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+staging_status: SUCCESS
+work_item: ORCH-062
+stage: deploy-staging
+author_agent: deployer
+status: success
+created_at: 2026-06-09
+model_used: claude-opus-4-8
+timestamp: 2026-06-09T16:53:42Z
+base_url: http://localhost:8501
+---
+
+# Staging Gate Log
+
+Staging test suite completed against the live staging environment (`orchestrator-staging`, port 8501).
+
+- **Mode:** stub
+- **Result:** 8/10 checks PASS — **exit code 0**
+- **REAL failed:** none
+- **Verdict:** SUCCESS (infra-waived)
+
+The canonical invocation was run inside the `orchestrator-staging` container
+(`docker exec … python3 /repos/orchestrator/scripts/staging_check.py --base-url http://localhost:8501 --mode stub`),
+so B6 registry-isolation read the running instance's own `.env.staging` process-env (sandbox present, prod ET/ORCH absent).
+
+## Block results
+
+- **[A] SMOKE** — A1 `/health` 200, A2 `/queue` 200, A3 `ORCH_STAGING=true` — all PASS.
+- **[B] ACCESS** — B4 Plane sandbox (R), B5 Gitea sandbox (R+push=true), B6 registry isolation — all PASS.
+- **[C] E2E (stub)** — C7 create issue (PASS), C8 trigger pipeline (PASS), C9a/C9b waived (see below).
+
+## INFRA-WAIVED (ORCH-061, observability)
+
+```
+INFRA-WAIVED: C9a Branch appears in orchestrator-sandbox, C9b Analyst job enqueued in staging queue (known sandbox-infra; real checks green)
+VERDICT: SUCCESS (exit 0) — SUCCESS (infra-waived): ['C9a Branch appears in orchestrator-sandbox', 'C9b Analyst job enqueued in staging queue'] are known sandbox-infra checks; all real checks green
+```
+
+C9a/C9b are the two sandbox-infra-only checks (sandbox branch / analyst-job) that depend on SANDBOX bot accounts being project members — not on the pipeline. They are tolerated per ORCH-061 because every REAL check is green; the suite still exits 0. Per the verdict contract, the exit-code → `staging_status` mapping is unchanged: exit 0 → SUCCESS.
+
+Advance to `deploy`.