diff --git a/carve_test.go b/carve_test.go
index 5cbf0b3..9e71e0d 100644
--- a/carve_test.go
+++ b/carve_test.go
@@ -65,7 +65,12 @@ func TestToHTML_Table(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ToHTML error: %v", err)
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(out, "<table>") || !strings.Contains(out, "<th>A</th>") || !strings.Contains(out, "<td>1</td>") {
+	// A header cell carries scope="col". The expectation here used to be a bare
+	// <th>, which is what the engine emitted before the corpus grew the
+	// attribute; a hand-written expectation like this one is the part of the
+	// suite that cannot notice the artifact moving under it, which is why the
+	// corpus job exists beside it.
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "<table>") || !strings.Contains(out, `<th scope="col">A</th>`) || !strings.Contains(out, "<td>1</td>") {
 		t.Fatalf("expected table markup, got %q", out)
 	}
 }
@@ -116,29 +121,33 @@ type mismatchError struct{ out string }
 func (e *mismatchError) Error() string { return "unexpected output: " + e.out }
 
 // nativeCarveBin locates the native carve-rs CLI for byte-identical checks.
-// It is skipped (not failed) when the binary is unavailable, so the suite
-// still runs in environments without a carve-rs checkout.
+// It is skipped (not failed) when no binary is named, so the suite still runs
+// in environments without a carve-rs checkout - CI is one of them, and skips
+// this check on every run.
+//
+// CARVE_BIN IS THE ONLY ROUTE, and the reason is what this check asserts. It
+// says "the wasm renders what the native engine renders", which is a statement
+// about ONE engine revision: the native side has to be the revision
+// internal/wasm/REV names, or a mismatch says nothing about this module. The
+// helper used to fall back to two hardcoded target/ paths and then to `carve`
+// on PATH, none of which is that revision by construction - a long-lived
+// checkout's target/ holds whatever it last built, on whatever branch it was
+// on.
+//
+// It failed exactly that way while this rebuild was being prepared: a stale
+// local build predating the header cell growing scope="col" reported a byte
+// mismatch on tables against a wasm the corpus proved correct. A check that
+// picks its own reference off the filesystem cannot tell "the wasm is wrong"
+// from "the thing I found is old", and it reported the first. Skipping until a
+// caller vouches for a binary is the honest default; the corpus job, whose
+// reference is the spec, is the drift gate either way.
 func nativeCarveBin(t *testing.T) string {
 	t.Helper()
 	if env := os.Getenv("CARVE_BIN"); env != "" {
 		return env
 	}
-	candidates := []string{
-		// Static-capable checkout (proto/div-label-fallback, the engine the
-		// committed wasm is built from) is preferred so the static byte-check
-		// can run; fall back to a plain main checkout for the interactive check.
-		"/tmp/carve-rs-static/target/release/carve",
-		"/media/mark/data/work/git/carve-rs/target/release/carve",
-	}
-	for _, c := range candidates {
-		if _, err := os.Stat(c); err == nil {
-			return c
-		}
-	}
-	if p, err := exec.LookPath("carve"); err == nil {
-		return p
-	}
-	t.Skip("native carve binary not found; set CARVE_BIN to enable byte-identical check")
+	t.Skip("CARVE_BIN not set; build the carve CLI from the carve-rs revision in " +
+		"internal/wasm/REV and point CARVE_BIN at it to enable the byte-identical check")
 	return ""
 }
 
diff --git a/corpus_population_test.go b/corpus_population_test.go
index 4538873..9811d09 100644
--- a/corpus_population_test.go
+++ b/corpus_population_test.go
@@ -28,12 +28,21 @@ import (
 // markup-carve/pandoc-carve.
 //
 // So the reference is the corpus's SOURCE, not the corpus. tests/corpus is
-// generated from the `::: compare` blocks in docs/examples/{core,extensions,
-// edge-cases}.md (see tests/corpus/README.md and scripts/generate-corpus.mjs in
-// the spec repository); the generator refuses to write a corpus where the two
-// disagree. Both live in the same spec checkout CI already clones, one
-// directory away from CARVE_SPEC_CORPUS - the same route corpus_ast_test.go
-// already uses to read resources/ast-schema.json.
+// generated from the `::: compare` blocks in resources/examples/{core,
+// extensions,edge-cases}.md (see tests/corpus/README.md and
+// scripts/generate-corpus.mjs in the spec repository); the generator refuses to
+// write a corpus where the two disagree. Both live in the same spec checkout CI
+// already clones, one directory away from CARVE_SPEC_CORPUS - the same route
+// corpus_ast_test.go already uses to read resources/ast-schema.json.
+//
+// THE PAGES MOVED, AND THIS HELPER DID NOT. They lived under docs/examples/
+// until markup-carve/carve#1194 made them generated sources and filed them
+// beside the other generator inputs in resources/. Because the path is read at
+// run time and the miss is fatal, the corpus job stopped comparing anything at
+// all rather than comparing against a stale count - the right failure, but it
+// masked every real divergence behind it until the path moved too. The route
+// corpus_ast_test.go takes to resources/ast-schema.json is now the same route
+// this helper takes, which is one fewer place for the two to disagree.
 //
 // Counting the source rather than recording a number also means there is no
 // literal left to go stale: adding an example moves the expectation on the next
@@ -59,7 +68,7 @@ var compareMarkerRun = regexp.MustCompile(`^:{3,}`)
 // keeps the two counts equal by construction instead of by luck.
 func declaredCorpusSize(t *testing.T, corpusDir string) int {
 	t.Helper()
-	examplesDir := filepath.Join(corpusDir, "..", "..", "docs", "examples")
+	examplesDir := filepath.Join(corpusDir, "..", "..", "resources", "examples")
 	declared := 0
 	for _, page := range specExamplePages {
 		path := filepath.Join(examplesDir, page)
@@ -110,7 +119,7 @@ func requireWholeCorpus(t *testing.T, corpusDir string, got int, what string) {
 	declared := declaredCorpusSize(t, corpusDir)
 	if got != declared {
 		t.Fatalf("%s: %d, but the spec's example pages declare %d. Every ::: compare block in "+
-			"docs/examples/{core,extensions,edge-cases}.md becomes one corpus pair, so a difference "+
+			"resources/examples/{core,extensions,edge-cases}.md becomes one corpus pair, so a difference "+
 			"means the corpus at %s is not the one those pages describe - a truncated or stale "+
 			"checkout, a wrong CARVE_SPEC_CORPUS, or a corpus that needs regenerating "+
 			"(npm run corpus:build in the spec repository). It does not mean this run was clean.",
diff --git a/internal/wasm/REV b/internal/wasm/REV
index 6f0c905..fb1cc20 100644
--- a/internal/wasm/REV
+++ b/internal/wasm/REV
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9130a7c70249a44bc68bf39eab30b5f92ae1d1b7
+98de7874ad2e81f69e57764562c83f4918522ac2
diff --git a/internal/wasm/carve.wasm b/internal/wasm/carve.wasm
index 46c0199..e30244d 100755
Binary files a/internal/wasm/carve.wasm and b/internal/wasm/carve.wasm differ
diff --git a/internal/wasm/carve.wasm.sha256 b/internal/wasm/carve.wasm.sha256
index a84b442..29cd143 100644
--- a/internal/wasm/carve.wasm.sha256
+++ b/internal/wasm/carve.wasm.sha256
@@ -1 +1 @@
-14c52b3ce196ec36b1352ffadaaa4df07f67344ceb49c0a501ebb5fe266330bd  carve.wasm
+fd3691e29e6e841282a14cab1f2aa4ec419b52615e3f3422fcee23284fb583c9  carve.wasm