I read this as a final read-only r37 closure audit - I’ll independently verify immutable hashes, wheel reproducibility and RECORD integrity, overlay closure, and supersession through r36 without modifying evidence.


The evidence layout is complete and self-contained. I’m now checking the declared closure against the actual bytes, including independent archive/RECORD validation rather than relying only on the bundled verifier.


The byte-level closure, wheel archives/RECORDs, overlay, and bundled preseal verifier all pass. One semantic consistency check remains: the immutable qualification receipt’s wheel identities do not match the r37 wheels it is presented as qualifying.


I read this as the final r37 closure verdict - I completed the read-only audit and found one blocker.

**BLOCKERS**

1. `receipts/authority-verification.json` is stale and contradicts the sealed r37 wheel inventory:
   - Hermes receipt: `7b2ead...`; actual: `896e12...`
   - Profile receipt: `af141c...`; actual: `4edb6c...`

The receipt is hash-bound into the candidate, so this is an immutable semantic inconsistency. The bundled verifier does not validate these receipt fields.

All other checks passed: exact inventories/hashes/modes, candidate and package digests, reproducible wheel pairs, complete valid RECORDs, overlay binding, controller/dependency closure, and exact r36 supersession.

**blocker_count: 1**