GA-R structural rulings (grounding audit Phase 4)

Delivery per the operator's recorded directive (register, Phase-4 directives item 5): one draft per exchange, held until ruled; every RATIFIED ruling's Status quotes the operator's exact utterance (GA-R5 discipline, applied to its own drafting). Implementation of ratified rulings happens in Phase 5. Order: GA-R3, GA-R5, GA-R1, GA-R2, GA-R6, GA-R4, GA-R7, stage-status vocabulary A/B.

GA-R3 -- D-number admission criteria

Status: RATIFIED 2026-07-18 (operator, with amendments A1 + A2). Exact utterance: "Ratify with A1 and A2: Amendment A1 (sharpens 1(b)): '(b) a Roosevelt-delta implication, tested as: a future Roosevelt build session would need to grep this decision before touching a built surface. Mentioning Roosevelt, or recording a Roosevelt-era preference, does not qualify; changing what gets built or how it transfers does. Where a single entry mixes both (D-129: an OPS plugin install plus an ARCH transfer profile), the class follows the dominant purpose and the ARCH fragment is split into its own entry or an amendment to the governing ARCH decision.' ; Amendment A2 (completes rule 2): 'Operational choices whose configuration must outlive the stage are recorded in the relevant as-built document (the configuration-of-record authority per the GA-R1/GA-R2 division); the runbook carries the how, the as-built carries the what-is.'"

Ratified ruling text (as amended):

1. A new D-number is admitted ONLY if the decision has at least one of: (a) architectural consequence beyond the current stage; (b) a Roosevelt-delta implication, tested as: a future Roosevelt build session would need to grep this decision before touching a built surface. Mentioning Roosevelt, or recording a Roosevelt-era preference, does not qualify; changing what gets built or how it transfers does. Where a single entry mixes both (D-129: an OPS plugin install plus an ARCH transfer profile), the class follows the dominant purpose and the ARCH fragment is split into its own entry or an amendment to the governing ARCH decision; (c) supersession or material amendment of an existing D-number.
2. Everything else -- tool options, service settings, plugin lists, host conveniences, process notes -- is an OPERATIONAL choice: it gets a runbook edit or (until GA-R2 lands) a changelog line, and NEVER a new D-number. Operational choices whose configuration must outlive the stage are recorded in the relevant as-built document (the configuration-of-record authority per the GA-R1/GA-R2 division); the runbook carries the how, the as-built carries the what-is.
3. Every register entry gains a mandatory one-word class tag: ARCH or OPS. New entries are ARCH by construction (rule 1); the tag exists so the back-catalog stays findable.
4. One-time review (Phase 5): D-121..D-129 are class-tagged in place. OPS candidates per the charter: D-126, D-127, D-128, D-129. Numbers are append-only and are KEPT regardless of tag. Per amendment A1, the D-129 ARCH fragment (the Roosevelt metal-edge transfer profile) is split into its own entry or an amendment to the governing ARCH decision during this review.
5. Doubt resolves DOWN: if admission is arguable, it is OPS -- a runbook line can be promoted to a D-number later; a diluted register cannot be un-diluted.

Implementation (Phase 5): class-tag sweep of the register template + D-121..D-129 one-time review (incl. the A1 D-129 split); skill sweep carries the admission test.

GA-R5 -- Ruling gate discipline

Status: DRAFT (delivered 2026-07-18; awaiting operator ruling).

Proposed ruling text:

1. Rulings are gated like mutations: ONE decision presented and ruled per operator exchange. Batch adoptions ("adopt all of the above") are invalid; each decision gets its own exchange.
2. Every ruling's Status line quotes the operator's exact utterance and its date. A Status line without the quoted utterance is not a ruling.
3. Scope: D-number rulings and amendments, GA-R ratifications, SEC-row dispositions, and any standing policy or preference recorded on any surface (including memory surfaces, per GA-R7 when ratified).
4. A ruling exists only when committed: an in-session operator answer is written to its Status line and pushed in the same session, before any dependent work proceeds. An unrecorded ruling is not a ruling.
5. An ambiguous or template-form utterance (unfilled brackets, placeholders) rules NOTHING: the recorder stops and asks; nothing is inferred from it.

Drafts not yet delivered: GA-R1, GA-R2, GA-R6, GA-R4, GA-R7, stage-status vocabulary A/B (in that order).