diff --git a/docs/verification/home-no-redirect.md b/docs/verification/home-no-redirect.md
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+# Verification: home-no-redirect
+
+Behavioral change: the homepage (`layouts/_default/index.html`) JS-redirected `/` to the
+log post's URL (`/log/`). Han wants the home to stay at the bare root `/`. Remove the
+redirect; the template already renders `blog/log.md` inline via `GetPage`, so the home
+now shows the log AT `/` with no bounce.
+
+## Green run
+
+```
+Command: env -u GOROOT obsidian-export ./vault ./content && env -u GOROOT hugo -DEF
+Exit:    0
+Built /index.html: NO window.location.replace; renders the log inline (25,455 bytes,
+        contains "A list of changes and updates" = log.md body).
+Verdict: PASS
+```
+
+## Negative control (revert -> RED -> restore)
+
+```
+GREEN   (no script):        / = bare-root, log rendered inline      (no redirect)
+REVERT  (re-add script):    / = window.location.replace("/log/")    (RED, bounces away)
+RESTORE (no script):        / = bare-root, log rendered inline       (GREEN)
+Verdict: PASS  (the redirect script is what bounced the home to /log/; removing it
+        leaves the home at the bare root rendering the log.)
+```
+
+## Live verification (after merge + deploy)
+
+- [ ] `curl -s https://log.console.so/ | grep -c location.replace` -> 0 (no redirect)
+- [ ] `curl -s https://log.console.so/ | grep -o 'A list of changes'` -> present (log at root)
+
+## Note (follow-up, not in this change)
+
+`blog/log.md` still also renders a standalone `/log/` page, so the log content currently
+appears at BOTH `/` (home) and `/log/`. Eliminating the `/log/` duplicate (redirect
+`/log/` -> `/`, make the log live only at the root) is a content-repo restructure
+(log.md `_build.render`, relocate aliases to `_index.md`, check the nav menu) , tracked
+separately, pending Han's call.
+
+## Reproduce
+
+```
+cd ~/workspace/consolelabs/log.console.so
+env -u GOROOT obsidian-export --hard-linebreaks ./vault ./content
+B=$(mktemp -d); env -u GOROOT hugo --destination "$B" -DEF
+grep -c location.replace "$B/index.html"   # -> 0
+```
diff --git a/layouts/_default/index.html b/layouts/_default/index.html
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--- a/layouts/_default/index.html
+++ b/layouts/_default/index.html
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-<script type="text/javascript">
-  // Redirect the homepage to the running log post. Use the page's real permalink
-  // (Hugo-computed) instead of a hardcoded "/blog/log", which broke when posts moved
-  // off the /blog/ prefix to a root slug ( /log/ ). Future permalink changes follow.
-  window.location.replace("{{ (site.GetPage "/blog/log").RelPermalink }}");
-</script>
-
+{{/* The homepage IS the running log: render blog/log.md inline at the bare root ( / ),
+     no redirect. Visitors stay on https://log.console.so/ instead of being bounced to
+     /log/. */}}
 {{ partial "header.html" . }}
 
 {{ $homepage := .Site.GetPage "/blog/log" }}