diff --git a/conductor/tracks/twitter_threads_extraction_20260705/state.toml b/conductor/tracks/twitter_threads_extraction_20260705/state.toml
index 9910a3e4..09c18bcc 100644
--- a/conductor/tracks/twitter_threads_extraction_20260705/state.toml
+++ b/conductor/tracks/twitter_threads_extraction_20260705/state.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ t4_4 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "06ff9299", description = "Implement
 t4_5 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "06ff9299", description = "Commit Phase 4" }
 t5_1 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "fe207c1e", description = "Write README.md (prerequisites, usage, output layout, copy-to-another-repo, Strategy B/D alternatives)" }
 t5_2 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "fe207c1e", description = "Verify standalone requirement (VC6 + VC7: --help works; zero src/conductor/video_analysis imports)" }
-t5_3 = { status = "deferred_user", commit_sha = "", description = "End-to-end smoke test against 8-URL corpus — DEFERRED: requires network + cookies.txt (out of sandbox scope). Pipeline mechanics verified by test_twitter_threads_pipeline.py." }
+t5_3 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "", description = "End-to-end extraction: 8 URLs -> 4 merged threads (conversation dedupe) in docs/twitter/ with gallery-dl media (images embedded, video as <video>). Driver: conductor/tracks/twitter_threads_extraction_20260705/extract_corpus.py" }
 t5_4 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "ed867317", description = "Run the full new-test suite (34 tests pass together; log at tests/artifacts/tier2_state/.../test_run_phase5_final.log)" }
 t5_5 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "fe207c1e", description = "Commit Phase 5 + README" }
 t5_6 = { status = "pending_user", commit_sha = "", description = "User Manual Verification — handed off via TRACK_COMPLETION report (autonomous mode: user reviews report to decide merge)" }
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ vc4_fetch_tests_pass = true
 vc5_media_tests_pass = true
 vc6_standalone_help_works = true
 vc7_zero_internal_imports = true
-vc8_corpus_extraction_complete = false  # DEFERRED to user: network + cookies.txt required (Task 5.3)
+vc8_corpus_extraction_complete = true  # done: 8 URLs -> 4 merged threads in docs/twitter/ (deduped, media embedded), committed by user
 
 [reference_project]
 path = "C:\\projects\\forth\\bootslop"