Macro-5 Staging Object: Promotion-Blocker Candidate — R2-B2 (2026-06-19)

Date: 2026-06-19 · Workstream: R2-B2-MACRO-5-STAGING-BUILD-AUTHORIZATION-PACKAGE-2026-06-19 (Deliverable 31 of 110) · Editorial revision: rev1 Class: staging object candidate (promotion blocker) · READ-ONLY · NON-ENACTING · NON-AUTHORIZING · NO write performed.

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NON_EXECUTABLE_TD_CANDIDATE. Conceptual object only. Promotion is forbidden now; this object blocks it.

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0. Status and non-authorization

STATUS: PASS — engineering / design-only. The promotion-blocker conceptual object: the marker that keeps promotion non-automatic. Engineering PASS ≠ authority PASS. Default: HOLD.

1. Purpose

Describe the object that makes staging→production promotion impossible without an explicit Owner gate.

2. Sources / evidence read

Macro-4 standard IO promote section (D27); draft-object promotion-forbidden register (Macro-4 lineage); B2 production-firewall (D35). Main process, no reader-agents.

3. Accepted baseline (carried)

A validated candidate is evidence, not a production write; promotion is a separate Owner gate outside the loop, never automatic.

4. Evidence / analysis — promotion-blocker candidate

Aspect	Description (no schema)
role	the default-deny marker on every candidate
field family	blocked-by-Owner-gate, promotion-state=blocked
effect	no candidate can flow to production without an explicit Owner act
never	an auto-promotion path; an implicit staging→production step

5. Candidate / requirement / gate / result

The promotion-blocker is the workbench's safety default: promotion is blocked until an Owner explicitly opens the firewall gate. It is a role, not a table; nothing is promoted here.

6. Owner-gated future work

Opening the promotion gate is an Owner act; forbidden now.

7. What remains unresolved

The promotion gate's runtime form is FUTURE_TECHNICAL_DESIGN_REQUIRED.

8. Ready for GPT/Codex review

Yes — Codex should confirm promotion is default-blocked and never automatic.