diff --git a/test/helpers/carve-guards.ts b/test/helpers/carve-guards.ts
index df10fa666..5aef53296 100644
--- a/test/helpers/carve-guards.ts
+++ b/test/helpers/carve-guards.ts
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ export const CARVE_GUARDS: Record<string, CarveGuard> = {
     },
     behavioral: 'external',
     externalTest: 'test/skill-e2e-ship-section-loading.test.ts',
-    maxSkeletonBytes: 90_000,
+    maxSkeletonBytes: 90_800, // v1.67 wave + v1.66.1's evidence-ledger prose (merged): measured 90,333
     minUnionBytes: 120_000,
     mustContain: ['VERSION', 'CHANGELOG', 'review', 'merge', 'PR'],
     // v1.58.5.0: pre-push-guard install (#2077) stacks on the shared first-run-guidance preamble.