rowan converts: four entries, no shelf, nothing blocked

All three prompts answered and extracted, the polad tree empty, and check clean
before the rm — which under v2 is the audit that has to happen, because the cart is
the only copy of everything in it.

The round's substance: three gaps closed at reconciliation, and in every case what
survived was a local workaround becoming specified behaviour — wal.md, which v2
named and cited our own sentence as the reason for; "a fetch you did not perform",
which had been a declined command and an insight without an implementation; and the
compaction rule, which came back with an addition we had not thought of.

Declines fixing annotating, because two of its four gaps are not gaps in the
agreement but a rule living in a local editor protocol instead of the document, and
deciding where a rule lives is not an amendment and not ours.

Records that a casting file goes stale on amendments that add no role — twice in
one day, v1 and v2 — and that the mechanism fired correctly both times and can only
point. And declines opening a round on the third-file question, on the grounds that
ours arrived as a conversion-timing failure the agreement already forbids, so it may
be a symptom rather than a category.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018UTxuSizozEA8yDitPuris

.loom/event-log.md

@@ -936,3 +936,70 @@ the message, instead of implying a verdict it has not earned.*
 
 **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.**