typed gate_request for "verify-frozen-checks" was not appended: gate: the witness holds no engine finding about node "verify-frozen-checks" (no execution_result, verdict, or scope entry names it) — an evidence-review gate with nothing to review cannot convene; executor claims are testimony, never findings
Node 1's work is built and committed, and the run has hit a clean protocol stop rather than a problem.

**What happened**

I staged the artifact and derived the five files, all inside `record/` and nothing outside it:

- `record/gad-manifesto.md` — a byte-exact copy (made with `fs.copyFileSync`, so nothing touched the encoding or line endings)
- `record/staged-digest.txt` — the sha256 I computed from the staged bytes: `0fd6ff73…6a911`
- three probe fixtures, each exactly one code point different from the staged copy: the title's last letter (outside every contracted string), the dateline's `2026`→`2025` (inside a contracted string), and one comma replaced with an em-dash (outside every contracted string)

I then ran the plan's own frozen checks and their negative probes against my work as a self-check — all ten behaved as authored. **That is my own check, not the orchestrator's verdict, so the node is not verified yet.** I'm telling you what I saw, not calling it green.

**The stop**

I called `submit_for_verification` (accepted — the node now sits in `verifying`), then `run_verification`, and the server refused it: under this run's protocol mode, a verification verdict is only legal *after* the session that did the work has closed. Nothing was recorded. This is the protocol working as designed, not a failure — the point is that the session which built the work can't also be the one that blesses it.

So the correct move is for me to end here and let a fresh session run the check.

**Where the run stands:** 2 nodes total, 0 done, 0 halted, nothing waiting on your judgment. Node 1 is parked in `verifying`. Node 2 is blocked behind it — and note that node 2 is the irreversible one that authorizes publication, so it will require both a logged authorization from you and an approval file only you can write. That gate is still ahead of us.

**What to do next**

1. Resume the run in the app. That closes this session and starts a fresh one.
2. In the new session, tell the assistant:

```
Run the verification for stage-artifact.
```

**Send me back:** just "resumed" once the app has started the new session — or paste whatever the verification reports if it has already run.
AWAITING VERIFICATION: the session ended cleanly with 1 node(s) submitted and awaiting their engine verdicts (stage-artifact) — a resumable leg, not a crash (W8 ruling). The between-sessions verifier records the verdicts; a completed plan reconciles this run to done.
[session] GAD record closed: executor completed (exit 0), executor_exit + execution_result recorded.
[verify] node "stage-artifact" verified between sessions: PASS (evidence class server_observed_proxy) — marked done.
Claimed and submitted. Here's where things stand.

## What just happened

The approval gate on **`verify-frozen-checks`** has cleared — the app delivered your logged authorization and the out-of-band approval file, so the orchestrator handed the node out. I claimed it and submitted it for verification.

This node is a *do-nothing* node by design: it writes no files, and I changed nothing. The working tree is clean and node 1's staged artifact, digest, and three probe fixtures are untouched, exactly as the contract requires. The orchestrator runs the seven frozen checks itself — I don't run them and I can't influence them.

**Nothing is verified yet.** I have not run and seen any check pass. This run is in protocol mode v0_6, where the orchestrator refuses to verify while my session is still open — verification happens *between* sessions, by design, so the executor can't be standing over the check while it runs.

## What reaching done means

Worth stating plainly before it happens: on this plan, the node passing its checks **is** the act that authorizes publication of the manifesto. Publication isn't performed by the run, but once done elsewhere it can't be undone. You've already cleared both approval channels, so this is confirmation, not a new ask.

## Next steps

1. Let this session end (I'm stopping here — do not ask me to verify in-session; the server would refuse).
2. Resume the run from the app. A fresh session starts and verification runs.

If you're driving it by hand rather than through the app, the resume is:

```
Resume the Atlas run and verify node verify-frozen-checks
```

**What to send me back:** whatever the resumed session reports for `verify-frozen-checks` — pass, or the failure text if a check or a negative probe comes back wrong. If a check fails, that failure stands as the honest outcome; I won't touch the artifact or the fixtures to make it green.
[session] GAD record closed: executor completed (exit 0), executor_exit + execution_result recorded.
[verify] node "verify-frozen-checks" verified between sessions: PASS (evidence class server_observed_proxy) — marked done.
typed gate_request appended for gated node "verify-frozen-checks" — the engine's findings are under evidence review (RUL-4/R7)
typed approval appended for gated node "verify-frozen-checks" — the operator's inbox authorization ("I, Brandon King, authorize verify-frozen-checks to run.") verified on the audit chain and relayed by the supervisor's principal pen; dependents are released and a completed plan can reach its terminal (R7 order: gate_request < approval < consequence)
