diff --git a/PENDING.md b/PENDING.md
index a5999f6..f954a47 100644
--- a/PENDING.md
+++ b/PENDING.md
@@ -5360,6 +5360,8 @@ A marker with an implementation is a channel; a channel is option 3 by the back
 
 ### AMENDMENT 2 — 2026-08-25 — the fourth position contributes NOTHING to this item, now by ruling; and where the evidence actually is
 
+**Ruled: REVIEWED-129** (PENDING-159, option 1). This amendment is that ruling's consequence 1, filed here because this item is the consumer.
+
 **Steward decision on PENDING-159: option 1. Nothing marked, nothing built, no flag that could become a channel.**
 
 ⚠ **This item's zero-contribution statement was already owed and is now LOAD-BEARING.** It was previously true *by construction* — the fool produces nothing filable. It is now also true *by ruling*: no provenance marker exists or will, so **no observation of Tarbuckle's will ever reach this item in any form, marked or unmarked.**
@@ -5406,7 +5408,7 @@ Named here so that a later reader looking for the correlation datum does not go
        deletion, one occasion.
 -->
 
-### AMENDMENT 3 — 2026-08-25 — ⚖ STEWARD DECISION: option 1. The item closes.
+### AMENDMENT 3 — 2026-08-25 — ⚖ STEWARD DECISION: option 1. The item closes. **Ruled: REVIEWED-129.**
 
 **Option 1. Accept the loss. Nothing marked, nothing built, no flag that could become a channel.**
 
diff --git a/claude/governance/REVIEWED-128-129-draft-for-placement.md b/claude/governance/REVIEWED-128-129-draft-for-placement.md
index 48210d6..e864135 100644
--- a/claude/governance/REVIEWED-128-129-draft-for-placement.md
+++ b/claude/governance/REVIEWED-128-129-draft-for-placement.md
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+# ⚠ SUPERSEDED — PLACED 2026-08-25. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
+
+**Both rulings are canonical in `~/dotfiles/REVIEWED.md`** — REVIEWED-128 at line 2262,
+REVIEWED-129 at line 2318. This file is retained as the drafting record only.
+
+**Superseded in place rather than deleted**, on the same ground as the REVIEWED-127
+draft: an unmarked parallel version of a canonical record is the context-rot failure
+`CLAUDE.md` names outright. Deleting it would lose the drafting history; leaving it
+unmarked would leave two live versions and no way to tell which governs.
+
+**Placement verified rather than assumed**, 2026-08-25: both blocks are
+whitespace-normalised identical to what was placed — 4,230 and 5,378 characters on both
+sides. The placed text differs only in line wrapping, which the steward's editor
+re-flowed. ⚠ **Checked because "drafted, then placed" is exactly where a ruling's subject
+and its artifact drift apart**, and this record already carries that class recurring
+inside a ruling (PENDING-82/86).
+
+⚠ **REVIEWED-129's `Decision:` line was blank in this draft and is filled in the placed
+record.** The steward decided option 1; the executor did not supply it. If this file is
+ever read for the decision, it does not have it — read `REVIEWED.md`.
+
+---
+
 # Drafts for steward placement — REVIEWED-128 and REVIEWED-129
 
 Drafted by the executor 2026-08-25 from the jurist's rulings relayed by the steward.
diff --git a/claude/governance/fool/TARBUCKLE-SPEC-13.1-2026-08-25.md b/claude/governance/fool/TARBUCKLE-SPEC-13.1-2026-08-25.md
index aa4d933..a7e6e41 100644
--- a/claude/governance/fool/TARBUCKLE-SPEC-13.1-2026-08-25.md
+++ b/claude/governance/fool/TARBUCKLE-SPEC-13.1-2026-08-25.md
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ its constraint budget there, and a violation is still silence.
 | `tarbuckle-draws.jsonl` | occurrence only — surface + outcome | **permanent.** Counting is not filing; §8 obliges a rate and a rate needs a denominator |
 | `tarbuckle-rejects.jsonl` | violation reason **+ up to 200 chars of a suppressed line** | ⚠ **temporary, dies 2026-09-08** |
 
-**Jurist ruling, 2026-08-25.** The rejection log is *"a log of my instruction, not of
+**Jurist ruling, 2026-08-25 — placed as REVIEWED-128.** The rejection log is *"a log of my instruction, not of
 Tarbuckle… the rejected lines were never uttered: he was silent, and the log holds what
 silence cost."* Nothing in it entered the room, so nothing can be cited from it. **Three
 binding conditions:**
@@ -208,9 +208,11 @@ prevent exactly that.** Recorded rather than silently corrected.
 - ~~**The wrap seam**~~ — **BUILT** 2026-08-25 on `Stop` + `systemMessage`, gated on an
   actual `/wrap-up` invocation detected structurally in the transcript. `SessionEnd`
   remains unusable and the reason stands in §4.
-- **PENDING-159** — the fool cannot reach the jurist, and what does reach him arrives
-  without provenance. `[ESCALATE]`, jurist view received: option 2 narrowly, optional,
-  **and deliberately unimplemented** — a marker with an implementation is a channel.
+- ~~**PENDING-159**~~ — **CLOSED, REVIEWED-129:** option 1. The fool cannot reach the
+  jurist and **nothing is marked, nothing built, no flag that could become a channel.**
+  Declined as harmful rather than expensive: a marker would have weighted the steward's
+  judgement in the one place it must stay unweighted. ⚠ **REJECTED, not deferred — not to
+  be revisited without new steward input.**
 - **The two-week rate report** — §8 obliges it; `DEFERRED-DECISION: mumble-rate-two-week-report`,
   converted `manual` → `date 2026-09-08` the day the body shipped.
 - **Frequency remains UNKNOWN** and is not guessed. The invocation log now measures the