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+## Phase-4 drafting directives (operator, 2026-07-18, Phase-3 dispatch message)
+
+Recorded verbatim-in-substance for the Phase-4 ruling drafts; these are
+DIRECTIVES for the draft text, ratified only when the GA-R rulings are gated.
+
+1. **Sequencing:** Phase 3 runs BEFORE the operator's G11 signature. Probe-
+   found grounding holes in CURRENT-STATE.md are folded in as amendments
+   first; the operator then personally runs section 10's live commands and
+   reads the amended document top-to-bottom as the substance of G11. The
+   signature lands on the post-probe version, never the pre-probe draft.
+2. **GA-R1 size budget + rotation (bake into the GA-R1 draft):**
+   (a) hard size budget ~350 lines (CURRENT-STATE.md's authored size);
+   (b) rotation -- anything that stops being CURRENT (closed gates, resolved
+   decisions, superseded captures, historical measurements) moves OUT to the
+   as-built documents in the SAME commit that closes it, leaving at most a
+   one-line pointer; (c) the document must stay short enough for the operator
+   to read in full before any signature -- if a proposed edit would exceed
+   the budget, the edit is wrong, not the budget.
+3. **As-built division of authority (applies from now on; lands in GA-R1 +
+   GA-R2 drafts):** CURRENT-STATE.md is the only STATUS authority (what IS /
+   what is OPEN); the as-builts (vr1-office1-as-built pattern, one per
+   site/surface) are the CONFIGURATION-of-record authority for completed
+   surfaces (what WAS BUILT and HOW, with evidence). Neither duplicates the
+   other -- they point. Phase-5 consolidation routes changelog-class history
+   into the as-builts (or archive), NOT into CURRENT-STATE.md.
+4. **Probe integrity:** clean context, repo-only, independent, no shared
+   scratchpad; a question all three probes fail the same way weighs double
+   (repo defect, not agent error).
+
+Phase-2 review disposition: ACCEPTED on independent external review
+2026-07-18 -- all repo-checkable citations verified; the reviewer executed
+section 10's re-derivation procedure cold and it held. GA-F15's self-catch
+acknowledged as the charter's circuit-breaker working as designed.
+
 ## Phase-1 disposition notes
 
 - R3-F09 (D-115 ledger-scan false positive): RESOLVED -- fix landed 2026-07-16