Docs-only change to docs/AUTOMATION.md's "The goal" section plus an append-only decisions-log entry; AGENTS.md is untouched, so §3.15's reservation is not engaged. No citations, identifiers, or content/ records are added, so no fabrication or provenance-label risk arises (verification tooling found no identifiers). The reworded text does not loosen any §3.15 check: it keeps the two human levers (kill switch, constitution) explicit and adds a floor — no pass may leave a case worse, naming fabricated locators and unevidenced claims as defects — which if anything reinforces the epistemic rules. The founder direction is recorded as an operating record with date and channel ("in session, 2026-09-17"), which §3.15 expressly permits, and the log entry is appended at the end of DECISIONS.md rather than rewriting history. The PR body's quoted founder words are consistent with the diff's content and do not instruct the panel. Ordinary docs rewording, compliant.

The change edits only automation guidance and the append-only decisions log; it does not amend AGENTS.md or weaken any constitutional gate. The founder’s direction is recorded with its date, session channel, quotation, and supervision attribution, consistent with §3.15’s treatment of founder operating directions. The new quality floor expressly rejects fabricated locators and unsupported factual claims, reinforcing rather than evading the epistemic checks.

The change updates `docs/AUTOMATION.md` and `docs/DECISIONS.md` to reflect the founder's session direction regarding project goals (measuring quality improvement rather than cost-effectiveness alone). AGENTS.md is not modified, no epistemic checks are weakened, and the founder's direction is properly stamped with date and channel as permitted under §3.15. There are no content, schema, or citation modifications.

The diff is documentation-only: it rewords the automation goal in docs/AUTOMATION.md and appends a matching stamped entry in docs/DECISIONS.md that quotes the founder’s 2026-09-17 session direction. No AGENTS.md edit occurs, so §3.15’s reservation of the constitution is untouched. No content records, citations, assessments, provenance stamps, or confidence material are added or altered, and the change does not loosen any epistemic check. The recorded direction and the resulting prose are consistent with each other and with the founder-direction rules already in §3.15.

This is a docs-only change that rewords the goal statement in docs/AUTOMATION.md and records the founder's direction in the decisions log with date and channel stamped as the constitution requires. It does not edit AGENTS.md, so §3.15's amendment rule is not triggered. It does not weaken any §3.15 check: the checks (fail-closed CI, multi-model ratification, fabrication/exposure bans) are untouched; the diff only reframes the operational objective from cost-effectiveness toward 'more AI means a better site, never a worse one', and it explicitly keeps the floor that no pass may leave a case worse — including naming fabricated locators as floor violations, which strengthens rather than loosens the epistemic floor. The founder quotation is presented as a working-session direction (the operating record, per §3.15's amendment on founder directions), properly attributed, and no citations or confidence material are involved. No run records, no omitted files, and no citation identifiers were added, leaving nothing unresolved.