dot-iu-cutter v0.4 — First Controlled Production CUT/VERIFY Trial — HANDOFF STATUS

Date: 2026-05-17 · Phase: closeout + post-execution backup verification (no production write). GPT verdict on execution report: PASS — execution_status = SUCCESS_LIVE; first controlled production CUT/VERIFY trial = COMPLETE; expected Δ +15 == actual Δ +15; DOT lane verification PASS; rollback/forward-compensation not triggered; production scope clean. Accepted code commit (pinned, unchanged): e93424b5ff7fa5e4b8406131977ce4339cd0856a (branch main). Controlling chain: command-review r1 · readiness addendum r1 (B2 closed) · target preflight r1 (B1 closed) · sovereign execution prompt · execution report (GPT-PASSed) · this closeout.

1. Status

Item	State
First controlled production CUT/VERIFY trial	COMPLETE — SUCCESS_LIVE
Row delta	exact +15 (actual == expected, independently re-verified live + via restore)
DOT lane verification	PASS (DOT-991→change_set only; DOT-992→verify_result only; XOR clean)
Rollback / forward-compensation	not triggered (VERIFY=pass; append-only rows retained)
Production identity	sysid 7611578671664259111 stable; prod postgres not restarted
Post-execution backup verification	PASS (fresh backup + SHA256 + isolated restore-test)
Protected dry-run envs (3)	byte-identical (untouched)
Git iu-cutter	clean; no code change; no commit
Self-advance	PROHIBITED

2. Key IDs

• TARGET_IU = 04e0c674-2a71-53b7-8d30-9c1a78d6fd17 (canonical D38-DIEU28-S3-P1, DIEU-28)
• entry_id = 26a8c4e8-c07c-5ff4-8854-ab55ef4fcf81
• change_set_id = 7c963f27-0bc1-4dd9-91ac-4d1f82f82d53
• verify_result_id = 633f2c51-9a87-4bb4-a7f6-75342bf72ac7
• final_status verified_complete · verify verdict pass

3. Backups

• Pre-write disaster backstop: …/prod-directus-20260517T133614Z.sql · SHA256 da4e15e63f0da9fdc5b4a2c3142903b43da9d035294c7e7ec361e315b8318d3f · 683,351,052 B (taken at preflight A8; does NOT contain the +15).
• Authoritative post-trial backup: …/prod-directus-postv0.4trial-20260517T134709Z.sql · SHA256 ff3c7d5afb2ea6dd92a729171d5a0e97d85c0cf0e26246f64f9fa442ec3c2160 · 683,370,930 B (contains the +15; restore-tested PASS).
• Both retained under /opt/incomex/backups/dot-iu-cutter-v0.4-prodtrial-2026-05-17/; never uploaded to KB (production data; SHA-reference only).

4. Honest notes

• N-1 (benign restore role errors): plain pg_dump omits cluster-global CREATE ROLE; restoring into a fresh isolated postgres:16 produced 1443 role "…" does not exist GRANT/ownership ERROR lines (directus/context_pack_readonly/incomex/workflow_admin/cutter_*). Zero touch cutter_governance; all data-fidelity gates passed (exact +15, key IDs, TARGET_IU, DOT lane, alias). Same known pattern as v0.2/v0.3 closeouts — backup is sound; restore-into-fresh-cluster needs globals, not a data defect.
• N-2 (cosmetic exit code): closeout script printed closeout_status=PASS with every C1..C10 OK, but the process exit was 1 — the trap … EXIT teardown's final [ -f <already-shredded-pw-file> ] test returns false under set -e. Authoritative signals (closeout_status=PASS, all gate lines OK, restore env gone, protected byte-identical, prod identity stable) are unambiguous; this is harness-tooling hygiene, not a verification failure. Future: have the EXIT-trap end on a true command.

5. Boundaries carried forward (GPT directive)

Do NOT self-advance to a second IU · no bulk cut · no deploy/restart · no schema migration / index DDL · no label registry · no vector/NoSQL · no alias writes. Each requires a separate GPT review + sovereign prompt. Next = GPT review of this closeout package.