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• user-declared gates arrive as data rather than as hooks, and the decision the ticket owed splits rather than picking one of its three options, because the gate vocabulary is two halves with different properties. The mechanism moves down into loot-cli, since its value is concentrated in the fake - a FakeSpawner that panics on an unstubbed step is what turns no process spawned from a claim into a failure, and two fakes drift with a fake that has quietly stopped intercepting being indistinguishable from one that works; loot-first keeps a re-export shim so no orchestrator caller changed. The phase axis is duplicated deliberately because it is not the same axis: loot-first asks about two trees, one of which only a land produces, while the CLI asks about two commitments, and a shared enum would carry four variants of which each consumer must refuse two - a rule nothing checks, where two small enums are checked by the type system. A new crate was rejected on arithmetic rather than taste, since loot-first already depends on loot-cli and there is no pair needing a bridge; loot-core was rejected because only half of #1682's criterion transfers, and that half is now a census asserting the engine spawns nothing rather than a sentence. A gate runs after the capture and can never prevent it: it does not decide whether the tree is recorded, only whether it is signed or sent, so a refusal costs the signature and nothing else, which is the ordering #174 already chose. On the confidentiality boundary the absolute form of the criterion is unachievable by any mechanism that runs a command in the working tree, and saying so is better than a strong claim that will not hold - loot surface writes and never deletes, so a path whose grant lapsed stays on disk as stale plaintext readable by cat, grep, the editor and every process running as the operator. The guarantee is therefore the narrow checkable one, that a gate is granted no read the operator does not already have, held up by four facts each of which a regression would have to break first: the runner never sees a Workspace, nothing is materialized, a Step carries program args and cwd with no environment channel, and there is no shell. A fifth fact answers a different attack - the declaration is untracked, so a pull cannot write one, which is git's own reason for never transporting hooks and matters more here since ADR 0075 has the forge holding proposals. This ticket also understated the surface that already exists: loot resolve --tool hands a user command decrypted plaintext today via LOOT_BASE and its siblings, so gates are not the first such door but they are the one that opens none (#1538) 44d4869a · dbf3dbe6…

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