Presentation QA Aphorisms 010: Read-First Review of 25 Records

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00076.aphorisms-010 Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/aphorisms/ — the 25 records assigned by workload issue #624 (APH-418 through APH-FREF-0030-AVSG)

What changed

• Read all 25 assigned records in full, frontmatter through final line. All matched the issue snapshot (8997eebee2a4e620c5dd47fcea97abf515c4cac6) exactly; no intervening diffs.
• APH-431.paper-crown.md line 13: inserted one blank line. Every other inter-aphorism separator in the record is three blank lines; the gap between the "Ornament multiplied" aphorism (line 12) and the "Headers announced prestige" aphorism held two. Whitespace only; no words touched.

What was deliberately left alone

• All frontmatter, canonical IDs, tags, titles, and the three-blank-line aphorism spacing used throughout the assignment.
• 24 records reviewed unchanged. Existing per-aphorism italics were left as found; no new bold was added anywhere, since elevating one sibling aphorism with the record's only bold pivot would be decoration rather than a pivot.
• APH-435.driftlocked-policy-box.md keeps its ## Contextual Records subheading — archival residue, preserved.
• APH-677.sealward-proxy-9.md drops the rotating epigraph tails after line 20 — a deliberate shift in register, preserved.
• APH-432, APH-433, APH-434, APH-435, and APH-938 use bare headings without the "Aphorisms" suffix — naming residue, preserved.

Verification performed

• BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh — passed (graph, HTML IDs, publication checks).
• python3 scripts/check_collection_counts.py — PASS.
• git diff confirmed whitespace-only change; no word, order, ID, or emphasis changes.

Unresolved follow-up

• None.