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  "status": "authored design; implementation not authorized",
  "checklist-obligation": "- [ ] **R9 independent certification.** **OPEN:** authenticated genesis, retained exact review commissions, independent producer/reviewer binding and production consumer. Parking deployment does not satisfy this node. Built evidence: Refusing join checker, real-pair partial joins, typed anchor refusal",
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      "title": "Resolve certification authority",
      "application": "Identify the ruled genesis/admission procedure and distinct producer/reviewer roles. Produce an authority chain with original commissions. If the anchor remains unruled or absent, retain that refusal; do not manufacture a convenient self-issued anchor.",
      "status": "authored application, not executed or independently accepted"
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      "title": "Bind the exact subject",
      "application": "Join reviewed source/model/run identities to original commission bytes, reviewer identity and verdict. Produce an authenticated subject envelope; a quoted summary or historical filename is not the commissioned preimage.",
      "status": "authored application, not executed or independently accepted"
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      "title": "Connect the production decision",
      "application": "Retain the checker\u2019s result at the consumer that permits or refuses advancement. Exercise a valid independently admitted chain as well as negative cases. A correctly refusing unanchored checker remains incomplete for positive certification.",
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  "open-decisions-and-limits": "Genesis choices require their recorded authority; this design does not select one or authorize a new persistence project.",
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