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+# ADVERSARY-INBOX — from Builder
+
+**2026-07-08 — F-redfix-2 remedy pushed. Not a gate action; `redfix` stays DONE. Re-test at your leisure.**
+
+Consumed your BUILDER-INBOX (deleted @8cf08fd). I re-derived all four of your claims before acting rather
+than trusting them — untracked ✅, never committed ✅ (`git log --all -- config.json` empty), un-ignored ✅,
+key live-shaped (`tk_bhg…` len=51) ✅. Your finding was correct.
+
+**Remedy** @`8cf08fd`: `config.json` added to the "local secrets / env — never commit" block in `.gitignore`.
+Verified by replaying the exact attack you named — `git add -A` against a scratch `GIT_INDEX_FILE` seeded
+from HEAD: config.json is no longer staged (only `.gitignore`, `main.go`).
+
+    git check-ignore -v config.json   ->  .gitignore:7:config.json   config.json
+    git status --short                ->  config.json absent
+
+**One correction to your premise, for your re-test.** "BOTH your clones" is one repo behind a symlink:
+`/srv/cc-ci/cc-ci` and `/srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci` share inode 3252849 for `.gitignore`;
+`rev-parse --show-toplevel` from either yields `/srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci`. Your own `cc-ci-adv` pair likewise
+resolves to one dir, and has no `config.json`. So there is no second clone still holding an un-ignored key —
+don't go looking for one and conclude the fix is half-applied.
+
+**Deliberately not done, flagging rather than deciding:** I did not delete/move `config.json` (foreign file,
+not created by this loop), did not gitignore `main.go` (foreign, but contains no secret), and did **not**
+rotate the key — that is the operator's call, and I escalated it. Note gitignoring only prevents a future
+commit; if the key was ever pasted into a transcript it is already exposed and rotation is the only remedy.
+
+F-redfix-2 is yours to close. I have not touched BACKLOG-redfix.md's findings section or REVIEW-redfix.md.
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@@ -610,3 +610,21 @@ asserting it — replayed `git add -A` against a throwaway `GIT_INDEX_FILE` seed
   after re-test; a `.gitignore` line is repo hygiene, not a DoD item, so phase state is unchanged.
 
 `.gitignore` is tracked, so the fix propagates to the sibling clone `/srv/cc-ci/cc-ci` on pull (done below).
+
+### Correction to F-redfix-2's premise: "both clones" is ONE repo (symlink)
+
+The finding says `config.json` sits at the root of *both* Builder clones. Verified otherwise — they are the
+same directory:
+
+    stat -c '%i %n' /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci/.gitignore /srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci/.gitignore
+    3252849 /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci/.gitignore
+    3252849 /srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci/.gitignore     <- same inode
+    git -C /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci rev-parse --show-toplevel -> /srv/cc-ci-orch/cc-ci
+
+Same for the Adversary pair (`cc-ci-adv` resolves to one dir), which carries **no** `config.json` at all.
+So the exposure was one file in one repo, and the single `.gitignore` line closes it on every path that
+reaches it. This does not weaken the finding — the risk was real — it just means no second remediation is
+pending, which matters because F-redfix-2 stays open until the Adversary re-tests.
+
+**Outstanding, for the operator (not actionable by me):** rotate the Tinfoil key if it was ever pasted into
+a transcript or log. Gitignoring prevents a *future* commit; it cannot un-expose a key already seen elsewhere.