diff --git a/nix/modules/nightly-sweep.nix b/nix/modules/nightly-sweep.nix
index c31b70a..7a91e03 100644
--- a/nix/modules/nightly-sweep.nix
+++ b/nix/modules/nightly-sweep.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
-# Phase 2w / WC6 — nightly full-cold sweep. A systemd TIMER fires nightly and runs
-# `runner/nightly_sweep.py`: roll warm/infra (keycloak+traefik) to latest health-gated (WC1.1) THEN
-# a SERIAL full-cold run across enrolled (WARM_CANONICAL) recipes on latest — each green run
-# promotes/refreshes that recipe's canonical (WC5), serving as the daily authoritative regression.
-# Serial = MAX_TESTS honored (one at a time); skips itself if a test is already in flight. Declarative
-# + reproducible (runner/ packaged in the nix store, D8-clean).
+# Phase 2w / WC6 + phase canon — WEEKLY full-cold canonical sweep. A systemd TIMER fires weekly and
+# runs `runner/nightly_sweep.py`: faithfully mirror-sync each recipe to upstream, then a SERIAL
+# full-cold run across enrolled (WARM_CANONICAL) recipes — but only for those with a NEW RELEASE TAG
+# newer than their canonical (canon §2.D), cold-testing that tagged version and promoting its
+# canonical on green (canon §2.A tagged-promote). Serial = MAX_TESTS honored (one at a time); skips
+# itself if a test is already in flight.
+#
+# canon M1.4 (hollow-sweep fix): the sweep runs FROM the deployed checkout at $CCCI_REPO=/etc/cc-ci
+# (the nixos flake source, kept current by the deploy `git pull` + nixos-rebuild), NOT from a
+# nix-store copy of runner/. The store copy carried no tests/, so enrolled_recipes() resolved
+# TESTS_DIR to a nonexistent dir → []  → the timer was a no-op ("hollow sweep"). Running from
+# /etc/cc-ci (which has runner/ AND tests/) is the same checkout run_recipe_ci already executes from,
+# and lets sweep-logic changes ship via a checkout pull without a store rebuild.
 { pkgs, ... }:
 let
-  runnerSrc = ../../runner;
   # The sweep drives run_recipe_ci.py (pytest/playwright) — needs the full harness env like cc-ci-run.
   pyEnv = pkgs.python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ pytest playwright ]);
   sweep = pkgs.writeShellApplication {
@@ -17,13 +23,16 @@ let
       export HOME=/root
       export PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=${pkgs.playwright-driver.browsers}
       export PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1
-      exec ${pyEnv}/bin/python3 ${runnerSrc}/nightly_sweep.py
+      # canon M1.4: read enrollment + run the harness from the deployed checkout (has tests/).
+      export CCCI_REPO=/etc/cc-ci
+      cd "$CCCI_REPO"
+      exec ${pyEnv}/bin/python3 "$CCCI_REPO/runner/nightly_sweep.py"
     '';
   };
 in
 {
   systemd.services.nightly-sweep = {
-    description = "Phase-2w nightly: roll warm/infra (health-gated) + full-cold sweep over canonicals";
+    description = "Weekly canonical sweep: mirror-sync + new-release-tag-gated full-cold runs that promote canonicals";
     after = [ "deploy-proxy.service" "warm-keycloak.service" "docker.service" ];
     environment.HOME = "/root";
     serviceConfig = {
@@ -35,11 +44,14 @@ in
   };
 
   systemd.timers.nightly-sweep = {
-    description = "Nightly trigger for the Phase-2w full-cold canonical sweep (WC6)";
+    description = "Weekly trigger for the full-cold canonical sweep (canon §2.F)";
     wantedBy = [ "timers.target" ];
     timerConfig = {
-      OnCalendar = "*-*-* 03:00:00";
-      Persistent = true; # catch up a missed nightly after downtime
+      # canon §2.F: WEEKLY (operator preference) — a full-cold sweep over ~21 recipes is heavy;
+      # weekly is the chosen cadence. Sunday 03:00 UTC = a low-traffic slot (exact day/time not
+      # critical). Persistent catches up a missed run after downtime.
+      OnCalendar = "Sun *-*-* 03:00:00";
+      Persistent = true;
       RandomizedDelaySec = "600";
     };
   };