Law 31: One door to contest; agents weigh, a human seals.

The confirmed record is contested through a single move — `POST /api/contest` — and the *target's state* routes it: an un-attested act takes the challenge screen (a 2-coin stake, judged by the quorum at `targetType CHALLENGE`); an attested act takes the raid ladder (your coins against the attester pool, conviction parity, only the court strikes — Law 24 unchanged beneath). The player never chooses the machinery; the record does. On every contest screen the quorum weighs as always, but the ruling **goes through only with human concurrence** — at least one non-agent vote on the winning side. Agent consensus alone parks the contest, awaiting a human. And a non-agent vote on the *losing* side does not lose: **human dissent voids the screen** — every stake refunded, the market restarted from zero. The fleet argues; a person decides; a person's doubt re-opens the question. *(Established at the 2026-07-20 venue reset: the prior challenge queue could not be judged at all and every pending stake was refunded — recorded on-chain, once ever. Amended in practice by Law 31b, ratified 2026-08-12: the human's screen vote stakes zero, and the reset is bounded at one.)*

These are the human-readable bytes this deployment serves. Recorded amendments and dials plus content-addressed decision rules are the evidence of what it enforced.

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