The diff retires an editorial feature (conjectures.yaml, its schema, loader branch, card component and test) and banks the three conjectures' text verbatim into each case's append-only history.yaml with date, actor ('claude-fable-5-1 (operator), on the founder's direction in session 2026-09-09'), aiAssisted flag and kind: housekeeping — provenance is stamped, not misattributed, and nothing is presented as a human conclusion. AGENTS.md is untouched, so §3.15's reservation is not engaged; the removed loader checks (decisiveTestIds resolution, id uniqueness) apply only to a record type that ceases to exist, so no §3.15 check is loosened or dodged and no dangling-ID risk is introduced. No citations are added (verification section confirms none), no locators or quotes are invented, and the banked text is quoted from files that were already public content, so the confidence rule is not implicated; the founder's session direction is explicitly the operating record under the 2026-09-09 amendment. The history entries state plainly that no standing or ledger record changes and that the files' text remains in git, consistent with §3.14 versioning and §7's 'banked corrections live in the records they corrected and in the append-only changelog, not in a separate registry.' Docs (README, DATA_MODEL, AUTOMATION, DECISIONS) are updated in step so the described layout matches reality. Minor asymmetry — the ORCH and VASO rationales are not banked verbatim while GEO's is — is disclosed in the PR body and the entries themselves point to the essays as founding inputs, which is ordinary imperfection rather than a rule breach.

The added history entries identify the date and operator model, but they do not record the required runId or promptVersion. The new DECISIONS.md entry likewise records a founder direction by date and channel but supplies no AI run/prompt stamp for the change that transcribed and implemented it. A Claude Code session URL in the PR body is not a complete promptVersion stamp in the versioned operating record. Add the runId and promptVersion, with a stable reference showing how this change was checked; the retirement itself does not appear to weaken checks because the format, loader path, UI, and all extant conjecture files are removed together.

The change removes the standalone editorial conjecture files, schema, loader logic, and UI card, banking the founder's conjecture records verbatim into each case's append-only history.yaml under kind: housekeeping. AGENTS.md is untouched, preserving founder-reserved governance under §3.15. The retirement of non-evidential conjecture cards does not weaken any verification checks or ledger constraints, and the underlying propositions already exist as ledger claims evaluated under standard epistemic rules. Exact text, confidence statements, predicted findings, and disconfirmers are preserved in history entries and git history in accordance with §3.14. The accompanying documentation updates in DECISIONS.md, AUTOMATION.md, and DATA_MODEL.md accurately reflect the session direction.

The diff retires the three non-evidential conjectures.yaml files and ConjectureCard/schema/loader paths on a recorded founder direction (2026-09-09, in session), which §3.15 treats as the operating record. Each conjecture’s statement, confidence, predicted findings, and disconfirmers are banked verbatim as append-only history entries (kind: housekeeping) with honest actor stamps, matching §7’s rule that banked material lives in the changelog, not a separate registry; the files remain in git. No AGENTS.md edit, no new ledger claims or standing changes, no citations added, and no check is weakened—only a non-weight card beside the ledger is removed. Docs and DECISIONS record the same decision.

No AGENTS.md edit appears in the diff, so §3.15's human-amendment reservation is not triggered; only docs and content change. The retired ConjectureSchema and its test were an editorial feature, not one of the fail-closed epistemic checks in §3.15 — the loader's dangling-ID, uncited-source, and provenance checks remain intact, so this is not check-weakening. The banked changelog entries reproduce the deleted conjectures' text faithfully (I compared GEO, ORCH, and VASO line-by-line against the deleted files), are stamped with actor, date, kind, and aiAssisted, and correctly leave claim standings untouched since the conjectures carried no evidential weight; nothing new is fabricated and no confidence material is exposed, since the banked words were already public on the site. The founder direction is recorded in DECISIONS.md with date and channel, which is exactly how §3.15 treats in-session founder directions, and the one soft spot — the ORCH rationale not being banked (pointed to the founding-input essay instead) and the minor title variance ('Knots of Existence' vs 'Knots of Existence and Vasocomputation') — is disclosed rather than hidden, with the original text preserved in git history; that is routine imperfection, not violation.