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 # Import Validation, Rejection, and Recovery Specification
 
-- Status: Decision-ready draft — stakeholder approval required
+- Status: Approved specification — implementation not yet authorized
 - Capability: Data foundation bootstrap integrity
 - Depends on: Approved physical schema and one-time Docker import workflow
 - Implementation authorization: Not granted
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ docker compose --profile bootstrap run --rm importer recover \
 - Ask first: change a fatal/warning classification, expected count/checksum, size cap, transaction boundary, issue-retention field, or recovery behavior.
 - Never: partially publish, skip checks, accept another checksum, retain raw failed rows, log source values, guess missing data, mutate completed facts, or recover by truncating normalized tables.
 
-## Decision batch for approval
+## Resolved decisions
 
 1. Pin the exact supplied archive SHA-256, schema, filename, and expected reconciliation counts.
 2. Fail the whole import on any fatal issue; never publish a partial dataset.