diff --git a/bin/apricot-doctor b/bin/apricot-doctor
index 0f8fea1..bbedd95 100755
--- a/bin/apricot-doctor
+++ b/bin/apricot-doctor
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ cmd_check() {
 
     echo
     echo "Services:"
-    for s in dnsmasq systemd-oomd quinn-ai-auto-respond; do
+    for s in dnsmasq systemd-oomd quinn-ai-auto-respond apricot-pressure-guard; do
         state=$(systemctl is-active "$s" 2>/dev/null || true)
         enabled=$(systemctl is-enabled "$s" 2>/dev/null || true)
         case "$state" in
@@ -83,6 +83,23 @@ cmd_check() {
         printf '  %-7s %s\n' "$p" "${avg10:-?}"
     done
 
+    # Wedge guard: the io-pressure responder freezes the auto-commit burst when
+    # tank io saturates (see project-apricot-io-starvation-wedge). Its live
+    # state lives on tmpfs (/run), never tank, so it is readable during a wedge.
+    echo
+    echo "Wedge guard:"
+    gstate=$(cat /run/apricot-pressure-guard/state 2>/dev/null || echo "?")
+    case "$gstate" in
+        running) ok   "io-pressure guard: running (commits not throttled)" ;;
+        frozen)  warn "io-pressure guard: FROZEN commits.service (io spike in progress)" ;;
+        *)       warn "io-pressure guard: state unknown (daemon down?)" ;;
+    esac
+    # Auto-commit burst cadence: ~one burst of ~280 pipeline runs per cycle.
+    # interval_seconds was raised 300→900 to cut the chronic io duty cycle.
+    bursts=$(journalctl --since '20 minutes ago' -o cat 2>/dev/null \
+        | grep -c 'Pipeline completed' || true)
+    printf '  auto-commit pipelines (last 20m): %s\n' "${bursts:-?}"
+
     if command -v nvme >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         echo
         echo "NVMe composite temps:"
@@ -268,8 +285,14 @@ cmd_forensic() {
         echo '--- /proc/pressure/io ---';     cat /proc/pressure/io     2>/dev/null
         echo '--- /proc/pressure/memory ---'; cat /proc/pressure/memory 2>/dev/null
     } > "$out/09-pressure-now.txt" 2>&1 || true
+    # Legacy detection-only guard logged here — on TANK, so it FROZE during the
+    # very wedge it watched (silence in this file during a wedge window is
+    # expected, not evidence of calm). The live guard now logs to the journal.
     [ -f "$HOME/apricot-pressure-alerts.log" ] \
         && cp "$HOME/apricot-pressure-alerts.log" "$out/10-pressure-alerts.log" || true
+    # io-pressure guard daemon journal: freeze/thaw events across this boot.
+    journalctl -b "$idx" -t apricot-pressure-guard --no-pager \
+        > "$out/11-pressure-guard.txt" 2>&1 || true
 
     n=$(ls "$out" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
     ok "wrote $n artifact(s) to $out"