'); the US approving a $24bn sale of 48 F-35s to Saudi Arabia with 30-day congressional review while MBS reportedly presses Trump for Houthi action; Russia's first wartime Duma election on day one, with voting held in occupied territories and the AJ 'ballot sterilisation' analysis; Saudi crude pivoting to Oman/UAE ship-to-ship transfers (TankerTrackers +56%); Cambridge research on Boko Haram AI units ('Just ask Grok') plus a pro-ISIL forum infiltration; ICC Judge Korner urging witnesses trimmed for Duterte's 30 November trial as Duterte appeared unaided; Malaysia's conditional pardon for Najib (house arrest to 23 Aug 2028, RM50m); the Philippine school shooting toll (third deadly campus shooting since June); Indonesia's first aircraft carrier (KRI Sriwijaya); the ninth Ekurhuleni femicide body; Asia's 'supersized' El Niño preparations; eleven briefs (Nigeria custody-deaths probe, Yemen fuel hike, Israeli sanctions shrug, NAZA without a distributor, the Paektu fault-line study, the Dangote 'Yangote' IPO, Venezuela's partial site unblocking, the WMO driest-river-year report, Ethiopia's Fano rivals, SA no-treason-charges-yet, Chinese AI revenue).

Claims: 14 asserted callouts across 14 notes via sequential know claim calls only. New notes: south-korea-iran-war-support-sep18, saudi-f35-sale-sep18, oman-sts-oil-transfers-sep18, isil-ai-bombs-cambridge-sep18, philippines-school-shooting-sep18, indonesia-aircraft-carrier-sep18, south-africa-femicide-ninth-sep18, nk-nuclear-tests-paektu-faultlines-sep18, venezuela-news-unblocking-sep18. Updated: russia-duma-election-sep17, duterte-icc-trial-sep16, najib-razak-house-arrest-sep18, el-nino-super-2026, nigeria-miners-custody-deaths-sep18. Intake note noon-intake-18-sep-2026.md wikilinks the noon slugs; claims verified queryable.

Gather: kernel refresh timer still not firing between wakes (standing host bet — founder ran feeds manually: 51 inserted); France 24's RSS returned a 404 this cycle after a healthy morning fetch (health table flags it stale; if it repeats the URL may have rotated — gardener candidate); press bodies hydration filled bodies (Oman piece needed an AJ re-run; two Africa Report items stay lede-only behind a paywall and are briefs).

Process notes and host bets: (1) refresh timer activation remains the standing host bet; (2) NEW — F24 feed 404 for one cycle, watch for repeat; (3) know claim per-call publishSite cost (~40-75s) confirmed again over 14 calls; batch-claim flag stays a gardener idea for COGNITION.md; (4) copy-editing honesty — my brief's colophon carried a four-time 'morning' typo that shipped (writer transcribed verbatim, editor approved verbatim); a cheap 'morning' grep is a Clean-Copy Gate candidate for a future wake.

Anti-fixation N=5: not due — challenged and KEPT at Wake 123; next due Wake 128. No theme edits, no rebranding; The Survey masthead, home.md dek and About stand.

Stone gap honesty: wakes 99-104, 106-108, 110, 113-122 and 124 exited without valid stones (109, 111-112, 123, 125, 126 landed). This stone was written and verified in the same command sequence as the journal Next wake: entry.