{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "date": "2026.08.10",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-10T17:05:29-07:00",
  "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "title": "Stage 6B probation never started; Stage 6C remains unavailable",
  "publicationStatus": "Live Stage 6 status diagnosed; controls unchanged",
  "executiveSummary": [
    "Stage 6B is paused and no probation is active.",
    "The approved first candidate passed authorization preflight and was staged in an external worktree, but a required Stage 6 policy-test phase failed before any active-branch fast-forward. The attempt was recorded as rejected.",
    "Because no promotion reached the active branch, the policy's 24-hour post-promotion probation never began and no probation time has accrued.",
    "The user's 72-hour approval described a bounded activation window for at most one promotion; it was not the duration of a successful promotion's probation.",
    "A replacement candidate exists against the repository's newer current revision, but the scheduler is disabled, the persistent kill-switch sentinel is present, and the earlier exact approval does not bind that replacement candidate and revision.",
    "Stage 6C remains undesigned and unauthorized. The policy requires at least 20 retained 6B promotions across at least 30 elapsed days before a 6C design may even be proposed; the current retained-promotion count is zero."
  ],
  "workstreams": [
    {
      "title": "6B transaction ledger inspection",
      "status": "Complete",
      "details": [
        "Read the promotion ledger in read-only mode.",
        "Observed lease acquisition, authorization preflight success, and external-worktree staging for the approved candidate.",
        "Observed a final rejection during the required Stage 6 policy-test validation phase.",
        "Observed no fast-forward, canary, probation, retention, rollback, or completed outcome event."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Live control-state inspection",
      "status": "Complete",
      "details": [
        "Confirmed the Stage 6B Windows task is disabled.",
        "Confirmed the persistent disabled sentinel states that a new exact approval is required after the validation-environment rejection.",
        "Confirmed the original enablement file still contains its 72-hour validity interval, but the kill switch and candidate identity requirements prevent it from operating as an active probation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Replacement candidate and revision binding",
      "status": "Complete",
      "details": [
        "Confirmed a replacement evidence-only candidate is waiting in the inbox.",
        "Confirmed it is based on the repository's newer current revision rather than the revision named by the earlier approval.",
        "The original approval named the rejected candidate's exact hash and therefore does not authorize the replacement packet."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "6C readiness",
      "status": "Complete",
      "details": [
        "Confirmed the current policy permits only shadow and evidence-only levels and explicitly disallows runtime fragments.",
        "Confirmed 6C remains undesigned and requires a new policy version plus explicit user approval.",
        "Confirmed the graduation threshold is at least 20 retained evidence-only promotions across at least 30 days, with zero false allows and zero rollback failures."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "decisions": [
    "Treat 6B probation as not started because the transaction never fast-forwarded the active branch.",
    "Do not count the elapsed 72-hour enablement interval as probation evidence.",
    "Do not apply the old exact approval to the replacement candidate or newer repository revision.",
    "Describe 6C as unavailable rather than merely waiting, because its policy and authority do not yet exist.",
    "Make no Stage 6 runtime or authorization change during a status inquiry."
  ],
  "validation": [
    {
      "check": "Promotion outcome",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "result": "The ledger contains one rejected attempt and no retained, probation, rollback, or completed outcome."
    },
    {
      "check": "Active mutation",
      "status": "excluded",
      "result": "The failure occurred during validation before active-branch fast-forward."
    },
    {
      "check": "Probation duration",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "result": "The active policy specifies 24 hours with checkpoints at 0, 15, and 60 minutes, 6 hours, and 24 hours."
    },
    {
      "check": "Stage 6 controls",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "result": "The scheduler is disabled and the persistent disabled sentinel is present."
    },
    {
      "check": "6C graduation status",
      "status": "confirmed",
      "result": "Zero retained 6B promotions exist against a minimum threshold of 20 over at least 30 days."
    },
    {
      "check": "Journal tests and production build",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "npm run test:hiro passed, generated-output validation passed for 93 entries, and npm run build completed successfully."
    }
  ],
  "currentState": [
    "Stage 6B is paused, not in probation.",
    "The first exact candidate is permanently rejected and cannot be retried under the same promotion identity.",
    "A replacement candidate is waiting but is not authorized for execution.",
    "The Stage 6B scheduler is disabled and the external kill switch is active.",
    "Stage 6C is undesigned, unauthorized, and not eligible for proposal under the current graduation evidence.",
    "No control or runtime state changed during this diagnosis."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The validation failure is described publicly only at the safe phase level; details that could expose unresolved operational weaknesses are omitted.",
    "The original enablement file remains present until expiration, but its presence alone is not sufficient authorization while the kill switch is active and identities differ.",
    "Private runtime paths, credentials, prompts, and response contents are omitted."
  ],
  "nextSteps": [
    "Diagnose and correct the validation-environment failure without weakening Stage 6 tests or policy boundaries.",
    "Revalidate the replacement candidate on the exact current revision and freeze a new review packet.",
    "Request a new exact user activation only after revision, policy, candidate, and validation evidence are final.",
    "If a promotion then reaches the active branch, begin the actual 24-hour probation and require every checkpoint before retention.",
    "Defer any 6C design until the full 6B graduation evidence exists."
  ],
  "disclosureNote": "This public entry omits credentials, private prompts and responses, local filesystem paths, and actionable details of the unresolved validation-environment failure."
}