docs(governance): PENDING-99 census corrected; containment's sufficiency limit named

The census arithmetic is settled by counting, not by which reading closes:
17 instances / 15 distinct, the mislocation being one defect over two instances,
so the session log was right and V2 §1.5 was wrong. My withdrawal of the
original flag was itself the error — it inferred a breakdown from a total, which
a total cannot settle. Yesterday's banked pattern: a number that matches is not
a cause; it produced two candidates and I accepted each in turn.

check_containment.py now carries the limit the PENDING-99 ruling exposed:
containment verifies that what you quoted is ACCURATE, never that you quoted
what MATTERS. An omission passes every time. The countermeasure is reading the
adjacent clauses, not a better checker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AB3Kryoy6b1pm2Nz1DYdLh
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David F Glidden
2026-08-05 21:39:57 +02:00
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@@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ Every run carries POSITIVE CONTROLS: near-miss strings that must be absent. If a
is found, the instrument is not discriminating and its passes mean nothing. An absence
is not evidence until the instrument is shown capable of detecting presence.
KNOWN LIMIT — CONTAINMENT IS NOT SUFFICIENCY.
This tests that what you quoted is ACCURATE. It cannot test that you quoted what
MATTERS. An omission passes every time, because nothing was misquoted.
Demonstrated 2026-08-05, PENDING-99: the package quoted chamber §II.3 verbatim and
passed 16/16 with 9/9 controls absent. The sentence that actually decided the
question — "What remains genuinely open... the marker's exact syntax" — sat in the
NEXT LINE of the same subsection, was in the executor's own read output, and was
never surfaced. The jurist found it on first contact with the primary text and
reframed the ruling. A containment proof is a floor against fabrication, never
evidence of adequacy.
The countermeasure is not a better checker. It is a different act: read the clauses
ADJACENT to every quote, and say in the package that you did.
KNOWN LIMIT — THIS INSTRUMENT CANNOT VERIFY A NEGATION.
It tests whether an exact string is present. It has no notion of polarity. So a
sentence of the form "X does NOT hold" contains, as a literal substring, the