diff --git a/scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs b/scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs
index a76e4ce0c1c..3f310f549a7 100644
--- a/scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs
+++ b/scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs
@@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
   '#18536: the lane-keyed owed population — spec and skills owe the record on EVERY round, other lanes owe none, a `yes` outside them is spec-lane work': 30,
   '#18862: cross-author LIVE claims with no `Release:` between — the hand-over the protocol never wrote, named; judged only after its effective instant': 52,
   '#16770: the exit-0 line says which carriers agreed — LABEL carriers — and that the PR body was not read': 14,
+  '#18892: the claim comment\'s EDIT reading — taken from the two stamps already in hand, reported and never failed': 10,
 });
 
 // DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as
@@ -851,8 +852,8 @@ const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
 // by the one #16833 adds, and by the one #18456 adds, and by the one #18719
 // adds, and by the one #18683 adds, and by the one #18764 adds, and by the one
 // #18828 adds, and by the one #18536 adds, and by the one #18862 adds, and by
-// the one #16770 adds.
-const SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR = 35;
+// the one #16770 adds, and by the one #18892 adds.
+const SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR = 36;
 
 // The key an assertion is filed under when no battery is open. It is not a
 // declared battery, so it reds by the same set difference rather than silently
@@ -1458,6 +1459,20 @@ function newestFirst(a, b) {
   return b.index - a.index;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The claim comment's own EDIT reading, from the two stamps ALREADY on the row
+ * this reader holds — ⛔ never asserted, which is what #18892 measured: the note
+ * below testified 「NOT edited」 about objectui#9764's claim 5724909959, whose
+ * `updated_at` is 29 min past its `created_at`. THREE readings, ⛔ never two — a
+ * missing stamp is a GAP, ⛔ not an unedited; ⛔ report-only per that ruling, an
+ * edit is legitimate and moves no exit. The untaken testimony was the defect. */
+function claimEditReading(row) {
+  const [c, u] = [row?.created_at, row?.updated_at].map((v) => (typeof v === 'string' ? v : null));
+  if (c === null || u === null) return 'whether it has been EDITED is NOT READ — its row carries no `created_at`/`updated_at` pair to compare, so ⛔ read that as a gap and never as "unedited"';
+  if (c === u) return `it reads UNEDITED — its \`created_at\` and \`updated_at\` are both \`${c}\``;
+  return `⚠️ it WAS EDITED at \`${u}\` (\`created_at\` \`${c}\`) — REPORTED and ⛔ never a failure: read its edit history before taking the declaration under it for the one the seat first wrote`;
+}
+
 /**
  * Which correction, if any, governs this card's declaration — and when none
  * does, WHY, in a sentence that names an act the claiming seat can perform.
@@ -1467,8 +1482,8 @@ function newestFirst(a, b) {
  * here that a seat cannot answer would rebuild that door one room over, so the
  * note always names what to post next.
  *
- * @param {{ id?: number|string, body?: string, created_at?: string }[]} commentRows
- * @param {{ id?: number|string, body?: string }[]} pool — the governing claim rows.
+ * @param {{ id?: number|string, body?: string, created_at?: string, updated_at?: string }[]} commentRows
+ * @param {{ id?: number|string, body?: string, created_at?: string, updated_at?: string }[]} pool — the governing claim rows.
  * @returns {{ state: 'none' }
  *   | { state: 'applies', value: 'yes'|'no', detail?: string, note: string }
  *   | { state: 'ignored', note: string }}
@@ -1520,8 +1535,8 @@ function applicableCorrection(commentRows, pool) {
   const claimRow = claimById.get(chosen.claimId);
   const claimSession = readSessionId(claimRow?.body);
   const shared =
-    `it supersedes claim comment ${chosen.claimId}'s own declaration, which is NOT edited and ` +
-    'still reads as it was written. ⛔ Nothing was filled in on the seat\'s behalf: the value is ' +
+    `it supersedes claim comment ${chosen.claimId}'s own declaration, and ${claimEditReading(claimRow)}. ` +
+    '⛔ Nothing was filled in on the seat\'s behalf: the value is ' +
     'the seat\'s, in the fixed spelling, and this script still writes nothing.';
 
   if (claimSession === null) {
@@ -4796,8 +4811,8 @@ export function pairRows(pair, pairs = null) {
  * a pair that answers 0 because a CORRECTION comment carries its declaration is
  * answering about a carrier the claim comment does not hold, and a seat reading
  * only `$?` must be able to find out from the run which comment was read. The
- * row also states, in as many words, that the claim comment was NOT edited —
- * because the whole value of the shape is that nothing had to be.
+ * shape's whole value is that nothing had to be EDITED, so the row states that
+ * as a reading it takes from the claim's two stamps, ⛔ never as one it assumes.
  */
 export function c2CorrectionNote(pair) {
   const d = cardDeclaration(pair?.cardComments ?? null);
@@ -6490,9 +6505,9 @@ export function greenPairLine({ pr, card, sibling = false, corrected = false, re
       ? 'readable in the fixed spelling on a SIBLING card this same PR delivers rather than on ' +
         `this card (the reading above names which, and what it says), ${LABEL_CARRIERS_AGREE}`
       : corrected
-        ? 'readable in the fixed spelling on a CORRECTION comment superseding the claim\'s own ' +
-          'line (the reading above names which comment, and says the claim was not edited), ' +
-          LABEL_CARRIERS_AGREE
+        ? 'readable in the fixed spelling on a CORRECTION comment superseding the claim\'s own line ' +
+          '(the ℹ️ reading printed above on stderr names which comment, and states what that claim ' +
+          'comment\'s own `created_at`/`updated_at` say about whether it was edited), ' + LABEL_CARRIERS_AGREE
         : `readable in the fixed spelling, ${LABEL_CARRIERS_AGREE}`) +
     (record
       ? ', and a review of record names this head (the note above says which comment it is, and ' +
@@ -7944,6 +7959,8 @@ export async function selfTest() {
   const CLAIMED = (extra, o = {}) => ({
     id: o.id ?? C_CLAIM_ID,
     created_at: o.created_at ?? '2026-09-12T00:41:08Z',
+    // ⭐ EQUAL on a comment nobody edited: the default is the unedited control, and an edited fixture names `updated_at` alone (#18892).
+    updated_at: o.updated_at ?? o.created_at ?? '2026-09-12T00:41:08Z',
     body:
       `Claim: PM loop round 1\n` +
       (o.session === null ? '' : `Session: \`${o.session ?? C_SESSION}\`\n`) +
@@ -8027,7 +8044,7 @@ export async function selfTest() {
   t('⛔ …so the governing claim does not move, and the card is not re-claimed', governingClaim(REPAIRED_THREAD)?.createdAt === governingClaim(BROKEN_THREAD)?.createdAt);
   t('⛔ nor is the correction read as a MISPLACED declaration — it is the designated second carrier', cardDeclaration(REPAIRED_THREAD).state !== 'misplaced');
   t('the reading PRINTS: a note names the correction rather than answering 0 in silence', typeof c2CorrectionNote(repairedPair) === 'string');
-  t('…and says the claim comment was NOT edited', says(c2CorrectionNote(repairedPair), 'NOT edited'));
+  t('…and STATES the claim comment\'s edit reading, measured from its own two stamps (#18892)', says(c2CorrectionNote(repairedPair), 'UNEDITED'));
   t('…and names the comment id it corrects, so a reader can find it', says(c2CorrectionNote(repairedPair), String(C_CLAIM_ID)));
   t('…and states the attribution ceiling rather than claiming a verification', says(c2CorrectionNote(repairedPair), 'DECLARED identity, never a verified one'));
   t('…and it rides as a NOTE, never as a finding — pairNotes carries it, pairRows does not', pairNotes(repairedPair).some((n) => n.code === 'C2-CORRECTION') && pairRows(repairedPair).every((r) => r.code !== 'C2-CORRECTION'));
@@ -9422,6 +9439,28 @@ export async function selfTest() {
   t('⛔ CONTROL: the label the line names is the constant C1 compares, ⛔ not a second spelling of it', says(LABEL_CARRIERS_AGREE, CONTRACT_REVIEW_LABEL) && CONTRACT_REVIEW_LABEL === 'needs:contract-review');
   t('the pair is still identified in the line, in the spelling the round reports paste', says(G_BRANCHES[0][1], '✓ check-clause2-carriers: PR #16761 / card #16568 — the clause-② declaration is readable in the fixed spelling'));
 
+  // -- #18892: the EDIT reading, taken rather than asserted. ⭐ Measured specimen:
+  // objectui#9764's claim 5724909959 was EDITED (`created_at` 2026-09-18T03:54:37Z
+  // vs `updated_at` 04:23:23Z) and the note testified 「NOT edited」 anyway. The
+  // retired sentence is ASSEMBLED below, or the source pin hits itself (#16770).
+  battery('#18892: the claim comment\'s EDIT reading — taken from the two stamps already in hand, reported and never failed');
+  const E_EDITED = [CLAIMED(MEASURED_PROSE[1], { updated_at: '2026-09-18T04:23:23Z' }), FIXED_CORRECTION('no')];
+  const E_UNEDITED = [CLAIMED(MEASURED_PROSE[1]), FIXED_CORRECTION('no')];
+  const E_NOSTAMP = [{ ...CLAIMED(MEASURED_PROSE[1]), updated_at: undefined }, FIXED_CORRECTION('no')];
+  const E_NOTE = (thread) => c2CorrectionNote(pair({ cardComments: thread }));
+  const E_SRC = readFileSync(SELF_PATH, 'utf8');
+  t('⭐ the EDITED specimen is REPORTED in the note, in as many words', says(E_NOTE(E_EDITED), 'WAS EDITED'));
+  t('…naming the edit instant beside the creation one, so a reader can open that comment\'s history', says(E_NOTE(E_EDITED), '2026-09-18T04:23:23Z') && says(E_NOTE(E_EDITED), '2026-09-12T00:41:08Z'));
+  t('⭐ an UNEDITED claim reads as a MEASURED unedited, naming both stamps it compared', says(E_NOTE(E_UNEDITED), 'UNEDITED') && says(E_NOTE(E_UNEDITED), 'created_at') && says(E_NOTE(E_UNEDITED), 'updated_at'));
+  t('⭐ a row carrying NO `updated_at` reads NOT READ — ⛔ never "unedited", which is this defect one room over', says(E_NOTE(E_NOSTAMP), 'NOT READ') && says(E_NOTE(E_NOSTAMP), 'never as "unedited"'));
+  t('⭐ the three readings are three DIFFERENT sentences — one sentence for all three was the defect', new Set([E_NOTE(E_EDITED), E_NOTE(E_UNEDITED), E_NOTE(E_NOSTAMP)]).size === 3);
+  t('⛔ REPORT-ONLY: an edited claim raises NO C2 finding, so the exit register does not move', pairRows(pair({ cardComments: E_EDITED })).every((r) => r.code !== 'C2'));
+  t('⛔ …and reads DECLARED at the seat\'s own value, exactly as the unedited thread does', cardDeclaration(E_EDITED).state === cardDeclaration(E_UNEDITED).state && cardDeclaration(E_EDITED).value === 'no');
+  t('⭐ the green line points at that reading and says what it STATES, ⛔ never testifying to the edit itself', says(greenPairLine({ pr: 1, card: 2, corrected: true }), '`created_at`/`updated_at`'));
+  t('⛔ …and the clause that asserted an unread fact is gone from the printed line', !says(greenPairLine({ pr: 1, card: 2, corrected: true }), 'says the claim was not edited'));
+  t('⛔ NEGATIVE, on the SOURCE: no branch of this file asserts the unread 「NOT edited」 any more', !E_SRC.includes(['still reads as', 'it was written'].join(' ')));
+  t('⛔ CONTROL — the same source read is not empty or misdirected: it reaches the reader this card added', E_SRC.includes(['function claimEdit', 'Reading('].join('')));
+
   // -- The floor: every declared battery RAN, and ran its cases (#13489) -----
   //
   // Evaluated after every battery has had its chance and BEFORE the verdict, so