05-personas says the canonical create picks a persona for each press release; the verification matrix stages persona selection and says nothing selects.

05-personas says the canonical create picks a persona for each press release; the verification matrix stages persona selection and says nothing selects.

A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/01-product/05-personas.md:7 — "picks a persona for the customer quote in each press release"
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/06-delivery/02-verification-matrix.md:59 — "picking a persona from the roster and biasing that pick on a role hint: nothing selects"

05-personas says the canonical create 'picks a persona for the customer quote in each press release', selection being by role. The matrix's Persona registry row marks as staged 'picking a persona from the roster and biasing that pick on a role hint: nothing selects', the shipped part being only the lint that refuses an unregistered name. Either the create picks a persona or nothing does.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 108.