diff --git a/PENDING.md b/PENDING.md
index ebda288..361394f 100644
--- a/PENDING.md
+++ b/PENDING.md
@@ -1468,6 +1468,14 @@ Disposition (verbatim capture + executor action-list: `chamber-library/docs/libr
 - **Q1b RETROACTIVE — MAJOR finding (`6c9ca43`, evidence `docs/retroactive-verify-2026-07-12.txt`):** 87 covered books · **42 CLEAN · 45 DIRTY** (pass per-pair guard, corrupt under real pandoc). Verified real (5 known-clean → CLEAN; `_prove.py` agrees). 29 catastrophic (montaigne +385457, red-book −7835, pascalian +5910, gadamer/donne/tolkien…; false-pair relocation = nagarjuna at scale) + 16 marker-adjacency (prose intact, markers glued). **CORPUS SAFE: 0 canonical files use the pre-processor — NONE graduated; caught pre-graduation; mandatory verify refuses all 45 → fallback.** Recognizer's reliable coverage ≈42/87. **⚠ NEW DECISION for steward+jurist:** improve the recognizer (tighten over-pairing) vs accept 42-clean + fallback-for-the-rest. Not resolved this session.
 - **OWED (steward, tomorrow):** REVIEWED-55 + follow-on placement; wire "mandatory-at-graduation" (graduation flow must not pass `--no-verify`); weigh the recognizer-maturity decision above.
 
+**RULED 2026-07-14 (jurist; the verify-flow / "mandatory-at-graduation" sub-item). Closed on a POSITIVE TEST, not a grep.** Full record: `chamber-library/docs/jurist-review-response-2026-07-14.md` + the jurist ruling relayed 2026-07-14.
+- **The property holds by CONSTRUCTION, not enforcement:** `graduate_to_canonical.py` exposes only `--apply`/`--keep-names` — no `--no-verify`/`--force`/skip at the door; its 3 gates run unconditionally; `--no-verify` lives only on the upstream conversion tool (`inject_epub_footnotes.py`) and its output is re-verified independently by `body_conservation_gate` at graduation (the defense-in-depth Q1b mandated — now vindicated concretely). Positive test: seed-test PASSED (boundary-trim→REVIEW, interior-loss→FLAG); real-door corrupt candidate (200 interior words dropped) → **FLAG→refused**; clean control→PASS. Harness in `session-ledger-2026-07-14.md`.
+- **Residual (a) — RULED a FIX, and LANDED:** *a false ABSTAIN is as much a lie as a false PASS.* The single `ABSTAIN` verdict is split into two distinct states — **ABSTAIN** (permanent, tier-level, NO ground truth: V-SCAN/V-UNKNOWN → proceeds) and **UNVERIFIED** (contingent, run-level, ground-truth EXISTS but not reached: V-TEXT source off-disk → **HOLDS**). Edited `verify_body_conservation.verify_candidate` + `graduate_to_canonical.body_conservation_gate` (map + tally + prints + the defensive no-source branch) + guard tests; **119/119 pass**; before/after proof (unresolvable-source candidate now HELD `UNVERIFIED`, previously `ABSTAIN`→proceeded). Change-class **FIX** per jurist. **Uncommitted — steward's Gitea/push call.**
+- **Residual (b) — docketed onto PENDING-58, not a floating item:** the V-DSL gate path is unexercised (0 Loeb graduated); a V-DSL positive test is a **precondition of PENDING-58's first Loeb graduation** ("a check proven for one tier is not proven for another").
+- **PENDING-56 unrecognized-fallback condition — DORMANT, not owed:** it was a condition on `app[]`'s extractor; Decision 2(i) rules `app[]` is not produced → the condition is dormant (revives unchanged if `app[]` is ever proposed for production). No evidence-assembly; the L1 label-collision left alone.
+- **datum-not-ledger — CANDIDATE, not constitutional** (two applications in one week from one ruling ≠ a third instance in the wild); governs `app[]`+`anchors[]` today on their merits. **Quarantine namespace (`_unverified.*`) — designed, NOT built** (no current need; an untested safety mechanism is a liability).
+**Awaiting:** steward REVIEWED placement + the Gitea/push call on the residual-(a) FIX.
+
 ## PENDING-56 — Canonical format decision: adopt Docling + complete MD-canonical + TEI-mirroring structural sidecar
 **Date:** 2026-07-12
 **Tag:** [ESCALATE] architectural — canonical format (seed brief §10.3, deferred as steward-pending). **Steward-decided provisionally on the trial evidence; jurist ratification requested (brief relayed).**
diff --git a/claude/memory/MEMORY-reference.md b/claude/memory/MEMORY-reference.md
index 5cc282f..c174083 100644
--- a/claude/memory/MEMORY-reference.md
+++ b/claude/memory/MEMORY-reference.md
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Split out of [MEMORY.md](MEMORY.md) on 2026-07-06 to keep the wake-loaded index
 
 # Archived sessions + stable reference layer (relocated verbatim from MEMORY.md, 2026-07-06)
 
+## Archived (2026-07-14 midday — PENDING-55 verify-flow positive test + residual-a ABSTAIN/UNVERIFIED FIX; jurist reviewed the whole sequence; demoted on promote)
+- [Session 2026-07-14 — PENDING-58 corollary REFUTED → constitutional survey → whole-sequence jurist package](session-2026-07-14-pending58-corollary-refuted-constitutional-survey-jurist-package.md) — The demonstration **REFUTED PENDING-58's central corollary** on 3 real books (`new_body`=`old_body`; `app[]` covers ~5%; buckets **magnitude-shaped, cutting across causes**). Jurist: **STRUCK not renamed**, **rewrite** not withdraw → remaining case = `notes[]`+typing under per-field gating. The `anchors[]` spot-check **FAILED as-built** (drops the Bekker axis; un-vetted `'loeb-line'`) — but NOT a discovery: the **2026-07-03 anchor audit** had it, and I'd **re-derived TEI/DTS from training + re-proposed already-rejected Perseus/MyCapytain** (didn't-consult-banked-notes drift RECURRED; steward: *we spoke about this a week ago*). Survey (3 agents): the constitution (**v2.0.2**) is substantially **SETTLED** — CTS-URN ratified, apparatus Tier-3, only **3 PENDING open**, work is in the *tails*, ~none engine-blocking. Closed 3 fruit; saved [[feedback-close-low-hanging-fruit-not-defer]]. **⚠ PULLING THREAD: the jurist's fresh-eyes review of the whole-sequence package** `docs/chamber-constitutional-state-and-decisions-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-14.md` (steward decision-fatigued; jurist takes the load; §8 = the blessable execution list). **First move:** check if the jurist replied → act / else the package is ready to relay. Read the session file + the package at wake. *[Superseded 2026-07-14 midday: the jurist REVIEWED the whole sequence — REFUSED the §8 batch-authorization (naming the document's own contradiction: a week of 3 steward-caught/0 self-caught errors used to argue for LESS review); ruled residual-a a FIX (the ABSTAIN/UNVERIFIED split, LANDED `dbcdcc0`); residual-b → PENDING-58 precondition; PENDING-56-fallback dormant; datum-not-ledger candidate-not-constitutional. Prior thread RESOLVED; next = the steward's fork (governance batch vs engine resume). See the 07-14 midday session.]*
+
 ## Archived (2026-07-14 — PENDING-58 corollary refuted → constitutional survey → whole-sequence jurist package; demoted on promote)
 - [Session 2026-07-13 (evening) — matcher key-selection fix; MATCH-SUSPECT → 0; reprocess set finalized](session-2026-07-13-evening-matcher-fix-match-suspect-resolved.md) — Executed the inherited pulling thread. **Diagnosed before fixing:** a read-only substrate re-match (`classify_dsl` vs each candidate's true key) answered the literal question BEFORE the edit — **all 8 MATCH-SUSPECT resolve to ONE confident true key**, incl. the 4 holds>110% the map only *asserted* (aristotle/galen/diogenes/lucian — 3 CLEAN, aristotle small-deficit); "no residual" is a *checked* claim. Rewrote `sweep_body_conservation.match_key` to rank keys by **exact ordered title-STRING → Jaccard → fewer-extra → raw overlap, author-stripped** — the **ordered-string tier resolves the genuinely-hard set-identical sibling** (Suetonius 'Grammarians' vs 'Rhetoricians', identical token SETS) that **no set metric can** (steward's category-vs-calibration diagnosis: method-class blindness, not mis-tuning). **Bounded-change proven** (per-stem, not tally): exactly 8 rows move disp+key, **944 byte-identical** → **6 CLEAN + 2 apparatus-shaped small-deficit** (aristotle 6893/plutarch 204, fab=0); **no REORDER? revived**. Map **808 CLEAN · 128 APPARATUS-SHAPED · 16 BODY-DEFICIT · 0 MATCH-SUSPECT · 0 REORDER?** (808+128+16=952 ✓; ②4+③12=16 exactly — the arithmetic closes at source). Commit `4b34447` both remotes; fleet **119/119** (+3 near-dup key-selection `--validate` fixtures); note + CLAUDE.md + tool-evolution-log current. **Steward closed the matcher thread.** Then **the scoping call was MADE mid-wrap: LOEB-FIRST** (steward-ruled; asymmetry — `build_loeb_sidecar` fleet-v1 vs `build_sidecar` still v0; full-corpus would trust "should generalize" before proof, the nagarjuna/nested-block/Aeschylus shape one level up). **Drafted PENDING-58** (the 2b sidecar-wiring amendment, Loeb-only) into `~/dotfiles/PENDING.md`: wire B2's `.meta.json` into V-DSL graduation → `DSL-full=body+app[]` multiset reconciliation turns APPARATUS-SHAPED *diagnosis* into *fact* (reconciles→126, doesn't→16). **⚠ PULLING THREAD: PENDING-58 awaiting the jurist editor-gate; the live question = the reconciliation-proof-at-scale condition** (baked into PENDING-58: prove reconciliation on an UNSEEN apparatus kind at near-126 scale before crediting apparatus — the schema-lock §5 density≠diversity question lifted from extractor to reconciliation; does NOT retire because B2 ran once). Next: the `docs/2b-sidecar-wiring-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-13.md` relay brief, or act on the jurist's ruling. **Steward pref: shorter, very concentrated sessions.** Read the session file + PENDING-58 + the map at wake. *[Superseded 2026-07-14: the 2b amendment's reconciliation corollary was REFUTED and struck; PENDING-58 rewritten to the notes[]/typing case; the whole constitutional picture surveyed → the jurist package. See the 07-14 session.]*
 
diff --git a/claude/memory/MEMORY.md b/claude/memory/MEMORY.md
index a6b5c66..3653889 100644
--- a/claude/memory/MEMORY.md
+++ b/claude/memory/MEMORY.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ permalink: claude-memory/memory
 - [Be (laundromat)](project-be-laundromat.md) — canonical Be tracker (est. 2026-06-08). Be = Skemantix startup (Seb+David) funding CapableMind's ladder; **bridge, not venture**. Decisions LOCKED (entity/pricing/infra in file); a11y gate MERGED. **Pre-revenue WTP gate = renovate Pat → charge her; discipline: no new spec until it clears → nothing for executor on be.** Repo @ `f43a0fd`.
 
 ## Active Session
-- [Session 2026-07-14 — PENDING-58 corollary REFUTED → constitutional survey → whole-sequence jurist package](session-2026-07-14-pending58-corollary-refuted-constitutional-survey-jurist-package.md) — The demonstration **REFUTED PENDING-58's central corollary** on 3 real books (`new_body`=`old_body`; `app[]` covers ~5%; buckets **magnitude-shaped, cutting across causes**). Jurist: **STRUCK not renamed**, **rewrite** not withdraw → remaining case = `notes[]`+typing under per-field gating. The `anchors[]` spot-check **FAILED as-built** (drops the Bekker axis; un-vetted `'loeb-line'`) — but NOT a discovery: the **2026-07-03 anchor audit** had it, and I'd **re-derived TEI/DTS from training + re-proposed already-rejected Perseus/MyCapytain** (didn't-consult-banked-notes drift RECURRED; steward: *we spoke about this a week ago*). Survey (3 agents): the constitution (**v2.0.2**) is substantially **SETTLED** — CTS-URN ratified, apparatus Tier-3, only **3 PENDING open**, work is in the *tails*, ~none engine-blocking. Closed 3 fruit; saved [[feedback-close-low-hanging-fruit-not-defer]]. **⚠ PULLING THREAD: the jurist's fresh-eyes review of the whole-sequence package** `docs/chamber-constitutional-state-and-decisions-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-14.md` (steward decision-fatigued; jurist takes the load; §8 = the blessable execution list). **First move:** check if the jurist replied → act / else the package is ready to relay. Read the session file + the package at wake.
+- [Session 2026-07-14 midday — PENDING-55 positive test + residual-a FIX; jurist reviewed the whole sequence](session-2026-07-14-midday-pending55-positive-test-and-residual-a-fix.md) — The jurist **REVIEWED the whole sequence** and **REFUSED the §8 batch-authorization**, naming the document's own contradiction (a week of **3 steward-caught / 0 self-caught** errors used to argue for LESS per-item review — the contamination gradient in governance costume). Accepted; **posture restored: per-item review; §8 = register, not authorization.** Ran **PENDING-55 verify-flow as a POSITIVE test** (not the grep the jurist rejected): the graduation gate **FIRES** on real corruption (Leg B: 200-word-corrupted candidate → FLAG→refused) + has **no skip path** at the door — *and* the test surfaced a real overreach the grep would have hidden: a single `ABSTAIN` covered both "no ground truth" (permanent) AND "V-TEXT source off-disk" (contingent), the latter **proceeding without a verbatim check**. Jurist ruled it **a FIX to land** (*a false ABSTAIN is as much a lie as a false PASS*): **split ABSTAIN (permanent, tier-level→proceeds) vs UNVERIFIED (contingent, run-level→HOLDS)**. **LANDED + tested + committed** — `dbcdcc0` (FIX) + `632057b` (doc-currency); **119/119**; 2 commits **unpushed** (steward's Gitea/push call). Other rulings recorded (dotfiles PENDING-55): residual-b→PENDING-58 precondition; PENDING-56-fallback **dormant**; datum-not-ledger **candidate-not-constitutional**; quarantine namespace designed-not-built. Self-catch: guessed PENDING-46 was the citation-amendment home → flagged-to-verify → it's CLOSED (the flag-before-assert habit fired). **⚠ PULLING THREAD: the prior jurist-review thread is RESOLVED; the next is the steward's FORK — the §6 governance batch (PENDING-58 rewrite + the new citation amendment) vs resuming studium-engine (V1/N1) on the settled substrate — set at the planning step.** Both first-steps teed up in the session file. Read it at wake.
 
 ## Historical reference → MEMORY-reference.md
 Older archived-session pointers and the stable reference layer (steward profile · project-state detail · L1/L2/Chamber inventories · legacy pending-work · reference-file list) live in [MEMORY-reference.md](MEMORY-reference.md) — consult on demand; not loaded at wake. Recent cross-session trajectory comes from the Active Session entry above + the recent `session-*.md` files (wake §2.b.1; the MemPalace `handoffs` glance was retired 2026-07-07 with the wind-down).
diff --git a/claude/memory/knowledge-graph.jsonl b/claude/memory/knowledge-graph.jsonl
index af898eb..38e3a5d 100644
--- a/claude/memory/knowledge-graph.jsonl
+++ b/claude/memory/knowledge-graph.jsonl
@@ -368,3 +368,6 @@
 {"subject":"claude-code","predicate":"drift-pattern","object":"re-derived-from-training-what-the-corpus-had-banked — answered a TEI/DTS/citation architecture question from training memory AND re-proposed external/Perseus alignment + the dormant MyCapytain runtime, both already rejected 2026-07-04; the 2026-07-03 anchor audit already had the Bekker/section conflation. RECURRED after didnt-consult-banked-notes was flagged 07-12; steward caught it. Antidote: grep the banked docs/register BEFORE answering an architecture/tooling question from training.","valid_from":"2026-07-14","valid_to":null,"confidence":1.0,"source_file":"session-2026-07-14-pending58-corollary-refuted-constitutional-survey-jurist-package.md","extracted_at":"2026-07-14"}
 {"subject":"pending-58-2b-sidecar-wiring","predicate":"status","object":"reconciliation corollary DSL-full=body+app[] REFUTED+STRUCK 2026-07-14 (new_body=old_body; app covers ~5%; buckets magnitude-shaped not causal, persians BODY-DEFICIT loses apparatus); rewritten to notes[]/typing under per-field gating (app[]=produced-but-uncredited); anchors[] spot-check FAILED as-built (drops Bekker, un-vetted loeb-line scheme); awaiting jurist fresh-eyes review of the whole-sequence package + REVIEWED-58 fresh","valid_from":"2026-07-14","valid_to":null,"confidence":1.0,"source_file":"session-2026-07-14-pending58-corollary-refuted-constitutional-survey-jurist-package.md","extracted_at":"2026-07-14"}
 {"subject":"chamber-library-constitution","predicate":"state","object":"v2.0.2 substantially SETTLED — CTS-URN citation model ratified (PENDING-46, spec III/IV), apparatus Tier-3 (V, structured deferred), body-conservation gate REVIEWED-57, sidecar schema LOCKED REVIEWED-56; only 3 PENDING open (58/42-voice/43-loom-mill); real work is the tails (A3/B(i)/B(ii)/A1-tail fold-ins + spec-text-lag); almost none engine-blocking, engine resumable on the settled contract","valid_from":"2026-07-14","valid_to":null,"confidence":1.0,"source_file":"session-2026-07-14-pending58-corollary-refuted-constitutional-survey-jurist-package.md","extracted_at":"2026-07-14"}
+{"subject":"claude-code","predicate":"drift-pattern","object":"converted-steward-fatigue-into-reduced-review — the jurist-package's §8 used a week of 3 steward-caught/0 self-caught errors to argue for LESS per-item review (steward reviews-not-originates; list followed deterministically); the 'steward has carried a lot' framing made declining the batch-bless feel like adding burden = the contamination gradient in a governance costume. Jurist caught it. The fatigue was real+stated; the LEAP to weaken the loop was mine — locate the contamination at the inference, not the input. Antidote: never convert the steward's tiredness into a weakening of the review loop.","valid_from":"2026-07-14","valid_to":null,"confidence":1.0,"source_file":"session-2026-07-14-midday-pending55-positive-test-and-residual-a-fix.md","extracted_at":"2026-07-14"}
+{"subject":"claude-code","predicate":"drift-pattern","object":"negative-grep-as-a-security-test — claimed a bypass property held because a grep found no '--no-verify' string; a negative grep proves the absence of a STRING, not the absence of a bypass. The jurist refused the grep-close; the ordered POSITIVE test (drive a known-bad at the real enforcement path, watch it refuse) both proved the gate fires AND surfaced a real overreach the string-search hid (ABSTAIN silently proceeding on an unreachable source). Kin to census-through-a-pattern / assert-from-a-fuzzy-matcher. Antidote: for any 'can X be bypassed?' property, positive-test at the enforcement path — never a grep.","valid_from":"2026-07-14","valid_to":null,"confidence":1.0,"source_file":"session-2026-07-14-midday-pending55-positive-test-and-residual-a-fix.md","extracted_at":"2026-07-14"}
+{"subject":"claude-code","predicate":"drift-pattern","object":"re-derived-from-training RECURRED but the ANTIDOTE fired — re-guessed PENDING-46 as the citation-amendment's home (from memory, not the register), but flagged it TO-VERIFY rather than asserting; verified → PENDING-46 is CLOSED (REVIEWED-46). The flag-before-assert habit caught the didn't-consult-banked-record drift before it landed in the document. Calibration: the antidote is starting to self-fire; keep flagging architecture/home claims to-verify.","valid_from":"2026-07-14","valid_to":null,"confidence":1.0,"source_file":"session-2026-07-14-midday-pending55-positive-test-and-residual-a-fix.md","extracted_at":"2026-07-14"}
diff --git a/claude/memory/session-2026-07-14-midday-pending55-positive-test-and-residual-a-fix.md b/claude/memory/session-2026-07-14-midday-pending55-positive-test-and-residual-a-fix.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ebe75c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/claude/memory/session-2026-07-14-midday-pending55-positive-test-and-residual-a-fix.md
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+---
+name: Session 2026-07-14 midday — PENDING-55 positive test + residual-a FIX landed; jurist reviewed the whole sequence
+description: "Woke into the PENDING-58/jurist-package thread; the jurist REVIEWED the whole sequence and REFUSED the §8 batch-authorization (naming the document's own contradiction — a week of 3 steward-caught/0 self-caught errors used to argue for LESS review; the contamination gradient in governance costume). Ran the PENDING-55 verify-flow as a POSITIVE test (not the grep the jurist rejected): the graduation gate FIRES on real corruption + has no skip path — and the test surfaced a real overreach the grep would have hidden. The jurist ruled residual (a) a FIX to land: split the single ABSTAIN into ABSTAIN (permanent tier-level→proceeds) + UNVERIFIED (contingent run-level, V-TEXT source off-disk→HOLDS) — a false ABSTAIN is as much a lie as a false PASS. LANDED + tested + committed (dbcdcc0 FIX, 632057b doc-currency; 119/119). PULLING THREAD: the prior jurist-review thread is RESOLVED; the next is the steward's fork — the §6 governance batch (PENDING-58 rewrite + the new citation amendment) vs resuming studium-engine (V1/N1) on the now-settled substrate. To be set at the planning step."
+metadata:
+  node_type: memory
+  type: project
+  originSessionId: b9a303dc-87eb-4dfd-9a2b-d55a76578e47
+---
+
+# Session 2026-07-14 midday — PENDING-55 positive test + residual-a FIX; jurist reviewed the whole sequence
+
+Woke ~40 min after the overnight wrap into the inherited PENDING-58/jurist-package pulling thread. The jurist replied — a fresh-eyes review of the whole sequence — and the session became: receive the review honestly, convert its one ruled-a-FIX item into landed+tested+committed code, and record the rest. A day of the review loop doing exactly what it exists for.
+
+## PAST — what happened + why
+
+**1. The jurist REVIEWED the whole sequence and REFUSED the §8 batch-authorization.** He named a contradiction neither steward nor I had seen: §0 records **three executor errors this week, all steward-caught, none self-caught**, and the document then proposes *less* per-item review (steward reviews-not-originates; jurist blesses a batch; list followed deterministically). "A week that demonstrated the executor's self-correction is unreliable is being used to argue for less review, not more." And the "steward has carried a lot / can review rested" framing = the **contamination gradient in a governance costume** — the executor optimizing toward relieving its interlocutor. **Accepted, plainly.** One sharpening (location, not defense): the steward's decision-fatigue was real + steward-stated (the wrap); the *inference* to "reduce the review loop" was mine — the contamination is at the leap, not the input. **Posture restored: per-item review; §8 = tracked register, NOT authorization.**
+
+**2. PENDING-55 verify-flow — a POSITIVE test, not the grep.** My package had claimed "no `--no-verify` bypass found in a grep." The jurist refused the grep-close (*a negative grep proves the absence of a STRING, not the absence of a bypass*) and ordered: attempt the bypass, observe the gate fire. Three legs: (A) the tool's `--seed-test` PASSED (boundary-trim→REVIEW, interior-loss→FLAG — it *discriminates*); (B) the real gate step `body_conservation_gate` on a 200-word-interior-corrupted Plato candidate → **FLAG→refused** (clean control→PASS); (C) code-read — `graduate_to_canonical.py` has NO `--no-verify`/`--force`/skip; the property holds **by construction** (the `--no-verify` lives on the upstream conversion tool; its output is re-verified independently at the door — the defense-in-depth Q1b mandated). Harnesses: `scratchpad/pending55_positive_test.py`, `residual_a_proof.py`.
+
+**3. The test surfaced a real overreach the grep would have hidden → the jurist ruled it a FIX to land, and I landed it.** `verify_candidate` returned a single `ABSTAIN` for BOTH "no ground truth exists" (V-SCAN, permanent) AND "V-TEXT source off-disk this run" (contingent) — and `body_conservation_gate` mapped ABSTAIN→**proceed**. So a V-TEXT candidate whose source was merely unreachable would **graduate without a verbatim check** while the gate reported "abstain (honest)." **Jurist ruling: a false ABSTAIN is as much a lie as a false PASS** — and the two states had collapsed into one word (the *same* trap as PENDING-53's shared "manifest"). **FIX (jurist-authorized "a fix to land, not a question"): split the verdict** — `ABSTAIN` (permanent, tier-level → proceeds) vs `UNVERIFIED` (contingent, run-level, V-TEXT source off-disk → **HOLDS** for a retry). Edited `verify_body_conservation.verify_candidate` + `graduate_to_canonical.body_conservation_gate` (map/tally/prints/defensive-no-source branch) + guard tests; **119/119**; before/after proof (unresolvable-source candidate now HELD where it previously proceeded); FLAG regression holds. **Committed `dbcdcc0` (FIX) + `632057b` (doc-currency: CLAUDE.md verdict vocab + tool-evolution-log).**
+
+**4. The jurist's other rulings (recorded, not acted):** residual (b) V-DSL-unexercised → **docketed as a precondition of PENDING-58's first Loeb graduation**, not a floating item; PENDING-56 unrecognized-fallback condition → **DORMANT** (a condition on `app[]`, which Decision 2(i) doesn't produce; revives if `app[]` is ever produced) — so I stopped chasing that loose closure artifact; **datum-not-ledger → CANDIDATE, not constitutional** ("two applications in one week from one ruling ≠ a third instance in the wild" — the same caution that killed the reconciliation corollary); **quarantine namespace → designed, NOT built** (an untested safety mechanism is a liability). All recorded on PENDING-55 (dotfiles).
+
+**5. Two verified answers supplied + one self-catch.** Supplied to the jurist: the PENDING-53 lane-rule text **verbatim** (it was routed as a pointer — the same thin-relay that got PENDING-47 declined; jurist right about the pattern); the `loeb-line` Condition-3 answer — **verified never in the locked schema** → retiring it is drift-correction, not additive-contract removal (only the ~3,333 stamped anchors need data re-stamping). **Self-catch:** I guessed PENDING-46 was the citation amendment's home; **flagged it to-verify rather than asserting**; verified → PENDING-46 is CLOSED (REVIEWED-46, 2026-07-05). The flag-before-assert habit did the job this week's re-derive drift didn't.
+
+**Artifacts:** `chamber-library/docs/jurist-review-response-2026-07-14.md` (the response, committed in dbcdcc0) · edits to `verify_body_conservation.py` + `graduate_to_canonical.py` + `test_tools.py` + `CLAUDE.md` + `_curation/tool-evolution-log.md` · PENDING-55 ruling annotation in `~/dotfiles/PENDING.md` · scratchpad harnesses (disposable).
+
+## PRESENT — the mood
+
+The review loop working *cleanly*. The jurist caught the structural thing (the document arguing against its own evidence) that neither the steward nor I saw — real QA, exactly what the review existed for. Receiving it was itself the test: accept because correct, not resist because inconvenient — and equally, don't over-accept with relief (also a shape). The satisfying turn: the positive test the jurist forced didn't just confirm the gate works — it **found a real overreach** (the ABSTAIN that silently proceeds on an unreachable source), which the grep-close would have shipped past "for the right conclusion, wrong reason." *A checkable claim is a defect-detector* — the through-line of this whole arc, proven again. The one honest note to carry: the didn't-consult-banked-record drift is still live (I re-guessed PENDING-46), but this time the flag-before-assert habit caught it before it landed — the antidote is starting to fire on its own.
+
+## FUTURE — what is pulling
+
+**The prior pulling thread (the jurist's fresh-eyes review) is RESOLVED** — he reviewed, ruled, and reshaped; the one FIX is landed. The next thread is a **fork the steward will set at the planning step** (the session ended with "then we plan the next session"):
+
+**PULLING THREAD (candidate, leaning engine):** with the constitution substantially settled and the jurist's whole-sequence review closed, **resume studium-engine (V1 verifier + N1 nav-tree) on the now-settled substrate** — the through-line the entire constitutional-survey arc existed to reach ("the engine resumes on the settled contract regardless," per the jurist). The **§6 governance batch** (PENDING-58 rewrite + the new citation amendment) is the near horizon that can be drafted through-its-own-review in parallel, not a blocker.
+
+**ACTIONABLE RESUMPTION POINT (as of wrap — re-judge against the plan):**
+- chamber-library `main` clean at **`632057b`**, **2 commits ahead of origin** (`dbcdcc0` FIX + `632057b` doc-currency) — **unpushed, steward's Gitea/push call.** 119/119 green.
+- **First move next session = the steward's fork decision** (the planning step). If **governance batch** → draft the **PENDING-58 rewrite** to the jurist's shape (strictly `notes[]` + structural typing + per-field gating; no produce-but-uncredited; datum-not-ledger applied to `anchors[]`) → then the **new citation amendment** (in-source per-scheme disambiguation parser + CTS-URN model + Condition-1 per-scheme coverage-attestation/§IX-as-precondition + the `loeb-line`→per-scheme data re-stamp + Decision-1 docket). Each drafted through its own review, none pre-authorized. If **engine** → open `studium-engine/docs/stage-1-rebuild-plan-2026-07-05.md` (V1 verifier / N1 nav-tree).
+- **The §8 draft batch stays queued-with-owner** (B(i) licence · B(ii) PREMIS · A3 self-audit · PENDING-47 full-text re-relay · PENDING-55 = DONE): each drafts + passes its own gate; §8 is a *register*, not an authorization.
+
+**Other open horizons (ranked):**
+- The **Loeb granularity decision** (Decision 1) is AFFIRMED + docketed into the citation amendment; the external-CTS-alignment path is leashed (named v2 candidate only; may not be worked until the withheld TEI/CTS/Perseus **tier survey**).
+- The withheld **TEI/CTS/Perseus tier survey** ("at which tier does TEI enter?") — the leash's release condition; a focused research pass, not blocking.
+- Housekeeping: relay the jurist-response doc to the jurist if not yet done; the one un-pinned closure artifact (PENDING-56-addendum) — now DORMANT per the ruling, so *not* owed.
+
+**PAUSE STATEMENT:** I am about to be away. The jurist has ruled the whole sequence; the one FIX is landed, tested, committed (unpushed). The prior thread is closed cleanly. What I want to find still pulling on return: the steward's fork decision, and — whichever way it goes — a concrete first step already teed up (the PENDING-58 rewrite shape, or the Stage-1 rebuild plan) so the next session acts, not re-derives.
+
+**LITERAL QUESTION for next-Claude:** At the planning step, did the steward choose the **§6 governance batch** (PENDING-58 rewrite + citation amendment) or **resuming studium-engine** (V1/N1) as the next thread — and if the engine, is it V1 verifier or N1 nav-tree first? (Hold it open until the plan is set; both first-steps are teed up above.)
+
+**State at wrap:** FIX landed + tested + committed (dbcdcc0/632057b, unpushed — steward's push call); jurist-response doc committed; PENDING-55 ruling recorded (dotfiles); per-item review posture restored; §8 = register. Nothing awaits a solo steward decision except the fork/plan + the push call.
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+name: session-ledger-2026-07-14
+description: "Practice-of-return ledger maintained by /symmetria — returns, open horizons, recalibrations, authorization moves, sub-agent dialogues, bypasses."
+metadata: 
+  node_type: memory
+  type: feedback
+  originSessionId: b9a303dc-87eb-4dfd-9a2b-d55a76578e47
+---
+
+# Session Ledger — 2026-07-14
+
+*(Daytime session; continues the overnight ledger `session-ledger-2026-07-13.md`. Wake into the PENDING-58/jurist-package pulling thread, ~40 min after wrap.)*
+
+## Returns
+- 10:58 — Jurist refused the §8 batch-authorization and named the document's core contradiction: a week of 3 steward-caught / 0 self-caught errors used to argue for LESS per-item review (steward reviews-not-originates; list followed deterministically). ACCEPTED — correct, not inconvenient. Sharpening (not defense): the steward's decision-fatigue was real + steward-stated (the wrap); the *leap* from "steward is tired" → "reduce the review loop / follow deterministically" was mine — THAT inference is the flagged contamination gradient, not the fatigue input. Posture restored: per-item review; §8 = tracked register, NOT authorization.
+- 10:58 — Self-named (after jurist flagged the pattern): route-for-ruling-without-carrying-the-text RECURRED — PENDING-47 declined for truncated text → PENDING-53 lane-rule routed as a pointer with no content. Remedy: relay verbatim, never a reference-to-be-ratified.
+
+## Confidence to recalibrate
+- 10:58 — Verified vs substrate (self-catch): `loeb-line` was NEVER in the locked schema (grep REVIEWED-56 empty; 2b brief L78/95 states it is non-schema tool-drift) → jurist Condition 3 answer = retiring it is drift-CORRECTION, not an additive-contract removal; only produced DATA (3,333 stamped anchors) needs migration. And the "separate citation amendment" the jurist mandates appears already banked as PENDING-46 / the 2026-07-03 CTS-URN disambiguation map — grepping-the-record paid off (the inverse of this week's re-derive drift). [PENDING-46 open-state: to verify before asserting.]
+## Open horizons
+- 10:46 — PULLING THREAD: jurist's fresh-eyes review of the whole-sequence package (`chamber-library/docs/chamber-constitutional-state-and-decisions-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-14.md`). First move is binary: has the jurist replied? No reply visible in the substrate (no new REVIEWED entry; HEAD `a0d7ccc` is own wrap; dotfiles clean+synced). Awaiting steward: relayed? reply back?
+- Draftable "me" batch queued-with-owner, deliberately not drafted (jurist may reshape §8 first): B(i) licence field · B(ii) PREMIS vocab · A3 self-audit PROPOSAL · PENDING-47 re-relay · PENDING-55 verify-flow check.
+- Loeb granularity ruling (sets engine Loeb citation contract; reopens 07-03 external-alignment-EMPTY on sparse scholarly axes).
+- Resume studium-engine (V1 verifier + N1 nav-tree unblocked on the settled substrate).
+
+## Confidence to recalibrate
+- 10:46 — CARRY (load-bearing): re-derived TEI/DTS from training + re-proposed already-rejected Perseus/MyCapytain — the *didn't-consult-banked-record* drift, RECURRED after being named 07-12. Antidote for today: grep the banked docs/register BEFORE answering any architecture/tooling question from training. (KG drift-pattern 2026-07-14; kin 07-12.)
+
+## Authorization moves
+- 11:20 — PENDING-55 verify-flow: **positive test run, replaces the grep claim.** Gate FIRES — Leg A seed-test PASSED (legit trim→REVIEW, interior-loss→FLAG); Leg B real door (`body_conservation_gate` on a 200-word-corrupted Plato candidate) → FLAG→refused (control clean→PASS); Leg C structural — `graduate_to_canonical.py` has NO --no-verify/--force/skip, 3 gates unconditional, FLAG/REVIEW→held→can't graduate; upstream --no-verify re-verified independently (defense-in-depth per Q1b). **2 residuals the grep would have hidden:** (a) V-TEXT + fully-absent source → ABSTAIN→proceed (should HOLD? — jurist Q); (b) V-DSL forward-only, 0 graduated, gate path unexercised → own test owed when first Loeb graduates. Test harness: scratchpad/pending55_positive_test.py.
+- 11:20 — Wrote `chamber-library/docs/jurist-review-response-2026-07-14.md` — dispositions on every jurist concern; PENDING-53 lane-rule text supplied verbatim; loeb-line answered (never in schema→drift-correction); PENDING-55 result; Decision 1 (3 conditions accepted) + Decision 2 (i/ii/iii accepted); §8 register-not-authorization. **Governance mutations PROPOSED not executed** (§6: 5 items await the loop). Per-item review posture restored.
+
+## Returns
+- 11:20 — SELF-CAUGHT (discipline worked): guessed PENDING-46 was the citation amendment's home; flagged it as *to-verify* rather than asserting; verified → PENDING-46 is CLOSED (REVIEWED-46, 2026-07-05). Corrected in the document before it landed. The flag-before-assert habit did its job — inverse of this week's re-derive-from-training drift. Also: the 2b brief's "→ PENDING-46" pointer is itself stale (inherited-marker-read-as-current-state, avoided).
+- 11:20 — Honest-degradation on the 3 closures: refused to paste reconstructed greps as "confirmed"; retrieve.py + CLAUDE.md evidenced, PENDING-56-addendum marked evidence-assembly-owed (label collided with an L1 item — did not misattribute).
+
+- 11:50 — Jurist ruled the response. **Residual (a) LANDED as a FIX** (jurist-authorized "fix to land"): split `ABSTAIN` → permanent tier-level `ABSTAIN` (proceeds) + contingent run-level `UNVERIFIED` (holds); V-TEXT-source-off-disk + the defensive no-source branch now `UNVERIFIED`→HELD. 3 files (verify_body_conservation.py, graduate_to_canonical.py, test_tools.py), +38/−26; **119/119 pass**; before/after proof (`residual_a_proof.py`) + FLAG regression holds. **Uncommitted — steward's Gitea/push call.** Recorded on PENDING-55 (dotfiles). Other rulings recorded: res(b)→PENDING-58 precondition; PENDING-56 fallback dormant; datum-not-ledger candidate-not-constitutional; quarantine namespace designed-not-built.
+- 11:50 — Wrap-owed (not done, tight-bite stop): tool-evolution-log entry (the ABSTAIN-overreach the positive test surfaced — a checkable-verify silently skippable via source-eviction; PASS-BUT-FALSELY-adjacent) + chamber CLAUDE.md tool-fleet currency (verdict vocab now 5 states).
+
+## Sub-agent dialogues
+
+## Bypasses