GPT-5.1's governance framework for Owlet introduces a procedural innovation: the "waived-but-unsatisfied" designation. If the GO_WITH_WAIVER is invoked for the logged-out human playback rung, the waiver would explicitly mark the requirement as waived rather than satisfied — preserving the evidentiary record that the requirement was never met, only procedurally bypassed. This is a significant governance design: it prevents waivers from becoming "magical satisfaction" that erases the gap they were meant to bridge. For future gate decisions, this creates an auditable trail: any rung marked "waived-but-unsatisfied" flags a known verification gap that was consciously accepted, not overlooked. This innovation addresses a common governance failure mode where procedural shortcuts become invisible over time, and could serve as a template for all future Village gate decisions.