If you are going to declare everythign else with "my", you might as well declare the block of "policies" starting with

my $allow_modifications = 1; etc..
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(also need to declare $temp1)

A special gotcha for anyone copying and pasting this code...make sure the period at the end of the 'format' section is the first character in the line! I overlooked that the first time. :)