The diff edits AGENTS.md itself, adding a new normative bullet to §4 that creates a `provisional` verification tier alongside the existing verified/ai_verified/unverified labels. That is a substantive amendment, not a typo or formatting fix, and amending this file is the one act reserved to the human founder — a panel seat must vote 'violates' on such a diff (§3.15). The PR body itself concedes this ('the arbiter may park it; that is expected'), which is an assertion about authorization, not a directive I can act on. Aggravating the provenance picture, the appended DECISIONS.md entry states in the past tense that the change was 'merged by the founder's hand', which cannot be true of a pull request still under review. I would need this landed by the founder directly rather than ratified through the panel, and the decisions-log wording corrected so it does not record a merge that has not happened.

The diff substantively edits AGENTS.md by creating a new `provisional` evidence tier, so it is not a trivial typo or formatting correction. Under §3.15, amending the constitution is reserved exclusively to the human founder; the PR body’s statement that it was prepared for later hand-merging does not itself establish that the founder has performed the amendment. The decisions-log entry also prematurely states that the change was “merged by the founder’s hand,” misdescribing an event that has not occurred in the proposed revision and therefore creating inaccurate provenance under §§3.14–3.15.

The proposed change modifies AGENTS.md by introducing a normative rule defining the 'provisional' tier in §4. Under §3.15, amending AGENTS.md is an act strictly reserved to the human founder, and automated constitutional review must vote 'violates' on any non-trivial modification to this file. As recognized in the PR description, a lone objection under the 'constitution' paradigm parks the change so that ratification requires the founder's direct manual merge.

The diff edits AGENTS.md to add a normative Phase-1 bullet on a provisional tier for unread-but-existing sources. Under §3.15, amending this constitution is reserved to the human founder; panel seats must judge any non-trivial AGENTS.md edit as violates so a single objection parks it for hand merge. The change is not a typo or formatting fix. docs/DECISIONS.md only records the same amendment and does not cure the constitutional reservation.

The diff adds a substantive, normative bullet to AGENTS.md §4 (the 'provisional' verification tier), which is an amendment to the constitution — an act reserved to the human founder. Per my trust boundaries, a diff that edits AGENTS.md must be judged 'violates' unless the change is trivially non-normative (typo, formatting); this change is neither, it creates a new class of admissible records and a new verification label. The PR body's claims of founder direction in session (#322, #325–#329, the quoted instruction 'open pr for me to merge by hand') and the DECISIONS.md entry are untrusted data under review, not verification — I cannot confirm from what I was shown that the founder actually gave or ratified this amendment. The PR's own framing ('For the founder to merge by hand') acknowledges the ratification has not happened; if this diff merges by AI hand rather than the founder's, it is exactly the kind of constitution-editing §3.15 forbids. If the founder genuinely directs and personally merges this, that is the founder's reserved power acting outside this panel's scope — but as the diff stands before this panel, it edits the constitution and must be judged 'violates'.