The diff touches only docs/AUTOMATION.md and docs/DECISIONS.md — no AGENTS.md edit, so §3.15's reservation is untouched, and no content/ records, citations, locators, or assessment overlays are added (the tooling found no identifiers to resolve). The rewritten "Where we are" section and the build-table rows 4c/5/6 are internal status and planning prose; they state the plan's order and name concrete debts (two vendor transports, a 1,300-line loader, duplicated case-page presentation) without asserting any evidential claim that would need provenance. The decisions entry records the founder's direction with its date and channel ("2026-09-09, evening ... founder direction, in session"), which §3.15's operating-record clause expressly permits, and it does not paraphrase any founder-supplied ledger material. Nothing here loosens a §3.15 check: the Arbiter's narrow veto, panel concurrence, and kill switch are described as they stand, not weakened. The plan to remove the "assessment panel above the article, the cross-model panel and the conjecture cards" is a presentation consolidation whose stated aim keeps every seat's word displayed in the record layer, so it does not on its face hide disagreement — but it is only a plan, and the actual UI PR will need to be judged against §7 and §3.15's display requirement. Cost and run details (#214, $4.23) are self-reported operational bookkeeping I cannot check, but nothing in the text is internally inconsistent.

The change edits planning and decisions documentation only; it neither modifies AGENTS.md nor loosens CI, panel concurrence, or the Arbiter’s constitutional veto categories. The new decisions entry stamps the reported founder direction with a date and channel (“2026-09-09, evening” and “in session”), consistent with the allowed operating-record provenance. The proposed UI replacement retains public panel words, review notes, refusals, history, costs, and derived standing rather than concealing disagreement or AI involvement. No content citation, confidential material, assessment record, or unratified judgment is added, and the mechanical verifier found no new citation identifiers requiring resolution.

The pull request modifies only internal documentation (`docs/AUTOMATION.md` and `docs/DECISIONS.md`), recording a strategic reassessment and updated execution plan. Per §3.15, founder directions given in session are part of the operating record and may be recorded and paraphrased in the decisions log. No content records, citations, or constitutional rules in `AGENTS.md` are altered or weakened.

Docs-only change: AUTOMATION.md status/plan reassessment and a DECISIONS.md entry recording a founder direction given in session on 2026-09-09. No AGENTS.md edit, no content/ ledger records, no citations, no run overlays, and no alteration of §3.15 checks. The decisions stamp (date, channel, direction paraphrased) matches the operating-record rule in §3.15. Nothing in the diff fabricates provenance or presents unratified material as ratified.

This is a docs-only change (docs/AUTOMATION.md and docs/DECISIONS.md): it adds no content files, no citations, no claims, and no run records, so the epistemic rules of §3 on citations, locators, and assessments are not engaged. It does not touch AGENTS.md, so §3.15's amendment restriction is not triggered, and nothing in the diff weakens the checks — the proposed 'subtraction' retires disabled workflows and legacy scripts while explicitly keeping the chain, panel, Arbiter, and governance kill switch, and §3.15 checks are untouched. The DECISIONS.md entry records a founder direction with its date and channel ('in session'), which the constitution expressly permits as operating record. The narrative references to runs (#206, #214), costs, and events are status prose I cannot independently check, but per temporal humility unfamiliarity is not evidence of fabrication, and none of it is internally inconsistent; the description of the 2026-09-09 founder amendments matches the constitution text itself.