The CEO prompt carried a plea — "do not submit strategy before hires,
we have observed a loop" — in place of an actual gate. The model
could (and did) ignore it, land back in team_building mode, and
resubmit. Move the invariant into the /approvals POST handler:
reject approve_ceo_strategy with 409 STRATEGY_BEFORE_HIRES when no
hire_agent approval exists for the company, and 409 STRATEGY_ALREADY_FILED
when one is already pending or approved.
Introduce listCompanyApprovalsByType on the database facade to keep
the route stateless. Trim the prompt to describe the gate instead of
begging the model to obey.
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