feat: Q.Arb is held; strike C.Med-Arb entirely; dissolve the paired disclosure

Pouya's ruling, 2026-08-29. Treated as D3-class and swept accordingly.

§4
  Q.Arb becomes a HELD designation. Obtained July 2026 — recorded in the
  register, deliberately not published. Public copy carries "Q.Arb (ADRIC /
  ADRIO)" beside Q.Med and nothing more. Every stage form is struck:
  "commenced", "in progress", "pathway", "not yet".

  C.Med-Arb as a stated goal is struck. This DEVIATES FROM THE STRATEGY BRIEF,
  which made it "the explicit long-term professional narrative"; the brief is
  not in this repository, so the deviation is recorded in four places so nobody
  reinstates it from a document no reader can open. The designation stays in
  §11 as a definition — what is struck is its status as a goal of his.

  The paired-disclosure condition dissolves. It existed only because Q.Arb was
  in progress; there is no stage left to disclose, and a condition with no
  subject cannot be half-kept.

Pages
  /about/'s credentialing arc is DELETED, not rewritten — two held designations
  are not a journey. /arbitration/ loses its stage section and its "Available
  now, and open about the stage" h1. /med-arb/'s endpoint section is rewritten.
  Deleting CREDENTIALS.goal/goalName rather than emptying them turned every
  consumer into a build error, which is how the last two surfaced.

  hasCredential now maps CREDENTIALS.designations instead of indexing [0];
  _DesignationRowParity pins the visible credential row to the same constant.

check:claims
  q-arb-as-a-stage (inverted from the predecessor, which barred Q.Arb reading
  as HELD) and c-med-arb-struck. Each page is now scanned twice — as published,
  and with inline tags collapsed — because [^<] cannot cross <strong>, which
  this site sets in prose.

Two open questions for Pouya, neither blocking:
  Q55 — the acquisition date. §4 says obtained July 2026; the Change Log of
  2026-08-26 records "commenced August 2026", both stamped [verified — Pouya].
  They cannot both be true. Nothing published turns on it.
  Q56 — is the mediation offering scoped commercial? §4 leaves it unscoped;
  four surfaces say "commercial mediation"; /practice/insurance/ offers
  mediation in insured-versus-insurer SABS matters.

Two review rounds, all findings applied or declined with a stated reason.
Round 2 found ten lines in docs/03 still instructing the struck form — the
2026-08-29 sweep missed them because `git grep 'Q.Arb'` is line-anchored and
the block never names it. Sweep the vocabulary, not only the subject.

Gates, exit statuses read directly, never through a pipe:
  npm run check        exit=0  (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 hints)
  npm run lint         exit=0
  npm run build        exit=0  (12 pages)
  npm run check:claims exit=0  (11 patterns, 26 approved strings)
  npm audit            exit=0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Md3GndFqWPzK78xAoebsg5

src/components/CredentialRow.astro

@@ -13,11 +13,10 @@
  * slots come from src/data/site.ts, which mirrors §4; nothing is typed here.
  *
  * <dl> RATHER THAN A DIV GRID. Each pair is a term and its description, which
- * is what a description list is. It also fixes the reading order: a screen
- * reader gets "Q.Arb — Commenced August 2026" as one associated pair, which is
- * §4's paired-disclosure condition surviving into assistive technology rather
- * than being a visual arrangement only. Wrapping each dt/dd pair in a <div>
- * inside <dl> is valid HTML and is what makes the grid tractable.
+ * is what a description list is, and it fixes the reading order: a screen
+ * reader gets "Q.Arb — ADRIC / ADRIO" as one associated pair rather than four
+ * values then four labels. Wrapping each dt/dd pair in a <div> inside <dl> is
+ * valid HTML and is what makes the grid tractable.
  */
 interface Props {
   slots: ReadonlyArray<{ value: string; label: string }>;
@@ -45,9 +44,14 @@ const { slots } = Astro.props;
        This read `repeat(auto-fit, minmax(11rem, 1fr))` under a comment saying
        "two up on a phone, four up where there is room". `adversarial-reviewer`
        measured it: at 390px the resolved template was a SINGLE 342px track and
-       all four items stacked, running the band ~430px tall — with
-       `Q.Arb / Commenced August 2026`, which §4's paired-disclosure condition
-       puts on this page, at the bottom of it. The arithmetic is not subtle: two
+       all four items stacked, running the band ~430px tall. The longest label in
+       the row is and remains `Legal training and engineering practice` (Q37, 39
+       chars — see below), which is what drives the track; the fourth slot's
+       label went from `Commenced August 2026` (21) to `ADRIC / ADRIO
+       designation` (25), so it got slightly LONGER and is still well inside
+       that 39. *(A previous version of this comment said "shorter". It was not
+       measured; `claims-auditor` counted the characters.)* The arithmetic is not
+       subtle: two
        tracks at an 11rem (176px) floor plus a 24px gap need 376px and the
        container is 342px, so `auto-fit` correctly dropped to one. A
        measured-sounding comment that was false is this project's own named

src/components/Pill.astro

@@ -81,23 +81,11 @@ void _props;
     line-height: 1.4;
     text-transform: uppercase;
     color: var(--pill-fg, var(--text-meta));
-    /* `nowrap` UNTIL 2026-08-28, AND IT WAS FINE UNTIL A PILL HAD FOUR WORDS.
-       `/`'s six pills are one or two words (longest "Cross-cultural").
-       `/about/` ships `Commenced August 2026`, and at a 200% DEFAULT FONT SIZE
-       (root 32px — a real browser setting, not page zoom) that pill measured
-       382.6px wide with its right edge at 430.6 in a 390px viewport:
-       **41px of document overflow at 390, 111px at 320.** Injecting
-       `white-space: normal` took 390 to **0** and 320 to **63**, 63 being the
-       header residual docs/02 already accepts. WCAG 1.4.10 Reflow.
-
-       `normal` costs nothing at default size — a pill only wraps when it cannot
-       fit, which is exactly when wrapping is the right answer.
-
-       WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AT THE EXTREME, recorded so it is not later read as a
-       new bug: at 320px with root at 32px, `Commenced August 2026` renders
-       **224 x 119px** inside `border-radius: 999px` — a three-line stadium. It
-       is ungainly and it is legible, in-viewport, and the alternative was
-       111px of document overflow. */
+    /* NEVER `nowrap`. `Pill` takes arbitrary children, and a four-word pill at a
+       200% default font size (root 32px) overflowed the document by 111px at
+       320px — WCAG 1.4.10 Reflow. Measured 2026-08-28; no pill on the site is
+       that long today, which is exactly why this is easy to delete and must not
+       be. `normal` costs nothing at default size. */
     white-space: normal;
   }
 </style>

src/components/SiteFooter.astro

@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ const year = new Date().getFullYear();
 // sitemap and lists /med-arb/ as deliberately out of the primary nav, "linked
 // contextually" — so dropping it here left the page with no site-wide link at
 // all, on a project whose entire premise is crawlability. (2) The label names a
-// PAGE, and docs/01 frames that page around the C.Med-Arb arc rather than as a
-// present offering, so listing it is not the §4 inference it looked like.
+// PAGE, not an offering, so listing it is not the §4 inference it looked like.
 // (3) It settled half of Q35 unilaterally while the other half — Energy and
 // Shareholder — stayed in both nav and footer, and the record claimed no
 // unilateral action had been taken. Both halves of Q35 go to Pouya together.
@@ -60,19 +59,12 @@ const aboutLinks = [
         <span class="footer-brand-name">{SITE.name}</span>
       </a>
       {
-        /* The designation strip carries the credentialing STAGE, not just the
-          held designation, and that is a §4 Offerings condition rather than a
-          flourish. The masthead names arbitration on every page except `/`,
-          where SiteHeader suppresses the tagline by design. §4 permits the
-          arbitration half on the condition that the site "makes the first while
-          stating the second plainly", and "neither half may be dropped".
-          Before this line rendered
-          CREDENTIALS.inProgress, that condition was unmet on every page that
-          ships — the constant existed in site.ts and was rendered nowhere.
-          Q.Arb reads as commenced, never as held (§4). */
+        /* HELD DESIGNATIONS ONLY. §4's paired-disclosure condition made this
+          strip carry a credentialing stage too; that dissolved on 2026-08-29
+          when Q.Arb became held. */
       }
       <p class="footer-designation">
-        {[...CREDENTIALS.designations, ...CREDENTIALS.inProgress].join(' · ')}
+        {CREDENTIALS.designations.join(' · ')}
       </p>
     </div>
 

src/components/SiteHeader.astro

@@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ const inSection = (href: string) => path === href || path.startsWith(href);
  * is the placement Q33-orig objected to in the first place: a line under his
  * name with nothing to qualify it, reading as a designation strip.
  *
- * This only ever REMOVES a claim from one page, so no §4 disclosure condition
- * is touched — the footer's designation strip carries `Q.Arb — commenced
- * August 2026` on every page including this one.
+ * This only ever REMOVES a claim from one page. The footer's designation strip
+ * carries the held designations on every page including this one.
  */
 const isHome = path === '/';
 ---
@@ -156,8 +155,9 @@ const isHome = path === '/';
 
   /* The tagline is BACK, and the reasoning is worth keeping rather than just
      the outcome. It was removed on 2026-08-26 because `Arbitration` under
-     Pouya's name read as a held capability, and §4 records Q.Arb as merely
-     commenced. Q33 answered that the same day, and the premise was wrong:
+     Pouya's name read as a held capability, and §4 then recorded Q.Arb as
+     merely commenced. Q33 answered that the same day, and the premise was
+     wrong twice over — §4 now records Q.Arb as HELD, and even before it did:
      ADR designations are voluntary credentials, not licences, and COMMERCIAL
      arbitral appointment in Ontario is not gated behind a designation — so the
      constraint was always positional, never legal, and Pouya accepts sole,