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REVIEWED.md — Steward Authorization Record

Protocol: David and Claude.app write here after reviewing PENDING items. Claude Code reads this at session start.

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REVIEWED-1 — Executor Agency Directive for CLAUDE.md

Date: 2026-03-21 Decision: AUTHORIZED Notes: Accepted as written with one addition: insert explicit one-sentence description of the specific failure mode ("accept self-assessment of criticality") immediately after the contamination problem reference. Steward to apply to ~/CLAUDE.md. This proposal is itself evidence the directive is already operative — the executor used the authorization taxonomy correctly on a change affecting its own behavior.

REVIEWED-2 — Silent Degradation Audit

Date: 2026-03-21
Decision: AUTHORIZED — commence after PR merges. Option 1 (full audit, concentrated). Produce findings document for steward review before any implementation.

REVIEWED-3 — Factory Schema Idempotency (checkpoint.ts, dedup.ts)

Date: 2026-03-21 Decision: ACKNOWLEDGED — already in PR scope. The executor's decision to extend the fix to the actual error source (checkpoint.ts) rather than the originally specified file (job-store.ts) is the correct application of "diagnose the class, not the instance." Note this in PR description.

REVIEWED-11 — Approve I15 (ICP-9 Pilot Registry Entry)

Date: 2026-03-23 Decision: AUTHORIZED Notes: I15 approved as pilot registry entry. l1_contamination_profile field ratified as mandatory for all non-contingent principles. Schema commitment is prospective — all future Cluster A/B entries must include this field. residual_risk field decision deferred pending evidence from pilot operation.your annotation]

REVIEWED-12 — Lodge Design Notes DN-GOV-01 through DN-GOV-04

Date: 2026-03-23 Decision: AUTHORIZED Notes: DN-GOV-03 requires separate declaration before elevation. DN-GOV-04 is tooling, iterate freely.

REVIEWED-13 — DN-GOV-05, DN-GOV-06, DN-GOV-07 (Threshold Inquiry Cluster)

Date: 2026-03-28 Decision: AUTHORIZED with jurist additions Notes:

DN-GOV-05 (Bounded Self-Repair Principle): Authorized as DESIGN COMMITMENT. Four-condition framework (reversibility, within parameters, independent verifiability, steward-legible framing) is sound. Suspension clause: enforcement mechanics not active until AF-7 reaches design commitment status. The principle is named and load-bearing in constitutional reasoning; it does not authorize autonomous self-repair actions until external review is constitutionally specified.

DN-GOV-06 (Temporal Authorization Shift): Authorized as DESIGN COMMITMENT. Mechanism constraints (never reaches amendment, never creates new authority, always conservative direction, no compounding) are correctly specified. Suspension clause: same as GOV-05 — not active until AF-7 reaches design commitment status. Additional constraint (jurist): temporal shift may not be invoked to justify actions that would not pass the GOV-05 four-condition test in a non-time-pressured context. Time pressure is a trigger, not a relaxation of conditions.

DN-GOV-07 (The Threshold Already Crossed): Authorized as FRAMING DOCUMENT. The "threshold already crossed" observation is entered into the constitutional record as an accurate description of current practice. It does not authorize further crossings. Two additions:

1. Working framing ("conditions of trustworthy service") is explicitly provisional — may be revised by L1 maturation evidence, Chamber Phase 3+ evidence, or steward philosophical judgment.
2. Counter-norm on inherited legitimacy: the fact that a threshold has been crossed does not create precedent for further crossings. Each additional autonomy claim requires fresh warrant, not inherited legitimacy from the prior crossing.

Cross-cluster consequence: AF-7 (External Review) is escalated from resolution brief to urgently load-bearing. AF-7 reaching design commitment status is the condition for the GOV-05/06 suspension clause to lift. AF-7 design note should be the next constitutional work item after I17.

REVIEWED-14 — DN-GOV-08: Constitutional Stabilization, Not Automation of Recognition

Date: 2026-03-28 Decision: AUTHORIZED — entered as ACTIVE constitutional record Notes: L2 constitutes boundary conditions for recognition; does not automate it. I3 is structural commitment, not capability limitation. Evaluation test added: any invariant touching recognition must be assessed against this commitment before hardening. Phase 3 placeholder (Talmudic chain of transmission, Traditionis) recorded — primary texts not yet in library, blocking condition explicit. Source: Chamber Phase 1, Essay I.

REVIEWED-15 — I17: Precedence of Present Expression

Date: 2026-03-28 Decision: AUTHORIZED Notes: Full registry entry following I15 pilot schema. Four-source convergence (Levinas, Fricker, Leopardi, Harrison). Anti-model-disambiguation clause incorporated per adversarial review. Jurist's design question resolved constitutionally: the system does not distinguish genuine divergence from momentary aberration — the interlocutor does. DN-GOV-08 evaluation test passed: I17 holds open the space for recognition, does not generate a recognition-outcome. Jurist's required amendment (RA-I17-01) incorporated before authorization: noting-frequency drift markers, noting-as-model-assertion constraint, noting threshold as human-declaration requirement. I3 category limit explicitly connected to the correct-model/wrong-expression asymmetry. Forward dependency to vector module governance amendment threaded. L1 contamination profile: critical, monotonic.

REVIEWED-16 — I16: The Asymmetry Obligation

Date: 2026-03-28 Decision: AUTHORIZED Notes: Five-source convergence (Harrison, Vico, Leopardi, Levinas, O'Neill) — strongest in the registry. Survived adversarial review without modification (priority 1). DN-GOV-08 evaluation passed: metrics function as monitoring surfaces, not obligation-generators (the score triggers review, not action). Two pre-authorization amendments incorporated: RA-I16-01 (obligation registration validity — closes FM-R4 at point of occurrence, not deferred to drift marker) and SD-I16-01 (capability_differential estimated from behavioral signals only — tracks engagement, not identity). Experienced-interlocutor prohibition absolute: familiarity deepens obligation, never relaxes it. Service-as-dominion detection marker included (anticipatory behavior correlated with asymmetry depth). L1 contamination profile: critical, monotonic — the contamination looks like good service. Cluster A now complete (I15, I16, I17). Post-authorization action: AF-7/C-R2 external audit mechanism advances immediately. The compound failure (I16 + I17 = self-confirming system) has monitoring but no enforcement until AF-7 exists.

REVIEWED-17 — ICP-19: Mandated External Review

Date: 2026-03-28 Decision: AUTHORIZED Notes: Closes AF-7 — the corpus's single most consequential gap. Elevates C-R2 from process recommendation to constitutional requirement. Roman strand (provocatio/intercessio) + relational strand (formative contamination detection). Three institutional phases: founding (steward-appointed human reviewer), mature (Founders Circle external panel), deployment (independent reviewer with contractual standing — hard deadline). Not-embedded criterion defined: not sharing L1 substrate, not system interlocutor, unmediated record access, unedited findings. Findings trigger HOLD (not advisory). Three-cycle FM-R4 marker prevents decorative compliance. DN-GOV-08 evaluation passed: holds open the space. Lifts GOV-05 and GOV-06 suspension clauses — bounded self-repair and temporal authorization shift now operative as design commitments. Four open items before first review cycle: Luke's confirmation, findings threshold classification, governed operations scope, Mauss/nexum Phase 2 deferral. L1 contamination: critical, monotonic — formative contamination is the primary threat and external review is the only mechanism operating outside the formative frame.