Resolves an ambiguity in the orchestrator's own brief, which required CANNOT_ASSERT to
neither silently pass nor permanently block without distinguishing push from merge.
coder-mos1 stopped and asked rather than inferring authorisation; Codex security
independently flagged CWE-693.
Ruled B: merge fails CLOSED (proceeding without exact-head CI evidence is D-23's
condition in a narrower costume), push degrades AUDITED (blocking during an outage
bricks delivery — the Pi-brick class we already banked). A temporary block pending
evidence is not a permanent block, and merge is separately gated by the merge-gate and
coordinator, so nothing is stranded.
Conditions: distinct exit code or the tri-state is destroyed; the audit record asserted
by a registered case, not assumed, or 'audited' is a claim dressed as a property;
retryable and self-clearing; cases observed RED first; no silent degraded merge path —
break-glass belongs to RM-05.
Option C rejected: it bricks push during an outage and defers the degraded path, which
in this codebase means a silent bypass appears under incident pressure. Three are
already on the books.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
