2026-08-31 — Three rulings from the two fidelity audits. (1) The grounds

2026-08-31 — Three rulings from the two fidelity audits. (1) The grounds obligation gets a FORWARD-ONLY gate: a terminal-folder record must carry an entry if it was created after the gate is armed, and the cutover is the ARMING COMMIT rather than a date, because a date in prose is the fact itd-195 says not to state. Precedent is this cycle's own forward-only intent-side gate, and the reason is that the ~689 records that would otherwise be refused were made by the repo's ordinary working practice. Rejected: no gate at all (honest but leaves three-quarters of new records escaping a claim the press release makes universal) and forcing the verb to be the only door (universal, but 689 migrations and a fight with daily practice). (2) The four remaining intents' ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA are reviewed BEFORE building, and any criterion conjoining a structural half a machine can enforce with a judged half it cannot is split — the remedy itd-183's audit proposed for its own ac-5. Five criteria have now been audited and none reached MET; two are unmeetable by nature, and MWC stops carrying information once it is the default. (3) The grounds body-lockout is lowered to minor and the hand edit accepted as the repair: the guard is correct, the exit exists in a text editor, exposure is latent, and validating at capture time would contradict the adopted rule that capture stays frictionless.