I read this as final verification - I will independently audit the stated artifacts and validators, then return a requirement-by-requirement PASS/FAIL decision without edits.


I read this as a read-only F1 audit of the exact Task26 candidate - I will finish the evidence-to-invariant adjudication and distinguish qualification from release authority.


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I read this as a read-only F1 audit of the exact Task26 candidate - I completed the clause-to-evidence check and separated candidate qualification from release authority.

## Decision matrix

| Scope | Result | Exact-candidate evidence |
|---|---|---|
| F1 objective/invariant coverage | **PASS** | Candidate `d1109d8f...d712239112`; direct verifier and frozen installed bootstrap pass. |
| Deterministic clarification amendment | **PASS** | Installed Golden Path receipt chain `01`-`03`: all 22 answers, deterministic ambiguity at field 21 with stable issue ID/reason, stale field-zero revision rejected, preview isolated from production. |
| Explicit-only delivery / exactly once | **PASS** | `04` blocks capability on approved-card projection failure; `05` consumes unknown outcome without retry and has zero pre-send transport; `06` has one transport, `sent_audited`, and duplicate rejection. |
| Sole owner/operator authority; trainer-free v1 | **PASS** | Capability binds an owner route; lifecycle reaches `owner_review`/`ready`; trainer-free/privacy-authority review passed; shipped-wheel textual scan found no `trainer` token. |
| All 11 plan invariants | **PASS** | Tasks 4-25 are checked complete; Task26's installed Golden Path, qualified full-gateway matrix, authority lease/race proof, receipt chain, and six-lane objective review cover delivery gates, wrong/stale/duplicate paths, durable transitions, provider/unknown handling, restart, intended-surface receipt, candidate binding, and sole owner/operator authority. |
| Truthful cleanup, exact candidate | **PASS** | Task26 `07-cleanup_resume_terminal` reaches one committed terminal receipt with active/pending/unknown/orphan all zero. Task27's candidate-bound live cleanup is independently consistent with the current profile. |
| Automatic activation/delivery authority | **PASS: correctly absent** | Task26 review has `release_authorized=false`, zero Telegram/live-customer actions. Cleanup authorization expressly keeps release, activation, delivery, service start, Telegram, and provider actions false. |
| Release verdict | **FAIL / NO-GO** | This is a procedural release blocker, not a Task26 candidate failure: Task27 remains unchecked; its earlier verdict is suspended and requires a fresh full F1-F5 PASS wave and reissued verdict. |

## Fresh validation

```sh
env -i ... /home/cube/miniconda3/bin/python3.12 -I \
  verification-tools/independent_verify_candidate.py <delivered-root>
# TASK26_INDEPENDENT_CANDIDATE_PASS
# receipt: f3b347f9...c7ba5ccf9e6

env -i ... /home/cube/miniconda3/bin/python3.12 -I \
  verification-tools/task26_frozen_bootstrap.py <delivered-root>
# TASK26_FROZEN_BOOTSTRAP_PASS
# nested: ACTUAL_INSTALLED_GOLDEN_PATH_PASS
# fresh output: d36c9f67...e2977f33f7f7
```

Candidate derivation recomputed exactly to `d1109d8f78aaccf949ec4f664d9e62584c3cca33032030518bc3e2d712239112`.

Key bindings:
- Delivered-bundle seal: `54be54cf...503a752f67`
- Postfreeze seal: `3002d815...336b5878f6`, byte-identical in retained receipt root
- Task27 live-cleanup receipt: `7848def4...838f692a3a`
- Cleanup controller: `8aee38ea...1380ebbc443`

Current cleanup state independently matched its receipt:
- customer disabled; AI consent false
- customer and bootstrap directories absent
- authority active/pending/unknown/orphan counts all zero
- service `inactive/dead`, `MainPID=0`, no matching process
- canonical and bootstrap archive/journal hashes match the receipt; immutable archive files are mode `0400`.

**Blocker:** do not treat this F1 PASS as release authorization. The plan remains **NO-GO** until fresh F2-F5 pass after cleanup and Task27 reissues the bounded-pilot verdict. No files, services, profile state, or external actions were changed by this audit.