07 — dot-pivot-update Status Classification

Evidence

Axis	State
File on disk	YES — /opt/incomex/dot/bin/dot-pivot-update, root:root, +x, 14441 bytes, mtime 2026-06-03 07:19, sha256 3313c057…effc5
dot_tools registration	NO — absent (pivot DOTs present are DOT-113/114/307/308 only)
birth_registry row	NO — birth is DB-row-triggered; no dot_tools row ⇒ no birth
target_collections declared	NO
APR / health PASS	NO
Detected as orphan/unborn by a live mechanism	NO — no scheduled FS↔registry reconciler; orphan metric is DB-metadata only
Visible to governance onboarding	NO — not a collection/row/birth object

Classification against Đ35 §5 (8-step lawful DOT)

Completed: step 3 only (file created). Steps 4–8 (dot_tools 11/11, target_collections, birth, health, active) not done.

Verdict (from the audit's offered categories)

• valid born DOT — NO
• staged artifact — YES (it is a staged file)
• orphan — conceptually yes, but the system does not label it so (no live detector covers filesystem artifacts)
• phantom — partially (a registry/birth phantom in the sense of "exists but unregistered")
• invisible / unmanaged — YES, and this is the operative classification

dot-pivot-update = an unregistered, executable filesystem artifact that is currently INVISIBLE/UNMANAGED by birth, orphan detection, and governance onboarding. It is not a valid DOT, and — critically — the system does not currently flag it as an orphan. This is the concrete instance of gap G4 (filesystem artifacts invisible).

Consequence for the prior RP plan

The prior package's "next" step was: operator runs dot-dot-register (governed) → then apply_composition_fixes.sh --commit. The lawful registration path (dot-dot-register → APR → dot_tools INSERT) would fire auto-birth and move the file from "invisible orphan" to "born + advisory-gated". That path is not broken. But this audit shows that completing it still would not place dot-pivot-update under orphan detection (row-level absent) or governance onboarding (inert, collection-granular). So registration is necessary-but-not-sufficient, and per the GPT decision the surrounding holes must be guard-railed first. Do not operate dot-pivot-update as a DOT while it is a bare file. See docs 09–10.

No claim is made that this file is a valid DOT — it satisfies neither birth nor registry nor governance criteria (forbidden-list compliance).