diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0738ab2..c76e129 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ clean bill of health nobody examined is worth less than nothing.
 - uses: actions/checkout@v4
   with:
     fetch-depth: 0        # docproof needs history to tell drift from an example
-- uses: melbinjp/docproof@v0.1.4
+- uses: melbinjp/docproof@v0.2.0
 ```
 
 **Both lines are load-bearing, and the action refuses to run without the first.**
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ A gate that fails on day one gets removed on day one. `--exit-zero` prints the f
 leaves the run green, so you can adopt this while you are still working through them:
 
 ```yaml
-- uses: melbinjp/docproof@v0.1.4
+- uses: melbinjp/docproof@v0.2.0
   with:
     fail-on-findings: false
 ```
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ not a promise the project is making.
 silence harmless:
 
 ```
-docproof 0.1.4 - myproject, 6 document(s)
+docproof 0.2.0 - myproject, 6 document(s)
    41 documentation file(s) elsewhere in the tree were NOT read; the default scope is top-level files plus doc/ and docs/
      guides/ 22, website/ 14, handbook/ 4, .github/ 1
      read them too with --docs 'guides/**/*.md' or [tool.docproof] docs = ["guides/**/*.md"]
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ never existed, so `docproof` reports that and judges nothing rather than guessin
 - uses: actions/checkout@v4
   with:
     fetch-depth: 0        # docproof needs history to tell drift from an example
-- uses: melbinjp/docproof@v0.1.4
+- uses: melbinjp/docproof@v0.2.0
 ```
 
 **The action refuses to run without `fetch-depth: 0`, on purpose.** Measured on
diff --git a/src/docproof/__init__.py b/src/docproof/__init__.py
index 7417332..647885a 100644
--- a/src/docproof/__init__.py
+++ b/src/docproof/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """docproof — prove your documentation against your code."""
 
-__version__ = "0.1.4"
+__version__ = "0.2.0"
diff --git a/tests/test_version_has_one_source.py b/tests/test_version_has_one_source.py
index a44688c..fd66184 100644
--- a/tests/test_version_has_one_source.py
+++ b/tests/test_version_has_one_source.py
@@ -124,3 +124,34 @@ def test_the_release_gate_reads_the_same_file_the_build_does() -> None:
         "release.yml no longer resolves the version file through [tool.hatch.version]. "
         "Hardcoding it lets the gate and the build drift onto different files."
     )
+
+
+def test_the_readme_sample_report_shows_the_current_version() -> None:
+    """The README's ILLUSTRATIVE sample report carries a version, and it went stale.
+
+    It read `docproof 0.1.4` while the package moved on: the same drift the action pins
+    already have a gate for, in the same file, unguarded.
+
+    **Placeholder samples only, and the exclusion is the interesting half.** The README also
+    opens with a verbatim run against `pallets/click` whose header says `docproof 0.1.0`, and
+    that one must NOT be updated. The README says why, at length: the tool misreported its own
+    version until #9, the block is a real transcript, and *"editing the output would make it a
+    mock-up: the same move as editing a document instead of fixing the code."*
+
+    The first version of this test asserted every header matched and failed on exactly that
+    block - correctly, and with the wrong remedy. A check that would force a true record to be
+    falsified is worse than no check, so this reads only headers naming the placeholder
+    project. A transcript names a real repository; a sample names `myproject`.
+    """
+    from docproof import __version__
+
+    readme = (ROOT / "README.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    samples = re.findall(r"^docproof (\d+\.\d+\.\d+) . myproject", readme, re.M)
+
+    assert samples, "the README shows no placeholder sample report header to check"
+    wrong = sorted({s for s in samples if s != __version__})
+    assert wrong == [], (
+        f"README sample report shows {wrong} but the package is {__version__}. "
+        "A tool whose argument is that documentation drifts does not get to print a "
+        "version it is not."
+    )