stack: Budget-Ausnahme von version regrade haengt an der Aufrufform (Doku-Nachzug zu #95)

Files changed:
- CHANGES.md
- VERSION
- instructions/gates.md
- instructions/session-setup.md

CHANGES.md

@@ -52,6 +52,24 @@ concern - readable here, never shipped as something to parse.
 
 ---
 
+## 5.1.1-beta.1 - 2026-09-12 - gates.md/session-setup.md: die Budget-Ausnahme von version regrade haengt an der Aufrufform
+
+**Author:** Torben Nehmer
+
+<!-- wikitool:bumps -->
+**Low impact**
+- gates.md/session-setup.md: die Budget-Ausnahme von version regrade haengt an der Aufrufform
+<!-- /wikitool:bumps -->
+
+Doku-Nachzug zu `5.1.0`. Beide Dateien beschrieben die Budget-Ausnahme als feste Liste pro
+Kommandoname ("fixed allowlist"); `version regrade` ist die erste Ausnahme, die nur in *einer*
+Aufrufform liest - bar listet sie, mit Positionen schreibt sie `CHANGES.md`. Die Liste selbst
+bleibt an ihrem einen Ort (`tools/CONTRACT.md`), beide Stellen benennen jetzt aber, dass dort ein
+Eintrag pro Aufruf statt pro Namen gilt. Aufgefallen in der Schlussphase derselben Arbeit, deshalb
+ein eigener Patch-Bump: der Pfad `instructions/` liegt im Version-Gate der CI.
+
+---
+
 ## 5.1.0 - 2026-09-12 - changelog: Kandidaten-Eintrag nach Impact gruppiert, version regrade zur Nachkorrektur, version release verlangt eine Zusammenfassung
 
 **Author:** Torben Nehmer

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.1.0
+5.1.1-beta.1

instructions/gates.md

@@ -193,10 +193,17 @@ command you actually need to run, and only with the user's approval.
 
 A dozen commands are exempt from this budget entirely - `search` and `doctor` because retrieval
 and diagnosis are reading, not iterating, plus the read-only forms of `links`, `cite`, `budget`,
-`eval`, `version`, `migrate` and `upstream verify`. The exemption is that fixed allowlist in
+`eval`, `version`, `migrate` and `upstream verify`. The exemption is that allowlist in
 [tools/CONTRACT.md](../tools/CONTRACT.md), not a "does not change the wiki" rule of thumb: `lint`
 only writes to gitignored `reports/` and still counts, because it is not on the list.
 
+**One entry is read-only only in one of its two forms.** `version regrade` lists the running
+candidate's graded bump titles when called bare, and writes `CHANGES.md` when called with
+positions to regrade - so the exemption is per *invocation* there, not per command name. It is
+the only such case; every other row on the list is exempt however it is called. Its
+`tools/CONTRACT.md` row says which form is which, which is still the single place that list
+lives.
+
 ### Taking a new session id
 
 The budget is scoped by `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID` ([session-setup.md](session-setup.md)), so a new

instructions/session-setup.md

@@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ refusal. See [gates.md](gates.md).
 
 ## Scope
 
-**The exemption is a fixed allowlist, not "read-only" or "does not change the wiki."** A command
+**The exemption is an allowlist, not "read-only" or "does not change the wiki."** A command
 needs this setup unless it is one of the dozen `tools/CONTRACT.md` marks exempt in its command
 table (`search`, `doctor`, `links show`, `cite id`, `budget status`, the read-only forms of
 `eval`, `version`, `migrate` and `upstream verify`) - that table, not a rule of thumb here, is
-the single list.
+the single list. One entry on it, `version regrade`, is exempt only in its bare listing form and
+counted when it is given positions to regrade; every other entry is exempt however it is called.
 
 `lint` is the case that breaks the "changes the wiki" reading: it only writes to `reports/`,
 which is gitignored, so it looks side-effect-free - but it is not on the allowlist and is counted