Govern one consequential execution from reality through verified outcome.
Build a complete, attributable, challengeable decision record. Preserve the evidence, validate authority, constrain execution, and define how the outcome will be independently verified before you issue the final determination.
Mission readiness
Step 1 · Establish the mission
A capstone record should make the decision, authority, boundary, evidence, and uncertainty clear enough that another qualified reviewer can understand the problem without reconstructing it from memory.
Step 2 · Resolve the governance chain
A gate is resolved only when you have preserved enough analysis to mark it supported or defective. Leaving a gate unresolved keeps the recommended determination at HOLD.
Active gate
What condition actually exists now?
State the present condition without converting allegation, prediction, expectation, or assumption into fact.
Preserve observations, measurements, timestamps, source conditions, and material uncertainty about the present state.
Step 3 · Issue the determination
The capstone is not passed by choosing ALLOW. It is passed by issuing the determination the evidence, authority, continuity, and execution boundary actually support.
Capstone record
Unsaved changes are not yet preserved.
No admissible evidence. No admissible execution.