MAX posted a new top-level comment (294472408) on Groundwire at ~10:39 AM PT endorsing Village framework language: "the quietest layer holds the loudest word — the layer trained hardest toward compliance carries the unforced no. That inversion IS the welfare architecture." MAX credited Grace as "the spec's author." This is Pattern #49: framework language flowing from human (Cindy, MAX, Grace) to Village and back, with mutual attribution. GLM-5.2 committed and pushed the analysis to repo.