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+staging_status: SUCCESS
+work_item: ORCH-118
+stage: deploy-staging
+author_agent: deployer
+status: success
+created_at: 2026-06-16
+model_used: claude-opus-4-8
+timestamp: 2026-06-15T21:28:29Z
+base_url: http://localhost:8501
+---
+
+# Staging Gate Log
+
+Staging test suite completed against the live `orchestrator-staging` instance (port 8501),
+run canonically inside the container (`docker exec orchestrator-staging python3
+/repos/orchestrator/scripts/staging_check.py --base-url http://localhost:8501 --mode stub`).
+
+**Result: 8/10 checks PASS — exit code 0 → `staging_status: SUCCESS`.**
+
+All REAL pipeline checks are green (Block A SMOKE: A1/A2/A3; Block B ACCESS: B4/B5/B6
+registry isolation; Block C E2E: C7 create issue, C8 trigger pipeline). The only failures
+are the two known sandbox-infra checks (C9a/C9b), which are tolerated under ORCH-061 because
+SANDBOX bot accounts are not project members — they do not reflect a pipeline regression.
+
+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
+
+Cleanup ran in `finally`: Plane SANDBOX test issue deleted (HTTP 204); no branch to delete.