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+staging_status: SUCCESS
+timestamp: 2026-06-06T08:41:49Z
+base_url: http://localhost:8501
+---
+
+# Staging Gate Log
+
+Staging test suite completed. All checks passed (10/10).
+
+- Work item: ORCH-044
+- Repo: orchestrator (self-hosting → staging gate is real, not a no-op)
+- Container: `orchestrator-staging` (port 8501)
+- Command (canonical, ran INSIDE the container so B6 reads the instance's own `.env.staging` process-env):
+  `python3 /repos/orchestrator/scripts/staging_check.py --base-url http://localhost:8501 --mode stub`
+- Exit code: 0
+
+## Results
+
+```
+[Block A] SMOKE
+  ✓ PASS  A1 GET /health → 200 status=ok
+  ✓ PASS  A2 GET /queue → 200 with counts/max_concurrency/resilience
+  ✓ PASS  A3 ORCH_STAGING=true (not prod)
+
+[Block B] ACCESS
+  ✓ PASS  B4 Plane: sandbox project accessible
+  ✓ PASS  B5 Gitea: orchestrator-sandbox accessible, push=true
+  ✓ PASS  B6 Registry: sandbox present, prod ET/ORCH absent
+
+[Block C] E2E (mode=stub)
+  ✓ PASS  C7 Create issue in Plane SANDBOX
+  ✓ PASS  C8 Trigger pipeline via /webhook/plane
+  ✓ PASS  C9a Branch appears in orchestrator-sandbox
+  ✓ PASS  C9b Analyst job enqueued in staging queue
+
+[CLEANUP]
+  ✓ PASS  CLEANUP: deleted branch in orchestrator-sandbox
+  ✓ PASS  CLEANUP: deleted Plane issue
+  ✓ PASS  CLEANUP DB: deleted job + task rows
+
+RESULT: 10/10 checks PASS
+```
+
+> Note: the host in this environment lacks the `docker` CLI, so the canonical
+> `docker exec orchestrator-staging ...` was performed via the Docker Engine API
+> over `/var/run/docker.sock` (Python stdlib, no host-env leakage). Semantics are
+> identical to `docker exec`: the script ran inside `orchestrator-staging` with
+> its own `.env.staging` process-env, keeping the B6 registry-isolation check valid.