I read this as a read-only authority audit of r28 - I’ll inspect the current predecessor/baseline state, contracts, scoped suites, root absence, and r27 consumption, then return an unconditional verdict with blocker_count.


I’ve located the r28 candidate/preseal and the r27 compensation context. I’m now validating the live authority heads and one-use ledger directly against r28’s sealed baseline and contract code, then I’ll run only the scoped authority suites.


The sealed verifier and direct live-state checks pass. The first scoped-suite invocation exposed only a test-environment issue (`checkin_cli` missing from `PYTHONPATH` during collection), not a product failure; I’m rerunning the same scoped set with the repository’s profile source path explicitly supplied.


I read this as the final r28 authority audit verdict - reporting the independently verified outcome.

# UNCONDITIONAL PASS

**blocker_count: 0**

Verified:

- Predecessor `6c9c4394...` is current after r27 rollback compensation.
- r28 baseline exactly matches all live authority heads, files, credentials, and event count `17`.
- Lock and writable-bind contracts pass.
- Scoped authority suites: `45 passed`.
- Sealed preseal verifier passed.
- All r28 authorization, execution, and successor roots are absent.
- r27 is `CONSUMED`, `ROLLED_BACK`, superseded, and non-reusable.
- No live mutation performed.