diff --git a/docs/REGISTRY_API.md b/docs/REGISTRY_API.md
index c701c7d2..770e71af 100644
--- a/docs/REGISTRY_API.md
+++ b/docs/REGISTRY_API.md
@@ -27,11 +27,32 @@ to GitHub. No workflow enables or purchases a Workers plan.
 
 ## Publish the first feed
 
+### Current Free-plan deployment
+
+Live acceptance on 2026-10-11 verified 6,842 skills from 81 repositories,
+all selectors and pagination, and a 292,366-character body reconstructed from
+10 hash-verified segments. Cloudflare measured API CPU P50 of 1.43 ms and P99
+of 560 ms, and isolate memory P99 of approximately 83 MiB. These are sampled
+metrics from the acceptance requests, including cold loads.
+
+The account is on Workers Free. Cold loads and snapshot refreshes exceed its
+10 ms CPU allowance; repeated refresh testing returned resource-limit 503s.
+The maintainer explicitly deferred a paid upgrade. The current deployment is
+therefore available for evaluation but cannot guarantee successful cold loads
+or refreshes. No subscription was changed.
+
+For a future approved Workers Paid deployment, configure
+`"limits": { "cpu_ms": 1000 }` in `wrangler.jsonc`, deploy with Wrangler and
+repeat cold-load/refresh acceptance. The Paid subscription starts at US$5/month;
+see [Cloudflare pricing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/).
+Free accounts reject this CPU-limit configuration, so it is intentionally absent
+from the current config.
+
 The first release requires a manual “Deploy Skill Catalog” run with
 `bootstrap_feed=true`. The existing directory becomes the baseline, with no
 historical notification flood. Future runs read `feed-state.json` from the last
 successful Pages publication and compare its source revision with the latest
-successful `github-pages` deployment. A later missing/corrupt state cannot be
+completed successful production publication workflow. A later missing/corrupt state cannot be
 bootstrapped again: recover the last published artifact instead.
 
 Production publishes are serialized through verification of the new public
diff --git a/src/api/api.test.ts b/src/api/api.test.ts
index 14334e32..4470a131 100644
--- a/src/api/api.test.ts
+++ b/src/api/api.test.ts
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ describe("catalog API", () => {
       `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alpha/skills/${"a".repeat(40)}/SKILL.md`,
     );
     expect(fetcher.mock.calls[1][1]?.headers).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(fetcher.mock.calls[1][1]?.redirect).toBe("manual");
     expect(
       (
         await worker.fetch(
@@ -250,7 +251,7 @@ describe("catalog API", () => {
   });
 
   it("reports legacy provenance, unavailable upstream and mismatched hash", async () => {
-    for (const scenario of ["legacy", "missing", "hash", "timeout"]) {
+    for (const scenario of ["legacy", "missing", "redirect", "hash", "timeout"]) {
       const s = await fixtureSnapshot();
       if (scenario === "legacy") delete s.skills[0].sourceCommit;
       const fetcher: typeof fetch = async (input) => {
@@ -259,7 +260,7 @@ describe("catalog API", () => {
         if (scenario === "timeout")
           throw new DOMException("timeout", "TimeoutError");
         return new Response("wrong", {
-          status: scenario === "missing" ? 404 : 200,
+          status: scenario === "missing" ? 404 : scenario === "redirect" ? 302 : 200,
         });
       };
       const response = await createWorker(fetcher).fetch(
diff --git a/src/api/worker.ts b/src/api/worker.ts
index 2e368396..23292ec3 100644
--- a/src/api/worker.ts
+++ b/src/api/worker.ts
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ export function createWorker(
     try {
       const response = await fetcher(sourceUrl, {
         signal: AbortSignal.timeout(10_000),
-        redirect: "error",
+        // workerd supports manual/follow only. Reject redirect status codes
+        // below to preserve the commit-pinned origin contract.
+        redirect: "manual",
       });
       if (!response.ok || !response.body) throw new Error("Source unavailable");
       const reader = response.body.getReader();