diff --git a/cli/src/main.rs b/cli/src/main.rs
index 2ed18240..93a0262f 100644
--- a/cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/cli/src/main.rs
@@ -958,6 +958,9 @@ fn chunks_for_segments(
                 u32::try_from(last).unwrap_or(0),
             ));
             let duplicate = duplicates.get(phrase).copied().flatten();
+            // Persist the link onto the record too (#76, schema v8), so a
+            // downloaded chunk / manifest keeps it, not just the CLI print.
+            meta.duplicate = duplicate;
             PhraseChunk { meta, duplicate }
         })
         .collect()
@@ -1130,6 +1133,7 @@ fn build_chunk_meta(
         structure,
         gesture,
         complexity,
+        duplicate: None,
         style_cohort: Some(inputs.style_cohort),
         ensemble,
         rights: Some(inputs.rights.clone()),
@@ -1956,6 +1960,13 @@ mod tests {
             .expect("phrase 2 near-duplicates phrase 0");
         assert_eq!(dup.of, 0);
         assert!(dup.quote_share >= 0.8, "share {}", dup.quote_share);
+        // The link is also mirrored onto the persisted record (#76, schema v8),
+        // so a downloaded chunk / manifest keeps it — not just the CLI print.
+        assert_eq!(
+            chunks[2].meta.duplicate, chunks[2].duplicate,
+            "the duplicate link is persisted on the ChunkMeta"
+        );
+        assert!(chunks[0].meta.duplicate.is_none());
     }
 
     #[test]
diff --git a/core/src/corpus.rs b/core/src/corpus.rs
index ac0b142c..f7ef8fc5 100644
--- a/core/src/corpus.rs
+++ b/core/src/corpus.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 use crate::complement::AxisScores;
 use crate::gesture::GestureStats;
+use crate::novelty::PhraseDuplicate;
 use crate::structure::{ComplexityProfile, StructureMetrics};
 
 /// Current corpus schema version.
@@ -36,6 +37,11 @@ use crate::structure::{ComplexityProfile, StructureMetrics};
 ///   `rights` key) keep loading and re-serialize losslessly. Rights status is
 ///   not derivable from content, so it is captured at curation time and cannot
 ///   be backfilled.
+/// - v8 — persisted near-duplicate link (#76): `ChunkMeta` gains optional
+///   [`PhraseDuplicate`] under the same pattern; pre-v8 records (no `duplicate`
+///   key) keep loading and re-serialize losslessly. It records which earlier
+///   split phrase a later one repeats — a curation signal previously surfaced
+///   only in the UI/CLI and dropped on download.
 ///
 /// Tag taxonomy is intentionally *not* versioned here: [`SwancoreTag`] grows
 /// additively (e.g. `let_ring`, #75) and `SCHEMA_VERSION` tracks structural
@@ -43,7 +49,7 @@ use crate::structure::{ComplexityProfile, StructureMetrics};
 /// not the tag set — a new tag only breaks readers that hard-reject unknown
 /// variants, a curation-tooling concern, not a corpus-structure one
 /// (decisions 2026-06-19).
-pub const SCHEMA_VERSION: u32 = 7;
+pub const SCHEMA_VERSION: u32 = 8;
 
 // ── identifiers ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -354,6 +360,14 @@ pub struct ChunkMeta {
     /// as `null` — when unmeasured, so pre-v6 files round-trip byte-identically.
     #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub complexity: Option<ComplexityProfile>,
+    /// Near-duplicate link (schema v8, #76): the earlier split phrase this one
+    /// verbatim-quotes (transposition-aware) and by how much, or absent when the
+    /// phrase is distinct or was captured outside a split. `of` indexes the
+    /// phrase within the same split run — it pairs with the `_p<N>` id suffix.
+    /// Skipped — not written as `null` — when absent, so pre-v8 files round-trip
+    /// byte-identically.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub duplicate: Option<PhraseDuplicate>,
     /// Style cohort (schema v4). Absent in pre-v4 records — unlabeled; the
     /// key is skipped when unset, so older files round-trip byte-identically.
     #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
diff --git a/core/src/novelty.rs b/core/src/novelty.rs
index 6907d05c..1f5f3e1b 100644
--- a/core/src/novelty.rs
+++ b/core/src/novelty.rs
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 
 use std::collections::BTreeSet;
 
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
 use crate::score::{AtomEvent, LossReport, Score, Track};
 use crate::scoring::{Axes, Axis, WeightPolicy};
 
@@ -193,7 +195,7 @@ pub fn novelty_weights_v1() -> WeightPolicy {
 pub const PHRASE_DUPLICATE_SHARE: f64 = 0.8;
 
 /// A phrase flagged as a near-duplicate of an earlier one (#76).
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub struct PhraseDuplicate {
     /// Index, within the phrase list, of the earlier phrase it most closely quotes.
     pub of: usize,
diff --git a/core/tests/corpus_schema.rs b/core/tests/corpus_schema.rs
index 5cf6def3..b53ca970 100644
--- a/core/tests/corpus_schema.rs
+++ b/core/tests/corpus_schema.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use griff_core::corpus::{
     StyleCohort, SwancoreTag, SCHEMA_VERSION,
 };
 use griff_core::gesture::GestureStats;
+use griff_core::novelty::PhraseDuplicate;
 use griff_core::structure::{ComplexityProfile, StructureMetrics};
 use proptest::{collection::vec as prop_vec, option::of as prop_opt, prelude::*};
 
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ fn minimal_chunk() -> ChunkMeta {
         structure: None,
         gesture: None,
         complexity: None,
+        duplicate: None,
         style_cohort: None,
         ensemble: None,
         rights: None,
@@ -93,16 +95,44 @@ fn minimal_chunk() -> ChunkMeta {
     }
 }
 
-// ── schema v7: rights + provenance (decisions 2026-06-12) ─────────────────────
+// ── schema v8: near-duplicate link (#76) ──────────────────────────────────────
+
+#[test]
+fn schema_version_is_8() {
+    assert_eq!(
+        SCHEMA_VERSION, 8,
+        "the persisted near-duplicate link bumps the corpus schema"
+    );
+}
 
 #[test]
-fn schema_version_is_7() {
+fn chunk_meta_persists_and_skips_the_near_duplicate_link() {
+    // Absent by default → the key is skipped (not written as null), so pre-v8
+    // records round-trip byte-identically.
+    let plain_json = serde_json::to_string(&minimal_chunk()).expect("serialize");
+    assert!(
+        !plain_json.contains("duplicate"),
+        "an unset duplicate link is skipped, not null: {plain_json}"
+    );
+
+    // Present → a nested object that round-trips losslessly.
+    let mut flagged = minimal_chunk();
+    flagged.duplicate = Some(PhraseDuplicate {
+        of: 1,
+        quote_share: 0.9375,
+    });
+    let json = serde_json::to_string(&flagged).expect("serialize");
+    assert!(json.contains("\"duplicate\""), "{json}");
+    assert!(json.contains("\"of\":1"), "{json}");
+    let back: ChunkMeta = serde_json::from_str(&json).expect("deserialize");
     assert_eq!(
-        SCHEMA_VERSION, 7,
-        "the rights record bumps the corpus schema"
+        back, flagged,
+        "the near-duplicate link round-trips losslessly"
     );
 }
 
+// ── schema v7: rights + provenance (decisions 2026-06-12) ─────────────────────
+
 /// A representative rights record (the common scraped-community-tab case).
 fn sample_rights() -> RightsInfo {
     RightsInfo {
@@ -732,6 +762,24 @@ fn arb_rights() -> impl Strategy<Value = Option<RightsInfo>> {
     prop_opt(info)
 }
 
+/// Strategy: an optional near-duplicate link with a dyadic quote share, so the
+/// JSON round-trip stays byte-identical (#76, schema v8).
+fn arb_duplicate() -> impl Strategy<Value = Option<PhraseDuplicate>> {
+    prop_opt(
+        (
+            0_usize..16,
+            prop_oneof![
+                Just(0.0_f64),
+                Just(0.5),
+                Just(0.75),
+                Just(0.9375),
+                Just(1.0)
+            ],
+        )
+            .prop_map(|(of, quote_share)| PhraseDuplicate { of, quote_share }),
+    )
+}
+
 proptest! {
     #[test]
     fn prop_chunk_meta_json_roundtrip(
@@ -753,6 +801,7 @@ proptest! {
         style_cohort in arb_cohort(),
         ensemble in arb_ensemble(),
         rights in arb_rights(),
+        duplicate in arb_duplicate(),
     ) {
         let meta = ChunkMeta {
             id: ChunkId(id),
@@ -774,6 +823,7 @@ proptest! {
             structure,
             gesture,
             complexity,
+            duplicate,
             style_cohort,
             ensemble,
             rights,
diff --git a/core/tests/similarity.rs b/core/tests/similarity.rs
index 8c600d45..3c21dae2 100644
--- a/core/tests/similarity.rs
+++ b/core/tests/similarity.rs
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ fn chunk(
         structure,
         gesture,
         complexity,
+        duplicate: None,
         style_cohort: None,
         ensemble: None,
         rights: None,
diff --git a/docs/decisions.log.md b/docs/decisions.log.md
index 855b6295..e9c09850 100644
--- a/docs/decisions.log.md
+++ b/docs/decisions.log.md
@@ -1303,3 +1303,17 @@ Architectural decisions go to [`adr/`](adr/) instead.
   beat count), finer-than-eighth and triplet grids, and bars whose beat is not an
   even tick count go unmeasured in this first cut (under-tagging, never
   mis-tagging).
+
+- 2026-06-21 — In the context of persisting curation signals to the corpus,
+  facing that the split's near-duplicate flag (#76) lived only in the live
+  UI/CLI and the split envelope — so a downloaded `chunk.json` or a built
+  manifest lost which phrases are repeats — we decided for an optional
+  `ChunkMeta.duplicate` (`Option<PhraseDuplicate>`) under the established
+  additive pattern (serde `default` + `skip_serializing_if`), bumping
+  `SCHEMA_VERSION` to 8, and against leaving it envelope-only or storing the
+  referenced chunk's full id, to achieve a corpus that keeps the repeat
+  relationship for dedup/curation, accepting that `duplicate.of` is an index
+  within the same split run (it pairs with the `_p<N>` id suffix) and is
+  meaningful only alongside its sibling phrases. Unlike the #75 tag additions —
+  data within an existing field, deliberately *not* versioned — this is a
+  structural `ChunkMeta` field, so it bumps the schema like v2–v7 before it.
diff --git a/preview/src/curation.rs b/preview/src/curation.rs
index 45b79c3c..94622d0c 100644
--- a/preview/src/curation.rs
+++ b/preview/src/curation.rs
@@ -281,13 +281,16 @@ fn ticks_per_bar(meta: &ChunkMeta) -> u32 {
         .unwrap_or(0)
 }
 
-/// Resets what a changed extent invalidates: the reviewer decision and the
-/// whole-extent measurements (structure, gesture, complexity).
+/// Resets what a changed extent invalidates: the reviewer decision, the
+/// whole-extent measurements (structure, gesture, complexity), and the
+/// near-duplicate link (its `of` indexes the original split's siblings, so it
+/// is meaningless once the extent is re-cut).
 const fn fresh_extent(mut meta: ChunkMeta) -> ChunkMeta {
     meta.reviewer = None;
     meta.structure = None;
     meta.gesture = None;
     meta.complexity = None;
+    meta.duplicate = None;
     meta
 }
 
diff --git a/preview/tests/curation.rs b/preview/tests/curation.rs
index b00c7f5c..6a6b7836 100644
--- a/preview/tests/curation.rs
+++ b/preview/tests/curation.rs
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ fn record() -> ChunkMeta {
         structure: None,
         gesture: None,
         complexity: None,
+        duplicate: None,
         style_cohort: None,
         ensemble: None,
         rights: None,
@@ -371,6 +372,33 @@ fn split_record_clears_the_ensemble_link() {
     }
 }
 
+// TDD red phase (Codex P2, PR #96): a near-duplicate link's `of` indexes the
+// original split's sibling phrases; once an extent is split (or merged) the
+// halves take new ids and bar ranges, so that pointer goes stale. The split
+// must clear it alongside the other extent-invalidated metadata. Fails until
+// `fresh_extent` resets it.
+
+#[test]
+fn split_record_clears_the_near_duplicate_link() {
+    use griff_core::novelty::PhraseDuplicate;
+    use griff_preview::curation::split_record;
+
+    let mut meta = record_with_range(0, 4);
+    meta.duplicate = Some(PhraseDuplicate {
+        of: 1,
+        quote_share: 0.95,
+    });
+    let json = serde_json::to_string(&meta).expect("serialize");
+    let (a, b) = split_record(&json, 2, 2).expect("split ok");
+    for half in [a, b] {
+        let half: ChunkMeta = serde_json::from_str(&half).expect("parses");
+        assert_eq!(
+            half.duplicate, None,
+            "a stale sibling pointer cannot survive a split"
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn split_record_rejects_an_out_of_range_point() {
     use griff_preview::curation::split_record;
diff --git a/web/src/lib.rs b/web/src/lib.rs
index 4a83e466..d6e09389 100644
--- a/web/src/lib.rs
+++ b/web/src/lib.rs
@@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ fn build_chunk_meta_record(
         structure: structure::measure_structure(score, track_index).ok(),
         gesture: gesture::measure_gesture(score, track_index).ok(),
         complexity: structure::measure_complexity(score, track_index).ok(),
+        duplicate: None,
         style_cohort: Some(cohort_from(cohort)),
         ensemble: None,
         rights: Some(RightsInfo {
@@ -747,6 +748,9 @@ fn split_segments_to_json(
         let bar_lo = u32::try_from(*start).unwrap_or(0);
         let bar_hi = u32::try_from(end.saturating_sub(1)).unwrap_or(0);
         meta.source.bar_range = Some((bar_lo, bar_hi));
+        // Persist the near-duplicate link onto the record too (#76, schema v8),
+        // so a downloaded chunk keeps it — not just the envelope below.
+        meta.duplicate = dups.get(phrase).copied().flatten();
 
         let pretty = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&meta)
             .unwrap_or_else(|e| format!("{{\"error\":\"serialize: {e}\"}}"));