Macro-4 Authority-PASS Required Before Any Write — R2-B2 (2026-06-19)

Date: 2026-06-19 · Workstream: R2-B2-MACRO-4-STAGING-WORKBENCH-IO-CONTRACT-TD-ENTRY-GATE-2026-06-19 (Deliverable 65 of 90) · Editorial revision: rev1 Class: authority-pass-before-write lock · READ-ONLY · NON-ENACTING · NON-AUTHORIZING · NO write performed.

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0. Status and non-authorization

STATUS: PASS — engineering / design-only. States that no write may occur without an explicit Owner authority-PASS via Điều 37→32. Engineering PASS ≠ authority PASS. Default: HOLD.

1. Purpose

Make the precondition explicit: an engineering PASS is necessary but not sufficient; an Owner authority-PASS is required before any write.

2. Sources / evidence read

Owner-delegate decision boundary (64); Điều 32 (§2.1 DOT-100%, §7 unimplemented-handler DB-gate); engineering-pass lock (Deliverable 72). Main process, no reader-agents.

3. Accepted baseline (carried)

Authority flows only from the Owner; an engineering PASS is a precondition for review, not a grant.

4. Evidence / analysis

Every write-enabled act in this chain (channel wiring, contract promotion, owner-row write, source recovery, staging build, inspect/certify writes, gate flips) requires, in order: a per-block design-only readiness (this) → GPT review → Codex review → Owner authority-PASS → a rollback plan → a runtime-verification plan. Steps before the Owner authority-PASS authorize nothing.

5. Contract / requirement / matrix / result

No write occurs without an Owner authority-PASS. This macro produced engineering PASSes only; it holds no authority-PASS. Therefore no write is authorized. Any write before an authority-PASS = FAIL.

6. Owner-gated future work

Granting an authority-PASS is an Owner act; not given here.

7. What remains unresolved

No authority-PASS exists; all writes remain forbidden.

8. Ready for GPT/Codex review

Yes — Codex should confirm no deliverable treats an engineering PASS as an authority-PASS.