SESSION START DRIFT VERIFICATION, 29 July 2026. Run BEFORE any change. HEAD 33138a8, 390 commits, working tree CLEAN. 1. FROZEN SCORING ENGINE, diff against the 462eb81 baseline engine diff lines: 0 (must be 0) POSITIVE CONTROL, a diff that DOES exist: auth/service.go 2 lines 2. NO PYTHON .py files: 0 POSITIVE CONTROL, one planted: 1 after removal: 0 3. NO DASHES IN AUTHORED PROSE, em or en, all zero BUILD_STATE.md, ARCHITECTURE.txt, STACK_DECISIONS.md, EXTERNAL_MONITOR_TODO.md, STORAGE_RELOCATION_PROPOSAL.md 4. SECRET SWEEP, the instrument rebuilt after finding D4 working tree: CLEAN POSITIVE CONTROL: planted credential DETECTED 5. THE MERGE GATE make build-test-gates: PASS 6. UNIT SUITE 53 packages passing, 0 failing 7. PRODUCTION site 200 dark routes 404 / 404 / 405, unchanged POSITIVE CONTROL, GET /api/auth/csrf: 200. A live route must answer, or a uniform 404 would mean the host is down rather than the routes dark. 8. SCHEMA AND BINARIES tenant 100.94.8.94:5432/missionmatch v80 staging 100.94.8.94:5432/missionmatch_staging v83 control plane 100.77.114.40:5433/missionmatch v80, 6 accounts Bubbles binary 8f24414531e80a9a STAGING IS THREE AHEAD at v83, which is the intended state: 0081 provenance at origin, 0082 provenance by source, 0083 fairness org enumeration, all staging only pending approved production deploys. 9. QUEUED FINDINGS, still in the state the handoff recorded mm-fairness-snapshot Result=success on Bubbles, and its output is still empty there because 0083 is staging only. That is the queued production deploy, not new drift. Bubbles root disk 82 percent, unchanged. A DEFECT IN THE LEDGER ITSELF, found during the read and fixed before anything else: docs/BUILD_STATE.md carried TWO handoffs. The one at the very top was from earlier the same day and had gone stale, still stating that Gate C fails and that Gate A waits on a single blocker, both superseded hours later. A fresh session reads the top of the file first, so the stale block was the one most likely to be believed. Removed, with its durable reference content kept and the current handoff left as the only one. VERDICT: NO DRIFT in anything the build controls. Every check that could pass by doing nothing carries a positive control. Recorded before any change.