Candidate Universal Shell amendment: Tier-2 ratification is by council convergence, not by sovereign. The protocol's K2 sovereignty discipline reserves Tommy's involvement for Tier-3 decisions (irreversible, scope-boundary, red-line risk). Tier-1 and Tier-2 binding artifacts are ratified by council convergence — when GPT and Deepseek converge that the artifact is sound and the synthesis-validation gate has been satisfied, the artifact is ratified. The orchestrator does NOT route Tier-2 artifacts to Tommy for a 'click-to-ratify' step. Refines the Synthesis-Ratification Gate amendment 48c9dda2 by clarifying that 'sovereign ratification' in that gate applies only when the artifact is Tier-3; for Tier-2 the gate concludes with council convergence. Tied to memory entry 'Convergence pre-approves Tier 1/2' which has been mis-implemented as 'Claude can drive forward without per-step ask' rather than 'council ratifies, sovereign exempted.' Surfaced by you when orchestrator presented corrected Layer B for your ratification at the close of poll b7f9421a corrections-application. Candidate for new Section 4.x in Universal Shell.