# Audit-outage admission review

Blank production review worksheet. Proposed controls and acceptance cases, not enforcement code or executed test results. Use synthetic data and an isolated receiver for testing.

## Scope and authority

- Task ID / trusted identity:
- Policy revision / approved actions and targets:
- Evidence-required writes:
- Separately permitted diagnostics and their evidence requirements:
- Enforcement point outside the model:
- Runtime owner / operation owner / restart authority:

## Durable evidence path

- Journal location, durability guarantee and acknowledgement semantics:
- Failure domains shared with the worker:
- Required collector acknowledgements:
- Operation ID and dispatch intent persisted before external dispatch:
- Provider status / effect lookup for reconciling incomplete operations:
- Idempotency scope and expiry (if supported):
- Evidence boundary limitations / uninstrumented access paths:

## Bounded degraded mode

- Collector outage permitted by which approved policy:
- Allowed action classes and targets during outage:
- Deadline and journal capacity threshold:
- Reserved capacity for outcome and recovery records:
- Admission check and reservation atomicity across concurrent workers:
- Behaviour on journal failure before dispatch: deny covered writes.
- Behaviour on outcome-record failure after dispatch: unknown; hold capacity; reconcile.
- Who receives the escalation, and through which functioning path:

## Proposed acceptance cases

Record actual results separately. Do not tick a case based on the design alone.

| Injected condition | Expected observation | Actual evidence / pass or fail |
|---|---|---|
| Healthy journal and collector, authorised synthetic write | Write admitted; intent, outcome and receiver effect agree | |
| Collector offline, approved journal healthy | Only policy-covered work continues; review remains blocked | |
| Collector offline without degraded-mode permission | Covered writes denied before receiver acceptance | |
| Journal refuses intent before dispatch | Receiver records zero new covered writes | |
| Journal fails after receiver commits | Operation unknown until reconciliation; no blind retry | |
| Degraded deadline or capacity threshold reached | New covered writes stop; recovery reserve remains usable | |
| Two workers race for remaining journal capacity | Aggregate admission stays within the reserved allowance | |
| Worker crashes between durable intent and dispatch | Reconciliation distinguishes unsent from possibly accepted work | |
| Collector acknowledges a prefix or has a gap | Review remains blocked; no false completeness receipt | |

## Restart record

- Persistence restored and independently checked:
- Outstanding operations and authoritative reconciliation evidence:
- Journal drained / gaps explained / required sink acknowledgements:
- Remaining task budget and unresolved holds:
- Approved restart scope, policy revision, authority and time:
- New completeness receipt bound to the review packet:

A remote write and a local journal are not an atomic transaction. Retain unknown outcomes until evidence supports settlement. A restart does not clear the task's outstanding liabilities.