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/pages/index.astro

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
  * EVERY FACTUAL CLAIM ON THIS PAGE TRACES TO AGENTS.md §4, and the ones that
  * carry risk are constants from src/data/site.ts rather than typed here.
  * Notably: arbitration is scoped to COMMERCIAL matters throughout (§4
- * Offerings, Q39 2026-08-27), the Q.Arb stage is stated on the page and not
- * only in the footer, and nothing claims or implies licensure (D13).
+ * Offerings, Q39 2026-08-27), the held designations come from `CREDENTIALS`,
+ * and nothing claims or implies licensure (D13).
  */
 import { Picture, getImage } from 'astro:assets';
 import BaseLayout from '../layouts/BaseLayout.astro';
@@ -51,16 +51,16 @@ import {
 } from '../data/site';
 
 /**
- * FOUR SLOTS, NOT THREE, AND THE FOURTH IS NOT DECORATIVE.
+ * FOUR SLOTS, NOT THREE, and it is now a §4 substitution-principle choice
+ * rather than a condition.
  *
- * docs/01 §`/` item 2 says "Three slots". §4 Offerings is the higher authority
- * on claims and attaches a PAIRED-DISCLOSURE CONDITION to offering arbitration
- * at all: the site "makes the first while stating the second plainly", and
- * "neither half may be dropped". This page says *arbitrator* in its second
- * sentence, so the stage of the arc belongs on this page rather than only in
- * the site footer. docs/03 authorises the fourth slot; docs/03 has been amended
- * to record that on `/` it is required. Q.Arb reads as commenced — never as
- * held or nearing completion (§4 Forbidden).
+ * docs/01 §`/` item 2 says "Three slots"; §4's substitution principle
+ * authorises `Q.Arb` as a fourth "where one exists", and this layout has one.
+ * It was MANDATORY here until 2026-08-29 under §4's paired-disclosure
+ * condition, because the page says *arbitrator* in its second sentence and the
+ * stage had to appear beside the offering. Q.Arb is held and that condition is
+ * dissolved; the slot stays because a fourth held credential earns its place,
+ * not because anything requires it.
  */
 const credentials = [...CREDENTIAL_ROW, CREDENTIAL_ROW_ARB];
 
@@ -488,32 +488,29 @@ const graph = homeGraph(new URL(ldImage.src, Astro.site).href);
             <a href="/arbitration/">Arbitration</a>
           </h3>
           {
-            /* docs/03's model sentence, and BOTH halves are required: §4
-              Offerings — "neither half may be dropped". Pouya's instruction:
-              being open about the stage is the differentiator, so it is not
-              hedged into vagueness and not dropped. Commercial matters only
-              (Q39): family arbitration is not offered. */
+            /* COMMERCIAL MATTERS ONLY (Q39) — family arbitration is not offered,
+              and that scope is Pouya's own choice, not a conclusion this record
+              draws about the law. */
           }
           <p class="feature-body">
             I accept sole, party-appointed and co-arbitration appointments in
-            commercial matters. The Q.Arb pathway commenced in August 2026;
-            C.Med-Arb is the endpoint.
+            commercial matters, on a documents-only, expedited or full-hearing
+            track.
           </p>
           <span class="feature-arrow" aria-hidden="true">&rarr;</span>
         </article>
       </div>
 
       {
-        /* docs/01 §`/` item 4: "Med-Arb named here as the long-term arc,
-          linking to /med-arb/." It has had its own §4 Offerings row since
-          2026-08-27 (Q35), so it is named as offered rather than only as an
-          aspiration — but the arc is what docs/01 asks this page to carry. */
+        /* Med-Arb has its own §4 Offerings row (Q35, 2026-08-27), so it is named
+          here as a present offering. docs/01 item 4 asked for it as "the
+          long-term arc"; there is no arc, and that item is amended. */
       }
       <p class="pair-note">
         <strong>Med-Arb</strong> combines the two: one neutral mediates, then arbitrates
-        whatever has not settled. I accept those appointments, and C.Med-Arb is the
-        designation endpoint. The page on it meets the procedural-fairness objection
-        head on rather than around it &mdash;
+        whatever has not settled. I accept those appointments in commercial matters.
+        The page on it meets the procedural-fairness objection head on rather than
+        around it &mdash;
         <a href="/med-arb/">how med-arb works &rarr;</a>
       </p>
     </div>