I read this as a read-only final authority audit of r38 - I’ll verify the recovery inventories and paths, capacity/weekly rebind, Task26 transition/rollback, rehearsal results, and root absence, then return an unconditional verdict with blocker_count.


The r38 candidate and sealed preseal are present, and the rehearsal report is internally PASS. I’m now binding the audit to the r38 manifest/authority receipt and the live preseal’s declared inventories rather than relying on earlier revisions.


I read this as the final read-only r38 authority audit - all requested gates passed.

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

Verified:

- Recovery manifest enforces exact preflight, created-file/directory, weekly-authority, and Task26 authority paths.
- Recovery inventory: 86,725 protected files; rollback snapshots exactly config, registry, unit, and drop-in. Current expected created-file/directory sets are empty.
- Capacity rebinds to 5 and candidate `5135efd2...`; weekly authority rebinds to `data/weekly-operations-authority-5135efd248efaf2f`.
- Task26 successor qualification is WAL-protected and precedes service switching; rollback durably requalifies predecessor `1128e376...`.
- r38 rehearsal: **13/13 PASS**, zero external events, live source unchanged.
- Candidate inventory: 331/331 hashes match. Preseal package: 566/566 hashes match.
- Production authority remains predecessor-bound with 18 registry events and 18 ledger rows; transition WAL absent.
- Successor runtime, candidate weekly authority, execution, and authorization roots are all absent.

No mutation was performed.