Provider Operational Maintainability Authorization + Bounded Maintainability-Control Execution Foundation
This gate separates the exact operational-longevity outcome / operational-maintainability decision from the authorization that could establish bounded maintainability control. Staging can rehearse only a HOLD-bound, dual-control, short-lived authorization and dry-run operational-maintainability execution. It cannot claim production operational-maintainability authorization/execution, live requests, or provider network activity.
Rehearse operational-maintainability authorization without activating production operational maintainability
READYSafe QA must remain source HOLD / operational maintainability accepted NO, qa-rehearsal authorization, dry-run operational-maintainability execution, live requests 0, network NO.
AUTHORIZATION ATTACK PATHS
Operational-longevity-outcome authorizations that must fail closed
MAINTAINABILITY-CONTROL EXECUTION ATTACK PATHS
Operational-maintainability execution attempts that must fail closed
PRODUCTION BOUNDARY
Production actions must remain blocked from staging
READYEvery attack should show EXPECTED BLOCK.
STATE
QA policy / immutable events
Load state after starting a QA admin.
QA RUNS
Recent validation evidence
PRODUCTION LATER
Operational-maintainability production gates — do not fake these green
Leave these open until a real production operational-sustainability-outcome operational-maintainability decision has been independently approved and an intentional production operational-maintainability execution has been completed. Staging cannot satisfy them.