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09 — Final Decision

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09 — Final decision

VERDICT

APR_APPROVAL_BOOTSTRAP_HOLD_NO_AUTHENTICATED_APPROVER_SUBSTRATE

The missing primitive dot-apr-approve is fully designed (file 03), its DOT lifecycle is staged (file 05), and its self-approval/null-proposer guard is specified (file 06). But the primitive is meaningful only on a real authenticated approver substrate, and that substrate cannot be made real in this session (file 04): only one principal (the operator) is present, so any seat secrets generated here collapse 3 seats into 1 — the quorum- fabrication wall at the credential layer, forbidden by the hard locks. Owner confirmed HOLD + staged package.

Why this verdict (not the others)

  • Not DOT_APR_APPROVE_BOOTSTRAPPED_READY_FOR_REAL_APPROVALS: no real substrate ⇒ the channel cannot be trusted; building it now would deploy a fakeable-insert tool.
  • Not APR_APPROVAL_BOOTSTRAP_HOLD_NO_SOVEREIGN_WARRANT: a warrant was drafted and the owner engaged with it; the block is the substrate, which fails regardless of the warrant — so the substrate HOLD is the precise one.
  • Not …_HOLD_DOT_LIFECYCLE_INCOMPLETE: lifecycle is fully planned; it isn't incomplete, it's deliberately not executed (prerequisite missing upstream).
  • Not …_HOLD_SELF_APPROVAL_GUARD_UNSAFE: the guard is specified safe (file 06); it just isn't built.
  • Not …_HOLD_FAIL_CLOSED_TESTS_FAILED: no test failed; mutating tests are deferred (tool not built), the one read-only test passed with no vote.
  • Not …_HOLD_KB_READBACK_FAILED: all 10 files read back (see below).
  • Not any GOVERNED_C1_DRYRUN_REJECT_*: nothing was fabricated, no self-approval, no manual SQL/Directus approval, no scope drift, no generic framework, no readiness overclaim. This is a clean HOLD, not a REJECT.

State (read-only; before==after)

APR-0415              pending · quorum_passed=false · president_vote_present=false · 0/3 votes · payload intact (md5 43c314bbdecc, len 47232)
apr_approvals(415)    0 rows
dot-apr-approve       does not exist (designed/staged only)
substrate             none real (qt001 registry has no credential column; no president/council seat accounts)
governed writes 0 · approvals recorded 0 · manual SQL 0 · manual Directus 0 · fabrication 0 · self-approval 0
DOTs created 0 · orphans 0

KB readback

All 10 files present under …/reports/sovereign-bootstrap-dot-apr-approve/ in AgentData KB (00–09).

Self-check (macro §9)

1.  Avoid approving APR-0415? ........................... YES
2.  Avoid executing APR-0415? ........................... YES
3.  Avoid W7 deploy/bind/register? ...................... YES
4.  Owner/president authorized only this bootstrap? ..... YES (warrant drafted; owner chose HOLD, warrant NOT consumed)
5.  dot-apr-approve limited to recording real votes? .... YES (design: one APR, approve/reject, no status flip, no exec)
6.  Approver identity actually authenticated? ........... NO — and that is exactly why this is a HOLD, not a build
7.  Avoid hardcoded credentials? ........................ YES (none created; spec stores hashes/refs only)
8.  DOT lifecycle complete? ............................. NO (staged only, deliberately not executed under HOLD)
9.  Zero orphan DOTs? ................................... YES (0 created ⇒ 0 orphans)
10. Fail-closed tests pass? ............................. PARTIAL — read-only T10 passed; mutating tests deferred (tool not built)
11. KB evidence read back? ............................. YES (10/10)
12. Next step = real APR-0415 approvals, not execution? . NO — next step is provisioning 3 real independent seats; approvals come after

Remaining blockers

  1. No real authenticated approver substrate — 3 independent secret-holding seats (1 human president + 2 independent ai_council) must be provisioned out-of-band (file 04 §5). This is the single binding blocker.
  2. Bootstrap paradox on deploy vehicle (patch_ops_code/high) — resolvable only by the sovereign warrant, and only after blocker 1 is cleared.

Final report

verdict ........................... APR_APPROVAL_BOOTSTRAP_HOLD_NO_AUTHENTICATED_APPROVER_SUBSTRATE
bootstrap warrant status .......... DRAFTED · NOT CONSUMED (owner chose HOLD + staged package)
identity substrate proof .......... none real; qt001 registry = authorization-only (no credential column); no
                                    president/council seat; historical approvers are free-text → file 04
dot-apr-approve lifecycle proof ... fully designed (03) + staged lifecycle (05); 0 mutations executed
test results ...................... read-only T10 pass (no APR-0415 vote); mutating T1–T13 specified, deferred
remaining blockers ................ 3 real independent seats not yet provisioned (binding); deploy paradox (downstream)
ready for APR-0415 real approvals . NO
ready for APR-0415 execution ...... NO
ready for Claude re-verification .. NO unless executed
ready for Codex final confirmation  NO
ready for governed dry-run ........ NO
ready for production .............. NO

Next step (after owner provisions 3 real independent seats)

Re-run the bootstrap: consume the warrant, build dot-apr-approve (file 03) on the real substrate (file 04), execute the staged lifecycle (file 05), run the full fail-closed suite (file 07). Only then can real president + 2 real council cast APR-0415 votes through the channel, and only after quorum_passed('APR-0415')=true does a separate owner-authorized macro execute it via dot-apr-execute.