`verification/tk11321/dtd-codex-debate.txt`

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**PROSECUTOR:** A risks treating an outage as evidence of safety. Matching product identifiers and snapshots proves that authorization applies to the same draft; it does not establish that the draft would pass Gemini. Preserving known BLOCKs cannot catch an undiscovered violation. Neither negative tests nor a successful live canary validates the omitted review. If Gemini provides a mandatory settlement safeguard, owner authorization cannot replace it.

**DEFENDER:** That objection turns on a requirement the supplied record does not establish: that Gemini itself is mandatory and cannot be waived. The stated authorization specifically permits bypassing Gemini for the current 504 outage-held drafts while retaining settlement text, known BLOCKs, fresh eligibility checks, channel boundaries, and publication limits. A implements that narrow exception. Snapshot binding prevents authorization from silently extending to changed products, and `SKIPPED_BY_OWNER` accurately records the missing review rather than falsely recording a pass. Tests establish enforcement of the exception’s boundaries; they do not purport to prove substantive safety.

**JUDGE:** The prosecutor identifies a real loss of assurance, but does not establish that A violates the supplied constraints. Conversely, the defender cannot claim that owner authorization proves compliance. The controlling distinction is between permission to omit a particular review and permission to override substantive restrictions: the record supports the former, and A preserves the latter.

FINAL: KEEP

A remains the strongest supported choice because it implements the stated product-specific authorization without converting it into a global bypass or overriding known restrictions. The missing Gemini review creates residual uncertainty, but the supplied evidence does not establish that this review is independently mandatory. Approval therefore supports A’s bounded implementation, not a declaration that the drafts are safe or that its proposed tests have already passed.