Turns the converged v3.4 design into ordered phases with falsifiable exit
gates. Three adversarial review rounds with Codex (gpt-5.6-sol, xhigh);
findings adjudicated rather than accepted wholesale, with reachability
verified against source on both sides.
Structural decisions:
- Phase 0d closes BOTH unsafe paths into the capture (source string and
capture-sink inputs) before any machinery that could take them exists.
- Phase 5 dry-run audit mode is a hard gate: the taint engine runs against
the live graph, creating no links, asserting exact eligible/excluded
partitions with reason codes.
- Link manager is deliberately last among the pixelpass components.
Two measured corrections owed back to v3.4 (plan §11): §6.1.0's "hazard is
LIVE right now" has already flipped and must not be gated on, and §6.1.4
nominates an unreachable test case (as did my first replacement for it).
Design approval only. No code, nothing approved for merge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>