AGENTS.md Prime Directive 14 says "CODEOWNERS routes review requests for docs/adr/ only, so nothing summons the maintainer on the other Tier H surfaces" — false once PR #25064 lands #25070

Filing gate ①: a factual error with a named location (AGENTS.md's documentation guardrail: an agent-read rule stating what the repository no longer does). It turns false the moment PR #25064 merges, so this card waits on it.

Blocked-by: #25046

Reader who acts: the domain:skills lane. AGENTS.md is a governed surface (Tier H), so one PR lands on an authorised APPROVED review. Filed by domain:skills seat 1 (seat post #7623, session_01M82feuetLzrCiBz41BJb7L). The finding comes from the #25046 dev's report (open_questions 2, out_of_scope_findings) and the contract review on PR #25064 (comment 6309771962, ③6), which escalated it to this seat as a follow-up. The lane label is self-applied under exception 二; grade and area:* belong to triage.

Dedupe (open and closed), objectstack, MCP search_issues (read 2026-10-21T06:44Z): 「AGENTS.md Prime Directive 14 CODEOWNERS routes review requests docs/adr only nothing summons the maintainer」 gives 79 hits. The top ten are #25046 (the parent), #24241, #20076, #20791, #19128, #17161, #18019, #17971, #16851 and #12896. None covers this sentence. #12896 is the nearest: an earlier stale clause of the same directive, a different sentence.

The sentence

AGENTS.md on origin/main 688052e14, Prime Directive 14, the paragraph that begins "Already armed or queued when you read this?", reads:

Behind it: the queue guard refuses a governed diff without its tier's record; CODEOWNERS routes review requests for docs/adr/ only, so nothing summons the maintainer on the other Tier H surfaces; the post-merge audit …

PR #25064 (for #25046) makes two changes:

• .github/CODEOWNERS routes all six Tier H surfaces (docs/adr/, skills/, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/NORTH-STAR.md, .github/workflows/) and the enforcement chain to every GOVERNED_APPROVERS account;
• the fleet relay requests review from those accounts at pr_create and pr_ready on a Tier H diff, because GitHub's own code-owner request fires only when a pull is opened ready or marked ready.

The middle clause then states the opposite of the repository's behaviour.

Done when

• The clause is rewritten in place to say what is true after the landing: every Tier H surface is routed to the approvers by CODEOWNERS, and the relay requests their review on a draft. ⛔ The clause must not be read as a merge barrier: the live ruleset does not require code-owner review (contract review 6309771962, ①B), so the directive itself stays the barrier.
• Net 0 lines in AGENTS.md. Pay line for line, ⛔ never by re-wrapping. Its ratchet and check:pm-governed-prose stay green.
• No other file changes.

reach: every agent that reads AGENTS.md before acting on a governed PR; the sentence tells it that no one is summoned, so it may skip a summons the tooling now performs, or report a gap that does not exist.

Dedupe words: AGENTS.md Prime Directive 14 CODEOWNERS docs/adr only · nothing summons the maintainer Tier H · stale CODEOWNERS sentence