session 2026-07-28 mid-afternoon: PENDING-83/REVIEWED-83 (V-DPDF design gate passed) + PENDING-84/85/86 + maps home + memory-pointer portability

Harrison re-gate pilot broke the mechanism before converting a byte, and the
break was constitutional: tier_of() faithfully implements the ratified
evidence-tier table, which enumerates tiers by FORMAT, so 16 born-digital-PDF
canonicals with real ground truth receive a false ABSTAIN. Jurist design-gate
PASSED with two corrections (independence into the constitutional text, NOT by
analogy with V-TEXT which ruled the other way; the demonstration is of two
instruments and the second has no control). REVIEWED-83 placed by the steward.

Also: steward-facing maps given a durable home after one was lost and four more
found unbacked; memory pointers made home-anchored and self-diagnosing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WuMjg3ipEVa3n8CoSzoyvc

REVIEWED.md

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 when the steward wants the jurist reading the substrate directly rather than through the generated
 brief. No work is blocked meanwhile; `wake-digest.py --brief` remains the fallback.
 
+## REVIEWED-83 — PENDING-83 — V-DPDF: a new declared deterministic kind for born-digital PDF (design-gate passed with required corrections)
+**Date:** 2026-07-28
+**Decision:** AUTHORIZED — proceed to demonstration and spec-text drafting per this ruling. Harrison's graduation stamp remains held (unaffected by this authorization) until the Q3 demonstration below passes.
+**Notes:**
+- **Q1 — constitutional, not code — CONFIRMED.** `tier_of()` is faithful to the ratified table's own format parentheticals; the defect is the table's conflation of container with origin, not implementation drift. PROPOSAL/MINOR confirmed, FIX declined, consistent with REVIEWED-75's resolution of the analogous question for its own edit.
+- **Q2 — independence — REQUIRED, AND WRITTEN INTO THE CONSTITUTIONAL TEXT, NOT LEFT TO MECHANISM.** Do not import REVIEWED-72's shared-reader reasoning by analogy: that ruling accepted a shared pandoc EPUB reader because reader-loss cancels a priori over unambiguous markup. PDF recovery is inference over page geometry — two runs of one extractor can agree on the same wrong column order, which is exactly the §VII layer-2 case ("any raw↔canonical comparison — multiset or sequence — passes"). The V-DPDF row must state that reference conversion and ground-truth extraction are produced by independently implemented extractors. If independent extractors cannot be demonstrated, the honest verdict is HELD, not a relaxed deterministic pass.
+- **Q3 — demonstration — TWO INSTRUMENTS, ONE STILL OUTSTANDING.** The classifier's positive/negative control (16/44 in-corpus; 62/59/164 across the 385-book library) is complete and sufficient for the tier-routing question. NOT yet demonstrated: the verification method itself (reference-convert + prose-word-guard) against a deliberately constructed layer-2 hazard — column-order corruption, in addition to the already-named running-head case — using the actual independent extractor pair required by Q2. This demonstration is a precondition of ratification, not a nice-to-have.
+- **Q4 — anti-bypass clause binds — CONFIRMED, on stronger grounds than filed.** REVIEWED-75's drafting note states the guard was rebound "to the property, not enrollment" precisely to reach beyond literal self-declaration. The extension argued in Part III is within the clause's stated ratified reach, not past it.
+- **Q5 — ordering — CONFIRMED.** Pilot (Harrison) proceeds alone as the Q3 demonstration; re-tiering the remaining 15 before the method has been exercised once inverts pilot and wave. Pacing of the 15 is a steward question.
+- **Scope affirmed as filed:** V-SCAN untouched (44 canonicals); no reference-converter proposal for V-DPDF (separate §V byte-census question, per REVIEWED-67); Harrison's earlier pipeline steps unaffected; born-digital-EPUB Docling lane untouched.
+- **Process note:** the 9 bare-scans and the 2 boundary-case files (Arcades Project; Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven) should be docketed as their own tracked items rather than remain prose-only inside this item, per the PENDING-55 residual-item precedent.
+**If corrections satisfied:** land as a MINOR supersession of the §Tiering & Fence evidence-tier table (new V-DPDF row, independence stated as a requirement) plus `graduation-spec.yaml` declared data (discriminator, thresholds, extractor pair). Prior version frozen byte-identical; bounded-diff proof at landing. Tag commits REVIEWED-83.
+**Awaiting:** steward placement, then the Q3 demonstration before Harrison's graduation stamp releases.