GREENStanding authority
Merge a safe PR after exact-head CI and expected-head verification
Accountable authority
Codex / Utilization ManagerEXECUTIVE AUTHORITY
Use owner decisions, live GitHub, exact heads, migrations and CI.
GREEN execution, AMBER guarded closure or RED owner authority.
Fix safely, contain with a repair PR or isolate the RED slice.
Tests, exact-head CI, report/index and mainline verification.
Correct safe GREEN defectsSmall PR, fail-before evidence and exact-head CI
Prevent collisions and stale mergesOne concern, one semantic owner, current mainline
Merge with expected-head protectionOnly after all required gates pass
Open the smallest successor reportWhen implementation evidence is incomplete