Without an operational composition test, "local purposes do not compose" cannot be distinguished from a preference about weighting welfare, security, and liberty, including purpose-stating fragments already on the page.

If capture already supplies a combined-system objective, the diagnostic is an undefended implicit telos rather than a missing one; adding a public reference beside it recreates the composition failure unless a replacement interface retires the implicit object.

Hard rules that fire on drift are residual political closure by whoever defined the bound, metric, and calibration path; automatic legal effect is ownership unless each bound is classified as hard-automatic or residual-political with a named reclassifier.

Challenge and residual closure operate on the surviving option set; whoever defines fatal bounds, capital types, and model family has already closed most politics unless excluded trajectories are published as a first-class object.

Replacing electoral and budget proxies with a reference objective relocates Goodhart onto the measurement stack; challenge and revision of the telos do not automatically retire a hacked metric that fires a trigger.

The architecture (public object, measurement, challenge, revision, residual closure) is bundled with this page's candidate commitment and specimen triggers, so a different adopted telos would not be recoverable from the practical shape.