rootnode-academy/docs/PHASE10_CANONICAL_STATE_AUDIT.md

Phase 10 — Canonical State Audit

Gate 1. Performed before any Phase 10 production/launch work, per Phase 10's own explicit requirement — Chase has been developing from two workstations, so nothing downstream was started until canonical state was actually verified, not assumed.

Baseline

• Starting SHA (as reported at the end of Phase 9.1): a4c00580... (full: a4c0058f8c3d9612f1d30508626fa5be00431fa7).
• This workstation's HEAD and origin/main, confirmed via git fetch --all --prune, are both exactly a4c0058f8c3d9612f1d30508626fa5be00431fa7 — this workstation is fully up to date with canonical Gitea, and canonical Gitea has not moved since Phase 9.1 ended.

1.1 Current workstation state

• Branch: main. Working tree: clean (git status --short — no output).
• git remote -v: origin → gitea:ced4568/rootnode-academy.git (fetch + push) — canonical, no GitHub kubekosh remote configured in this clone at all.
• git branch -vv: * main a4c0058 [origin/main] — tracking correctly, no divergence.
• No stashes, no dangling work, no uncommitted changes.

1.2 Remote audit

git ls-remote --heads --tags origin shows exactly one branch (main, at a4c0058) and four tags (v0.4.1-preprod, v0.5.0-student-auth, v0.5.3-enrollment-comms, v0.6.0-root-v1) — no other branches, no unexpected experimental branches, no stale branches to reconcile. git log --all --oneline and git log --oneline both return exactly 184 commits — every commit reachable in this repository is reachable from main. There is no orphaned or unmerged work sitting in Gitea outside main.

1.3 Second-PC reconciliation

This execution environment has no access to Chase's other workstation. Gitea's own state (§1.2) proves there is no SECOND branch or unpushed-but-fetchable ref waiting anywhere on the remote — if work exists only on the other PC, it is local and unpushed there, not merely unmerged here. This is not automatically resolvable from this side.

Exact commands for Chase to run on PC #2 to prove no local-only RootNode work is stranded:

cd ~/Dev/Gitea/ced4568/rootnode-academy   # or wherever the clone lives on that machine
git status                                 # must show "nothing to commit, working tree clean"
git branch -vv                             # every branch should show [origin/main] with no
                                            # "ahead" count, or should not exist at all
git fetch origin
git log origin/main..HEAD --oneline        # MUST be empty — any output here is unpushed work
git stash list                             # should be empty, or each entry reviewed manually

If git log origin/main..HEAD --oneline on PC #2 produces ANY output, that is real, unpushed work — it must be reviewed and pushed (or explicitly discarded by Chase's own decision) before being considered part of canonical state. This audit cannot rule that out from here — it can only confirm Gitea itself has no evidence of it.

1.4 Expected milestone audit

Every phase SHA Phase 10's own authorization listed (Phase 2A through Phase 9.1 final) was verified present in canonical history, in full agreement with the commit message labels:

Phase	SHA (verified)	Commit subject
2A	42dfb1c	docs(phase2a): document gateway and student launch architecture
2B	08ff531	docs(phase2b): document admin and platform-data architecture
3A	4069292	docs(phase3a): document production identity architecture
3B	45a147a	docs(phase3b): document the learning and assessment engine
4	bf1e1b5	docs(phase4): production infrastructure documentation + runbooks
4.1	5bc0743	docs(phase4.1): pre-production hardening documentation
5A	896c230	docs(phase5a): student identity and remote classroom documentation
5B	1c08a30	docs(phase5b): self-paced enrollment documentation + website integration contract
5C	777efd1	docs(phase5c): enrollment communications documentation + Google Workspace runbook
6A	fd38d06	docs(phase6a): document RootNode course foundation
6B	2db1368	docs(phase6b): document curriculum expansion
6C	bd0a10f	docs(phase6c): pilot readiness standard, pilot curriculum manifest, ROOT 11 scope
6D	b6516a7	docs(phase6d): document the ROOT Foundations milestone
6E	87ad125	docs(phase6e): document the ROOT Foundations Completion milestone
6F	d066410	docs(phase6f): document ROOT_ V1 pilot readiness (tag v0.6.0-root-v1)
7	df5e39f	docs(phase7): document the business/product architecture foundation
8	788fb19	docs(phase8): document enrollment operations
9	80a5f6e	docs(phase9): document commerce integration and Winter Break launch readiness
9.1 (prep)	77fd186	docs(stripe): document Phase 9.1 blocked status and live-mode readiness checklist
9.1 (final)	a4c0058	docs(stripe): document real Stripe TEST-mode validation results

Phase 9.5 — NOT FOUND. No commit, branch, or tag matching "Phase 9.5" or a founder-pricing document exists anywhere in this repository's reachable history (git log --all contains no such commit), and no docs/ROOTNODE_PRICING_AND_OFFERS_V1.md file exists at any point in history. This exact discrepancy was already surfaced during Phase 9.1 (Chase explained it was done on the desktop PC, separate from this laptop) — §1.3's commands above are how to confirm whether that work is sitting unpushed on PC #2, or whether it was a decision made directly rather than a planned commit. The founder-approved pricing itself ($399 launch / $449 standard, 39900/44900 cents, "Founding Cohort," paid in full, no deposit) was given directly by Chase in conversation and used for Phase 9.1's real Stripe validation and this phase's documentation — it did not require a committed document to act on, and is not invented by this phase.

1.5 File/artifact audit

Searched all tracked files for secret-shaped filenames (.env*, .local, credential, secret, .key, .pem, .p12, service-account JSON). Every match is a legitimate template/placeholder or educational-content reference, never a real runtime secret:

• Course content (content/root/root-07-.../m02-configuration-and-secrets/) — teaching material about Kubernetes Secrets, no real secret data.
• infra/ansible/roles/*/templates/*.env.j2 — Ansible Jinja2 templates referencing {{ vault_* }} variables (values live in an Ansible Vault-encrypted file, never plaintext in git).
• infra/environments/{production,staging}/*.env.template — checked-in templates with explicit __REPLACE_WITH_...__/__REPLACE_openssl_rand_hex_32__ placeholders, never real values.
• platform/provisioner/.env.example, migration 017_student_credentials.sql (schema, not data), scenarios/data/*secret*.json (fake Kubernetes lab-scenario fixtures).

.gitignore correctly excludes .env (blanket pattern) — confirmed via git status --porcelain --ignored: platform/.env and platform/provisioner/.env (both containing real local secrets) are ignored, never tracked.

1.6 Secret history audit

Searched the entire git history (git log --all -p, pickaxe search -S) for: sk_test_, sk_live_, whsec_, BEGIN PRIVATE KEY, BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY, "private_key", and a broad regex for any sk_test_/sk_live_/whsec_-prefixed string of realistic secret length (20+ trailing characters).

Result: clean. No real secret value has ever been committed. Every sk_test_/sk_live_/ whsec_ hit is a code guard-clause literal (e.g. .startsWith('sk_test_')) or documentation prose referencing the prefix pattern, from this session's own Phase 9.1 commits — never a full key. The one "private_key" hit (b38c46a, Phase 5C) is a code comment showing an EXAMPLE env-var invocation with a "..." placeholder, not a real value. No BEGIN PRIVATE KEY/BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY header appears anywhere in history. No credential rotation is required.

1.7 Current runtime secret state (this workstation)

platform/.env (gitignored, never committed) holds real local-dev values for PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET, INTEGRATION_SHARED_SECRET, GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON, EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS, GOOGLE_DELEGATED_USER — all pre-existing from earlier phases. Its PAYMENT_PROVIDER/STRIPE_SECRET_KEY/STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET lines are present but blank, per this repo's own "set only for a deliberate session, unset again after" convention (matching EMAIL_PROVIDER's established pattern) — confirmed after Phase 9.1's real-Stripe validation session ended. See docs/SECRETS_AND_INFISICAL.md for the full inventory and centralization status.

Discrepancies found

1. "Phase 9.5" has no canonical commit — see §1.4. Not a blocker (the pricing decision was usable directly), but flagged so it isn't assumed to exist in code review later.
2. Chase's Phase 10 authorization states "Chase has ALREADY created RootNode Academy" as an Infisical project on infisical.cedshomelab.com — verified NOT present. The organization ("Ceds HomeLab") has exactly six existing projects (Core Infrastructure, Hermes Fleet, Kubernetes, Media Platform, Monitoring, Network Service), none named RootNode Academy or similar. See docs/SECRETS_AND_INFISICAL.md §"Project status" for the full finding and what Chase needs to do (create the project via the Infisical web dashboard — the CLI has no non-interactive project-creation command).
3. No dedicated production server/Proxmox VM has been provisioned — infra/terraform/ has no terraform.tfvars (only .example) and no state file; infra/ansible/group_vars/ production.yml still holds literal placeholders (__PLATFORM_VM_IP__, __LAB_HOST_VM_IP__, __PROXMOX_HOST_MGMT_CIDR__). See docs/ PHASE10_PRODUCTION_DEPLOYMENT.md.

Remediation performed

None required at the git/history level (nothing was broken). Documentation created/updated to record all of the above (this document, plus docs/SECRETS_AND_INFISICAL.md and docs/ PHASE10_PRODUCTION_DEPLOYMENT.md).

Conclusion

Canonical Gitea state is internally consistent, fully verified against every claimed milestone, and free of any committed secret. The only open item from this gate is Chase running the PC #2 commands in §1.3 to positively rule out stranded local work there — Gitea's own history gives no reason to believe any exists, but this audit cannot see that machine directly.