01 — Dual-Path Live Verification & Drift Lock

Path 1: query_pg RO (MCP). Path 2: ssh contabo → docker exec postgres → psql -U directus -d directus. Both agreed exactly on every metric below.

Baseline (trusted)

Metric	Value	Path1	Path2
v1 / v2 / reliability nodes	87 / 87 / 87	✓	✓
proof_matrix_v2 rows	26	✓	✓
final_substrate_contract	87	✓	✓
axis_registry	2	✓	✓
axis_assignment	25	✓	—
pivot_definitions	39	✓	—
dot_tools	309	✓	—
event_type_registry	52	✓	—
actionability_ledger rows	12	✓	✓
trigger_guard_alerts	129	✓	✓
birth_registry (start)	1,194,898	✓	✓

No-fake invariants (UNCHANGED at start and end)

• official AX-PROCESS RP = 0
• PROC-OWN-* APRs = 5, votes = 0
• governance_object_ownership = 0
• process_dot_runtime.real_run_enabled = false (also execute_enabled false, dry_run_only true)
• axis_registry = 2 (no new axis registered)

Per-axis population

AX-BASE 39 · AX-PROCESS 22 (2 official_workflow, 2 no-substrate by design) · AX-PXT 12 · AX-TOPIC 7 · AX-TRIGGER 7.

Birth-free proof

• 01_apply.sql: births 1,194,904 → 1,194,904 (16 CREATE VIEW, before == after).
• 02_patch_invariant.sql: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW (DDL never births); +1 background tick.
• Session end births 1,194,906 = background drift (entity_labels/system_issues/KB), never from DDL.

Drift lock: no engineering mismatch between paths → mutation branches proceeded.