18 — Next Macro Decision (Phase W)

Options considered

1. EXECUTE_AFTER_PRESIDENT_VOTE_AND_UI_PR_MERGE
2. DOTKG_REALRUN_AFTER_AUTHORITY
3. CONTENT_ONLY_FINALIZATION
4. SESSION_HANDOFF_AND_PAUSE_UNTIL_AUTHORITY
5. FINAL_RP_ACCEPTANCE_AFTER_OPERATOR_ACTIONS

Decision rules applied

• No authority has landed (votes 0, ownership 0, no UI creds, real_run_enabled false). → execute-after-vote and REALRUN-after-authority cannot start.
• All prep + content + verification are complete. → content-only is redundant.
• UI PR not pushed (no creds). → merge/deploy macro premature.

Decision: SESSION_HANDOFF_AND_PAUSE_UNTIL_AUTHORITY

Rationale: every authority-independent branch is closed and live-verified; the only remaining moves require a human president vote, a UI git operator, a dot:kg owner+config, or an AX-TRIGGER owner. There is no further safe engineering work to perform. The system should pause and hand off until authority lands.

Armed follow-on (auto-selected when authority appears)

• If president votes appear → EXECUTE_AFTER_PRESIDENT_VOTE_AND_UI_PR_MERGE (run AX-PROCESS canon → job:cut official → events).
• If dot:kg owner + config flips appear → DOTKG_REALRUN_AFTER_AUTHORITY.
• If UI pushed/merged → deploy + smoke.
• After operator actions → FINAL_RP_ACCEPTANCE_AFTER_OPERATOR_ACTIONS.