Ruling, ratified 2026-07-29:
- Staff.group is the SOLE authority for membership.
- StaffGroup.members is a non-authoritative denormalized projection.
- G3a stores it but neither maintains nor trusts it.
- BOTH stale forms are permitted, equally: a missing member (s.group ==
Some(g) while g.members omits s) and a spurious member (g.members contains
s while s.group is None or names a different group). The earlier draft
named only the first, which left the spurious form reading as a bug rather
than a permitted state.
Withdraws the earlier draft's argument for B. "B adds no semantics while A
does" was wrong: B assigns authority to a field the specification left
unranked, which IS a semantic change. What B defers is enforcement, not
meaning. The honest advantage is narrower -- B adds semantics without adding
machinery, leaving the mint a mint.
Files P13-S16, which makes the contract's "filed gap" claim true; it was
false when written, since no such entry existed. The entry records both
stale forms, the disposition-A fix, candidate invariant 21, the re-carry
comparison question A must answer, and the standing instruction that
consumers read Staff.group and never StaffGroup.members for membership.
Remaining repairs:
- PLAN_GENESIS_OPS.md still claimed G3a "closes the staff-group half".
Narrowed to satisfiability, matching the contract.
- Boundary accounting normalized to six crossings across both documents: one
exhaustive-match site plus five literal/prose sentinels. The two classes
are counted together but named apart because they fail differently -- the
match site refuses to compile, while every sentinel stays green while
meaning something narrower than it says.
- t4 now runs four independent mutations, one per struct_codec! layout;
these are four separate layouts and one mutation signs one of them.
Collapsing is permitted only if the implementation consolidates them
behind a shared mechanism, and must be stated if it does.
- t8 split: t8 asserts satisfiability only; new t8b pins BOTH asymmetric
authoring orders as states the ruling permits, with a mutation each. A
test pinning one order leaves the other free to change silently.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QjsEnYhm1gPpf6ii2iFxFV
Levi Neuwirth
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