I read this as a final read-only code-quality audit of candidate `d1109d8f78aaccf949ec4f664d9e62584c3cca33032030518bc3e2d712239112` - I will independently inspect the delivered tree, verifier/bootstrap, transport fencing, execution paths, and tests, then report severity-ordered findings.


I read this as a final read-only audit - I’m reproducing the bootstrap failure, then validating the authority, fencing, profile, and lifecycle evidence without changing the candidate.


I read this as a final read-only audit - I verified preflight/seals, reproduced bootstrap, reran Ty, and inspected authority, fences, profile execution, lifecycle, and test evidence.

## HIGH - FAIL: independent bootstrap
`task26_frozen_bootstrap.py` and `independent_verify_candidate.py` both exit 1 with `TASK26_BOOTSTRAP_FAIL` during installed-runtime rehydration.

Root cause reproduced from the inner probe: `ValueError: selected toolchain interpreter is unsafe`.

- Audit host Python: 3.12.13, SHA-256 `7d43...`, mode `0775` (group-writable).
- The sealed runtime pins Python 3.12.9, SHA-256 `d9bc...`.
- The delivered wheelhouse contains no interpreter, while final-state comparison includes interpreter hash/version.

This candidate is not independently bootstrapable on this audit workstation. This is not a seal-tamper finding; preflight succeeds before rehydration.

## PASS: delivered root and seals
- Independent verifier preflight passed for candidate `d1109d8f...239112`.
- Delivered-root inventory, preexecution state, wheel bindings, and postfreeze receipt root validated.
- Recomputed canonical hashes matched `SEAL.json`, delivered-bundle seal, postfreeze seal, and sealed expected state.

## PASS: Ty capability surface
Independent hermetic Ty execution passed:

- `capability_diagnostic_count`: 0
- Status: `PASS_CHANGED_SURFACE_WITH_PREEXISTING_OUTSIDE_SCOPE_DIAGNOSTICS`
- Raw diagnostic and semantic-fingerprint hashes match sealed values.
- There are 809 diagnostics outside the scoped capability symbols; the gate does not claim whole-module Ty cleanliness.

## PASS: authority, transport, and fencing review
Static review found the intended fail-closed boundaries present:

- Delivery capability is bound to candidate/product/authority snapshot, owner/card/route, generation pins, and ten-minute expiry.
- Claim atomically consumes capability before provider I/O under the delivery lock.
- Provider transport occurs only inside `authorize_delivery_provider_transport`; rejection records no-start/unknown outcome rather than permitting resend.
- Customer-surface receipt validates delivery lineage and provider receipt.
- Full PTB update dispatch is wrapped in an update authority lease.
- Startup recovery, background generation, and scheduled transport each hold distinct operation leases across their complete mutation/provider-I/O paths.
- Revocation persists a fail-closed state, clears coordinator/authority state, stops the watcher, and disconnects network.
- Generation and recovery tasks are tracked, cancelled, and awaited during shutdown.

## PASS: profile materialization and disabled behavior
- Proposal materialization requires the profile API, renders separate operator/customer bodies, and pins body/adherence digests before persistence.
- Creation, revision, reconciliation, and Coach-review paths rematerialize before append.
- Nutrition activation is exact-boolean enabled; disabled configuration bypasses Task26 authority startup.
- Delivery remains disabled by default; global delivery enablement does not grant a capability.

## INCONCLUSIVE: live broader test rerun
No test source tree is delivered, so the broader suites cannot be rerun independently from this artifact.

Sealed receipts report:
- Profile qualification: 749/749 passed under isolated Python 3.12.9.
- Focused Task26: 306 passed.
- Related lifecycle: 131 passed.
- Full gateway: 8,552 passed.

Those are seal-bound historical evidence, not a current independent pass because bootstrap fails.


I read this as a bootstrap-verdict correction - I’ll verify the candidate-bound interpreter, then rerun only the delivered independent verifier and frozen bootstrap in a scrubbed environment.


I read this as a bootstrap-verdict correction - I reran only the requested verifier and bootstrap with the sealed interpreter.

**Revised overall verdict: PASS.** The prior HIGH bootstrap FAIL is retracted; it was caused solely by using the wrong group-writable Python 3.12.13 interpreter.

Verified candidate-bound interpreter:

- `/home/cube/miniconda3/bin/python3.12`
- Python 3.12.9
- SHA-256 `d9bc96d1ad0161db7ebdc8fdbc690530a9c29299feb2001cba6b29072e2a9051`
- Mode `0755`

Both ran with `-I` under `env -i`, `PATH=''`, no `PYTHONPATH`, offline pip, disabled pytest plugin autoload, and private HOME/TMP/cache:

- `independent_verify_candidate.py`: exit 0, `TASK26_INDEPENDENT_CANDIDATE_PASS`
- `task26_frozen_bootstrap.py`: exit 0, `TASK26_FROZEN_BOOTSTRAP_PASS`

No nested error occurred.