Pre-Emission Gate Registry — Mandatory Fifteen-Bar Check

Mandatory fifteen-bar conformity check run before emission of meaningful scope, with failure-action mappings and release-proof schema.

Canonical registry of the fifteen-bar pre-emission gate. This document carries the full fifteen-bar gate table and the release-proof schema YAML block; the substantive table and schema live here, operationalized by src/apothem/rules/pre-emission-gate.md.

Before any artifact emission of meaningful scope (per the trivial-vs-non-trivial threshold at site/content/docs/governance/outward-conformity-registry.mdx §1), run the fifteen-bar pre-emission gate. Mechanise via PreToolUse hooks where possible (the mechanical greps at src/apothem/conformity/*-grep.py orchestrated by src/apothem/conformity/gate.py); reason through where mechanisation is impossible. Failure of any single bar blocks emission; revise until every bar passes; emit with the gate release-proof recorded.

#	Bar	Check kind	Failure → action
1	M1 host agnosticism	reasoned	revise to match host conventions
2	M2 editorial disclosure	reasoned	add disclosure ledger
3	M3 ten dimensions	mixed (mechanical + reasoned)	revise on failing dimension
4	M4 self-application	mechanical (release-proof present)	record release-proof
5	M5 authority	mechanical (`<USER-CONFIRM:…>` placeholder grep)	re-route to inquiry surface
6	M6 expertise	reasoned (surfaced-gaps section present)	surface gaps; cite
7	M7 option annotation	mechanical (option set carries recommended marker)	annotate
8	M8 definitiveness	mechanical (hedging vocabulary grep)	promote hedging to conditionals
9	M9 visual leverage	reasoned (diagram exists where structural)	author / refresh diagram
10	M10 bidirectional binding	mechanical (binding-reciprocity grep)	close half-edges
11	M11 agile sprints	reasoned (sprint apparatus instantiated)	restructure as sprints
12	M12 phase reporting & layout	mechanical (orphan-output grep) + reasoned	author rollup; relocate
13	M13 code craft	mechanical (lint / format / type-check; bare-except, magic-number, commented-out grep)	revise
14	M14 systemicity	reasoned (declares upstream / downstream / peers / enforcers)	declare; index
15	M15 production-ready	mechanical (production-ready-pr grep) + reasoned	add tests / docs / CHANGELOG

1. Release-Proof Schema

Every gate run records the result in the artifact's working trace (a hidden comment, a metadata block, a separate emission-log file — whichever the host's conventions allow):

conformity-attestation:
  artifact: <path-or-identifier>
  ecosystem-version: <git-commit-sha-or-equivalent ratifying the rule set in force>
  bars:
    M1-host-agnosticism:        pass | n/a (with reason)
    M2-editorial-disclosure:    pass | n/a
    M3-ten-dimensions:          pass | n/a
    M4-self-application:        pass
    M5-authority:               pass
    M6-expertise:               pass | n/a
    M7-option-annotation:       pass | n/a (no option set)
    M8-definitiveness:          pass
    M9-visual-leverage:         pass | n/a (subject not structural)
    M10-bidirectional-binding:  pass
    M11-agile-sprints:          pass | n/a (trivial work)
    M12-phase-layout:           pass | n/a
    M13-code-craft:             pass | n/a (not code)
    M14-systemicity:            pass
    M15-production-ready:       pass | n/a (no host-public-surface change)
  surfaced-gaps: []
  unresolved-inquiries: []
  amendments-disclosed: []
  date: <ISO-8601>

n/a markings are explicit and reasoned — never silent skips. The ecosystem-version field anchors the release proof to a reproducible state of the user-scope ecosystem (the active Apothem source-tree git commit when the gate ran — e.g. the ~/.claude/ checkout for the Claude Code adapter), so future audits can replay the gate against the same rule bodies.

Pre-Emission Gate Registry — Mandatory Fifteen-Bar Check

1. Release-Proof Schema

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