diff --git a/.github/scripts/landing-constants-guard.sh b/.github/scripts/landing-constants-guard.sh
index 9cdb56804..7ff3b42ac 100755
--- a/.github/scripts/landing-constants-guard.sh
+++ b/.github/scripts/landing-constants-guard.sh
@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ if [ -z "${VERSION:-}" ]; then
   VERSION="$(git tag --list 'v1.0.0-rc.*' 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1 | sed 's/^v//')"
 fi
 
+# The tree's own version (engine/Cargo.toml). A release PR stamps the footers
+# with the version it is cutting BEFORE that version's tag exists, so requiring
+# tag-equality on a release branch is unsatisfiable by construction — rc.76
+# dodged it only by cutting directly on main, which skipped every release gate
+# (#474). A footer matching the version of the tree it ships in is
+# self-consistent, not drift; the stale-footer drift this check exists for is a
+# footer matching NEITHER the tag NOR the tree. The allowed set is therefore
+# {newest released tag, engine/Cargo.toml version} — which collapses to just
+# the tag on every non-release branch.
+TREE_VERSION="$(awk -F'"' '/^version = /{print $2; exit}' engine/Cargo.toml 2>/dev/null || true)"
+
 fails=0
 note() { printf '  %s\n' "$1"; }
 fail() { printf 'FAIL  %s\n' "$1"; fails=$((fails + 1)); }
@@ -114,15 +125,20 @@ rm -f /tmp/.lcg_conf.$$
 # falsify a real run. Only the footer claims "this is the current release".
 if [ -n "${VERSION:-}" ]; then
   vre="$(echo "$VERSION" | sed 's/\./\\./g')"
+  tre="$(printf '%s' "$TREE_VERSION" | sed 's/\./\\./g')"
+  allow_ver="V${vre}([^0-9]|$)"
+  if [ -n "$tre" ] && [ "$tre" != "$vre" ]; then
+    allow_ver="V(${vre}|${tre})([^0-9]|$)"
+  fi
   bad_ver="$(grep -rniE 'XERJ\.AI[^<]*V1\.0\.0-RC\.?[0-9]+' "$LANDING" --include='*.html' 2>/dev/null \
-             | grep -viE "V${vre}([^0-9]|$)" \
+             | grep -viE "$allow_ver" \
              | grep -v '<!-- snapshot:' || true)"
   if [ -n "$bad_ver" ]; then
-    fail "version stamps disagree with the newest released tag (v$VERSION)"
+    fail "version stamps disagree with the newest released tag (v$VERSION) and the tree's own version (v$TREE_VERSION)"
     echo "$bad_ver" | head -20 | while IFS= read -r l; do note "${l:0:160}"; done
     n="$(echo "$bad_ver" | wc -l)"; [ "$n" -gt 20 ] && note "... and $((n - 20)) more"
   else
-    pass "version stamps match v$VERSION"
+    pass "version stamps match v$VERSION (tree: v$TREE_VERSION)"
   fi
 
   # The agent-facing llms*.txt carry a prose "Current release: **vX.Y.Z**"
@@ -131,14 +147,18 @@ if [ -n "${VERSION:-}" ]; then
   # shipped) exactly the way the footers used to — an agent that reads llms.txt
   # is handed the wrong version (#515 / #520). Hold it to the newest tag too.
   # Snapshot-marked lines stay exempt.
+  allow_llms="v${vre}([^0-9]|$)"
+  if [ -n "$tre" ] && [ "$tre" != "$vre" ]; then
+    allow_llms="v(${vre}|${tre})([^0-9]|$)"
+  fi
   bad_llms="$(grep -rniE 'current release:[^<]*v1\.0\.0-rc\.?[0-9]+' "$LANDING" --include='llms*.txt' 2>/dev/null \
-              | grep -viE "v${vre}([^0-9]|$)" \
+              | grep -viE "$allow_llms" \
               | grep -v '<!-- snapshot:' || true)"
   if [ -n "$bad_llms" ]; then
-    fail "llms*.txt 'Current release' disagrees with the newest released tag (v$VERSION)"
+    fail "llms*.txt 'Current release' disagrees with the newest released tag (v$VERSION) and the tree's own version (v$TREE_VERSION)"
     echo "$bad_llms" | while IFS= read -r l; do note "${l:0:160}"; done
   else
-    pass "llms 'Current release' matches v$VERSION"
+    pass "llms 'Current release' matches v$VERSION (tree: v$TREE_VERSION)"
   fi
 else
   note "skipped version check: no v1.0.0-rc.* tag found"
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f2ac79ef0..14241575c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,35 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.0.0-rc.77] - 2026-09-21
+
+The stateless-index and reader-fairness release. Two headline changes:
+`storage.backend = "s3"` starts for real (#965), and readers stop starving
+under sustained ingest (#1013) — both with fail-before reproductions.
+
+### Added
+
+- **`storage.backend = "s3"` works (#965, PR #1008).** Before this commit the
+  startup guard refused the setting outright, honestly: a flush uploaded one
+  file per segment while a 25-field segment family is 104 files, `snapshot.json`
+  never left local disk, and a fresh node pointed at the bucket saw zero
+  segments. Now the whole segment family packs into ONE immutable object — a
+  ZBM1 bundle whose footer is the existing ZCM1 flush-completion manifest
+  extended with absolute offsets (trailer shape adapted from quickwit's
+  split-footer bundle, Apache-2.0, approach only). One object per segment plus
+  the catalogue PUT is ~18% of Cloudflare R2's free Class-A tier at a 30 s
+  flush interval, where 104 PUTs would be ~899%. `snapshot.json` per index is
+  the publication point: merges publish output bundles before retiring inputs,
+  boot fetches the catalogue and adopts backfill, reads hydrate families on
+  demand, per-index meta rides the same bucket. Config grows to 128 settings
+  (`storage.s3_bucket`); an empty bucket name stays a hard error (XERJ never
+  calls CreateBucket). Fail-before, verified live on the base commit:
+  `an_s3_index_round_trips_to_a_fresh_node` panicked "the flush must publish
+  the snapshot catalogue". Honest limits stay documented in
+  `docs/OBJECT_STORAGE.md`: single-writer v1, the WAL stays local, in-memory
+  packs with no multipart upload, crash-consistency pinned against the
+  in-process simulation only.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - **`/v1/systemone` votes on the payload, never on the instruction prose.**
@@ -34,6 +63,45 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   client entry points (neutral-query gap 0.8542) and under a deliberately
   spammy query (gap 0.6087, threshold 0.3) — client 0.1.2, unmodified.
 
+- **Readers no longer starve under sustained ingest (#1013, PR #1014).**
+  `CollectionPublication` is a seqlock; `search()` admitted a reader and
+  validated the token at the **end** of the search — demanding a writer-free
+  *interval* spanning the whole scan. The flush path holds its guard across
+  the entire finalize, concurrent flushes are allowed, and every document
+  write takes its own bracket, so under sustained ingest writer-free
+  search-length intervals stop existing: search and `delete_by_query` retried
+  to their deadline and returned HTTP 500 (reproduced twice in the #950
+  profiling run). Validation now happens at the **capture boundary**: a
+  generation reference before the first collection-state read, validated with
+  the seqlock evenness check right after the memtable snapshot — readers need
+  a writer-free *instant*, not a writer-free search. A straddled capture
+  returns a typed retry root (`CollectionCaptureCrossedPublication`,
+  downcastable through `anyhow` context wraps) and `search()` retries until
+  its deadline. Fail-before (`search_completes_under_publication_churn`): a
+  churn thread holds a cancelled 1 ms publication bracket every 3 ms — old
+  code FAILED at its 2 s deadline with exactly the production error; new code
+  passes in 0.37 s, total exactly 5050. Gates: 723/723 engine lib tests,
+  ES-YAML 1376/0 failed. Follow-up #1015 tracks shrinking the flush bracket
+  itself (a latency consideration now, not a starvation hazard).
+
+- **The console tour's pill assertions raced the route hand-off (#1011).**
+  The browser security suite's policy tour waited on
+  `aria-busy === 'false'`, but app.js only ever sets aria-busy to 'false' at
+  the END of a render — nothing flips it 'true' while the next route's query
+  is pending — so the wait was satisfied by the previous route's still-mounted
+  DOM, and the fixed 150 ms sleep then read the old view's pill. Failed only
+  on slow runners (PR #1008's CI): the window scales with runner latency. The
+  tour now waits for the route's own scene, and a latency-injection
+  demonstration failed the old assertion deterministically at 400 ms.
+
+- **CI: the reference-coding toolkit's tests never ran.** `cargo test
+  --features x -- xc_ y` passes one filter per invocation, so `xc_` matched
+  nothing and the step was green on zero tests (3aba5786). And the toolkit
+  job's MCP schema gate looked for a release binary that job never builds
+  (8f8e5444). Both fixed; the job now genuinely executes.
+
+- **docs: roadmap re-reviewed against rc.76** (release-drift guard, 213ce8f8).
+
 ## [1.0.0-rc.76] - 2026-09-21
 
 The JEV-interface and honest-fixes release. The headline is a measured answer
diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index 798996f5d..e3a342c41 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 This roadmap tracks capabilities that are **planned but not yet fully implemented**, so the project's public claims stay honest about what ships today versus what is coming. Status is verified against the actual code and by real API requests to the release binary, not aspirational.
 
-Last reviewed: 2026-09-21 (against `v1.0.0-rc.76` and `main`). Statuses trace to issues, merged PRs, the CHANGELOG, and the conformance suite; items carried forward from the 2026-07-12 review without fresh live verification are marked as such. This review line is machine-checked: `docs_capability_lists` fails the build if a release is cut without re-reviewing this file (issue #298). *The zero-token direction* below was added and verified separately on 2026-09-18, against `main` @ `4d8dadbf`; the rest of the file was not re-reviewed on that date.
+Last reviewed: 2026-09-21 (against `v1.0.0-rc.77` and `main`). Statuses trace to issues, merged PRs, the CHANGELOG, and the conformance suite; items carried forward from the 2026-07-12 review without fresh live verification are marked as such. This review line is machine-checked: `docs_capability_lists` fails the build if a release is cut without re-reviewing this file (issue #298). This review rolled the *Next release* section and the open-defects shortlist forward against the rc.77 cut; the *Shipping today* claims were last live-verified against rc.76, and *The zero-token direction* below was verified separately on 2026-09-18, against `main` @ `4d8dadbf`.
 
 ## Follow the roadmap
 
@@ -31,49 +31,45 @@ These are implemented and exercised by real API requests / the test suite / benc
 
 The release-by-release record of how all of this landed is [CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md) — this file no longer duplicates it. Be aware of a real gap in that record: rc.1–rc.18 and rc.71 have entries, **rc.19 through rc.70 do not**. Those 52 releases are reconstructable only from `git log` and the release list, and closing that gap is itself a GA item below.
 
-## Next release — [v1.0.0-rc.77](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/milestones)
-
-**rc.76 was cut on 2026-09-21** — its full contents are the
-[CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md) entry, not this file. It is **the JEV-interface and
-honest-fixes release**: the node answers the System One wire itself — `POST
-/v1/systemone` (native REST) and `POST /_decide` (ES-compat), a rank-weighted kNN vote
-over a labelled-history index, nothing leaving the node — and the unmodified pip
-`jev-reranker` runs against it through both of its entry points. Two deliberate,
-test-pinned wire breaks: `model` echoes `xerj-history-vote-1` (never a Jev name), and
-zero support is a 422 (never a fabricated 0.5). The same release ships a WAND fast path
-in `xerj-fts` (2.0× on the vote workload, bit-identical scores), `xerj code` /
-`xerj corpus add|index|list` (the reference-coding loop as binary commands), FiQA and
-BEIR judged-query datasets on the record, .deb release assets (amd64/arm64), and a long
-list of fixes each carrying its own reproduction — the rerank stage as it shipped in
-rc.75 scored 0.3822 nDCG@10 where plain BM25 scored 0.7750, and that bug was ours.
-
-**In flight for rc.77:**
-
-- **The systemone vote-text fix** — instruction wording must not change the answer and
-  object state must not be silently dropped
-  ([#1000](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/1000),
-  [#1001](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/1001); PR
-  [#1007](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/pull/1007)): measured 32- and 79-point
-  accuracy swings from wording and key names, both closed by voting on exactly what the
-  question points at.
-- **Segments in an object store** ([#965](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/965)):
-  the ZBM1 bundle format and the flush/merge/read/boot wiring exist on the branch; the
-  gates and the flip are what remains.
-- **RSS feeds as an autoindex source** ([#950](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/950)),
-  evaluated against the ledger evidence #948 landed for ingest memory.
-- **Retrieval quality** — the symbol index returns whole class and method bodies rather
-  than declarations, measured at 32-48x more bytes than grep for the same answer
-  ([#500](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/500)). This one undercuts a claim the
-  project leads with, so it is a correctness issue about our own marketing as much as a
-  performance one.
-- **CI reliability** — [#751](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/751) still hangs the
-  default-parallelism test step intermittently, and it was red on `main` repeatedly during
-  the rc.72 cut. The cost is not the failed run, it is that a red gate stops distinguishing
-  a real break from noise. [#891](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/891) is a
-  confirmed instance of the same class (a process-global counter two tests share).
-- **Data-loss follow-up** — [#890](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/890): the
-  prefix-scoped exclusion sweep can over-delete across corpora on a legacy text-mapped
-  catalog. Filed against code that shipped in rc.72.
+## Next release — [v1.0.0-rc.78](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/milestones)
+
+**rc.77 was cut on 2026-09-21** — its full contents are the
+[CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md) entry, not this file. It is **the stateless-index and
+reader-fairness release**: `storage.backend = "s3"` works for real (#965 — one immutable
+ZBM1 bundle per segment instead of 104 PUTs, `snapshot.json` as the publication point,
+merges publish before retiring inputs, a fresh node adopts the bucket), and readers stop
+starving under sustained ingest (#1013 — the seqlock publish bracket no longer spans the
+flush build; the evenness check that catches a straddling capture is part of what
+shipped). The same release carries the systemone vote-text fixes (#1000/#1001: the vote
+text is exactly what the question points at, never the instruction prose — a measured
+32-point accuracy swing from wording alone), the console-tour pill race (#1011), and CI
+repairs (the reference-coding toolkit's tests now actually run).
+
+**In flight for rc.78:**
+
+- **Flush bracket, reader fairness part two**
+  ([#1015](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/1015)): freeze the shard into a
+  frozen-generation list *before* the segment build, so ingest keeps writing while the
+  flush serializes, and retire the frozen generation inside the publish bracket. The
+  #1014 evenness check rejects captures that straddle a retire, so the bracket itself
+  must stay ms-scale — that constraint is the design.
+- **Resident-set memory growth during large corpus ingest**
+  ([#950](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/950)): 27.1 GB peak RSS against a
+  15 GB breaker across 5,369 indices, with the breaker engaged 44 times yet never
+  capping the peak; idle steady-state ~4.5 GB. Both ingest aborts trace to #1013 (and
+  its fix has shipped), so what remains is attributing the growth itself — a third
+  full-scale measurement run and a symbolized heap profile are under way.
+
+**Open defects carried into rc.78.**
+[#1015](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/1015) (the flush publication guard
+still spans the multi-second segment build — the remaining reader-fairness gap) and
+[#950](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/950) (ingest RSS exceeds the breaker
+without the breaker capping it) are the open defects with code consequences.
+Trackers [#941](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/941) (zero-token direction),
+[#874](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/874) and
+[#298](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/issues/298) (this file's own review cadence)
+stay open by design; everything else the rc.77 cut closed is recorded in the
+CHANGELOG, not here.
 
 ## The road to [v1.0.0 GA](https://github.com/xerj-org/xerj/milestone/2)
 
diff --git a/engine/Cargo.lock b/engine/Cargo.lock
index f5d18b192..1e8b8c94c 100644
--- a/engine/Cargo.lock
+++ b/engine/Cargo.lock
@@ -7236,7 +7236,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-ai"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "candle-core",
@@ -7257,7 +7257,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-api"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "argon2",
@@ -7291,7 +7291,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-autoindex"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aws-sdk-s3",
@@ -7364,7 +7364,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-cluster"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-trait",
@@ -7389,7 +7389,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-common"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "byteorder",
@@ -7409,7 +7409,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-compress"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "bytes",
@@ -7422,7 +7422,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-console-api"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "arc-swap",
@@ -7458,7 +7458,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-engine"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "arc-swap",
@@ -7513,7 +7513,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-fts"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bitpacking",
@@ -7540,7 +7540,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-logs"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "byteorder",
@@ -7558,7 +7558,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-mcp"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "reqwest",
@@ -7571,7 +7571,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-query"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "base64 0.22.1",
@@ -7586,7 +7586,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-rerank"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
@@ -7598,7 +7598,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-server"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "axum",
@@ -7647,7 +7647,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-storage"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "arc-swap",
@@ -7679,7 +7679,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-vector"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "byteorder",
@@ -7697,7 +7697,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "xerj-wasm"
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/engine/Cargo.toml b/engine/Cargo.toml
index 3406b868f..7630b646b 100644
--- a/engine/Cargo.toml
+++ b/engine/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ members = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "1.0.0-rc.76"
+version = "1.0.0-rc.77"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 authors = ["xerj Contributors"]
diff --git a/landing/agent-search/index.html b/landing/agent-search/index.html
index e49b679d9..7ec960f93 100644
--- a/landing/agent-search/index.html
+++ b/landing/agent-search/index.html
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ <h2 class="asx-h2">The same thing, over the wire</h2>
 </nav>
 <!-- seo:footer-end -->
 <footer class="footer">
-  <span>XERJ.AI · AGENT SEARCH · V1.0.0-RC.76</span>
+  <span>XERJ.AI · AGENT SEARCH · V1.0.0-RC.77</span>
   <span>PORTED FROM THE ENGINE · BIT-EXACT</span>
   <span><a href="/">HOME</a> · <a href="/docs/recipes/semantic-search-rag">SEMANTIC RECIPE</a> · <a href="/docs/recipes/">RECIPES</a> &middot; <a href="/llms.txt">LLMS.TXT</a></span>
 </footer>
diff --git a/landing/blog/does-xerj-beat-jev.html b/landing/blog/does-xerj-beat-jev.html
index 8dd35feec..5b42bcb7f 100644
--- a/landing/blog/does-xerj-beat-jev.html
+++ b/landing/blog/does-xerj-beat-jev.html
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ <h3 class="scene" style="font-size:var(--fs-24); margin-top:var(--sp-8);">Reprod
 </nav>
 <!-- seo:footer-end -->
 <footer class="footer">
-  <span>XERJ.AI · V1.0.0-RC.76 · 2026</span>
+  <span>XERJ.AI · V1.0.0-RC.77 · 2026</span>
   <span>SEARCH FOR THE AGENT ERA</span>
   <span><a href="/product">PRODUCT</a> · <a href="/docs/">DOCS</a> · <a href="/brand">BRAND</a> · <a href="/playground">DASHBOARDS</a> &middot; <a href="/llms.txt">LLMS.TXT</a></span>
 </footer>
diff --git a/landing/blog/index.html b/landing/blog/index.html
index 84323a13b..248fc353d 100644
--- a/landing/blog/index.html
+++ b/landing/blog/index.html
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ <h2 class="bl-title">Does XERJ beat JEV? On the bill, outright. On FiQA, no.</h2
 </nav>
 <!-- seo:footer-end -->
 <footer class="footer">
-  <span>XERJ.AI · V1.0.0-RC.76 · 2026</span>
+  <span>XERJ.AI · V1.0.0-RC.77 · 2026</span>
   <span>SEARCH FOR THE AGENT ERA</span>
   <span><a href="/product">PRODUCT</a> · <a href="/docs/">DOCS</a> · <a href="/brand">BRAND</a> · <a href="/playground">DASHBOARDS</a> &middot; <a href="/llms.txt">LLMS.TXT</a></span>
 </footer>
diff --git a/landing/docs/agents/endpoints.html b/landing/docs/agents/endpoints.html
index df6221d74..b7272b512 100644
--- a/landing/docs/agents/endpoints.html
+++ b/landing/docs/agents/endpoints.html
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ <h2 id="data">Data endpoints the ops build on</h2>
 </nav>
 <!-- seo:footer-end -->
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