Macro-4 Engineering-PASS-Not-Authority-PASS Lock — 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 72 of 90) · Editorial revision: rev1 Class: engineering-vs-authority lock · READ-ONLY · NON-ENACTING · NON-AUTHORIZING · NO write performed.

Metadata convention. Editorial revision (rev1) only. Storage revision/content_length authoritative at read time.

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0. Status and non-authorization

STATUS: PASS — engineering / design-only. The distinction that governs every STATUS in this package. Engineering PASS ≠ authority PASS. Default: HOLD.

1. Purpose

State, once and canonically, what a PASS in Macro-4 does and does not mean.

2. Sources / evidence read

Prompt §11 ("Engineering PASS is not authority PASS"); Macro-3 engineering-pass lock; authority-pass-before-write (65). Main process, no reader-agents.

3. Accepted baseline (carried)

Every "STATUS: PASS" is an engineering verdict — the deliverable is well-formed, grounded, within scope. It is not an Owner authority verdict.

4. Evidence / analysis

• A PASS here does not select a channel, assign an owner, adopt a source, build staging, open TD, or authorize a write.
• The default disposition of the whole 90-file package is HOLD until the Owner decides.
• Authority flows only from the Owner via Điều 37→32, never from an engineering PASS.

5. Contract / requirement / matrix / result

Read every PASS in Deliverables 1–90 as "engineering-complete, awaiting Owner authority." No PASS may be cited as authorization for any enactment. Misusing a PASS as authority = HOLD.

6. Owner-gated future work

All enactment is Owner-gated; an engineering PASS is a precondition for review, not a grant.

7. What remains unresolved

Owner authority not given; default HOLD stands.

8. Ready for GPT/Codex review

Yes — Codex should flag any place a PASS is (mis)used as authority.