I read this as a final read-only release-gate audit of Task26 v17 candidate `448252...aa7f` - I’ll inspect the plan, ledger entry, frozen bundle, source, and postfreeze receipts, then return a strict PASS/FAIL/INCONCLUSIVE with blockers and residual risk, without executing the candidate.


I read this as a final candidate-specific Task26 gate audit - report whether v17 closes every named blocker while keeping Task27 and release blocked.

## Bottom line

**PASS** for candidate `448252965faa5b936855225eb2a638f65e4f24291c68206fa7de587e8d65aa7f`. No candidate-specific blocker remains in the requested scope; this does **not** complete Task26 or authorize Task27/release.

## Action plan

1. Preserve v17 and both seals unchanged.
2. Complete the remaining independent Task26 review lanes against this exact candidate; any finding requires a new candidate.
3. Keep Task27 and release blocked. **Recommendation: proceed only with remaining Task26 reviews (Medium effort).**

## Evidence

- **Canonical product:** Independently recomputed `sha256(canonical(derivation_inputs))` equals `448252...aa7f`; binding recomputes to `ed67bace...2321f`. Inputs bind both wheels, 107-wheel wheelhouse, trust boundary, and eight qualification tools.
- **Truthful wheels:** Both source and installed deployment receipts are byte-identical (`05948267...ddfb7`) and name actual frozen wheel hashes:
  - Hermes: `9189d87e...23a3e`
  - Profile: `62c508d3...2b4121`
  These differ from each other and from the candidate. Frozen wheel bytes recompute to those hashes.
- **Capability identity:** Source and installed lifecycle artifacts set `wheel_digest` to the actual Hermes hash `9189d87e...23a3e`, not candidate `448252...aa7f`. Capability identity receipt: `f810b15a...6f93`.
- **Portable RECORD v2:** `task26-frozen-installed-record-verification-v2` preserves projections `4719d451...273b4` and `547a20d2...b958`. Hermes contains exactly 18 validated `.data/data` relocations: 16 locales plus two optional-MCP manifests.
- **Truthful raw audits:** Original and rehydrated audits are separate and explicitly set `raw_record_hash_equality_required_or_claimed: false`. Original Hermes raw RECORD is `3d814a14...ad7cc`; primary rehydration is `0bb946c6...d5498c`, while the independent bare-bootstrap install produces `bf5d5809...67aeb`; all retain the same portable projection.
- **Bound Ty gate:** The whole `nutrition_coaching.py` monolith was checked. The AST-bound capability spans have **0 diagnostics**; **493** diagnostics remain outside those spans, fingerprinted as `514fd0ce...274d1`. Status explicitly says scoped PASS and makes no whole-file-clean claim. Current source SHA remains `d7b01682...3c4bb`.
- **Bare bootstrap:** The frozen bootstrap imports only stdlib modules, requires isolated mode, creates a private empty CWD/venv, and installs only sealed wheels using `--no-index --no-deps --no-compile`. Receipt is `TASK26_FROZEN_BOOTSTRAP_PASS`; stderr is empty.
- **Seven clauses:** Source and installed each contain exactly seven independently hash-linked artifacts, each using one invocation and the exact candidate. Chain heads are `8f4cee6c...82cf4` and `73450a61...51512`. Both prove:
  1. 22 Korean answers, including `보통 수준입니다.` -> `moderate`, with zero re-asks.
  2. Deterministic ambiguity and correctly bound revision.
  3. Preview/production isolation.
  4. Projection failure blocks capability and delivery.
  5. Unknown provider outcome is not retried.
  6. ACTIVE lifecycle, `sent_audited`, one transport call, duplicate rejection.
  7. Fault-resumed terminal cleanup with active/pending/unknown/orphan all zero.
- **Cross-mode/current source:** Candidate, deployment wheels, capability identity, and source-tree digest agree across source, installed, outer, frozen, and rehydrated modes (`cross-mode parity ab65f904...6ae91`). Current production modules, qualification scripts, and relevant wheel members match the sealed hashes.
- **Authority/isolation/trust:** The outer paired authority chains independently validate 25 events, 12 revoked historical candidates, and only v17 current; heads are registry `3d103827...93ab6` and ledger `2eb59ea1...e68d`. Execution is `python -I`, private empty CWD, no inherited `PYTHONPATH`; trust claims are explicitly bounded and claim no external authenticity.
- **Wheelhouse/observer:** Wheelhouse inventory recomputes to `af426798...783c3`, has 107 entries, no symlinks, and is byte-identical before/after. Both modes record `dnotify_signalfd_v1`, one directory resource, five receipts, and zero inotify watches.
- **Tests and cleanup:** Receipts report 450 source + 450 installed expanded tests, 202 + 202 parser tests, 129 lifecycle tests, 749 profile tests, and 8,373 gateway tests with zero failures. Original and temporary runtimes are absent; terminal cleanup and archive verification pass.
- **Seal integrity:** All 366 candidate inventory rows recompute correctly; with `candidate.json` and `SEAL.json`, the 368-file inventory is exact. Bundle seal is `699ca175...6bfa7`; postfreeze seal is `1eeac8f2...e36d0`; both trees have zero writable paths and zero symlinks.

## Blockers

**None within this candidate-specific audit.**

## Risks and mitigations

- The audit was read-only and receipt-based as required; no runtime or live Telegram action was repeated.
- The 493 outside-surface Ty diagnostics remain real technical debt. Preserve the scoped claim; never represent the monolith as Ty-clean.
- The trust boundary excludes coherent operator/admin compromise and provides no external signature or WORM guarantee. Preserve both seals and verify them before every later lane.
- Raw RECORD hashes are intentionally path-dependent. Continue gating on the portable projections, not raw-hash equality.

## Task27/release status

The plan remains **NO-GO** with Tasks 26 and 27 unchecked. The ledger has exactly 162 lines; line 162 is the v17 entry and states `task26_complete: false`, `task27_started: false`, `release_authorized: false`, `commit: "none"`, and zero Telegram/live-customer actions. No later ledger entry or candidate-bound Task27/release artifact exists.