diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8d9e8eb..e45332e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ All notable changes to the CacheKit Protocol Specification.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Wire format — vendored-fixture coverage note corrected (LAB-1750)
+
+- [`spec/wire-format.md`](spec/wire-format.md) no longer says `cachekit-core` vendors
+  fixture 1.1.0. It pins 1.1.1, so `width_boundary_bin16_bin` has a canonical-writer
+  (`lz4_flex`) compressed-byte and xxh3-64 checksum check. The section now states the rule
+  for anyone vendoring the fixture: derive each `*_bin` twin's expected marker from its
+  decoded `compressed_data` length, never assume bin8 or accept any `bin` width.
+
 ### Encryption — default-tenant conformance vector (LAB-4666)
 
 - [`test-vectors/encryption.json`](test-vectors/encryption.json) gains a `default_tenant`
diff --git a/spec/wire-format.md b/spec/wire-format.md
index e0d3ae3..ba3b97e 100644
--- a/spec/wire-format.md
+++ b/spec/wire-format.md
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ This document specifies two layers:
    decode byte-identity for every vector and re-encode byte-identity for the
    canonical `*_bin` vectors only — legacy array-of-integers vectors are
    decode-only, retained as legacy-read proof. That re-encode assertion covers
-   only the vectors the pinned file contains (core currently vendors 1.1.0, with
-   the resulting gap detailed below). Byte-canonicity scopes to the
+   only the vectors the pinned file contains. Byte-canonicity scopes to the
    envelope's MessagePack encoding and to the **canonical writer's** output:
    the LZ4 bytes inside `compressed_data` are not reproducible across
    conforming compressors — see
@@ -287,31 +286,23 @@ bytes are therefore
   valid LZ4 block satisfies, so it accepts a re-pin to unrelated bytes. Neither
   half runs `lz4_flex`, so neither can detect an `lz4_flex` **behaviour** change;
   that remains the job of the re-encode assertions in `cachekit-core` described
-  below, subject to the vendored-version gap noted there.
+  below.
 
 This is the same doctrine [interop v2](interop-v2.md) records for its
 compressed-values profile. The pinned bytes are the **canonical implementation's**
 output (`lz4_flex` via `cachekit-core`), enforced by the re-encode byte-identity
-assertions in `cachekit-core/tests/wire_format_vectors.rs` — **but only for the
-vectors present in the fixture that repo vendors**. That matters today:
-cachekit-core vendors 1.1.0 and pins `version == "1.1.0"`, so
-`width_boundary_bin16` (added at 1.1.1) has **no canonical-writer (`lz4_flex`)
-compressed-byte check anywhere in the fleet**, and its pinned xxh3-64 checksum
-is recomputed nowhere. Its MessagePack encoding *is* covered: this repo's
-`tools/wire-format-reference.py verify` asserts legacy and bin re-encode
-byte-identity for it on every run, and liblz4 reproduces its compressed bytes
-on the optional `lz4` leg — so do not read this gap as "the vector is
-unverified". Closing it means re-vendoring 1.1.1 into cachekit-core, which
-requires three changes together, not one: bump `FIXTURE_SHA256`, bump the
-`version == "1.1.0"` pin to `1.1.1`, and relax
-`assert_eq!(twin_bytes[1], 0xc4)` to accept `0xc5` — that assertion currently
-requires *every* twin to be bin8, and `width_boundary_bin16_bin` is bin16
-(marker `0xc5`, 303-byte `compressed_data`), which is the whole point of the
-vector. A drop-in re-vendor fails that test. The reference liblz4 mapping
-above (`lz4.block`) is **decode-verified against every vector** in this repo's
-CI (`tools/wire-format-reference.py verify`, optional `lz4` leg); on encode it
-reproduces every pair except `large_compressible` byte-for-byte, which is an
-observation, not a guarantee — but one this repo's CI pins (see
+assertions in `cachekit-core/tests/wire_format_vectors.rs` — **for the vectors
+present in the fixture that repo vendors**, which recompute each twin's
+`lz4_flex` bytes and xxh3-64 checksum. Anyone vendoring the fixture should
+derive each `*_bin` twin's expected marker from its decoded `compressed_data`
+length (`≤255 → 0xc4`, `≤65535 → 0xc5`, else `0xc6`), as cachekit-core does. An
+assertion that every twin is bin8 fails on `width_boundary_bin16_bin` (`0xc5`,
+303-byte `compressed_data`), and one that accepts all three widths cannot
+detect a non-shortest header. The reference liblz4 mapping above (`lz4.block`) is **decode-verified against
+every vector** in this repo's CI (`tools/wire-format-reference.py verify`,
+optional `lz4` leg); on encode it reproduces every pair except
+`large_compressible` byte-for-byte, which is an observation, not a guarantee —
+but one this repo's CI pins (see
 `LZ4_ENCODE_DIVERGENT`), so a toolchain change that alters the divergent set
 fails CI rather than quietly making this paragraph wrong.