O8 Report 09 — Final O8 report

• macro: v0.6-o8-production-run-readiness-command-package
• date_utc: 2026-05-21
• host: vmi3080463 (Contabo · 38.242.240.89)
• FINAL RESULT: C — BLOCKED_WITH_EXACT_O8_GAP

1. Summary

O8 set out to move the v0.6 orchestrator from O7 live-dry-run PASS to ready for a first orchestrator-managed production run. A full live survey was performed (G0–G7). The macro STOPS BLOCKED: the deployed v0.6 artifact cannot perform a production run at all — and no sovereign approval for one exists. No production was mutated, the kill-switch was not touched, no code was patched, no service deployed.

2. Gate roll-up

Gate	Outcome
G0 PRECHECK-LIVE	PASS — Contabo, v0.6 present, v0.4 intact, execution_enabled=False, O7 state intact, KB r/w works
G1 deployed-runtime survey	PASS (survey) — surfaced GAP-9: no live-execution code path
G2 production prerequisite survey	SURVEYED — DB substrate ready; GAP-3/5/6/7/8 OPEN, GAP-4 PARTIAL
G3 target selection policy	BLOCKED — only ICX-CONST registered (the Constitution; forbidden as first target)
G4 execution-toggle design	DELIVERED — toggle NOT flipped, NOT patched; run-id-scoped design recommended for post-GAP-9
G5 backup/rollback/disable plan	DELIVERED — backup not producible (GAP-3); per-cut revert untested (GAP-6)
G6 first-run command package	TEMPLATE DELIVERED — not executable
G7 approval discovery	COMPLETE — no O8 approval / SG_1 / SG_2 / execution-flip ruling exists
G8 optional execution	NOT ENTERED — no approval and run is technically impossible
G9 reporting	PASS — this 9-doc package uploaded to KB

3. The decisive gap — GAP-9

The deployed v0.6 is internal milestone O4 "live-dryrun-orchestration" (__version__ = 0.6.0-O4-live-dryrun-orchestration). All five mutating phases (pre_write_backup, cut_leg_a, leg_b_record, write_verify, lifecycle_enact) contain only the Mode.DRYRUN simulator path. After the kill-switch guard, every body calls discoverer.simulate_*(). There is no Mode.LIVE write branch and no live-write discoverer.

Flipping __execution_enabled__=True would not produce a production cut — Mode.LIVE would fall through to the in-memory simulator: a run labelled live that mutates nothing (a structural false-PASS hazard). The O5 readiness survey's GAP-1..8 list never enumerated this; it assumed an execution-ready codebase needing only config/secrets/approval. It is not execution-ready.

Closing GAP-9 is a dedicated implementation milestone (a live-write execution adapter + live branches in 5 phases, wiring the existing v0.5-proven prod_iu_adapter_canonical / ledger_v2_canonical_* / real pg_dump+GPG). That is architecture-level work — out of O8 scope and forbidden to author un-reviewed here.

4. Exact O8 gap list

GAP-9  DECISIVE — no production-write code path; 5 mutating phases are
       simulator-only; no live-write discoverer. Needs a dedicated
       live-execution-wiring implementation milestone (own ruling).
GAP-3  BACKUP_GPG_FPR / GPG public key absent (empty keyring) → no
       real pre-write backup.
GAP-5  orchestrator.* config keys + /var/lib/cutter/{runs,batches,locks}
       not provisioned.
GAP-6  No tested per-document cut-revert. rollback_runbook.sql is a
       lifecycle-DDL teardown that refuses post-Phase-7 state.
GAP-7  No standalone sovereign/GPT ruling authorizing the
       execution_enabled flip; no SG_1 / SG_2 approval docs.
GAP-8  No safe registered target document. Only ICX-CONST (the
       Constitution) is registered — forbidden as a first-cut target.
GAP-4  PARTIAL — cutter_exec/cutter_verify roles present; the DQ_4
       governance-principal pinning decision is open.
also   `cutter orchestrate` CLI (cut/resume/void/batch) never built;
       `void`-based disable (level 2) unavailable.

5. Non-mutation evidence

production_row_counts:        information_unit=158, unit_version=165,
                              iu_lifecycle_log=60, ICX-CONST enacted=60
                              — identical to O7 before/after
execution_enabled:            False  (unchanged)
v0.6 source tree:             byte-unchanged since O7 (mtime 04:16)
v0.4 skeleton:                intact, untouched
service / cron / docker:      none installed; none started
code patched this macro:      NONE

6. Recommended next move

next_macro:  O8a_LIVE_EXECUTION_WIRING_IMPLEMENTATION  (xhigh)
  scope:     implement Mode.LIVE branches for the 5 mutating phases +
             a live-write execution adapter, reusing v0.5-proven
             modules; keep execution_enabled=False; prove with the
             pg-restore-test container; add the run-id-scoped toggle
             (Report 04 §3). Authoring milestone — needs its own ruling.
then:        close GAP-3 (GPG key), GAP-5 (config/dirs), GAP-6 (deploy +
             dryrun-test a per-cut revert), GAP-8 (sovereign-nominate or
             approve authoring ONE harmless target source_document).
then:        GAP-7 — standalone sovereign architectural ruling + SG_1 /
             SG_2 approval docs.
only_then:   re-run an O8-style first-production-run macro.

7. Artifacts (Contabo)

/opt/incomex/dot/iu-cutter-v0.6-o8-sidecar/reports/01..09-*.md   (this package)

Rollback of this macro: rm -rf /opt/incomex/dot/iu-cutter-v0.6-o8-sidecar (read-only survey + local reports only; nothing else created or changed).

8. STOP

final_outcome: C — BLOCKED_WITH_EXACT_O8_GAP
production_mutation: NONE
execution_enabled:   False (unchanged)
next_action:         STOP → route to GPT / User