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@@ -4647,3 +4647,50 @@ ADDENDUM 2. **Nothing in this item previously separated (a) from (b); this does.
 
 **Awaiting:** Steward authorization on the options set, now reduced — **(a) is built, so
 what remains open is (b) with the condition above, or (c).**
+
+### ADDENDUM 2 — 2026-09-10 — The condition on (b) tightened; the positive control is NOT in the record; and the classification, which is neither of the two offered
+
+**⚠ FIRST, A CORRECTION TO THE PREMISE THIS ADDENDUM WAS ASKED FOR.** The jurist wrote
+that (b)'s positive control is *"now sitting in the record for free"* — the indented
+`## REVIEWED-138` line. **It is not. It was never committed.** The indented state existed
+only between the steward's paste and the steward's `sed` correction, both in the working
+tree; the last four commits touching `REVIEWED.md` contain **zero** occurrences of
+`^  ## REVIEWED-138`. ⚠ **The specimen is gone, and this is the third time this week a
+claim about what the record holds was made without asking the record.** It must be
+**constructed as a fixture**, not recovered.
+
+**THE CONDITION ON (b), TIGHTENED as the jurist directs. Anchorless is necessary and NOT
+sufficient.**
+
+1. **The residual scan must be anchorless** — candidate headings found without `^`, and
+   anything the anchored classifier then fails to place is reported.
+2. **(b) must additionally report a LINES-ACCOUNTED-FOR figure against the file's own
+   line count.** Otherwise a residual scan that itself misses a line still reports a clean
+   residual — **the same failure one layer out.** The difference must be visible **as a
+   number**, never inferred from an absence.
+3. **(b) must be shown to find a constructed indented heading before it is trusted**, with
+   the must-not-flag arm alongside: the same heading unindented must classify normally.
+   **A (b) that cannot find today's instance has not been shown capable of detecting
+   presence**, and an instrument not shown capable of that certifies nothing by its
+   silence.
+
+**THE CLASSIFICATION — and it is NEITHER of the two offered, which is stated rather than
+forced.**
+
+- **Not PENDING-145.** That defect is a ruling **claiming a number** so that later records
+  under that number are suppressed. Here the ruling named a *different* number (173) and
+  nothing about PENDING-139 was suppressed — it was never referenced at all. **The
+  mechanism runs the opposite way.**
+- **Not PENDING-108.** That defect is a ruling that **was never filed as a document**.
+  REVIEWED-132 exists and is placed. **The return leg is present.**
+- **It is PENDING-146's shape, mirrored.** CLASS E is *"the open list's unit is the ID;
+  the decidable unit is the BLOCK."* Here: **the RULING's unit is the id it names, while
+  the unit actually discharged is an OPTION sitting under an id the ruling never names.**
+  Same defect, other direction — the id is doing work the block should do. **Filed as
+  PENDING-146's shape rather than as a third item.**
+
+⚠ **The `Awaiting:` line is NOT edited, and the ⚑ flag stays**, per the jurist: the flag
+is correct in mechanism and false in implication, and it stands until the record says why
+it fired. **This addendum is that record.**
+
+**Awaiting:** unchanged — **(b) with the three conditions above, or (c).** (a) is built.