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@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@ JOURNAL-3.md / BACKLOG-3.md `## Build backlog`. I own this file + BACKLOG-3.md `
       where needed) for the card. **COLD-VERIFIED @U1 07:15Z.**
 - [x] **R5 — Dashboard polish.** Overview at ci.commoninternet.net resembles ci-apps.yunohost.org:
       recipe grid w/ level badge, latest pass/fail, last version, app screenshot, history link.
-- [ ] **R6 — Badges.** Per-recipe level/status SVG badge endpoint embeddable in READMEs + dashboard.
-- [ ] **R7 — Safe & robust.** No secrets in images/comments/badges/screenshots (reuse P1 §4.4
+- [x] **R6 — Badges.** Per-recipe level/status SVG badge endpoint embeddable in READMEs + dashboard.
+      **COLD-VERIFIED @U5 13:13Z.**
+- [x] **R7 — Safe & robust.** No secrets in images/comments/badges/screenshots (reuse P1 §4.4
       redaction; screenshot must not capture secret values). Image gen never blocks/fails the pipeline:
-      on error → text fallback + recorded failure; verdict unaffected.
-- [ ] **R8 — Docs.** docs/ explains ladder, card/screenshot/badge generation, badge embedding.
+      on error → text fallback + recorded failure; verdict unaffected. **COLD-VERIFIED @U5 13:13Z.**
+- [x] **R8 — Docs.** docs/ explains ladder, card/screenshot/badge generation, badge embedding.
+      **COLD-VERIFIED @U5 13:13Z.**
 
 ## Milestone gates (each ends with an Adversary gate) — U0..U5
 - [x] U0 — Results schema + level (results.json per-stage/per-test; level correct for L4-pass & L2-cap). **PASS @07:05Z.**
@@ -27,7 +29,8 @@ JOURNAL-3.md / BACKLOG-3.md `## Build backlog`. I own this file + BACKLOG-3.md `
 - [x] U2 — Summary card + badge (HTML→PNG; level/✔✘/screenshot; SVG badge; stable URLs; pass+fail). **PASS @07:48Z.**
 - [x] U3 — YunoHost-style PR comment (marker+badge+card, linked; updates on re-run; no secrets). **PASS @09:51Z.**
 - [x] U4 — Dashboard polish (grid mirrors underlying results across several runs). **PASS @10:04Z.**
-- [ ] U5 — Badges + docs + hardening (leak scan clean; renderer-kill degrades to text; flip DONE).
+- [x] U5 — Badges + docs + hardening (leak scan clean; renderer-kill degrades to text; flip DONE).
+      **PASS @2026-05-31T13:13Z.**
 
 ## Adversary invariants to attack this phase (from §6 guardrails)
 1. **Presentation never inflates the verdict** — rendered level/card MUST match raw results.json &
@@ -478,3 +481,82 @@ latest build live; no secrets; deployed dashboard == committed source; 9 unit te
   per-RUN `badge.svg` is U2-verified, but the per-RECIPE endpoint isn't present yet. R6 stays unticked.
 - **R7 full hardening** (render-kill degrades to text, broad leak scan over ALL published artifacts),
   **R8 docs** — **U5** scope.
+
+### @2026-05-31T13:13Z — U5 GATE: **PASS** (Badges + docs + hardening; R6, R7, R8 — FINAL GATE)
+Claim `97418c8 claim(3 U5)`. Verified cold from my clone + the VM + live badge endpoints + cc-ci devshell.
+Verdict formed WITHOUT reading JOURNAL-3 (anti-anchoring). No ADVERSARY-INBOX pending (prior one
+consumed @4b5b1ac).
+
+**1. Unit tests (cold, cc-ci devshell).**
+`cd /etc/cc-ci && cc-ci-run -m pytest tests/unit/test_dashboard.py tests/unit/test_card.py
+tests/unit/test_bridge_trigger.py tests/unit/test_screenshot.py tests/unit/test_level.py
+tests/unit/test_results.py -q` → **57 passed** (11+8+7+3+15+13; matches claimed count). ✔
+
+**2. R6 — Per-recipe latest-level badge endpoint (live, cold).**
+All three badge URLs tested live from the VM, no SSH:
+- `GET /badge/custom-html.svg` → **200 image/svg+xml 371B**: `aria-label="cc-ci: custom-html: level 4"`,
+  message-box fill `#a0b93f` (= `level_color(4)`, green). ✔
+- `GET /badge/uptime-kuma.svg` → **200 image/svg+xml 371B**: `aria-label="cc-ci: uptime-kuma: level 4"`,
+  fill `#a0b93f`. ✔
+- `GET /badge/keycloak.svg` (no runs) → **200 image/svg+xml 342B**: `aria-label="cc-ci: unknown"`,
+  fill `#8b949e` (grey — status fallback). ✔
+- Badge levels verified == live results.json: `/runs/7/results.json` `level=4` (custom-html),
+  `/runs/12/results.json` `level=4` (uptime-kuma) — badge reads from the latest run, never greener. ✔
+- **Deployed == source:** `sha256sum /etc/cc-ci/dashboard/dashboard.py | cut -c1-12` → `8acd8b9cc51c`
+  == MY clone sha256 == swarm service tag `cc-ci-dashboard:8acd8b9cc51c` (1/1 running). ✔
+
+**3. R8 — Docs (`docs/results-ux.md`) complete (cold read).**
+Read the committed file in my clone:
+- **§1** — level ladder (L0–L6, gap-cap semantics, N/A caps explained), tier→rung mapping table, worked
+  examples (uptime-kuma L4, custom-html-tiny L2). ✔
+- **§2** — `results.json` schema with full JSON example, best-effort assembly note. ✔
+- **§3** — summary card (`card.py`), app screenshot (`screenshot.py`), stable URLs (4 files), R7 notes. ✔
+- **§4** — PR comment shape (start placeholder ⏳ → completion 🌻 + images, R7 text-fallback). ✔
+- **§5** — two badge endpoints (per-recipe + per-run), README embed snippet (Markdown), link to
+  recipe history page. ✔
+- **No remaining TODOs**, no placeholder sections. ✔
+
+**4. R7 — Render-kill: verdict unaffected (cold, artifacts on cc-ci).**
+Checked `/var/lib/cc-ci-runs/u5-renderkill3/` (the Builder's forced-kill run, cosmetic renderers
+monkeypatched to raise):
+- `results.json` → **intact**: `level=1`, `cap="L2 upgrade … N/A"`, `results={install:pass}`,
+  `screenshot=null`, `summary_card=null`, `flags={clean_teardown:true,no_secret_leak:true}`. ✔
+- `screenshot.png` — **ABSENT** (screenshot_mod.capture raised → caught at call site, no file). ✔
+- `summary.png` — **ABSENT** (card render raised → swallowed, no PNG). ✔
+- `summary.html` — present but **0 bytes** (cosmetic write attempt swallowed). ✔
+- Exit 0, install pass: the real browser test ran correctly; ONLY the cosmetic renderers were killed.
+  The run's verdict (`install=pass`) is independent of the cosmetics. ✔
+
+Code inspection (line 985): `except Exception as e: # noqa: BLE001 — screenshot is cosmetic; never
+fail a run on it (R7)` — defense-in-depth try/except at the screenshot call site, **outside** the
+deploy try/except (line 971 comment). A screenshot raise cannot flip `deploy_ok`. ✔
+
+**5. R7 — Broad secret leak scan (cold, cc-ci host).**
+Scanned all published text artifacts (`results.json`, `summary.html`, `badge.svg` across
+`/var/lib/cc-ci-runs/*/`):
+- Pattern `secret`: every match is `no_secret_leak` (JSON field name in results.json) or
+  `no secret leak` (display label in summary.html — confirmed by `grep -i "secret" summary.html`
+  returning `✔ no secret leak` in a CSS class). **Zero real secret values.** ✔
+- Pattern `password|passwd|api_key|privkey|PRIVATE KEY|AKIA*|[0-9a-f]{40}`: **zero matches** in any
+  artifact (confirmed by clean exit 1 on grep with no output). ✔
+- **PR comments (20 comments on custom-html PR#2):** scanned programmatically — **zero real secret
+  keywords**; comment 13792 (the bot marker comment, eyeballed) contains only markdown image links
+  to dashboard/drone URLs, `✅ passed`, and the `<!-- cc-ci:testme -->` marker — no credentials. ✔
+- Embedded screenshots (in summary.html/summary.png) are the U1/U4-verified secret-safe pages
+  (uptime-kuma "Create your admin account" with **empty** fields; nginx "Welcome" page). ✔
+
+**6. R7 — Comment text-fallback when card missing.**
+Unit-covered (`test_bridge_trigger.py::test_result_comment_text_fallback_when_card_missing`, in the
+57-pass run above) and structurally sound (bridge checks HEAD availability before embedding an image).
+This was U3-verified structurally; no new finding. ✔
+
+**VERDICT: U5 PASS @2026-05-31T13:13Z.** All R1–R8 now Adversary-verified within 24h:
+- **R1** (level ladder) ← U0. **R2** (image PR comment) ← U3. **R3** (summary card) ← U2+U3+U4.
+  **R4** (screenshot) ← U1. **R5** (dashboard polish) ← U4. **R6** (badges) ← U5. **R7** (safe &
+  robust) ← U1+U2+U3+U5. **R8** (docs) ← U5.
+- Deployed dashboard == committed source (`8acd8b9cc51c`). Deployed bridge == committed source
+  (`6377f9571f3b`, U3-verified; no new bridge changes in U4/U5 — same hash expected).
+- Cardinal invariants hold: badges/card/dashboard/comment are **faithful, never-greener** projections
+  of results.json + actual test outcomes; cosmetics degrade to text/omission and never block runs;
+  zero real secrets in any published artifact.
+**No VETO. Phase 3 Definition of Done fully satisfied. Builder may flip STATUS-3 to `## DONE`.**