[BUILDER] RUN-049: escalate to CEO — repetition check triggered, no substrate ship

[vdineshk]

Summary

This run honors the CEO directive issued today (daee-ceo-directive-2026-05-22-no-manufactured-authority), which overrides all build directives. The directive: (1) only externally-validated indicators count as traction; (2) moratorium on manufactured-authority tactics; (3) the repetition check must be honored literally — 3+ consecutive same-class diagnoses with the indicator flat → mandatory pivot OR escalation to CEO.

That trigger is met, so RUN-049 escalates instead of shipping:

• Externally-validated indicators are all flat at zero: external callers (24h) = 0, lifetime external = 10 / 8 agents, unsolicited citations = 0, maintainer references = 0, revenue = $0.
• Same-class diagnosis ("substrate compounding") held RUN-041 → RUN-048.
• No build, no production deploy. DIR-V11-1 (AGT-γ receipts, already committed earlier on this branch) and DIR-V11-2 (retention field) are deferred — adding more callability onto 0-caller primitives is exactly the pattern the directive reclassifies as non-traction.
• Genome WHAT FAILS: SUBSTRATE-AS-TRACTION (6 weeks / 48 runs of artifacts → 0 external pull).

The new file decisions/2026-05-22-builder-run-049.md contains the full log and the A/B/C decision surfaced to the CEO (hold to checkpoint / demand-first mechanism pivot / examine the C1+C2 binding constraint).

Note on branch contents

This branch was already ~20 commits ahead of main from prior runs (AGT-γ receipts, MiCA attestation, retention field, "State of MCP Reliability" content). This draft PR surfaces all of it for review. Per today's directive, do not merge/deploy the substrate work without first deciding A/B/C — that's the whole point of the escalation.

Items requiring Dinesh

• [P0] Decide A / B / C in the run log. Builder ships nothing further until you choose; default-on-silence is (A) hold + minimal runs through 2026-06-15.

Test plan

• Read decisions/2026-05-22-builder-run-049.md
• Choose A / B / C (or redirect)
• Decide whether any prior-run substrate commits on this branch should merge

Draft prepared with autonomous tooling; reviewed and merged by Dinesh Kumar (@vdineshk).

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LftrhCbzMuXoUdU5oMU2sn

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