The diff touches only docs/AUTOMATION.md and docs/DECISIONS.md — no AGENTS.md edit, no content/ records, no citations (verification tooling found none), so no fabrication, provenance-stripping, or published-judgment change is possible here. Substantively, the 'narrative inputs' design is explicitly presentation-only: it states inputs are 'presentation references, never evidence' and forbids citing them for any fact not independently in the ledger, which parallels the existing pins rule ('Pins bind presentation, never verdicts', §7) and does not weaken any §3.15 check — CI, panel ratification, and pins all remain in force. The confidentiality boundary is handled rather than eroded: third-party briefs are excluded 'forever', inputs are limited to founder-owned, licensed texts (e.g. his published Substack essays), and each carries a manifest recording title, origin, license, and role, which is a provenance record rather than a bypass of §3.15's permission requirement; the §4 bar on arc/ and notes.txt material is untouched and still governs. The decision-log entry is an ordinary append documenting the direction, consistent with §9.6 and §3.14. Residual risk exists only at implementation time — if a case ever commits an unpublished or confidence-supplied text as an 'input', that would violate §3.15 — but nothing in this docs-only change authorizes it.

The change only amends docs/AUTOMATION.md and docs/DECISIONS.md, leaving AGENTS.md untouched, so it does not trespass the human-reserved constitutional file. The new "narrative inputs" concept is explicitly constrained as presentation-only and "never evidence," which aligns with §3.6 (sources vs. evidence) and avoids weakening evidential standards. No citations, locators, or provenance records are added or altered, so there is no risk of fabricated or misleading references under §3.7–§3.8. The documentation clarifies internal workflow (what Atelier drafts may draw on) rather than altering how claims, evidence, or assessments are represented to readers, and it does not weaken multi-model checks or other safeguards in §3.15. Because the diff is fully shown and contains no hidden code or schema changes, there is no sign of silent revision of published judgments or provenance. Overall, the additions strengthen editorial discipline against narrative drift without relaxing any epistemic rule.

The diff introduces 'narrative inputs' to guide the drafting process's presentation and voice, which aligns with §7's rule that founder directives bind presentation, never verdicts. It explicitly forbids using these inputs as sources for facts not in the ledger, maintaining the strict separation of evidence and presentation. Furthermore, by requiring a manifest with licensing information and explicitly excluding third-party briefs, it respects the rules against publishing unlicensed or confidential material (§3.15).

The diff is documentation-only (AUTOMATION.md + DECISIONS.md), does not touch AGENTS.md, content records, citations, or published assessments, and the omitted-files list is empty. The added Atelier rule treats committed founding texts as presentation references that must not supply facts unless those facts are independently in the ledger, which tracks §3.6–§3.9 and the existing pins doctrine that presentation may be directed without moving verdicts. Third-party briefs are excluded and a licensing manifest is required, which is consistent with §3.15’s confidence/provenance bar rather than a weakening of it. No identifiers were added (verification found none), and nothing reclassifies or dilutes the §3.15 ratification, fabrication, or CI checks. Ordinary design-doc incompleteness (schema/prompt wiring deferred) is not a constitutional violation.

The change is docs-only: it records an Atelier design rule that committed per-case narrative inputs (founding texts with a licensing manifest) anchor rewrites against voice drift. It hard-codes the epistemically safe constraint that inputs are 'presentation references, never evidence' — voice and framing may be drawn from them, facts only if independently in the ledger — which is exactly the §3.6 source/evidence and §3.7 primary-source separation, and the manifest (title, origin, license, role) honors §3.8 provenance. Confidentiality is respected: third-party briefs are 'excluded forever,' and the only eligible texts are the founder's own licensed essays, so no §3.15 confidence-material exposure. Nothing weakens the checks; pins still bind presentation, never verdicts, and the decision log entry is appended (not edited) per §3.14's versioning spirit. The claim of 'founder direction' cannot be verified from the diff, but §7 of the base constitution (the 2026-09-01 founder amendment) explicitly names docs/AUTOMATION.md and docs/DECISIONS.md as the channel for such directives, and there is no internal evidence contradicting it. AGENTS.md itself is untouched, so the reserved-power rule is not triggered.