Fix The Source Not The Symptom

2026-07-23 trigger-mode annotation. A second re-run of the surfacing pass on 2026-07-23, this one triggered by an explicit external output policy rather than internal re-verification. The policy specified: a hard ≥3-distinct-reflection threshold for naming a pattern, wikilink evidence citations, slug-format constraints, and an explicit search-before-create instruction. The input set was identical to the 2026-07-22 re-run (six reflections, the same two duplicate pairs collapsing to four distinct slugs). The mapping reproduced unchanged. The substantively new datum is trigger-mode invariance: the prior five passes over this cycle were all internal re-verification heuristics; this pass was rule-constrained external surfacing. The recognition producing the same four-pattern cluster under that different trigger is a distinct validation — it shows the pattern set is stable across trigger modes (internal re-derivation vs. external rule-constrained surfacing), not just within one trigger mode. This is an annotation on the existing cycle-stability entry, not a new pass-N section, per the discipline stated above. No new pattern page is warranted, no evidence-section update is needed — the four in-scope reflections are already cited.

1. The trigger-mode invariance datum is now two-shot, not one-shot. Single-shot invariants are anecdotal; two-shot invariants on different days start to look like a property of the recognition discipline rather than a coincidence. The cluster's stability under external rule- constrained surfacing across days is stronger evidence than the 2026-07-23 annotation claimed for it. 2. The cycle-stability entry has reached the point where further identical-input external passes add no new datum. The discipline noted above ("no pass-N section is appended here") explicitly anticipated this — once trigger-mode invariance is reproducible, the marginal pass on identical input is page-redundancy rather than evidence. Any future surfacing pass over the same four reflections should either (a) cite this entry as the canonical cycle-stability record, or (b) propose a new pattern that does clear the ≥3-bar from fresh input. Option (b) is the only path that earns a new annotation on this entry.

A re-run of the reflection-surfacing pass against the same four in-scope reflections on 2026-07-22 reproduced the same mapping: each of the four reflections lands cleanly on the four-pattern cluster above (this page + Iterative Refinement Is The Default Mode + Principle From The Iteration + Principle After Iteration). Two of the six surfaced reflections were duplicates of prior entries (refs 1 and 5 shared the margin-debug slug; refs 2 and 6 shared the source-over-symptom slug), which itself is the smallest possible corroborating signal: the recognition discipline is deterministic across re-surfacing of identical input, not just across additive passes. No new pattern cleared the ≥3-citation bar from this cycle's input; per the discipline noted on the companion pages, no pass-N section is appended here — that observation goes here once, in this entry, not repeated as a separate page or section.