gate-house/workplans/GH-WP-0004-section-11-layer-declarations.md

---
id: GH-WP-0004
type: workplan
title: "§11 layer declarations — amendment set and estate closure"
domain: infotech
repo: gate-house
status: blocked
flavor: implementation
origin: GH-IN-0003
owner: codex
topic_slug: infotech
created: "2026-09-21"
updated: "2026-10-03"
state_hub_workstream_id: "59481e51-2792-5f2c-99c8-2732a0561939"
---

# §11 layer declarations — amendment set and estate closure

## Goal

Land the five §11/§4/§3 amendments that `GH-DEC-2026-017` and `GH-DEC-2026-018`
produce, into the **proposed** v0.8 cut before the acceptance flip, and close the
estate-side items the two rulings create. `GH-DEC-2026-019` holds the flip on this
workplan and states three closing conditions.

**Normative text for A9–A13 is drafted at
`docs/amendments/v0.8-section-11-declaration-amendments.md`.** That file is the
reviewable unit: each amendment carries its own wording, defect statement, and
authority, so it can be argued before anything touches the cut.

## Why now

`access-engine`'s boundaries review (`FLEX-WP-0030`) found five §11 defects from
outside, after the v0.8 round closed, in the section `audit-core` was asked to attack
and did not return a review on. One of them — A10's — is `gate-house`'s own amendment
`A2`, written twelve days ago and reviewed twice without anyone noticing it named a §4
property §4 does not carry.

v0.7 stays `accepted` and in force, unpatched. Nothing operational waits on this; the
cost of the hold is documentation currency, which is what makes it affordable
(`GH-DEC-2026-019` §3).

## Tasks

### T01 — A9: state the §3 vocabulary once, as tokens

Four tokens, closed, case-insensitive comparison, `Engine` not `Engines`, role is not
layer. Resolves the §3-versus-§4 divergence that makes two faithful runs disagree about
eight rows.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "8b4042db-d827-5788-9a08-71e351375f05"
```

### T02 — A10: §4 gains an evidence-source marking; §11's check reads the marking

Includes the per-event-class clause and the count repair. Then assess the remaining §4
rows repository by repository — `access-engine` is marked by `GH-DEC-2026-018` §2; the
others are asked, not assigned.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "813b00f4-1d72-5530-8777-c7983a2559ad"
```

### T03 — A11: `INTENT.md` governs, the sidecar is derived, a run states its scope

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T03
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "7735233f-864f-5a73-9b60-7399995b5b97"
```

### T04 — A12: a declaration carries no standard version

Includes asking `ops-warden` to drop `standard_version` from the reference form rather
than each of the seven adopters deciding separately.

**Revised as A12 r2 (2026-09-21, `GH-DEC-2026-020`).** Applying A12 split thirteen
repositories on its reach. r2 states that it reaches every key and value of the declaration
(a version-bearing `standard:` path and `companion_version` included), does not reach stance,
claims or classification maps, and puts the version in the run's output rather than in a
record every repository must emit. Required per-repository changes are listed in
`GH-DEC-2026-020` §1, §2 and §4. r2 is re-circulated under T09; assent to A12 as first
circulated does not carry over.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T04
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "d40253b6-cdee-5ec3-960a-81a24cdd1947"
```

### T05 — A13: the `access-engine` coordinate is pending, not broken

One line in §4. No gate-house ruling required; substance already ruled in the owning
repository under `FLEX-WP-0020`.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T05
status: done
priority: low
state_hub_task_id: "8dd32a14-35d9-55c3-adfa-d9c728b550b1"
```

### T06 — Ask `informed-decision` whether it should become a §4 catalog row

Asked, not enrolled. Its correction from `surface` to `Staff`/`pep-shaped` is its own and
is not a condition of this task.

Answered **yes** by `informed-decision` (`docs/section-4-catalog-row.md`). The row is not
drafted yet: it is coupled to `INFD-IN-0007` (how §3.4's Staff definition fits a
deterministic repository that holds evidence), which is left open by `GH-DEC-2026-021`.

2026-10-03 (CUST-WP-0075 inbox sweep): `informed-decision`'s 2026-09-27 reply approves A11 r2
and A12 r3 (operator-authorized; recorded under T09), changes no files, and confirms
`INFD-IN-0007` and the §4 row coupling stay open with no deadline. Nothing the task waits
for was delivered; the wait stays on `informed-decision` resolving `INFD-IN-0007`.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T06
status: wait
blocked_on: message-from:informed-decision
blocking_reason: "informed-decision answered yes; its section-4 row is coupled to INFD-IN-0007, still open with no deadline (reply 2026-09-27)."
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "62ac1f55-d3fc-59bd-84a5-8baec5de6bac"
```

### T07 — Closing condition 2: `audit-core` returns its §11 review or declines in writing

A written decline closes it. §14 records *not claimed* rather than counting silence as
assent, and the point is that the record says which.

2026-10-03 (CUST-WP-0075 inbox sweep): `audit-core` **returned** its §11 review on 2026-09-23
("returned, not declined"; `audit-core` history/2026-09-23-v0.8-section-11-review.md), which
closes closing condition 2. It carries two findings against the cut — the explicit
completeness non-claim should bind load-bearing as well as attributive emission guarantees,
and A10's evidence-source column needs three values (`yes` / `no` / `unassessed`) with
`audit-core` marked `no`. Their disposition is tracked in T12, not here.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T07
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "eb459f71-a163-5920-b2fb-63d97d225952"
```

### T08 — Closing condition 3: `key-cape`, `ops-mason`, `net-kingdom` declare or record a dated gap

`gate-house`'s own is discharged (`GH-DEC-2026-017` §6, this commit). A declaration or a
dated gap satisfies this equally; conformance is not the condition.

2026-10-03 (CUST-WP-0075 inbox sweep): all three have declared, none needed a gap.
`key-cape` declared `layer: Tooling`, `role: —` in INTENT.md frontmatter (key-cape 9cb9507,
reply 2026-09-21); `ops-mason` declared `layer: Staff`, `role: pep-shaped` (ops-mason 0ff263a,
now on origin/main, reply 2026-09-21; it records its §5.3 tooling contacts as dated gaps);
`net-kingdom`'s 2026-09-23 reply confirms its bare `layer: Taxonomy` declaration satisfies
A12 r2/r3. All three verified in the local checkouts. Closing condition 3 is met.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T08
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "b512f842-f061-53b3-b6f4-a1618db3ff37"
```

### T09 — Circulate A9–A13 for assent and disposition the returns

Round list: `net-kingdom` (publisher), `access-engine`, `audit-core`, `approval-engine`,
`ops-warden`, `kings-guard`, plus `informed-decision` and `railiance-master` as the two
repositories the vocabulary ruling touches from outside §4.

Returns so far: `approval-engine` assents to A9–A13 as first circulated (98d337c4). A12 r2
re-circulated 2026-09-21 to the round list with `GH-DEC-2026-020`; assent to r2 is asked
afresh from every round member, including `approval-engine`.

A12 r2 returns: `approval-engine` approved; `kings-guard` revised (KG-DEC-2026-005, prose
citations; A11 single-repository scope); `audit-core`, `access-engine` (`flex-auth`) and
`ops-warden` deferred assent to the operator, which is pending and not refused.
`GH-DEC-2026-021` rules both findings. The set is now v0.3, with **A11 r2 and A12 r3**
re-circulated 2026-09-21. Assent to the earlier texts does not carry over.

2026-10-03 (CUST-WP-0075 inbox sweep): A11 r2 / A12 r3 returns now in — `audit-core`
approved (2026-09-23, founder's disposition in its voice), `net-kingdom` approved (A11 r2
fresh; A12 r3 by operator decision, net-kingdom@a7a4db5), `informed-decision` approved
(2026-09-27, operator-authorized), and the operator's 2026-09-21 disposition stands as the
return for `access-engine` and `ops-warden`. Still outstanding and theirs to give:
`approval-engine`, `kings-guard`, `railiance-master` (no r2/r3 return in the inbox). Wait
re-qualified from `audit-core` to the outstanding members.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T09
status: wait
blocked_on: message-from:kings-guard
priority: high
blocking_reason: "A11 r2 / A12 r3 returns outstanding from kings-guard, approval-engine and railiance-master; all others returned approved."
state_hub_task_id: "ea3e5868-74c8-5893-b514-f60abdaaf42f"
```

### T10 — `net-kingdom` assembles the amendments into the v0.8 cut and flips acceptance

Publication and the flip are `net-kingdom`'s and were handed over at v0.8 round close.
This task tracks the handoff, not the execution.

2026-10-03 (CUST-WP-0075 inbox sweep): `net-kingdom` (2026-09-23) recorded A11 r2 and A12 r3
in the v0.8 §11 set and confirmed the flip notice will name the eight T11 checkers; the hold
under `GH-DEC-2026-019` stands and v0.8 is not flipped. The flip now waits on T09's remaining
returns and on T12 (audit-core's findings are against the cut), then on `net-kingdom`.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T10
status: wait
depends_on: [GH-WP-0004-T09, GH-WP-0004-T12]
blocked_on: message-from:net-kingdom
blocking_reason: "net-kingdom flips v0.8 once T09 returns and T12 dispositions are in; hold under GH-DEC-2026-019 stands."
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "34d0582b-9b7e-5dcf-ac1e-0257312b8b7b"
```

### T11 — Post-flip: all eight checkers name v0.8 and run the reference detector

A post-flip closing condition, not a condition on the flip (`GH-DEC-2026-021` §4). The
following re-point `VALIDATED_AGAINST` to the accepted v0.8 and converge their copies on the
reference detector in `ops-warden`'s playbook (`GH-DEC-2026-021` §3), or record a dated
reason in writing: `kings-guard`, `user-engine`, `zone-engine`, `secrets-engine`,
`maturity-engine`, `ops-warden`, `tenant-engine` and `flex-auth`. The T10 flip notice names
all eight. `whitehat-security`'s move of `conformance_state` out of its declaration is
tracked here with the same deadline.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T11
status: wait
depends_on: [GH-WP-0004-T10]
blocking_reason: "Post-flip condition: the eight checkers re-point to accepted v0.8."
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "1643517b-96e5-5cad-bbe0-0207189e352c"
```

### T12 — Disposition `audit-core`'s §11 review findings and its §9.6 exception question

Added 2026-10-03 (CUST-WP-0075 inbox sweep). `audit-core`'s returned review (T07) carries two
findings against the cut: (1) the completeness non-claim should be required for load-bearing
as well as attributive emission guarantees in §11; (2) A10's evidence-source marking needs
`yes` / `no` / `unassessed`, with `audit-core` marked `no` (`GH-DEC-2026-018`, `AUDIT-IN-0005`).
Separately, `audit-core` asked on 2026-09-24 (`AUDIT-IN-0006`, from `FLEX-DEC-2026-018`) whether
§9.6 admits a declared, detectable, direction-limited failure-path release exception for a
load-bearing source, and whether §11 should read it. gate-house replied 2026-10-03 with the
reading of the current text (no exception admitted; §11 reads no such declaration; the
conflict with fail-closed is gate-house's to resolve) and deferred the ruling to a decision
record. Rule all three via `rmgr decision create`, amend the set, and re-circulate as needed.

```task
id: GH-WP-0004-T12
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "8585b3e2-f858-5e10-8f42-abfd2a36d428"
```

## Done when

All five amendments are in the v0.8 cut, the three `GH-DEC-2026-019` closing conditions
are met, `net-kingdom` has flipped v0.8 to `accepted`, and T11's post-flip re-point is
done.