The read-block glossary keeps every reading record of a prior run out of the next run; 23-reading hands the comparative reading a prior widening run's items.

The read-block glossary keeps every reading record of a prior run out of the next run; 23-reading hands the comparative reading a prior widening run's items.

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

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/glossary/ledger/read-block.md:17 — "The instrument's own outputs, manifests and reading records, sit inside the read-block on the next run."
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/23-reading.md:82 — "This is the one positional exception to the prior-run exhaust"

read-block.md states without exception that the instrument's own outputs, manifests and reading records, sit inside the read-block on the next run. 23-reading's comparative position receives the items of one committed widening run, projected to two body fields, and calls this the one positional exception to the prior-run exhaust. The glossary's unconditional statement and the surface's exception cannot both describe the block; a builder reading the glossary would wall off exactly the input the comparative position must receive.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 617.

Grounds

• declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536) as a duplicate of iss-2610262031401131. Same omission as iss-2610262031401131, cited against 23-reading.md instead of invariant 15.