SESSION START DRIFT VERIFICATION, 29 July 2026, recovery session. Run BEFORE any change. HEAD f3e4334, 397 commits, working tree CLEAN, no stash. 1. FROZEN SCORING ENGINE ANCHOR ASSERTED TO EXIST FIRST, per the lesson recorded when this check failed open: 9e77f65 exists: yes engine diff against 9e77f65, path internal/modules/matching/engine: 1476 lines THIS IS NOT ZERO AND THE DOCUMENTED CHECK IS THEREFORE WRONG. See finding D8. MEASURED AGAINST THE OTHER CANDIDATE ANCHORS: 9e77f65 2026-06-24 1476 lines the ORIGINAL project baseline 864a999 2026-07-09 0 lines the last commit that legitimately touched the engine e74fd2e 2026-07-27 0 lines phase0 item0, the first commit of this build THE FREEZE ITSELF HOLDS. The engine has not changed since 9 July 2026, which is eighteen days before this build began on 27 July. Acceptance 23 is satisfied in SUBSTANCE. What is broken is the INSTRUMENT, not the artifact it guards. POSITIVE CONTROL, a diff that does exist: auth/service.go 344 lines against 9e77f65. 2. NO PYTHON .py tracked: 0 .py on disk: 0 POSITIVE CONTROL: one planted, detector saw 1, removed, back to 0. 3. NO DASHES IN AUTHORED PROSE, em and en counted as OCCURRENCES not lines BUILD_STATE.md 0/0, ARCHITECTURE.txt 0/0, EXTERNAL_MONITOR_TODO.md 0/0, STORAGE_RELOCATION_PROPOSAL.md 0/0, CREDENTIAL_CONSUMERS.md 0/0, BUILD_CONTINUATION_PROTOCOL.md 0/0, DIRECTIVE_AMENDMENT_6.md 0/0, evidence/phase2/GATE_E.md 0/0 STACK_DECISIONS.md carries 77 em and 1 en, and the three prior drift runs listed this file as zero, which was imprecise. MEASURED RATHER THAN ASSUMED: all 77 were already present at the build start commit e74fd2e, and the lines this build ADDED to that file contain ZERO em dashes. The rule holds for authored output. The prior claim of all zero was wrong about the file and right about the build. POSITIVE CONTROL: a planted em dash was counted as 1, then removed. 4. SECRET SWEEP working tree: CLEAN history, 397 commits: CLEAN POSITIVE CONTROL: planted credential DETECTED by name, password assignment. 5. THE MERGE GATE make build-test-gates: PASS verify-backdoor PASS, no X-Org-ID header resolver in the release build verify-fips PASS, FIPS stamp present 6. UNIT SUITE 53 packages ok, 0 FAIL. 7. PRODUCTION public site 200 over HTTPS, external leg. build routes DARK, unauthenticated, external: approve 404, scope 404, tracked 405. Bubbles node healthz 200. megamind-agi node healthz 200. staging healthz 200. AUTHENTICATED LEG NOT RUN, and this is stated rather than skipped quietly. The method of record provisions a dedicated probe account in production and retires it afterwards, which is a production write and is outside the scope approved for this session. It needs either a credential or an approval. Recorded as a gap. 8. SCHEMA AND BINARIES, queried per database, never summarized 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 Bubbles binary 8f24414531e80a9a megamind-agi binary 8f24414531e80a9a identical, so failover cannot serve two answers Staging is THREE AHEAD at v83 by design: 0081, 0082, 0083 are staging only pending the approved production deploy. 9. SOLICITATION PACKAGES, re verified on the remote side after the restart /home/user/missionmatch/inbox on megamind-agi pkgA_eos_fieldcraft 9 files, pkgB_elevator_pm 7 files, 16 total. ZERO partial files, ZERO zero byte files, so nothing needed deleting. All 16 verify against their SHA256SUMS, and all 16 match the values in the standing order EXACTLY, compared mechanically by diff of sorted lists rather than by eye. Zero re uploads, zero 404s. 10. TWO NEW FINDINGS, both RED, both recorded before any fix D7 the D5 rotation left two consumers stale and production has no tenant backup. D8 the frozen engine drift check is anchored to the wrong commit. Detail for both is in BUILD_STATE. VERDICT: THE BUILD ARTIFACTS ARE CLEAN AND THE FREEZE HOLDS. Two instruments are not trustworthy as documented, and one production job has been failing silently for a day. No drift in anything the build produces. Recorded before any change.