Decision-OS V7 Final: Guardable Self-Recursive Evolution

Decision-OS V7 Final defines structural failure boundaries for guardable self-recursive evolution. This work does not claim that AGI has arrived, nor does it provide sufficient conditions for self-evolution. Instead, it defines the missing burden of proof for any account of guardable self-recursive evolution: such an account must explain why its update process does not collapse into vacuous recursion, drift, rupture, self-justifying closure, hindsight rewriting, memory discontinuity, carrier collapse, or false completion. The central thesis is the Guardable Continuity Axiom: evolution is admissible only when change preserves guardable continuity. V7 Final is not a full operational gate implementation. More concrete gates for carrier preservation, reconnectable memory, and future-restartable completion are addressed in later Decision-OS layers such as V10–V12. The purpose of V7 Final is strictly to define the structural failure boundaries that any account of guardable self-recursive evolution must confront. This English manuscript is a submission-facing compressed translation and reconstruction of the Japanese source-state master fixed at GitHub commit f6124e81c7cf1d87b6ea5dd89bb1a140d4567e10 under notes/v7-final/. The Japanese source-state master is treated as the fixed source-state record; this English version is the public English manuscript for archival and citation.