### COMMIT 9 — 2026-03-27T13:24:05Z
**Branch:** feature-coding-assistant
**Milestone:** Phase 9 complete — WorkflowOrchestrator (PLAN→PREFLIGHT→GATE→CODE→VALIDATE→TEST→LEARN), GovernancePolicyConfig in GraqleConfig, governance-gate.yml GitHub Actions. 48 Phase 8+9 tests passing.
**State:** WORKING
**Files Changed:**
- CREATED: `graqle/core/workflow_orchestrator.py` — 7-stage enforced state machine; policy-aware; halts on BLOCKED
- MODIFIED: `graqle/config/settings.py` — GovernancePolicyConfig + GraqleConfig.governance with default_factory
- CREATED: `.github/workflows/governance-gate.yml` — graq gate CI on PRs; SARIF upload to Code Scanning
- CREATED/MODIFIED: `tests/test_generation/test_phase9_orchestrator.py` — 27 tests (all passing)
**Key Decisions:**
- Named workflow_orchestrator.py not orchestrator.py — graq_reason flagged collision
- GovernancePolicyConfig default_factory — backward compatible
- WorkflowOrchestrator halts at first BLOCKED — downstream stages never run
- Unicode fix: encoding="utf-8" on Windows cp1252 YAML reads
**Next:**
- [ ] Phase 10: tree-sitter AST, policy-as-code DSL, 200+ secret patterns, RBAC, adversarial tests
- [ ] Push feature branch to GitHub
- [ ] v0.38.0 release tag after Phase 10
**Blockers:** None
