diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 7146d2e..8381150 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ place only: `instructions/dev/version-parts.md` § The candidate model.
 
 ---
 
-## 10.1.0-beta.8 - 2026-10-15 - read-page-images: liest der Harness mit Subagenten, öffnet die Ingest-Sitzung die Seitenbilder gar nicht selbst, auch nicht zur Kontrolle (#234)
+## 10.1.0-beta.9 - 2026-10-15 - wiki-ingest step 1 sends the session to read-page-images.md before the discussion, so up to the threshold the page images are no question for the user
 
 **Author:** Torben Nehmer
 
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ place only: `instructions/dev/version-parts.md` § The candidate model.
 - instructions/dev: converter-comparison nennt harness/compare/README.md als Ort der Einrichtung
 - raw derive PDF: Durchstreichung und Textmarker lassen Programmtext aus, wie der Vertrag sagt (#231)
 - read-page-images: liest der Harness mit Subagenten, öffnet die Ingest-Sitzung die Seitenbilder gar nicht selbst, auch nicht zur Kontrolle (#234)
+- wiki-ingest step 1 sends the session to read-page-images.md before the discussion, so up to the threshold the page images are no question for the user
 <!-- /wikitool:bumps -->
 
 ### Konverter-Tests gegen echte Dokumente im privaten Repository
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 9188981..2dbea57 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-10.1.0-beta.8
+10.1.0-beta.9
diff --git a/instructions/read-page-images.md b/instructions/read-page-images.md
index 7e99710..b57bc69 100644
--- a/instructions/read-page-images.md
+++ b/instructions/read-page-images.md
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ either field no page is selected, and nothing is read.
   seems thin, or to check a label before writing it down? Do not. Send the subagent back with the
   specific question, or write the statement as uncertain (step 4). Reading in this session is
   for a harness without subagents only; doing it anyway is exactly what fills this context.
+- **About to ask the user whether to look at the pages** - in the discussion of the source's key
+  points, say - with 20 or fewer selected? Do not: step 2 says read them, and the question only
+  exists past the threshold. Run steps 3 to 5 and present what was read with the rest.
 - **The user chose "none"?** Step 5 only. The pages stay listed with that reason, so the next
   pass does not renegotiate them.
 - **Hundreds of selected pages (a handbook)?** The threshold applies as it is: stop at step 2
diff --git a/instructions/wiki-ingest/SKILL.md b/instructions/wiki-ingest/SKILL.md
index c75252e..aae16bc 100644
--- a/instructions/wiki-ingest/SKILL.md
+++ b/instructions/wiki-ingest/SKILL.md
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ validator complains - and the ticked list is the only record that they happened.
    just wrote, for instance, which skips step 5 entirely). A PDF, mail, Office file or ZIP: run
    `tools/wikitool raw derive <path>` first and read the `.md` - its output names what to check.
    A PDF whose `derived.md` header has an `images:` or `unmatched:` field names pages the text
-   does not hold: `instructions/read-page-images.md` decides which of them are looked at, and how.
+   does not hold: open `instructions/read-page-images.md` now and follow it, before step 4. Up to
+   its threshold the pages are read without asking the user, so they are not a question for
+   step 4.
    Any other binary or image: note its presence and what it shows.
 
    **The user named nothing** ("ingest", "process the inbox")? First pull what the configured