# 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: 2026-09-21
Next Action: execute MAP-0009 source-side Work1 candidate with any valid SMI service rollback and DisplayTest 01-01 return floor; 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 a return path to DisplayTest 01-01 or later that safely handles HPT2 media and applies the normal personality floor. Keep DisplayTest's normal production SD handoff FAT32 and 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 has ordinary Title refusal and a DisplayTest parser; the latter still needs build verification. This is partial source progress, not a verified Work1 candidate. Exact image specimens are needed for qualification rather than admission. 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

Complete the separate service rollback and DisplayTest 01-01 return paths under MAP-0009; select exact images for qualification evidence. 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.
- Representative SMI images have not yet been selected for rollback qualification.
- Bench transition testing is paused by owner direction.

## Operator Needs

- Resume bench transition testing before any controller programming, SD preparation, or physical transition qualification.

## 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.
