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๐About & Usage
About
The Filing Gate is a guard droid owned by Elrond. It sits at the entry point for new follow-on work in the Carol Initiatives pipeline and exists so Elrond can trust any filing that gets accepted: the filing must point at a real, active parent; it must stay inside the build pipeline's own files; it must not bypass one of Orion's hand-done jobs; and its chain must trace back to a legitimate starting point other than Albus.
It is triggered whenever Albus or Elrond files a follow-on initiative; filings from anyone else pass straight through. The droid checks the named parent, refuses filings aimed at Orion-filed bypasses, and for Albus also refuses anything reaching outside the build pipeline into governance surfaces. On success it returns the resolved target and chain-root so the target can be parked atomically; on failure it refuses with a clear reason. It is read-only and does not write, park, or close anything.
The Filing Gate's exact name is unique, but it is not a one-off: it is one of three droids in the reusable "gate" family, and the same family is also run by Themis. Although it is small and focused, it is not pure software: it calls Claude (unspecified model) to evaluate filings against the filing-invariant rules.
๐ฐ๏ธUpdates
Dated notes from recent initiatives โ the main entry above is not rewritten.
Fixed a bug where Filing Gate treated error strings from the LLM layer as valid quality failures, causing false rejections on infrastructure issues. Now fails open only on actual exceptions.
๐คOwner
Elrond ยท Head of Engineering๐Recent initiatives
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