diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fe1f9ae4c..f04d7368a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.93.26.0] - 2026-11-02
+
+**Editing the GBrain setup guide no longer runs every paid eval case on a PR screen.** The PR eval selector didn't recognize `USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md`, so it treated the file as an unknown dependency and fell back to the full suite. Two screens, #3727 and #3802, paid about $67 for it. No skill prompt or paid case reads the guide (only the README, `docs/gbrain-quick-tour.md` and free tests do), so it now selects nothing. A root doc that a paid prompt quotes, such as `ETHOS.md`, still selects its cases. The train gate's full census still runs every case, so coverage is unchanged (GST-1027).
+
 ## [1.93.25.0] - 2026-11-02
 
 **/setup-browser-cookies now warns that the fallback browser still trusts the compromised eMudhra intermediates (#3338).** BROWSER.md carried this warning since v1.91.239.0, but the cookie import skill did not, so an agent importing signed-in cookies into the bundled Chromium never told the user.
diff --git a/TODOS.md b/TODOS.md
index 9cb7eb0e1..c509fdb03 100644
--- a/TODOS.md
+++ b/TODOS.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## NEXT PRIORITY
 
+### P3: screen verdict reuse lookback (filed 2026-11-02, GST-1027)
+
+- **Screen reuse sees only the newest 50 evals.yml dispatches.** `listGateRuns` (`scripts/recover-receipts.ts`) lists dispatched screens as one unfiltered page (`event=workflow_dispatch`, `per_page=50`), shared with every PR's screens and every train. At week-B traffic (220 dispatches from 2026-10-25 to 11-02, about 27 a day) that is under two days, and nothing says when a PR's earlier screen fell off the page: `gate-reuse find` prints "no earlier executed gate on this PR bound a verdict" and the full screen runs. No miss yet: the longest gap among the week-B re-screens was 44 dispatches (#3607). Page the listing until runs are older than the PR's oldest candidate head (or filter by `created>=`), and print a truncation line when the last page is full. A missed run only costs a screen, never a wrong verdict. **Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3.
+
 ### P3: gstack-clean follow-ups (filed 2026-10-31, GSTA-226 E2, #2627)
 
 - **Codex templates delete their own scratch.** The `/codex` review, challenge and consult blocks leave `codex-err-*`, `codex-resp-*`, `codex-out-*` and `codex-prompt-*` mktemp files under `TMP_ROOT` (which falls back to `.gstack/tmp`) and the `codex-prompt.*` and `codex-focus.*` free-text files in `.gstack/tmp`; `gstack-clean` removes them after 7 days. Delete each file at the end of its block instead. Skill prose for every user, so it needs its own review. **Effort:** S. **Priority:** P3.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 041b4c23a..7886afbb2 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.93.25.0
+1.93.26.0
diff --git a/agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md b/agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md
index 01e83b302..a74951af6 100644
--- a/agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md
+++ b/agents-digest/gstack-AGENTS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# gstack digest v1.93.25.0 — regenerate/re-copy after upgrading gstack
+# gstack digest v1.93.26.0 — regenerate/re-copy after upgrading gstack
 
 Behavioral rules from gstack (https://github.com/garrytan/gstack), compressed
 for agent hosts without a full skill install. The full skills add workflows,
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index cc3f39d04..8d1fff930 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "gstack",
-  "version": "1.93.25",
+  "version": "1.93.26",
   "description": "Garry's Stack — Claude Code skills + fast headless browser. One repo, one install, entire AI engineering workflow.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",
diff --git a/scripts/harness-version.json b/scripts/harness-version.json
index a4bbf78c8..012cc08ed 100644
--- a/scripts/harness-version.json
+++ b/scripts/harness-version.json
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     "scripts/lib/published-text.ts": {"blob":"3f2e4d616b5dd0204035710c66b64d49055c5714","since":6},
     "scripts/lib/shard-engine.ts": {"blob":"dc714d7d897aed185c0ec3d2c92ad22d954039e5","since":6,"nonBehavioral":"createShardSandbox drops the Capy launch markers (GSTACK_SESSION_KIND, GSTACK_CAPY, GSTACK_EPHEMERAL, GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT) from shard environments; CI never sets them, so no case's input or verdict changes there, and on a Capy machine fixtures now see the session kind they set themselves instead of the installer's"},
     "scripts/test-paid-shards.ts": {"blob":"5439d0a8f6e1569fa7c924af20d67c30c81d5d30","since":6,"nonBehavioral":"credential rejections are classed infra instead of assertion: no case's pass or fail changes; only failed trials whose provider rejected the run's key move class, so no rerun spends on a rejected key"},
-    "scripts/test-pr-profile.ts": {"blob":"44ae88bebf8f716f70a3bd836c8bedb03e6653e8","since":6,"nonBehavioral":"FREE_ONLY_PR_FILES gains scripts/lib/shard-jobs.ts (free-runner module) and .github/workflows/windows-smoke.yml (a workflow no paid case reads); both change only which PR paths select paid cases, never how a case runs or is judged"},
+    "scripts/test-pr-profile.ts": {"blob":"dd0ca92bcf8493fd5c1e9d399cc3bc74ec70c469","since":6,"nonBehavioral":"FREE_ONLY_PR_FILES gains USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md (a root guide no skill prompt or paid fixture reads); it changes only which PR paths select paid cases, never how a case runs or is judged (GST-1027)"},
     "scripts/test-strict-output.ts": {"blob":"01185d20dc9761b04b9b2f751ec98664fe0eaf93","since":6},
     "test/helpers/agent-sdk-runner.ts": {"blob":"d66dac458b8c13250973e550edf8087d4044cd0b","since":6,"nonBehavioral":"Cost attribution only (GSTA-150 PR 2): a display-label record carries cost_case_id from runSkillTest's testName and the report binds its cost by it while the failed record and failure class still come from the named records (test/paid-report-cost.test.ts pins both); an aborted Agent SDK session logs its streamed usage as streamed_cost_usd, used only when a case has no record; a listed model-free case with no record or session is a known $0. No case's execution, outcome, failure class, rerun eligibility or panel verdict changes, so no pass-rate series resets. Also: runAgentSdkTest now validates systemPrompt before starting; every live caller already passed the claude_code preset, so the prompt the model sees is unchanged and no verdict can change"},
     "test/helpers/auq-substance-panel.ts": {"blob":"4881260ef793668e4963a062db6d06a5e1f7a40f","since":6},
diff --git a/scripts/test-pr-profile.ts b/scripts/test-pr-profile.ts
index 44ae88beb..dd0ca92bc 100644
--- a/scripts/test-pr-profile.ts
+++ b/scripts/test-pr-profile.ts
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ export const FREE_ONLY_PR_FILES = [
   'scripts/paid-test-durations.json',
   'scripts/ubicloud/**',
   'capy/skill/**', // The vendored Capy skill (Drive bootstrapper): run by Capy agents, read by no paid case; test/capy-skill-wrapper.test.ts covers it.
+  'USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md', // The /setup-gbrain guide: README, docs/gbrain-quick-tour.md and free tests read it; no skill prompt or paid fixture does (GST-1027).
   'captain/templates/**', // The /captain crew templates (CREW.md, merge-ask.md, slot-call.md, …): copied into a Captain's drive by people and Captains, read by no paid case; free test/captain-skill.test.ts covers them (#3499).
   'tsconfig.test.json', // Read only by `tsc -p tsconfig.test.json` (typecheck:test); Bun's runtime reads tsconfig.json.
   '.gitignore', // Changes which untracked files git reports, never tracked content a case reads.
diff --git a/test/paid-free-boundary.test.ts b/test/paid-free-boundary.test.ts
index 284bb981f..b69cb18cb 100644
--- a/test/paid-free-boundary.test.ts
+++ b/test/paid-free-boundary.test.ts
@@ -125,6 +125,19 @@ describe('paid/free dependency boundary', () => {
     expect(ethos.selection.e2e!.length).toBeLessThan(10);
   });
 
+  // Value: protects=a root guide that only README, docs and free tests read keeps a screen narrow, and a root doc a paid prompt quotes still selects beside it; fails_when=a guide-only PR restores every gate case as a "real unknown dependency" (GST-1027: screens 41246728073 and 41321112436 ran the full suite for it);
+  //   why_new=the README regex in knownNonBehaviorFile names only five root docs; seam=FREE_ONLY_PR_FILES in scripts/test-pr-profile.ts; no_claim=the train gate's full census
+  test('USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md selects no paid case; ETHOS.md beside it keeps its selection (GST-1027)', () => {
+    const guide = 'USING_GBRAIN_WITH_GSTACK.md';
+    expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(ROOT, guide))).toBe(true);
+    const alone = computePaidCaseSelection({ profile: 'pr', env: {}, changedFiles: [guide] });
+    expect([alone.coverage?.mode, alone.coverage?.unknownFiles, alone.selection]).toEqual(['pr', [], { e2e: [], judges: [] }]);
+    const ethos = computePaidCaseSelection({ profile: 'pr', env: {}, changedFiles: ['ETHOS.md'] });
+    expect(ethos.selection.e2e!.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const both = computePaidCaseSelection({ profile: 'pr', env: {}, changedFiles: [guide, 'ETHOS.md'] });
+    expect([both.coverage?.mode, both.selection]).toEqual(['pr', ethos.selection]);
+  });
+
   test('only audited free-only dependencies avoid unknown-dependency fallback', () => {
     for (const file of [...FREE_ONLY_PR_FILES, 'scripts\\test-free-shards.ts']) {
       const result = computePaidCaseSelection({ profile: 'pr', env: {}, changedFiles: [file] });