Recover operator approvals for STAR-RESEARCH-012/029/030/032 #157

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opened 2026-08-27 14:34:53 +00:00 by lost-rob0t · 0 comments

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Operator approval recovery

The canonical approval migration currently shows these research nodes as PENDING, but the operator has explicitly re-confirmed approval during the 2026-08-27 research review.

Approved:

STAR-RESEARCH-012 — corroboration-aware deduplication. Decision: if two or more sources say the same thing, StarIntel keeps one copy of the fact but remembers every source that reported it. Further research may expand lineage/source-independence handling without revoking this direction.
STAR-RESEARCH-029 — distributed target lease and fencing semantics.
STAR-RESEARCH-030 — backend-neutral KV lease store.
STAR-RESEARCH-032 — authenticated target-lease HTTP and execution enforcement.

Required repository correction

Set canonical research approval metadata to APPROVED with approval_actor: operator and evidence pointing to this operator decision.
Update the Research conclusion row in each Approval Table to APPROVED.
Add a 2026-08-27 changelog entry explaining that the canonical state was repaired after the approval-metadata migration failed to preserve the prior human decision.
Do not treat this as a new implementation approval or redesign; it restores the research conclusion state.
Keep the research-refresh work in #156 separate: additional passes can modernize assumptions while preserving the approved conclusion unless the operator explicitly supersedes/rejects it.

This issue itself is the durable operator-decision evidence for the repaired approval metadata.

## Operator approval recovery The canonical approval migration currently shows these research nodes as `PENDING`, but the operator has explicitly re-confirmed approval during the 2026-08-27 research review. Approved: - `STAR-RESEARCH-012` — corroboration-aware deduplication. Decision: if two or more sources say the same thing, StarIntel keeps one copy of the fact but remembers every source that reported it. Further research may expand lineage/source-independence handling without revoking this direction. - `STAR-RESEARCH-029` — distributed target lease and fencing semantics. - `STAR-RESEARCH-030` — backend-neutral KV lease store. - `STAR-RESEARCH-032` — authenticated target-lease HTTP and execution enforcement. ## Required repository correction - Set canonical research approval metadata to `APPROVED` with `approval_actor: operator` and evidence pointing to this operator decision. - Update the Research conclusion row in each Approval Table to `APPROVED`. - Add a 2026-08-27 changelog entry explaining that the canonical state was repaired after the approval-metadata migration failed to preserve the prior human decision. - Do not treat this as a new implementation approval or redesign; it restores the research conclusion state. - Keep the research-refresh work in #156 separate: additional passes can modernize assumptions while preserving the approved conclusion unless the operator explicitly supersedes/rejects it. This issue itself is the durable operator-decision evidence for the repaired approval metadata.