# Audit item: grade of operator primary accounts under CGS-2.1/2.2. CGS-2.2 classes an operator's own postmortem as Grade B; the registry labeled operator primaries A without a cited provision. Bears on the "Grade A at two operators" up-trigger. No rating changed

- **Artifact ID:** CHQ-AUDIT-2026-Q4-GRADE-OPERATOR-PRIMARY
- **Status:** DECLARED
- **Public record:** https://record.cybersecurityhq.com/governance/chq-audit-2026-q4-grade-operator-primary
- **Machine-record SHA-256:** `dde904ba09f9569c1c77976d6e5999ccbb4d3a498e695866a35e3d8bd7ecb98c`
- **Publication correction:** CHQ-PUB-CORR-2026-001. This digest supersedes `0bba4b4be45deef65088e62659b142134fdcdee24863f27637a82eebc20d258b`; the earlier digest does not verify these bytes.

## Complete structured record

```json
{
  "id": "CHQ-AUDIT-2026-Q4-GRADE-OPERATOR-PRIMARY",
  "title": "Audit item: grade of operator primary accounts under CGS-2.1/2.2. CGS-2.2 classes an operator's own postmortem as Grade B; the registry labeled operator primaries A without a cited provision. Bears on the \"Grade A at two operators\" up-trigger. No rating changed",
  "class": "AUDIT",
  "effective": null,
  "published": "2026-10-13",
  "status": "DECLARED",
  "scope": "Negative-evidence rows SN-2026-10-10-N01/N02 re-described as post-reach limits on consequences, not boundaries that held. Ledger class name unchanged pending taxonomy amendment.",
  "rule": "Declaration ratified under D21 as it stood on 2026-10-13. No Q4 audit outcome is pre-ratified. The grade of operator primary accounts remains an audit question; no rating changed.",
  "rationale": null,
  "authority": "analyst declared 2026-10-13; DM ratified 2026-10-13",
  "references": [
    "CHQ-CGS-2026-001"
  ]
}
```