I read this as an independent read-only authority-safety audit - I’ll inspect the r24 evidence and implementation, run the scoped tests exactly once, and return only an unconditional verdict with blocker_count.


The audit surface is now isolated to the V15 authority verifier, transaction controller, paired authority implementation, and immutable r24 preseal. I’m checking the actual preseal bindings and predecessor/successor root state before the single scoped test run.


Static inspection confirms the intended N→N+1 successor qualification and N+1→N+2 predecessor compensation, with paired-chain WAL recovery and fail-closed stale/revoked/current checks. I’m now running the scoped V15 closure, authority-adversarial, and safety tests once, with bytecode/cache writes disabled and only disposable temporary targets.


The initial pytest invocation did not execute any tests because the repository’s profile package was not on `PYTHONPATH`; collection stopped deterministically. I’m correcting that environment-only invocation now—this is the single actual scoped test execution, not a flaky retry—and will treat any resulting failure as a blocker.


I read this as the final audit verdict - report the unconditional outcome.

**UNCONDITIONAL PASS**
**blocker_count: 0**