Gate 1 — canonical state audit: this workstation's HEAD/origin/main and every claimed milestone
SHA (Phase 2A through 9.1) verified consistent; no stranded branches/tags on Gitea; full-history
secret scan clean (no rotation required); Phase 9.5 confirmed absent from canonical history
(pricing was given directly by Chase and used without it); second-PC reconciliation commands
provided since this session cannot see that machine.
Gate 3 — secrets: real inventory derived from process.env greps across every service (not
guessed); Infisical auth fixed (wrong domain was the actual root cause of Phase 9.1's failures —
the identity belongs to infisical.cedshomelab.com, not app.infisical.com) but no RootNode
Academy project exists there yet, contradicting this phase's own authorization — flagged for
Chase to create.
Gates 4-9/15-16 — production: verified, not assumed, that no dedicated server/Proxmox VM has
been provisioned (empty terraform.tfvars, no state file, placeholder group_vars/production.yml)
— IaC validated (tofu validate, ansible --syntax-check both clean) and left unexecuted per this
phase's own 'do not fake production deployment' instruction. rootnodeacademy.com confirmed live
(Cloudflare, real HTTPS) — the separate, not-RootNode-owned website; no Platform API subdomain
exists yet.
Gate 18 — security audit: full review against every regression suite rerun this phase; no
launch-critical defect found.
Gates 19/20 — full regression (131 checks: e2e-phase5b/5c/6f/7/8/9, content validation,
migrations, frontend build) and the Winter Break commerce rehearsal, both rerun clean against
current main.
Gates 10-14/21 — website integration, Winter Break pricing (99/49, real, Stripe-validated),
agreements/legal, tax, and refund policy all reviewed; legal text/tax/refund policy/dates/venue/
capacity correctly left as open owner decisions, not invented.
No application code changed this phase — audit/launch-prep only.
PHASE9_1_STRIPE_TEST_VALIDATION.md rewritten from BLOCKED to the real, proven results: a real
Stripe TEST Checkout, a real TEST payment at the founder-approved $399 Founding Cohort price, a
genuine signed webhook, the existing registration->enrollment conversion, a real
duplicate-delivery proof, a real automated abandoned-checkout proof, a real refund with the
non-cascade rule reconfirmed, full Stripe<->RootNode reconciliation IDs, and the one real defect
found and fixed. STRIPE_INTEGRATION_RUNBOOK.md updated (real-Stripe local testing is no longer
'not yet exercised'; notes the no-sudo Stripe CLI install path and --api-key/--print-secret
usage). WINTER_BREAK_LAUNCH_CHECKLIST.md: Stripe TEST validation checked, price checked ($399
launch / $449 retail per Chase directly), live-mode items correctly still unchecked.
PHASE9_COMMERCE_AND_LAUNCH.md's Phase 9.1 addendum updated to reflect completion.
New: PHASE9_1_STRIPE_TEST_VALIDATION.md — baseline verification, the exact Stripe-credential
search performed (none found), the Stripe architecture review (dynamic price_data, unchanged),
what was proven vs. blocked per the mission's own step list, and the live-mode readiness
checklist. Updated: STRIPE_INTEGRATION_RUNBOOK.md and WINTER_BREAK_LAUNCH_CHECKLIST.md to point
at the new opt-in test and the blocked status. PHASE9_COMMERCE_AND_LAUNCH.md gets a short
addendum. No application code changed this phase — no genuine defect was exposed without real
Stripe traffic, so no regression rerun was required.
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