session 2026-07-23: PENDING-69 closed + PENDING-70 (ruling received) · REVIEWED-69/70 placed · v2.4.0+v2.5.0 · character-as-image finding + glyph-mapping built · session record + KG + glyph-map-source proposal

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 **Package DRAFTED 2026-07-22** — `chamber-library/docs/PENDING-69-boundary-drop-attestation-JURIST-PACKAGE-2026-07-22.md` (via `/jurist-package`; hook-passed, GROUNDED-IN §Tiering&Fence one-door + §V Tier-3 + §VII + §II + REVIEWED-57 + the gate's ratified verdict logic, all quoted verbatim). Substrate-first finding (the literal question, answered from `verify_body_conservation.py`): the gate classifies boundary runs by POSITION+SIZE only, takes no drop-declaration argument, and provably cannot tell a spec-class drop (index) from a keep (endnotes) or a relocation-residue drop (the NOTES husk) — it emits REVIEW and stops. So the honest mechanized part = coverage (every derived run attested) + interior-zero (teeth unchanged) + attribution; the drop-vs-keep judgment stays human, turned into checkable data. Seven gate questions posed (Q1 landing · Q2 the split-vs-vocabulary fork = the literal question · Q3 the honest gate/human division · Q4 bind-to-derived-runs · Q5 relocation two-sidedness/`moved_to` · Q6 omnibus interaction · Q7 Eichmann-as-first-fixture ratification condition). Executor lean throughout: attest-never-default resolution, minimal constitutional sentence + declared-data mechanism, forward-only (no re-verify storm; 0 files hold `verified`).
 **DESIGN-GATE PASSED 2026-07-22** (`chamber-library/docs/PENDING-69-boundary-drop-attestation-JURIST-RULING-2026-07-22.md`, filed verbatim; dispositions in the package Addendum). Spine confirmed (positive attributed attestation only; interior teeth untouched; never a bypass). **Q2 RULED (b) vocabulary-only AGAINST the executor lean** — `trim.drop` is a controlled label set, not pre-verified drops; every run is per-file attested (the gate can never confirm class membership; a privileged spec-class = trust-by-name, the `app[]`/ABSTAIN collision shape). One layer, not two; `relocation` is another label distinguished only by `moved_to`. **Q3** floor confirmed + structural-falsification check ADOPTED (executor decision, recorded, steward-overridable) for `index`/`table-of-contents` only (signature mismatch HOLDS for reconciliation, never silent pass / never un-overridable block); declined where no clean signature. **Q4** bind-to-derived-runs ELEVATED to a required property. **Q5** `moved_to` required (incomplete = rejected attestation; fabrication-exclusion scoped to exactly the named span). **Q6** per-candidate; omnibus interior-run interaction named for the Levi pilot. **Q7** Eichmann first fixture + deliberate negatives (un-attested run→HOLD; interior deletion→FLAG). **Named tension:** wires human-in-the-loop for discipline, not removal — the 47-file wave is NOT unattended batch. **REVIEWED-69 draft in the package Addendum; awaiting steward placement.**
 **MECHANISM BUILT test-first 2026-07-22** (branch `reviewed-69-boundary-drop-resolution` @ `21e3499`, NOT on main — steward merges on confirmation, per the session commitment "nothing lands on main without your confirmation"). `verify_body_conservation.resolve_review` (pure; additive `boundary_run_sig`, ratified verdict logic UNCHANGED + seed-test re-confirmed) + `graduate_to_canonical._resolve_boundary_review` (thin consumer; no attestation → REVIEW HOLDS) + `graduation-spec.yaml` `boundary_drops:` (declared-data vocabulary/policy, GROUNDED-IN the ruling). Corrected shape built: Q2 vocabulary-only, Q3 signature-falsification (index/ToC), Q4 bind-to-derived-runs, Q5 moved_to presence. Fleet 214→216. **Q7 CAPSTONE PASSED on the REAL Eichmann** — verdict=REVIEW, interior_loss=0, boundary_runs=8 (3 leading front-matter + 5 trailing index fragments) reproduces the hand-verified 1:1 reconciliation as a mechanical PASS; both negatives refuse (un-attested→HOLD; interior deletion→FLAG). Substrate lesson captured (tool-log): the k-gram aligner is move-blind → boundary runs are DROPS, `relocation` is the rare reordered case (my package's husk-as-relocation-run framing was imprecise; the 8 runs are front-matter+index, no relocation among them). Added-side fabrication-exclusion (Q5 second clause) = scoped follow-on, conservative absence (FLAGs, never silent-pass).
-**Awaiting:** steward — (1) place REVIEWED-69 (draft in the package Addendum); (2) merge the branch to main + push both remotes (or authorize me to); (3) vehicle call on the ONE constitutional §Tiering&Fence sentence (fold into next supersession vs standalone MINOR bump) — drafted, held. Then: the Levi curation-bearing second pilot before scale (`promotion.scale_application`, unchanged) → the 47-file wave (human-in-the-loop, Zibaldone next).
+**RESOLVED 2026-07-23 — all three steward actions complete; PENDING-69 CLOSED.** (1) REVIEWED-69 placed (steward). (2) Branch `reviewed-69-boundary-drop-resolution` fast-forward-merged to chamber `main` (`f466ed0`) + pushed both remotes (github + origin) — the mechanism (`21e3499`) is live. (3) Vehicle call resolved by fact — **standalone MINOR bump, spec v2.4.0**: the ruling permitted folding into the next assembling supersession *if one were pending*, none was (v2.3.0 landed, everything since is FIX work), so the one ruled §Tiering & Fence sentence landed operative now (`f466ed0`; v2.3.0 frozen byte-identical `-v2.3.0.md`; bounded diff proven; fleet 216/216). **Next (unchanged, now unblocked):** the Levi curation-bearing second pilot before scale (`promotion.scale_application`) → the 47-file wave (human-in-the-loop, Zibaldone next). Literal question held for the pilot: do curation-bearing divergences classify tractably into the ruled vocabulary, and is the mechanism's silence on inter-work (interior) drops correct at multi-work scale? **[SUPERSEDED as the next step by PENDING-70 — the pilot is HELD pending that ruling.]**
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+## PENDING-70 — The legacy witness: what curation-preservation and scale-application mean when the canon predates the fleet
+**Date:** 2026-07-23
+**Tag:** [PROPOSAL] — gate-acceptance class (changes what `scale_application` requires + how the `curation_preservation` obligation reads for the legacy body). Change-class test = yes (changes what the scale gate accepts) → PROPOSAL → jurist ruling + steward authorization.
+**Summary:** Prepping the Levi second pilot surfaced that the chosen witness is not editorially curated but silently DAMAGED — a 2026-06-16 image-drop cleanliness pass mutilated character-bearing glyphs mid-word (verified live: Wstawać→Wstawa ×9, Brașov→Braov, Oświęcim→Owicim, each confirmed by the passage's own gloss). The steward named the structural cause: the ENTIRE canon was converted before this constitution and before the current fleet, so the extant canonical is a pre-fleet conversion, not a trustworthy hand-curated witness — and some divergence classes may be structurally un-exercisable against the extant body.
+**Census (2026-07-23, dated observation):** `canonical_texts/` = 1,297 `.md`; ~23 still carry image refs, the rest image-free. 248 have a diffable backup; **13 of those carry mid-word character-glyph drops (55 sites)** — Jung *Collected Works* (18), Levi (18), Derrida, Jung *Black Books*, *Lexique de l'Imprimerie Nationale*, Leopold, Donne, Blake, Bakewell, Leopardi *Zibaldone*, *Huang Po*, Lichtenberg (German), Leibowitz. **Lower bound** — undetectable from text for the ~1,049 files with no backup; only re-conversion from source reveals it.
+**Rationale:** The constitution already holds the decisive frame — for V-TEXT *"the source *is* ground truth,"* and *"converted"* means *"Not yet trustworthy … merely converted + filed."* So this is an APPLICATION of the constitution, not an overturning: the witness comparison's claim scope degrades with the witness (curated → curation-preserved; legacy → no-regression-floor), and `scale_application`'s "genuinely hand-curated witness" requirement may be unsatisfiable against the extant body. A dropped character-glyph is also a §V Tier-3 word-alteration-by-omission (forbidden), making the legacy calibre+strip front-end retro-ineligible and the one-door wave a verbatim-fidelity restoration.
+**Package (self-contained, jurist-ready):** `chamber-library/docs/scale-application-legacy-body-JURIST-PACKAGE-2026-07-23.md` (GROUNDED-IN v2.4.0 §V + §Tiering & Fence + the declared data, quoted verbatim; four gate questions with leans: Q1 curated/legacy witness split · Q2 reframe scale condition · Q3 character-as-image = Tier-3 by omission + corpus-integrity · Q4 honest-degradation surface).
+**Recommendation:** relay to the jurist. Executor leans in the package (Q1 yes · Q2 option-a reframe · Q3 yes both · Q4 yes light).
+**Files affected (on ratification):** spec supersession v2.4.0→v2.5.0 (requirements only) + `graduation-spec.yaml` declared data (`scale_application.condition` reworded, `witness_class` field, glyph-map, census). No re-verify storm (no file holds `verified`).
+**RULING RECEIVED 2026-07-23 — design-gate PASSED** (`docs/scale-application-legacy-body-JURIST-RULING-2026-07-23.md`; Addendum + REVIEWED-70 draft appended to the package). Q1/Q3/Q4 CONFIRMED (Q1 corrects a defect in the one-door ruling's own wording; Q4 mandatory-not-optional). **Q3 HARD PRECONDITION:** glyph-mapping wired + demonstrated on Levi's 3 sites (Wstawać/Brașov/Oświęcim) before ANY imaged source enters the lane — incl. the pilot's own conversion (else re-conversion re-inflicts Tier-3 damage under a PASS-reporting gate). **Q2 accepted in principle, SUBSTITUTE CONDITION ruled** (my reframe dropped the judgment-cost test): (a) enumerate demonstrable classes in advance; (b) pilot MUST report judgment cost incl. source-adjudication of mutilation sites; (c) both curation-to-carry un-exercised w/ reason, first demo bound to first curated work; (d) scale opens for legacy-witness promotions ONLY. Representativeness discharged: 5% (13/248) is NOT a corpus rate (curation-selected batch); the 13 are a confirmed floor.
+**STEP 1 DONE 2026-07-23 — REVIEWED-70 placed; spec v2.5.0 LANDED on main (`e37e076`, pushed both remotes).** Constitution: Q1 claim-scope split (§Tiering & Fence) + Q3 Tier-3-by-omission (§V) + Q4 legacy-fidelity-not-self-certifiable (§Trust Attestation). Declared data: reframed `scale_application` (substitute Q2 condition) + `witness_class` + `character_as_image` (census + Levi glyph-map candidates, demonstration-owed). v2.4.0 frozen byte-identical; bounded-diff proven; fleet 216/216. **REMAINING (ordered):** STEP 2 = glyph-mapping lane build — wire char-image→Unicode into `convert_lane_borndigital.py` + **demonstrate on Levi's 3 sites** (extract src images 000042/000023/000034/000004, confirm ć/ș/ś/ę) [the Q3 hard precondition]; STEP 3 = run the Levi pilot on the substitute condition (needs judgment-cost reporting). **The pilot is HELD until glyph-mapping is demonstrated.** Next bite = STEP 2.