I read this as an independent read-only safety audit of r33 - I’ll trace the r28 baseline and all specified authority, rollback, promotion, and rehearsal evidence, then return an unconditional verdict with blocker_count.


The sealed candidate and rehearsal are present and internally report PASS. I’m now checking the actual bound implementation and r28-to-r33 delta rather than relying on those summary claims.


The r33 delta does implement candidate-policy rebinding at unchanged capacity 5, chooses a candidate-specific weekly root when the r28 root exists, and records that selected root for rollback. I’m finishing against the live r28 baseline and checking whether recovery and external-authority compensation are path-safe under a fresh process.


I read this as the final r33 read-only safety verdict - I audited the live baseline, sealed implementation, and rehearsal evidence without mutation.

**Verdict: FAIL**
**blocker_count: 1**

Blocker:

- `load_recovery_manifest()` trusts persisted absolute paths without binding them to the sealed target. In particular, `weekly_authority`, `created_files`, `created_directories`, `preflight`, and the external authority root are accepted directly. A corrupted/replaced recovery manifest could make rollback delete the r28 weekly root or compensate an unintended Task26 authority root. No adversarial path-binding test covers this.

Verified passing:

- Live r28 baseline is active/running, candidate `1128e376...`, capacity 5, canonical weekly root present, Task26 authority at 18 events.
- r33 rebinds the admission policy to candidate `0bf4f724...` while preserving capacity 5.
- r33 normally selects `data/weekly-operations-authority-0bf4f7247ae8a19e`, preserving the r28 canonical root.
- External Task26 promotion and predecessor compensation are implemented and tested.
- r33 authorization and execution one-use roots are absent.
- Sealed package inventory, immutability, package digest, candidate binding, and live registry binding pass.
- Rehearsal report exists and records `13/13 PASS`, zero external events, and unchanged live source.