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title: 15 — Self-Review & Acceptance date: 2026-05-31 verdict: PASS

15 — Self-Review & Acceptance

A. Acceptance criteria (mission §17) — all met

criterion	status	where
ratification packet exists	✅	doc 02 (RG1+RG2, exact wording, rollback, risk)
commit-ready SQL pack exists	✅	doc 03 (8 files, scalar-EXISTS, idempotent, rollback)
expanded rehearsal completed OR blockers precise	✅ completed	doc 04 / evidence E11+E12 — 2 passes GREEN
drift rows classified	✅	doc 06 (3 drift + 5 unmeasured, source_model-aware)
phantom decision pack exists	✅	doc 07 (source_model-aware def + law-patch draft)
label/threshold/pin strategy exists	✅	doc 08 (REUSE labels · display_policy · registry_pin)
Directus/API readiness exists	✅	doc 09 (field→source map, read-only, failure states)
static UI preview plan exists	✅	doc 10 (mock contract + deploy plan; deploy gated)
legacy retirement plan exists	✅	doc 11 (L1–L5 retire-after-replace)
no-hardcode pack exists	✅	doc 12 (scan patterns + SQL evidence + Truth-Check)
next implementation prompts exist	✅	doc 13 (14 macros)
no unsafe mutation occurred	✅	E13 mutation proof — 2× BEGIN..ROLLBACK, 0 leftover, idle_tx 0

B. Forbidden compliance (mission §16)

No COMMIT ✅ · no self-approval ✅ · no persistent PG mutation ✅ (2 rehearsals rolled back clean) · no Directus mutation ✅ · no Qdrant/vector write ✅ · no production Nuxt change ✅ · no route implementation (static preview deferred to gated M9) ✅ · no fake approvals ✅ · no frontend count logic ✅ · no hardcoded counts/categories/species/layers/labels/pins (verified in SQL; CHECK ≤50; default from __default__ row) ✅ · no notification emit ✅ · no event/job execution ✅.

C. What this session changed vs the documented baseline (and why it matters)

1. net_gap +36,783 → live +132. A refresh scan (01:35) erased the stale birth gap. RG2 must be judged on the live picture (doc 01/02 flag this prominently). Verifying-before-authoring caught it.
2. Pivot key corrected: registry_collection (21/160 backed) replaces the prior split_part(source_location,':',2) (13/160). Adopted in the commit-ready pack.
3. parent_code exists as a column (no ALTER needed to wire it — only UPDATE).
4. Live legacy evidence captured: /api/registry/health totalGap 986253 (gap-math), dot_tools 4th count 592; /api/registry/counts now 1,721,334 (a 5th total). /knowledge/registries-pivot already serves 200 (1.73 MB — partially built).
5. No approval artifact exists for registries-pivot → commit deferred (correct path).

D. Honest limitations / residual risk

• Pivot coverage 21/160 — 139 leaf rows are PIVOT_MISSING and 5 unmeasured. Surfaced honestly, not faked; resolved by M3 (PIV-500/30x/31x) + M4 (pivot_code mapping), not in this pack.
• Tree is flat until M4 wires parent_code (overlay proves the wiring is valid: 24 roots / 6 parents).
• Phantom unresolved (LAW_DEFINITION_GAP) — decision pack only; CAT-006's 146 await RG4.
• PIV-500 grand-total semantics undefined — what a meaningful "system grand total" sums across heterogeneous registries (births + labels + tools…) is itself a design question for M3.
• Hidden drift — rows where record==actual are "balanced-by-scan"; only the 21 pivot-backed ones are balanced-against-pivot. Full hidden-drift check is M3.
• CI scans the web repo, not the served bundle (image is compiled) — logged in doc 12.

E. Mutation proof (restated)

Two workflow_admin transactions, both ROLLBACK. PRE==POST object existence (0→0) both passes; idle in transaction = 0 throughout; no COMMIT; no base-table DDL; no row persisted. The view layer is pure read-layer over existing tables. ZERO net mutation.

F. Verdict

PASS. Commit-ready gateway delivered: ratification packet + corrected commit-ready SQL pack + two GREEN BEGIN..ROLLBACK rehearsals + drilldown wiring + drift reconciliation + phantom pack + label/threshold/pin strategy + Directus/API + UI-preview readiness + legacy retirement + no-hardcode pack + 14 next macros. Nothing committed; no self-approval. Next: M1 (human RG1+RG2) → M2 (P1 view commit) → M3 (PIV-500/30x/31x) ∥ M5 (threshold).