The panel counts the rules for you, and the board has been keeping the register all along.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “The machine that files the paperwork asked the book for a face” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: a face is unrepaintable by design, so the list of who gets one is load-bearing, and it had no opinion about whether the candidate was a person.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich did some housekeeping.

landed as “Two screenshots of a game that no longer looks like that” — 08 August 2026

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “The second referee was three majors behind on the one action it uses” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: the referee's own supply chain is part of the referee, and the one piece of it that comes from somebody else should be the piece nobody has to wonder about.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich did some housekeeping.

landed as “The licence the inbound side never stated” — 08 August 2026

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “Two tools that were never marked runnable” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: the referee's own tools are the referee, and one of them not being executable in a fresh clone is a rule that does not run.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich did some housekeeping.

landed as “A whole second checkout was sitting in the tree, untracked and unignored” — 08 August 2026

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich did some housekeeping.

landed as “The licence says MIT in the one dialect github reads” — 08 August 2026

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “The rock in the book knows when your hand is near it” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: GR13's ground, and the owner moving it. The orb answers a hand on its way in now, where before it only answered one that had already arrived.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “The book's audit had not heard about the second referee” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: the ledger is the one number nobody writes for themselves, and a drift between the referee's list and the audit's writes it for them - wrongly, and in the direction that costs two.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich rewrote the notes on the cabinet.

landed as “A way in for somebody who has not been handed the keys” — 08 August 2026

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “A second referee, for work that arrives in the post” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: the rulebook was enforceable only against somebody who had chosen to install it. Making the repository public means work arriving from people who have not, so the rules need a reading that happens after the fact and in the open - and that reading is machinery, so it belongs on GR10's list beside the hooks.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “The referee learns to read a commit that already exists” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: the rules were only ever enforceable against somebody who had installed the hooks. Opening the cabinet to pull requests means reading work from clones that never did, so the referee needs to be able to read a commit after the fact - and to say so out loud, which is the only enforcement GR12 ever claimed to have.

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich did some housekeeping.

landed as “The cabinet gets a licence, and the plates get an explanation” — 08 August 2026

While v24 was on the cabinet, David Friedrich changed the rules.

landed as “Landing means landing, paperwork and all” — 08 August 2026

The rules themselves were altered: the ritual left the tree dirty after every landing and called itself finished. Filing the paperwork is part of landing, and the loop terminates - two rounds at the outside, because a docs-only commit is not a version and generates nothing further.