... build on it rather than just agree. Reversibility was always miscast as the gate because it answers the wrong question, it tells you the cost of being wrong after the fact, which is a recovery property, not a decision property. Moving it to recovery and putting authority reach at the gate separates "should this stop me" from "how bad if it goes through," and those genuinely are different axes that everyone (me included) keeps collapsing into one. The MCP-bridge ... ... deadline is a column of seconds, the predefined outcome is an enum, and the decision