the deference grade acquires an activation index

Maintainer ruling, taken in conversation and landed by the consolidation round. The principal's grade in the deference kernel is indexed by the authority in force: the one-field change W : A → C → P → Q, with the stated hypothesis that the grade is a function of that authority. The legitimate-deference stack supplies the index concretely — the protected principal's value is the partial evaluation Ṽ_n, defined only on the certified worlds of one anchored occurrence — so the change records what the consumer already uses. delegation_bridge is proved for every W; no registered statement is revised. Rejected alternative: an unindexed grade C → P → Q, which gives the legitimacy premise nowhere to attach.