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.

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.