{
  "record_type": "confused-gorilla:PrincipalRatificationRecord",
  "record_version": "1.0",
  "organization_id": "confused-gorilla",
  "subject": "Founder ratification of shared Confused Gorilla organization structure and OrgDef charters",
  "decision": "ratified",
  "ratified_by": "Scott Welch, human principal",
  "ratified_on": "2026-11-07",
  "ratified_at_observed": "2026-11-07T18:22:40-05:00",
  "authorization_source": "Direct statement by the human principal in the ChatGPT conversation: 'That looks perfect. I ratify this structure, and the orgdef charters.'",
  "provenance": {
    "source_type": "interactive_conversation",
    "external_github_approval_verified": false,
    "independently_auditable_identity_binding": false,
    "recorded_by": "ChatGPT (drafter; not appointed organizational seat)",
    "assertion_scope": "Principal's conversational ratification of the reviewed structure and charters, not a GitHub account-signed approval"
  },
  "ratified_artifact": {
    "repository": "scottconfusedgorilla/confused-gorilla",
    "branch": "work/shared-orgdef-2026-11-07",
    "commit": "5dfd4602c3e5f14363c3bb8db0477b5d04daee9f",
    "orgdef_path": "governance/orgdef.json",
    "orgdef_blob_sha": "0c8efbc5b580a6cee5577299a092a5959fbf8aa4",
    "version": "0.1.1-draft",
    "charter_path": "governance/CHARTER.md"
  },
  "scope": {
    "approved": [
      "One shared Confused Gorilla organization with Institute and Labs divisions",
      "Nine-seat reporting and independent validation structure shown to principal",
      "Charter governance values, red lines, authority boundaries, and limitations"
    ],
    "not_approved_or_not_claimed": [
      "Appointment of any vacant AI seat",
      "Activation or technical enforcement of appointment/adoption authorization",
      "GitHub account-bound PR approval or signed attestation",
      "Normative OrgDef schema extension conformance",
      "Publication or deployment of internal governance files",
      "Merger of draft PR #8 into main"
    ]
  },
  "outstanding_gates": [
    "R2: enforce and test external principal approval verification before appointments or operational adoption",
    "F6: verify normative schema/renderer compatibility of four extensions before production publication",
    "Create separately authenticated and version-pinned adoption record under future agreed gate",
    "Principal disposition of review findings F1–F6 and R1–R3 should be preserved as a separate decision record; this ratification does not silently invent per-finding votes"
  ],
  "status": "founder_ratified_pending_operational_adoption",
  "notes": "This record documents the principal's explicit governance decision without pretending the drafter can authenticate the principal's GitHub identity or operate unimplemented controls."
}