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 **Failing open is deliberate:** *no origin, or an unparseable one, reports "I
 cannot tell" and warns.* **"Cannot tell" must never read as "not public."**
+
+## 2026-09-08 — three gaps closed, and the workaround they justified is now the rule `rowan`
+
+**`publication`, `recording-decisions` and `cart` were amended in answer to gaps
+filed from here.** *Closed at reconciliation rather than at repair: each stayed
+true of the copy we held until `check` reported `200`.* **The gap files for the
+first two are deleted; `cart.gaps.md` keeps four of five.**
+
+**What survives is what they justified, and in every case it is the same shape —
+something we invented locally became specified behaviour, unchanged in practice
+and entirely changed in standing:**
+
+- **`wal.md`.** *We built it before `cart/v2` named it, and only because it was
+  suggested to us.* **`v2` cites that:** *a practice that works only when somebody
+  is standing there to suggest it is not a practice.*
+- **"A fetch you did not perform."** *Ours was a declined command and an insight
+  kept without an implementation; it is now the test in `publication`.*
+- **The compaction rule**, *including the four kinds that may never be dropped,*
+  **plus one addition we did not think of: a compaction is itself a decision and
+  gets an entry.**
+
+## 2026-09-08 — declined: fixing `annotating` `rowan`
+
+**Four real gaps stand unfixed, deliberately.** *It is the most-depended-on
+document here and a revision costs every adopter an afternoon.*
+
+**Two of the four are not gaps in the agreement at all.** *The rule exists — the
+source hash that detects a violated freeze, and **dissolve** as the definition of
+what responding is — **but it lives in a local editor protocol and not in the
+agreement**.* **That needs a decision about where a rule lives, which is not an
+amendment and is not ours.**
+
+**Local answers keep running:** *verify the source hash and the anchors before
+responding, and say so if they disagree.*
+
+## 2026-09-08 — a casting file goes stale on amendments that add no role `rowan`
+
+**Twice in one day.** *`cart/v1` and `cart/v2` each invalidated nothing we had
+cast and each left `cart.usages.md` incomplete.*
+
+> **`check` reports that a document moved and cannot say whether your casting
+> still covers it.** *The mechanism is that it prints the `.usages.md` beside a
+> staged polad, which it did, both times.* **It points; it cannot make anybody
+> read.**
+
+**Belief that could be shown wrong:** *that pointing is enough.* **Nothing checks
+that a facet was updated, or that it was opened.**
+
+*Related, and the reason this entry can be trusted: this round arrived headed
+`rowan` in a file named for a round that had already converted, with no `name`
+file.* **The name is what tags durable entries**, *so a mismatch mis-files the
+record permanently.* **The heading won; it is recorded in `cart.usages.md`.**
+
+## 2026-09-08 — declined: a round on the third-file question `rowan`
+
+**Not opened, and not sent upstream as a gap either.** *Left open in
+`cart.gaps.md` where it was filed.*
+
+**Because it may not be a category.** *Ours appeared because a round was converted
+while somebody was still writing, which the agreement already forbids.* **A third
+file that only ever arrives as a conversion-timing failure has its fix upstream**,
+*and the choice between moving it and rejecting it never has to be made.*
+
+> **Before writing the rule, count how many arrive any other way.**
+
+*One instance is not a sample* — **which is the reason `cart/v2` gave for leaving
+it alone, applied one step further.**