dotfiles/claude/governance/inc101-containment.json

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      "**This file** — Claude Code cannot modify `~/CLAUDE.md`, `~/REVIEWED.md`, or L2 constitutional documents"
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      "claudemd",
      "**Escalate unconditionally** for any change touching: logchain append path · cursor persistence · module registration order · L2 constitutional layer · this file."
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      "claudemd",
      "the doctrine is falsifiable and must be watched: if the parties' misses are found to correlate — if what one misses, the others reliably miss too — it is false for that configuration, and no amount of procedural care substitutes. Evidence against is to be recorded when observed, not only when sought."
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      "the jurist and the executor do not differ from each other in formation, and their separation is of the weaker kind"
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      "**When facts change, supersede explicitly** — mark the superseded record as superseded and write the new one. An unmarked correction leaves two live versions and no way to tell which is current."
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      "The root-cause list is substantially **\"no synchronous authorization of consequential actions\"** — the loop was not load-bearing in practice, whatever the design intent had been."
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      "is rejected by the chain writer. This validation is hardcoded — it is not configurable."
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