Phase 18 — Safety / no-fake audit (UNCHANGED)

metric	value
births	1,205,469 == 1,205,469 (DDL + previews birth-free; +8 vs Phase-1 start = orchestrator-run-window background)
governance_object_ownership	0
president votes for candidates / PROC-OWN	0 (14 exist globally for other governance objects — does not enable candidate births)
official AX-PROCESS RP (axis_assignment)	0
axis_active	0
AX-TRIGGER in axis_registry	0 (honest zero)
events active	30 (unchanged); process.* active
trigger_guard_alerts	129
runtime flags	real_run / execute / emit / operator_runtime all false; dry_run_only true

Forbidden actions NOT taken: no fake owner/vote/official RP · no unsafe birth/canon · no event activation · no REAL_RUN · no source-IU edit · no UI push/deploy · scheduler/timer untouched · no destructive remediation · nothing partial/unknown hidden as success.

Allowed actions taken: dual-path reads · additive/reversible views · reversible orchestrator provenance patch (backed up) · preview/dry-run proofs (audit-only) · KB docs. OOM: no signal-9 throughout.