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+# 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).