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@@ -453,3 +453,38 @@ NetKingdom security profile, or if Info Tech Canon cannot provide a stable
 cross-domain contract boundary. Reversal must still name one owner for every
 artifact; returning to undifferentiated "Taxonomy ownership" is not an
 acceptable outcome.
+
+## GH-DEC-2026-005 — The approval-claim is the step-1 artifact on the PEP consumption path
+
+```yaml
+id: GH-DEC-2026-005
+kind: decision
+title: The approval-claim is the step-1 artifact on the PEP consumption path
+status: resolved
+owner: Bernd Worsch
+repo: gate-house
+standard: net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.7.md
+source_note: docs/contracts/approval-consumption.md
+origin: GH-IN-0002
+requested_dispositions:
+- approved
+- revised
+- rejected
+affects:
+- gate-house
+- approval-engine
+- flex-auth
+- secrets-engine
+- ops-warden
+rationale: 'Confirmed, with one addition. GH-DEC-2026-003 already named step 1 by
+  endpoint and by field; the approval-claim is what that endpoint serves and valid_now
+  is its field. ActionAuthorization is a proposed, unratified shape carrying no doctrine
+  standing here. The addition is that the split validation is stated as doctrine rather
+  than left implicit: each artifact is checked by the consumer against the layer that
+  owns its data, and no PIP republishes a PDP decision. The state-hub authority requirement
+  in the secrets-engine validator is struck because State Hub is a read model and
+  holds no runtime approval authority.'
+decided_by: Bernd Worsch
+created: '2026-09-05T23:28:23.931441Z'
+updated: '2026-09-05T23:28:23.931441Z'
+```