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 **File created:** `DN-GOV-08-constitutional-stabilization-not-automation.md`
 **Awaiting:** Steward authorization. This is a DESIGN NOTE that requires steward review before advancing toward invariant status.
 
-## PENDING-15 — Reviewer-Agent for ICP-19 External Review (Luke)
+## PENDING-15 — Reviewer-Agent for ICP-19 External Review
 **Date:** 2026-04-01
 **Tag:** [PROPOSAL]
-**Summary:** Design and build an agent to help Luke (confirmed founding reviewer, 2026-04-01) navigate the L2 constitutional corpus. Luke is technical but was not present for the corpus's development and needs orientation across 18 invariants, 9+ design notes, the contamination problem, and the governance architecture.
-**Rationale:** The reviewer-agent's posture directly affects the integrity of ICP-19. An agent that explains the corpus risks becoming an advocate for it, undermining the independence that external review exists to provide. The agent must be navigator, not advocate — helping Luke understand what documents say and how they relate, without defending them. If the reviewer identifies a tension or weakness, the agent should help articulate it, not resolve it.
+**Summary:** Design and build an agent to help the External Auditor (confirmed founding reviewer, 2026-04-01) navigate the L2 constitutional corpus. The External Auditor is technical but was not present for the corpus's development and needs orientation across 18 invariants, 9+ design notes, the contamination problem, and the governance architecture.
+**Rationale:** The reviewer-agent's posture directly affects the integrity of ICP-19. An agent that explains the corpus risks becoming an advocate for it, undermining the independence that external review exists to provide. The agent must be navigator, not advocate — helping the External Auditor understand what documents say and how they relate, without defending them. If the reviewer identifies a tension or weakness, the agent should help articulate it, not resolve it.
 **Options:**
-1. **Reader's guide + Claude Project** — Write an orientation document (reading order, genealogy, key terms). Upload corpus to a Claude.ai project with a system prompt that positions the agent as navigator, not advocate. Simplest. Luke just needs a Claude account.
-2. **Claude Code config** — A dedicated `CLAUDE.md` + seed scoped to the reviewer role. Luke clones a repo with the constitutional corpus. More structured, version-controlled.
+1. **Reader's guide + Claude Project** — Write an orientation document (reading order, genealogy, key terms). Upload corpus to a Claude.ai project with a system prompt that positions the agent as navigator, not advocate. Simplest. The External Auditor just needs a Claude account.
+2. **Claude Code config** — A dedicated `CLAUDE.md` + seed scoped to the reviewer role. The External Auditor clones a repo with the constitutional corpus. More structured, version-controlled.
 3. **Purpose-built agent (Agent SDK)** — Web-hosted, review protocol baked in, tracks findings and HOLD thresholds. Most capable, most work.
-**Recommendation:** Option 1. A reader's guide is inert and can't bias; a Claude project gives Luke a conversation partner. The system prompt is the critical piece — it must be reviewed by all three parties (steward, jurist, Luke himself) before deployment. Option 2 is a reasonable upgrade if Luke prefers working in terminal.
-**Constitutional concern:** The reviewer-agent's framing of documents could influence the review outcome. The system prompt constitutes a governance artifact — it shapes what the reviewer sees and how. This is exactly the kind of intervention ICP-19 exists to keep honest. The system prompt should be transparent to the reviewer (Luke can read it) and should explicitly disclaim advocacy.
+**Recommendation:** Option 1. A reader's guide is inert and can't bias; a Claude project gives the External Auditor a conversation partner. The system prompt is the critical piece — it must be reviewed by all three parties (steward, jurist, the External Auditor himself) before deployment. Option 2 is a reasonable upgrade if the External Auditor prefers working in terminal.
+**Constitutional concern:** The reviewer-agent's framing of documents could influence the review outcome. The system prompt constitutes a governance artifact — it shapes what the reviewer sees and how. This is exactly the kind of intervention ICP-19 exists to keep honest. The system prompt should be transparent to the reviewer (the External Auditor can read it) and should explicitly disclaim advocacy.
 **Files affected:** New artifacts: reader's guide document, Claude project system prompt. No changes to existing constitutional documents.
-**Awaiting:** Steward authorization + jurist review of system prompt posture. Ideally Luke reviews and approves the agent's framing before using it.
+**Awaiting:** Steward authorization + jurist review of system prompt posture. Ideally the External Auditor reviews and approves the agent's framing before using it.
 
 ## PENDING-16 — Observation-Recall Coupling: Attention-Driven Ingestion Pipeline
 **Date:** 2026-04-03
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 **Full amendment:** `CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/amendments/amendment-epistemic-integrity.md`
 
-**Awaiting:** Steward authorization. Seb's engineering review (6 questions in amendment). Invariant hardening for Cluster A.
+**Awaiting:** Steward authorization. Seb's engineering review (6 questions in amendment). Invariant hardening for Cluster A.
+
+## PENDING — OP-01 — CLOSED
+
+**Title:** The Observer Problem — Seed Brief Execution
+**Date authorized:** 2026-04-07
+**Date closed:** 2026-04-07
+**Status:** CLOSED — all 13 extractions complete, jurist review passed, steward authorization granted
+
+**Outputs:** 13 extraction notes in `CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/observer-problem/`
+Source texts filed in `chamber-library/observer-problem-sources/`
+Steward attestation received on OP-EX-T1-01 §2B (Visuddhimagga — ten imperfections).
+CD-03 (The Observer Condition and the Limits of Constitutional Architecture) authorized and operative.
+
+---
+
+## COMPLETED — OP-02 Cross-Strand Synthesis
+**Date:** 2026-04-07
+**Status:** CLOSED — authorized with minor amendment (Question 5 replaced per steward direction)
+**Filed:** `observer-problem/OP-02.md`
+
+## PENDING — ICP-19 Remit Expansion (Observer Problem)
+**Date opened:** 2026-04-07
+**Action required:** Steward-reviewer conversation with the External Auditor before Observer Problem mechanisms advance to constitutional language.
+**Blocking:** OP-03 (mechanism design phase)
+**Notes:** Bring OP-02 findings in full. Specifically:
+- Fault Line 5 (epistemic diversity question)
+- Fault Line 3 (inquiry examining steward with steward's own tools)
+- Fault Line 4 (CD-03 Gadamer risk)
+- The incommensurability named in OP-CN-01
+**Status:** PENDING — steward to initiate
+
+## PENDING — Fault Line 1 Response
+**Date opened:** 2026-04-07
+**Action required:** Steward decision on whether to address PENDING/REVIEWED pipeline gap now or await the External Auditor's input first.
+**Notes:** Jurist assessment: most actionable fault line; does not require external review before mechanism design begins. Steward judgment required.
+**Status:** PENDING — awaiting steward decision
+
+---
+
+## PENDING — ICP-19 Remit Expansion
+
+**Title:** ICP-19 External Review — Human-Side Governance Scope
+**Date opened:** 2026-04-07
+**Tag:** [ESCALATE]
+**Status:** PENDING — requires direct steward-reviewer conversation
+
+**Summary:** The Observer Problem inquiry opens human-side governance questions that the current ICP-19 reviewer remit does not cover. Before any mechanisms proposed through this inquiry advance to constitutional language, the human-side governance question should be explicitly added to the External Auditor's reviewer remit, or addressed by a successor reviewer.
+
+**Prerequisite:** Direct conversation between steward and reviewer about their incommensurable foundational positions (see Context Note OP-CN-01 §The External Auditor's Comment). This conversation is load-bearing before remit expansion.
+
+**Blocking:** Constitutional advancement of Observer Problem mechanisms. Not blocking OP-02 synthesis.
+
+---
+
+## PENDING — CD-03 Operative
+
+**Title:** Constitutional Declaration CD-03 — The Observer Condition and the Limits of Constitutional Architecture
+**Date authorized:** 2026-04-07
+**Tag:** [CONSTITUTIONAL]
+**Status:** OPERATIVE — immediate effect
+
+**Summary:** CD-03 reorients the purpose of the architecture from infrastructure-toward-solution to infrastructure-toward-honest-inheritance. The architecture can support the conditions under which the sufficient condition (genuine observer calibration) becomes possible, but cannot produce the sufficient condition itself.
+
+**Impact:** All subsequent work that proposes mechanisms must be assessed against CD-03 §IV.4: does this mechanism support the conditions, or does it claim to produce the sufficient condition? The latter is a constitutional failure mode.
+
+**File:** `CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/observer-problem/Constitutional Declaration — CD-03.md`
+
+---
+
+## COMPLETED — CD-01 / CD-02 Materialization
+**Date:** 2026-04-07
+**Action:** CD-01 (Contamination Condition) and
+CD-02 (Archival Condition) drafted by executor,
+reviewed by jurist, authorized by steward.
+Both now filed as standalone constitutional
+declarations completing the preamble triad
+alongside CD-03 (Observer Condition).
+**Status:** CLOSED