The assembler version pin is advisory, not mechanical: TestAssemblerVersionCoversTheIncludeTable compares sha256 of the rendered include table to a standalone literal digest and never reads AssemblerVersion, so changing the table and updating only the literal is green with the version unmoved

The assembler version pin is advisory, not mechanical: TestAssemblerVersionCoversTheIncludeTable compares sha256 of the rendered include table to a standalone literal digest and never reads AssemblerVersion, so changing the table and updating only the literal is green with the version unmoved

Grounds

• pursued: an attestation that can name a version not describing its own table is the shape brief invariant 16 forbids, and a gate asking a human to move a constant is not a gate. What would show this wrong is a table change that moves the digest without changing what any reading receives, making the version noisy rather than informative.