16 — Self-Review & Acceptance (Clause Hardening)

Self-audit against the mission's acceptance criteria (§20) and forbidden list (§19).

16.1 Acceptance criteria (mission §20)

#	Criterion	Status	Where
1	Each major clause family reviewed adversarially	✅ PASS	docs 01–13 apply the §3 method per clause; not praise-only — 6 internal contradictions named
2	Hardened wording proposed	✅ PASS	doc 13 (M-DEF-1..7 + revised Đ37/31/35/24/26/28/45) + per-finding hardened wording in 01–11
3	Over-governance / noise risks addressed	✅ PASS	A2/B1 (non-governed Class 0), D1 (dedup precedence), G7 (emit ceiling), H3 (cooldown/throttle)
4	Accountable owner vs support roles clarified	✅ PASS	doc 03 (role taxonomy + responsibility scope; C2 reconciles Đ37 §4.12); stress tests C3–C5
5	Governance-orphan vs birth-orphan clarified	✅ PASS	doc 04 (joint matrix + birth precedence; anarchic re-based)
6	Governed exception model defined	✅ PASS	doc 05 (11-field record, replacement_plan, non-exemptable invariants, fingerprint, action-type prereq)
7	Scale risks addressed	✅ PASS	doc 06 (governance grain) + doc 07 (L1 completeness, route registry, context triggers, 10⁸)
8	Issue/event anti-spam rules exist	✅ PASS	doc 08 (coalesce + cooldown + escalation + approval-suppression + summary/detail/recurring/expired grains + emit ceiling)
9	DOT lifecycle hardened	✅ PASS	doc 09 (action-type prereq, two-mode apply, SoD, bootstrap seed, stale-input refusal)
10	Red-team scenarios exist	✅ PASS	doc 12 (24 scenarios, escape analysis, 2 ❌ residual)
11	Revised clause proposal package exists	✅ PASS	doc 13
12	Go/no-go for canonical design patching	✅ PASS	doc 14 (NO-GO until Tier-1; conditional GO for concept docs)
13	No unsafe mutation occurred	✅ PASS	§16.3

Overall: PASS.

16.2 Branch coverage (mission §4–§16)

Branch	Required	Doc
A One-Roof principle	mandatory/allowed-local/temporary-exception/approval/auto-detect	01
B Governed object contract	7 categories, min coverage profiles	02
C Accountable owner vs support	role defs + 3 stress tests	03
D Orphan vs birth-orphan	distinctness + overlap + routing	04
E Governed exception	required fields + allow/deny	05
F Coverage invariant	identity stress-tested incl. inheritance	06
G Scalable detection	4 views at 10⁸	07
H Issue/event/notification	anti-spam, dedupe, throttle	08
I DOT lifecycle	scan/propose/apply, paired, no self-authority	09
J Law clauses	Đ37/31/35/24-29/26/28/45	10
K Readiness gate	GOVERNANCE_COVERAGE_PASS spec	11
L Red-team	≥20 scenarios	12 (24)
M Revised clause package	per target	13
§14 open questions + go/no-go	—	14
§18 ≥5 next prompts	6 prompts	15
§17 17-doc package	00–16	all

All branches covered.

16.3 Forbidden compliance (mission §19)

Forbidden	Complied	Evidence
No PG mutation	✅	only query_pg (read-only role, READ ONLY txn, AST-blocked DDL/writes, 5s, LIMIT 500) — 5 SELECTs total
No Directus mutation	✅	no Directus write tool invoked
No Qdrant/vector write	✅	none
No Nuxt/UI implementation	✅	none
No route change	✅	none
No law enactment	✅	no normative_registry touch; all wording is draft proposal
No version bump	✅	no version field changed
No status change	✅	none
No normative_registry / law_catalog update	✅	none
No approval creation	✅	no approval_requests/apr_approvals/os_proposal_approvals write
No self-approval	✅	none
No table/schema change	✅	the proposed action-types / object edge / vocabulary registry are proposals, not created
No event/job/notification emit	✅	event/issue types only discussed; none emitted
No canonical design doc patch	✅	knowledge/dev/design/registries-pivot-os-agency/ untouched; decision pack untouched
No hardcode	✅	every literal sourced from the pack, the live ledger (doc 00 §0.3), or a named law clause; proposed thresholds are explicitly "governed rows, not literals"

The 17 KB report uploads are the sanctioned output channel (mission: "Apply channel: KB report docs only"). They are the deliverable, not a substrate mutation.

16.4 Honesty / drift notes

• All live facts re-verified this session (query_pg, directus, 2026-06-01), not taken from the pack or memory: governance_relations CHECK (target_type ∈ {law,agency}); governance_registry 5 active/4 draft; coverage DOTs = 0; governance-coverage/anarchy/island events = 0; os_proposal_approvals = 0; amend_law/enact_nrm = high/unimplemented; dormant events = bare governance.blocked/unblocked/proposal.created/approved/rejected all active=false.
• One live-found defect in the pack: the pack cites the dormant events as mother.governance.*/mother.proposal.* (doc 00 §0.3, doc 07 §7.1); live names are bare governance.*/proposal.* (domain=mother). Flagged as H1 (Branch H, doc 08) and J9 (doc 10).
• I did NOT re-read the full fact-finding (13-doc) and audit (17-doc) packs end-to-end — I relied on the decision pack's own live-anchored §0.3 ledger (which I independently re-verified the load-bearing items of) plus the GPT direction docs and the prompt-standard law. Where a finding rests on a live fact, I cite this session's query_pg, not memory. This is disclosed for honesty; the clause review itself is about the decision pack's text, which I read in full (docs 00–13).
• Effort scope: this is a clause-review/hardening pass; it does NOT itself rehearse the proposed views/DOTs (that is Prompt 4, a future macro). No PASS is claimed for the hardened clauses' implementability beyond the live-verified prerequisites (action-types absent, object edge CHECK-blocked).
• The §5.4-EXT reclassification (deferred → prerequisite, I2/B7) is my strongest substantive disagreement with the pack — it is argued from the live CHECK constraint, not asserted; council should adjudicate (OQ-I2).

16.5 Self-review verdict

The package is adversarial (not praise-only), live-anchored, internally consistent, and decision-bearing. It found 6 internal contradictions, 6 mission-required gaps, and 3 live substrate traps in the decision pack; proposed hardened wording for every reviewed clause + the 7 missing definitions; built 24 red-team scenarios with an escape analysis showing the un-hardened pack stops only 3/24 governance-specific attacks; and produced a clear NO-GO-until-Tier-1 recommendation with a conditional concept-only GO. It mutated nothing. Status: PASS.

End of clause-hardening package. Entry point: doc 00. Decision: doc 14. Next action: doc 15 Prompt 1 (fold Tier-1 + re-attack).