Refresh website for Root Sequence router role

site/COPY-REVIEW.md

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 # Website copy review: September 16, 2026
 
+## Review candidate: Root Sequence router role — September 25, 2026
+
+**Status: awaiting Rae Lovejoy's editorial approval. Not approved for release.**
+
+This candidate updates the public explanation after the merged
+adaptive-continuity / research-method work changed Root Sequence's current
+self-description.
+
+The one-page structure, headline **"Research for a more coherent world,"**
+reading controls, selected-project section, participation routes, visual
+design, embedded assets, and publication architecture remain unchanged.
+
+### Copy changes
+
+- The introduction now describes Root Sequence as an **open transdisciplinary
+  research and design project for questions that cross fields**.
+- The About section explains the current workflow in plain language:
+  trace the whole problem, identify the different kinds of question inside it,
+  route mechanisms to the fields and methods that study them, then reconnect
+  the findings without pretending the mechanisms are identical.
+- The repair example no longer presents "coherence" as the catch-all answer.
+  It shows the device, software, access, ownership, cost, and decision-right
+  questions as different parts of one problem and routes readers to the
+  Method & Concept Router.
+- The six Selected Research entries now foreground:
+  1. Root Sequence Research Method;
+  2. *Coherence Is a Systems Property*;
+  3. Adaptive continuity and dynamic coherence;
+  4. Epistemic discoverability and knowledge routing;
+  5. Legible Systems;
+  6. Reading Trails.
+- The social/metadata description now reflects the transdisciplinary
+  research-and-design role.
+
+### What this candidate does not claim
+
+The site does not say Root Sequence invented the native theories it routes to.
+It does not present Dynamic Coherence as a universal analysis method or score.
+It does not claim the editorial router pilots validated the method.
+
+The research repository remains the canonical source for the details and
+evidence boundaries.
+
+### Approval boundary
+
+`approval.json` is intentionally unchanged from the 2026-09-18 approved
+edition. The release builder must continue to reject this candidate until a
+new exact-source approval is recorded.
+
+
 ## Approval update: name explanation — September 18, 2026
 
 The current candidate adds a short **Why “Root Sequence”?** passage to the

site/README.md

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 This directory is the canonical source for `rootsequence.systems`.
 
-The current [`index.html`](index.html) is the single-page public seed approved
-by Rae Lovejoy on 2026-09-18. It includes a short explanation of the name Root
-Sequence, a link to the canonical concept page, and the six-item Selected
-Research section. It is tied to the exact digest recorded in
-[`approval.json`](approval.json).
+The current [`index.html`](index.html) on this branch is a **review candidate**
+updated on 2026-09-25 to reflect Root Sequence's router-and-synthesis role,
+canonical research method, adaptive-continuity work, epistemic discoverability,
+Legible Systems, and Reading Trails. It is **not yet publication-approved**.
+
+The last approved public seed remains the 2026-09-18 edition recorded in
+[`approval.json`](approval.json). That approval intentionally does not match
+this candidate, so `build.py --release` remains blocked until Rae Lovejoy
+reviews and explicitly approves the new source.
 
 The page is one self-contained file with its styles, scripts, favicon, and
 Cascadia Mono wordmark font embedded. It makes no runtime requests for fonts,

site/VALIDATION.md

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 # Local validation — 2026-09-16
 
+## Router-role copy candidate — September 25, 2026
+
+**Status: review candidate only; not approved or released.**
+
+Connector-level structural checks on the branch found:
+
+- one `h1`;
+- 60 unique HTML IDs with no duplicates;
+- 27 internal fragment links with no missing targets;
+- English translation JSON parses and covers all 171 referenced i18n/aria keys;
+- two executable inline scripts remain present and the CSP still declares two
+  SHA-256 script hashes; the copy edit changed only HTML text, links, and the
+  non-executable translation JSON;
+- all new canonical GitHub destinations exist on current `main`:
+  - `research/method.md`;
+  - `research/method-router.md`;
+  - `research/papers/coherent-systems/paper.md`;
+  - `concepts/dynamic-coherence.md`;
+  - `concepts/epistemic-discoverability.md`;
+  - `concepts/legible-systems.md`;
+  - `research/reading-trails/README.md`;
+- the old selected-research labels (Intelligence Ecology, Events/patterns/scale,
+  Resilience/graceful-degradation, historical-contingency entry) are no longer
+  present in the selected-reading copy;
+- required router-role copy is present in both visible HTML and the English
+  translation table.
+
+`test_site.py` was updated so this branch is treated as an **unapproved review
+candidate** rather than falsely expected to match the September 18 approved
+preview. The release approval record remains unchanged, so the actual
+`build.py --release` gate is intentionally expected to reject this candidate
+until Rae Lovejoy approves the exact current source.
+
+The complete Python site test suite and browser-layout/render checks were **not
+executed in this connector-only pass**. They remain required before publication.
+No live-domain or deployment check is claimed.
+
+
 ## Approved Root Sequence name explanation — 2026-09-18
 
 - The About section includes a compact explanation of “root,” “sequence,” and