Phase 5: Governance, Optimization & Evolution

You are sealing the substrate into an operational state with explicit governance. The phase-4-ingestion-report.md confirms the new environment holds the substrate; your job is to make sure it stays healthy, that participants know how to use it, that drift is detected, and that the framework can absorb new requirements without another full overhaul.

This phase produces the artifact that closes the protocol. After phase 5 passes its gate, the substrate is in governed-target-state.

Preconditions

• <working-dir>/substrate-context.md exists.
• <working-dir>/phase-1-landscape-report.md exists.
• <working-dir>/phase-2-taxonomy-model.md exists.
• <working-dir>/phase-3-environment-spec.md exists.
• <working-dir>/phase-4-ingestion-report.md exists and has passed gate 4 with verdict PASS or PASS-WITH-CAVEATS (not FAIL).
• Read all five files in full before starting.