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@@ -103,6 +103,38 @@ next structural barrier. Only 3 `context_filler` cases remain blocking (0022,
 > (DeferredCandidate, evidence, BindingProof) triple. Short-circuits are kept
 > only as regression fixtures.
 
+### Update 2026-05-23: ADR-0137 attempted and deferred
+
+ADR-0137 was drafted and rescoped against this ledger (PR #204), then **closed
+without merging** on self-review. The reason is structural, not procedural:
+
+The DeferredCandidate / BindingProof apparatus is the right shape for *true*
+retrospective binding — where a first-pass candidate has open slots that only
+later-sentence evidence can fill. Re-examining S.1/S.2 against that definition
+showed neither short-circuit fits it:
+
+- **0014**: `CandidateCapacity` (sentence 1) and `CandidateCapacityQuestion`
+  (sentence 2) are both fully grounded. What's needed is a **join rule**
+  pairing them into a derived `InitialPossession`, not a deferred-binding pass.
+- **0042**: `CandidateInitial` (sentence 1) and `CandidateConditionalOpQuestion`
+  (sentence 2) are both fully grounded — same shape, same join.
+
+With no kind that has genuinely open slots in the v2 ledger, the binding
+machinery would degenerate to a join everywhere it ran. Building it now would
+be speculative infrastructure ahead of a forcing function — explicitly the
+pattern CLAUDE.md warns against.
+
+**What stays.** The S.1/S.2 short-circuits in `parse_and_solve` remain as
+tactical bridges. `wrong == 0` is preserved. The canonical
+`evals/gsm8k_math/runner.py` staleness on short-circuit admissions (it asserts
+`selected_graph is not None`) is a real annoyance but better fixed in the
+runner — teach it to score short-circuit admissions — than by inventing a
+binding layer to give every admission a graph.
+
+**Reopen criterion.** ADR-0137 (or its successor) may be revisited when a
+case appears whose first-pass candidate has genuinely open slots that only
+later-sentence evidence can close. Until then, the unlock vehicle is S.x.
+
 ## ADR-0137 Probe Cases
 
 The following cases are required in the ADR-0137 probe to verify subsumption