diff --git a/PENDING.md b/PENDING.md
index 1ed7be9..9f5363b 100644
--- a/PENDING.md
+++ b/PENDING.md
@@ -4207,10 +4207,18 @@ Jurist: *"Confirm that lowercasing is applied at exactly one point in the code a
 | PENDING-89 source (iv) | **AUTHORIZED to read** — 55 files; answers generation diversity only, never correlation of misses |
 | §13.6 block | ⚠ **LIFTED** — its stated condition (§5 ratification) is met |
 
-<!-- DEFERRED-DECISION: fool-beacon-derivation-run-once
+<!-- DISCHARGED-DECISION: fool-beacon-derivation-run-once
      since: 2026-08-22
-     trigger: date 2026-08-25
+     trigger: date 2026-08-25  — FIRED. Announced BY NAME at the 2026-08-25 wake, which is
+              the first time this mechanism carried a real one rather than a rehearsed one.
      owner: executor
+     discharged: 2026-08-25 — the derivation ran ONCE. Record:
+              claude/governance/fool/seed/FOOL-BONES-2026-08-25.md, commit 5694b925.
+     RENAMED, not deleted: governance-drift-check.py's parser has no `resolved:` field, so a
+     taken decision would be reported COME DUE forever and the instrument would degrade into
+     crying wolf. Renaming the key stops the report while leaving the record that the trigger
+     existed, fired, and was answered. If a `resolved:` field is ever added, this reverts to
+     DEFERRED-DECISION with that field set.
 -->
 
 ⚠ **TRIGGER BLOCK ADDED 2026-08-24.** Until today this run-once, irreversible, dated act had **no
@@ -4237,7 +4245,15 @@ Against `claude/governance/fool/seed/FOOL-SEED-RULE.md`, pulse epoch-ms `1787659
 
 ⚠ **Carried forward as structural, not as an aside:** the jurist could not read the filed draft and ruled on steward-supplied text, leaving `9aceed7f…` unverified from its side. **The ruling's subject was the pasted text, not the filed artifact.** They match here — the executor diffed a duplicate paste and both bodies hashed `72af4115…` — but that check was available only because it happened to be run, and is unavailable to the jurist at all. **PENDING-82 / PENDING-86 recurring, now inside a ruling.** No remedy ruled; it belongs to PENDING-82.
 
-**Awaiting:** nothing. The next act is the beacon.
+**Awaiting:** nothing. ~~The next act is the beacon.~~
+
+✅ **EXECUTED 2026-08-25, ran ONCE.** Pulse `2026-08-25T12:00:00.000Z` (chain 2, index 1917365),
+fetched by curl ~38 min after the instant, `outputValue` recorded before anything ran and served
+**UPPERCASE** as the dry run predicted. Seed `6ea9383b…f05d`. Bones: **peak SUCCESSION 96 · dump
+ABSENCE 8** · AIM 75 · SCALE 60 · STAKE 29. Full record with the raw response, the independent
+verifications performed at execution time, and one named-but-uncorrected discrepancy:
+`claude/governance/fool/seed/FOOL-BONES-2026-08-25.md` (commit `5694b925`). No retry, no second
+pulse, no regeneration. The four owed-after-the-beacon items above are now unblocked.
 
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