Operator direction. The T02 analysis concluded "a zone is a property of the
lane", which mistook the corpus for the subject — ops-warden's catalog is a
credential surface with no workloads in it, so lane properties were the only
thing available to partition. Partitioning what is available is not the same as
finding what policy applies to.
Three roles: the repo providing the software SUGGESTS a posture for running it;
the workload and its responsible party DECLARE the scrutiny applied, and are the
policy subject; the zone REQUIRES a standard for admission. A workload is not
labelled with a zone, it qualifies to run in one.
This is canon's existing mechanism, not a new one. Decision 8.2 already splits
authority this way and joins tier minima by machine, precisely so a checkable
constraint does not depend on someone remembering a signature; Decision 5.6
already ruled stance behaves as a tier minimum under it. It also dissolves the
grade-versus-acceptance question raised for T03 — they are the two sides of that
join.
Consequence: the four bands survive as membership inputs, demoted from
conclusions, and the missing lane-to-workload join is not a tidy-up. It is the
model. M0-M3 already grades workloads, which is the side of the join that exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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