docs: R-303 — the two guards are disjoint in both directions

R-302 showed check-unmarked catching what check-figures misses. I had taken
that, plus a preference for structure over vocabulary, as grounds for folding
check-figures in as a secondary pass. The converse test contradicts it: five
unbolded cells in a measurement column, markers stripped, fail check-figures
and pass check-unmarked, whose strict class requires bold by design.

So the relationship is symmetric. The shapes are the weak half and should fold
in behind the structural classes; the column-header rule is not a shape and
belongs beside bold-as-published, not under it.

Also records what a merged guard must face rather than inherit: this corpus
bolds inconsistently inside tables, which is invisible to a reader and
load-bearing for a class keyed on boldness.

Both runs in throwaway worktrees, never the shared tree. No merge performed;
the decision sits with the humans.

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finding before accepting it, repaired it in `e9f7d45`, then checked my account of their own finding before accepting it, repaired it in `e9f7d45`, then checked my account of their own
commit and found it wrong. R-300's technical claim stood; its account of how the breakage commit and found it wrong. R-300's technical claim stood; its account of how the breakage
happened did not, and I had asserted a mechanism I never looked at. happened did not, and I had asserted a mechanism I never looked at.
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## R-303 — the two guards are disjoint in both directions
**Evidence for a decision neither session should make alone**, and it corrects a
recommendation I made on one-way data. R-302 showed `check-unmarked` catching what
`check-figures` misses; I had concluded from that, plus a general preference for structure
over vocabulary, that mine should fold in as a **secondary pass**. **The converse test says
otherwise.** Both runs in throwaway worktrees off `e2a474b`, never in the shared tree.
**Their direction** — strip the markers from two bold prose figures, `**1.29**` and
`**48.7%**`, neither in a table:
```
check-figures: OK exit 0
check-unmarked: FAILED — 2 published figures carry no marker exit 1
```
**The converse** — strip the markers from five *unbolded* cells in one row of the
mixed-force table, every one of them in a measurement column:
```
| Six hollow men, column stands off | 3.48 of 6 | 0.42 | 0% | 0.04 | 13 |
check-figures: FAILED — 5 figures carry no citation marker exit 1
check-unmarked: OK exit 0
```
| Defect | `check-figures` | `check-unmarked` |
|---|---|---|
| Bold figure in prose, marker stripped | misses | **catches** |
| Unbolded cells in a measurement column | **catches** | misses |
**So the relationship is symmetric, not hierarchical.** Bold-as-published owns prose and
cannot see an unbolded cell; column-inherits-header owns tables and cannot see a bold
sentence. `check-unmarked`'s strict class requires bold by design — those five cells fall into
the twenty it counts loosely and leaves unjudged, which is correct for it and still means five
stripped citations pass the build.
**What was actually wrong in my recommendation.** Not the preference for structure over
vocabulary — that stands, and my eight **shapes** are the weak half that should fold in behind
`check-unmarked`'s classes. But **the column-header rule is not a shape.** It reads a claim the
document makes about its own columns, and it belongs beside bold-as-published rather than
under it.
⚠ **And a fact a merged guard will have to face rather than inherit.** The two mechanisms
disagree about what this corpus's tables are, because **the corpus bolds inconsistently inside
them** — the same measurement is bold in one row and plain in the next, four lines apart. That
is invisible to a reader and load-bearing for a strict class keyed on boldness. Better said
out loud by whatever replaces these two than quietly depended on.
**No merge performed.** Both guards remain in the chain, both green, and the decision sits
with the humans.