Lapse: the pre-tooling window. The workstream's earliest ledger entries (the ledger-design construal, the mechanism/content distinction, the extend-not-duplicate decision, the adopted rulings, and this entry itself) are hand-authored before the surfaces existed to write them through commands - the format precedes its enforcement. Point in the process: preparation, before the first schema commit. Timestamp: 2026-08-28 (at the lapse, not at write-up).

Lapse: the pre-tooling window. The workstream's earliest ledger entries (the ledger-design construal, the mechanism/content distinction, the extend-not-duplicate decision, the adopted rulings, and this entry itself) are hand-authored before the surfaces existed to write them through commands - the format precedes its enforcement. Point in the process: preparation, before the first schema commit. Timestamp: 2026-08-28 (at the lapse, not at write-up).

Grounds

• pursued: the hand-authored window ended when the construal was filed through the record; shown wrong if a ledger entry is still authored outside the tooling that now exists for it