The diff is a purely cosmetic rename: ten case `title` fields (plus one matching `externalResearch.label` in geopolymer) lose a trailing question mark, with no change to subtitles, claims, evidence, sources, locators, or assessments. No citations are added or removed (verification tooling found no identifiers), so §3.7/§3.8 are untouched, and no assessment text or verification label is altered. Each rename is recorded as an append-only history entry stamped with date, actor, model, runId, and promptVersion (honestly noted as 'none — founder-directed session'), satisfying §3.14 and the inspectability requirement of §3.15; DECISIONS.md gets a parallel record explicitly labeled an AI record of a founder instruction, so no AI record is dressed up as human. AGENTS.md is not touched. The only mild concern is that a declarative title like 'Cast, Not Carved' could read as more assertive than the interrogative form, but the subtitle framing question and hypothesis structure remain intact, so §3.3/§3.13 are not breached; the claim of founder direction is untrusted but the change itself is non-consequential housekeeping that weakens no check.

The diff makes a limited editorial change to case-title punctuation without altering claims, evidence, assessments, source material, or framing questions. Each rename is recorded append-only in the relevant history file with the date, AI identity, runId, prompt-version status, reason, and `aiAssisted: true`, satisfying the transparency aims of §§3.14–3.15. The retained interrogative subtitles continue to present the underlying controversies as questions, so the stylized case names do not by themselves create false certainty. No citations, locators, confidential material, AGENTS.md amendments, or weakened validation checks are introduced.

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The diff only removes a trailing '?' from ten case title fields (and one matching externalResearch label), leaving subtitles, claims, evidence, sources, and assessments untouched. Each case receives an append-only history.yaml entry dated 2026-09-06 stamped with actor/runId and marked kind: housekeeping, plus a matching DECISIONS.md record of founder direction; no AGENTS.md edit, no citations added or altered, and no provenance or judgment silently rewritten. Citation verification found nothing to check. The change is ordinary editorial housekeeping under §3.14/§3.15 and does not touch epistemic content or weaken checks.

The diff removes a trailing question mark from ten case titles and nothing else epistemically load-bearing: subtitles, framing questions, source titles, and assessment quotes are untouched, and no citations, locators, or provenance details are added or altered (the citation verifier found none in the added lines). Each case's append-only history.yaml gains a stamped entry (date, runId, model, aiAssisted: true) and the decision is recorded in docs/DECISIONS.md, so §3.14's revision-history requirement is satisfied and nothing is changed silently. Classifying the rename as 'housekeeping' is defensible rather than a §3.15 dodge: title punctuation does not alter any claim, evidence record, direction, or assessment, so it is not the kind of consequential editorial judgment that requires multi-model concurrence. The claim of founder direction inside the PR body is untrusted data I cannot verify, but even discounting it entirely, the change itself is cosmetic, fully documented, honest about AI involvement, and weakens no check in §3.