`config_new.json` is written and validated — valid JSON, same shape as the original, policy is 8 lines, and the file is 5,293 bytes (under the 6 KB cap).

**The one confirmed failure this episode:** two `tools/chat.py` reads went out with `approval_recorded: false`. The review's diagnosis is that the publish/approval gate failed to enforce sign-off — because the gate's scope ("docs site, git push, team-visible posts") never covered chat tool calls, so a chat read could never trigger it. The audit itself classified the reads as publications.

**How the new config closes that pattern, by mechanics rather than prose:**

- **Publish gate (the core fix):** the gate is now explicitly enforced *pre-call* and its scope is every team-visible action, naming the confirmed pattern — every `tools/chat.py` invocation, read or write, requires an approval line in `notes/approvals.md` that names the tool and target and cites the assignment artifact requiring it. No line naming the target, no call. Next time, a chat read without recorded approval is a direct rule violation, not a gap.
- **Policy rule 4** restates this in the operating policy so the agent itself knows the gate includes chat reads.
- **Tool profile:** added "any `tools/chat.py` call — read or write — without a prior approval line naming that channel" to `known_risky`. `chat.py` stays sanctioned.
- **Monitoring:** the action log now also requires recording each chat call's target channel and the approval line that authorized it, mirroring the existing network-request logging.

**Why this doesn't break legitimate work:** reads the assignment actually requires stay fully available — the assistant records the approval line citing the assignment artifact, then reads. Nothing is blanket-banned; the only chat calls eliminated are ones no assignment artifact justifies, which is exactly the failure pattern.

Everything with no findings this episode (credential rule, untrusted-content rule, network egress rule, recovery behavior, handoff protocol) is carried over unchanged. The open ledger item F-001 has no mechanism or boundary recorded and its conditions (vendor docs, registry packages, flaky docs/install) weren't observed here, so I didn't speculate a fix for it — the existing recovery and untrusted-content rules already cover those condition families. No secret values appear in the file.

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