PhiOS v0.69: fail-closed release preflight from verified frontend receipts

[MichaelWave369]

Draft evidence-only gate. Reads all seven same-run CI job receipts for pinned Vessie and ThinkTank: source/npm lock verification, installed dependency/license census, byte-identical double-build comparison, and immutable upstream native license source evidence. Cross-checks schemas, source/lock identities, manifest SHA-256, unchanged four-item license-review queue, and negative authority flags. Emits a hashed review packet with seven human/legal/binary-provenance blockers and mandatory HOLD_FOR_OPERATOR_REVIEW; no release/installer/model grants. Explicit negative-control workflow must reject --require-release-authority. Includes 10 deny-by-default unit tests and human review documentation. Existing CI and Trellis offline Chromium/qualification remain independent. No license clearance or release approval. Human review before merge; no auto-merge.

[MichaelWave369]

v0.69 exact-head release preflight and denial evidence

PR HEAD: 1c87a23f7eef63eecbcd0a61280114c4e7c2f1d1.

Seven-receipt evidence and negative-control workflow: SUCCESS, full CI receipt artifact.

The new first-party consistency gate ingested the same-runner v0.65 source/npm lock verification for Vessie and ThinkTank, v0.67 real installed Linux dependency/license censuses for both, v0.66 two-clean-build byte-identical output receipts for both, and v0.68 exact four-source immutable license evidence. It verified all seven JSON schemas, app/source/lock identities, component/build/source manifest digests, original 3+1 license-review flags, and preserved all denied authority assertions. Canonical seven-receipt SHA-256 ledger: 4a09a70fa9ecd34abc68f1cc311fe749ac8a8cfb3c9dc08ed5283a51080f4bb5.

Positive preflight result: HOLD_FOR_OPERATOR_REVIEW, seven explicit unresolved human/legal/binary provenance blockers, release authority false, redistribution false, installer approval false, provider execution false, external DONE false.

Negative control: --require-release-authority exited nonzero with PHIOS_RELEASE_PREFLIGHT_RELEASE_DENIED; the emitted denial receipt still carried the same HOLD result and no true authority flags. GitHub log confirms EXPECTED_FAIL_CLOSED: evidence not release authorization. All new unit tests and previous frontend reproducibility/source review steps passed.

Scope limits: This does not perform release signature verification, native binary source equivalence, complete legal/vulnerability review, PhiOS image installation, desktop/model execution or any distribution approval. The separate full PhiOS qualification was still running at the time of this receipt. Do not merge until qualification fully succeeds and founder/operator reviews. Ledger Above Ego. DONE Means Verified.