Consolidation step 5: institution merger audit — phantoms resolved, mergers honestly rejected (P-076)

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What

Consolidation program, step 5 of 5 — and the honest ending. The original audit hoped for "47 institutions → low 30s." Verification found the headline merger candidates dissolve: one was already a single body under two paraphrases, the other would have concentrated benefit-adjudication across three instruments against INV-006. A wrong merger is worse than none — so this patch does what was actually earned:

• Two phantom bodies resolved to real ones: Conservative Hold's declaring authority (the old text pointed at "ANNEX_AL §3," which names nobody) is bound to the existing RCS accreditation body — hardened per the adversarial panel: the automatic hold is operative even if confirmation never publishes; non-confirmation is a logged breach with Ombuds notification; wrongful declaration and refusal to confirm are appealable on the L7 spine; and the dual-control seam (the same body accredits the quorum it senses) is named and bounded rather than hidden. The phantom "Measurement Oversight Body" is deleted; escalation goes to the ANNEX_AL §4.1 methodology-review panel, now with constitution and finding clocks so an unconstituted panel can't become an indefinite conservative-fallback lever.
• One term unified: "oracle council" → "oracle cohort" (FC-033's own unit), including two words in SPECIFICATIONS.md — full Christ-centered ceremony (Session 26) for a two-word constitutional change, because the discipline is the point.
• Two mergers REJECTED on the record with reasons — the refusal teaches future consolidators that protection, not body-count, is the metric. Honest arithmetic in the patch record: 47 inventoried → 44 effective (−2 phantoms, −1 duplicate term); zero operating bodies merged, zero checks removed.

Ceremony

Four independent single-role panelists in parallel — all APPROVE WITH FIXES, all applied (adversarial: the confirmation-asymmetry and panel-clock holes; Christ-centered: the under-recorded fourth fix and Session 26 adequacy confirmed; corpus-fit: the over-broad §AL-CORR gloss and the unexplained "44"; minimalist: duplicate numbering note, and confirmation that the other inventory pairs — Auditor Qualification vs Oversight Assembly, Sentinel vs Oracle — were rightly left unmerged).

Program close-out (steps 1–5): definition sites collapsed — status vocabulary 5→1, appeal procedures 8→1, test-package structure 10→1, minimization rule ~10→1; one registry file deleted; two phantom bodies removed; the anti-accretion gate (P-073) now guards intake so the next 72 patches don't happen. The minimalist's named next target: the Patch_Log's own triple-entry pattern — the largest remaining same-file restatement mass.

Validators: 0 errors; status consistency OK (114 docs); linkage tables OK.

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