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+# 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.
+
+---
+
+## 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).