Design gate PASSED with conditions. Q1/Q2/Q4/Q5 affirmed; Q2's narrower alternative that I
myself offered was declined as less safe — a latitude-expanding but non-assertive change
would pass an assertion-only test. Q3 went against my fallback framing: report and
provenance comment are both mandatory, not one held in reserve. Two things added that I did
not propose: an append-only FIX-lane index, and a bounded check-in making the lane
provisional rather than settled.
The ruling required the containment verification the 2026-07-29 package carried. Correction
recorded rather than quietly repaired: that check WAS run before filing, 15/15 with
controls, and the package did not report it. For a reader with no repository access, a check
performed but not disclosed is indistinguishable from one not performed. The failure was in
the record, not the method.
Supplied per-quote with source-file shas so it is repeatable: all four §1.6/§2.a passages
byte-contained at named lines, with positive, negative, and cross-file-negative controls
passing.
Q1's timeline, which the jurist affirmed as unverified, is now verified from git rather than
from a provenance comment: the blanket prohibition entered 2026-05-29 (fffcf17), the
change-class clause 2026-07-05 (9ca673f) — 37 days later, not carried back. That makes the
factual premise checkable; it does not rescue the lean from being the interested party's
reading, and the jurist's alternative stands on its own.
Parts I-IX preserved unrewritten as the text ruled on. Nothing landed: the §1.6 edit awaits
steward placement of REVIEWED-85. The accompanying steward-jurist exchange is read as
background and deliberately not filed — per the jurist's own direction that making it
doctrine would be its own item, ruled on rather than absorbed by inclusion.
Refs PENDING-88, REVIEWED-85 (drafted, awaiting placement).
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Authored per /jurist-package: self-contained for a jurist with no repository access,
every ratified clause quoted verbatim from the substrate rather than described.
The argument moved during authoring, and got stronger. PENDING-88 framed this as §1.6
failing to use the constitution's taxonomy. Reading §1.6 whole shows something narrower
and textual: §1.6 already draws the FIX-vs-PROPOSAL split for repo CLAUDE.md files and
names it as that split — "the same FIX-vs-PROPOSAL split, one level up" — then applies a
blanket prohibition to skills two paragraphs later. The asymmetry is internal to §1.6,
not a gap between §1.6 and the constitution.
Also recorded: a rule adopted to preserve steward awareness produced, by accumulation, the
loss of it — every proposal routed to one file, the file passed the read cap, and the
/wake-up step whose purpose is to surface them stopped completing. That is mechanical and
measured, not a governance judgment being second-guessed.
Counts restated with a stated inclusion rule, correcting the item's own figures, and
option (d) disclosed as already authorized (2026-07-19 Stroke 4) and executed today, so
the ruling is made against current state.
Containment-checked with positive and negative controls before filing. The check caught
four defects in my own draft: three lines of proposed text rendered as ratified
blockquotes — the same convention ambiguity it caught in the 07-29 package, recurring —
and an elided §1.6 quote presented as contiguous. Both fixed; proposed text is now fenced
and the elision is marked.
Nothing applied. No skill changed, no governed artifact edited.
Refs PENDING-88.
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