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(now the sole substrate's doc, seam kept open), 07 retired as written pending the ops-service workstream, 14 retired as superseded record, 12 carries the second pivot note, the index reflects all of it; the charter gets a pointer note (the anchors' full re-ruling stays with the user).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/IntegrityRules.swift

@@ -878,8 +878,10 @@ public enum IntegrityRules: Sendable {
         /// The filesystem birth date (`.creationDateKey`), `nil` when it cannot be read — the
         /// **second** rung of the earlier-occurrence-wins ladder.
         public let birth: Date?
-        /// Where the git path history places this path, `nil` when the board has no history or the
-        /// path is untracked — the **first** rung, injected through `BoardLoader.IdentityHistoryRanker`.
+        /// Where a history ranker once placed this path — `nil` unconditionally today, since
+        /// app-managed git was excised entirely (`strategy/01-git-excision.md`, 2026-08-08) and
+        /// nothing installs `BoardLoader.IdentityHistoryRanker` any more. The **first** rung when
+        /// populated; nil-safe by design, so the ladder falls straight through to birth date now.
         public let historyRank: Int?
 
         public init(
@@ -958,8 +960,10 @@ public enum IntegrityRules: Sendable {
     ///    folder and often the tracked one, so every other rung would withhold the very card the user
     ///    just restored and render its ghost instead. The heal remints the trashed occurrence. The same
     ///    preference governs a trashed lane sharing a live lane's UUID.
-    /// 1. **Git path history** (`historyRank`): both tracked, the path that entered history first
-    ///    wins; one tracked, it outranks the newcomer outright.
+    /// 1. **History rank** (`historyRank`): once git path history — both tracked, the path that
+    ///    entered history first wins; one tracked, it outranks the newcomer outright. Always `nil`
+    ///    today, no ranker installed since the git excision (`strategy/01-git-excision.md`,
+    ///    2026-08-08); the ladder falls through to rung 2.
     /// 2. **Filesystem birth date** (`birth`): the older folder wins. Only consulted when *both*
     ///    dates are readable and they differ — one unreadable date is no comparison at all.
     /// 3. **Deterministic traversal order**, which is `occurrences`' own order and therefore the