01 — Live Preflight & Stop Gates (Hard Gate 0)

All checks run before any DDL, via read-only query_pg and confirmed on the write channel (ssh contabo → docker exec -i postgres psql -U workflow_admin -d directus, PG16.13). Both channels hit the same DB (collection_registry=168 on each).

Hard Gate 0 — 15-point preflight (ALL PASS)

1. Phase-1 substrate exists + inert — scopes=6, ownership/candidate/scan_run/ruleset/worker_cursor present, 0-row. PASS
2. Seam views still inert WHERE false — both confirmed. PASS
3. governed+BIRTH_REQUIRED count = 35. PASS
4. collection_registry."group" acyclic — max_depth=1, hit_cycle_guard=false, 35/35 edges. PASS
5. active scopes = 6 (approval,audit,execution,health,policy,render). PASS
6. gov event types active = 0 / 5 total. PASS
7. event_outbox governance emit = 0. PASS
8. system_issues baseline = 198,442. PASS
9. worker cursor baseline = 0 (gov_worker_cursor). PASS
10. candidate/owner tables — candidates=0, ownership=0, scan_runs=0, rulesets=0. PASS
11. approval/e-sign — ospa 0, appr_req 211, apr_appr 42, apr_action_types 14. PASS
12. dot_tools = 309. PASS
13. idle transactions = 0. PASS
14. rollback SQL staged — sql/f4_seam_rollback.sql written pre-commit. PASS
15. no scanner/worker/backfill active. PASS

The ospa=0 note (not a stop for test-mode)

Doc 08 §8.5/§8.7 lists os_proposal_approvals=0 as "do not COMMIT" under the full sovereign-ratification path. This run executes under explicitly delegated TEST_MODE_OPERATOR_AUTHORIZATION — the same mechanism that authorized the first Phase-1 substrate COMMIT (2026-06-02) with L2/L4 deferred. Under that authorization the seam-view commit (two reversible read-only projections, zero data, zero activation) is in-scope. ospa stayed 0; ratification deferred, not solved; activation NO-GO.

Hard Gate 0 verdict: PASS — cleared to commit the two seam views.