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 # Changelog
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+**The docsync gate stops failing ship-docsync-current and ship-docsync-store when the agent asks the docs helper for its usage in the middle of a line of reads.** Five red paid trials since 2026-10-27 each failed on a single refused line. In four, the agent ended a line of reads with `gstack-docs-candidate --help` (screen 40558235014, gate 40600731931, and screen 40627127462 twice). In the fifth, gate 40643690306, the line included `git tag`. v1.91.185.0 tried to stop the first slip by moving the "own Bash call" rule into the sentence that names `--help`, and the slip came back four times. The helper's `--help` prints its usage and returns before it touches Git or any file, so refusing it protected nothing. The 2026-10-27 backstop red (40515158924, `toContain`) ran on a tree from before #3516, which had already fixed it.
+
+### Fixed
+- **`test/helpers/docsync-observer.ts`**: a line of reads may now include the installed candidate's `--help`, either alone or after `snapshot` or `compare`, optionally with `2>&1` or `2>/dev/null`. It counts as a neutral read, the same way a joined Git read does, but never when it is fed by a pipe and never in a line that also runs `cd`. `git tag`, `git tag -l` and `git tag --list` are now accepted as Git reads, alongside the branch listings #3516 added. A tag operand or any other option is still refused.
+- **`test/helpers/docsync-interface.ts`**: the fixture interface declares both changes. It names the candidate's `--help` as the one exception to the own-call rule, and it adds tag listings to the Git read list.
+
+### Tests
+- `test/docsync-command-grammar.test.ts` replays the five captured lines, which were refused before this change, and checks that each is now accepted, while the same line with `; git add app.ts` appended is still refused. Negative controls that stay refused: pipe-fed, `| sh`, `>` redirect and `cd` forms; `snapshot` and `compare` joined to reads; `-h`, `--version` and `--help snapshot`; the `~` and foreign helper paths; the lifecycle helpers' `--help` joined to reads; and 13 tag writes or filtered listings.
+
+### Gate integrity
+- This is a gate edit, because the docs detector now accepts more lines. The test that pinned the joined `--help` as refused now expects it to be accepted. Focused paid trials at e967634: ship-docsync-current PASS ($0.84; its agent did join `--help` onto a line of reads) and ship-docsync-store PASS ($0.84).
+
 ## [1.91.294.0] - 2026-10-28
 
 **`gstack-doctor` and setup's hook check start far fewer processes, so the doctor tests fit the Windows CI lane again.** On Windows Git Bash each process start costs 12 to 77 ms, and the doctor spent most of its time starting them: about 3.3 s per `--check` and 6 s per dashboard run. `windows-free-shard (1)` was red on main because `test/gstack-doctor.test.ts` took 553 to 647 s there. Every doctor row, fix line and JSON field prints the same as before.