# Independent adversarial audit remediation disposition

**Disposition date:** 2026-08-26 UTC
**Scope:** source remediation under `pr10/partner-package` only
**Readiness decision:** **BLOCKED — `partnerReady: false`**

This is a source-level remediation record, not an independent re-audit, legal
opinion, partner acceptance, audit report, deployment record, entity-formation
record, or signature. The independent auditor must re-test a future clean,
immutable candidate. No human identity, organization, contact, authority,
agreement, insurance, acceptance, approval, or signature has been invented.

## Finding-by-finding disposition

| Finding | Source remediation | Disposition |
|---|---|---|
| C-01 fabricated facts/irrelevant evidence | Exactly 25 typed claims; exact claim keys, IDs, statements, paths, roles, organization IDs, controlled-system references, candidate/scope binding, unique files/digests, reviewed trust registry, and verified Ed25519 signatures. Ten internal assignments are distinct; preparer, reviewer, authorizer, and partner acceptor are separate. Human facts remain open. | Source bypass closed; human evidence and independent re-test open |
| H-01 self-declared candidate | Candidate commit must exist, equal `HEAD`, have the exact Git tree, and have a clean worktree. Actual deployment bytes and exact canonical file bytes are hashed. Candidate ID binds source, tree, scope, deployment, schema, trust registry, operations, policy, supersession, open module spec, and ledger. | Source bypass closed; clean immutable candidate/tests/deployment open |
| H-02 incomplete principles | Fifteen exact, non-overridable commitments and typed evidence IDs cover principal, collateral, no required/permitted surveillance, prohibited hashed/derived/transitive inputs, consent, pause-safe refunds/terminal exits, per-module rollout, bounded liability, pull payments, fail-closed APIs, immutable evidence, exact-commit tests, and privacy-preserving chain-specific portability with cross-chain value flow excluded. | Source bypass closed; signed evidence open |
| H-03 canonical disconnect/monolithic scope | Ready path reads canonical operations and deployment; requires complete authorized/deployed/activated, blocker-free, fresh operations for the candidate; selects exactly one canonical module/action/route; denies every other module; rejects wildcard/aggregate/everything-V3 scope. | Source bypass closed; canonical operations remain incomplete |
| M-01 parser/schema ambiguity | Duplicate-key and non-finite-number rejection; unconditional dependency-free Draft 2020-12 package-schema validation; unknown assertion keywords fail; exact keys/cardinalities and uniqueness enforced at schema and runtime; deployment, proposal, organization, and trust schemas run. | Closed in source |
| M-02 timestamp weakness | Canonical `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ` only; real calendar checks; no future readiness; 24-hour ready/operations freshness; 30-day candidate/approval freshness; bounded expiry; candidate ≤ issue ≤ approval ≤ signature ≤ as-of ≤ now. | Closed in source |
| M-03 noncanonical paths | Normalized POSIX repository-relative paths only; no absolute path, backslash, `.`, `..`, escape, symlink component, wrong extension, or evidence outside the exact package attestation root. Canonical artifacts use exact allowlisted paths. | Closed in source |
| L-01 silently skipped schema validation | `strict_json_schema.py` has no optional package dependency. Validation is unconditional and fails on unsupported assertion keywords. Tests exercise all four package schemas and an unknown-keyword failure. | Closed in source |

“Closed in source” does not close any external fact or authorize readiness. It
means the demonstrated software acceptance path has a fail-closed control and
regression test in this package.

## Independent attack reproduction

The 15 attacks from the auditor's harness/results were translated into named
regressions in `tests/test_organizational_readiness.py`:

1. fabricated readiness plus reused irrelevant README;
2. duplicate JSON key;
3. noncanonical `..` path;
4. non-UTC/future/misordered time;
5. absolute path escape;
6. repository-relative escape;
7. integer/boolean confusion;
8. extra organizational field;
9. duplicate evidence ID;
10. duplicate blocker ID;
11. stale/tampered digest;
12. partial blocker acceptance;
13. candidate-ID mismatch;
14. deployment/proposal extra field;
15. symlink evidence.

Additional regressions cover commitment drift, hashed/transitive biometric
input, invented blocked-state identity, monolithic everything-V3 scope,
future readiness, stale readiness, nonexistent Git commit after a valid
single-module scope, undeclared trust roles/extra keys, deterministic output,
and an RFC 8032 Ed25519 known vector plus tampering.

The original external harness was not executed because it writes results
outside `pr10/partner-package`, which this remediation was expressly forbidden
to modify. Its attack definitions and saved results were read and reproduced
inside the scoped test suite.

## Validation results

Final scoped validation produced:

- complete unittest discovery: **34 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped**;
- organizational suite: **26 passed**, including all 15 audit attacks and 11
  baseline/additional regressions;
- aggregate package validator: passed with 8 separate proposal classes,
  `pilotReady: false`, `partnerReady: false`, `v2Default: true`, and 0 active
  design partners;
- organizational checker: passed the truthful blocked template with **25 open
  mandatory blockers**, **14 external-human blockers**, and no network action;
- JSON parse inventory: **15/15** documents parsed;
- strict schema coverage: organizational readiness, deployment manifest,
  proposal, and trust registry passed, with unknown schema assertions rejected;
- deterministic organizational checker output: passed;
- `git diff --check -- pr10/partner-package`: passed;
- package inventory before this report: 43 non-cache files; after this report:
  **44 non-cache files and 49 files total including 5 generated bytecode-cache
  files**;
- symlink inventory: **0**;
- no install, network, RPC, wallet, signing, deployment, commit, or push action.

Python bytecode cache files created by local test execution are not source
artifacts and are excluded from the non-cache inventory.

## Current external and technical blockers

The manifest intentionally remains blocked. The **14 external-human blockers**
are:

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`.

The **11 technical/evidence blockers** are:

1. `CANDIDATE-BINDING`;
2. `CANONICAL-OPERATIONS`;
3. `EXACT-COMMIT-TESTS`;
4. `MODULE-ROLLOUT`;
5. `BOUNDED-LIABILITIES`;
6. `PULL-PAYMENTS`;
7. `FAIL-CLOSED-APIS`;
8. `PRIVACY-CROSS-CHAIN`;
9. `IMMUTABLE-EVIDENCE`;
10. `PAUSE-SAFE-EXITS`;
11. `PROTECTED-DECISION-INPUTS`.

Read-only reconciliation with
`v3-operations/release-status.json` at `2026-08-26T00:40:00Z` shows all five
release stages false, all three required authorization records false, **7 open
internal/technical blockers**, and **4 open external blockers**. This package
did not modify `v3-operations`.

## Exact scoped changed files

Modified tracked files:

- `PARTNER_QUICKSTART.md`
- `README.md`
- `docs/INDEPENDENT_AUDIT_FROZEN_SOURCE_HANDOFF.md`
- `docs/PRIVACY_DATA_MINIMIZATION.md`
- `scripts/validate_partner_package.py`
- `tests/test_partner_package.py`

Added files:

- `AUDIT_REMEDIATION_CLOSURE_20260826.md`
- `PARTNER_READINESS_RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md`
- `config/trusted-identities.json`
- `docs/ACCOUNTABILITY_TYPED_ENFORCEMENT_V1.md`
- `docs/COMMERCIAL_LEGAL_ENTITY_SIGNATORY_CHECKLIST.md`
- `docs/DEPLOYMENT_CHANGE_MANAGEMENT_RACI.md`
- `docs/EVIDENCE_ATTESTATION_SPEC.md`
- `docs/INCIDENT_RESPONSE_AND_ESCALATION.md`
- `docs/NAMED_ROLE_COLLECTION_TEMPLATE.md`
- `docs/ORGANIZATIONAL_COMMITMENTS.md`
- `docs/PILOT_COMMERCIAL_TERMS_AND_SCOPE.md`
- `docs/SECURITY_AND_VULNERABILITY_REPORTING.md`
- `docs/SUPPORT_SLA_MAINTENANCE_DEPRECATION.md`
- `docs/V3_OPERATIONS_RECONCILIATION.md`
- `manifests/organizational-readiness.template.json`
- `schemas/organizational-readiness.schema.json`
- `schemas/trusted-identities.schema.json`
- `scripts/check_organizational_readiness.py`
- `scripts/strict_json_schema.py`
- `tests/test_organizational_readiness.py`

Total scoped source changes after this report: **26 files** (6 modified,
20 added). No V2, Base, SDK, site, x402, Solana, or `v3-operations` source file
was edited by this work.
