docs: governed progression, human gates and external delivery authority

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Coordinated architecture increment

GOVERNED_PROGRESSION_AND_DELIVERY_AUTHORITY_V1 — documentation/roadmap only, companion changes in EP, Workspace and Forge Platform.

• Keeps separate Business/Architecture approvals before Mission Intake.
• Makes post-Action/Intent/Capability/Mission review cadence explicitly project-policy and Mission-assignment driven, with constrained overrides, durable fences and decision evidence.
• Distinguishes engineering review, pre-side-effect delivery/promotion gates and actual deployment authority.
• Defines project-owned Delivery Control Contract semantics for TST/ACC/PROD/custom targets, artifact/pipeline/operation identity and existing external approval owners.
• Preserves external CD; no duplicate Workspace Approve button, no trigger-to-deploy authority escalation, no credentials or direct deployment fallback.
• Distinguishes an authorized pipeline request before an external approval from executing the protected side effect before that approval.
• Adds a linked documentary DAG; all implementation nodes remain PLANNED. No executable bootstrap DAG, source, workflow, version or runtime change.

Qualification and merge scope

Owner explicitly requested this architecture increment and merges when ready. Merge only after exact-head checks and cross-repository documentary reconciliation. This request authorizes documentation merges, not policy activation, live Mission execution, external pipeline/config changes, grant resets or deployment. Other open implementation/design PRs remain untouched; their findings are not closed by this documentation. Peer PR links and actual validation results will be recorded in the coordination comment.

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Coordinated documentary qualification before requested merges

Increment GOVERNED_PROGRESSION_AND_DELIVERY_AUTHORITY_V1.

Owning PR	Qualified head
Forge #51	9cae487b575dcbff55ed4444428e538b43a5a672
EP pcvantol/engineering-platform#104	f323a2d6379ae24757da07bdbeaecad423b56fae
Workspace pcvantol/workspace#16	d93c2691fec634ee99cd7e2b2d88b946f06f01b7
Forge Platform pcvantol/forge-platform#19	f8c8e5180ff6f1ace35b86fdbcd1445d27dcfe38

Scope / design reconciliation

Re-fetched changed-file lists: 14 files: 13 Markdown + one documentary DAG JSON. No runtime, source/test implementation, workflows, versions, executable bootstrap DAG, policy activation, grant, credential or consumption change. Existing implementation/SemVer/assurance/queue lanes are not modified or approved here. Workspace's original unrelated roadmap wording was restored before final qualification.

All four designs distinguish fixed pre-Mission approvals, configurable project/Mission review cadence and before-side-effect delivery gates. They preserve the declared existing CD approval/execution owner, avoid duplicate Workspace approval, separate trigger/approve/deploy permission, and bind decisions/evidence to exact target/artifact/operation. An external gate mapping stays pending until genuine evidence; a permitted pipeline request can create the external gate without authorizing the protected side effect. Project-owned declarations do not mint rights. Full external CD/UI is not a new no-deployment first-canary dependency.

Canonical parent roadmaps route the new sub-roadmaps/designs. GP node dependencies were checked against the owner tables. Local documentary JSON validation used bytes whose Git blob SHA matches fetched ff157fcec49d9a1d7d78ad03bfc3fdf55534585a: 9 unique nodes, 11 edges, known owner/node references, no duplicates/self-edges/cycles, topological sort PASS. Implementation nodes remain PLANNED, and execution_authority/runtime_configuration are false. This is a documentary graph check, not application/runtime qualification.

Hosted results fetched on exact heads

• Forge: Forge CI 34239449607, CodeQL 34239449618, TDE observe 34239449597: SUCCESS.
• EP: validation 34239635953, Golden 34239635943, Trusted Delivery 34239636316, Security 34239635880, CodeQL 34239635763, TDE 34239636003: SUCCESS. Independent Owner Authorization commit status: SUCCESS.
• Workspace final head: CI 34240455431, TDE 34240455435: SUCCESS.
• Forge Platform: Foundation 34240174439, CodeQL 34240174277, TDE 34240174314: SUCCESS.

All four PRs were re-read as open, Git-mergeable, with no submitted review blockers in the retrieved review lists. No independent human security review or locally rerun full suite is claimed. The owner's current request explicitly authorizes these architecture/documentation merges when ready; it does not authorize any runtime/external deployment or weaken repository gates. Proceed via normal squash merges with expected-head protection; record actual merge results separately.

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Increment merged and verified

All four requested documentation PRs were squash-merged using expected-head checks and then re-fetched as merged=true:

Owner	PR	Actual merge commit
Forge	#51	be6fc6e2fd99a31897deb12e3847f2d9d569d393
EP	pcvantol/engineering-platform#104	fea81e81b38b4f064a0165670001968e12c3020e
Workspace	pcvantol/workspace#16	86d31c362b9ba3823c64c44e8f0e52b8e9600065
Forge Platform	pcvantol/forge-platform#19	a9b56476e858a9c6cff91aea4d7f77bdf166f9c7

Pre-merge qualification and source scope are recorded in comment 5587083667. This is MERGED_CANONICAL architecture/roadmap, not implemented or installed governance/CD capability. Nine documentary GP nodes / eleven edges were locally validated; hosted checks passed on all final PR heads, with separate EP Owner Authorization green. Fourteen files changed: thirteen Markdown, one documentary graph JSON. Existing executable bootstrap graph, implementation code, versions, workflows, external CD configuration, runtime/grants/budgets were not changed.

The source of truth is now the merged owning design: Forge progression + project/Mission cadence; EP execution/assurance; project/organization target-owned CD approval/deployment; Workspace local/external decision presentation without duplication; Forge Platform bounded composition. External requests may create a pending external approval but never bypass its protected side effect. Existing QA/queue/SemVer and other implementation PRs retain their own open findings/qualification and were not merged by this operation.

Local host checkouts were not synchronized and no application test suite or installed qualification was run locally. No deployment, store submission, production publication, grant activation or budget reset was performed.