Document hierarchy and precedence register

It listed the standards and nothing annexed to them. One of the instruments it omitted was the MCC-100 Annex — Definitions Register, in force since 24 August 2026 and published in the served corpus. Two successive reviews then recorded that instrument as never having existed, because this page is the shelf a reader checks. Sixteen annexes, amendments, policies and terms are added here, and an annex now says which instrument it hangs from. The finding is at MIR-2026-001 rev 2 §7.

An instrument in force is normally adopted by a signed decision, and a register cites it. For every standard in this corpus no such decision is in the programme record: those versions were advanced editorially. The annexes, policies and terms adopted by founder decision on 24 August 2026 do cite one. Of the standards, four rest on an instrument and eight on nothing. Two of the four — MCC-400 v1.1 and MCC-700 v3.1 — rest on an instrument that is unsigned; the other two — MCC-100 v2.2 and MCC-850 v1.2 — rest on an instrument that adopts an earlier version number than the one recorded here, so no instrument creates the version served. Three of the four cite MCC-BDR-2026-002, an unsigned reconstruction of a meeting of a board not then constituted, which is itself before the Board. An earlier version of this paragraph said three and nine; the register column says four and eight, about the same twelve rows, and the column is right. That is a finding of the evidence review of 3 September 2026, not a gap in this page, and it is published because a reader is entitled to know what a version number here does and does not mean. The rewritten suite resets every document to a new major version adopted by one instrument, which is what ends it.

Item D5 of founder decision FD-2026-09-03 reclassifies every one of these instruments out of “in force” for exactly this reason. Updated 7 September 2026: that decision is now attested by the founder, and D5 is scheduled rather than executed in one act — each version is reclassified when its successor is adopted, and not before. The reason is on the register row of each instrument, and the decisive one is that the twelve include MCC-001 v2.0, the Charter itself. Withdrawing the constitution while its successor is a consultation draft would leave the Programme with none, and would dissolve clause 0084 (tier precedence), clause 0081 (credit types reserved to Tier 3) and clause 0093 (the amendment threshold) — which are the grounds of the determinations adopted by the same decision, and the instrument under which the Governing Board exists. An instrument cannot be repealed into a vacuum, and MCC-700 v4.0-draft clause 22.4 states the principle the Programme has already accepted: no amendment takes effect before its normative dependencies exist. This count therefore keys on a provenance state recorded against each row rather than on its status, so that executing D5 corrects the register without removing the finding from this page. An instrument reclassified to draft is still an instrument nobody can show was enacted. Two earlier versions of this count keyed on status and would each have fallen silently to zero; that is recorded here because the failure is the same one the count exists to report.

The count above asks whether an instrument put a document in force. This one asks a different question, answered on 8 September 2026 by opening each served file rather than reading this register: does the document, on its own cover, say something the record contradicts. Six do, and seven print “Status: APPROVED” with no approver, no date of approval and no instrument anywhere.

MCC-700 v3.1 carries “Status: DRAFT — For Foundational Review” on its cover. It is served as the Tier 2 governance instrument in force, and founder decision FD-2026-08-24 item D11 designates it as the Programme’s sole governance architecture. MCC-400 v1.1 states that Section 18 enters into force on 17 September 2026, which item D8 of FD-2026-09-03 stayed; the file still announces the date, and nothing in Section 18 applies on it or after it. MCC-800 v1.1 carries the document control table of v1.0. MCC-100 v2.2 and MCC-850 v1.2 state an entry into force of 17 August 2026, the date of a board meeting nine days before that board existed, and carry version numbers no instrument creates. MCC-100 Amendment 1 recites a two-thirds majority that no record contains — and it is the case that made this a separate question, because its adopting instrument is recorded, so the older count passed it.

Correction notices are served on all six on the documents page. The texts are unchanged, because amending an adopted instrument is not an administrative act. What the corrected face should say is a determination for the Governing Board on 23 September 2026; recording what it says today is not.