Session-close sweep: three stale surfaces the audit itself created, plus transcript-only facts ...

Operator direction before the bookend: "complete a session sweep for anything
missed that should be committed that would be lost on session end". Precedent:
queued-findings-20260726.txt and -20260727.txt. Capture:
docs/audit/queued-findings-20260727-stage5-audit.txt.

THE SWEEP FOUND THREE STALE SURFACES THIS AUDIT ITSELF CREATED, which is the
exact defect class it was convened to find:

1. docs/audit/stage5-readiness-20260727.md -- the "read this first" artifact --
   still carried THIRTEEN NEEDS-RULING markers after every one of R1-R15 had been
   ruled or withdrawn. At that moment it was the single most misleading surface in
   the repo. Fixed with a supersession banner that names the three authorities in
   order and states what in the document is STILL true and worth reading: the
   ordered precondition sequence, the evidence column, the what-breaks column. The
   row-level markers were deliberately NOT rewritten -- they are the record of what
   was owed at the time, and rewriting them would destroy that record.

2. queued-rulings-20260727.md still opened with "Nothing here is adopted" after
   fourteen adoptions. Fixed with a STATUS block naming design-decisions.md and
   CURRENT-STATE.md as the ruling authorities rather than that file; the original
   sentence is struck through, not deleted.

3. SIX sections of that file had BLANK OPERATOR UTTERANCE lines -- R8, R9, R10,
   R12, R13, R15 -- for rulings that WERE properly recorded in design-decisions
   and CURRENT-STATE. GA-R5 was satisfied; the question sheet was not, and a
   future session reading only that file would have believed six questions were
   still open. All six filled with the exact utterance and where the ruling lives.
   R14-ORIGINAL's blank line is CORRECT and left alone -- it is superseded text
   kept for the audit trail.

TRANSCRIPT-ONLY OPERATIONAL FACTS NOW CAPTURED: the repo-lint L5 heading trap (a
heading LEADING with a D-number counts as a second definition unless the line also
contains AMENDMENT or RESOLVED -- it bit this session twice and is on no
author-facing surface); the commit-gated-on-lint discipline adopted after a red
commit was pushed, which then caught the second occurrence before it landed; the
read-only live-apex poll procedure that keeps the token in env and prints nothing;
that the office1 VMs answer from vcloud but NOT via voffice1, so "unreachable" from
the wrong host must never be recorded as "absent"; and that creds-matrix.tsv is
SPACE-aligned despite the .tsv extension, so awk -F'\t' returns zero rows and looks
like a real result.

META-FINDING RECORDED FOR THE NEXT COMMITTEE: the lenses' OBSERVATIONS were
reliable, their CONCLUSIONS repeatedly were not. Three of this audit's own premises
needed correcting by measurement -- R2a (literals already assigned under D-111), R9
(one failure mode not two, two scripts not twenty), R14 (the register already
attributed and explained the findings, and already warned against the suppression
the question contemplated) -- and R8's entire evidence base collapsed on reading
the cited bugs. A lens finding is an OBSERVATION, not a conclusion; measure before
putting it to the operator as a question.

VERIFIED DURING THE SWEEP, after an API disconnect mid-turn: nothing was lost or
corrupted. The earlier lens-5 API casualty was fully recovered -- its 18 findings
and section header are in the committed record, and all seven lenses are present.
The disconnect this turn fell cleanly between edits and a commit; the two modified
files parsed intact and lint was red only for the L10 this commit satisfies.

NOT DONE AND NOT OWED YET: the skill sweep. This session closed no STAGE, so the
stage-close fold-in and snapshot regeneration are not due. B1/C1/C2 in the capture
are the candidates when Stage 5 closes.

Revert: git revert this commit; the capture is new and the two repairs are
additive (banner, status block, filled utterance lines).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf

Stage-5 grounding audit: post-review corrections + dc1 egress MEASURED ...

Three fixes from a final review pass, one of which is a new measurement.

MEASUREMENT -- dc1 edge egress is OPEN, probed rather than assumed. Lens 5 had
correctly listed this as UNMEASURED (it rested on a record). Probed directly
from the dc1 rack with --noproxy so an apt-cacher hit could not fake it:
streams.canonical.com/juju/tools/ -> 200 (the agent stream bootstrap actually
needs), api.snapcraft.io reachable, archive.ubuntu.com -> 200, ping 1.1.1.1 0%
loss, default route via 10.12.64.1. So Phase 5.2 stays a standing caveat rather
than becoming a blocker -- but it is now measured, and the row says to re-probe
immediately before bootstrap because the measurement has a shelf life.

DELIVERABLE CORRECTIONS:
- The readiness doc said "Eleven decisions are yours", which reads as the total.
  It is 11 blocking (R1-R11) plus 4 standing (R12-R15) = 15, now stated as such,
  with the GA-R5 one-at-a-time rule restated at the point of use.
- Phase 3's intro still said the runbook fails "in at least five distinct ways"
  from before lens 5 added ten more rows. Corrected to 21 listed corrections and
  nine independent failure paths, with the rows named.
- R9 and R11 are NOT independent of R2 and were presented as if they were. Both
  now carry an explicit "ANSWER R2 FIRST" dependency, matching R8. R2 decides
  what the VIP literals ARE; R9 only asks where they live, and R11's VIPs are
  single- or dual-family depending on it. Under dual-stack, the L3-9 overlay
  collision must be solved BEFORE either authority is populated.

Also recorded for future sessions: there is no Bash(timeout *) allow rule, which
is why lens 1's `timeout 240 bash scripts/preflight.sh` was denied while the bare
command is allowed -- a failed-to-MATCH, same class as the 2026-07-26 quoted-sudo
finding, not a classifier override.

Revert: git revert this commit; all changes are to audit artifacts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf

Stage-5 grounding audit: lens 5 + the three deliverables ...

VERDICT: Stage 5 would NOT run error-free today, and would fail early. The
substrate underneath is excellent -- all three OpenTofu roots ZERO DIFF, 18
nodes Ready exact to D-121 Option C, MACs and power addresses matching
lib-hosts, D-134 statics perfect, 17 fabrics, zero orphaned interfaces, both
artifact paths serving, gauntlet ALL GREEN (81). What is not ready is the
layer between the substrate and the deploy.

LENS 5 (relaunched after an API error) returned the ordered precondition list
and the largest runbook defect found: Step 4 says "follow phase-01 verbatim",
and phase-01 ACTIVELY REFUSES dc1 -- its VIP guard greps bundle.yaml for
eleven 10.12.4.x VIPs, dc1's live in an overlay on 10.12.64/68/72, so it
takes the "ABORT: VIP guard failed" branch. After the ruled VIP extraction it
aborts for dc0 too. It also carries hardcoded VR0 system_ids, a jumphost-local
libvirt loop over disks that do not exist, and a 4-machine plan gate against a
9-machine bundle.

Three Stage-5 gate commands cannot execute at all, measured against the juju
actually installed (3.6.27): juju run used for a shell command when it is the
action runner; download-backup given a backup-id when it takes a controller
path; and the geneve gate grepping ovn-central for a config key the same
runbook says does not exist. Four of the five VERIFY-LIVE gates the record
says Stage 5 owes have NO step in the runbook -- including the keystone
policyd-override check, which is RULED.

Two convergent confirmations raise confidence in the whole set: the Ceph OSD
blocker was found independently by two lenses using different methods, and the
stale-clone blocker independently by this session and lens 5.

DELIVERABLES:
- docs/audit/stage5-readiness-20260727.md -- ordered precondition checklist,
  READ FIRST. 5 phases, each row with status/evidence/what-breaks.
- docs/audit/stage5-committee-raw-20260727.md -- all 7 lenses verbatim.
- docs/audit/queued-rulings-20260727.md -- 11 Stage-5-blocking + 4 standing
  questions, GA-R5 shape, one exchange each, blank utterance lines. NONE
  adopted; a batch answer rules NOTHING.

MECHANICAL FIX TAKEN (exactly one, deliberately): the G3 gate row read OPEN
with a standing FREEZE while its own cited evidence file records G3 CLOSED and
the freeze lifted. Left standing, that clause would have blocked the very
DOCFIX batch this audit queues. No ruling was required -- two surfaces already
declared it closed.

The 21-item DOCFIX remediation batch is LOGGED NOT EXECUTED. Nearly every
runbook fix interlocks with an unanswered ruling, so landing them now would
encode assumptions about questions the operator has not answered.

Next-free numbers unchanged (D 138 / DOCFIX 205 / BUNDLEFIX 053) -- no number
was assigned, correctly, since nothing was remediated.

Revert: git revert this commit; the deliverables are new files and the
CURRENT-STATE edits are additive plus the one G3 correction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvCyrwvYTTcDYnRErfMsNf