The principle spec-moves-with-the-surface names a promotion trigger that is already armed, yet sits unpromoted in the not-yet-enforced layer. The principle says a record-lint cross-check (every entry under commands/ and skills/ resolves to a brief surface row) WOULD promote it to a discipline; that is exactly surface_coverage Direction B, armed at blocker (lint.go, record-lint.json), documented live. principles/README.md makes promotion unconditional once any mechanical gate lands (the file is then retired to a discipline-kind intent, as itd-79 personas did), but no discipline intent exists for this principle and the file was never retired. The conditional 'would promote' predates the gate and was left stale — the inverse of the phantom-gate family (it understates its own enforcement). RECORDED NOT FIXED this round: the correct remedy is a governance act (mint a discipline-kind intent and retire the principle file, per the itd-79 precedent), which needs the maintainer rather than an autonomous edit. Proposed: promote per principles/README, or if promotion is deliberately deferred, record why on the principle.

The principle spec-moves-with-the-surface names a promotion trigger that is already armed, yet sits unpromoted in the not-yet-enforced layer. The principle says a record-lint cross-check (every entry under commands/ and skills/ resolves to a brief surface row) WOULD promote it to a discipline; that is exactly surface_coverage Direction B, armed at blocker (lint.go, record-lint.json), documented live. principles/README.md makes promotion unconditional once any mechanical gate lands (the file is then retired to a discipline-kind intent, as itd-79 personas did), but no discipline intent exists for this principle and the file was never retired. The conditional 'would promote' predates the gate and was left stale — the inverse of the phantom-gate family (it understates its own enforcement). RECORDED NOT FIXED this round: the correct remedy is a governance act (mint a discipline-kind intent and retire the principle file, per the itd-79 precedent), which needs the maintainer rather than an autonomous edit. Proposed: promote per principles/README, or if promotion is deliberately deferred, record why on the principle.

Remedy grounds (2026-09-29)

• Why: the promotion contract in principles/README.md (an enforced principle is promoted to a discipline-kind intent) and the itd-79 precedent give the fix; the ruling on who performs the ceremony is unanswered, so no answer is picked.
• Rejected: an agent lane retiring the principle unasked, which the record itself routes away from as a governance act.