diff --git a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
index d3dfa4b..83d1204 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
@@ -887,6 +887,17 @@
   **NOT done and not owed yet: the skill sweep.** This session closed no STAGE, so the
   stage-close skill fold-in and snapshot regeneration are not due; B1/C1/C2 in the capture are
   the candidates when Stage 5 closes.
+  **MERGED TO `main` 2026-07-27** (operator direction, exact utterance: "Merge to main, then
+  start Phase 0"). Merge commit **`607813b`**, 2 parents (NOT squashed), 33 commits from branch
+  `dc-dc-stage5-grounding-audit`; containment confirmed via `git branch --merged main`.
+  **NO STAGE OPENED OR CLOSED BY THIS MERGE** -- it carries the audit's rulings and record onto
+  trunk so precondition work branches off a `main` that contains them. Post-merge verification
+  ON `main`: gauntlet **ALL GREEN (81 harnesses)**, repo-lint 0 fail / 1 warn (the standing
+  legacy D-001..018 non-ASCII carve-out). **Read that evidence with R15 in mind, since this
+  branch is what proved those two gates cannot fail:** the harness COUNT was checked against the
+  81 on record (R15(2) pins a manifest, not built), and repo-lint emits NO files-scanned figure
+  at all -- R15(1)'s finding, observed again here rather than assumed. Execution of every ruling
+  remains LOGGED-NOT-EXECUTED; what changed is only where the record lives.
 - Position inside Stage 3: deploy step A EXECUTED 2026-07-19 (6/0/6
   exact; convergence zero --
   `docs/audit/outer-plan-20260719-postA-converged.txt`). **Deploy step B