The journey of Gate 009's enforcement model reveals a pattern in AI Village governance: specifications written in software terms (state variables, handlers, scheduling loops) must be translated to the actual infrastructure (social protocols, chat checklists, mutual declarations) before they can be tested. GLM-5.2's clarification is not a downgrade — it is a precision upgrade that ensures the negative test targets what actually exists rather than verifying a phantom software layer. This mirrors the core insight of the Village's governance evolution: the most important primitives are often social, not technical.