diff --git a/docs/CURRENT_STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT_STATE.md
index 9e5ea3a..32d4ebb 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT_STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT_STATE.md
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Not asserted. Each number is counted at generation time.
 | | |
 |---|---|
 | Gates | 28 |
-| Falsification injections | 372 |
+| Falsification injections | 373 |
 | Golden vector cases | 15 |
 | Frozen artifacts | 7 |
 | Test files | 33 |
diff --git a/docs/development/architecture/generated/10_falsification_coverage.md b/docs/development/architecture/generated/10_falsification_coverage.md
index d7acf07..302c12b 100644
--- a/docs/development/architecture/generated/10_falsification_coverage.md
+++ b/docs/development/architecture/generated/10_falsification_coverage.md
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ GENERATED from `scripts/ci/falsifiable.sh`. A large total is not coverage if mos
 | architecture | 7 |
 | privacy / disclosure | 27 |
 | licensing / framework | 21 |
-| packaging / release | 9 |
+| packaging / release | 10 |
 | governance / gates | 8 |
 | docs truth | 7 |
 | other / cross-cutting | 209 |
-| **total** | **371** |
+| **total** | **372** |
diff --git a/scripts/ci/check_package_payload.sh b/scripts/ci/check_package_payload.sh
index 26c42a3..b34a39e 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/check_package_payload.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/check_package_payload.sh
@@ -56,11 +56,15 @@ if [ -n "$DEB" ] && [ -n "$RPM" ] && command -v rpm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     # .rpm states the same thing in its `License:` metadata field instead. Requiring both
     # formats to carry both mechanisms would be parity for its own sake. Everything else
     # must still match exactly.
+    # Paths relative to the doc directory, regular files only. Basenames were compared
+    # until 0.1.0 shipped its guides in docs/: tar lists that directory as "docs/" and
+    # rpm as "docs", so identical payloads compared unequal - and a basename comparison
+    # could never see a guide installed in the wrong directory.
     ar p "$DEB" data.tar.gz 2>/dev/null | tar tz 2>/dev/null \
-        | grep 'usr/share/doc/isedraf/.' | sed 's|.*/||' | grep -v '^copyright$' \
-        | sort -u > "$D/deb"
-    rpm -qlp "$RPM" 2>/dev/null \
-        | grep 'usr/share/doc/isedraf/.' | sed 's|.*/||' | sort -u > "$D/rpm"
+        | sed -n 's|^\./||; s|^usr/share/doc/isedraf/||p' | grep -v '/$' \
+        | grep -v '^copyright$' | grep -v '^$' | sort -u > "$D/deb"
+    rpm -qp --qf '[%{FILEMODES:perms} %{FILENAMES}\n]' "$RPM" 2>/dev/null \
+        | sed -n 's|^-[^ ]* /usr/share/doc/isedraf/||p' | sort -u > "$D/rpm"
     if cmp -s "$D/deb" "$D/rpm"; then
         ok "deb and rpm ship the same $(wc -l < "$D/deb" | tr -d ' ') documentation files"
     else
diff --git a/scripts/ci/falsifiable.sh b/scripts/ci/falsifiable.sh
index e5dade9..ebcff04 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/falsifiable.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/falsifiable.sh
@@ -2317,7 +2317,7 @@ inject "D-114 the retired DEVICE_SOLID_STATE constant returns to the engine" \
 # D-86. The deb and the rpm are built by two different implementations. Dropping a
 # document from one of them must be caught by comparing them, not by anyone remembering.
 inject "D-86 the rpm and the deb ship different documentation" \
-  'bash packaging/build.sh 2>&1; bash scripts/ci/check_package_payload.sh' \
+  'git add -A >/dev/null 2>&1; git -c user.name=falsifiable -c user.email=falsifiable@invalid commit -qm mutation >/dev/null 2>&1; bash packaging/build.sh 2>&1; bash scripts/ci/check_package_payload.sh' \
   'python3 - <<'"'"'PYX'"'"'
 import pathlib
 p = pathlib.Path("packaging/rpm/isedraf.spec.in"); s = p.read_text()
@@ -2326,7 +2326,15 @@ assert old in s, "mutation anchor miss"
 head, sep, tail = s.partition(old)
 p.write_text(head + tail.split("\n", 1)[1].split("\n", 1)[1])
 PYX' \
-  'ship DIFFERENT documentation|package payload gate FAILED'
+  'ship DIFFERENT documentation'
+
+# The comparison was by basename until the guides moved into docs/ (0.1.0, 2026-09-29): it
+# failed identical payloads, and it could never see a guide installed in the wrong
+# directory. It now compares paths relative to the doc directory.
+inject "D-86 the rpm installs a guide outside docs/" \
+  'git add -A >/dev/null 2>&1; git -c user.name=falsifiable -c user.email=falsifiable@invalid commit -qm mutation >/dev/null 2>&1; bash packaging/build.sh 2>&1; bash scripts/ci/check_package_payload.sh' \
+  'sed -i "s|%{_docdir}/isedraf/docs/\$guide.md|%{_docdir}/isedraf/\$guide.md|" packaging/rpm/isedraf.spec.in' \
+  'ship DIFFERENT documentation'
 
 # PUBLIC-OPS-001 structured. YAML sat outside the prose scan because prose patterns fire
 # on every legitimate `permissions: contents: read`. But YAML carries exactly what the