O8 Report 03 — Target selection policy

• macro: v0.6-o8-production-run-readiness-command-package
• date_utc: 2026-05-21 · host: vmi3080463 (Contabo)
• gate covered: G3 target selection policy

1. Policy (ratified — O5 doc 03 OPT-5, doc 05 R-8, doc 04 GAP-8)

A first orchestrator-managed production cut MUST target a document that is small (≤ ~20 candidates), new, not the Constitution, and not signature-critical / externally-relied-upon. Signature-critical documents are deferred until real crypto (O10). The orchestrator's source_pin phase requires a registered source_document + source_version; the macro forbids creating new source_document/source_version rows outside an approval scope.

2. Live candidate survey

2.1 Registered source documents

cutter_governance.source_document_registry contains exactly one row:

incomex-constitution | ICX-CONST | Internal Incomex Architecture
Constitution | status=active

2.2 information_unit document prefixes

Prefix family	Rows	Lifecycle	Registered source_document?
ICX-CONST	60	all enacted	✅ (the Constitution)
D38-DIEU28-*, D38-DIEU32-*, D38-DIEU35-*	1 row each (~120 addresses)	all draft	❌ none
pilot.*	5	draft	❌ none
test	7	draft	❌ none

3. Assessment

• ICX-CONST — the only registered source document — is the Constitution: authoritative, signature-critical, already 60/60 enacted. It is explicitly forbidden as a first-cut target (OPT-5 / R-8) and re-cutting it is not a new document.
• D38-DIEU* / pilot.* / test rows are loose information_unit rows not backed by any registered source_document / source_version. The orchestrator cannot pin them in source_pin; using them would require creating new registry rows — which this macro forbids without an approval scope.

4. Verdict

G3_target_selection: BLOCKED
safe_target_available: NO
reason: >
  No harmless, small, new, non-Constitution, non-signature-critical
  REGISTERED source document exists. The only registered source
  document is the Constitution (forbidden as a first-cut target).
  Creating a new source_document/source_version is forbidden outside
  an approval scope.
required_to_close_GAP-8:
  - a sovereign-approved scope to author + register ONE small, new,
    harmless source_document (+ source_version) purpose-built as the
    first-cut target; OR
  - a sovereign nomination of an existing registrable candidate.
  - target authoring is itself a source_document/source_version
    mutation and needs explicit approval — it cannot be done here.

GAP-8 = OPEN (BLOCKED). No production cut can be targeted safely within the current macro's authority.