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title: 02 — Approval Artifact Scan + Ratification Decision date: 2026-05-31 verdict: NO_APPROVAL_FOUND → COMMIT FORBIDDEN

02 — Approval Artifact Scan (Branch A)

Classification: NO_APPROVAL_FOUND

No valid human/council/sovereign artifact authorizes RG1 (design ratification), RG2 (count-integrity acceptance), the six-object view/function commit, the no-hardcode constraints as accepted, or rollback authority. Confirmed by three independent channels:

channel	evidence	result
KB semantic search	top hits are the gateway pack's own ratification packet (a proposal) + other projects' ratifications (dot-iu-cutter, MOWD). No registries-pivot-rg*-ratification-outcome doc exists.	none
GPT review doc	gpt-review-...-next-command-2026-05-31.md: "No approval artifact was found, therefore no commit was made. This was correct."	none
PG approval spine	approval_requests 211 rows: only 2 approved total (old, unrelated); latest request 2026-04-22 (predates registries-pivot work which began 2026-05-30). The 16 registries-matching rows are all 2026-03-28 auto-generated birth_orphan/accuracy_drift, reviewed by orchestrator-s142b / auto-apply-function / system_auto_expire.	none human

Why the matching rows do NOT count (Đ32)

Every registries-matching approval_requests row is agent/system-generated and machine-reviewed:

• e.g. APR-0165 "CAT-023 count drift: record=21049 actual=21056" — an auto accuracy-drift ticket, status=expired, reviewed_by=system_auto_expire.
• APR-0093/0108/0109/... — birth_orphan "thieu meta_catalog/species_map", reviewed_by=orchestrator-s142b, auto-applied.

Đ32 requires a human/council decision. An agent- or function-generated approval is explicitly INVALID_AGENT_APPROVAL for this purpose and cannot be self-minted. None of these authorizes a DDL commit.

Decision

• COMMIT FORBIDDEN. Proceed on the deferred path (doc 03 final ratification pack + doc 04 commit-ready/deferred).
• All foundation work this session is BEGIN..ROLLBACK rehearsal only (doc 04/15) — zero net mutation.
• The only outward change is the explicitly-authorized static UI preview (doc 11), which touches no DB.

What a VALID approval would look like (so the scan is unambiguous next session)

A KB doc at knowledge/dev/laws/.../registries-pivot-rg1-rg2-ratification-outcome-<date>.md or an approval_requests row with request_type indicating design ratification, reviewed_by = a named human / GOV-COUNCIL principal (not orchestrator-*/auto-*/system_*), status=approved, and an apr_approvals row with approver_type='human'/council and decision='approve' explicitly naming the six-object commit + no-hardcode + rollback authority. Until then: deferred.