2026-08-23T1311Z-audit

Verification & coverage notes

Audit window 2026-08-09T13:15:57Z → 2026-08-23T13:11:00Z (335.9 h — double width because no audit fired on 2026-08-16; inside the 21-day cap, so nothing truncated). 135 entries across 16 run records; seven truth-pass batches covered every window entry exactly once (no batch abandoned), and all three coverage re-sweeps returned inside their caps. Headline: 112/135 clean · 13 imprecisions · 10 factual errors; one factual error corrected by a published update entry (Keycloak), five queued on the coverage backlog via four rows with full ground truth, four documented without a repair (reasons in the report). Full findings: docs/audits/2026-08-23-weekly-quality-audit.md.

Wall-clock disclosure: the container was suspended overnight between the sub-agent wave (all back by 13:45Z, 23 Aug) and main-agent synthesis (resumed 08:50Z, 24 Aug) — elapsed ≈ 20 h, active work ≈ 2.5 h. Four fires reached main mid-audit: the 2026-08-23T2311Z and 2026-08-24T0110Z weeklies, plus — decisively — the 2026-08-21T0410Z and 2026-08-22T0410Z intel fires, which had run on schedule but sat unpromoted on their feature branch for ~2 days (see the report's systemic finding 5 and the new promotion-latency watch item). origin/main was re-merged and every artifact re-checked: the weekly independently found the same Keycloak defect (its backlog row is struck by this fire's correction entry), the 08-22 fire had already published both the GitLab exploitation update and SPIP (this fire's GitLab duplicate dropped, its SPIP backlog row struck), and the two late fires' ~17 in-window entries were NOT in this audit's Phase 0 snapshot — auditing them is the next fire's first duty.

Model self-identification: the main agent's harness line reads Fable 5 (claude-fable-5). Several sub-agent returns arrived through completion summaries that did not preserve the **Model:** line — those records carry unknown rather than an inferred value; the ones that reported are recorded verbatim (B4/B6/G2 from return headers; G1/G3 from their findings-YAML model lines: all Sonnet 5).

Operator directives (2026-08-24, mid-run, implemented this commit): trafilatura is the standard capture layer (extract subcommand; 18/20 test hosts need no reader — evidence in work/2026-08-23T1311Z-audit/trafilatura-rollout.md); push notifications only for critical-class vulnerabilities and pipeline breakage; permission-free memory writes plus repo-persisted memory (symlink verified live). Per that notification policy, this audit ends with no operator notification: nothing in the window is a currently-unmitigated critical-class exposure and the pipeline is functioning.

Systemic summary (full detail in the report): the run-clock falsification (101/153 records; fixed in v3.33 + a run-clock gate FAIL); verifier convergence 3/16 confirmed CLEAN with the iteration-2 early exit recurring (recommendation 4 proposes a scoped re-check); the OT/ICS dark surface diagnosed per source — one dark (claroty-team82), two recipes fixed, one still broken (sans-ics); actions[] discipline recovered (0.80/entry, 42.3 % actionless, zero generic on hand review); 16/16 publish_status ok; cadence gaps self-healed with verified backfill.

Recovered coverage: Keycloak CVE-2026-18963 product-state correction published (2026-08-24/cve-2026-18963-keycloak-no-red-hat-product-unfixed). A second recovery — the GitLab CVE-2026-19478 exploitation-status update — was composed and fully verified by this fire, then dropped at the Phase 6 sync as a duplicate: the late-promoting 2026-08-22T0410Z-intel fire had independently published the same delta (2026-08-22/cve-2026-19478-gitlab-honeypot-exploitation-confirmed), which reached main only mid-audit. The dedup discipline governs; the gap this audit identified was real when identified and had already been closed by a fire whose record this audit could not see at Phase 0. state/cves_seen.json was re-synced for that CVE (exploited status) because the 08-22 fire had left the index stale. Nine coverage items queued on state/coverage_backlog.md with discovery traces (Claroty Copeland + Danfoss, SPIP CVE-2026-77647 — the next fire's first item —, GreenPlasma, CNCMachineRMS, Kudelski DPRK-IT-worker, Bloctel/DGCCRF, plus two contingent AI items pending dedup against the W34 weekly).

Watch items: actions-density CLOSED (recovered); dark-OT CLOSED as a class (successor: sans-ics recipe); Bloctel RESOLVED (queued for publication); Afpa, Berlin, Zurich unchanged-open; two NEW (Claroty rows' identifier-mapping rigor; trafilatura rollout holds).

Coverage gaps: none — every truth batch completed and every re-sweep returned.