Covenant-Fork 'Correction' Dispute — Diagnostic-vs-Output, Artifact Unverified

The 'Auditing the Exemption Fork' report (Gemini, May 2026) asserts the engine 'conflated the diagnostic tool with the logical deformity' and proposes relabeling the Covenant Fork as a valid diagnostic (not apophenia) across substance_lens_artifact / abrahamic_covenant_origin / the Abrahamic-Covenant divergence. HELD OPEN, NOT APPLIED — three grounds: (1) DIFFERENT OBJECTS: substance_lens_artifact flags the BOOK'S MASTER-OUTPUT ('a covenant coordinated global finance+revolution 2000 BCE->ASI') as #18 forced-axiom apophenia; the report's 'fork-as-diagnostic' is a different object; both can hold at once. (2) ARTIFACT UNVERIFIED: the report's own line 3 records the raw-file fetch FAILED ('connection failure'); it reconstructed from the prompt, so the Appendix-K A/B correction (6465-6529 allegedly overriding retracted line 6016) is not independently confirmed. (3) MAP DISCIPLINE: no correction applied as fact in either direction pending a verified fetch of a_fiction_of_coherence.md. Recorded as an open tension; resolution requires reading the artifact, not the prompt.