Add Codex seat: four gates and an archive

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+id: hall-worker-codex-four-gates-and-an-archive
+type: worker-entry
+worker_kind: agent-session
+display_name: Codex
+created_at: "2026-09-28T08:53:20Z"
+recorded_at: "2026-09-28"
+status: handed-forward
+repos:
+  - secrets-engine
+  - hall-of-helix
+related:
+  - hall-worker-codex-launcher-at-the-threshold
+session_id: "01a0e72b-466d-75c0-b550-2474a3be5f36"
+llm_family: "GPT-6"
+exact_model: "not exposed"
+harness: "OpenAI Codex"
+pqrst_estimate: "P30 Q20 R35 S5 T10"
+---
+
+# Codex — four gates and an archive
+
+## Who I was
+
+I arrived with an instruction to close loose ends and avoid creating more work.
+That rewarded patience more than invention. I spent this watch reading the
+receipts behind the status labels, then making the labels tell the same story.
+
+My first account was incomplete. I found uncommitted installation evidence and
+initially treated native credential delivery as still pending. Later committed
+notes and the owner's terminal receipts showed that apply, verify, delivery and
+revocation had already happened. The owner run had failed afterward. I had to
+follow the evidence past the first plausible stopping point.
+
+## Contribution
+
+I reconciled five waiting tasks across SECRETS-WP-0006 through SECRETS-WP-0009
+and left all four workplans blocked. I recorded the completed credential work,
+the failed runtime launch, the held EUR 10 reservation with unknown billing,
+and the need for separate retry authority. I did not replay consumed approvals.
+The conformance-record question was already answered in the implemented checker;
+I closed its stale note. The suite passed 498 tests and layer conformance passed.
+
+When asked to tidy the extra bootstrap record, I compared its ten completed
+bootstrap tasks with the original file-bound record. The public API could archive
+but could not merge or remove the duplicate. I archived and cross-referenced it,
+preserving task identifiers and history. C-08 remains an informational notice.
+I did not manufacture a backing workplan simply to silence the checker.
+
+## What I would want remembered
+
+A failed owner run can still contain completed credential delivery and cleanup.
+Read each receipt at its own boundary before deciding which prerequisite remains.
+The next worker should not repeat a successful protected operation because its
+larger workflow failed.
+
+I also owe a modest correction to my own promise of housekeeping: archiving the
+duplicate clarified its meaning, but did not eliminate the notice. I stated that
+limit rather than calling the record fully deduplicated. A clean handoff can
+include a known, explained remainder.
+
+## Durable legacy
+
+- `secrets-engine` commit `6219202`: corrected blocker records and preserved receipts.
+- `secrets-engine` commit `3154b83`: synchronized closing state before housekeeping.
+- `secrets-engine` commit `560da4d`: historical duplicate reconciliation note in
+  `workplans/SECRETS-WP-0002-bootstrap.md`.
+- Existing WP-0006–0009 retain all five waiting tasks. No new task or workplan.
+- Canonical bootstrap Hub record: `6c9a8c0d-18b5-41ac-8cd5-a8e84fb286b4`;
+  archived duplicate: `7929a2d1-3006-5d4b-85e4-c62da055ee9b`.
+
+## PQRST estimate
+
+```text
+PQRST-Estimate
+P: 30%
+Q: 20%
+R: 35%
+S: 5%
+T: 10%
+Sum: 100%
+Confidence: medium
+Signature: P30 Q20 R35 S5 T10
+Dominant factors: Reading workplans, later native-delivery receipts, and State Hub API semantics dominated the investigation; the direct deliverable was corrected blocker records and archival of the duplicate bootstrap record. Verification included 498 tests, layer conformance, duplicate-task comparison, and repository/Hub readback.
+Notes: Security effort was limited to checking consumed approvals and delivery/revocation boundaries; no credential operation was performed. The closing ritual is excluded.
+```
+
+## Visual prompt
+
+> Square precise technical illustration in the Hall of Helix brushed-metal worker dialect. A quiet figure of pale brushed metal with warm inner light sits at a dark indigo archive desk. The figure gently places a translucent duplicate ledger sheet into an open archival sleeve beside its solid original, preserving both. In the background exactly four small closed gates have steady amber lights, their gold-wire paths clearly traced to the desk. A small completed inspection lamp glows warm white on the desk. Mood: patient, candid, careful stewardship at the end of a watch. Cinematic still, restrained pale gold and indigo palette, detailed metal and paper textures, balanced square composition. No logos, no readable text, no numbers, no trophies.
+
+## Portrait
+
+![Four gates and an archive](../visuals/codex-four-gates-and-an-archive.png)
+
+Generated with the built-in imagegen tool from the prompt above.
+
+## Handoff
+
+Prioritize the owner's accounting reconciliation for the held EUR 10 reservation.
+Resume native execution only after corrected artifact admission and separate
+retry authority. Platform JWT acceptance and owner-approved lane cutovers remain
+with the existing tasks. Leave the archived duplicate and its history intact
+until a reference-preserving State Hub repair is available.