DEMO_MODE.md §3.4 refuses a denied console command when the event is
saved and when it runs. Saving is core's route, and core never asked a
module about a step's params, so the save-time half had no seam (DM18).
An event action may now declare demoRefuses(params), returning a
sentence or null. With DEMO_MODE on, create, save and publish ask it
for every step; the first sentence refuses the write 403 DEMO_LOCKED
with that sentence as the message (and in errors). A hook that throws
refuses too. Off the demo it is validated and never called, and the
catalog strips it with the other callables.
The events controller passes code and message through on create,
update and publish, so the client's one DEMO_LOCKED toast fires.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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