# C7-A Seed-user Private Beta Onboarding Runbook

Marker: `C7A_SEED_USER_READINESS_1780381254`

## Purpose
Prepare a manually approved seed user for controlled private beta without public installer, real payment, or automatic trading authority.

## Admission gates
- User is manually approved.
- Risk disclosure and terms are acknowledged.
- User understands download/activation is not trading permission.
- User can provide diagnostics via support bundle and feedback template.

## Steps
1. Confirm seed-user identity and contact path.
2. Confirm risk disclosure and terms.
3. Provide controlled download only after package SHA256 and manifest have been verified.
4. Provide signed local entitlement manually.
5. User activates and checks `/api/auth/status`.
6. If activation fails, export `/api/auth/support-bundle` and use support ticket template.
7. User submits feedback after first install/activation/support pass.

## Stop conditions
- User requests live trading before account/RiskGateway checks.
- Entitlement status is signature_invalid or machine_mismatch and cannot be resolved.
- Package SHA256 mismatch.
- User cannot acknowledge risk boundary.
- Any broker/payment/trading mutation is requested outside approved gates.