diff --git a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index ea4e2cb5..2eab51df 100644
--- a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "scribe",
   "description": "Scribe for Claude Code: connects the scribe MCP server, adds the hooks that deliver live project state and relevant records at the right moment, ships the shared client-neutral Scribe skills (using-scribe, writing-plans, reporting-back, systematic-debugging, verification, brainstorming, reusing-code, shape-accounting, family-canon), and syncs your saved Scribe Processes as skills (/scribe:sync).",
-  "version": "2026.10.09.1938",
+  "version": "2026.10.09.1942",
   "author": {
     "name": "Bryan Van Deusen"
   },
diff --git a/plugin/hooks/scribe_reply_check.sh b/plugin/hooks/scribe_reply_check.sh
index a68dcd80..848d6a69 100644
--- a/plugin/hooks/scribe_reply_check.sh
+++ b/plugin/hooks/scribe_reply_check.sh
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ safe_sid=$(printf '%s' "$session_id" | tr -c 'A-Za-z0-9._-' '_')
 rulefile="$state_dir/${safe_sid}.rules.ids"
 stopfile="$state_dir/${safe_sid}.checkpoint.ids"
 # Set when the section check held the reply: the next stop is its rewrite.
-reportfile="$state_dir/${safe_sid}.reportcheck"
+# A ledger by name (`.ids`), so a compaction sweeps it with the rest.
+reportfile="$state_dir/${safe_sid}.reportcheck.ids"
 
 # The rewrite after a hold goes out as written. Only a rewrite of a SECTION
 # hold is sent at all — to record how it came out; one after a rule hold, or
diff --git a/tests/test_session_ledger_clear.py b/tests/test_session_ledger_clear.py
index 93524867..6ce0e825 100644
--- a/tests/test_session_ledger_clear.py
+++ b/tests/test_session_ledger_clear.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ DEFS = HOOKS / "scribe_defs.sh"
 # the convention tests below are what keep this roster honest as it grows.
 LEDGERS = {
     "scribe-priorart": (".ids", ".rules.ids", ".opened.ids", ".sync.ids",
-                        ".derive.ids", ".shapes.ids"),
+                        ".derive.ids", ".shapes.ids", ".reportcheck.ids"),
     "scribe-autoinject": (".ids",),
 }