Close FABRIC-2.md, open FABRIC-3.md; audit Stadium dispatch stubs; new no-stubs rule

FABRIC-2.md closed archival at ~4,400 lines / 51 open items, same reasoning
FABRIC.md itself was closed for at 7,595 lines -- continuing to append made
still-open work hard to find. All 51 open items carried forward into
FABRIC-3.md's new Section A, verified complete via programmatic diff against
the source (49 unique + 2 confirmed pure duplicates from FABRIC-2.md's own
F.3 cross-reference section, not dropped content). .claude/CLAUDE.md's
pointer note updated to name FABRIC-3.md as current.

New Section B: full audit of stadium_dispatch()'s four behaviour stubs
(MIGRATE/DELIVER/EXPIRE/COOL), triggered by investigating "words/VMs/blocks/
messages should all be on the same engine". Found the picture is more
nuanced than "everything's a stub" -- words are already fully live via a
separate bespoke mechanism (stadium_word_dispatch(), wired into vm_core.c's
real word-execution path, item 4.1), contradicting ONTOLOGY.md's stale
"not yet migrated" claim (flagged for a follow-up fix). MIGRATE (blocks)
and VM-COOL are genuinely stub with zero consumers; DELIVER (Hermes) and
EXPIRE (ACL) are substantial, undecided subsystem integrations FABRIC.md
itself already flagged as open, not touched here.

New standing rule, saved as memory feedback_no_stubs_or_todos.md: stub
implementations and TODO placeholders are never acceptable in this
workflow, in any language, ever -- triggered by finding stadium_dispatch()'s
stub handlers during this investigation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CXjAPTEKrgY2Mrk25KoLDn
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# FABRIC-2.md — the Stadium, continued
**Status: CLOSED, 2026-08-25.** This document is archival. It is not edited further and no
new work is added to it — everything still open as of the closure date was carried forward
into **`FABRIC-3.md`**, which is now the living document. Read `FABRIC-3.md` first for
current status; come back here only for the historical design argument and decision record
behind it (Milestones 2/2a2h's xHCI/USB/block-subsystem work, the Stadium substrate build-out,
the ACL-TTL DoE campaigns, and everything else recorded below).
**Why it's closed, not just superseded.** At ~4,400 lines and 51 open items scattered among
hundreds of resolved ones, continuing to append here made the still-open work hard to find —
the same reasoning `FABRIC.md` itself was closed for at 7,595 lines. Closed on request rather
than at a natural milestone boundary; nothing here was rushed to closure, the document just
stopped growing at this point.
**The 2026-08-25 closure audit.** Every `- [ ]` item in the document was extracted
mechanically (`grep -c` confirmed 51, then a script pulled each item's own text without
carrying along unrelated resolved narrative) and carried into `FABRIC-3.md` §A, organized
under the same section groupings they already had here. None dropped, none re-prioritized.
**Original opening note, kept for history:**
**Status:** Living working document, opened 2026-08-12 as the successor to `FABRIC.md`
(now closed/archival — see its own header). This document does not repeat `FABRIC.md`'s
design argument or history; it restates only outcomes, with pointers back to the section