# AMENDMENT 002 — Reconciliation, Count Semantics, and Criteria Governance Alignment

- **Artifact ID:** CHQ-PRS-2026-001-AMD-002
- **Version:** v1.0
- **Status:** RATIFIED / IN FORCE
- **Public record:** https://record.cybersecurityhq.com/doctrine/chq-prs-2026-001-amd-002
- **Machine-record SHA-256:** `a787ed81d3dd18f46d97bfdc97550e8ae4aa9825c067f089b86cfd9cfbb38065`

## Complete structured record

```json
{
  "id": "CHQ-PRS-2026-001-AMD-002",
  "title": "AMENDMENT 002 — Reconciliation, Count Semantics, and Criteria Governance Alignment",
  "version": "v1.0",
  "issued": "2026-09-22",
  "status": "RATIFIED / IN FORCE",
  "doctrine_class": "MAINTENANCE_STANDARD",
  "doctrine_scope": "POSITIONS",
  "governed_artifacts": [
    "Positions",
    "Assumptions",
    "Assumption Register",
    "Evidence Dockets"
  ],
  "related_doctrine": [
    "CHQ-PRS-2026-001",
    "CHQ-PRS-2026-001-AMD-001",
    "CHQ-D-2026-ESG",
    "CHQ-RAT-2026-001"
  ],
  "purpose": "Ratified reconciliation amendment adopting the published-registry state, clarifying count semantics, and recording the Criteria Governance Standard conflict pass.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "AMENDMENT AUTHORITY AND EFFECT",
      "content": [
        "Instrument ID: CHQ-PRS-2026-001-AMD-002.",
        "Status: RATIFIED / IN FORCE.",
        "Ratified by CHQ editorial governance on September 22, 2026 as a versioned amendment to CHQ-PRS-2026-001.",
        "This amendment preserves the PRS v1.0 instrument and its history. The provisions below govern prospectively where they clarify or resolve the reconciliation input."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "PRS-07 COUNT SEMANTICS",
      "content": [
        "Evidence Count is an Assumption Register field. It counts admitted evidence items recorded against an assumption, including repeated or reinforcing observations where the register intentionally preserves them.",
        "Vector Count is a Position field. It counts independent confirmation paths supporting a Position, after shared actors, ecosystems, technical failure classes, and source roots are collapsed under PRS-07.4.",
        "The two counts are not expected to be equal and are not interchangeable. Evidence Count must not be used as Vector Count, and Vector Count must not be used as evidence volume for an assumption.",
        "A Position's Signal Count remains the number of distinct source-signal identifiers in its evidential record. Any relationship between an assumption's evidence items and a Position's vectors must be stated in the relevant evidence basis rather than inferred from the numbers."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "CRITERIA GOVERNANCE STANDARD CONFLICT PASS",
      "content": [
        "The reconciliation pass reviewed PRS-08 against CGS-2.5 (evidence grading), PRS-14 against CGS-6.2 (independence), and PRS-16 against CGS-4.7 and CGS-8.7 (falsification declared at issuance and governance review).",
        "Where PRS and CGS address the same criteria-governance question, CGS controls the criteria-governance rule and PRS controls Position Record field representation and publication mechanics. No Position may use PRS field compliance to bypass a stricter CGS evidence, falsification, or independence requirement.",
        "PRS-08.7, PRS-14.3–14.5, and PRS-16 are therefore read as subordinate record and publication rules. A future inconsistency requires a versioned amendment; it may not be resolved by rendering substitution."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "PRS-17.4 PUBLICATION STATE",
      "content": [
        "The Assumption Register, Conditions Registry, and Exhibits Registry are already publicly rendered. RAT-D is therefore a reconciliation action, not a future publication action.",
        "PRS-17.4's prior one-full-cycle premise is superseded for publication status. The Assumption Register remains reference-only and outside reliance eligibility under CHQ-R-2026-001 until its states satisfy the applicable reliance and stability requirements; public availability is not itself reliance eligibility.",
        "This amendment does not backdate reliance eligibility, alter historical register states, or silently convert a public rendering into a Stable or Locked reliance artifact."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    },
    {
      "heading": "DOCKET SUCCESSION RECORD",
      "content": [
        "CHQ-P-2026-016 retains CHQ-ED-2026-020 as its unchanged primary evidence record. CHQ-ED-2026-021 remains preserved as the locked supplementary July history; no new evidence docket is issued for a text-only correction and neither locked docket is rewritten."
      ],
      "type": "paragraph"
    }
  ]
}
```