REVIEWED-128/129 placed by the steward; draft superseded in place, placement verified

Verified rather than assumed: 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 an 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.

The draft is SUPERSEDED IN PLACE, not deleted: it is now a parallel version of a
canonical record, and an unmarked parallel version is the context-rot failure. It points
at REVIEWED.md and says not to edit it — and says explicitly that 129's Decision line was
blank here and is filled there, so a reader who comes to this file for the decision knows
it does not have it.

Citations wired both ways so the register is navigable from the items rather than only
from the rulings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J6hZXNYSxEfZseBGTni4sf

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.**
 

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+# ⚠ SUPERSEDED — PLACED 2026-08-25.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.

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
+- ~~**PENDING-159**~~ — **CLOSED, REVIEWED-129:** option 1. The fool cannot reach the
-  without provenance. `[ESCALATE]`, jurist view received: option 2 narrowly, optional,
+  jurist and **nothing is marked, nothing built, no flag that could become a channel.**
-  **and deliberately unimplemented** — a marker with an implementation is 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