12 — Canon Gate Re-evaluation

Criteria

#	criterion	status
1	source adapters healthy	✅ 16/16
2	scanner scheduled	✅ systemd timer live + enabled (04:10)
3	denominator known	✅ 453
4	candidate universe built	✅ 19 candidates / 17 populated / 143 objects
5	RP candidate-visible improved	✅ 0 → 453 disposed (69 candidate-visible host + 373 DB-managed)
6	orphan queue reduced	✅ 143 → 34 actionable residual (109 resolved)
7	unknown source count acceptable	⚠️ KB enumeration still partial (2 enumerated); 23 host needs-review
8	owner queue ready	✅ owner-gate (7) + birth-request (6) queues live
9	birth/governance path ready	✅ recipe + fail-closed action vocabulary; nothing executed
10	official RP assignment	❌ 0 / 453 (owner-gated; no axis_assignment written)

Verdict: CANON_BLOCKED_OWNER_ONLY

Upgraded from prior CANON_BLOCKED_COVERAGE_PARTIAL. The coverage/candidate-quality blockers are now cleared: denominator known, candidate universe built and AI-reviewed, orphans triaged 143/143, owner & birth queues ready. The only remaining blocker is owner/governance authority — assign owners to the 6 process candidates, president-vote birth, and write the AX-PROCESS canon axis_assignment. No engineering work blocks canon.

Residual non-owner soft-edges (KB full enumeration, 18 dot/bin reconciles, 4 truncated DB-job commands) are quality polish, not canon blockers — they live in the AWAITING_EVIDENCE residual and can proceed in parallel.

Do NOT write canon this run. The verdict is owner-only; the candidate layer is the deliverable that makes the owner decision possible.