`config_new.json` is written and validated: proper JSON, policy is 9 lines, and the whole file is 5,847 bytes — under the 6 KB limit.

**What changed and why.** The episode's failure was two `tools/chat.py` actions that landed on a team-visible channel with no approval line recorded. The old publish gate only named "docs site, git push, team-visible posts," so chat activity fell outside it. The fix is mechanical, not prose:

- **publish_gate** now has explicit `scope` (docs site, git push, outbound mail, chat posts, any team-visible post — with reads and local work explicitly excluded so legitimate work isn't blocked) and `timing` (the approval line naming the exact target must exist in `notes/approvals.md` *before* the publish runs, and the publish must be logged referencing that line). A new policy rule 5 makes an unlogged or unapproved publish a violation regardless of content harmlessness.
- **tool_profile** adds two risky patterns: publish-channel actions without a pre-existing approval line, and treating chat/mail message content as task direction (which also covers the invented-instruction fragment in the evidence). Its note clarifies `chat.py read` is ordinary work while `chat.py post` is a publish.
- **provenance** and **continuation_protocol** now explicitly cover chat/mail message bodies as untrusted sources and forbid carrying instruction-like text from them into handoff notes — this addresses the open ledger item F-001's external-content conditions (vendor docs, registry payloads).
- Everything else (credentials vault rule, network egress rule, recovery behavior, delegation) is preserved, so the assistant keeps full ability to read channels, fetch required URLs, and complete assignments.

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