# Phase 15 Abuse-control Report

**Date:** 2026-06-25  
**Status:** Partial static controls; production gate blocked

## Summary

The API enforces a 16 KiB body limit, request marker, origin check, strict schema, content type, and honeypot. No distributed rate limit or approved CAPTCHA/accessibility alternative exists.

## Executed evidence

- Static API controls pass.
- Exact content type defect fixed.

## Unexecuted or blocked evidence

- Rapid requests, oversized/malformed payloads, origins, scripted submissions, slow assistive-technology users, international formats, threshold behavior.
- Distributed rate limiting and operational monitoring.

## Release disposition

Production submission remains blocked.
