diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e0823a6c..370ddab1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -84,16 +84,18 @@ jobs:
 
       # Tag-gated tests (DC-06 / T-2026-07-25-16). The build-tag matrix above
       # only COMPILES the otel/wazero variants; the tests behind those tags
-      # (plugin/sandbox_wazero_test.go, telemetry/telemetry_otel_test.go) ran
-      # nowhere until this step. Scoped to the two packages that carry tagged
-      # files — every other package is tag-invariant and already covered by the
-      # race run above. One leg is enough; no -race (the runtime under the tag
-      # is the concern, not new concurrency).
+      # (plugin/sandbox_wazero_test.go, telemetry/telemetry_otel_test.go,
+      # api/recoverer_otel_test.go — the OC-0346 panic-log test, which this
+      # step never executed until ./api/... was added) ran nowhere until this
+      # step. Scoped to the packages that carry tagged files — every other
+      # package is tag-invariant and already covered by the race run above.
+      # One leg is enough; no -race (the runtime under the tag is the concern,
+      # not new concurrency).
       - name: Run tag-gated tests (-tags wazero, -tags otel)
         if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
         run: |
           go test -tags wazero -count=1 ./plugin/...
-          go test -tags otel -count=1 ./telemetry/...
+          go test -tags otel -count=1 ./telemetry/... ./api/...
 
       # Coverage ratchet (B3-6 item 1). Reads the profile the race step wrote,
       # but placed after the other test steps so a floor miss does not hide
diff --git a/scripts/verify-gate-evidence.mjs b/scripts/verify-gate-evidence.mjs
index 08626581..8850f142 100644
--- a/scripts/verify-gate-evidence.mjs
+++ b/scripts/verify-gate-evidence.mjs
@@ -36,6 +36,25 @@ export function requiredContexts(scriptSrc) {
   return [...block[1].matchAll(/"([^"]+)"/g)].map((m) => m[1]);
 }
 
+// The identical-tree evidence model (G-03 as amended 2026-08-31) leans on
+// required_status_checks.strict: with strict off, a PR that is behind dev can
+// be squash-merged into a tree no CI run ever saw, and the PR-head evidence
+// this gate trusts stops describing what actually landed. strict: true is what
+// makes "the required matrix ran on the merged tree" a construction rather
+// than a habit — scripts/verify-integration-tree.sh spot-proves it per squash
+// SHA — so losing the flag must fail on a pull request, not in a later audit.
+export function strictUpToDate(scriptSrc) {
+  const block = scriptSrc.match(/"required_status_checks"\s*:\s*\{([\s\S]*?)\}/);
+  if (!block) {
+    throw new Error(`no "required_status_checks" object found in ${PROTECTION_SCRIPT}`);
+  }
+  const strict = block[1].match(/"strict"\s*:\s*(true|false)/);
+  if (!strict) {
+    throw new Error(`no "strict" key found under required_status_checks in ${PROTECTION_SCRIPT}`);
+  }
+  return strict[1] === "true";
+}
+
 // checkRuns is the API's check_runs array, already collected across pages.
 // Returns the reasons this commit is not releasable; empty means it is.
 export function evaluate(required, checkRuns) {
@@ -138,6 +157,18 @@ function selftest() {
     real.includes("Server Build & Test (ubuntu-latest)"),
     "an ampersand name survives parsing",
   );
+  assert(
+    strictUpToDate(readFileSync(join(ROOT, PROTECTION_SCRIPT), "utf8")),
+    "strict: true is pinned — identical-tree integration evidence relies on it",
+  );
+  assert(
+    strictUpToDate('"required_status_checks": { "strict": true, "contexts": ["A"] }'),
+    "strict true parses",
+  );
+  assert(
+    !strictUpToDate('"required_status_checks": { "strict": false, "contexts": ["A"] }'),
+    "strict false is detected, not glossed as true",
+  );
 
   const req = ["A", "B"];
   const ok = (name, extra = {}) => ({
diff --git a/scripts/verify-integration-tree.sh b/scripts/verify-integration-tree.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..faa0ae8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/verify-integration-tree.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Integration evidence for a dev squash commit (G-03 as amended 2026-08-31).
+#
+# dev is squash-merge-only and its pushes deliberately run no ci.yml matrix
+# (the pull_request trigger already ran it on the PR head), so the squash
+# commit itself carries only CodeQL runs. What makes the PR-head evidence
+# transfer to the squash commit is required_status_checks.strict: an
+# up-to-date PR's head names the same tree the squash commit lands. This
+# script turns that construction into a per-commit statement a phase-exit or
+# hold-point evidence block can cite as a command with output, instead of an
+# assumption:
+#
+#   bash scripts/verify-integration-tree.sh <squash-sha> [<squash-sha>...]
+#
+# For each squash commit: parse the pull-request number from the "(#N)"
+# subject suffix every squash merge carries, fetch refs/pull/N/head from
+# origin, and assert both commits name the same git tree. Exits non-zero if
+# any commit fails. Needs network access to origin; verify-gate-evidence.mjs
+# --selftest is what keeps the strict flag itself pinned.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
+  echo "usage: bash scripts/verify-integration-tree.sh <squash-sha> [<squash-sha>...]" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+fail=0
+for sha in "$@"; do
+  if ! subject=$(git log -1 --format=%s "$sha" 2>/dev/null); then
+    echo "FAIL ${sha}: unknown commit (fetch the branch that carries it first)" >&2
+    fail=1
+    continue
+  fi
+  if [[ "$subject" =~ \(#([0-9]+)\)$ ]]; then
+    pr="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+  else
+    echo "FAIL ${sha}: subject does not end in (#N), so it is not the squash of a PR: ${subject}" >&2
+    fail=1
+    continue
+  fi
+  git fetch -q --no-tags origin "refs/pull/${pr}/head"
+  head_tree=$(git rev-parse "FETCH_HEAD^{tree}")
+  squash_tree=$(git rev-parse "${sha}^{tree}")
+  if [ "$head_tree" = "$squash_tree" ]; then
+    echo "PASS ${sha} (PR #${pr}): squash tree == PR head tree ${head_tree}"
+  else
+    echo "FAIL ${sha} (PR #${pr}): squash tree ${squash_tree} != PR head tree ${head_tree} — the merged tree was never CI-tested as-is" >&2
+    fail=1
+  fi
+done
+exit "$fail"