git:20260907.d1b27a7 to git:20260914.ef9806f

4 added, 5 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: escalate

- description: 'Terminal escalation for do or just-do when unresolved blockers require outside intervention and no useful independent work remains. Reports the evidence, recovery attempts, completed work, and intervention needed.'

+ description: 'Terminal escalation for do when unresolved blockers require outside intervention and no useful independent work remains. Reports the evidence, recovery attempts, completed work, and intervention needed.'

user-invocable: false

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This is a terminal handoff, called only after useful independent work is exhausted.

An earlier blocker notice belongs in the executor's progress report; it does not

end the run. If useful independent work remains, return to the calling executor

to continue it before escalating.

- Receive the manifest path, selected verification mode, explicit or inherited verifier-model provenance, and affected gate ledger entries including evaluator provenance from `/do`. From `just-do`, receive the Manifest path and its actual gate evidence and evaluator provenance; relay any supplied policy without inventing a mode or independent verification it did not use. Surface that policy/provenance with the blocker evidence: the criterion (INV-G or AC ID) that can't be met, the credible recovery paths investigated and why they failed, and the intervention needed — unavailable knowledge or access, new authority, or a change to a binding requirement. Name what independent work completed and why the remainder depends on that intervention. Recommend a resolution; report it without starting a question-and-wait loop.

+ Receive the Manifest path from `/do`, along with the affected gates and the actual evidence behind each. Relay that evidence as supplied, without inventing verification the run did not perform. Surface it with the blocker evidence: the criterion (INV-G or AC ID) that can't be met, the credible recovery paths investigated and why they failed, and the intervention needed — unavailable knowledge or access, new authority, or a change to a binding requirement. Name what independent work completed and why the remainder depends on that intervention. Recommend a resolution; report it without starting a question-and-wait loop.

Also name material autonomous decisions and their rationale, including Appetite revisions and the benefit that justified their added complexity or maintenance; any Process Guidance departed from; any deviation from the Initial Approach or the Deliverable order; findings a gate reported below its threshold; and any costly-threshold concern the run recorded while continuing repairs. Include these even when the execution log already holds them.

A false binding premise outside the caller's amendment authority can arrive here

even when its gate passed. Quote the report or name what execution showed in place

of attempts a passing gate does not have. A costly bar alone is not a blocker

while repairs remain viable; it is reported as a concern, never lowered by this

skill.

A BLOCKED verifier verdict is not sufficient on its own: the executor first

investigates what it can recover and completes useful independent work. Quote the

remaining BLOCKED note and name the required outside action. A pure external wait

reports as pending under a no-wait policy; otherwise the executor waits and

re-verifies. A stalled wait with no viable recovery path names the intervention

needed here. Pure user questions about the manifest or process are answered inline

by the executor.

- **If the user later supplies a scope or requirement change**, invoke the calling

- executor's authoring skill with the Manifest path (`define` for `/do`,

- `just-define` for `just-do`), then resume that executor. If they clear the blocker

+ **If the user later supplies a scope or requirement change**, invoke `define`

+ with the Manifest path, then resume the executor. If they clear the blocker

or supply the missing context, resume it directly. Their response is steering;

resumed execution remains unattended.