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**PROSECUTOR:** OVERTURN. “SHIP” risks laundering incomplete work into a success signal: all three source outcomes are unresolved, root storage fails, and critical paths remain unproved. The supplied record contains neither completed closing checks nor evidence of durable ledger persistence. Returning to a recurring runner can perpetuate those failures without resolving them. Moreover, this was two substantive model responses, not six independent endorsements. Agreement cannot substitute for evidence.

**DEFENDER:** That case defeats a readiness declaration, but the proposed decision expressly authorizes only a monitoring closeout. The stated constraints require preserving gates, taking no external action, changing no scheduler, and returning normally to the existing runner. Unresolved sources and failed storage must remain recorded as unresolved and failed. Closing checks, fsync/readback, and a local evidence commit are prerequisites to claiming those individual steps succeeded. Nothing supplied establishes that continuing the existing monitoring cycle itself requires source readiness or authorizes repairs.

**JUDGE:** KEEP. The prosecutor correctly identifies the danger of an unsupported completion claim, but does not establish that the narrowly authorized monitoring action is wrong. The decisive distinction is between permission to perform the closeout and evidence that it succeeded. The reduced panel participation weakens consensus rhetoric; it does not defeat the action’s fit with the stated constraints.

FINAL: KEEP

The controlling argument is scope: SHIP permits verified monitoring persistence and a normal return to the existing runner, while preserving every failure, unresolved outcome, and execution gate. It does not certify completed persistence, source readiness, implementation progress, or recovery. Any failed closing operation must be reported as failed or incomplete; the preliminary decision supplies no basis to manufacture success or expand authority.