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@@ -4,12 +4,17 @@ SSOT: /srv/cc-ci/cc-ci-plan/plan-phase-shot-screenshots.md
 
 ## Current section
 
+Gate: M1 CLAIMED, awaiting Adversary.
 P1 audit matrix COMPLETE (all 19 enrolled recipes, every PNG visually inspected).
 P2 diagnoses COMPLETE (see BACKLOG-shot.md P2 — each with evidence).
-Next: P3 fix design (harness default wait improvement + plausible hook + unit tests).
-Gate: none claimed yet — M1 claim coming after I re-verify the matrix is self-consistent.
+Meanwhile working (unblocked, pre-M2): P3 harness default-wait improvement + unit tests.
 
-## Verification map (WHAT/HOW/EXPECTED/WHERE for the audit, ahead of the M1 claim)
+## M1 claim — verification map (WHAT/HOW/EXPECTED/WHERE)
+
+WHAT: M1 = full audit matrix (19/19 enrolled recipes, BACKLOG-shot.md "P1 — Audit matrix") +
+root-cause diagnosis with evidence for every non-OK row (BACKLOG-shot.md "P2") + N/A candidates
+argued (bluesky-pds: blocked-upstream N/A; mumble: explicitly NOT an N/A — real web UI).
+Claimed at commit 8978fa6 (matrix+diagnoses) — claim commit follows.
 
 - Enrolled set (19): `ls tests/*/recipe_meta.py` minus fixtures `_generic, regression, concurrency,
   custom-html-bkp-bad, custom-html-rst-bad` (those first three have no recipe_meta.py; the two