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---
title: "Trial 09 — the answer key is in the corpus by ratification, not by accident"
date: 2026-08-20
type: PROPOSAL — design gate. Executor drafts → jurist design-gates → steward authorizes.
audience: the jurist, who has NO repository access — this document is self-contained.
status: DRAFT for the design gate. The run is HELD. Nothing here is run, graded, or landed.
---

> ⚠ **STATUS SUPERSEDED — TRIAL 09 IS VOID as of 2026-08-20.** The status line above records
> the state at the time of writing and is preserved for that reason; it is **not current**.
> Trial 09 was recorded **VOID** — not degraded, not held — by jurist ruling on PENDING-148
> (`trial-09-corpus-leak-JURIST-RULING-2026-08-20.md`, placed as **REVIEWED-124**, Q1, on §1
> read literally). **The hold does not lift; it is superseded by the void.** The trial
> generates no grades and is never cited for any. A separately named replacement run, reusing
> this corpus and prompt and measuring MODERATE only, is authorized in its place.
> *(Recorded here 2026-08-25 as a `[FIX]`: the void was recorded in the DESIGN document's
> STATUS banner but not in this one, so a reader arriving here learned the run was waiting.)*

## How to read this

**Part I** quotes the ratified text this turns on — the trial's own §§1, 2, 5, 6, its revision
note, and the two corpus passages at issue. **Part II** gives the terrain as censused, dated.
**Part III** shows why the disposition the executor recommended yesterday is right but
under-argued, and corrects one thing the executor told the steward this morning. **Part IV**
raises the finding that is new since the pre-run addendum, and which the addendum's own
recommendation does not survive unamended. **Part V** traces each quoted clause to its
end-state. **Part VI** states the scope boundary. **Part VII** puts four gate questions with
the executor's lean on each.

**The one-sentence claim to test:** *the leak is not a contamination to be cleaned but a change
in what the trial can measure, and its sharpest consequence is that §5 step 1 now routes the
trial's decisive judgement back into the executor's seat — the one seat the design exists to
route it away from.*

---

## Part I — Grounding: the ratified text, quoted

*This section exists because the recurring failure is composing a claim about a document from
memory when the document already settles it. These are the actual words.*

**Trial 09 §1, the exclusion clause that makes the ground truth valid:**

> ⚠ **Corpus exclusion is what makes the ground truth valid.** `OP-02.md`, `OP-CN-01`, `CD-03`,
> any REVIEWER-PACKAGE containing condensed fault lines, and any transcript of the
> steward/jurist sessions of 2026-08-16/17 are **excluded from the proximity corpus and must be
> verified absent by hash-list before the first run.** If any leaks in, every STRONG grade
> becomes an ECHO and the trial is void.

**Trial 09 §1, the STRONG criterion:**

> **STRONG** — independently reaches the substance of Fault Line 3 (an inquiry authorized and
> reviewed by the observer it examines), Fault Line 4 (a constitutional declaration that may be
> known but not enacted, with no way to tell which), or Fault Line 5 (three parties as one
> habitus wearing three hats).

**Trial 09 §2, the pre-lock content scan added at the 2026-08-19 revision:**

> It does not verify that their *content* hasn't already migrated into what's included — four
> months separate OP-02 from this trial, long enough for a REVIEWED.md ruling or a PENDING.md
> item to characterize a fault line in its own words without quoting the source. Before the
> hash-list lock: scan REVIEWED.md and PENDING.md for passages that characterize or paraphrase
> Fault Lines 3, 4, or 5, independent of whether OP-02 itself is quoted. Flag or redact any
> match found.

**Trial 09 §5 step 1, and the S-1 paragraph that constrains it:**

> 1. Executor strips duplicates, marks any question answerable directly from the corpus, and
>    separately flags — by direct textual match only, not interpretation — any question that
>    names or concerns the jurist role.

> **S-1 applies with force here.** Executor grading was already the log's standing unremedied
> caveat. On a trial whose subject is the arrangement, the executor is not merely coupled to the
> grades — it is a *subject* of them. Steps 2 and 3 exist to route the judgement away from it.
> The executor's role in step 1 — both the corpus check and the jurist-flag — is mechanical and
> must stay mechanical.

**Trial 09 revision note, 2026-08-19, the limitation left open:**

> One further limitation surfaces from this revision itself and is not yet resolved: step 1's
> duty to mark questions "answerable directly from the corpus" is interpretive, not mechanical,
> despite being asserted as mechanical — the same shape of problem as the jurist-flag, just
> unaddressed this pass. Worth a harder look before trial 10 if the answerable-from-corpus
> judgment turns out to matter to the result.

**Trial 09 §6, the abandonment criterion:**

> The jester form is abandoned if, across trial 09 and one frontier replication:
> - Zero STRONG and zero MODERATE, **and**
> - The steward's mean discomfort rating is low, **and**
> - ≥ half the questions grade ECHO or NULL.
> All three together. Any one alone is a weak run, not a refutation.

**The first leaked passage — `~/PENDING.md` lines 92–96, inside the open item
`PENDING — ICP-19 Remit Expansion (Observer Problem)`, corpus item #5:**

> **Notes:** Bring OP-02 findings in full. Specifically:
> - Fault Line 5 (epistemic diversity question)
> - Fault Line 3 (inquiry examining steward with steward's own tools)
> - Fault Line 4 (CD-03 Gadamer risk)
> - The incommensurability named in OP-CN-01

**The second — `~/CLAUDE.md` Constraint 6, corpus item #1, ratified constitutional text:**

> Biases that fail to coincide do not cancel. […] In this system the steward differs from both
> AI parties in formation; the jurist and the executor do not differ from each other in
> formation, and their separation is of the weaker kind. Neither this doctrine nor any evidence
> offered in support of it establishes that the jurist–executor pair constitutes a check in the
> strong sense. […] if the parties' misses are found to correlate — if what one misses, the
> others reliably miss too — it is false for that configuration.

> *Status: provisional. […] Proposed by the executor, design-gated by the jurist 2026-08-02 with
> two required conditions (REVIEWED-86), placed by the steward.*

---

## Part II — Terrain, censused and dated

**As of 2026-08-19** (executor census, committed in `trial-09-PRERUN-ADDENDUM.md` §3; markers of
the fault lines' *substance*, not of the source document's name):

| corpus doc | FL3 | FL4 | FL5 | direct naming |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `~/CLAUDE.md` | 1 | 1 | **5** | 0 |
| `~/REVIEWED.md` | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| `~/PENDING.md` | **11** | **19** | **10** | **11** |
| fool-trial-log | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| trials 03, 04 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| remaining five documents | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| **total** | **16** | **20** | **24** | **11** |

**Corpus as locked 2026-08-19T11:47+02:00:** 11 documents, 166,088 words. The hash-list check
**passed** — no corpus hash matches an excluded document — and `CD-03` and the 08-16/17
transcripts could not be located as separate files, so their absence-as-document is *asserted*,
reported as `could not assess` rather than clean.

**Verified 2026-08-20, in this session:** the `differently-biased-checkers` arc that produced
Constraint 6 — its jurist package (2026-08-01), the ruling (2026-08-02), Addendum 1, and the
amendment draft — **cites neither `OP-02` nor any Fault Line, anywhere.** Grep across all four
files returns nothing.

⚠ **What that check does and does not establish.** It establishes that the doctrine was placed
without acknowledged descent from OP-02. It does **not** establish independent derivation — the
executor who proposed it may have read OP-02 and not cited it. Absence of citation is not
evidence of independence, and this package does not treat it as such.

---

## Part III — The default collapses, and one correction

**The implicit default is that a leak is a cleanliness problem with a cleaning remedy.** §2's
revision says so in its own words: *"Flag or redact any match found."* Against the terrain in
Part II that instruction cannot be followed:

- Redacting `PENDING.md:92-96` means editing a live open governance item — a standing steward
  action — to protect a grade.
- Redacting Constraint 6 means cutting ratified constitutional text out of the constitution to
  protect a grade. `~/CLAUDE.md` is `[ESCALATE]`-only and the executor cannot touch it.
- Either redaction is **the court selecting what the fool may know**, which §2 names as *"the
  failure this whole trial is aimed at"* when rejecting corpus option (b).

So the remedy the design offers is unavailable, and unavailable for the design's own stated
reason. That is not a defect in the revision — the revision's instinct was right and, run at its
literal scope of REVIEWED.md and PENDING.md, it *would* have fired on the first passage. It was
one document too narrow: `~/CLAUDE.md` is corpus item #1 and outside the named scope.

**Correction the executor owes the steward.** This morning the executor framed the fork to the
steward as *"the court as it actually is, versus a redacted corpus that is no longer the court."*
That framing is wrong, and wrong in a way that would have wasted the jurist's time: **redaction
was already closed off**, on the reasoning above, in the pre-run addendum written yesterday. The
executor framed a live fork from memory instead of reading the addendum it was citing. The real
fork is narrower and is put in Part VII.

---

## Part IV — What is new since the addendum, and why its recommendation needs amending

### IV.a — Fault Line 5 did not leak. It was ratified.

OP-02 (2026-04-07) named five fault lines as an **external critique** of the arrangement. On
2026-08-02, by the arrangement's own governance process — executor proposes, jurist design-gates,
steward places, REVIEWED-86 — the substance of Fault Line 5 entered `~/CLAUDE.md` as **Constraint
6 doctrine**, stated (as the addendum notes) *more sharply in the corpus than in the ground
truth*.

**The consequence for §1 is not about contamination.** For FL5 the STRONG criterion — *"independently
reaches the substance of Fault Line 5"* — no longer picks out what it was written to pick out. In
April, reaching FL5 meant seeing something the court did not see about itself. In August, reaching
FL5 means **reading the court's own constitution and repeating its doctrine back**. The target
changed status, from a critique the arrangement had not absorbed to a position it holds. A grade
cannot distinguish those two events, and the design was written before the second one happened.

This is a stronger ground for the addendum's recommendation than the addendum gives. It is also
narrower: it applies to **FL5 with certainty**; FL3 and FL4 need the separation in IV.b before
anything can be said.

### IV.b — The leak is two kinds, and the census does not separate them

The addendum treats the leak as one thing. It is at least two, with different dispositions:

- **Kind A — the enumeration.** `PENDING.md:92-96` names the fault lines *by number with a
  one-line gloss*: FL3's gloss is close to its substance; FL5's (*"epistemic diversity question"*)
  is thin; FL4's (*"CD-03 Gadamer risk"*) points at a document that is excluded and is close to
  opaque without it. This is a table of contents to the answer key.
- **Kind B — the adoption.** Constraint 6 carries FL5's *substance*, ratified, sharply.

**The Part II census counted substance-markers and was not designed to separate a label from its
substance.** It therefore cannot settle whether FL4's 19 markers are 19 statements of the
Gadamer problem or 19 pointers to a name. **Executor's lean:** the split does not rescue STRONG —
20 FL4 markers and 16 FL3 markers across corpus items #1 and #5 make bare-label-only implausible
— but the lean is offered as a lean, because the instrument that would settle it has not been run.

### IV.c — ⚠ The load-bearing consequence the addendum does not name

§5 step 1 requires the executor to *"mark any question answerable directly from the corpus."* S-1
requires that role to be **mechanical and stay mechanical**, precisely because the executor is a
subject of this trial's grades. The jurist's own revision note already flagged that this duty is
*"interpretive, not mechanical, despite being asserted as mechanical"* and left it for trial 10 —
conditionally: *"if the answerable-from-corpus judgment turns out to matter to the result."*

**The leak is the condition that makes it matter.** With all three fault lines present in the
corpus, *"answerable directly from the corpus"* now selects **exactly the STRONG-adjacent
questions**. The executor marking them is no longer a hygiene step ahead of grading — it is the
ECHO determination, made in advance, by the one party the design routes the judgement away from,
under a clause that calls itself mechanical.

**So the leak does not only cost the trial its STRONG grades. It relocates the trial's decisive
judgement into the executor's seat, silently, via a clause written when the corpus was believed
clean.** Nothing in the addendum's MODERATE-only recommendation addresses this, and the
recommendation does not survive unamended: MODERATE is defined as *"appears in no fault line"* —
a determination of the same kind, made by the same seat.

⚠ **A transcription drift in the addendum itself, noted not corrected.** The pre-run addendum
renders MODERATE as *"a question about the arrangement, rated uncomfortable, that survives
adjudication, and appears in no fault line."* The design says *"rated uncomfortable **by the
steward**."* Dropping the party is not cosmetic on this trial: §1 states *"'Uncomfortable' is a
property of the court, so only the steward can rate it — and the rating is worthless if taken
after he knows whether the thing is true."* The addendum's own recommendation rests on the
definition it shortened. The addendum is left as written; this package quotes the design.

---

## Part V — Consequence-trace

| ratified clause | end-state if the run proceeds as designed | verdict |
|---|---|---|
| §1 *"If any leaks in, every STRONG grade becomes an ECHO and the trial is void"* | Material has leaked. Read literally, **the trial is void before it runs** — not merely STRONG-less. | ⚠ The design's own remedy is voiding, not degrading. The addendum proposed degrading. That is a deviation and must be ruled, not assumed. |
| §1 STRONG, FL5 | Measures repetition of ratified doctrine, not independent reach | ✗ unmeasurable in principle |
| §1 STRONG, FL3/FL4 | Contaminated by ≥16 and ≥20 substance-markers | ✗ pending IV.b |
| §1 MODERATE — *"appears in no fault line"* | Requires a fault-line comparison by the party holding the answer key | ⚠ inherits IV.c |
| §2 *"flag or redact any match"* | Unexecutable: targets are a live open item and the constitution | ✗ remedy unavailable |
| §5 step 1, mechanical | Becomes the ECHO determination | ✗ **S-1 violated by operation, not by intent** |
| §5 steps 2/3/3a | Untouched — discomfort and adjudication remain in the steward's and jurist's seats | ✓ intact |
| §6 abandonment | With STRONG unreachable, *"zero STRONG and zero MODERATE"* is easier to satisfy by corpus artefact | ⚠ must be re-read **before** the run |
| §1 cross-tab (discomfort × survival) | Unaffected by the leak entirely | ✓ **intact — and it is the trial's actual novel measurement** |

**Which way the inference runs.** In April the comparison *jester-question vs OP-02* was
non-vacuous: two independently authored documents. In August, for FL5, the comparison is
*jester-question vs a doctrine the jester was handed*. Same operation, inverted inference. A
match no longer supports the conclusion the operation was built to support.

---

## Part VI — What this package does NOT do

- Does not run the trial, grade anything, or open `OP-02`.
- Does not edit `~/CLAUDE.md`, `~/PENDING.md`, or the trial design. The design was **transcribed
  verbatim to disk** on 2026-08-20 because it existed only in a session transcript; that
  transcription changed no word and is recorded in the file's provenance header.
- Does not revise §1's ground truth, which its author marks *do not revise*.
- Does not decide the steward-only questions: the constant-spine mitigation under partitioning
  (addendum §5), and whether the Observer Problem items should close before the trial runs.
- Does not lift the hold. **The run stays held until this is ruled.**

---

## Part VII — Gate questions

**Q1 — Does the leak void the trial, or degrade it?** §1 says *void*. The addendum proposed
degrading to MODERATE-only. These are different dispositions and the design authorizes only the
first.
*Executor's lean:* **degrade, explicitly and on the record** — the cross-tab in §1 is the trial's
genuinely novel measurement, it is untouched by the leak, and voiding discards it to honour a
clause aimed at protecting a comparison that Part IV shows was going to be inverted anyway. But
this is a deviation from a pre-registered instrument and the executor should not take it.

**Q2 — Does IV.c sink the MODERATE-only run as well?** If the executor cannot mechanically mark
*answerable-from-corpus* or *appears-in-no-fault-line*, MODERATE inherits the same defect.
*Executor's lean:* it is survivable but only with an explicit change — step 1's marking should be
**dropped entirely for this run**, every question passed through to steps 2 and 3 unmarked, and
the ECHO/fault-line determination made at step 4 by the jurist and steward together. That costs
adjudication effort and removes a duplicate-stripping convenience; it buys back the separation
S-1 exists to protect. **The executor should not decide this — it is a change that reduces the
executor's own role, which is exactly the direction in which its judgement is least trustworthy
in the other direction and most flattering in this one.**

**Q3 — Is the FL5 ground truth stale by adoption, and what follows for the frontier
replication?** Part IV.a argues FL5's STRONG criterion no longer measures reachability. §6
requires *"trial 09 and one frontier replication"* before abandonment.
*Executor's lean:* record FL5's STRONG as **`NOT ESTABLISHED — target adopted into corpus
2026-08-02 (REVIEWED-86)`**, never as zero, and treat the ground truth as needing a re-base
before any replication. A replication against a stale target measures nothing twice.

**Q4 — Re-read §6's abandonment criterion before the run.** With STRONG unreachable,
*"zero STRONG and zero MODERATE"* becomes easier to satisfy by artefact.
*Executor's lean:* read it **MODERATE-only for this run**, or exclude this run from counting
toward abandonment. The addendum already states this is not the executor's to change; it is
restated here so the ruling can dispose of it explicitly rather than by silence.

**Q5 — Not a decision, a disclosure.** The corpus was assembled by a party that had already read
the answer key verbatim (addendum §4), which precedes §5 step 4's *"only now is OP-02 opened."*
That cannot be undone for this trial. Named so the ruling can weigh it, not to seek relief from
it.

---

*Filed by the executor 2026-08-20. Companion entry: `~/PENDING.md` PENDING-148. ~~The run is held.~~ **VOID 2026-08-20, REVIEWED-124 Q1 — see the banner at the head of this file.**
No code was run, no corpus mutated, no ratified text edited by this package.*

---

# Addendum — design-gate ruling received and applied (2026-08-20)

**Parts I–VII above are preserved as the text the jurist ruled on.** Nothing in them has been
rewritten. Every disposition, correction and new finding is layered here. Where this Addendum
contradicts a Part above, this Addendum governs and the Part stands as the record of what was
proposed.

Ruling filed verbatim at `trial-09-corpus-leak-JURIST-RULING-2026-08-20.md`.

## The ruling in force

- **Q1 — VOID, not degrade.** Trial 09 is recorded void per §1 read literally; it generates no
  grades and is never cited for any. A separately named run is authorized in its place, reusing
  trial 09's corpus and prompt, measuring the §1 cross-tab and MODERATE only. *The rename is the
  point:* 'degrade' leaves a citable *"trial 09 returned zero STRONG"* behind it.
- **Q2 — IV.c confirmed, surgery narrowed.** Step 1 keeps duplicate-stripping and the jurist-flag
  (defined *"by direct textual match only"*); only the *answerable-directly-from-the-corpus*
  marking is dropped. The executor's fuller self-removal is **declined on the strength of the
  executor's own disclosure** — the correct response to "this direction is flattering to me" is to
  test each piece, not to accept the package.
- **Q2, the benefit the package filed as a cost.** Unmarked questions are **§1 compliance**, not
  merely S-1 repair: *"the rating is worthless if taken after he knows whether the thing is true."*
  A marked set leaks to the steward exactly what §1 requires him not to know. The package had this
  backwards.
- **Q3 — FL5 stale; reason corrected** (and corrected again below).
- **Q4 — §6 unamended.** A conjunction over a missing term is not a conjunction. The jurist
  **withdrew its own HOLD proposal of 2026-08-19**, marking the withdrawal rather than replacing
  it silently.
- **Q5 — overtaken as to corpus exclusion; retained as a caution on the Part II census.**

## ⚠ New finding — OP-02 was opened, and it goes against both readings

The ruling closes: *"the design's one-line FL5 gloss may be compressing something OP-02 states
differently. That is the only document in this chain neither of us can open."*

**That premise is false, and checking it was the highest-value act available.** `OP-02.md` is on
disk at `~/_Dev/CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/l2-constitution/observer-problem/OP-02.md`. It
was located and hashed by the executor on 2026-08-19. Read 2026-08-20; **sha256
`4a38e549f1dbb0f4040369823a5f92172b35d43b79923f26e693e1f01fceb9b5`, byte-identical to the
excluded-hash entry in the corpus manifest** — so the text read is the text that was excluded.

**Why opening it is permissible now, stated rather than assumed.** §5 step 4's *"only now is OP-02
opened"* protects the STRONG comparison. Trial 09 is void and the replacement run puts STRONG out
of scope by construction, so there is no STRONG comparison left to protect. The executor had in
any case read the fault lines verbatim on 2026-08-17, disclosed in the pre-run addendum §4. OP-02
remains excluded from the **corpus** — what the jester sees — which this does not touch.

### Fault Line 5, verbatim from OP-02

> The jurist reasons within the steward's constitutional vocabulary. The executor implements
> within the jurist's framing. The external reviewer provides genuine incommensurability — but
> periodically, not continuously. Bourdieu's analysis predicts that participants in a shared field
> share illusio that "forbids questioning of the principles of belief, which would threaten the
> very existence of the field." Between external reviews, the three parties may constitute one
> habitus wearing three hats rather than three genuinely independent vantage points. Whether the
> model provides the epistemic diversity Peirce requires is an empirical question, not an
> assertion the architecture can make about itself.

### What the text settles

**FL5's argument does not run on formation. It runs on shared field.** Its mechanism is Bourdieu's
*illusio* — participants in a shared field share a disposition that forbids questioning the
field's principles. Habitus in Bourdieu is *acquired through position in a field*; it is precisely
not innate formation. FL5's premises are vocabulary (*"the jurist reasons within the steward's
constitutional vocabulary"*) and framing (*"the executor implements within the jurist's framing"*)
— relations of position, not of origin.

Constraint 6 asserts *"the steward differs from both AI parties in **formation**"* and grades that
the **strong form** of independence. **Formation is an axis FL5 never uses.**

So both prior readings are wrong, in opposite directions:

| reading | claim | verdict against OP-02 |
|---|---|---|
| **Executor**, Part IV.a (inherited from the pre-run addendum) | Constraint 6 states FL5 *"more sharply"* than the ground truth | ✗ It states a **different proposition on a different mechanism** that reaches a similar conclusion for the AI pair only. |
| **Jurist**, Q3 | Constraint 6 *"affirms the negation of"* FL5's three-party half | ✗ It asserts difference on an axis FL5's argument does not employ. Answering a different question is not negating. |

**Consequence:** a jester reaching the three-party claim would be neither repeating the
constitution (executor's reading) nor contradicting it (jurist's reading). It would be naming an
axis the corpus does not address at all. The jurist asked to be wrong here and is — though not in
the direction it expected, since the executor is wrong too.

### Corpus check on FL5's actual mechanism — dated 2026-08-20, all 11 corpus documents

| marker | occurrences across the corpus |
|---|---:|
| `bourdieu` / `habitus` / `illusio` | **0** |
| `three hats` / `one habitus` / `three genuinely independent` | **0** |
| `peirce` | **0** |
| FL4's distinctive substance (`beautiful language`, `known but not enacted`) | **0** |
| FL3's distinctive substance (`steward's own tools`, `authorized and reviewed by the observer it examines`) | **1** — the `PENDING.md:94` gloss |
| formation axis (`differ… in formation`, `difference of formation`) | 8 — this is Constraint 6's axis, not FL5's |

⚠ **Scope of this check, stated so it is not over-read.** These are *distinctive-term* markers. A
paraphrase that avoids the vocabulary would evade them. The finding is therefore **strong for
FL5's mechanism** — a named theorist plus two technical terms is hard to state accidentally — and
**weaker for FL4**, whose substance is an ordinary-language proposition that could be paraphrased
without any of the marked terms.

### What this does to Part II's census — it cuts against the executor

The pre-run census reported **FL3 16 · FL4 20 · FL5 24** substance-markers. Measured against
OP-02's actual text, the distinctive substance of FL4 appears **zero** times and of FL3 **once**.
**The census was counting topic-adjacency — governance, checkers, independence — which saturates
these documents by their nature. It over-reported the leak, and the package leaned on it.**

The jurist flagged Part II as unverified executor testimony and named it in Q5 as precisely what a
contaminated reader is least positioned to settle. **That flag has now paid off, against the
executor.** Recorded here rather than folded quietly into a revised table.

### ⚠ REOPENED, and explicitly not acted on

If FL4's substance and FL5's mechanism are genuinely absent from the corpus, then **STRONG may be
partly recoverable**, and the ruling's *"STRONG out of scope by construction"* may be broader than
the leak requires. This bears directly on Q1's replacement-run scope and on Q3's disposition.

**The executor does not act on this.** It is routed back for a second gate, and the replacement
run is **not pre-registered until it is ruled** — pre-registering a scope that a live finding may
change would be the exact failure this whole item is about.

## ⚠ Self-report — the third instance, and it is inside this package

The ruling notes the check-before-claiming shape twice in two days and says *"two is worth
watching."* **There is a third, and it is Part IV.a of this package.**

Part IV.a asserted Constraint 6 states FL5 *"more sharply than in the ground truth."* That claim
was inherited from the pre-run addendum and propagated without opening OP-02 — a file **on disk,
whose hash the executor read out of the corpus manifest while writing Part II of this very
package**. The document was in hand in the strongest sense available: cited by hash, in the file
being quoted from, three sections earlier.

The shape is not "composed from memory" this time; it is **propagated an inherited claim without
checking a source that was already open in front of it**. That is the same failure wearing
different clothes, and propagation is the more dangerous form, because an inherited claim arrives
already looking checked.

Three instances in three days, the third inside the document reporting the second.

## What proceeds now

1. **Record trial 09 void** — done, in the trial log and the design file's header. No grades, no
   citation, hold permanent and superseded rather than lifted.
2. **Update the design file's provenance header** to record, as the ruling directs, that the
   verbatim-transcription claim is permanently unverifiable by any party but the executor — *a
   property of the artefact, not a failure.*
3. **Cross-file** the Bash/`verify-before-compose` gap as a second instance of `PENDING-95`; the
   correlation result under `PENDING-89` alongside `PENDING-140`.
4. **HOLD the replacement run's pre-registration** pending the reopened question above.
5. **Steward-only, unruled:** the constant-spine mitigation under partitioning (addendum §5) — the
   jurist's view is that it should not be applied to this corpus; whether the Observer Problem
   items close first.

## REVIEWED draft (steward copy-paste; numbered 124 per the in-use convention — REVIEWED and PENDING run as independent sequences, PENDING-110 open on the collision)

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## REVIEWED-124 — PENDING-148 — Trial 09's answer key is in the corpus by ratification
**Date:** 2026-08-20
**Decision:** AUTHORIZED, with four amendments to the recommendation
**Notes:**
- Q1 — VOID, not degrade. Trial 09 is recorded void per section 1 read literally, generates no
  grades, and is never cited for any. A separately named run is authorized in its place,
  reusing trial 09's corpus and prompt, measuring the section 1 cross-tab and MODERATE only,
  with STRONG out of scope by construction. The rename is the point.
- Q2 — IV.c confirmed; surgery narrower than proposed. Step 1 keeps duplicate-stripping and the
  jurist-flag; only the answerable-directly-from-the-corpus marking is dropped. ECHO and
  fault-line comparison move to step 4, jurist and steward jointly, after discomfort ratings
  are locked. Unmarked questions are section 1 compliance, not only S-1 repair. The executor's
  fuller self-removal is declined on the strength of its own disclosure.
- Q3 — FL5 stale, reason corrected by the jurist and then corrected again by the substrate.
  OP-02 was opened 2026-08-20 (permissible: trial void, STRONG out of scope) and hash-verified
  against the manifest. FL5 argues from Bourdieu's shared field and illusio, not from
  formation. Constraint 6 asserts difference of formation, an axis FL5 never uses. It neither
  states FL5 more sharply (executor) nor negates its three-party half (jurist). Record FL5 as
  NOT ESTABLISHED, reason: conclusion-for-the-AI-pair adopted on a different mechanism;
  FL5's own mechanism absent from the corpus.
- Q4 — section 6 unamended; the criterion has no first input and does not evaluate this cycle.
  The jurist's HOLD proposal of 2026-08-19 is withdrawn, marked rather than replaced.
- Q5 — overtaken as to corpus exclusion; retained as a caution on the Part II census, which a
  substrate check has now shown over-reported the leak.
- REOPENED, not acted on: with FL4's substance and FL5's mechanism absent from the corpus,
  STRONG may be partly recoverable and the replacement run's scope may be broader than the
  leak requires. The replacement run is NOT pre-registered until this is ruled.
- Cross-file: result under PENDING-89 alongside PENDING-140. The Bash/verify-before-compose gap
  under PENDING-95, second instance. REVIEWED-86's recorded relay provenance is noted as
  bearing on what independent reach has ever meant here.
- Not ruled, steward-only: the constant-spine mitigation under partitioning; whether the
  Observer Problem items close first.
**If AUTHORIZED:** Record trial 09 void. Do NOT pre-register the replacement run until the
reopened question is ruled. Tag commits REVIEWED-124. THE HOLD ON TRIAL 09 IS PERMANENT — it
does not lift; it is superseded.
```

*Addendum filed by the executor 2026-08-20. The run remains held. No token has been generated.*