The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploit it as an OPPORTUNITY.
- Peter Drucker
Automating the steps around a pull request looks like a sequence problem: prepare, open, verify. The real work is identity, external truth, evidence ordering, and authority. Get those wrong and you either block valid work forever or claim success you cannot defend.
The problem
The apparent task is...
A governed workflow can block premature execution and still record a lie. When durable state says you have reached the next stage while a human gate is still pending, dispatch protection alone is not enough. The fix is to align three truths: the recorded lifecycle stage, the gate status, and who is ...
A human gate is not finished when the system prints instructions. It is finished when the operator can make the decision, the workflow records that decision through the authoritative surface, and the next legal path resumes without forcing the operator to become the lifecycle engine.
