# Fifth independent audit remediation closure

**Truthful state:** `status=blocked`; `partnerReady=false`; `pilotReady=false`;
active design partners remain zero.

This is an engineering remediation record. It is not legal advice, an audit
opinion, entity formation, partner acceptance, a deployment, or a signature.

## Finding closure

### H-01 — commercial agreement semantics

Remediated with commercial-agreement schema version 2 and semantic
cross-binding. A future ready record must contain:

- exact subject and partner organizations, non-placeholder legal-party names,
  legal-entity evidence, governing law, venue, and counsel evidence;
- exact Base network, chain ID, pilot type, partner limit, selected module,
  route, action, deployment contract, and rollout stage from the canonical
  scope relationship;
- strictly ordered effective/end timestamps, bounded duration, and no automatic
  renewal;
- pull-only payment, bounded-liability, explicit-consent/no-surveillance
  privacy, pause-safe refund, terminal-exit, no-principal-slash, support/SLA,
  maintenance/deprecation, security, incident, and change-control terms;
- exact links to liability, privacy, security, incident, support, change, and
  signature artifacts for the same candidate;
- the exact subject and partner authorized signer identities, organizations,
  externally attested person references, Ed25519 keys, authority chains,
  payloads, and detached signatures.

Skeleton, placeholder, omitted-term, wrong-scope, or substituted-signatory
agreements fail closed.

### M-01 — operational acceptance artifacts

Remediated with four exact schemas and a shared semantic resolver for security,
incident, support/SLA, and change-RACI acceptance. Each future record must bind:

- exact candidate, scope, subject organization, and partner organization;
- exact canonical tracked policy path, SHA-256 digest, and version 1.0.0;
- the role-owned manifest channel and type-specific controls;
- exact assigned operational-owner and partner-authorized-signatory identities,
  organizations, keys, authority chains, payloads, and detached signatures.

The incident record additionally cross-binds its exercise evidence digest.
Irrelevant JSON fails schema validation.

### M-02 — contact channel and role binding

Remediated with contact-control schema version 2. Seven exact functions are
required: change, commercial, incident, privacy, security, support, and partner
escalation. Every row binds function, role, externally attested identity,
organization, manifest channel, closed-enum channel type, control result, and
reachability-test digest. Internal and partner organization separation is
enforced. Reuse across required functions is prohibited by default.

### M-03 — unlinkability-test resolution

Remediated with a distinct unlinkability-test result schema and resolver. The
privacy artifact's digest must resolve to a unique tracked blob in the evidence
commit and match the objective evidence fact. The result binds exact candidate,
source commit, tree, scope, Base chain, threat model, methodology, privacy
predicates, nonempty strict-passing tests, per-test logs, and consistent
summary counts.

### L-01 — bounded-liability acceptors

Remediated. Liability acceptance now requires exactly the assigned subject
authorized signatory and partner authorized signatory. Their identities,
organizations, roles, keys, authority evidence, signed payload, and unique
detached signatures must match the externally attested trust registry.

## Regression and verification results

| Validation | Result |
|---|---|
| Full unit/regression tests, normal Python | PASS — 156/156 |
| Full tests, `python -O` | PASS — 156/156 |
| Named fifth-generation regressions | PASS — 37/37 |
| Fifth independent harness | PASS — 37 secure, 0 insecure |
| Original harness | PASS — 16 secure, 0 insecure |
| Third harness | PASS — 25 secure, 0 insecure |
| Fourth harness | PASS — 33 secure, 0 insecure |
| Legacy expanded harness, raw | 13 secure, 6 stale source/API expectations |
| Current expanded replacement regressions | PASS — 22/22 |
| Strict JSON inventory | PASS — 37 files after this closure record |
| Python AST inventory | PASS — 10 files |
| Temporary three-stage Git fixture | PASS |
| Deterministic blocked report | PASS |
| Blocked report SHA-256 | `b783b18c99d20521ef410e82633bfc9d9c7d3fa9752db3e4d752531c72920cf6` |
| Aggregate package gate | PASS — blocked / not partner-ready |
| Cache entries | 0 |
| Symlinks | 0 |
| Scoped `git diff --check` | PASS |

The six raw legacy-expanded flags are the previously documented stale
source-string/superseded-API probes. Their current behaviors are exercised by
22 in-package expanded regressions, all passing. They are not represented as
raw-harness passes.

No installation, real repository commit, push, deployment, RPC, wallet, or
signing operation was performed.

## Remaining external blockers

The pinned trust policy still says `no-external-authority-established`.
Therefore positive readiness remains structurally impossible until a later
reviewed commit pins a genuine independent authority.

All 14 external-human blockers remain open:

1. `LEGAL-ENTITY`
2. `AUTHORIZED-SIGNATORY`
3. `ACTUAL-CONTACTS`
4. `INSURANCE`
5. `COUNSEL-SIGNOFF`
6. `PRIVACY-SIGNOFF`
7. `PARTNER-ACCEPTANCE`
8. `ROLE-ASSIGNMENTS`
9. `COMMERCIAL-AGREEMENT`
10. `SIGNATURES`
11. `SECURITY-POLICY-ACCEPTANCE`
12. `INCIDENT-PLAN-ACCEPTANCE`
13. `SUPPORT-SLA-SELECTION`
14. `CHANGE-RACI-ACCEPTANCE`

All 25 mandatory readiness evidence claims remain open. The current shared
worktree is also not an exact clean committed candidate.
