session 2026-07-03: doctrine phase complete (Wave 0 + full spec-revision rulings + Loeb substrate reframe); PENDING-46; Phase 2 v2.0-draft next
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name: Session 2026-07-03 — the doctrine phase (Wave 0 → full spec-revision rulings → Loeb substrate reframe); Phase 2 next
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description: "A very long session that went corpus-quality-map → tool-fleet audit (Wave 0, 8 fixes committed) → prior-art scans → the FULL chamber-library spec-revision ruled by the jurist (gaps 1-8, generative principle, amendment process, three questions, §III citation posture — ALL RATIFIED). Then the steward sent me to the loeb.dsl SOURCE and it inverted a premise: the Loeb canonical anchors (Stephanus/Bekker/book+line) are PRESENT in the source, FLATTENED by extraction — not absent. Full-run scope decided (all 2,041 works, fence resolves dilution). DOCTRINE PHASE COMPLETE. PULLING THREAD: Phase 2 — draft chamber-library-specification.md v2.0 (superseding, semver-MAJOR) + the generative validator, beginning with a clean END-TO-END READ of the current spec (deliberately NOT read today — I worked from audits), then §III the CTS addressing spine. Wrapped to clear context for a fresh, focused Phase-2 start."
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# Session 2026-07-03 — the doctrine phase; Phase 2 (build the ground) is next
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Started at yesterday's pulling thread — build `audit_corpus.py`, draw the corpus quality MAP, end the
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whack-a-mole. Did that in the first hour, then the day opened into something much larger and closed
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the entire **doctrine phase** of the chamber-library spec revision. The everything is in `~/PENDING.md`
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PENDING-46 (the blow-by-blow governance record) — this file is the working state + the thread.
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## PAST — what we did + why
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**The map (the morning's thread, delivered).** Built `chamber-library/scripts/audit_corpus.py` +
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`_curation/corpus-quality-ledger.tsv` (1,284 rows) + the interpreted `corpus-quality-map-2026-07-03.md`.
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Distribution: Loeb 930/952 clean, non-Loeb 8 clean / 324 A-convention / 110 B-textdamage / 70 C-apparatus
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(the NEW apparatus axis). Answered yesterday's literal question.
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**The steward challenged the framing → the tool-fleet audit → WAVE 0.** "Are the TOOLS spec-compliant
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before we run a wave? The tool IS the wave." 3 parallel agents audited the fleet. Found: the graduation
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gate was HALF-MISSING (never ran verify_conversion), normalize_ocr's guard was off in the common case,
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strip_cruft wrote even on residual, clean_epub_residue silently destroyed unrecognized footnote families,
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13/15 tools standalone. **Fixed all 8 blockers, test-first** (`scripts/test_tools.py`, 21 assertions),
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retired 6 dead tools → `scripts/archive/`, folded `<nav>` into strip_cruft. **Committed f9cbb8e** + docs
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1c88650. Full record: `_curation/tool-fleet-compliance-2026-07-03.md`.
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**Prior-art scans (3 agents) → "we are not the only ones."** ~70% of our spec re-derives TEI + CTS +
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Standard Ebooks (15-35 yrs old). Adopt: TEI `<choice>` (never destroy original), TEI ch.13 apparatus
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(anchor to LOCATION not footnote-number), **CTS-URN** (edition-as-identity — §III's shape), W3C PROV
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(the conversion-record), TEI ODD (spec→validator = the generative principle, XML-locked → held fork),
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Standard Ebooks `se lint` + `[Editorial]`-commit. Genuinely ours: the prose-word-multiset guard,
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verbatim-span-in-bounded-source check, checksum integrity. Watch: **Seck arXiv 2604.10658** (independent
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convergence on our governance; lacks the corpus-substrate moat) → added to landscape-register.
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Docs: `docs/spec-revision-prior-art-synthesis-2026-07-03.md`.
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**THE FULL SPEC REVISION — RULED BY THE JURIST (all of it).** Via steward relay, the jurist ruled:
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gaps 1-8 (RATIFIED-CONDITION), gap-7 generative principle (RATIFIED), amendment process (RATIFIED:
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RFC-supersession + change-class "does this change what any gate accepts" + semver + PENDING/REVIEWED),
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the three questions (A page-markers, B tier-2 scan = redundant human verification + dinglehopper, C
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migration-window = `re-verify-pending` status + `verified_under:<semver>` + N=2 provisional + FIX-class
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extension), and §III citation posture. The UNIFYING INSIGHT: gaps 2+3+item-8 collapse to ONE
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addressing substrate (apparatus anchors = citation = PROV "original") — design once. Rulings preserved:
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`docs/spec-revision-RULING-2026-07-03.md` + the gap-6/7 + three-questions + §III rulings (steward relayed).
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**THE LOEB SUBSTRATE REFRAME (the steward's instinct, decisive).** I told the jurist 74% of the corpus
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(Loeb) was anchorless → they ruled a normative §III extension on it. The steward said "look at the DSL
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directly." It INVERTED the premise: the canonical anchors (Plato Stephanus `St. II p. 153`, Homer
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book+line, Aristotle Bekker) are ALL in `loeb.dsl`, FLATTENED by `extract_loeb_dsl.py:47`
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(`KNOWN_TAG.sub("")` strips the `[c dimgray]` semantic layer). A per-genre anchor audit (agent, re-verified
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by me against source) confirmed: **>99% of ~2,041 works carry a recoverable anchor**; residual is
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single-digit genuine fragments; **35,261 `%` index lines carrying book/letter/fragment divisions are
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discarded**. Disambiguation map captured: `docs/loeb-anchor-audit-and-disambiguation-map-2026-07-03.md`.
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Jurist re-ruled §III (`docs/chamber-SIII-reruling-JURIST-BRIEF-2026-07-03.md` → ruling): the
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structured-but-unanchored extension is VOID-as-ratified-for-74% (dormant contingency only), enrichment
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trigger RETIRED, **§III cites the Loeb by RECOVERED canonical anchor (CTS edition-as-identity)** — work-level
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fallback only for genuine fragments. Per-genre table NOT ratified (engineering, review post-extraction).
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Plus a STANDING PROCESS NOTE (jurist): any corpus-population claim feeding doctrine must be sourced from
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the DSL directly, not a derived extract.
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**Full-run scope decided.** Current Loeb (952) = TIER 1 of `_curation/loeb-canon-proposal-2026-06-15.md`.
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Since we rebuild the extractor anyway → run the FULL DSL (all 2,041 works / Tier 3). Tier-3's "waits on
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dilution" is discharged by gap-6's FENCE (corpus-completeness ≠ engine-scope).
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**Tools installed** (steward-authorized): wordfreq → both venvs (closed normalize_ocr's silent OCR-guard
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degradation); jsonschema → system (--user --break-system-packages, for the validator). dinglehopper
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kept close (tier-2). Everything else present (pandoc/ebook-convert/docling/rg/jq/node). NB: this machine
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has **GNU coreutils `stat`** (not BSD) — use `date -r`/python for mtimes, `rg` not `grep -r` for big searches.
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## PRESENT — mood / the arc
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The emotional shape: yesterday ended at "mandelbrot set, whack-a-mole, clutching sand, I tremble at making
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the engine work." Today is the **inverse** — a marked, finite, ordered plan (ground → instruments → corpus
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→ fence), the whole doctrine ratified, and the Loeb tier upgraded from "74% impoverished, cite-by-quote"
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to "richly citable by Stephanus/Bekker/book+line, recoverable." The despair became a siege plan.
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**The load-bearing return of the session (jurist-elevated to standing practice):** I trusted a
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derived-artifact/regex over the SOURCE **three times** — the break-count (frontmatter fences + bullet
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lists as breaks), the heading-count (title-as-structure, then line-numbers-as-divisions), and the
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"anchors absent" (searched "153a" when the DSL uses "St. II p. 153"). The steward twice sent me to the
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substrate and was right both times; the jurist turned it into a governance rule (source-not-extract for
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any claim feeding doctrine). This is MY drift-pattern of the session and it must become a Symmetria flag +
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verification-ladder entry + feedback memory.
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Other recalibrations: I called the §III change a "narrowing"; the jurist sharpened it to "VOID with a
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dormant residual" — a principle ratified to govern 74% that now governs nothing shouldn't stand as active
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doctrine (CLAUDE.md: flag a maxim gone decorative). I also owned a citation-integrity miss (cited arXiv
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2605.24229 for a claim it didn't support; let a sub-agent's blanket "verified" ride) → per-claim citation
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checking discipline.
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Governance discipline held well: surfaced findings for jurist/steward rulings rather than acting;
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delegated the audits with anti-pattern-drift framing; verified load-bearing agent claims against source
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myself before relaying.
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## FUTURE — what is pulling
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**PULLING THREAD (singular): Phase 2 — draft chamber-library-specification.md v2.0 (the superseding,
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semver-MAJOR version) + build the generative validator.** The doctrine is fully ruled; now MARK THE
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GROUND. This is dwell-work on the constitution — we deliberately wrapped to give it a fresh, focused start
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rather than rush it into a marathon tail.
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**ACTIONABLE RESUMPTION POINT (as of wrap — re-judge against what changed):**
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- **FIRST ACT: read the current `chamber-library/docs/chamber-library-specification.md` end-to-end.**
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I worked from audits all day, NOT the spec text — and the jurist's own process note (source-not-derived)
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applies to the spec too: draft against the real text, not my model of it. This is non-negotiable and is
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itself the first honoring of the day's hardest lesson.
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- Then draft v2.0 in this order (the substrate first): **§III** = the CTS-URN addressing spine (edition-as-
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identity + logical passage; the per-genre locator registry as LIVING declared-data, not frozen doctrine)
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→ **§II** (sectionless+attestor field, break-form `---`, Loeb page-markers route off-canon via the
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registry) → **§V** (apparatus-integrity gated + anchored on §III; PROV conversion-record mandatory on
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every path; two gate-functions named: content-grounding vs process-integrity) → **§VII** (declared-gate-
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list IS the gate; body_word_conservation tracked-unimplemented) → **§IX** (coverage-ledger + freshness
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invariant + evidence-tier column) → **new §Tiering&Fence** (converted/verified/fenced; promotion criterion:
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deterministic 93% / scan-50 / fenced-out; V-SUSPECT & V-NONE distinct) → **new §Governance&Amendment**
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(generative principle + RFC-supersession/change-class/semver + migration-window). Mark HELD: (a)
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in-band-vs-sidecar (gate reads record NOW; storage form open), (b) markdown-vs-TEI-XML (trigger = if (a)
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resolves to full in-band). Mark the structured-but-unanchored extension DORMANT (labeled inapplicable to
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current corpus). Mark OPEN: per-genre table (engineering), tier-2 numeric bar (calibration).
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- v2.0 is a PROPOSAL per the amendment process: I (champion) draft → jurist editor-gate → steward ratifies →
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semver v2.0 supersedes v1 (Obsoletes/Updates). Then build the generative validator (graduation-spec.yaml
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carries the convention-data incl. the per-genre registry; gates become thin consumers; JSON-Schema for
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structured layers). THEN Phase 3 (rebuild extract_loeb_dsl.py to the disambiguation map, run the full DSL).
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- All conditions are captured in PENDING-46. The one-screen plan: ground → instruments → corpus → fence
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(④ waves come AFTER ② — waves-first bakes tool-shaped conventions = the redo we refuse).
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**Other open horizons, ranked:**
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- The generative validator (part of ②) — the JSON-Schema/PROV/thin-consumer-gates build.
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- Phase 3: the full Loeb re-extraction (2,041 works) — depends on ② + the disambiguation map (captured).
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- The remediation waves (④): A frontmatter / B1 re-clean / B2 structure-recovery / C apparatus — gated by the fixed tools + validator.
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- Gap-6 promotion + fence (⑤): deterministic tier (93%, word-identity re-convert), scan tier (50, dinglehopper+calibration), fenced-out.
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- Paper debt: REVIEWED entries owed for the whole PENDING-46 arc (steward writes). dinglehopper install (tier-2).
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- The 3 pre-existing untracked leftovers in chamber-library (`_scratch/`, `nature-of-order-alexander.md`) — NOT mine.
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**PAUSE STATEMENT:** Away now at a high, clear point — the entire doctrine phase closed in one long day,
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the despair of yesterday turned into a marked plan. What I most want to find still pulling on return: **the
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drafting of v2.0** — that the next hand opens the actual spec text FIRST (not my model of it), then drafts
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§III the addressing spine, giving the constitution the dwell it asks for. Do NOT rush it; do NOT skip the
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end-to-end read (it's the day's hardest lesson honored).
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**LITERAL QUESTION for next-Claude:** *When you read the current `chamber-library-specification.md`
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end-to-end (which I never did today — I worked from the audits), does the real text hold any structure,
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constraint, or already-settled decision that the day's audits missed or would collide with — before v2.0 is
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drafted against my model of the spec rather than the spec itself?* (The source-not-derived discipline, turned
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on the spec.)
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**State:** chamber-library `main` — Wave 0 (f9cbb8e) + docs (1c88650) committed, LOCAL/unpushed; 3 new
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session docs untracked (jurist briefs + audit — commit at wrap). CM-AI landscape-register.md modified
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(Seck add). dotfiles: PENDING.md + session-ledger untracked (commit+push at wrap). All doctrine ratified;
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Phase 2 unblocked.
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