Charter gains a fifth principle from D-33: two observers of the same evidence,
disagreeing, catch what neither catches alone — applied to evidence GATHERING, not just
judgement. A summary that resembles an enumeration is more dangerous than one that
obviously summarises; prefer the machine-readable record and state counts so divergence
is detectable.
D-35: while editing merge-gate.md to fix D-33, the coordinator recalled the mandate
string instead of reading it and the Edit tool's exact-match REJECTED it. Third instance
for that author, inside the turn fixing another instance of the same class — and the
only one that did not reach a document, because a mechanism caught it.
A rule that fails in its authors but is caught by a tool has told you where it belongs.
RM-02 should enforce verbatim citation by construction, as the Edit tool did by accident
of design.
Fix landed by annotating the source: merge-gate.md mandates 3 and 4 now require the
scan and count from the JSON record. The shared wrapper was deliberately NOT modified
mid-flight — three lanes are reading it; fix at a seam.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
