{
  "id": "database_initialization",
  "label": "Database Initialization Canonical",
  "phase": "phase-12",
  "category": "bootstrap_security_runtime_installation",
  "status": "ACTIVE_DH_MIRROR",
  "purpose": "Database Initialization Canonical is the Phase 12 authority that creates the first governed structured-state substrate for a dedicated YEFF AI v1 server.",
  "function": "Initialize database engine, role boundary, credential alias, schema seed, migration ledger, storage placement and validation evidence before any YEFF AI runtime process can depend on persistent structured data.",
  "technology_requirements": [
    {
      "technology": "Database Initialization",
      "required_for": "Database Initialization Canonical is the Phase 12 authority that creates the first governed structured-state substrate for a dedicated YEFF AI v1 server.",
      "required_by_phase": "phase-12",
      "required_by_category": "database_initialization",
      "required_by_buckets": [
        "Prerequisites",
        "Installation",
        "Configuration",
        "Validation",
        "Observable Evidence",
        "Failure Modes & Recovery",
        "Completion & Promotion"
      ],
      "expected_version": "MISSING until Database Initialization is implemented and validated in the future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "validation_command": "MISSING until database_initialization can prove scope, evidence, execution state and promotion decision",
      "evidence_path": "/home/yeff/public_html/devon/canon/execution/state/dh_sources/database_initialization.json",
      "status_source": "Documentation Hub + future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "blocking_if_missing": true,
      "failure_impact": "If this gate fails, future runtime can appear alive while its state layer is unmanaged, unmigratable, unrecoverable or credential-contaminated."
    }
  ],
  "depends_on": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "overview": {
    "summary": "Database Initialization Canonical is the Phase 12 authority that creates the first governed structured-state substrate for a dedicated YEFF AI v1 server.",
    "function": "FUNCTION: Initialize database engine, role boundary, credential alias, schema seed, migration ledger, storage placement and validation evidence before any YEFF AI runtime process can depend on persistent structured data.",
    "system_position": "This category owns the database birth event. It does not define application features and does not install the YEFF AI runtime. The exclusive risk here is durable structured state without provenance. A database that exists but has wrong roles, wrong storage, no migration seed or raw credentials becomes a permanent liability.",
    "failure_impact": "If this gate fails, future runtime can appear alive while its state layer is unmanaged, unmigratable, unrecoverable or credential-contaminated."
  },
  "failure_impact": "If this gate fails, future runtime can appear alive while its state layer is unmanaged, unmigratable, unrecoverable or credential-contaminated."
}