04 — ai_council approval: channel ABSENT (proof of non-availability + non-fabrication)

Required

Two rows apr_approvals(apr_id=415, approver_type='ai_council', decision='approve', rationale=<scoped>) cast by two distinct real ai_council seats through their own authenticated identities.

What actually happened

question	answer
Real ai_council seats present/voting this session?	NO
Council votes cast through real authenticated council channels?	NO
Agent-runnable council-approval CLI/API available?	NO (none exists)
Did the agent record a council vote?	NO — would be fabrication; forbidden
ai_council approvals on apr_id=415 (live)	0 (need ≥2)

Why no vote was recorded

• The proposing agent (Claude) is not an ai_council seat. The council seats are distinct identities (e.g. gemini, gpt, ai_council_1/2). The agent impersonating any of them and writing an approve row is fabrication — explicitly forbidden by the macro hard-lock.
• "Operator root writes all votes as a convenience" is forbidden; capability ≠ authority.
• No automated council path: auto-approve disabled 2026-06-06 (fn_auto_approve_add).
• Even a single agent-cast council vote would also violate proposer/self-exclusion intent and the "3 distinct real approver identities" rule.

Evidence the mechanism is real (missing approvers, not missing mechanism)

apr_approvals has live approver_type='ai_council' rows from prior governed APRs; the council seats are real and have voted before. They are reachable by the real council members through their own channels — not by the agent, and not in this session.

Result

HOLD for this seat: APR_0415_APPROVAL_HOLD_NO_REAL_AI_COUNCIL_CHANNEL. 0 of 2 required ai_council approvals recorded. No fabrication. No self-approval.