Adopt Eli's retirement standard; the registered kill criterion was a design error

"none of this is remotely 'retired' until the most robust deterministic first
layer is built and we test it with real model runs across several ablations."

That standard governs. It also invalidates the premise of the kill criterion I
registered this morning: it made a deterministic proxy sufficient to close a
hypothesis, so a cheap gate could retire ideas without a single model run. A
proxy says where to look; it cannot retire anything. The gold-graph measurement
is downgraded to a diagnostic and the section heading now says so.

Nothing in this round is retired and nothing can be until the deterministic
layer is genuinely robust - today it is 24/69 documents refused, 8/17 on maud,
skeleton repaired mid-run, one untuned implementation per edge class, no
variants tried - and until real composed runs across several ablations test it,
solo and in concert, retiring only on demonstrated redundancy.

Honest status of every layer: built, unproven, and never once put in front of a
composer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H9ToHYJVDxfeJcJwdzrP2H