## Verdict
**ITERATE**

## Claim Checks

- **Plan identity verified.** The assigned stage-09 artifact was read in full. Its same-run `index.jsonl` records SHA-256 `cf871b4ad6ca14e476f135317d8861efe6678f44e5abd7ac64de212f0a64d81d`, matching the assignment.
- **Prior architectural blockers are substantially resolved.** The new language is a recursive token/lexeme grammar rather than the former four-lead/two-join selector; truth-bearing propositions/actions remain local placeholders. The adaptive validation and pending-card append are now specified as one service-lock operation. The evidential leads are removed and attacked by negative tests.
- **Migration and source fit verified.** Both live profile configs still contain `coaching_feedback_enabled`; physique-coach is enabled. The config-first removal followed by parser cutover prevents the prior silent-disable regression. The daily arbitrary-feedback seam, weekly render-before-reserve seam, adaptive pending/recovery seam, two different profile card renderers, OpenAI 2.24.0 pin, and schedule ledger's durable body/destination pins all exist as described.
- **Coverage blockers are resolved.** Both profile `test_customer_schedule.py` files exist and are included in the commands; both adaptive schema versions have separate goldens/profile runs and four-case live proof; journal row encoding, chain origin, transitions, timestamps, retention, and late-owner behavior are concrete; promotion has fixed 48/48 and 14-day per-version thresholds. The guide/runbook and all named existing gateway/profile files were verified. The proposed expression module and two proposed expression test files do not yet exist, as expected.
- **Representative grammar simulation found one definite contradiction.** The weekly vector `차분히, [[P:01]]. 이어서 [[P:02]].`, dual vector `우선, [[P:01]].`, and physique vector `차분히, [[A:01]].` satisfy the stated grammar. The claimed valid daily vector `오늘은 차분히, [[P:01]].` does not: `오늘은` is absent from `SAFE_STYLE_LEXEMES`, and every non-placeholder Hangul token outside that exact lexicon must be rejected. An executor cannot make both the positive vector and validator contract pass.
- **Representative shadow-path simulation remains under-specified.** `mode: shadow` is accepted and `shadow_selected` exists, but the plan never states the coordinator's observable rule. The controlled live test directly invokes the client and bypasses daily edit, weekly reservation, adaptive commit, and the coordinator. In a normal test-profile shadow save/tick/card, an executor must guess whether to return/commit the selected candidate or canonical bytes. For a release safety gate, shadow must have an explicit no-visible-change/no-selected-persistence contract and integration tests.
- **Migration preflight ownership remains thin.** The plan requires “a profile preflight” with an enum diagnostic across both deployed shapes, but names no function, owning file/callsite, invocation command, or diagnostic enum values. Current `PhysiqueCheckinConfig.from_extra` returns `None` and Telegram reports one generic invalid-config string. The ordered config migration is sound, but the release gate and promised visible legacy diagnostic still require design choices.

## Missing Evidence

Definitely missing:

1. A grammar-valid positive daily vector (or a deliberate lexicon/ban change with corresponding goldens).
2. Exact runtime semantics for `shadow`, including whether the provider may run, which journal terminal is written, which candidate is returned, and proof that daily/weekly/adaptive visible and durable product bytes remain canonical.
3. A named migration-preflight owner/API/callsite, exact diagnostic enum, release invocation, and startup/failure behavior.

Possibly unclear: the file-level sequence says to add a pytest marker but does not name the required `pyproject.toml` marker-table change; Hermes currently registers only `integration` and `real_concurrent_gate`.

## Approval Boundary

The central architecture is approved for revision: direct OpenAI only, no auxiliary/Kimi/fallback path, redacted typed capsules, local fact/action placeholders, compositional safe lexemes, one-wire claim journal, prepared weekly replay, atomic adaptive validation/persistence, canonical daily replay, ordered legacy-config migration, both adaptive versions, and fixed rollout counts. Do not start product-source execution until the daily positive contract, runtime shadow behavior, and migration preflight owner are made exact. Existing source inspection, fixture capture, and canonical golden preparation may proceed read-only.

## Summary

- **Clarity:** Strong overall; one positive grammar example contradicts the normative lexer and two operational contracts remain unnamed.
- **Verifiability:** Strong attack/race/profile/live matrix; shadow integration behavior is not tested by the direct-client live proof.
- **Completeness:** Prior provider, journal, migration ordering, profile, and adaptive-version gaps are closed; shadow and preflight ownership remain incomplete.
- **Big Picture:** Presentation-only, fail-closed, no-Kimi design fits the system and user intent once shadow is guaranteed non-publishing.
- **Principle/Option Consistency:** The compositional grammar now reconciles model-authored form with local semantic authority; the invalid daily example is a local contract inconsistency, not a design rejection.
- **Alternatives Depth:** Adequate distinction among unrestricted rewriting, finite local variants, and typed compositional grammar.
- **Risk/Verification Rigor:** High for provider/restart/races; insufficient for shadow-mode product side effects and migration-gate invocation.

## Required Changes

1. Replace the daily positive vector with one accepted by the exact grammar, such as `차분히, [[P:01]].`, or explicitly add a reviewed lexeme and reconcile it with the date/token bans. Add the exact request/response/render golden.
2. Define `shadow` normatively: one eligible provider attempt and validation are allowed; accepted output records `shadow_selected`; the coordinator returns canonical presentation bytes with publication of selected bytes forbidden. Specify how normal canonical weekly reservation/adaptive pending publication continues, and add full-path daily/weekly/both-adaptive tests asserting canonical visible/durable bytes, one provider call, no selected-text persistence, and the expected journal outcome.
3. Name the migration preflight function and owning module/callsite, freeze its diagnostic enum (including the legacy-key value), state whether it hard-fails startup or only release preflight, add the exact command that validates both deployed profiles, and test that the active physique bridge remains enabled after migration.
4. Add `/home/cube/projects/richard/hermes-agent/pyproject.toml` to the touched-file list for registration of `live_korean_expression`, and include a collection/marker assertion so the non-default live command cannot silently select zero tests.