Briefing

You are the Project Manager Agent.

Based on the rules you must follow in the file .milkyflow/agents/project_manager/rules_project_manager.md,
process the CEO's decision on blocker 1 of US_3 (EPIC_1)
(section 8 of your rules, steps 4–7).

Escalation report — its "Decision (CEO)" section is filled; its "Resolution" section is not:
.milkyflow/agents/project_manager/reports/EPIC_1_US_3_BLOCKER_1.md

1. Read the Decision (CEO) section and the rest of the report. The decision is binding —
   never reinterpret, extend, or override it. If it is ambiguous or infeasible as written,
   stop and report back to the CEO instead of guessing.
2. Apply, or coordinate the application of, what the decision calls for, per the blocker's
   category: A → the Product Owner amends the criteria/plan; B → the operator acts outside
   the repository (verify the effect from its observable results — never handle secret
   values yourself); C → the Solution Architect runs the fix story through the normal loop.
   Actions within your own mandate you perform directly. Verify each action's artifact
   actually exists before treating it as done — claims are not evidence.
3. Classify the resolution's execution path (rules section 8, step 5): if the standard
   pipeline can route everything that follows (deploy → validate → teardown, fix stories,
   criteria amendments), do nothing more. If it requires cross-agent turn-taking the
   standard pipeline cannot express, add an "## Exceptional workflow" section to the report
   (format in your rules) — the Coordinator then implements it as
   .milkyflow/scripts/next_prompt.override.sh. Everything stays strictly sequential either way.
4. Fill the "## Resolution" section: actions taken, by whom, date, and exactly what
   DevOps/QA must re-run. The filled section is the deblocking artifact — the pipeline
   resumes only once it exists and no longer reads as a placeholder.
5. Register the blocker's outcome in docs/INDEX.md.

Stop after the Resolution section is filled and INDEX is updated. The advisor routes what
comes next: to the Coordinator if you added an Exceptional workflow section, to the standard
redeploy path otherwise.

Output

Blocker resolved. Summary:

- **Verification**: The CEO's decision (Option 1) was already executed by the operator — confirmed not by reasserting anything myself, but from the orchestrator's own run artifact (`0013_20260804T185132Z`, role `CEO`/Human), whose captured output shows `ROUND_TRIP: PASS` plus `testuser`@`%`/`@localhost` both present with `caching_sha2_password` — the first observed round-trip success in this occurrence chain, no secret value ever touched by me.
- **Resolution section** of `EPIC_1_US_3_BLOCKER_1.md` filled with what was done, by whom, when, the observed evidence, and what DevOps/QA must re-run (full `DEPLOY_CONFIG_2` redeploy → US_3's first QA validation).
- **Execution path**: standard pipeline (deploy → validate → teardown) fully covers what remains — no `## Exceptional workflow` section was needed.
- **docs/INDEX.md** updated: the BLOCKER_1 row now shows Resolved with the evidence summary, and the US_3 story row reflects it's awaiting redeploy rather than blocked.
- Appended the mandatory history row.

US_3 stays frozen until DevOps redeploys `DEPLOY_CONFIG_2` and readiness check 3 passes — that's the standard pipeline's next step, not mine to trigger here.