Answered 2026-07-09: option 1 — Demand dockets.
Cameron affirmed: player-authored Operations work creates a cold-signal
Demand docket consumed by an Operations machine at local compute.
Rejected options 2 (direct local capacity) and 3 (global bank as model).
The staging operations_bandwidth bank is debt until ROADMAP #33
deletes it. Capture landed in DESIGN.md, machine-work.md, compute.md,
reach.md, intel.md, sim-mechanics.md, ROADMAP #33.