diff --git a/scripts/governance-drift-check.py b/scripts/governance-drift-check.py
index 5447545..e830b62 100755
--- a/scripts/governance-drift-check.py
+++ b/scripts/governance-drift-check.py
@@ -232,7 +232,26 @@ PENDING_ARCHIVE_MD = HOME / "dotfiles" / "PENDING-archive.md"
 MARKERS = ("AMENDMENT", "ADDENDUM")
 RE_MARKER_TOKEN = re.compile(r"\b(?:AMENDMENT|ADDENDUM)\b")
 RE_HEAD_LINE = re.compile(r"^#{2,3}\s+(.*)$", re.M)
-RE_ID = re.compile(r"^((?:PENDING|REVIEWED|COMPLETED)\S*)\s*[—–-]\s*(.*)$")
+# ⚠ WIDENED 2026-09-06. The old pattern was
+#   ^((?:PENDING|REVIEWED|COMPLETED)\S*)\s*[—–-]\s*(.*)$
+# and on `## REVIEWED-131 (PENDING-172) — …` the greedy \S* BACKTRACKED until the hyphen
+# INSIDE `REVIEWED-131` served as the separator, yielding ident `REVIEWED` — not
+# `REVIEWED-131`. No un-amended `REVIEWED-131` original was then found, so the register
+# check reported that REVIEWED-131's amendment had REPLACED the record it amends. It had
+# not. A false alarm standing in the register is the disarmed-tripwire hazard PENDING-139
+# measured: red-on-absent trains the reader to discount red.
+#
+# THE SAME PARENTHETICAL HEADER SHAPE THAT BROKE `ruled_pendings` IN wake-digest.py ON
+# 2026-09-05, in a second instrument, found the next day. Both failures ran toward hiding
+# a record that exists. Fixed as one act with that widening, per the jurist.
+#
+# The id is now an explicit token and the trailing parenthetical is consumed rather than
+# collided with. Enumerated over all 549 headers in the three registers before landing
+# (REVIEWED-132 condition 3 — enumerate, do not count): exactly THREE classifications
+# change, all of them parenthetical rulings recovering their true ident —
+# REVIEWED-131, -132, -133. Nothing else in the record moves.
+RE_ID = re.compile(
+    r"^((?:PENDING|REVIEWED|COMPLETED)(?:-\S+)?)(?:\s*\([^)]*\))?\s*[—–-]\s*(.*)$")
 RE_INBODY = re.compile(r"^\*\*(?:AMENDMENT|ADDENDUM)\b.*$", re.M)
 RE_AMENDS = re.compile(r"\*\*Amends:\*\*\s*((?:PENDING|REVIEWED|COMPLETED)-\S+?)[\s,.(]")
 
@@ -342,6 +361,27 @@ control("a lower-case 'amendment' in a TITLE stays an ORIGINAL  [must-not-flag:
 control("an UPPER-CASE marker mid-title is still excluded from originals  [must-detect]",
         "compound" in register_scan(
             {"t": "## PENDING-164 — BUILD RECORD + AMENDMENT 1 result\n"})[2])
+# --- RE_ID parenthetical widening, 2026-09-06. Paired: the form is read, AND the forms
+# that must not move are held. The mangled-ident case is stated as its own control
+# because "ident is wrong" and "header is unseen" fail identically downstream.
+control("a PARENTHETICAL ruling header yields its FULL ident  [must-detect: the "
+        "REVIEWED-131 false positive]",
+        RE_ID.match("REVIEWED-131 (PENDING-172) — A version upgrade").group(1)
+        == "REVIEWED-131")
+control("that header does NOT yield the bare family name  [negative control — the exact "
+        "old failure, which looked like a clean parse]",
+        RE_ID.match("REVIEWED-131 (PENDING-172) — x").group(1) != "REVIEWED")
+control("the ordinary em-dash form is unchanged  [regression]",
+        RE_ID.match("REVIEWED-121 — PENDING-134 — The whose-proposition test").group(1)
+        == "REVIEWED-121")
+control("a NON-NUMERIC family header still parses  [regression: `## PENDING — ICP-19`]",
+        RE_ID.match("PENDING — ICP-19 Remit Expansion").group(1) == "PENDING")
+control("an id+marker header still classifies as id+marker  [regression]",
+        _classify("REVIEWED-135 — AMENDMENT 1 — §8's dependency")[:2]
+        == ("id+marker", "REVIEWED-135"))
+control("a parenthetical header carrying a MARKER is still caught  [must-detect: the "
+        "widening must not smuggle an amendment into originals]",
+        _classify("REVIEWED-131 (PENDING-172) — AMENDMENT 1: x")[0] == "id+marker")
 control("PENDING-side registers are actually read", "PENDING.md" in _TEXTS)
 control("every form present in the record is covered by a control", not reg_uncovered)
 control("register file is reachable", REVIEWED_MD.exists())