dot-iu-cutter v0.1 — Gate 1 Review: Safety / Scope / Law

Date: 2026-05-15
Reviewer: GPT
Review Gate: Gate 1 — Safety / Scope / Law
Files reviewed: D8 Design Report, D10 Legal Alignment, D5 Decision Backlog Registry, D7 UOSL Compatibility Note
Scope: Review only. No implementation, no migration, no PG mutation.

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1. Verdict

gate_1_status: PASS_WITH_NOTES
blocking_law_conflict_found: false
scope_breach_found: false
implementation_leak_found: false
ready_for_gate_2: true
ready_for_implementation: false

Gate 1 passes for review purposes. The design phase did not introduce an unresolved law conflict, did not bypass governance, and did not perform implementation work.

However, several governance and schema closure items remain mandatory before implementation planning.

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2. What Was Checked

2.1 Law alignment

Checked against:

• C1A / Điều 38 segmentation discipline
• Điều 24 label/vocabulary discipline
• Điều 32 risk/approval discipline
• Điều 33 / Điều 43 PG placement discipline
• Điều 37 governance organization
• Điều 39 universal_edges / KG discipline
• Điều 44 UOSL controlled draft discipline
• Điều 0-G Birth Gate distinction

2.2 Scope safety

Checked for prohibited actions:

• no code
• no DDL
• no migration
• no PG mutation
• no Qdrant/vector change
• no UI build
• no implementation dispatch

No forbidden action found in reviewed deliverables.

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3. Findings

3.1 No unresolved law conflict

D10 reports no unresolved law conflict. GPT review agrees.

Potential conflicts were handled as follows:

Area	Status	Notes
Đ24 vs SKOS	Resolved	SKOS is conceptual only; operational taxonomy routes to Đ24.
Đ32 vs auto-accept	Resolved	Auto-accept is risk-gated and policy-gated.
Đ39 vs Semantic Thread	Resolved	universal_edges-first is repeated and binding.
Đ44 draft status	Resolved	UOSL treated as controlled draft / compatibility target.
Đ37 notification/governance	Resolved with gaps	No parallel governance channel; gaps routed to backlog.
Đ33/Đ43 placement	Deferred	Threading PG placement still needs closure.
Đ0-G base/draft/runtime	Deferred	authority / birth-related fields recorded as schema gaps.

3.2 Governance gaps are valid, not blocking for design review

The 5 governance gaps are correctly identified and routed to the Decision Backlog / Điều 37 governance resolution path:

1. Threading roles
2. Decision Backlog custodian
3. Capability-intake reviewer
4. DOT-pair signing authority
5. Audience-scope access-control authority

These block implementation planning unless assigned/resolved, but they do not invalidate the design review.

3.3 UOSL / Điều 44 discipline is preserved

D7 correctly treats Điều 44 / UOSL as controlled draft, not enacted law. It maps concepts and records schema/family gaps rather than silently inventing schema.

3.4 Decision Backlog Registry design is aligned

D5 correctly defines PG as SSOT and KB markdown as mirror only. It avoids creating a separate notification/governance system and routes decisions through Điều 37 / Điều 32.

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4. Notes / Required Closures Before Implementation Planning

These are not blockers for Gate 2 review, but they are blockers before implementation planning:

1. Assign Điều 37 owners for the 5 governance gaps.
2. Decide threading PG placement under Điều 33 / Điều 43 if universal_edges is insufficient.
3. Submit required Family Registry entries to Điều 44 governance.
4. Define or approve authority / birth-gate distinction fields for IU runtime.
5. Prepare separate migration design for P0 schema gaps.

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5. Gate 1 Conclusion

gate_1_result: PASS_WITH_NOTES
next_gate: Gate 2 — Core Cutter Correctness
implementation_allowed: false

Proceed to Gate 2 review: D1 Operational Design, D2 Manifest and Operator Contract, D6 Assembly Axes Metadata Contract.