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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