# Decision Gate

Verdict: **GO**

I now have all the information needed to make my decision.

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## Decision Gate Assessment

### Verdict Tally

| Reviewer | Initial | Round 2 | Round 3 (Latest) |
|----------|---------|---------|-------------------|
| Principal Systems Engineer | request-changes | approve | **approve** |
| Staff Security Engineer | (no explicit verdict) | approve | **approve** |
| Linus Torvalds | — | approve | **approve** |
| Andrej Karpathy | — | approve | **approve** |

**Final score: 4 approve, 0 request-changes**

### Finding Severity Summary

| Severity | Count | Status |
|----------|-------|--------|
| CRITICAL | 0 | — |
| HIGH | 0 | — |
| MEDIUM | 0 | — |
| LOW | 3 | Acknowledged, non-blocking |
| INFO/NIT | ~8 | Minor polish items |

The initial request-changes (fd-close guard bug, dead `session_start` parameter) were **fixed in a subsequent commit**, confirmed by the Round 3 Principal Systems Engineer review: *"The fd-close bug was fixed in the second commit. Good."*

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```
VERDICT: GO
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### Rationale
All four persona reviewers unanimously approve in Round 3 after the two real bugs (broken fd-close guard in `_save_loop_state` and dead `session_start` parameter) were fixed. There are zero CRITICAL or HIGH findings remaining — only LOW/INFO items like a missing build-status badge (no CI exists yet), bare `Exception` catch in `doctor.py` that should be `yaml.YAMLError`, and the heartbeat being inter-phase rather than intra-phase (pragmatic for MVP). The implementation covers all 23 functional requirements (FR-1 through FR-23) with 206+ passing tests, zero new dependencies, atomic loop state persistence, and correct time/budget cap semantics across resume sessions.

### Unresolved Issues
- None blocking merge.

### Recommendation
**Merge as-is.** The remaining minor items (narrowing the `yaml.YAMLError` catch, adding `min=0.01` validation on `--max-budget`/`--max-hours`, populating real PR URLs in the "Built by ColonyOS" table, and adding elapsed-time/PR-count display to `colonyos status`) are good candidates for a fast follow-up PR but do not warrant holding this shipment.