In 2025, before any of its present systems existed, the Möbius program wrote itself a constitution. Möbius v2.6.3 AIOS was a maximal, monolithic specification for a reflective AI operating stack: question-first I/O with every turn recorded as a governed question state (Q-State), a mandatory evidence trace (Why), a tamper-evident hash-chained evolution log, a single-writer discipline, a two-hop rule against complexity sprawl, a quantified admission gate (ΔQ/ΔC ≥ 1.0), an independent Oracle/Actor mirror, a variant-lifecycle forge, and an outer supervisor. None of it was implemented at the time. This paper audits, article by article, what has become of that constitution one year later, across the program's now-public systems: MMV (answer entitlement), RQA (bounded reflective questioning and memory-echo governance), MOBIUS INFINITY / ERO (their sequential composition), rcgov (context governance), the self-evolving secretary governed by RGS/RHL anti-regress theory, and the capacity-gate measurement campaign. The audit yields a four-way disposition. Some articles were ratified as written (reversible evolution lifecycle, immutable kernel, outer supervision). More were ratified by transmutation, and improved in the crossing: Q-State became RQA's append-only Question Graph; the Why-field became a deterministic, code-level output-time self-citation verifier that does not trust the model's self-report; the Mirror became a pinned external evaluator with graceful local degradation; the predictive ΔQ/ΔC ratio became a falsifiability veto plus settlement-time effect measurement — replacing a gameable pre-hoc estimate with a bet that must declare its own settlement date. One central article was empirically refuted and replaced: the monolithic layered stack itself. Composition experiments documented that layering reflective content onto structural governance collapses restraint (MMV Condition I), so the architecture became a federation of sibling systems composed sequentially, never layered. A final set of articles was consciously discarded as failing the constitution's own admission principle. Two residues remain unratified — hash-chaining of the evolution ledgers, and a systematic disagreement ledger — and are named as near-term work. We argue the pattern generalizes: a constitution written far ahead of implementation is most valuable not as a backlog but as a reservoir, whose articles are ratified when a living system develops the need, and are routinely better than their text by the time they arrive. Keywords: AI governance, self-evolving systems, answer entitlement, reflective questioning, memory-echo governance, reversibility, genealogy, Dynamic Observationalism, RGS/RHL, capacity gate --- AI co-observer: Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — working method only; the registered author is the human author alone.
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