Macro-4 Owner Approval Ballot (Next Step) — 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 75 of 90) · Editorial revision: rev1 Class: owner approval ballot · READ-ONLY · NON-ENACTING · NON-AUTHORIZING · prepared NOT enacted · NO write performed.

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

Ballot lock. This ballot is prepared, not cast. Recording any answer is an Owner act. Defaults are HOLD.

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0. Status and non-authorization

STATUS: PASS — engineering / design-only. The Owner ballot for what follows Macro-4. Engineering PASS ≠ authority PASS. Default: HOLD.

1. Purpose

Put the next Owner decisions in one place with a safe default each.

2. Sources / evidence read

Macro-3 owner approval ballot (B1–B4); Macro-4 entry gate v2 (55); staging build gate (57); Macro-5 branch map (60). Main process, no reader-agents.

3. Accepted baseline (carried)

The Owner may accept, modify, or reject each; unanswered = HOLD. The three lane decisions (B1–B3 from Macro-3) remain open and are not re-asked here except by reference.

4. Evidence / analysis — the ballot

Q	Decision	Macro-4 recommendation	Options	Default
M4-B1	Accept the 90-file Macro-4 package (after GPT→Codex)?	yes if Codex PASS_WITH_CAVEATS	a) accept · b) accept w/ patches · c) HOLD	c) HOLD
M4-B2	Authorize a staging build (SB gate)?	not yet — SB gate NO-GO	a) authorize · b) HOLD	b) HOLD
M4-B3	Launch Macro-5, and which branch?	M5-A (staging build) if forward motion wanted	a) M5-A · b) M5-B · c) none	c) none
M4-B4	(carried) the three lane decisions B1–B3	per Macro-3 ballot (defaults HOLD)	—	HOLD

5. Contract / requirement / matrix / result

Recommended ballot: M4-B1=a (accept after Codex) · M4-B2=b (HOLD; SB gate NO-GO) · M4-B3=a (M5-A if forward motion) · M4-B4 per Macro-3. No answer is recorded; all defaults HOLD.

6. Owner-gated future work

Casting this ballot + recording answers are Owner acts; forbidden now.

7. What remains unresolved

All questions unanswered; defaults HOLD.

8. Ready for GPT/Codex review

Yes — Codex should confirm each default is the safe disposition and no answer is pre-filled.