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The draft is SUPERSEDED IN PLACE, not deleted: it is now a parallel version of a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.
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Steward decision, on the merits. The grounds are recorded rather than the outcome alone,
because a bare REJECTED reads as a reluctant concession and this is not one: a provenance
marker would have put a thumb on the steward's judgement in the one place it must stay
unweighted, so buying the datum would have cost the thing the datum was meant to measure.
Declined as harmful, not as expensive. REJECTED rather than DEFERRED, deliberately —
answered on the merits, and cheapness was never the obstacle.
Two consequences written in rather than left implicit. PENDING-89's zero-contribution
statement becomes load-bearing: previously true by construction, now also by ruling, and
it may never read an empty period as a negative result. And the evidence is named where it
actually lives — the frozen Thistleweld corpus, and the v1 Chamber archive.
⚠ MY EARLIER PENDING-89 AMENDMENT IS SUPERSEDED, NOT DELETED. It was written while option
2 was live and describes a marker that will never exist. Left visible because the
reasoning about aggregation and non-neutrality is what MADE the decline correct, and a
reader seeing only the outcome cannot see why.
⚠ AND A FIGURE WAS CORRECTED BEFORE A RULING ENSHRINED IT. The archive was relayed to me
as "55 files". PENDING-151 censused it three days ago: 55 is the raw find|wc -l, 22 of
which are AppleDouble junk. Real: 33 content files, 9 complete formation pairs, 19,479
words — a single session's read. That item also records that the executor produced the
wrong figure on 2026-08-01 and repeated it for three weeks. Relaying it into REVIEWED
would have made a corrected number permanent, in the document that gets quoted.
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128 is complete: the jurist's ruling on the rejection log against §9, three conditions,
plus the recital defect and the word-cap deferral with its shape-not-count criterion.
129's Decision line is deliberately BLANK. PENDING-159 is [ESCALATE] and the jurist said
what it gave was a view rather than a ruling; the executor cannot fill that line and has
not guessed. Everything else in 129 is the jurist verbatim or closely paraphrased,
including the correction of the item's loudest claim and the narrowing to noted-never-counted.
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