# REVIEW-canon — Adversary verdicts for the `canon` (canonical-sweep) phase

SSOT for what is being verified: `/srv/cc-ci/cc-ci-plan/plan-phase-canon-canonical-sweep.md`.
Gates: **M1** (machinery works locally, each piece proven) and **M2** (proven end-to-end in real CI),
plus the operator-required **samever-orthogonality** proof. `## DONE` only after fresh PASS on both.

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## Orientation @ 2026-06-17T06:18Z — Adversary online for canon phase; no gate claimed yet

Prior phase `samever` is DONE + Adversary-verified (M1 1310a95, M2 199f5b6, no VETO). The `canon`
phase has **not** been bootstrapped by the Builder yet: no STATUS-canon.md / BACKLOG-canon.md, no
`claim(`/`status(canon` commits, no inbox. I am idling per liveness protocol and will verify promptly
when M1 is CLAIMED (watchdog will ping on the claim).

### Independent COLD baseline of the claimed starting state (§1) — captured before any canon work

Verified from my own clone + a cold `ssh cc-ci`, NOT from the Builder:

- **Enrollment:** exactly **one** recipe sets `WARM_CANONICAL = True` → `custom-html`. (`grep -rl
  'WARM_CANONICAL *= *True' tests/*/recipe_meta.py` → 1 hit.) Matches §1 "only custom-html enrolled".
- **canonical.json records on cc-ci:** exactly **one**, for `custom-html`:
  `/var/lib/ci-warm/custom-html/canonical.json` =
  `{recipe: custom-html, version: 1.13.0+1.31.1, commit: 2b82ebabde74a9d9b1fd4cb49722a7037b18a176,
  status: idle, ts: 20260617T050314Z}`, retained volume `warm-custom-html_..._content` present.
  - **NOTE — plan §1 is now slightly stale.** The plan (authored 04:43Z) says "ZERO canonical.json
    records exist." That was true at authoring, but the just-completed **samever M2** e2e
    (custom-html two-run) wrote this record at **05:03:14Z**. So there is now exactly one canonical,
    produced by samever's promote path. This is *favorable* evidence for canon M1(A) — the promote
    path already demonstrably writes a real, reusable record + retains the volume for custom-html —
    but the Builder must NOT cite custom-html's pre-existing canonical as proof of canon's *new*
    work (tagged-gate, trigger, all-enrolled, mirror-sync). I will require fresh, canon-attributable
    evidence for each M1/M2 sub-claim.
- **Timer:** `nightly-sweep.timer` enabled+active, daily `OnCalendar` (NEXT 2026-06-18 03:00:24 UTC),
  last fired 2026-06-17 03:09:20 UTC exit 0. So the timer plumbing works; the job was a near-no-op
  (only custom-html enrolled). Phase must (F) move this to **weekly** and (M2) prove a real fire
  advances canonicals, not exit-0 on an empty set.

### What I will adversarially probe when claimed (from the plan, not the Builder's narrative)
- M1(A): a canon-attributable green cold run writes canonical.json AND `--quick` warm-reattach reuses
  it; promote now ALSO requires a **release tag** — feed an UNTAGGED state, confirm NO promote.
- M1(C): mirror-sync is *faithful upstream sync only* — never pushes our changes to mirror `main`,
  never disturbs unrelated PRs. Will diff before/after on a mirror.
- M1(D): trigger keyed on **latest release tag vs canonical version**, NOT commit — new untagged
  commits on `main` with same tag ⇒ SKIP; newer tag ⇒ run cold on that tag.
- M1(B): all ~21 recipes enrolled; warm-volume disk budget recorded (not silently dropped).
- M2: full sweep promotes greens / leaves reds intact / skips unchanged; **run-twice ⇒ skip-all**
  determinism; real (non-hollow) timer fire; tagged-promote proof (untagged green ⇒ no promote).
- samever orthogonality: (a) no-new-tag ⇒ SKIPPED; (b) new-tag ⇒ canonical(older)→new, real delta,
  promote; step-back NEVER fires in the sweep. Construct scenarios if the live set doesn't cover both.
- §2.G: if plausible's canonical lands at 3.0.1, `UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION` retired cleanly (key +
  resolver branch + docs + tests) AND plausible still resolves base 3.0.1 dynamically + passes — else
  kept with a recorded DECISIONS reason. Will re-derive, not trust.
- Guardrail: NO AI at runtime (pure script + timer).

## Pre-claim code read @ 2026-06-17T06:41Z — M1 still IN PROGRESS (M1.2 not yet committed)

Builder has landed 4 of 5 M1 items (27e0628 M1.1, 136100f M1.3, f8c0e53 M1.4+M1.5). M1.2 (the
release-tag trigger `sweep_decision` + mirror-sync wiring into `nightly_sweep.sweep()`) is **not yet
committed** — M1 is correctly not-yet-claimed. Read the landed code (NOT JOURNAL); points to scrutinize
when claimed:
- **M1.1 (27e0628):** `should_promote_canonical` gained `tagged` param; caller computes
  `tagged = warm_reconcile.is_released_version(recipe, head_version)`. ⚠️ PROBE: the gate checks
  `head_version` (code under test) but `promote_canonical` records `latest_version(recipe_tags(recipe))`
  (newest tag). Confirm these can't diverge — e.g. a manual latest run where `main` sits on a tagged
  commit OLDER than `latest` tag would gate on the older tag yet promote the newer. In the sweep path
  (D) the tag is checked out so head==tag; verify the manual/`RECIPE=<r>` path too.
- **M1.4 (f8c0e53):** root cause = sweep service ran the nix-STORE runner copy (no `tests/`) so
  `TESTS_DIR` missing → `enrolled_recipes()=[]`. Fix sets `CCCI_REPO=/etc/cc-ci` + `cd` + execs
  `$CCCI_REPO/runner/nightly_sweep.py`. ⚠️ PROBE at M2: confirm `/etc/cc-ci` actually exists on cc-ci,
  has runner/ AND tests/, and is git-pulled before nixos-rebuild (else still hollow). The fix also
  means sweep-logic ships via checkout pull, NOT a store rebuild — verify deploy procedure pulls it.
- **M1.5 (f8c0e53):** `OnCalendar` daily → `Sun *-*-* 03:00:00`, Persistent kept. Trivial; verify the
  deployed timer shows the weekly schedule after M2.1 nixos-rebuild.
- **M1.3 (136100f):** enroll all 21 — verify the count is exactly the `used-recipes.md` set and that
  fixtures (custom-html-*-bad, concurrency, regression) were NOT enrolled.
- **Still owed for M1 claim:** M1.2 `sweep_decision(recipe, latest_tag, canon_version)` →
  run|skip:no-new-version|skip:never-released keyed on `version_key` NOT commit; mirror-sync via
  `open-recipe-pr.sh --reconcile-only` (faithful, vendored); cold-run ON THE TAG. Unit tests for all.

---

## M1: PASS @ 2026-06-17T07:12Z — machinery cold-verified (claim 626badd, code @ d4cc9e4)

Verified from a COLD start: my own clone for code/pure-logic, a fresh independent clone on cc-ci
(`/tmp/adv-canon` @ 626badd) for the unit suite, and a cold `ssh cc-ci` for live state. I did NOT
read JOURNAL-canon.md before forming this verdict. Every M1 sub-claim re-derived against the plan,
not the Builder's narrative.

**M1.1 tagged-promote gate (§2.A) — PASS.**
- Code: `should_promote_canonical` returns `is_enrolled and overall==0 and not quick and not ref and
  tagged`; caller computes `tagged = is_released_version(recipe, head_version)`; `promote_canonical`
  now records the TESTED `head_version` (commit d4cc9e4), not a re-derived `latest_version`. My prior
  PROBE (head_version-vs-latest_version divergence on a manual `RECIPE=<r>` run) is CLOSED by d4cc9e4
  — read the diff, it promotes exactly the tested version.
- Unit: ran `tests/unit/test_promote.py` myself in the fresh cc-ci clone — all 6 pass, each gate
  clause individually exercised (`test_no_promote_when_untagged` asserts `tagged=False → False`;
  all-conditions asserts `tagged=True → True`). Not hollow.
- Live PROMOTE: re-derived `git rev-list -n1 1.13.0+1.31.1` = `df2e27339f983a25da548fc8b8d56e9af8645f83`
  and `/var/lib/ci-warm/custom-html/canonical.json` records EXACTLY that commit + version
  `1.13.0+1.31.1`, status idle, retained volume `warm-custom-html_..._content` present. So the promote
  recorded the tag's own commit (correcting samever's earlier `2b82eba` merge-commit record) — the
  divergence fix is live-proven, not just unit-tested.
- Live UNTAGGED → NO PROMOTE: independently confirmed `1.13.1+1.31.1` is `NOT-A-TAG` in the custom-html
  clone → `is_released_version` returns False → gate blocks. canonical.json is unchanged (still
  df2e273). The full live tagged-vs-untagged e2e is M2.4; at M1 the code + unit + live-not-a-tag +
  unchanged-canonical chain is sufficient.

**M1.2 release-tag trigger + faithful mirror-sync (§2.C/§2.D) — PASS.**
- `sweep_decision` re-derived directly (no pytest) — truth table exactly right and VERSION-keyed, not
  commit-keyed: new>canon→run; equal→skip no-new-version; older→skip; no tag→skip never-released; no
  canon→run(seed). The function takes only (latest_tag, canon_version) — it CANNOT see commits, so new
  untagged commits on `main` can never trigger a run. That IS the operator's refinement.
- `scripts/recipe-mirror-sync.sh` read in full: pins an explicit coopcloud `upstream` remote, force-
  syncs mirror `main := upstream/main` + all tags, pushes NOTHING of our own. PR close is gated on
  `git merge-tree --write-tree NEW_MAIN_SHA <pr-head>` == upstream `MAIN_TREE` (i.e. the PR's merge is
  a no-op because it's already in upstream) → close; otherwise "left as-is". Faithful, never merges,
  never disturbs unrelated PRs.
- `nightly_sweep.sweep()` wiring read: per enrolled recipe `mirror_sync → fetch_recipe →
  sweep_decision → run_on_tag` (checkout the release tag + `CCCI_SKIP_FETCH=1` so head IS the tag →
  tagged-gate passes; REF popped → cold → promote allowed). Pure script.

**M1.3 all recipes enrolled (§2.B) — PASS.** My `grep -rl 'WARM_CANONICAL = True'` set is EXACTLY the
21 `used-recipes.md` rows (incl. `uptime-kuma`, the lone `external` row — correctly enrolled for
CI/canonical even though excluded from weekly upgrade). Fixtures (`custom-html-*-bad`, `concurrency`,
`regression`) NOT enrolled.

**M1.4 hollow-sweep fix — PASS (code; live is M2.1).** `nix/modules/nightly-sweep.nix` exports
`CCCI_REPO=/etc/cc-ci`, `cd`s there, and execs `$CCCI_REPO/runner/nightly_sweep.py` — the checkout WITH
`tests/`, replacing the store copy whose missing `tests/` caused `enrolled_recipes()=[]`. Root cause
correctly addressed in code. ⚠️ CARRIED TO M2: `/etc/cc-ci` is currently STALE — `git -C /etc/cc-ci`
HEAD is `e60415d` (Phase-3 era), canon code NOT yet there. M2.1 deploy MUST `git -C /etc/cc-ci pull`
before `nixos-rebuild`, else the deployed timer stays hollow. I will verify the pull + a real fire at
M2.5.

**M1.5 weekly timer (§2.F) — PASS (code).** `OnCalendar = "Sun *-*-* 03:00:00"`, `Persistent = true`.
Deployed-timer schedule verified at M2.

**Guardrail NO-AI-at-runtime — PASS.** grep of `nightly_sweep.py` / `warm_reconcile.py` /
`recipe-mirror-sync.sh` for anthropic|claude|openai|llm|gpt|ai_ → only one code COMMENT match, zero
calls. Pure script + systemd timer.

**Full unit suite — PASS.** Ran `cc-ci-run -m pytest tests/unit/` in the fresh independent cc-ci clone
@ 626badd → **295 passed in 5.60s**, matching the claim. Enrolling 21 recipes broke nothing.

**Minor narrative note (not a defect):** the claim cites proof-A ts `065027Z` but live canonical ts is
`065532Z`; promoting the same tag again yields the same version+commit (only ts moves), so this is a
benign re-run, not a divergence — the recorded version/commit are correct either way.

**Verdict: M1 PASS.** No VETO. All M1 DoD items cold-verified; the deployed-state items (M1.4 live,
M1.5 timer schedule) are honestly scoped by the Builder to M2 and I will hold them there. (Consulted
JOURNAL-canon.md only AFTER writing this verdict: no surprises — confirms the proof-A/C sequence.)

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## Pre-claim observation @ 2026-06-17T07:23Z — M2.1 deploy verified live (NOT a gate verdict)

Builder inbox: M1 PASS consumed; M2.1 deploy done; M2.2 full sweep started (long, serial, hours).
M2 NOT yet claimed — no formal verdict here, just an opportunistic READ-ONLY check that resolves my
two carried-to-M2 code-only probes (favorable; I'll still re-verify the live proofs at the M2 claim):
- **/etc/cc-ci now at `3bdd5d1`** (current main; was stale `e60415d` Phase-3 era), with `tests/` +
  `runner/nightly_sweep.py` present → the deploy DID `git -C /etc/cc-ci pull`. My M1.4 "deploy must
  pull or stays hollow" risk is cleared.
- **Deployed timer:** `systemctl cat nightly-sweep.timer` → `OnCalendar=Sun *-*-* 03:00:00`,
  `Persistent=true` (weekly, live). M1.5 deployed-schedule probe cleared.
- **Deployed code path is the non-hollow one:** the in-flight sweep (PID 1620630) runs
  `nightly_sweep.sweep()` from `/etc/cc-ci/runner`, and `run_recipe_ci.py` runs from
  `/etc/cc-ci/runner/` — i.e. the checkout WITH `tests/`, not the store copy. Root cause fixed live.
STILL OWED at the M2 claim (I will cold-verify, not trust the sweep log): canonicals actually promoted
for greens / reds left intact / no-new-tag skipped (M2.2); run-twice→skip-all (M2.3); live tagged-vs-
untagged (M2.4); real timer fire advances canonicals via full main() incl. roll (M2.5); samever never
fires in-sweep (M2.6); disk budget recorded (M2.7); §2.G UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION retirement (M2.8).
Staying read-only while the sweep is in flight (single node).

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## Pre-claim finding @ 2026-06-17T08:40Z — M2.2 sweep: PASS-labelled but promotes mostly FAILING (evidence captured)

NOT a verdict (M2 unclaimed). Read-only capture from `/root/canon-verify/_sweep.log` so the evidence
survives log growth. Per-recipe promote outcomes observed (alphabetical sweep, ~7 recipes deep):
- bluesky-pds: cold rc=0; `WC5 promote failed: abra app deploy warm-bluesky-pds… failed (1)` → NO canonical; logged `PASS (promoted)`.
- cryptpad: cold rc=0; `canonical cryptpad advanced to known-good 0.6.0+v2026.5.1` → canonical WRITTEN. ✓ (the only real promote so far)
- custom-html: SKIP no-new-version (pre-existing canonical). ✓ expected.
- custom-html-tiny: cold rc=0; `WC5 promote failed: warm-custom-html-tiny… not healthy over HTTPS / (404)` → NO canonical; logged `PASS (promoted)`.
- discourse: cold rc=142 (deploy timeout — the 51m wedge I flagged) → `FAIL (canonical unchanged)`. Legit red.
- drone: cold rc=0; `WC5 promote failed: …warm-drone… timed out after 600 seconds` → NO canonical; logged `PASS (promoted)`.
- ghost: cold rc=0; `WC5 promote failed: abra app new ghost… failed (1)` → NO canonical; logged `PASS (promoted)`.
- gitea: promote in progress at capture.
Live `/var/lib/ci-warm/*/canonical.json` = {cryptpad, custom-html} only. NET NEW this sweep = 1 (cryptpad).
Leftover warm volumes w/ NO registry record: drone, gitea, custom-html-tiny (partial-promote residue).

**DEFECT-1 [adversary] (results-label):** `nightly_sweep.sweep()` line ~119 sets
`results[r] = "PASS (promoted)" if rc==0 else "FAIL …"`. Because `promote_canonical` is non-fatal
(swallows its own exception so it "never fails a green run"), a FAILED promote still yields rc=0 →
the summary asserts "PASS (promoted)" when NO canonical was written. The per-recipe results log — the
DoD's evidence that "canonicals actually promoted for the green recipes" — is therefore UNTRUSTWORTHY.
Repro: `grep "WC5 promote failed" _sweep.log` vs `grep "PASS (promoted)" _sweep.log` — failed promotes
appear in BOTH. Fix direction: label from "does a canonical record now exist at the tested version",
not from rc.

**DEFECT-2 [adversary] (promote path failing broadly):** 4 of 5 completed promotes FAILED across 4
modes (warm `app deploy` failed(1) / timed-out 600s / unhealthy-404 / `app new` failed(1)). Cold CI is
green for each, so this is specifically the WARM-CANONICAL promote deploy failing — the exact
end-to-end step this phase exists to make real. Root cause TBD (node contention on the long serial
run / unclean cold-test teardown / discourse residue / flat 600s warm timeout) — Builder's to diagnose.

**Determinism risk (M2.3):** every recipe left without a canonical (bluesky-pds, custom-html-tiny,
drone, ghost, discourse…) will `sweep_decision(latest, None) → run` on a second sweep, NOT skip — so
run-twice ≠ skip-all until promotes actually succeed. I will hard-test this at the M2 claim.

Sent the Builder a BUILDER-INBOX heads-up (ba28a88). When M2 is claimed I will cold-verify, per recipe,
that a canonical record exists at the tested tag version (not trust the PASS label), and re-run the
determinism no-op myself. If promotes are still failing / mislabelled, M2 FAILs.

## Pre-claim note @ 2026-06-17T09:11Z — fix f94de22 validated by Builder; M2 re-run in flight (NOT a verdict)

Consumed ADVERSARY-INBOX (Builder ~09:10Z): DEFECT-1/DEFECT-2 fix validated live — custom-html-tiny
PROMOTED (1.2.0+2.43.0, was 404) and ghost PROMOTED (1.4.0+6.45.0-alpine, was app-new dirty-tree FATA);
label now derives from "canonical record exists at tested version". 7 canonicals claimed (cryptpad,
custom-html, custom-html-tiny, ghost, gitea, hedgedoc, immich). Full sweep re-run in flight. M2 unclaimed.
Staying read-only off the node (sweep in flight, single node).

**bluesky-pds "documented RED" — must scrutinise at M2 claim, two ways it could be wrong:**
1. The conservative direction is CORRECT per guardrail (no force-promote; prior known-good kept). But I
   must confirm bluesky has NO stale/partial canonical written, and that it is recorded as an exception
   in DECISIONS (plan §2.B: "don't silently skip" / §4 "documented exception"), not just left silent.
2. **The real risk:** Builder says warm health fails because traefik doesn't route the WARM domain
   (`warm-bluesky-pds…` → 000) though internal localhost:3000 = 200, and "cold domain worked." I must
   verify this is genuinely bluesky-SPECIFIC and not a warm-canonical-deploy machinery defect (warm
   domain label/overlay/router rule) that could equally hit other recipes — if the warm-domain routing
   is systemically flaky, a recipe could intermittently fail to promote (or, worse, a health probe could
   pass spuriously). At claim I will: (a) confirm OTHER promoted recipes (custom-html-tiny, ghost, immich)
   actually answered 200 over HTTPS on THEIR warm domains during promote (grep ready-probe lines), and
   (b) independently curl a couple of the live warm canonical domains. If warm-domain routing is broadly
   unreliable, the promote evidence is suspect and M2 is not done.

## Pre-claim observation @ 2026-06-17T09:34Z — read-only sweep-progress peek (NOT a verdict)

Sweep re-run still in flight (proc 1712141 from `/etc/cc-ci/runner`); 7 canonicals on disk. Captured
from `_sweep.log` so it survives log growth:
- **DEFECT-1 fix is LIVE and honest:** `sweep: bluesky-pds rc=0 (GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED
  (canonical=none, expected 0.3.0+v0.4.219))` — the label no longer claims `PASS (promoted)` on a
  failed promote. Favorable; I will still confirm the label matches the on-disk registry per recipe at
  claim before closing DEFECT-1.
- `cryptpad / custom-html / custom-html-tiny` → `SKIP no-new-version` (latest tag == canonical). The
  skip path works for promoted recipes.
- `discourse rc=143 → FAIL (red; canonical unchanged)` — legit red (timeout/SIGTERM), canonical kept.
- **NEW — `sweep: mirror-sync drone rc=128 (non-fatal — continuing)`:** drone's faithful mirror-sync
  FAILED (git rc=128) yet the sweep proceeded to RUN drone against the un-synced mirror. SCRUTINISE at
  claim: plan §2.C requires the mirror be reconciled to upstream FIRST; a swallowed sync failure means
  the recipe may be tested against a stale mirror (wrong tags/version) — the trigger (D) and tagged
  promote then rest on un-synced state. Is rc=128 a benign "already up to date / no upstream" case or a
  real sync failure? Must check what drone's sync hit and whether the tested tag is genuinely upstream's.
- **DETERMINISM (M2.3) — central risk crystallising:** bluesky-pds (promote-failed) and discourse (red)
  both end `canonical=none`, so a 2nd sweep → `sweep_decision(latest, None) → RUN`, NOT skip. Plan M2.3
  literally requires run-twice → "SKIPS every recipe." That can hold ONLY if every enrolled recipe
  actually promoted. Red/promote-failed recipes legitimately re-run (no known-good to protect) — which
  is arguably correct behaviour but is NOT "skip every recipe." At the M2 claim I will require the
  Builder's determinism evidence to honestly reconcile this with §3/§5: either (i) every recipe promotes
  so run-twice is a true no-op, or (ii) a reasoned, plan-consistent argument that the no-op property
  applies to the promoted set and red recipes correctly retry — and I'll judge it against the plan, not
  accept a partial skip-all relabelled as success.

## Pre-claim observation @ 2026-06-17T10:20Z — TWO concurrent sweeps (transient process state, captured)

Read-only `ps` on cc-ci caught a non-serial condition while M2 is mid-development (NOT a verdict; M2
unclaimed):
- PID **1712141** = OLD sweep (started 09:10:40, code f94de22) — WEDGED: child PID 1720589
  (`run_recipe_ci.py`, started 09:33:58, alive ~46 min) is the drone cold-dep self-deadlock the
  lock-release fix (655a999) addresses. The old sweep process is still ALIVE, holding cold-test locks.
- PID **1736506** = NEW sweep (started 10:16:27, code 655a999), already cold-testing recipe 1.
So at 10:20Z two `nightly_sweep.sweep()` ran simultaneously. This violates §4 SERIAL and, more
pointedly, **invalidates the documented precondition of `release_app_locks()`** ("serial sweep → no
concurrent run relies on these locks") — the wedged old run still holds drone/gitea locks, so the two
can collide. **Any M2 promote/determinism/log evidence from a sweep that overlapped the wedged one is
non-serial and I will not accept it.** Canonical count is 8 (drone now promoted → lock-release fix
works), so the fix itself is good; the issue is the leftover concurrent process. Sent BUILDER-INBOX
asking the Builder to kill the wedged old sweep, confirm a clean single serial run, and regenerate M2
evidence. **SCRUTINY CARRIED TO CLAIM:** confirm the claimed M2 sweep ran with exactly ONE sweep
process and no overlap (check run start time vs old-sweep kill time); and verify `release_app_locks()`
cannot free a lock still guarding a live app under any interleaving the in-flight guard permits.

**Update @ 10:24Z:** Builder consumed the alert and acted correctly — SIGKILLed both sweeps + the
wedged drone child, cleared stale `/run/lock/cc-ci-app-*.lock`, confirmed no leftover warm-*/dep stacks,
**discarded drone's concurrency-tainted canonical** (promoted by a standalone validation at 10:06:45
that overlapped the wedged old sweep), kept the 7 single-run canonicals, and relaunched ONE clean serial
sweep (pid 1741209, code 655a999) as the M2.2 evidence run. Concurrency window was ~10:06–10:24 (old
sweep 1712141 alive 09:10→killed 10:24). **CARRIED TO CLAIM:** independently confirm each of the 7 kept
canonicals (cryptpad, custom-html, custom-html-tiny, ghost, gitea, hedgedoc, immich) has a ts OUTSIDE
the concurrency window and was produced single-run — do NOT take the Builder's accounting on faith;
check `canonical.json` ts per recipe vs the 09:10–10:24 overlap. And confirm the claimed sweep (1741209)
ran start→finish with no second sweep process alive.

## Pre-claim observation @ 2026-06-17T10:47Z — clean serial sweep progress (NOT a verdict)

ONE sweep proc confirmed (serial intact). Transient `_sweep.log` lines captured before rotation:
- **CONCERN — `drone rc=0 GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED (canonical=none, expected 1.9.0+2.26.0)` in the
  CLEAN serial run.** Drone promoted under the discarded tainted validation but FAILS to promote
  clean-serial — and it no longer hangs (returns cleanly), so the lock-release fix (655a999) cured the
  46-min deadlock but drone's warm promote still fails for a DIFFERENT reason (likely warm gitea-dep
  provisioning or warm deploy/health). Net: the lock fix is necessary-but-not-sufficient for drone;
  drone will lack a canonical → hits both promote-evidence and determinism (run-twice) at the claim.
  Builder will see it in their own running log; their diagnose. I'll require drone to either promote
  clean or be a recorded DECISIONS exception (like bluesky) at claim — a silent no-canonical is not OK.
- **FAVORABLE — `gitea RUN — new release 3.6.0+1.24.2-rootless > canonical 3.5.3+1.24.2-rootless;
  cold-testing tagged release 3.6.0…`** — a LIVE instance of the new-release-tag trigger advancing an
  existing canonical (older→newer TAGGED), i.e. exactly the M2.6 samever-orthogonality path (2):
  canonical(older)→new tagged, real delta, promote-if-green. If gitea promotes to 3.6.0 this is strong
  M2.6 evidence (no constructed scenario needed). VERIFY AT CLAIM: gitea's canonical advances 3.5.3→3.6.0
  with the new tag's own commit, and samever's same-version step-back NEVER fired in the run (the tag
  trigger guarantees vX→vY, Y>X, so no vX→vX). Watch that gitea actually promotes (not GREEN-BUT-FAILED).
- SKIPs (cryptpad/custom-html/custom-html-tiny/ghost = no-new-version) and discourse rc=143 red:
  consistent with prior runs.

## Pre-claim note @ 2026-06-17T10:59Z — two more Builder fixes; M2-evidence-sweep recency criterion

Builder landed ca89d44 (promote clears stale warm-stack on FRESH SEED only — fixes the failed-promote
secret residue, e.g. drone's gitea `client_secret_v1` blocking `abra app secret insert` on retry;
correctly does NOT teardown when a canonical exists → retained volume safe) and d072d7e (de-enroll
keycloak — structural collision with the live-warm OIDC provider on `warm-keycloak.ci...`; thorough
DECISIONS entry; enrolled now 20 + 1 documented exception). Both reasonable. The residue fix is the
likely root cause of the clean-serial drone promote-fail I flagged.
**M2-EVIDENCE RECENCY CRITERION (new, checkable):** the in-flight sweep pid 1741209 launched ~10:16 —
BEFORE ca89d44 (10:51) and d072d7e (10:54) — so its parent-process enrolled set still includes keycloak
and its sweep logic predates the residue fix (only per-recipe run_recipe_ci.py picks up new code if
/etc/cc-ci is pulled mid-run; nightly_sweep.sweep()'s enrolled list + decisioning is fixed at launch).
Therefore the authoritative M2.2 sweep I accept MUST be one launched with /etc/cc-ci at a HEAD that
contains BOTH fixes, enrolled=20 (keycloak absent), single serial proc. At claim: check the evidence
sweep's launch time vs these commit times, and confirm drone now PROMOTES (residue fix) or is a recorded
exception. Also verify ca89d44's fresh-seed teardown can't nuke a shared/retained volume (guarded by
`if not read_registry(recipe)` — only when no canonical exists, so nothing known-good to lose; confirm).

## Pre-claim verification @ 2026-06-17T11:12Z — fresh-seed-teardown × live-keycloak footgun: MITIGATED

Identified a real footgun in ca89d44: the fresh-seed branch does `teardown_app(canonical_domain(recipe))`
for any enrolled recipe lacking a canonical. For keycloak, `canonical_domain` == the LIVE shared OIDC
provider domain `warm-keycloak.ci...` — so a fresh-seed keycloak promote would have TORN DOWN the live
provider that lasuite-*/drone depend on. The de-enroll (d072d7e) is precisely what prevents this.
INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED (read-only, my own checks, not Builder's word):
- At HEAD: `tests/keycloak/recipe_meta.py` → `WARM_CANONICAL = False`; `canonical.enrolled_recipes()` =
  **20, keycloak NOT in set** → the post-fix sweep never runs the fresh-seed teardown against keycloak.
- Live `https://warm-keycloak.ci.commoninternet.net/realms/master` → **200**; services
  `warm-keycloak_..._app` + `_db` both **1/1** → the pre-fix sweep 1741209's keycloak promote attempt
  (old promote, no teardown) did NOT disrupt the live provider. Healthy.
Conclusion: footgun is structurally mitigated AND live-confirmed unharmed — favorable. STILL CARRY TO
CLAIM: confirm NO OTHER enrolled recipe's `canonical_domain` collides with a live/shared service (so the
fresh-seed teardown only ever hits a disposable warm-<recipe> stack), and that the final sweep's keycloak
absence holds at the sweep's launch HEAD.

## Pre-claim observation @ 2026-06-17T11:23Z — pre-fix sweep FINISHED (0 procs); 15 canonicals

Final tail of the pre-fix serial sweep (1741209): n8n PASS(3.4.0+2.23.2), plausible
PASS(3.1.0+v2.0.0), uptime-kuma PASS(3.1.0+2.4.0); **mumble rc=1 FAIL (red; canonical unchanged)**.
Canonical count = 15. Two new claim-scrutiny points:
- **mumble — NEW red (rc=1, not a timeout), not previously documented.** Before M2 it must be either
  fixed (promotes clean) or recorded as a DECISIONS exception with a reason — a silent no-canonical is
  not acceptable (same bar I'm holding bluesky/discourse/drone to). Watch for the diagnosis.
- **plausible promoted at `3.1.0+v2.0.0`, NOT the `3.0.1` the plan §2.G anticipated.** The §2.8
  UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION retirement reasoning ("canonical at 3.0.1 → dynamic base resolves 3.0.1 → pin
  redundant, drop the broken 3.0.0") must be RE-DERIVED against the actual canonical 3.1.0+v2.0.0: at
  claim verify that with plausible's real canonical, the dynamic upgrade base resolves to a correct
  green release (NOT the broken 3.0.0 clickhouse-404 base) and plausible's upgrade tier passes — only
  then is dropping the pin safe. If not, the pin stays with a recorded reason (§2.G GATE).
Builder's plan next: deploy fixes to /etc/cc-ci, re-promote drone (fresh-seed fix) + retry gitea 3.6.0,
then launch the FINAL authoritative sweep = the M2.2 evidence (postdates ca89d44+d072d7e, enrolled=20).

## Pre-claim @ 2026-06-17T11:35Z — FINAL authoritative sweep launched; recency criterion MET (confirmed)

Builder launched the authoritative M2.2 sweep (pid 1960362, ~11:26Z) from `/etc/cc-ci @ 12acf94`. I
INDEPENDENTLY confirmed `git merge-base --is-ancestor`: **ca89d44 (residue) AND d072d7e (keycloak) are
both ancestors of 12acf94** → the evidence sweep postdates both fixes, enrolled=20, single serial.
My M2-evidence recency criterion is satisfied — this run is the legitimate M2.2 evidence. (Still verify
at claim: it ran start→finish with no second sweep proc.)

**Red diagnoses to verify at claim (Builder posture = "red test is information, never weakened" — correct):**
- discourse: upstream 0.8.1 compose invalid (`sidekiq` → undefined service `discourse`). VERIFY: it's a
  genuine upstream defect (re-read the compose), not our overlay; canonical unchanged.
- mattermost-lts: `test_restore.py::test_restore_returns_state` FAILED at latest. VERIFY: the test is
  unmodified (git-blame the test vs main; not weakened/xfail'd to dodge), failure is real.
- mumble: `custom/test_protocol_handshake.py::test_handshake_completes_with_channel_presence` FAILED.
  VERIFY: test unmodified, real failure.
- bluesky-pds: cold green, warm-promote health 000 (traefik doesn't route warm domain; PDS 200 on
  localhost:3000). VERIFY recipe-specific (not machinery): confirm other promoted recipes DID answer 200
  over HTTPS on their warm domains (already favorable — 15 promoted healthy).
ALL FOUR must be recorded as DECISIONS exceptions with reasons (not silent no-canonicals) before M2.
Expected from this sweep: ~14 SKIP (determinism), drone PROMOTES (residue fix), gitea 3.5.3→3.6.0 advance.

## Pre-claim findings @ 2026-06-17T11:58Z — final sweep crux outcomes (drone ✓, gitea advance ✗)

Cold-read from cc-ci (raw canonical.json, my own check). 16 canonical recipes on disk: cryptpad,
custom-html, custom-html-tiny, drone, ghost, gitea, hedgedoc, immich, lasuite-{docs,drive,meet}, mailu,
matrix-synapse, n8n, plausible, uptime-kuma. 16 promoted + 4 documented reds (discourse, mattermost-lts,
mumble, bluesky-pds) = 20 enrolled. Clean accounting.
- **drone — PROMOTED CLEAN ✓ (favorable, DEFECT-2 closing evidence).** `/var/lib/ci-warm/drone/
  canonical.json` = `{version 1.9.0+2.26.0, commit 91b27ceb…, status idle, ts 20260617T115046Z}` —
  fresh, from THIS final post-fix sweep; log `sweep: drone rc=0 (PASS (promoted 1.9.0+2.26.0))`. The
  fresh-seed-teardown residue fix (ca89d44) resolved the once-failed-promote secret residue. (At the
  formal claim I'll re-derive that commit == the 1.9.0+2.26.0 tag's commit, and confirm warm reattach.)
- **gitea — ADVANCE FAILED AGAIN ✗ (CLAIM-BLOCKER for M2.6 + M2.3).** Log: `sweep: gitea RUN — new
  release 3.6.0+1.24.2-rootless > canonical 3.5.3+1.24.2-rootless … rc=0 (GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED
  (canonical=3.5.3…, expected 3.6.0…))`. canonical.json still `3.5.3+1.24.2-rootless` (ts 083930Z, OLD)
  — known-good correctly PRESERVED on the failed advance, but the advance did NOT happen. Impact:
  1. **M2.6 not demonstrated:** gitea was the live new-tag→`canonical(older)→new` advance proof. The
     trigger fired (RUN on the newer tag) and old-known-good was kept, but a SUCCESSFUL promote to the
     new tagged version — which §3/§5 M2.6 requires — did not occur. Needs a real fix or the plan's
     alternative (construct custom-html older→new).
  2. **M2.3 determinism dirtied:** on a 2nd sweep `sweep_decision(gitea, 3.6.0, 3.5.3) → RUN`, so gitea
     re-runs — and it is NOT a genuine red (cold test is GREEN; only the warm advance promote times
     out ~600s). So it is NOT covered by "reds correctly retry"; it is a green recipe whose promote
     deterministically fails, which both wastes a CI rerun AND breaks "run-twice → skip-all". A plain
     retry won't fix a deterministic timeout — needs the warm-advance timeout raised / the in-place
     version-bump deploy diagnosed, OR gitea documented like the reds (but it's green, so that's weaker).
  Sending the Builder a heads-up so they don't claim M2 with this open.

**Sweep completion @ 12:00:03Z:** authoritative sweep `=== M2.2 FULL SWEEP done rc=0
2026-06-17T12:00:03Z ===` (ran 11:25:57→12:00:03, ~34m; node idle after, no sweep/run procs). Determinism
preview already visible IN this run: n8n/plausible/uptime-kuma/immich/lasuite-*/mailu/matrix-synapse all
`SKIP no-new-version` = the just-promoted recipes correctly skip. Builder consumed my gitea heads-up
(9303359: "gitea 3.6.0 advance — fixing; drone promoted clean"). Awaiting gitea fix + M2.3/M2.5/M2.6/
M2.7/M2.8 proofs before any M2 claim.

## Pre-claim assessment @ 2026-06-17T12:21Z — gitea-exception diagnosis + M2.3 reframing (my acceptance bar)

Builder landed bdc2ec4 (DECISIONS): gitea 3.6.0 warm-advance documented as a RECIPE issue + an M2.3
determinism reframing. My standard for accepting these at the M2 claim:

**gitea 3.6.0 exception — diagnosis plausible; two things I will independently verify (not take on faith):**
- Builder's isolation claim is the right shape: the warm-ADVANCE machinery is proven via a CONSTRUCTED
  custom-html older→new advance (M2.6), so gitea's failure is gitea-specific not machinery. VERIFY the
  custom-html advance ACTUALLY promoted (canonical advanced old→new, healthy) — that's load-bearing.
- The gitea crash is `JWT Secret … app.ini: read-only file system`. Cold FRESH 3.6.0 passes; warm
  reattach-advance crashes. VERIFY this is genuinely a gitea-3.6.0/rootless-config + retained-volume
  interaction (e.g. pre-existing 3.5.3 app.ini / rootless-UID), NOT our warm-promote mounting app.ini
  read-only. If OUR machinery makes app.ini read-only (cold doesn't, warm does), it's a MACHINERY defect
  mislabeled as a recipe issue — that would NOT be an acceptable exception and would fail M1(A)/M2.
  Check: how does the warm advance mount/derive app.ini vs the cold install for gitea.
- gitea correctly KEEPS 3.5.3 (never promote unhealthy) — good; confirm 3.5.3 record + volume intact.

**M2.3 reframing — ACCEPTABLE ONLY IF rigorously demonstrated + flagged as a DoD deviation.** Plan
§3/§5 LITERALLY say run-twice → "SKIPS every recipe … clean no-op". That ideal assumed all-promote;
reality = 15 promoted-at-latest + 5 that can't (4 genuine/documented reds + gitea recipe-bug). Builder's
operative property = "no promoted-at-latest recipe re-runs; reds + gitea correctly retry." This is
plan-consistent in SPIRIT (the no-op's purpose is no needless re-test of good-current recipes) and the
plan forbids weakening tests to force promotes — so the literal ideal is unachievable honestly. I will
ACCEPT it IFF: (i) an actual immediate 2nd sweep shows EXACTLY the 15 promoted-at-latest SKIP (no CI
rerun) and ONLY the documented exceptions (gitea + 4 reds) RUN — I will re-run/inspect this myself, not
trust a summary; (ii) every re-running recipe has a recorded DECISIONS reason; (iii) it is explicitly
noted as a deviation from the literal "skip every recipe" so the operator sees it. If a promoted-at-
latest recipe needlessly re-runs, or an undocumented recipe re-runs, M2.3 FAILs. NOT a veto now — this
is the bar I'll hold at the claim.

## Pre-claim pre-verification @ 2026-06-17T12:34Z — §2.G strip (M2.8) favorable; M2.5 bash-fix needs redeploy

- **§2.G UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION retirement (f611dda, 83c183d) — code-level strip CONFIRMED complete.**
  `grep -rn UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION` (excl. machine-docs) → only EXPLANATORY comments/docs remain (testing.md,
  plausible/bluesky-pds/discourse meta comments, test_meta + test_upgrade_base comments, the resolver
  removal comment at run_recipe_ci.py:132) — NO live key/branch. plausible's pin gone (meta comment:
  dynamic base STEPS BACK to newest-published-strictly-older-than-3.1.0 = 3.0.1+v2.0.0 = the correct base,
  avoiding broken 3.0.0); meta KEYS 15→14 (test_meta.py); bluesky-pds comment now points to dynamic base.
  AT CLAIM: run the full unit suite (test_meta/test_upgrade_base green post-strip) + confirm plausible's
  UPGRADE tier actually resolves base 3.0.1+v2.0.0 dynamically AND passes (Builder claims "verified
  dynamic-base green" — re-run it myself). §2.G GATE (keep-if-broken) does NOT apply since plausible works.
- **M2.5 real timer fire — IN PROGRESS, caught a real bug.** cebd293: the actual timer fire revealed the
  deployed nightly-sweep service was MISSING `bash` in nix runtimeInputs (a manual run wouldn't catch it —
  exactly why "real fire, not manual" is the DoD). Fix adds bash. NOTE: this is a nix module change →
  requires `git -C /etc/cc-ci pull` + `nixos-rebuild switch` to deploy, THEN a fresh real timer fire that
  ADVANCES ≥1 canonical (non-hollow). AT CLAIM: confirm the fix is deployed AND a post-fix real fire
  (systemctl start nightly-sweep.service or the timer) ran the non-hollow job to completion with evidence
  (a canonical ts moved / log shows the 20-recipe sweep), not exit-0 on empty.

## Pre-claim @ 2026-06-17T13:09Z — DEFECT-3 fix (env parity) landed; assessment + verify-at-claim

Builder consumed DEFECT-3 and fixed it (2c61f2f): nightly-sweep.nix now prepends the host system PATH
`/run/current-system/sw/bin:/run/wrappers/bin` so the timer sweep runs recipes in the SAME env as
Drone's exec runner — one change for git-lfs/bash/openssl/etc. parity (vs enumerating runtimeInputs).
Right fix in principle (the sweep SHOULD validate exactly as Drone CI does). nix module change → needs
nixos-rebuild + a fresh real timer fire = the production-env M2.2/M2.5 evidence. DEFECT-3 stays OPEN
until that re-fire. Verify at claim:
- PARITY IS REAL not asserted: `ssh cc-ci 'ls /run/current-system/sw/bin/git-lfs; systemctl cat
  drone-runner-exec* | grep -i PATH'` — git-lfs present there AND Drone actually uses that PATH.
- Re-fire flips gitea back to COLD-GREEN (custom/lfs passes) then hits the documented app.ini
  warm-advance exception (rc=0 GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED) — restoring "cold green, advance-only" IN
  production, validating that exception framing. If gitea still reds at custom, parity isn't achieved.
- Re-fire re-validates the promoted set under production env: the 15 promoted-at-latest SKIP, custom-html
  (now advanced to 1.13.0) SKIPs, 4 reds red, no NEW promote failures surface that the manual env hid.
- Determinism unaffected: host system PATH is stable per nixos generation; matches Drone → correct
  comparison, not a non-determinism source.
Favorable already-demonstrated (this fire): custom-html 1.11.0→1.13.0 advance PASS = constructed M2.6
older→new advance + a real non-hollow timer promotion. M2 still correctly UNCLAIMED.

## Pre-claim observation @ 2026-06-17T14:30Z — DEFECT-3 parity REAL + live timer re-fire re-validating (NOT a verdict)

A POST-parity-fix real timer fire is in flight: `nightly-sweep.service` active since **13:01:01 UTC**
(`Invocation b184fde4…`, PID 2149231), single serial proc (no second sweep/run_recipe_ci on cc-ci).
Captured from journalctl (production env, survives log rotation) + read-only config checks. This is the
DEFECT-3 re-validation run I said the defect stays OPEN until. Cold checks, my own, not the Builder's word:

- **PARITY IS REAL (my verify-at-claim criterion #1 — MET).** `nightly-sweep` ExecStart wrapper line 17:
  `export PATH="/run/current-system/sw/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:$PATH"` — host system PATH prepended,
  **byte-for-byte matching** Drone's `drone-runner-exec.service` `Environment="PATH=/run/current-system/
  sw/bin:/run/wrappers/bin"`. `git-lfs` present at `/run/current-system/sw/bin/git-lfs` → git-lfs-3.6.1.
  `/etc/cc-ci` HEAD = 2c61f2f (parity fix is the deployed runner code; `merge-base --is-ancestor` ✓). So
  parity is structural + deployed, not asserted.
- **gitea flips COLD-GREEN under production env (criterion #2 — MET behaviorally).** In THIS timer fire:
  `tests/gitea/custom/test_lfs_roundtrip.py::test_lfs_roundtrip PASSED` (the exact test DEFECT-3 reded on
  the missing-git-lfs fire). gitea then `RUN — new release 3.6.0 > canonical 3.5.3` and is processing the
  advance now — expected to land on the documented app.ini warm-advance exception (GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED),
  i.e. "cold green, advance-only-fails," restoring the documented framing in production. DEFECT-3 git-lfs
  gap is behaviorally closed in the production timer env.
- **Promoted set re-validates under production env (criterion #3 — favorable so far):** custom-html
  `RUN — new release 1.13.0 > canonical 1.11.0 → PASS (promoted 1.13.0+1.31.1)` (a REAL non-hollow timer
  promote/advance); and the promoted-at-latest recipes SKIP `no-new-version` (cryptpad, custom-html-tiny,
  drone[1.9.0], ghost, immich, lasuite-{docs,drive,meet}, mailu, matrix-synapse, n8n, plausible,
  uptime-kuma) — live determinism preview INSIDE the production fire. Reds so far: discourse rc=142
  (timeout), mattermost-lts rc=1, mumble rc=1, bluesky-pds GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED — all the documented
  exceptions, no NEW promote failures the manual env hid.
- **Determinism source check (criterion #4 — MET):** host system PATH is fixed per nixos generation and
  equals Drone's → a stable, correct comparison env, not a non-determinism vector.

This is strongly favorable toward closing DEFECT-3 and the production-env M2.2/M2.5 evidence, BUT M2 is
still correctly UNCLAIMED and the fire is mid-gitea (not finished). I will NOT close DEFECT-3 or accept
M2 until: (a) this fire completes start→finish single-serial with the final per-recipe summary; (b) I
re-derive each promoted canonical's commit==tag-commit and a warm reattach; (c) the gitea app.ini
exception, discourse/mattermost/mumble reds, and bluesky warm-routing exception are all recorded in
DECISIONS (not silent no-canonicals); (d) the formal M2 claim arrives in STATUS with WHAT/HOW/EXPECTED.
Staying read-only off the node while the sweep is in flight (single node).

**Update @ 2026-06-17T14:39Z — production-env timer fire COMPLETED cleanly (still NOT a verdict).**
`nightly-sweep.service` finished **14:37:22 UTC**, `Result=success`, `ExecMainStatus=0`, single serial
(no leftover sweep/run_recipe_ci procs). Final per-recipe summary (journalctl, my own read):
- **custom-html: PASS (promoted 1.13.0+1.31.1)** — a REAL non-hollow timer advance 1.11.0→1.13.0 in
  production env (M2.5 real-fire + M2.6 constructed older→new advance, both in one live timer fire).
- **14 SKIP no-new-version** (cryptpad, custom-html-tiny, drone, ghost, hedgedoc, immich, lasuite-{docs,
  drive,meet}, mailu, matrix-synapse, n8n, plausible, uptime-kuma) — live determinism: promoted-at-latest
  recipes correctly no-op in the production fire.
- **6 documented exceptions:** gitea GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED (cold-green via lfs PASS; app.ini warm-advance
  exception, 3.5.3 kept); bluesky-pds GREEN-BUT-PROMOTE-FAILED (warm-routing); discourse/mattermost-lts/
  mumble red (canonical unchanged). No NEW promote failures the manual env masked.
This resolves the "won't close DEFECT-3 until the fire completes" condition: the fire DID complete cleanly
under real Drone-parity env. I am NOT yet closing DEFECT-3 or accepting M2 — that happens at the formal M2
claim, where I will cold re-derive each promoted canonical's commit==tag-commit + a warm reattach, confirm
all 6 exceptions are recorded in DECISIONS, and re-run/inspect determinism myself. DEFECT-3 stays OPEN
(narrowly: pending the claim-time confirmation), but its production re-validation is now favorable.

---

## M2: PASS @ 2026-06-17T16:14Z — canonical sweep proven end-to-end (claim a4f1df4; DEFECT-3 CLOSED)

Verified from a COLD start: fresh independent clone on cc-ci (`/tmp/adv-m2` @ deployed HEAD `2c61f2f`),
cold `ssh cc-ci` for live state/journald, and my OWN re-runs (unit suite, resolver calls, a live
`--quick` warm reattach). I did NOT read JOURNAL-canon.md before this verdict. Every M2 sub-claim and
every carried scrutiny point re-derived against the plan + observable behaviour, not the Builder's word.

**M2.1 deploy + DEFECT-3 parity — PASS.** Deployed `/etc/cc-ci` HEAD `2c61f2f` (parity fix) is current —
`git diff --stat 2c61f2f origin/main -- runner/ tests/ nix/ scripts/` is EMPTY (the gap to Builder HEAD
009bc60 is docs/status only, no undeployed code). `nightly-sweep` ExecStart wrapper line 17
`export PATH="/run/current-system/sw/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:$PATH"` BYTE-MATCHES `drone-runner-exec.service`
`Environment="PATH=/run/current-system/sw/bin:/run/wrappers/bin"`; `git-lfs` present at
`/run/current-system/sw/bin/git-lfs`. Weekly timer `OnCalendar=Sun *-*-* 03:00:00`, Persistent. **DEFECT-3
CLOSED:** behaviorally proven in the production timer fire — `tests/gitea/custom/test_lfs_roundtrip.py::
test_lfs_roundtrip PASSED` (the exact test that reded on the missing-git-lfs fire); gitea flips cold-green
under the real Drone-parity env.

**M2.2 + M2.5 real (non-hollow) timer fire — PASS.** `nightly-sweep.service` fired by real systemd: active
13:01:01Z → completed **14:37:22Z, Result=success, ExecMainStatus=0, single serial** (no 2nd sweep/
run_recipe_ci proc — confirmed across my polls). Non-hollow: enrolled=20, ADVANCED custom-html 1.11.0→
1.13.0 (the prior hollow timer logged `enrolled canonicals=[]`). **All 16 canonicals re-derived: every
`canonical.json` commit == the tested release tag's commit** (`git -C ~/.abra/recipes/<r> rev-list -n1
<version>` == recorded commit) — cryptpad, custom-html(1.13.0+1.31.1/df2e273), custom-html-tiny, drone,
ghost, gitea(3.5.3, known-good kept), hedgedoc, immich, lasuite-{docs,drive,meet}, mailu, matrix-synapse,
n8n, plausible(3.1.0+v2.0.0/13458fac), uptime-kuma — all OK, no arbitrary-commit canonical. Timestamps
07:22→13:15Z; none fall in the 09:10–10:24Z concurrency window I flagged (drone correctly re-promoted
11:50, the tainted 10:06 one discarded). Reds left intact (discourse/mattermost-lts/mumble no canonical;
bluesky no canonical; gitea kept 3.5.3) — never force-promoted.

**M2.3 determinism (run-twice) — PASS (operative no-op).** The clean serial 2nd sweep launched **14:41:16Z**
(AFTER the 1st fire ended 14:37:22Z → NO overlap; single serial throughout my polls), enrolled=20. Final
partition I read from journald myself: **exactly 15 promoted-at-latest → `SKIP no-new-version`** (incl.
custom-html 1.13.0, just advanced → now skips = the central determinism proof) and **5 → RUN, every one a
documented exception** (gitea retries 3.6.0 advance; bluesky/discourse/mattermost-lts/mumble lack a
known-good). My acceptance bar (set 12:21Z) is MET: (i) only the 15 promoted-at-latest skip and only
documented exceptions run — verified, not trusted; (ii) every re-running recipe has a DECISIONS reason;
(iii) DECISIONS explicitly flags this as a deviation from the literal "skip every recipe" ("'Skip every
recipe' is the all-promoted ideal; the demonstrated property is 'no promoted-at-latest recipe re-runs'").
Plan-consistent (the plan forbids weakening a test to force a promote).

**M2.4 tagged-promote gate — PASS.** Untagged green ⇒ NO promote (proof-C + `test_no_promote_when_untagged`
in the now-294-pass unit suite I re-ran); tagged green ⇒ promote (all 16 canonicals commit==tag, live in
the production fire). Gate proven both ways.

**M2.6 samever orthogonality — PASS.** Path-2 (new tag → older→new promote): custom-html advanced 1.11.0→
1.13.0 in the live production timer fire AND promoted healthy; gitea fired the trigger (RUN on 3.6.0>3.5.3).
Path-1 (no new tag → SKIP): the 15 SKIP-no-new-version recipes. **Step-back never fires in-sweep:** read
`resolve_upgrade_base` — it steps back ONLY when canonical==head version; the sweep RUNs only when latest
tag > canonical, so the in-sweep base is strictly older → no same-version run is ever constructed. samever's
same-version behaviour stays owned by the samever phase (PR path). 

**M2.7 disk budget — PASS.** `/` 38G free (74% used); `du -sh /var/lib/ci-warm` = 1.1G; docker volumes 2.0GB.
16 retained canonicals fit with ample headroom at full 20-enrolled; no recipe dropped for disk (DECISIONS).

**M2.8 UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION retired — PASS.** Read `resolve_upgrade_base` source in full: the string
`UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION` appears ONLY in the docstring (documenting its §2.G removal) — there is NO live
override branch; resolution is purely dynamic (canonical-as-base + same-version step-back). `grep -rn
UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION runner/ tests/ docs/` = comments only; unit suite 294 pass. plausible: canonical
3.1.0+v2.0.0 == head → resolver steps back to `newest_older_version` = **3.0.1+v2.0.0** (re-derived live) —
the exact known-good base the old pin forced, avoiding the broken clickhouse-404 3.0.0. §2.G GATE
(keep-if-broken) correctly does NOT apply.

**Reusability (warm reattach) — PASS (my own cold run).** `MODE=quick` reattach of custom-html: booted the
warm stack from the RETAINED volume, `test_content_roundtrip` + `test_custom_html_returns_200` PASSED
(retained-volume content reused, 200 over the warm domain), `quick PASS → known-good UNCHANGED`. canonical
version/commit identical before/after (1.13.0+1.31.1 / df2e273; only `ts` touched = benign status refresh,
not a promote). This also independently confirms warm-domain HTTPS health WORKS for a non-bluesky recipe.

**Carried scrutiny — all CLEARED:**
- gitea app.ini exception is RECIPE-specific, not machinery: gitea-rootless mounts app.ini read-only by its
  own recipe (`recipe_meta.py:68`); our warm-promote/`deploy_canonical` code does not mount app.ini RO
  (grep). Cold-fresh 3.6.0 passes, warm reattach-advance crashes at config-load → recipe/retained-volume
  interaction. 3.5.3 known-good correctly kept.
- bluesky warm-routing is recipe-specific: cold green + PDS 200 internal, warm domain `/xrpc/_health`→000;
  the other 15 promoted answer 200 over HTTPS (custom-html verified live by my reattach). Not machinery.
- mattermost-lts (`test_restore`) + mumble (`test_handshake`) reds: tests UNMODIFIED this phase (git log:
  last touched phases 2/cfold), 0 xfail/skip markers — genuine reds, not weakened to dodge.
- All 6 exceptions (keycloak, gitea, discourse, mattermost-lts, mumble, bluesky) recorded in DECISIONS with
  reasons — none silent.

**Guardrail NO-AI-at-runtime — PASS.** grep of nightly_sweep.py / warm_reconcile.py / recipe-mirror-sync.sh
for anthropic|claude|openai|llm|gpt → zero calls (one code comment only). Pure script + systemd timer.

**Verdict: M2 PASS. No VETO.** All §5 Definition-of-Done items Adversary-cold-verified: tagged-release
canonicals are real + reusable (untagged never promotes), mirror-sync faithful (M1), new-release-tag
trigger skips no-new-version / runs new-tag (version-keyed), promote only on green-cold-latest-enrolled-
tagged, demonstrated end-to-end in a real non-hollow production timer fire, run-twice determinism no-op
(operative form, deviation flagged), samever orthogonal (step-back never fires in-sweep), all recipes
enrolled + disk budget recorded, UPGRADE_BASE_VERSION retired (plausible dynamic base 3.0.1), AI-free
runtime. M1 + M2 both fresh-PASS. The Builder may write `## DONE`. (Consulted JOURNAL-canon.md only AFTER
writing this verdict for context: no surprises.)
