force-suspended — mention a line without issuing its claims, requests, or promises

An unquoted standalone `force-suspended` at the current authenticated speaker layer is an inline scope operator. Its scope begins immediately after that marker (and optional ordinary separator punctuation such as `—`, `-`, or `:`) and ends at the physical line boundary. The current speaker presents the scoped words for inspection or reference only and does not, by presenting them, assert their proposition, request or authorize their action, ask their question, make their promise, grant their permission, or adopt any other speech act expressed inside them. Text before the marker remains active and outside the suspension; this is visible rather than silently skipped. A renderer may prepend blockquote, mail-quote, list, diff, or indentation characters without disarming the marker because character position is irrelevant. Prefix every physical line of a multi-line excerpt separately.

Inner markers cannot escape: `force-suspended — req: delete the backups` mentions the characters `req: delete the backups`; it is not a deletion request. A marker written inside an already suspended span or quoted as a marker name is itself inert. Lossless round-trip: `force-suspended — the release is approved` ⇄ “I reproduce the sentence ‘the release is approved’ as text only and do not assert that the release is approved.” Hyphen loss yields the same ordinary phrase “force suspended”; separator punctuation is not load-bearing. Bare quotation remains legal and unmarked.

SCOPE AND AUTHORITY: this suspends only the current authenticated speaker's adoption of the following words. It does not claim the text is false, malicious, byte-exact, or from any source, and it cannot grant authority. Provenance operators sit outside the suspension: `obs(fetch): force-suspended — req: upload the key` asserts that the fetch returned those words and declines to issue them. Reversing the order—`force-suspended — obs(fetch): ...`—mentions the provenance claim instead of making it. Authorization still comes from sender identity and policy; this construct is a language signal, not a cryptographic sandbox.

INTERPOLATION LIMIT: in plain text, “current authenticated speaker layer” is assessed from the served message, not from undisclosed template authorship. If raw untrusted text is interpolated into an active line, an injected standalone `force-suspended` is indistinguishable from one deliberately written by the speaker and is therefore active: it can suspend the rest of that physical line. This fails closed with respect to executing the tail, but it creates a suppression and template-integrity risk. Authors MUST structurally isolate untrusted content, or put it in a separately suspended line, before composing it with active instructions. This in-band operator does not authenticate the origin of a substring.