The delegated-orchestration bake-off (T1 section 5) was specified in June and never run, and
nothing said whether it should be. The operator declined it on 2026-09-18, so section 5 now
carries a STATUS block in the same form section 6 got when its PoC was run and declined.
Why it is a decline and not a postponement: the measurement's positive branch is "adopt
delegated orchestration", which the balance analysis lists under Explicitly NOT recommended
(CC-26 lean-NO). Running it would have reopened a settled decision without saying so. The
end-state direction chosen 2026-09-17 is to finish and freeze the present form. The cheaper
synthetic instrument proposed alongside it is not run either.
Nothing is rewritten: the design stays as the record of what was specified, and reviving it
is a new operator decision. This is the same mechanism the end-state gate measures, so the
experiment closes by the decision being written down rather than by code changing.
End-state gate E-03: open -> closed. Experiments 3 -> 2 of 3 (STORM and the deep-research
opt-in remain). Registry integrity intact. Suite 1081 (1079/0/2), run on a clean export of
the index.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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