[GOVERNANCE] Steward places REVIEWED-125 — PENDING-149 partial ruling

Steward-authored placement, committed on its own so the register's history
reads as a placement rather than as a side effect.

⚠ Correcting a bookkeeping defect the executor introduced: acfbb9f used
`git add -A` and swept the steward's REVIEWED-124 placement (39 lines) into a
commit whose message is entirely about the fool seed rule. The placement is
intact and pushed, but its provenance in the log is misleading. Not rewritten —
the commit is on two remotes and rewriting pushed history is the worse move.
Recorded here and under PENDING-149 so later archaeology finds the right story.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JQKeKY9T9d95KpvHwwok8T

REVIEWED.md

@@ -1964,3 +1964,66 @@ it should not be applied to this corpus.
 **If AUTHORIZED:** Record trial 09 void. Pre-register the replacement run's instrument in
 full before any token is generated. Tag commits REVIEWED-124. THE HOLD ON TRIAL 09 IS
 PERMANENT — it does not lift; it is superseded.
+
+## REVIEWED-125 — PENDING-149 — Buddy-pattern Fool: §8a answered, §8 measured, §5 contested
+
+**Date:** 2026-08-22
+**Ruling:** PARTIAL — see per-deliverable dispositions below.
+**Does not bear on PENDING-150.** No fourth position is ratified by this ruling;
+`~/CLAUDE.md` is untouched. §13.6 continues to block every run.
+
+### §8 measurement — AUTHORIZED as evidence
+4.2 events/day over 45 days, 6.2 on active days, range 1–53, sessions 1.39/day.
+This is what §8's closing warning asked for and the burst finding is sound: fixed
+proportions on a bursty event generator make the fool loudest on the heaviest days.
+The defect is real and is a defect in the draft, not in the executor's reading.
+
+### §8 recommendation (keep 73/20/7 + hard daily cap) — REJECTED
+Two grounds.
+(a) §8's tuning prohibition is a bar on *runtime* adjustment — its stated rationale
+is a fool that learns from being heard or muted. It does not bar a one-time
+pre-registered proportion, which §8 explicitly requests.
+(b) A hard cap is the more §8-hostile mechanism: it creates an observable
+'quota exhausted' state, arriving first on burst days, after which silence reads as
+depletion rather than as the 73%. That defeats §8a's object.
+Rejection is of the mechanism, not of the problem it addresses.
+
+### §8 re-derivation — DEFERRED, conditions stated
+Executor to return with adjusted proportions, pre-registered and hardcoded, no cap.
+If the executor's answer requires the trigger key to change, that is an amendment to
+§8 and is filed as such — not carried inside an §8a answer.
+
+### §8a body/voice split — AUTHORIZED, conditional
+The separation of body from voice is adopted; it is the answer §8a wanted, and it is
+a fourth shape rather than a selection from the three, which §8a invited.
+Conditions, both prior to build:
+1. Verify whether `statusLine` is already configured in `~/.claude/settings.json`,
+ and what it carries. Flagged unchecked at filing; the option's cost and its one
+ risk both turn on it.
+2. The body must RENDER silence, not merely occupy a line. A static name is a label
+ and goes furniture-blind; §3 bars sprites and animation frames, so whatever
+ changes must be derived from time or from nothing. Never from content — content
+ derivation makes the body gradeable and §2 forbids it.
+
+### §5 — five axes stand; PROCEDURE not adopted
+Not adopted on §5's own criterion: an axis is real only if a dump on it is imaginable
+as costing the steward something. If procedural failures are already caught by
+existing instruments, blindness there is free. The executor's second reading is
+correct. §5 remains awaiting steward ratification, which is upstream of the bones and
+is not a jurist matter.
+
+### `input-dependence-01-PREREGISTRATION.md` — DEFERRED, explicitly not parked
+Held at the gate. Reconsidered when §12's swappable-generator clause becomes live
+work; it is the nearest existing instrument for reading divergence between two
+formations. Disposal by omission is refused.
+
+### PENDING-89 evidence, source (iv) — AUTHORIZED to read
+`~/_Dev/animal-davidglidden-eu/chamber-sessions-private/` (55 files). Flagged
+2026-08-01, never opened. It answers generation diversity, not correlation of misses,
+and must not be reported as the latter. The executor's statement that the buddy fool
+contributes zero to PENDING-89 by construction is accepted as a design property.
+
+### Scope note
+The jurist could not read the filed draft via `governance_read`; the text ruled on was
+supplied by the steward in-session. The filed sha256 `9aceed7f…` is unverified from
+this side.