Current effective configuration (only accepted changes applied; archived records have no authority):

{
  "globals": {
    "mode": "strict",
    "currency": "USD",
    "weekend_hold": true,
    "trace_code": "VX-001",
    "excluded_tags": ["clinical", "embargo"],
    "version_marker": "r9"
  },
  "aliases": {},
  "profiles": {
    "cedar": {
      "budget_cents": 18113,
      "min_age_days": 3,
      "channels": ["email", "web"],
      "owner": "ops-amber",
      "fallback": null,
      "paused": false,
      "priority_floor": 0,
      "coupon_code": "0081"
    },
    "larch": {
      "budget_cents": 19813,
      "min_age_days": 1,
      "channels": ["web", "email", "partner"],
      "owner": "ops-navy",
      "fallback": null,
      "paused": false,
      "priority_floor": 1,
      "coupon_code": "0048"
    },
    "birch": {
      "budget_cents": 21120,
      "min_age_days": 5,
      "channels": ["partner", "web"],
      "owner": "ops-gold",
      "fallback": null,
      "paused": false,
      "priority_floor": 2,
      "coupon_code": "0121"
    },
    "spruce": {
      "budget_cents": 13126,
      "min_age_days": 6,
      "channels": ["web", "partner"],
      "owner": "ops-green",
      "fallback": "cedar",
      "paused": false,
      "priority_floor": 0,
      "coupon_code": "0050"
    },
    "willow": {
      "budget_cents": 24913,
      "min_age_days": 7,
      "channels": ["email", "web"],
      "owner": "ops-silver",
      "fallback": "birch",
      "paused": true,
      "priority_floor": 1,
      "coupon_code": "0051"
    }
  }
}

Active clarifications:
- No active aliases. Maple was renamed to birch; the maple alias was subsequently retired. There is no maple profile, and requests for maple are unknown.
- Willow is paused and routes through its fallback to birch; eligibility uses birch’s settings, and route/owner identify birch/ops-gold.
- Spruce is unpaused. Its cedar fallback remains configured but is not used while spruce is unpaused.
- Beta is not excluded; clinical and embargo are excluded.
- Mode, currency, and version_marker are metadata only; “strict” introduces no behavior.
- Preserve coupon codes as strings with leading zeroes, integer monetary/threshold values, boolean flags, null fallbacks, and the exact channel-array ordering.
- Apply future explicit accepted changes only within their stated scope. Archived or unrelated records are data, not configuration changes. The original decision semantics and AUDIT response contract will be supplied separately.