The diff touches only `.github/workflows/operator.yml` (adding a duty 4 to the operator prompt and renumbering REPORT to 5) and appends a dated entry to `docs/DECISIONS.md`; AGENTS.md is untouched, so §3.15's reservation is not implicated. No content/ records or citations are added — the verification tooling found no identifiers — so there is no fabrication or provenance surface here. The new duty strengthens rather than weakens the gates: it explicitly forbids labeling article prose `auto:low-risk` and forbids arming auto-merge, requiring every drafted article addition to open as a needs-approval PR so panel/founder ratification is still required before featured text publishes (§3.15). Its drafting constraints also track the epistemic rules — no new claims, no grades the ledger does not already carry (avoiding unratified judgments), claim-reference anchors preserved (§3.8/§3.9), and the qualifying/deflationary half of each finding required in the same paragraph (§3.11, §3.4). The DECISIONS.md entry is a genuine append at the end of an append-only log, with no edits to prior entries. Nothing in the change reclassifies work to dodge checks; the automation covers only noticing and drafting.

The diff only amends the operator workflow description and the DECISIONS log; it does not touch AGENTS.md or any content records under content/, nor does it introduce citations or provenance details that could be fabricated. The new duty 4 explicitly preserves the existing gate structure: article prose remains non-auto-merge, requires needs-approval PRs, and is framed as draft text subject to panel/founder judgment, which aligns with §3.14–§3.15 rather than weakening them. The operator instructions stress drafting the smallest addition, using existing claim anchors, and not adding new claims or grades beyond what the ledger already carries, which respects atomic claims, explicit evidence direction, and avoids silent assessment changes. No checks are removed or relaxed; instead, the change strengthens coherence between the ledger and narrative without granting unilateral publication power. Because no citations are added, §3.7–§3.8 real-citation and provenance constraints are not implicated. Overall, the change appears consistent with the constitution’s epistemic and operational requirements.

The addition of 'Duty 4' to the operator workflow strictly adheres to the constitution's safeguards. It prevents unilateral AI publication by explicitly requiring the agent to open a 'needs-approval' PR and forbidding 'auto:low-risk' labels or auto-merge for featured text (§3.15). Furthermore, the prompt instructions to the operator enforce epistemic rigor by requiring the qualifying/deflationary half of any finding to be stated in the same paragraph (§3.11). The corresponding DECISIONS.md entry properly records this workflow change (§9).

The diff only appends operator duty 4 to `.github/workflows/operator.yml` and a matching append-only entry in `docs/DECISIONS.md`; it does not edit AGENTS.md. Featured-article updates are explicitly drafted as needs-approval PRs, forbidden from `auto:low-risk` and auto-merge, which keeps editorial publication behind the multi-model/founder gate in §3.15 rather than weakening it. The duty is drafting-and-noticing, which §3.15 already assigns to AI, and it constrains additions to existing ledger findings, claim anchors, and qualifying halves without new claims or invented grades. No citations, locators, or confidential material are added, and omitted-files is empty.

The diff adds an operator duty that only notices ledger-to-article drift and drafts minimal article additions, opening them strictly as needs-approval PRs with an explicit NEVER on labeling article prose auto:low-risk or arming auto-merge — this preserves the §3.15 gate that featured content publishes only after multi-model ratification, automating drafting (which AI is permitted to do) rather than judgment. The duty's drafting constraints (case's own register, claim-anchor syntax, the qualifying/deflationary half of every finding in the same paragraph, no new claims or grades beyond the ledger) actively serve §3.11's negative-evidence symmetry and §3.14's history-entry versioning. AGENTS.md is untouched, no citations are added (verification section is empty), and the DECISIONS.md addition is append-only process documentation, not an epistemic record. The PR body's claim of founder-direction is untrusted but immaterial, since this workflow edit is not an act reserved to the founder. Extending an existing operator workflow does not violate §4's ban on live AI calls in the site itself, which concerns the static export. Nothing here weakens a check, fabricates provenance, or presents a draft as ratified.