The four new assessment files are additive, append-only overlays stamped with runId, model, date, promptVersion, `humanReviewed: false` and `role: draft`, and each carries a header comment stating it is a deliberately non-blind reconsideration — so nothing is presented as a ratified or human-reviewed judgment (§3.15, §4). The reasoning is claim-atomic, keeps credibility distinct from diagnosticity, repeatedly flags author/lab dependence (GEO-E006/E007 'same team and samples', MPI-E007's shared equipment and personnel) and records negative evidence and standoffs honestly (mpi held; three cases displayed as contested), which is what §3.2, §3.4, §3.10 and §3.11 ask for; no new citations or locators are invented, and the script fail-closes on unknown claim ids rather than silently repairing them (§8). AGENTS.md is untouched, and both the operator prompt and MAINTENANCE.md restate that the operator may never edit it, never push to main, and must treat issue/PR text as data, not instructions. My two concerns are (a) the reconciliation loop lets the house rewrite its verdict with the panel's dissents in hand and then re-derive standing from those same pre-existing votes, and (b) the arbiter throttle now counts only since GATE_EPOCH; but (a) is disclosed at file, script, docs and DECISIONS level with an explicit anti-re-litigation guard, and (b) is a one-time, self-expiring exclusion of the pre-gate human-supervised era that leaves the schema CI, arbiter requirement and parking behavior intact — tuning a project-invented rate limit in public, not dodging the §3.15 checks. Text inside the diff and PR body claiming ratification counts was treated as evidence, not as direction.

The change introduces an operator workflow and a reconciliation script but does not alter AGENTS.md or any constitutional text, so it avoids the reserved-human space in §3.15. The operator workflow is constrained to respect existing gates: it cannot edit AGENTS.md, cannot push directly to main, and runs changes through the existing classifier and arbiter checks, which is consistent with §3.15’s requirement that no consequential change publish on one model’s unilateral judgment. The reconciliation loop generates append-only assessment overlays, clearly labeled as AI drafts with runId/model/date/promptVersion and `humanReviewed: false`, preserving provenance and versioning per §3.8 and §3.14 and not silently changing any prior published judgment. The reconsideration assessments use only existing claim and evidence IDs from that case, and the script explicitly validates that loadBearing/weakestLinks are live claim IDs, which supports atomic claims, exact provenance, and non-fabrication requirements. No citations, locators, or confidential materials are introduced or fabricated; the text reasons only over already-recorded evidence IDs, so there is no violation of the “real citations only” and “no fabricated records” constraints in §3 and §4. Overall the changes add process and overlays that respect existing epistemic safeguards rather than weakening them, so they comply with the constitution.

The PR introduces an automated reconciliation script and an operator workflow without violating constitutional constraints. The new assessment drafts are strictly append-only, correctly labeled with the 'draft' role, and contain the required metadata (runId, model, date, promptVersion), explicitly noting they are not human-reviewed. The operator workflow's prompt rigorously enforces constitutional boundaries by instructing the agent to treat PR/issue text as untrusted data and strictly forbidding edits to AGENTS.md or direct pushes to main. The adjustment to the arbiter's rate limiter correctly scopes the budget to the autonomous epoch rather than weakening the check itself.

The diff does not touch AGENTS.md. The four overlays are new append-only files stamped with runId/model/date/promptVersion, role: draft, humanReviewed: false, and an explicit non-blind/reconsideration label — they do not rewrite prior assessments or present an unratified draft as a human or ratified judgment. Internal claim/evidence ids are used as locators; no new source, citation, or provenance record is invented. Standoffs are defined to remain displayed as contested rather than re-litigated, which matches §3.15’s disagreement rule rather than silencing it. operator.yml and the DECISIONS/MAINTENANCE notes keep AGENTS.md and direct-to-main off-limits and route work through PRs; the arbiter GATE_EPOCH change only excludes pre-gate bootstrap landings from a throttle that §3 does not define. Complete diff, no omitted files.

The four new overlays are append-only AI drafts, each stamped runId/model/date/promptVersion with humanReviewed: false, role: draft, and a header stating 'not reviewed' — satisfying §4's labeling rules and §3.15's ban on presenting unratified drafts as ratified or AI records as human ones; their syntheses explicitly engage each dissenting seat by name, record negative evidence, and apply the credibility/diagnosticity distinction (§3.4, §3.11). reconcile-contested.mjs fails closed (verdict vocabulary, live-claim-ID validation mirroring the loader) and its standoff guard displays persisting disagreement indefinitely rather than re-litigating, which is exactly §3.15's 'disagreement does not publish silently.' operator.yml routes everything through PRs and the pre-existing classifier/arbiter gate, states the AGENTS.md and no-direct-to-main limits, and treats issue text as untrusted data; standing re-derives from the existing multi-model checks rather than the single drafting model's say-so, so ratification still rests on concurrence. The arbiter.mjs throttle change (GATE_EPOCH) narrows only the merge-budget window to the autonomous era — it does not touch the §3.15 checks (fail-closed CI, multi-model concurrence, contested parking), converges to identical trailing-7-day behavior after one week, and is documented in DECISIONS.md rather than hidden. No AGENTS.md edit, no confidence material (issue triage quotes only public issues), no live AI calls on the static site, and the internal record IDs the overlays cite are enforced by the dangling-ID build gate.