2026-07-22 — A release is a release regardless of path: the clean-cutover

2026-07-22 — A release is a release regardless of path: the clean-cutover manual roll follows the SAME two-commit release-branch shape as a derived ship (the content commit, then a receipts commit carrying the sha-keyed PROMOTE receipts for docs-currency-reviewer and iss35-brief-surface-crosscheck). The v0.4.0 roll landed as one commit with no receipts; the receipt gate refused fail-closed — its first genuine firing, and correct. Recovery uses the workflow's own escape hatch (tag on the receipts commit; content = tag^). Rejected: weakening the required-gates list to unblock the tag — that edits the release contract the whole programme was built to preserve.