RULING (GA-R5) 2026-07-27. Question as presented: (a) add `configctl filter reload` to the
script's --commit path; (b) leave the script and rely on DC standup DoD item 8; (c) put it behind
an opt-in flag. Operator answer, exact utterance: "a". OPS under GA-R3 -- a script fix completing
an already-documented operation, governed by D-113; no new D-number.

DEFECT (appendix-A, measured on the fresh dc1 edge 2026-07-23): --commit ran `configctl interface
reconfigure`, which applies the address to the kernel but does NOT regenerate the pf ruleset, so
OPNsense never creates its automatic outbound-NAT rules for the (re-)addressed LAN. Forwarded LAN
packets left the WAN un-NAT'd and replies never returned -- the edge passed NO LAN traffic while
looking perfectly configured. Self-masking: any later plugin install or config apply reloads the
filter as a side effect, so dc0's 07-20 qga work hid it there until dc1 exposed it.

Option (b) rejected on evidence, not taste: DoD item 8 already existed and did NOT fire at dc1,
and prose-only controls have a measured failure record here (D-137's own enforcement sat as prose
at phase-3:498 and missed BOTH DC standups).

PLACEMENT IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE FIX, and my first attempt got it wrong -- caught before
shipping. Putting the reload on the next line of the `interface reconfigure` heredoc would have
been a fix that fixes nothing exactly when it matters: re-addressing the interface you arrived on
drops the session DURING the reconfigure, so a following command in that stream never executes --
and that drop case IS this incident's own scenario (dc1's LAN moved 192.168.1.1 -> 10.12.64.1
over the LAN itself). As shipped the reload runs over a FRESH connection to PROBE_HOST.

Also added a `pfctl -s nat` read-back with the `proto carp` boilerplate filtered out, since
boilerplate-only is precisely appendix-A's broken-state signature. REPORTED, not gated: an edge's
first addressing may legitimately have no gateway and so no NAT to generate, and hard-failing
would block a correct run. The hard gate stays address-on-the-kernel.

Harness 59/59 (was 53), cases 15-15f. Case 15f caught a real inconsistency -- appendix-A still
said "not yet ruled". Case 15e caught a bug in my own first draft, which scanned to EOF and so
failed the script for having the very hard gate the case exists to preserve.

appendix-A rewritten: the FIX stays for an edge already in this state, plus a PREVENTED-IN-THE-TOOL
block recording the placement detail and why prose prevention was rejected.

Gauntlet ALL GREEN (81), repo-lint 0-fail. No live edge touched -- both DC edges are already
addressed, so this affects only the NEXT edge addressing.

With this, every substantive Stage 4 in-stage item is closed or split to gate row G17; only the
GA-R6 close-out set remains.

Revert: git revert this commit's script + harness + appendix-A changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf