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 BUG_4 (EPIC_2)
(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_2_BUG_4_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

## Summary

`.milkyflow/agents/project_manager/reports/EPIC_2_BUG_4_BLOCKER_1.md` was already fully processed before this turn — Decision (CEO) reads "Not required — SA mandate" and the Resolution section is filled, correctly routing this Category C blocker (deploy-config `source register` flag defects) to the Solution Architect to author `EPIC_2_FIX_2`. I verified rather than trusted:

- Resolution content matches the Decision and Category C exactly, no reinterpretation.
- No `## Exceptional workflow` section — correctly absent, since SA-authors-FIX → DevOps redeploy → QA re-run is fully expressible by the standard pipeline.
- `docs/INDEX.md` Blockers table and the BUG_4 Stories row already reflect this outcome accurately.
- `EPIC_2_FIX_2.md` does **not** yet exist (glob confirms only `EPIC_2_FIX_1.md`) — the SA hasn't executed the routing yet; the Coordinator's dispatch (`EPIC_2_BUG_4_BLOCKER_1_DISPATCH.md`) is already drafted and waiting for that hand-off, which is outside PM's steps 4–7.

No edits were needed to the report or INDEX. I appended one history.md row (`2026-08-09T09:37:18Z`) documenting this re-verification, following the same "no change made" precedent used in earlier re-triages. Since no Exceptional workflow section was added, the standard pipeline continues next: the SA dispatch runs to create `EPIC_2_FIX_2.md`, then DevOps redeploys and QA re-validates BUG_4/US_3.