stack/docs/plans/reviews/2026-09-10_registry-gate7-r2-verdict.md

REGISTRY-GATE7-FILBERT-R2 — verdict

Reviewer: Filbert (independent). Author of the revision: Darkwing. Baseline 50d2a2eb…; frozen snapshot /tmp/registry-gate7-r2-3xacrwga at manifest SHA-256 510a448e18fc5753e2f6a97b2e42680c8f0510efd71824eb51458ed274042b0b (all five hashes verified; snapshot unchanged after review).

Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES

The registry draft revision itself is correct, confined, and owner-attributed. The blocking defect is status currency in two of the five frozen files: the set is internally inconsistent about whether the O3 decisions have been made, and committing it exactly as frozen would put the contradiction into the durable record, including CURRENT.md's single-source next action.

What verifies

• Draft confinement: against baseline 50d2a2eb…, the registry draft changes only the runtime-seat-selection section and gates 5/6. No other section, including gates 1–4 and 7–10, changed. Gates 2/3/4/7/8/9/10 remain unresolved and untouched.
• Owner attribution: both resolved gates read "RESOLVED (owner, 2026-09-10)" and the selection section says "Owner rulings 2026-09-10 supersede…" — authority is recorded as the owner's, not the reviewer's or coordinator's.
• Substance: per-execution selection semantics, independent materialization for concurrent workspace sessions, fork pin in immutable session metadata, unpinned relaunch at current profile default, execution-record references with R17 credential exclusion. Each element matches what my R1 verdict verified as source-consistent (F1/F2/F3, O1a) and what O3 recommended; the owner's yes-rulings adopt exactly those branches. No contradiction with the R1 verdict or any cited ruling.
• Unrelated drift excluded: my R1 verdict file in the snapshot is byte-identical to my live original; the request file is identical; the reconciliation's only content changes are the accurate O2-closed line and the status line.

Blocking finding R2-F1: stale O3 status contradicts the draft's recorded rulings

• docs/plans/CURRENT.md next-action block still says "present the three remaining O3 owner decisions to Jason and record his rulings," but the draft in this same frozen set records those rulings as decided on 2026-09-10. CURRENT.md is the single-source next-action file; committed as-is, it would direct a future session to re-ask decided questions.
• docs/plans/reviews/2026-09-10_registry-gate7-reconciliation.md status still says "The three O3 decisions are now the only open items and belong to Jason," and its O3 list still frames all three as "genuinely open." Same contradiction.

The review request's own composition claim ("carry the matching status text") is not met on these two files.

Required fix (small, no draft change)

1. Update the snapshot's CURRENT.md registry block to record the owner's 2026-09-10 yes-rulings on all three O3 decisions and set the true next action (record rulings, then the remaining owner gates; still no implementation).
2. Append or amend the reconciliation's status/O3 lines to record the rulings as closed by owner decision on 2026-09-10, keeping the R1 analysis text intact.
3. Re-freeze and resend; I will re-verify hashes and the two status locations only. The registry draft bytes need no change.

This review authorizes nothing: no implementation, no credential access, and gates 2/3/4/7/8/9/10 remain owner decisions.

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Follow-up verdict (re-frozen candidate, appended 2026-09-10)

Re-frozen snapshot /tmp/registry-gate7-r3-6qxzgx95 at manifest SHA-256 2ec6634f5adcf3909fe0abdd830008c95bdab73b1a90befb2ee41fdba61acd1c; all five hashes verified; snapshot unchanged after review.

Verdict: APPROVED

R2-F1 is resolved exactly as specified above, and nothing else moved.

• Registry draft: byte-identical to the r2 snapshot's verified bytes; all r2 findings on the draft carry over unchanged.
• Reconciliation: only the O3 item and Status line changed. O3 now records "RESOLVED 2026-09-10: Jason answered yes to all three" with the rulings and their recording locations; Status names the remaining open items as draft gates 2/3/4/7/8/9/10, owned by the owner, implementation unauthorized. The R1 analysis text is intact.
• CURRENT.md: the registry block records Jason's three resolutions, states where the rulings live, and sets the next action to completing this review and committing exactly the approved bytes, with gates 2/3/4/7/8/9/10 still owner decisions. The stale "present the decisions" instruction is gone.
• Untouched: my R1 verdict file and the r2 request file are byte-identical to the r2 snapshot.

Committing exactly these five reviewed files at manifest 2ec6634f… is approved. This authorizes the documentation commit only: no implementation, no credential access, and gates 2/3/4/7/8/9/10 remain owner decisions.