I read this as a final read-only r36 authority audit - I’ll trace the recovery bindings and tests, validate the rehearsal report and required transitions, confirm prohibited roots are absent, then return an unconditional verdict with blocker_count.


The sealed r36 evidence is internally PASS so far; I’m now checking the underlying three-file successor delta and authoritative ledger rather than accepting receipts at face value, with special attention to fail-closed recovery inventory semantics and root non-creation.


The recovery contract is exact-set, not subset: it recomputes expected absent canonical/receipt files from the bound registry and rejects both omission and path substitution; the candidate-scoped weekly root and Task26 promotion occur before service switch. I’m completing byte-level wheel/package cross-checks and the final absence/authority-state check now.


I read this as the final read-only r36 authority audit - completed without mutation.

**VERDICT: PASS**
**blocker_count: 0**

Verified:

- Recovery manifest enforces exact preflight, created-file, created-directory, runtime-authority path, and weekly-authority bindings.
- Omission and weekly-path substitution tests are present and fail closed.
- Capacity migration rebinds admission policy to candidate `5c7ebd2e...`.
- Candidate weekly root resolves to `weekly-operations-authority-5c7ebd2e30ac032f`.
- Task26 successor qualification occurs before unit switching; rollback restores predecessor authority.
- r36 rehearsal report is `PASS`, with 13/13 unique cases passing, zero external events, and unchanged live source.
- All 331 candidate manifest inventory entries hash-match; both wheel builds are reproducible.
- Execution, authorization, successor-runtime, candidate-weekly, and transition roots are absent.
- Production authority remains on predecessor `1128e376...` with 18/18 registry/ledger entries, as required before authorization.