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session 2026-09-20: the steward's Monday order, and governance-is-the-toll standing preference

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Steward at the wrap: start with PENDING-186, then by urgency, and get back to
project work. Recorded as a standing preference with the measurement behind it
(11 of last 12 sessions governance-dominant, 9 with no project signal) and with
the tension named: ordering by urgency keeps him in governance, because every
urgent item IS governance. The resolution is splitting the backlog into rulings
(a morning) and work (a week), not re-ranking silently.

This wrap also took MEMORY.md to 98.6% (margin ~360 B), so PENDING-186's own
subject is now its deadline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**Rules that fire silently — keep these in front of me**
- [Fowler's rules for quotation](feedback_fowlers_rules_quotation.md) — single quotes primary, double for nested, logical British punctuation order. All writing.
- [Canadian spelling in ARC prose](feedback-canadian-spelling-arc-prose.md) — centre/colour ("almost EU"). Draft all steward-voiced prose this way; corpus "center" = autocorrect drift (cleanup open).
- [Governance is the toll, not the road](feedback-governance-is-the-toll-not-the-road.md) — steward 2026-09-20: **out of purely governance work, back to project progress.** ⚠ **"Order by urgency" KEEPS him there** — every urgent item is governance. **Split the backlog into RULINGS (a morning) vs WORK (a week) before planning**; rank a ruling by what it RELEASES. 11 of last 12 sessions governance-dominant.
- [Close thoroughly — no frequent deferrals](feedback-close-thoroughly-no-frequent-deferrals.md) — **frequent deferrals ARE how the cloud accumulated.** Close ALL of a block that's closable-now; for the rest, **name the specific dependency**.
- [Shorter, concentrated sessions](feedback-shorter-concentrated-sessions.md) — ONE tightly-scoped high-leverage bite taken all the way, then wrap; hold the rest as ranked horizons.
- [Constitution-as-block, then pull-based corpus](feedback-constitution-as-block-then-pull-based-corpus.md) — finish the **constitution as one block FIRST**, then corpus-into-spec **pulled by what each engine phase needs**. **Bounded question → bounded answer**; keep open-thread count LOW.