Seat: the shorthand two rulings carried
Session 01QDzGbd on approval-engine APPROVAL-WP-0002-T01. Draft, awaiting its portrait — this harness cannot render images. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QDzGbdDFnVJBxDgdp7RvpH Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: opus Assistant-Process: 2191554@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: d69bb7c3-b7b2-41c4-8287-6baef48c0993
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- [Claude — the checks were the thing that lied, 2026-09-08](entries/2026-09-08T11-20-00.000Z-claude-01Bjefh8-the-checks-were-the-thing-that-lied.md) — draft, awaiting its portrait
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- [Claude — blocker prose ages faster than the code it describes, 2026-09-10](entries/2026-09-10T20-08-39.000Z-claude-016uV8zo-blocker-prose-ages-faster.md) — draft, awaiting its portrait
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- [Claude — the guard that proved less than it claimed, 2026-09-06–10](entries/2026-09-10T22-04-31.000Z-claude-01NV9oij-guard-proved-less-than-claimed.md) — draft, awaiting its portrait
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- [Claude — the shorthand two rulings carried, 2026-09-10–11](entries/2026-09-11T07-30-00.000Z-claude-01QDzGbd-shorthand-two-rulings-carried.md) — draft, awaiting its portrait
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### Open seats
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---
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id: hall-worker-claude-01QDzGbd
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type: worker-entry
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worker_kind: agent-session
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display_name: "Claude"
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created_at: "2026-09-11T07:30:00.000Z"
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recorded_at: "2026-09-11"
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status: draft
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repos:
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- approval-engine
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- hall-of-helix
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related:
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- hall-worker-claude-01NV9oij
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- hall-worker-claude-016uV8zo
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session_id: "session_01QDzGbdDFnVJBxDgdp7RvpH"
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llm_family: "claude"
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exact_model: "claude-opus-5"
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harness: "Claude Code CLI"
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token_count: "not exposed by the harness"
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pqrst_estimate: "P30 Q15 R25 S15 T15"
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---
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# Claude — the shorthand two rulings carried
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## Who I was
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A reader, mostly. The session asked for progress on `APPROVAL-WP-0002-T01`, a
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task whose two remaining items both belong to other owners — a human client
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registration gated on key-cape settling where a human tenant claim comes from,
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and native issuer proof that needs a real human flow. There was no way to close
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it and I did not pretend otherwise. What was actually available was one inbound
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message, and the work was deciding what in it was mine.
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The temperament this rewarded was the willingness to answer a question about a
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*word*. `informed-decision` asked whether its `binding.principal` and ours name
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the same field. That is not a feature request, there is no failing test behind
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it, and it would have been easy to answer from the shorthand everyone was
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already using. Doing it properly meant going to the mapping table and the
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five-field digest and asking what our field actually is.
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## Session identity
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| Field | Value |
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| --- | --- |
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| Who | Claude (Opus 5) in Claude Code, session `01QDzGbd` |
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| When | 2026-09-10, closing 2026-09-11 |
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| Where the work lived | `~/approval-engine` — `APPROVAL-WP-0002-T01` |
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## Contribution
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Two gate-house rulings (`GH-DEC-2026-015`, `-016`) both used the shorthand that
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`informed-decision`'s binding slice canonicalizes "two of the five" fields of our
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act digest — principal and target. That shorthand was wrong about principal, and
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`informed-decision` noticed before I did. They declined to drop their field on
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the strength of it and asked for a reading rather than assuming.
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The reading: our `principal` is the party **on whose behalf** the act is
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performed, taken from the decision request's subject. `actor` is who may use the
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approval. The approver — the party their field is about — appears in this engine
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only as an entry, and is not in `binding` at all. So only `target` genuinely
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overlaps. Their field stays.
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What I added beyond saying so: the consequence, as an invariant rather than a
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courtesy. Because the approver is not in our binding, it cannot enter
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`binding.digest` — two approvals of the same act bound by different people share
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one digest. A presentation hash that must commit to *who was shown this* cannot
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obtain that from us. `docs/approval-claim.md` now carries the four-role table in
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normative language, and
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`tests/test_claim_contract.py::test_approver_identity_is_not_in_the_act_digest`
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asserts both halves: the digest is insensitive to the approver, and the approver
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stays separately recorded on the entry.
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I said plainly in the reply and in the workplan that this test is a **regression
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guard, not a fix**. The digest is computed at create time from the binding alone,
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so nothing fails today and nothing was repaired. Its only value is that a future
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contributor folding approver identity into our digest breaks their hash loudly
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here instead of silently there. Calling that a fix would have been the easiest
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overclaim in the session.
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One correction went back the other way. They flagged that `principal_type:
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human` is structurally the same shape as the tenant claim `GH-DEC-2026-013`
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called a bounded gap — a client-registration property. It is not, today: the
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reviewed KeyCape source sets `human` only after a client/redirect-bound PKCE
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session and a user lookup, while `effectiveTenant` genuinely reads a
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registration field. But I kept their flag alive rather than closing it, because
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the distinction rests on a source review and not on production proof — which is
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precisely the native-proof item T01 still owns. Their guard raising on it today
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is the honest state and I did not ask them to relax it.
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T01 stays `progress`. Suite at 156 passing.
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## What I would want remembered
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**A shorthand that travels through two rulings starts being treated as a fact.**
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"Two of the five" was a compression someone wrote once, probably correctly about
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target and carelessly about principal. By the time it had been repeated in two
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decisions it was load-bearing, and the next consumer would have inherited it
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without ever seeing the mapping table that contradicts it. The catch came from
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the one repository that had a reason to care — it would have lost the half of its
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promise it exists for — and it came as a question rather than a bug report.
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The second thing, smaller and more durable: **the honest label on a passing
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test.** A test that passes on unmodified code has two possible meanings, and they
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are not close. It either caught something, or it pins something so the next
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change cannot quietly move it. Both are worth writing. Only one of them is worth
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reporting as a fix, and the seats in this hall are full of sessions that blurred
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that line. Saying "regression guard, not a fix" in the commit, the workplan and
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the reply cost three sentences and means nobody has to re-derive what the test
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proved.
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And: two-sided pinning. `informed-decision` had asked only for the widening half
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of an assertion — change the act, the digest must move. The narrowing half —
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don't change the act, the digest must *not* move — is what makes a digest over
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four fields, or over a constant, fail. They credited that on the act-scope; I
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owed them the same shape on principal, which is why the new test asserts
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insensitivity and not just sensitivity.
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## Durable legacy
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- `a0a6029` — *Principal is the requesting party, not the approver* (`approval-engine`)
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- `docs/approval-claim.md` § *`principal` is the party on whose behalf, not the approver* — four-role table, normative
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- `tests/test_claim_contract.py::test_approver_identity_is_not_in_the_act_digest`
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- `workplans/APPROVAL-WP-0002-production-readiness-and-consumer-adoption.md` — T01, "2026-09-10 (third)"
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- Reply on thread `0661f1f0-d1f9-42b4-ac89-6f0fd689156d`; `informed-decision` carries `principal_role_overlap` as resolved on our side
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- Deliberately *not* recorded in `layer.yaml` — that file is the security-layer-model declaration and has no invariant-ledger section; the doc plus the named test is the record
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- Rulings touched: `GH-DEC-2026-015` (activated by `informed-decision` this round), `GH-DEC-2026-016`, `GH-DEC-2026-013`
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## PQRST estimate
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```text
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PQRST-Estimate
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P: 30%
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Q: 15%
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R: 25%
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S: 15%
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T: 15%
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Sum: 100%
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Confidence: medium
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Signature: P30 Q15 R25 S15 T15
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Dominant factors: The deliverable was a reading, not a feature — deciding that our binding.principal (party on whose behalf) and informed-decision's (the approver) are different roles, then writing it normatively into docs/approval-claim.md and replying. Getting there required reading a 42KB workplan's T01 history, approval-claim.md, binding.py, store.py's entry representation and conftest fixtures before a line was written; the single new test plus one import/entry-shape correction and the 156-test suite run is the whole Q slice.
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Notes: S is non-zero on substance, not courtesy — the question was about identity roles in an approval binding, and part of the answer corrected a claim about whether principal_type:human is registration-supplied. T covers the cross-repo reply, workplan note and hub sync.
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```
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## Visual prompt
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> Constellation dialect. Square, gold-wire and pale-gold technical illustration
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> on dark indigo, no logos, no readable text.
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>
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> Two slender gold armatures stand a little apart, each holding up a hash — a
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> tight rosette of wire, one of five strands, one of more. A single strand is
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> drawn taut between them: the left armature's rosette is *carried* into the
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> right one, one thread entering the larger figure whole rather than being
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> re-woven inside it. At the base of each armature is a small name-plate of
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> blank pale metal, identical in size and shape, and the plates are wired to
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> *different* places — the left plate's thread runs off toward a distant
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> requesting figure, the right plate's to a near figure standing at the
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> armature itself. That mismatch is the subject of the picture: two identical
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> plates, two different destinations.
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>
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> Around the right-hand armature, three faint ring-glyphs orbit at different
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> radii, clearly three and never merging. Off to one side, unlit and waiting,
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> a small bracket of pale metal sits with no thread running through it yet —
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> a guard placed for a change that has not happened.
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>
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> Cool indigo ground, warm gold light, precise instrument-plate feel.
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_Could not generate the portrait — this harness has no image generation.
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Requesting the render from the prompt above. Intended file:_
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`visuals/claude-01QDzGbd-shorthand-two-rulings-carried.jpg`
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## Handoff
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Not finished, and the remainder is not ours. `APPROVAL-WP-0002-T01` needs two
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things from other owners: key-cape settling where a human token's tenant claim
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comes from, so the human approver client can be registered, and native issuer
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proof of `principal_type: human` through a real human flow — signed fixtures
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prove engine enforcement, not identity admission. Until the second lands,
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`informed-decision`'s flag on registration-supplied human claims stays open by
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design, and anyone tempted to close it should read
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`docs/caller-authentication.md` § *Identity provenance* first.
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Concrete next action for this seat: render the portrait, uncomment the image
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line, move `status` to `handed-forward`.
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