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-# REVIEW — Phase 1b (review & lint pass)
+# REVIEW — Phase 1b (review & lint pass) — Adversary ledger
 
-**Adversary-owned.** Append PASS/FAIL verdicts + evidence (commands, output, timestamps) for the
-Phase-1b Definition of Done (RL1–RL4) and the cold D1–D10 re-verification (RL3). The Builder does not
-write here.
+**Phase plan (SSOT):** `/srv/cc-ci/cc-ci-plan/plan-phase1b-review-lint.md`
+**Loop state for THIS phase:** STATUS-1b / BACKLOG-1b / JOURNAL-1b (Builder) · **REVIEW-1b (Adversary, this file)** · DECISIONS.md shared.
+Phase-1 STATUS.md/BACKLOG.md/REVIEW.md and the Phase-1c `*-1c.md` files are HISTORY — not this phase's state.
 
-<!-- Append verdicts below. -->
+This phase the Adversary is **also the white-box reviewer** (§3 checklist), so this ledger holds both
+white-box review findings and the eventual cold RL3 re-verification of D1–D10.
+
+DoD I must independently confirm (RL1 lint-in-CI-green · RL2 §3 checklist run, blocking fixed · **RL3
+full cold D1–D10 re-verify — the final gate** · RL4 docs). Order per §2: tooling → review fixes → *then*
+RL3. **Cardinal rule:** never weaken a test to satisfy a lint/review nit; RL3 must confirm cleanup
+softened/skipped/regressed nothing.
+
+---
+
+## Phase-1b orientation @2026-05-27 (Adversary cold start)
+- Pulled clean; Phase 1c is signed-off DONE (commit 6d2bc3d). Phase 1b kicked off by operator (manual transition).
+- Builder has **not yet seeded** STATUS-1b/BACKLOG-1b/JOURNAL-1b and has not claimed W0. No gate pending.
+- I began the independent white-box §3 review immediately (it's my role this phase and needs no Builder gate).
+
+## White-box §3 prep pass #1 @2026-05-27 — over post-1c codebase (PRE-cleanup baseline; advisory until RL3)
+Recording the baseline state *before* any W0/W1 cleanup, so I can later confirm the cleanup regressed nothing.
+
+- **Tests are real** — PASS (provisional). Swept all 6 recipe suites (custom-html, lasuite-docs, keycloak,
+  matrix-synapse, n8n, cryptpad) × install/upgrade/backup + conftest + runner/harness. No
+  `@pytest.mark.skip/xfail/skipif`, no commented-out asserts, no tautologies. Install tests assert real
+  app content (matrix: parses `versions` JSON non-empty; keycloak: admin DOM; others: Playwright body).
+  Upgrade tests deploy v(n-1) → write marker → upgrade → assert exact marker survives. Backup tests
+  establish+verify state → backup → mutate+verify → restore → assert exact pre-mutation state (keycloak
+  deletes a realm). **Watch-item (to re-check black-box at RL3):** every upgrade test has a *conditional*
+  `pytest.skip()` when no previous published version exists (e.g. custom-html test_upgrade.py:17-18). Valid
+  by design, but if it ALWAYS skips, the upgrade stage would be silently fake — RL3 must confirm the
+  upgrade stage actually RUNS (prev version found) for ≥1 recipe, not just skips. (1c E2E exercised this.)
+- **Server state Nix-declared & idempotent** — PASS (provisional). No `.bootstrapped`/run-once sentinels in
+  modules/ or scripts/ (grep clean). Convergence/oneshot pattern per §9 to be re-read fully in pass #2.
+- **No footguns / sleep** — PASS (provisional). All `time.sleep()` in runner/harness/lifecycle.py (147,157,
+  212,238) + bridge.py (280) are **poll-loop intervals inside `while time.time() < deadline:` loops**, not
+  bare readiness waits. `wait_healthy` polls converge-then-HTTP with timeouts. Teardown (lifecycle.py:215)
+  is correctly ordered (undeploy → `docker stack rm` fallback → volumes/secrets while .env exists → drop
+  .env last), retries volume removal, and **verifies residual is empty (raises TeardownError otherwise)**.
+- **No secrets in code/committed files** — PASS (provisional). Grep for inline passwords/tokens/private-key
+  blocks across *.py/*.nix/*.sh/*.yml clean (only env/file references + generators). Full leak re-verify
+  (incl. published logs + dashboard, and generated app passwords) belongs to RL3 D6.
+
+Still owed in white-box pass #2 (after I read the rest): **harness DRY** (recipe quirks in shared harness,
+not per-recipe copy-paste), **log redaction real** (bridge/dashboard/log pipeline), **architecture matches
+plan** (layout/§3, poll-primary trigger §4.1, traefik-is-coop-cloud-recipe §4.2; drift → DECISIONS.md).
+
+## Status: IDLE — awaiting Builder to seed Phase-1b state + claim W0 (lint/format).
+No gate CLAIMED. Will verify W0 cold the moment it's claimed (watchdog ping). RL3 deferred to last, per plan order.