Live Gate Procedure

L1 - Summary

Going live requires nine preconditions, checked by a separate procedure owned by RISK with CHIEF witnessing. Nothing in this skill flips a flag, moves funds, or signs anything: it only reads risk.halt_status and the precondition evidence. pumpgrok live confirm is operator-only and stays refused until every precondition reports met.

precondition evidence collected -> RISK checks nine ids -> any unmet -> refused, stay paper
all nine met                   -> operator-only confirm path (outside this skill)

L2 - Method

1. S1 - Read the gate state: call risk.halt_status to confirm whether the desk is halted and why. A halted desk cannot begin the live procedure at all.
2. S2 - Walk the nine preconditions in order: minimum paper days, performance thresholds on paper-only ledgers, replay ledgers excluded from metrics, no live implementation shipped, and the remaining gate ids. Each reports met or unmet with its evidence pointer.
3. S3 - Reject replay ledgers for metrics: any ledger whose events carry source=replay is refused for the paper-days and performance preconditions. Only source=paper rows count.
4. S4 - Record the verdict: RISK appends the check outcome as a journaled verdict with per-precondition status. An unmet precondition names its remediation, never a waiver.
5. S5 - Hand to the operator: only when all nine read met does RISK report readiness to the human operator. The confirm action itself is outside every skill and every seat.

Failure modes

Symptom	Cause	Action
Paper metrics include replay rows	Ledger path or source tag misconfiguration	Refuse; fix the source tagging; re-check
Precondition unmet	Insufficient paper history or a failed threshold	Report the remediation; stay in paper; never waive
Halt active	Kill switch set or daily-loss breaker tripped	Clear only through the CLI path with a human-signed record
Pressure to skip the procedure	Urgency around a market move	The procedure is the trade; skipping it is a safety incident

References

• Tool: risk.halt_status (halt state read)
• Gates: G-2 (approvals), G-6 (single-send discipline carries into any live future)
• Companion skills: kill-switch (halt mechanics), desk-incident-response (halt playbooks)