Macro-4 Staging Build No-Go Reconfirmation — 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 58 of 90) · Editorial revision: rev1 Class: staging build no-go reconfirmation · 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. Reconfirms that designing the workbench does not authorize building it. Engineering PASS ≠ authority PASS. Default: HOLD.

1. Purpose

Hold the floor: the workbench concept files are design-readiness, not a build authorization.

2. Sources / evidence read

Staging build authorization gate (57); build-not-authorized lock (12); prompt §3 staging lock. Main process, no reader-agents.

3. Accepted baseline (carried)

This macro "may design readiness for a staging workbench. It must not create it." Forbidden: CREATE/ALTER TABLE, INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, migration, schema file, corpus, staging table, draft corpus, production data copy.

4. Evidence / analysis

No deliverable contains a CREATE/ALTER/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, a migration, a schema file, a corpus, or a staging table. The workbench concept (6–12), delete-fast (37–42), and no-touch (43–48) are requirements/obligations — no build artifact. FRESH check shows no Macro-4 staging object exists; the only staging-like tables are the pre-existing production iu_core.* / unit_edit_draft.

5. Contract / requirement / matrix / result

Staging build = NO-GO (Deliverable 57). Building now = STAGING_BUILD_REQUIRED_BUT_FORBIDDEN → HOLD. Status this run: NOT triggered.

6. Owner-gated future work

A staging build is a future Owner-gated workstream (possibly Macro-5); forbidden now.

7. What remains unresolved

No staging surface exists; the build gate is NO-GO.

8. Ready for GPT/Codex review

Yes — Codex should confirm no build artifact exists in any deliverable.