'drain' names both the intent audit's owed-review queue and the top-level verb that works the issue ledger.

'drain' names both the intent audit's owed-review queue and the top-level verb that works the issue ledger.

A naming conflict (severity nitpick) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/05-intent.md:553 — "the owed set is paid on demand by the bounded drain"
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/35-drain.md:3 — "/abcd:drain is the verb a person types to have the open issue ledger worked unattended"

05-intent calls the capped owed form of the intent audit 'the bounded drain': the command that pays the fidelity-review debt, one audit at a time. 35-drain gives the same word to a different verb, /abcd:drain, which works the open issue ledger unattended through implement-loop lanes and never audits. 05-intent has to say 'the top-level drain verb' to tell the two apart, and 35-drain never mentions the other use. Across the two pages, 'drain' names two different things.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 408.

Grounds

• declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): the two ends do not conflict when read in full. The forms are separate commands with separate argument shapes and each page says what it means; no statement about either is false.