# Pause and Resume Point

**Paused:** July 19, 2026, after Gate 2B.1 and before Gate 2B.2.

## Completed before pause

- Gate 0 and Gate 1 are accepted.
- Gate 2A is accepted.
- Gate 2B.1 contains the three primary Realm scenes and is available for review.
- The Design Lab consolidates five Outside the Studio journeys and six Inside the Studio scenes.
- A preliminary engineering-planning handoff has been assembled.
- Taxonomy impact: no change.

## Not completed or authorized

- Gate 2B.1 owner revision/acceptance remains open.
- Gate 2B.2 exceptional scenes have not started.
- Gates 3–7 have not started.
- The preliminary handoff is not production authorization or the final engineering specification.

## Recommended first action tomorrow

Review the six Inside the Studio scenes in the Design Lab and give keep/change/remove notes, especially for the three Gate 2B.1 Realm scenes. Then either revise Gate 2B.1 or explicitly authorize Gate 2B.2.

## Safe activation prompt after review

> Approve Gate 2B.1 and begin Gate 2B.2 only. Read the Gate 2B.1 review materials, Realm Intelligence Contracts, cross-Realm behavior matrix, scene briefs, and all decisions recorded since the preliminary engineering handoff. Create exactly the three previously defined exceptional scenes, preserve the accepted one-center shell and continuous-conversation rules, demonstrate recovery and authority boundaries, perform the taxonomy-impact check, and stop for my review. Do not begin Gate 3, the Atlas, or production engineering.
