The paper agrees with the code — guide v11, README, DESIGN re-rulings, and the adjudicated sweep

Step 7 of strategy/01-git-excision.md, the companions. The agent guide bumps to v11: the Git section teaches repo-resident etiquette alone (stage only your own paths, commit your own changes, leave app-maintained files to the app) — existing boards heal to the new text on next open. README re-anchors: the four git feature bullets out, tiers say the complete Mac experience is free, and one bullet states the format's git-friendliness promise. The changelog drops the never-shipped git entries. DESIGN re-rules: 06 retired with Undo routing migrated to 13 (now the sole substrate's doc, seam kept open), 07 retired as written pending the ops-service workstream, 14 retired as superseded record, 12 carries the second pivot note, the index reflects all of it; the charter gets a pointer note (the anchors' full re-ruling stays with the user). InertGitTests renames to GitAgnosticStorageTests — the excision restores its original claim app-wide. And the sweep: ~70 comment sites across 36 files adjudicated against the keeper list, every present-tense description of the excised machinery made past tense or repointed, keepers untouched. 2,707 tests green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy

Kanban/Storage/BoardLoader.swift

@@ -1060,19 +1060,22 @@ public enum BoardLoader: Sendable {
 
     // MARK: - The earlier-occurrence-wins history seam
 
-    /// **Where git path history plugs into the duplicate-id winner rule** (01-storage-format.md
+    /// **Where git path history once plugged into the duplicate-id winner rule** (01-storage-format.md
     /// § Fractal layout ▸ Rules: "on git boards, the path history already tracks outranks the
-    /// newcomer (both tracked: the path that entered history first)").
+    /// newcomer (both tracked: the path that entered history first)") — kept as a seam, unfilled,
+    /// since app-managed git was excised entirely (`strategy/01-git-excision.md`, 2026-08-08).
     ///
-    /// A seam rather than an implementation because the first rung of that ladder is unreachable
-    /// without git: the free tier runs no git machinery at all (12-editions.md ▸ The inert posture),
-    /// so the loader consults an injected ranker and falls through to birth date and traversal order
-    /// when there is none — which is every free-tier board, and every Pro board without a repo.
+    /// A seam rather than an implementation because the first rung of that ladder was unreachable
+    /// without git even before the excision: the free tier ran no git machinery at all
+    /// (12-editions.md ▸ The inert posture), so the loader consults an injected ranker and falls
+    /// through to birth date and traversal order when there is none — which is every board today, no
+    /// exceptions.
     ///
     /// Deliberately one closure and no protocol: the loader asks one question — "how early did this
-    /// path enter history" — and pro-m1's implementation answers it from `git log --diff-filter=A
-    /// --follow`-shaped plumbing behind the provider seam. `nil` means "untracked, or no history
-    /// here", which the rule reads as *outranked by anything tracked*.
+    /// path enter history" — and pro-m1's implementation once answered it from `git log
+    /// --diff-filter=A --follow`-shaped plumbing behind the provider seam, before that plumbing left
+    /// with the excision. `nil` means "untracked, or no history here", which the rule reads as
+    /// *outranked by anything tracked*; nothing installs a ranker today, so every path reads `nil`.
     ///
     /// - Parameter rank: keyed by the occurrence's **board-root-relative path**, which is what a
     ///   repo's path history knows; lower is earlier.