context: operator ruling 2026-10-11 - none of the three directions; M3 follows

Recorded in CONTEXT.md as a dated ruling and at the top of the comparison.

Nothing deleted: /preview/, /preview/m1/ and /preview/m2/ all stay up, hidden, so
the next direction can be compared against them. Nothing built: SHARED-DESIGN.md
recommended the canonical-stylesheet-plus-gate mechanism only once a direction
exists, and none does, so it stays unbuilt.

The measured case for a mechanism rather than a convention survives the ruling and
is kept in the audit folder: a component copy between the repos silently dropped a
bare body rule and broke the phone layout in four measurable ways.

CONTEXT.md

@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@
 > and holds nothing of its own; this file does hold its own content, namely the standing rulings below.
 
 
+> **2026-10-11 — the website's direction is NOT yet decided; a third mockup (M3) follows (operator ruling, this day).**
+> Three directions were built and measured, and the operator chose **none of them**: a new direction, M3, will be
+> briefed separately. **Nothing was deleted** — all three stay up, hidden, so M3 can be compared against them:
+> `/preview/` (the 2026-10-10 redesign), `/preview/m1/` (the website wearing the controller's dashboard shell) and
+> `/preview/m2/` (a short front page with a clickable launcher in a window). Measured first load, same method for
+> each: A 12 requests / 270 KB, M1 68 / 1012 KB, M2 16 / 150 KB. The comparison and the three-sentences-each
+> verdicts are in `documentation/audits/mockups-2026-10-11/COMPARE.md`.
+> **Also decided by implication: the shared-design mechanism is NOT built.** `SHARED-DESIGN.md` recommends a
+> canonical `felhom-ui.css` plus a copy-drift gate over serving the controller's stylesheet to the website, but
+> explicitly only once a direction exists; with no direction chosen, nothing is built. The measured case for a
+> mechanism rather than a convention stands on its own: a component-level copy between the two repos silently
+> dropped `@media(max-width:768px){ body { flex-direction: column } }`, which broke the phone layout in four
+> measurable ways while looking fully copied.
+
 > **2026-10-10 — the tester's domain, and how many test households (operator rulings D1 and D2, this day).**
 > Recorded because the recruitment page and terms 1.1 both state them, and neither could be written without them.
 > **D1 — the tester's domain is registered in the TESTER'S OWN NAME** (option a). Felhom does **not** own it: it is

documentation/audits/mockups-2026-10-11/COMPARE.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Three directions for the website, side by side
 
+> **OPERATOR RULING, 2026-10-11: none of the three.** A new direction, **M3**, will be briefed
+> separately. All three below stay up, hidden, so M3 can be compared against them. Nothing was
+> deleted, nothing was built, and the shared-design mechanism stays unbuilt (`SHARED-DESIGN.md` §3
+> recommended building it only once a direction exists).
+
 Built 2026-10-11. **Nothing here is live.** All three are hidden under `/preview/`, carry
 `noindex`, are blocked by `robots.txt`, are in no sitemap and are linked from no live page.