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drafts: steward resolves both flagged divergences (role title, divorce date)

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"Principal ethics architect" is correct, and co-author besides — so the
preferences carried the right text and ~/CLAUDE.md L27 is the stale record. The
executor does not edit that file (Constitutional Constraint #1); the replacement
line went to the steward with its line number.

Worth recording which way this fell: the conflict resolved in favour of the
document with NO instrument watching it. governance-drift-check.py covers
CLAUDE.md and nothing covers the preferences, and the uninstrumented document was
the accurate one. Continuous maintenance buys currency, not authority — the
memory-layer rule, confirmed against a case that could have embarrassed it.

Divorce signed 30 March 2026, closed. Recorded as a completed past event rather
than a pending one: a date on a finished act is inheritable, where a date after
"awaiting" decays into a false present.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WuMjg3ipEVa3n8CoSzoyvc
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@@ -55,11 +55,17 @@ questions — *"what has to be true of L1 first?"* survives time in a way *"L2 b
stability"* did not), and **Personal** (steward-held; the generator excludes it by design, not by
convention, and no instrument pretends to check it).
Two divergences were flagged rather than decided, correctly: "principal **ethics** architect"
(preferences) against "principal architect" (`CLAUDE.md`) — a conflict between records is a
verification trigger, not a precedence call; and the divorce entry's four-month-past date, whose
operative instruction ("treat as closed") was preserved exactly while the stale "awaiting" was
removed for the steward to restore if wrong.
Two divergences were flagged rather than decided, and the steward resolved both the same day.
(1) **"principal ethics architect" is correct, and co-author besides.** The preferences carried
the right text; `~/CLAUDE.md` L27 is the stale record. Steward applies the alignment — the
executor cannot edit that file (Constitutional Constraint #1) — scoping co-author to L1, which
`CLAUDE.md` L88 already attests ("co-author with Seb for L1"). Worth noting which way this fell:
the flagged conflict was resolved *in favour of the document with no instrument watching it*.
Currency is not authority; the drift-check covers `CLAUDE.md` and nothing covers the preferences,
and the uninstrumented document was the accurate one.
(2) **The divorce was signed on 30 March 2026.** Closed. Now recorded as a completed past event
rather than a pending one — a date on a finished act is inheritable, where a date following
"awaiting" decays into a false present.
**If AUTHORIZED:** Steward pastes the fresh document into Claude.app. Executor keeps the durable
copy in `~/dotfiles/claude/` current, and the wake continues to report the generated block's age
past 30 days — tracking **generation, not pasting**, which is a lower bound on the jurist's