04 — Exit Decision

Q1 — What can be done NOW without authority?

Nothing further of substance. The authority-independent frontier is fully consumed:

• All read-only surfaces, ledgers, scorecards, preflights, runbooks, decision packets, content (13 docs) — built and live.
• v_process_trigger_actionability_ledger (12 rows) + v_total_final_acceptance_scorecard (11 dims) + v_dotkg_realrun_preflight (10 gates) all live and queryable.
• UI branch staged + lint-clean (operator-deploy only). Any next step crosses an authority line (president vote / owner assignment / operator deploy / REAL_RUN flip).

Q2 — What is already DONE?

• Process×Trigger actionability ledger (criterion 3).
• Production monitoring stack (criterion 8, operator-owned).
• Content/handoff (criterion 10).
• Process-axis engineering, trigger-axis engineering — scorecard DONE.

Q3 — What is ONLY waiting for president / operator / REALRUN authority?

• President / owner vote (PROC-OWN-01..05): AX-PROCESS official (1), AX-TRIGGER official (2, owner-gated), job:cut official (4), process.* activation (6), residual owner-reconcile (9).
• Operator UI deploy: UI PR/build/deploy (7).
• REAL_RUN authority: dot:kg REALRUN (5) — owner (PROC-OWN-04) + 3 dot_config flips + DOT_KG_EXPLAIN contract promotion + executor health.

Q4 — Any hidden engineering blocker left?

NO. Scorecard shows zero FAIL; all blocks are typed BLOCKED_AUTHORITY / BLOCKED_REALRUN / BLOCKED_UI_GIT. Handlers are built and fail-closed. dot:kg preflight engineering preconds (precond_dry_run_evidence, precond_endpoint_bound) are GO; only authority/config gates BLOCK. No missing handler, no schema gap, no broken surface found this run.

Q5 — Safe to pause after T1 if authority still absent?

YES. The system is in a stable fail-closed state:

• 0 votes / 0 ownership / 0 delegation / 0 AX-PROCESS assignment / AX-TRIGGER absent / process.* 0/7 / REAL_RUN 0 / real_run flags false.
• Auto-approve trap disarmed (no action='add').
• Birth drift is benign background; engineering collections frozen.
• Only outstanding RO-channel unknown is UI-git divergence (UNVERIFIED_THIS_RUN), which has no production-state impact while the branch stays unpushed. Pausing changes nothing and risks nothing.

Q6 — Next macro IF (and only if) authority lands

FINAL_OFFICIALIZATION_UI_DEPLOY_DOTKG_REALRUN_AND_RP_ACCEPTANCE — execute in dependency order:

1. Human-president approve vote PROC-OWN-01 → fn_pa_handler_* assigns AX-PROCESS owner.
2. PROC-OWN-02 → AX-PROCESS canon (CANDIDATE→official).
3. PROC-OWN-03 → job:cut first official process, RP 0→1/453.
4. PROC-OWN-04 → dot:kg owner; then owner dot_config flips (dry_run_only=false, execute_enabled=true, real_run_enabled=true) + DOT_KG_EXPLAIN DRY_RUN→REAL_RUN; REAL_RUN only after every preflight gate GO + executor health.
5. PROC-OWN-05 → activate process.* events (0/7→7/7).
6. AX-TRIGGER owner (Dieu-39) request + president canon → AX-TRIGGER official.
7. Operator: rebase/push/PR/deploy feat/process-axis-dashboard.
8. Re-run T2 final acceptance to confirm each criterion flips DONE.

Exit decision: PAUSE-SAFE. Engineering closed. Hand to authority.