diff --git a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt
index 557772b6..2cc8e37f 100644
--- a/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt
+++ b/packages/mosaic/framework/tools/wake/manifest.txt
@@ -465,8 +465,26 @@
 #              never a hand-built flat dead-letter row, which would make the
 #              audit's correct non-conviction look exactly like the defect
 #              under hunt (the #951 review's false-defect near-miss).
+#   0.7.2  #973 three-valued grep verdicts across ALL TEN wake test suites.
+#              grep's exit contract is three-valued (0 match / 1 no-match /
+#              >=2 ERROR); every suite assertion read non-zero as "absent",
+#              so a grep that COULD NOT LOOK wore the colour of a verdict —
+#              OR-polarity sites failed falsely RED, AND-polarity sites
+#              (including all 19 credential canaries) failed falsely GREEN
+#              under load. _wake-common.sh gains has_match/count_lines
+#              (rc 0/1 pass through; anything else LOUDLY ABORTS the whole
+#              suite naming file:line + raw rc — an error is never a
+#              verdict), wake_assert_init (saved-fd abort loudness that
+#              survives call-site 2>/dev/null + a runtime pin of the
+#              BASH_LINENO coordinate convention against CI bash drift),
+#              and 261 call sites converted mechanically from a frozen
+#              denominator artifact. Production tools source but never call
+#              the helpers; suite verdict semantics on rc 0/1 are UNCHANGED.
+#              Evidence chain in validate-973/ (microtest C1-C11, expected/
+#              static/trace set arithmetic, 21 forced-error arms, residual
+#              sweep with per-form plants).
 component=wake
-version=0.7.1
+version=0.7.2
 
 # Watch-list schema this component consumes, and the INCLUSIVE range of
 # schema_version values it supports. A wake-watch-list.json whose schema_version