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status: current
last-verified: 2026-10-09
owner: active-agent
source: current task evidence
---

# Active context

## Current focus

Quality-gate follow-up is implemented and validated locally on
`ai/quality-gate-coverage`, based on `d25647d` of #116. Code/test baseline
`3442194`, lab regression/acceptance `7594e0c`; final records follow.
No remote mutation. Architecture/cmdlet-design choices remain deferred;
Decision 22 is still proposed. Stable 5.0.0 is not ready (Decision 21).

## Evidence

- rc6 Release run `37839669028`, attempt 2, succeeded; GitHub prerelease
  with zip appeared 2026-10-09 07:01:34 UTC. First attempt proves HTTP 409
  after Gallery publication, not the previously assumed retry chronology.
- #116 is open, base master, head `d25647d`, CI build/wiki passed. rc7
  publication is pending. The follow-up does not change that PR's head.
- Local changes: deletion/ownership guards (`a97e46f`); all scopes and
  inheritance (`e7ee203`); absolute basic-user results (`51dec86`);
  exact-package publication recovery (`95b827e`); first-hidden-item fix
  (`d610372`); Force/descriptor guards (`3442194`); SMB regression above.
- Hidden omission was reproduced in all four configurations before the
  fix. No parameter/design change. Publication tests are wholly mocked;
  exact ordinal SHA-512 identity is required, no real upload occurred.
- Final uninstrumented suite: 914 each, zero failed. Passed/skipped:
  elevated Desktop 890/24, Core 860/54; basic Desktop 749/165, Core 719/195.
  Frozen aggregate: 2,641/3,559 sequence (74.21%), 974/1,933 branches
  (50.39%); NTFSSecurity assembly 84.28%. All skipped templates have
  executed counterparts; mutations restored exactly before green builds.
- Live packaged candidate, 09:20 to 09:51 UTC: 330 passed, zero failed,
  two expected Server-module skips. Published rc6: 326 passed, four
  expected failures (Hidden and rc7 warning text in each edition), two
  skips. Tested folder and all 11 ZIP files are byte-identical.
- Temporary host result verifier failed on Desktop JSON wrapping/full
  test names; corrected verification passed on unchanged raw results in
  both editions. Cleanup wrapper's broad Error.Count was not acceptance
  proof. Independent probes verified all fixture objects/members/profiles
  gone from six machines. Raw failing markers and corrected evidence kept.
- One read-only independent code review approved, high confidence, no
  significant findings or confirmed exploit. Custom reviewer could not
  start (model unavailable); built-in code-review performed the one pass.
- Six checkpoints exist but report Standard, even after a successful
  temporary ProductionOnly probe; policy restored, no restore performed.
  Do not claim verified Production rollback evidence.
- Wider matrix not deployed: 13 Server 2025 VMs; Windows 11/2019/2022
  media present, OS detection cache empty. #34 has no reply since Oct 6.
- Full evidence: session artifact `quality-gate-3442194-20261009`;
  repository report `Tests/Lab/Acceptance-2026-10-09-quality-gate.md`.

## Next step

1. Maintainer pushes/reviews this follow-up; retain separate commits and
   stacked-PR merge order (15). #116's Decision 22 review remains required.
2. Integrate and pass CI, then publish/test the next candidate package.
3. Close the remaining-path inventory (918 points, 562 for finer review),
   decide/provision the OS matrix, obtain or explicitly accept #34 feedback.
4. Only then release 5.0.0 through documented CI steps; never claim the
   current coverage percentage alone meets the quality gate.