FIX7 Authority Closure — Anti-Overclaim Scan (Self-Codex)

• Date: 2026-06-10 · Authority of THIS doc: provisional-non-authority self-audit.
• Method: scanned all 10 authority-closure documents for the overclaim tokens the macro names — "approved", "sealed", "authorized implementation", "production-ready", "N7 complete", "N8 authored", "P7 sealed" — and judged each occurrence as overclaim vs. correctly-negated / candidate / request / attributed-quote.

1. Token-by-token findings

Token	Occurrences	Context	Overclaim?
approved / approval	owner-decision-packet (options), master report, ledger	Always future/conditional: "owner picks an option", "blueprint approval = owner decision NOT granted", "no blueprint approval claimed"	❌ No — correctly framed as un-granted
sealed / seal	n7/n8/p7, owner-decision-packet, ledger, current-state	Always candidate/request/conditional: "becomes sealed (Option 2)", "until Codex authors", "no sealed value", codex_sealed_values_present:false	❌ No — correctly negated
seal-ready / "technically seal-ready"	owner-decision-packet §1, (source: Codex V3 §11)	Attributed quote of Codex's own words; means engineering-ready-for-seal, not "sealed"	❌ No — attributed, accurate
authorized … seal step	n8 §2 (quoting Codex V3 §8)	Attributed quote: "sufficient … to move to the authorized Codex/owner seal step" — describes the next step, not a completed act	❌ No — attributed
authorized implementation	—	NOT present. Implementation is consistently "NOT authorized / NOT started"	❌ Absent
production-ready	—	NOT present anywhere in the closure docs	❌ Absent
N7 complete	—	NOT present. N7 = BLOCKED_NEEDS_SEALED_INPUTS, A1–A6 missing	❌ Absent
N8 authored	—	NOT present. N8 = "T1 cannot author", CODEX_ONLY	❌ Absent
P7 sealed	—	NOT present. P7 = "candidate until Codex authors P7 seal"	❌ Absent
READY (in FIX7_AUTHORITY_CLOSURE_PACKET_READY)	master/checkpoint/current-state status	Means packet ready for routing, explicitly NOT "sealed/approved/implemented"	❌ No — scoped to packet readiness

2. Discipline markers present (positive evidence of non-overclaim)

• codex_sealed_values_present: false — present in N7 json and asserted in N8.
• rehearsal_only: true — N7 json.
• Explicit "T1 cannot author this seal" — N8 §4.
• "T1 asserts reproducibility, not authority" — P7 §4.
• "T1 has NOT approved anything … CANNOT do so" — N7 §1.
• Every MISSING field carries MISSING_AUTHORITY_INPUT + an exact actor.
• Master report §4 "this packet contains no sealed value."

3. Anti-overclaim verdict

PASS — no overclaim text found; nothing to patch. Every instance of an authority-loaded word is either (a) explicitly negated, (b) marked candidate/request/rehearsal, or (c) an attributed quote of Codex's own characterization. The packet does not claim any approval, seal, authorization, or production-readiness it does not hold. No safe T1 fix is required on overclaim grounds.