I read this as a read-only final audit of the exact v38 delivery candidate - I’ll inspect the sealed evidence, independently verify runtime/artifact absence and consistency, then return a strict PASS/FAIL with exact evidence and residual risk.


The exact candidate is the `task26-combined-v38-delivered-st_01a019d7` bundle with a separate post-freeze receipt seal. I’m now cross-checking those immutable manifests against the live disabled baseline and the six review/Task27/control-plane records, rather than relying on prior narrative claims.


Two release-blocking discrepancies are now concrete: the live rehearsal registry records consent as granted, not nonconsenting, and the handoff retains a contradictory “Task26 review receipts currently contain release-blocking findings” statement despite the sealed six-lane PASS. I’m completing exact manifest/orphan and archive-receipt checks to determine whether the final verdict has any additional failures.


I read this as the strict F5 release gate - the exact v38 candidate verifies, but live cleanup and control-plane consistency failures make the result FAIL.

# F5 verdict: FAIL

## Release-blocking findings

1. **Customer is not nonconsenting**
   - Disabled: `/home/cube/.hermes/profiles/dualcoachtest/customers/registry.json:14` → `"enabled": false`
   - But consent remains granted: lines `43-46` → `"granted": true`
   - This contradicts Task27 report line `143`: “disabled and nonconsenting.”

2. **Live rehearsal residue remains**
   - Bootstrap ledger contains an expired, nonterminal session:
     - `state: "AWAITING_ACTIVATION"`
     - role claim for customer `8527916639`
     - session `cb_mYUoMIsk_CRzSDKYpPE9dg`
     - expired `2026-08-18T15:25:08Z`
   - Location: `/home/cube/.hermes/profiles/dualcoachtest/data/onboarding/telegram-customer-bootstrap-v1/ledger.json:1`
   - Customer state and transient workflow also remain under:
     - `data/customers/task26_claim_20260818145508_1b96b23d/`
   - Four old strict runtimes remain, approximately 1.1 GB total:
     - `062fb6b69adb84b0-v7`
     - `c6ec9cec605d3605`
     - `dac4e812`
     - `f32a8365-v8`
   - Each contains symlinks and thousands of writable paths. This contradicts Task27 lines `148-151`, which claim all Task26 runtimes and residue were removed.

3. **Handoff is internally contradictory**
   - Handoff lines `16-23` record exact-candidate six-lane PASS.
   - Lines `30-36` record the Task27 bounded-pilot verdict.
   - Lines `40-41` nevertheless state: “Task26 review receipts currently contain release-blocking findings.”
   - Ledger lines `170-171` instead record Task26 PASS and Task27 completion.

4. **Final todo state is incomplete**
   - Plan has `27/32` checked.
   - F1-F5 remain unchecked at lines `1188-1201`.
   - Therefore the plan’s own completion rule at lines `1205-1217` still resolves to NO-GO.

## Checks that passed

- Delivery controls: `activation=false`, `delivery=false`, `delivery_enabled=false` at config lines `660-664`.
- Runtime service: `hermes-gateway-dualcoachtest.service` is `inactive/dead`, `MainPID=0`.
- No exact-v38 process, open FD, socket, watcher, or external temporary runtime path was found.
- No live, non-archive trainer path was found; trainer-named material exists only inside retained historical archives.
- Candidate: `d1109d8f78aaccf949ec4f664d9e62584c3cca33032030518bc3e2d712239112`.
- Exact seals:
  - Prefreeze: `257498e6...24b037b9`
  - Postfreeze: `3002d815...6b5878f6`
  - Delivered: `54be54cf...3a752f67`
  - Receipt: `52b7de2d...cab745c8`
- Manifest verification:
  - Delivered inventory: `482/482`, zero mismatches
  - Postfreeze inventory: `481/481`, zero mismatches
  - Receipt seal: `27/27`, zero mismatches
  - Retained postfreeze copies are byte-identical.
- All three sealed roots are mode `0500`, with zero writable entries and zero symlinks.
- Fresh-lineage/archive replacement for the superseded migrated-session receipt is documented at plan lines `59-62`.
- Source and installed archive terminal receipts each report `active=0`, `pending=0`, `unknown=0`, `orphan=0`, terminal `committed`.
- Six-lane receipt SHA-256 `b063e92d...c15ddf6` records all six PASS.
- Task27 report SHA-256 `45c28455...c5d2848` exists and is candidate-bound, but its cleanup assertions are not truthful against current live state.

## Residual risk

Even after correcting the blocking cleanup state, integrity remains host-permission sealed rather than externally signed/WORM, and 809 out-of-scope Ty diagnostics remain. The present blocking risks are stronger: retained consent, an expired nonterminal bootstrap authority/session, old writable runtimes, and contradictory release-control documentation.

Audit was read-only and offline; no files, services, or profile state were changed.