I read this as a final read-only r37 authority audit - I’ll trace every named recovery, transition, rehearsal, and root-absence assertion, then return an unconditional verdict with blocker_count.


The rehearsal report is internally clean at 13/13. I’m now reconciling that receipt with r37’s sealed candidate bindings and the production tests for inventory equality, omission/substitution denial, capacity rebinding, weekly-root ownership, and Task26 rollback.


The implementation and adversarial coverage align: recovery loading requires exact set equality for protected paths, created files/directories, weekly root, and all three Task26 authority paths; substitution and omission are explicitly rejected. I’m finishing with direct read-only checks of the sealed r37 target identities and the exact live successor roots that must remain absent.


I read this as the final read-only r37 authority verdict - all requested authority and cleanup conditions pass.

# UNCONDITIONAL PASS

`blocker_count: 0`

- Candidate `ff2ee84d...67d60` matches manifest, qualification, sealed target, and rehearsal.
- Candidate inventory is exact: **333/333 files**, with all 320 source, 6 input, 4 wheel, and 1 evidence hashes valid.
- Recovery manifests enforce exact protected, created-file, created-directory, weekly-root, and Task26 authority-path sets. Omission and weekly-path substitution tests reject with `recovery_manifest_paths`.
- Capacity migration binds the explicit candidate, capacity `5`, and receipt-preserving proposal.
- Task26 credential is rebound under the successor runtime before systemd switching.
- Candidate weekly root is exactly `data/weekly-operations-authority-ff2ee84d7356ab09`.
- Task26 promotion precedes switching; failure rollback restores predecessor `1128e376...c528`, rejects the successor, removes its runtime, and leaves no transition journal.
- Requested r37 rehearsal report is `PASS`, **13/13**, `external_events=0`, and `live_source_unchanged=true`.
- Exact live roots are absent:
  - successor root/runtime
  - r37 execution root
  - r37 authorization root
  - candidate weekly root
- Production authority remains on predecessor `1128e376...c528`; no pending `runtime-authority-transition.json`.

No files, services, authority, or evidence were mutated.