§8.1 — Witness-vs-modality terminology clarification (pure docs).
The ticket title and §1 throughout use "modality" — operationally
meaning kernel / cache / LLM. The 2026-05-09 review (response_ticket-
000027-canonical-projections-in-providence-cache.txt) flagged that a
future reader looking for cross-carrier work (text↔image, audio,
world-state) might land here by mistake, since "modality" in that
sense means a different thing.
Added a one-line note near §1 distinguishing *witness channel* (an
independent epistemic source) from *carrier* (text / image / audio /
world state), and pointing forward to a later ticket for cross-
carrier extensions once π* libraries support non-text carriers.
§8.2 + §8.3 — status refresh from "deferred" to "landed in 708aa45".
Both follow-ups already shipped in commit 708aa45 ("fan-out: warrant
ladder wiring · witness follow-ups · 5F Phase 1d", 2026-05-09 12:42
EDT) — pre-dating the e19aed8 close commit. The ticket file's §8.2
and §8.3 sections still carried the "deferred" labels because they
were written from the pre-implementation design notes; refreshing
both to point at the actual implementation in
arborist/qa/query.py (lines 2140-2155 for sample-rate gating;
2237-2285 for the capital_ledger sidecar) and the corresponding
test_witness.py coverage. Map-vs-territory hygiene: stale ticket
markers are how future readers waste a session re-implementing
something that's already there.
No code change in this commit. 33/33 tests in test_witness.py
continue to pass, all 7 shards chain-check clean.
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