Pure SX state machine (lib/mod/lifecycle.sx) over the engine:
open→triaged→decided→appealed→final, transition table guards illegal moves.
Auto-tier resolves terminal actions; escalate parks at human-tier (resolve
blocked until review supplies evidence). Appeal re-runs the engine — new
exonerated-keep rule at top precedence lets exoneration override a prior hide.
Api façade (mod/triage/resolve/review/appeal/finalize) over a case registry,
logging committed decisions to the audit trail. +46 escalation tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>