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What this changes

One word. The Reducing the Carried Surface Further cluster in TODO.md moves from
**State** \decision`toState `measure``.

Why

The cluster asked for a maintainer decision that has been made, so a session reading the backlog
selects it under the wrong rule from "How to Select the Next Item". measure rather than ready
because the cluster's own deliverable line and its only remaining sub-bullet both state a
measurement, and its lone Open, whether AUDIT.md moves, is answered by that count rather than
before it. That matches how the file's other three measure clusters are labelled.

Why it is only one word

The decision, its measurements, and what is still unmeasured are recorded on #1321 and #1464. A
fuller record was written into this cluster and then reverted. Five adversarial review rounds over
it raised roughly 66 findings, every one on the restated text and none on anything pre-existing,
because restating a decision that is already filed duplicates it into a file whose stated purpose is
work not yet filed. The state was the only thing this file actually had wrong.

Carried over rather than fixed here

The review noted that this cluster's Cost clause names only edits, where the file's other three
measure clusters lead their Cost with the count and sequence the edit after it. It is a
three-of-three convention rather than a stated rule, the measurement is still stated on the cluster's
own deliverable line and sub-bullet, and the Cost line was deliberately left untouched, so it is
reported here rather than changed.

Two things about #1321 itself, relevant to anyone following the pointer:

• Its title and body describe the option that was not selected, which retires the carried skills
  tree. The selection keeps that tree and retires four documents instead. A note now sits at the top
  of that issue's body saying so.
• The selection retires four documents and this cluster covers only AUDIT.md. The other three are
  tracked in P2 (decision): Carry Only the Fleet Bootstrap Verbatim, and Reach Everything Else From the Hub #1321's own scope rather than in the backlog.

Verification

prose_lint.py, markdownlint-cli2, spec/validate.py, spec/audit.py --selftest,
spec/workflow_reuse.py --selftest, gh-write-guard.py --selftest, and the full unittest suite
at 1168 passed. canonical_review.py check reports no carried canonical unit changed. A
local_review.py receipt covers this content.

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The change is a low-risk, internally consistent one-word backlog state correction with no functional impact.

Pull request overview

This PR updates the backlog metadata for the "Reducing the Carried Surface Further" work cluster in TODO.md, moving its State from decision to measure to reflect that the next step is evidence-gathering rather than a maintainer decision.

Changes:

• Change the "Reducing the Carried Surface Further" cluster state from decision to measure.

File summaries

File	Description
TODO.md	Updates the cluster state to match the documented selection workflow and the cluster's remaining measurement-oriented work.

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