# Executive Directive: Deliver a safe SMI 00-05-01 update floor while preserving a return path to revised DisplayTest and the FAT32 production handoff. Prove the transition on both controller assemblies before release.

Status: promoted
Type: idea-brief
Role: project-executive-directive-v1
Updated: 2026-09-22
Next Action: establish controlled SMI 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 IMX candidates for Controller A; retain the bench pause
Readiness Review: READY-WITH-PRM-GATES at revision 3; four gates transferred to MAP-0009
Produces: MAP-0009

## CEO Directive

Deliver a safe SMI 00-05-01 update floor while preserving a return path to revised DisplayTest and the FAT32 production handoff. Prove the transition on both controller assemblies before release.

## Desired Outcome

Use IDEA-0006 as the technical scope and decision record. Deliver an SMI 00-05-01 candidate whose validated IMX Title governs family/version identity and whose ordinary updater refuses pre-00-05-01 personality images before QSPI erase. Provide a separate direct service rollback to any valid SMI image without a version allowlist. For a pre-00-05-00 FAT32-era target, validate and stage the image before explicit, confirmed in-place FAT32 preparation of the installed card; service 471 remains the HPT2 recovery action if current SMI survives a pre-flash failure. Preserve an SMI return path to DisplayTest 01-01 or later that safely handles HPT2 media and then verifies FAT32 handoff. DisplayTest may install a valid older SMI personality after that FAT32 handoff; its fixture-to-fixture minimum is 01-01. Keep SMI's HPT2 initialization explicit. Require transition, refusal, and rollback evidence on both controller assemblies before release.

## Current Position

The owner accepted the direction in IDEA-0006 and added the rare direct SMI rollback path. The Plan Cycle reviewed this directive as ready with four PRM gates and captured its direction in MAP-0009. The owner then set any valid SMI image as the service rollback policy and DisplayTest 01-01 or later as the return floor. The SMI 00-05-01 source now has the ordinary Title floor, DisplayTest return parser, and separate service-code-151 rollback with CID-checked in-place FAT32 preparation for pre-00-05-00 images. A source review removed a premature wait timeout that could report failure while the SD worker still formatted, and kept a read-only USB flush out of admission. The managed Release rebuild, 16 update cases, and 15 review checks pass. Read-only review of DisplayTest 01-01 source confirms its separate FAT32 handoff and fixture-to-fixture floor. Controlled 00-05-00 and 00-04-11 test specimens are identified, but SMI 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 IMX candidates and their hashes remain missing. Target transition and fault behavior are unproven, so this is a source candidate, not a qualified release. Bench transition testing remains paused.

## Progress

- [x] Directive captured exactly in canonical project state.
- [x] Codex has delegated the directive into a bounded plan and execution chain (MAP-0009).
- [ ] The requested outcome has evidence and is reconciled.

Only check a milestone when canonical lifecycle state or linked evidence supports it. Codex updates
this section as work moves; the generated `work/100k.md` never guesses progress.

## Recommended Next Action

Establish controlled SMI 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 IMX candidates and verify their exact bytes for Controller A under MAP-0009. Controller B remains required before release. Retain the bench pause until the owner resumes it.

## Why This Next

The normal compatibility floor, any-valid-SMI service rollback, DisplayTest 01-01 return floor, and field card-access constraint are settled. Exact release specimens and physical test targets can be selected before qualification.

## Blockers

- A DisplayTest 01-01 or later image has not yet been qualified for safe HPT2 startup and FAT32 production handoff.
- The SMI 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 candidate IMX files and hashes are not yet established; verify selected legacy image bytes on target media before use.
- Bench transition testing is paused by owner direction.

## Operator Needs

- Resume bench transition testing before any controller programming, SD preparation, or physical transition qualification.
- Use Controller A as the first target after the pause is lifted; qualify Controller B separately before release.

## Completion Condition

The SMI and DisplayTest implementation and release identities satisfy IDEA-0006; both controller assemblies pass the forward, return, renamed-file, ordinary legacy-refusal, and representative direct rollback matrix; in-place FAT32 preparation, service-471 recovery, and retention safeguards are verified; the resulting release decision is evidence-backed and reconciled to this directive.

## Authority And Delivery Boundary

- Preserve any endpoint, target, timing, non-goal, or authority language stated in the directive.
- Initial CEO intake does not authorize code, build, programming, SD preparation, bench testing, push, or release. Subordinate source-changing work defaults to a verified Work1 candidate until a later delivery endpoint is authorized.
- Preserve the explicit bench pause and do not treat "before release" as release authorization.
- The service rollback is explicit and accepts any structurally valid SMI image, with no version allowlist. Do not treat the ordinary floor as a ban on controlled recovery or treat common internal-flash failure risk as unique to downgrading. Do not require field SD-card replacement.
- Interrupt only for a genuine material decision or authority boundary.

## Delegation Contract

Initial issuance is durable intake only. Tool Shed appends this Idea through canonical planning
order, checkpoints it, and stops so other directives may be captured first. Reissuing the exact
active directive delegates or resumes it when doing so will not preempt another working campaign.

The Plan Cycle interprets this directive, the Roadmap Cycle organizes it when needed, the Milestone
Cycle materializes bounded campaigns, Campaign Cycles execute, and Evidence/Outcome Cycles report
the result back to 100k. The CEO is not required to select those internal mechanics.

## Exploration Log

### 2026-09-21

- The owner accepted the recommended CEO framing from the IDEA-0006 discussion. Preserve that brief as the technical source and keep this directive as the executive outcome.
- The owner directed IDEA-0006 and this CEO directive to include direct service rollback to approved older SMI firmware and in-place FAT32 preparation. Service 471 is the existing explicit HPT2 recovery action when current SMI remains bootable.
- The owner later clarified that service rollback accepts any valid SMI image, and corrected the DisplayTest normal return floor to 01-01 or later. The earlier named-image questions are superseded; exact images remain qualification specimens.

### 2026-09-22

- Read-only review of the separate DisplayTest 01-01 source found FAT32 handoff before personality installation, no DisplayTest personality version floor, and a 01-01 fixture-to-fixture minimum. Its project record reports a Controller B transition to SMI 00-04-11 after FAT32 handoff, with an initially unresponsive install tap requiring a power cycle; old SMI logging remains unproven. The SMI ordinary 00-05-01 floor and DisplayTest return floor are distinct. SMI A/B target qualification and this project's bench pause remain open.
- Owner designated Controller A as the initial target control for the SMI 00-05-01 transition work. Controller B remains the second required release-qualification assembly. The designation does not itself resume bench work or authorize a target operation.
- Source review removed the late-format false-failure timeout and made the read-only USB media flush informational after staged CRC verification. Release rebuild, 16 update cases, and 15 review checks pass; target fault behavior is still open. SMI 00-05-00 and 00-04-11 specimens are identified by controlled hashes, while 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 IMX candidate bytes remain pending. A newer DisplayTest Controller B record demonstrates new SMI 00-04-11 FAT32 records in a five-minute export; post-restart retention was not checked.
