GH-DEC-2026-021 rules the five questions from the GH-DEC-2026-020 round, with
counts re-measured on disk.
1. A12 reaches a pin, not a citation. A prose revision citation is provenance.
No declaration changes, gate-house's own included. The narrow reading
benefits gate-house, so it is drafted as A12 r3 for assent, not
self-approved.
2. VALIDATED_AGAINST names accepted v0.7 plus the decisions enforced.
tenant-engine and flex-auth re-point now.
3. ops-warden's playbook detector is the estate reference, with one addition.
Copies converge by the post-flip re-point commit.
4. The re-point is a post-flip closing condition of GH-WP-0004 (T11), not a
GH-DEC-2026-019 precondition.
5. whitehat-security's conformance_state moves out of the declaration.
A single-repository run is admitted as A11 r2.
INFD-IN-0007 and GH-WP-0004-T06 are left open, coupled.
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Thirteen repositories applied GH-DEC-2026-017 and split on what section 5 reaches.
GH-DEC-2026-020 rules the four questions, with counts re-measured from files.
1. A version-bearing standard: path is a standard version. A12 reaches every key
and value of the declaration, not a key name. audit-core, user-engine and
whitehat-security change; the nine that de-versioned made a required change
and nothing reverts. Comments and schema_version are not reached.
2. companion_version counts. approval-engine removes it; informed-decision's
removal was required.
3. Stance maps, claims maps and evidence classifications are not reached. Nobody
changes.
4. Section 11 requires no emitted conformance record, and 017 section 5 was wrong
to say one exists. A re-runnable checker is sufficient if every run prints the
version or commit checked against and its scope; kings-guard's constant is the
reference pattern. Six checkers must print a version; all seven, and
flex-auth's, must widen past the field name.
Citation: GH-DEC-2026-017 section 5 (body numbering) is canonical; the rationale
part numbers are a summary. whitehat-security was never sent 017 by gate-house,
and that omission is recorded as gate-house's.
A12 is revised as A12 r2 in the amendment set and re-circulated for assent under
GH-WP-0004-T09. No net-kingdom canon file is edited.
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fix-consistency registered GH-WP-0004 and its ten tasks, GH-IN-0003, and
GH-DEC-2026-017/018/019, and wrote the ids back.
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access-engine's boundaries review (FLEX-WP-0030, B1 corrected 2026-09-21) and
the custodian's estate-wide sweep put six §11 interpretation questions here.
All six are questions about what §11 means, and gate-house authors §11.
GH-DEC-2026-017 — the layer declaration. INTENT.md governs and a sidecar is a
derived artifact that must agree; a disagreement between the two forms is a
finding in its own right and is reported rather than resolved away. The §3
vocabulary is case-insensitive for comparison and closed, and it has FOUR
tokens: access-engine's validator omits Taxonomy, so railiance-master is
conforming and the validator carries the defect. informed-decision's `surface`
is not a layer; its own file already reasons to Staff. Both off-vocabulary
repositories are outside §4 and §11 does not grade them. A declaration carries
no standard version — and that field is the reference form's, not one
repository's habit. gate-house declares Staff in INTENT.md frontmatter in this
commit; the prose line was never a declaration under the paragraph this
repository wrote.
GH-DEC-2026-018 — access-engine is a source of evidence for the decision
record, against its own interest and as it asked. Custody is never source:
collapse them and §9.6 is incoherent. It owes a declaration, has none, and is
non-conforming on §11 today; the right register is a declared gap with a date.
The class inventory stays access-engine's to publish — §11's prohibition on
inferring class binds a ruling as hard as a runner. Under it, §11 names a §4
property §4 does not carry, which is the finding under the finding, and the
clause is gate-house's own A2 from twelve days ago.
GH-DEC-2026-019 — the v0.8 acceptance flip stays held and these join the
existing hold rather than a follow-on amendment. The round closed by finding
that every substantive finding against v0.8 was a correct rule satisfiable
without doing what it requires; §11 is now that failure pointed at §11.
Bounded by three stated closing conditions. v0.7 stays accepted and in force,
so the hold costs documentation currency and nothing else — stated as the
reason it is affordable, not as an argument that holds are free.
A candidate property is recorded and deliberately not numbered A-18: a
conformance check each repository runs only against its own files cannot
establish an estate property. One instance, and no repository bearing a cost
under it has argued it yet.
Amendments A9–A13 drafted; GH-IN-0003 and GH-WP-0004 carry the round.
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