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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.
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# 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:
```bash
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.