Gate policy: a change to which statuses block is prospective and never rewrites a recorded result

id

CHQ-GATE-POLICY-2026-002

title

Gate policy: a change to which statuses block is prospective and never rewrites a recorded result

class

RULE

version

1.0

effective

2026-11-03

published

2026-11-12

status

IN FORCE

status detail

Declared 3 November 2026 after an external review asked whether a blocking status could be downgraded after a failed run.

rule

A change to which gate statuses block publication is a governance change. It is recorded with an explicit risk acceptance stating what class of defect will publish undispositioned, it takes effect from the next gate run after it is recorded, and it never rewrites a recorded result. A run that read ineligible stays ineligible as recorded. Every run records the policy it was evaluated under.

scope

The integrity gate.

authority

DM ratified 2026-11-12