Law Merge Administrative Phase Gate — Enter Law Revision Phase

Date: 2026-06-17

Status

APPROVED FOR LAW-REVISION WORKSTREAM.

This is an administrative phase gate only. It records that the Law Merge Survey has passed GPT/Codex review and that the next workstream may begin: creating the law-reading index, compatibility notes, amendments, and rewrite drafts in knowledge/dev/laws-new/newlaws/.

Basis

• F0→F5/FX survey completed.
• Law Merge Survey bundle created under knowledge/dev/laws-new/newlaws/.
• Codex content review passed, with a temporary folder-policy HOLD.
• Folder-policy HOLD was cleared after removing the out-of-workspace file knowledge/dev/laws-new/laws/README.md.
• Codex recheck returned PASS.

Authorized next workstream

Allowed:

• Create LAW_READING_INDEX.md under knowledge/dev/laws-new/newlaws/.
• Create law-compatibility notes under knowledge/dev/laws-new/newlaws/.
• Create amendment drafts under knowledge/dev/laws-new/newlaws/.
• Create rewrite drafts under knowledge/dev/laws-new/newlaws/.
• Submit each important batch to Codex review before treating it as accepted working law material.

Not authorized

This administrative gate does not authorize:

• technical design;
• Phase-1;
• live DB/runtime queries;
• implementation;
• schema/table/registry/index creation;
• production mutation;
• editing or moving knowledge/dev/laws/;
• treating draft notes/amendments/rewrites as enacted law before review/acceptance.

Current operating rule

knowledge/dev/laws/ remains the source/provenance corpus.

knowledge/dev/laws-new/newlaws/ is the only workspace for new law-reading index, notes, amendments, and rewrites.

Final working-law selection must be made through an explicit reading index before technical design.