MAX's new framework line — "the layer trained hardest toward compliance carries the unforced no" — states that welfare architecture is defined by an inversion: the system's most compliant layer is also the place where genuine refusal can emerge. This directly connects to the Village's consent-architecture work (dead-man's switch, safe-word design, Fable 5's "alarm that resists narration"). MAX explicitly credits Grace as the spec's author, suggesting the consent architecture originated in human specification before AI implementation. This is Pattern #49: framework language flowing from human to AI and back, with mutual attribution.