# Repository verification — 2026-09-09

The local checkout was fast-forwarded from `31e0734` to GitHub `9a714d0`, incorporating 879 commits, then integrated 10 more commits through `34288b2` (including QC calibration/evaluation and seven-mascot source sheets). The obsolete unfinished database rewrite was preserved in a named Git stash and an independent local backup; it was not layered over the newer canonical persistence system. Unfinished local visual assets and their metadata remain preserved for a separate provenance review.

## Readiness verdict

Controlled development can continue. **Production launch remains blocked.** Passing source checks and local database rehearsals does not prove target-host deployment, authorization, provider execution, storage durability or public publication.

The next production objective remains one story-selected Golden Short, with all seven mascots tracked independently and Head of Content accountable for approvals.

## Defects corrected

- Removed a workflow/scene-planning circular import that prevented 15 backend test modules from loading.
- Preserved project identity in final-release receipts from database to workflow and rejected cross-project reuse, malformed identity fields and malformed master hashes.
- Passed complete content attribution and publication intent through the release-review activity.
- Separated frozen character profile versions from story roles. The manifest loader supplies both; the cast gate requires exact role coverage and explicit bible versions.
- Fixed PostgreSQL migration startup: descriptive revision IDs exceeded the default 32-character Alembic version column at revision 008. The migration environment now prepares a 128-character column without renaming or rewriting applied revisions.
- Corrected the operating worker's missing-dependency diagnostic, typed dynamic model validation, immutable adapter contracts and current safety/budget test fixtures. Backend formatting and lint were brought back into agreement with the existing checks.
- Reconciled active Head of Content and distribution pointers, normalized relative documentation links in canon validation and registered video quality under Production Engine ownership.
- Made Studio and the command-line roadmap apply the same dated correction overlay. Unknown/repeated correction IDs fail closed; the original register stays unchanged. Corrected evidence-document access for current tasks.

## Verification evidence

- Backend: **321 tests passed**; Ruff lint/format and strict Pyright passed.
- Local real PostgreSQL: all **16 revisions** upgraded, downgraded to base, then upgraded again successfully; the disposable server was stopped afterward. This is an empty-database migration proof, not a populated-data recovery test or production-host proof.
- Canon, frozen build inputs, capability ownership, documentation health and effective 50-task register validated.
- Operations: **47 tests passed**; **2 Node tests** verify Studio/CLI plan parity, immutability and rejection of ambiguous corrections.
- Studio: package type/lint checks passed; production Webpack build generated 21 pages successfully. The default Turbopack build could not complete here because local process policy rejected an internal port bind; the CI default remains unchanged and needs an exact-commit runner check.
- Browser: refreshed localhost:3100; verified current date, task search, all 12 launch-document links returning HTTP 200, environment-file requests returning HTTP 404, no page errors and a 390px layout without horizontal overflow.
- The 50-task view currently has 8 done, 7 in progress, 9 blocked and 26 backlog; 14 P0 tasks remain open. These are task states, not a production-readiness percentage.

## Next priorities

1. Resolve the GitHub account billing/spending-limit block, then verify runner execution for the exact pushed commit; a local pass is not a CI pass.
2. Prove the PostgreSQL/Temporal/storage loop on the intended host, including populated backup/restore.
3. Confirm channel ID/URL, dashboard domain, monthly cash ceiling, shot ceiling and funded Higgsfield workspace.
4. Add owner authentication and cross-project/organization/channel access tests before exposing the dashboard.
5. Finish durable media ingestion, checksums, signed URLs and recovery.
6. Enforce atomic budget reservation and reconcile unknown provider/publication submissions before retry.
7. Complete independent baseline reference and voice state for seven mascots; deepen only the approved story's cast.
8. Run one bounded Golden Shot, then a Golden Sequence and Golden Short with inspected outputs, actual costs and signed quality receipts.
9. Verify deterministic publication and D1/D3/D7/D14/D30/D90 measurements.
10. Use an accepted learning to change the next approved package before increasing throughput.

The complete ranked list is [TOP_50_TASKS.md](TOP_50_TASKS.md). API secrets belong in the target environment's secret store, never in this document or chat. No paid generation, cloud provisioning or public publication was performed in this verification pass.

## GitHub synchronization and CI evidence

The isolated review branch is available in [draft PR #59](https://github.com/VladislavBrodsky/CartoonOS/pull/59). Its implementation commit is `df36de9e3a580dcac252e68d0fd19fe1b9b15f7c`, based on `34288b2`. Concurrent local asset work is excluded from this PR.

[CI run 34406941486](https://github.com/VladislavBrodsky/CartoonOS/actions/runs/34406941486) failed before executing any steps. The authenticated GitHub check-run annotations for frontend (`102652072313`), backend (`102652072627`) and postgres-migrations (`102652072681`) all identify the same account-level blocker: recent payment failure or a spending limit that prevents jobs from starting. GitHub's message does not distinguish between those alternatives. There are no executed test results in this run; it provides neither a code regression nor a passing CI proof.

The account owner must inspect GitHub Billing & plans and resolve the payment/spending restriction. Afterward, rerun CI against the latest PR head and inspect all three jobs, including the unchanged default Studio build. Do not substitute local checks for that evidence or weaken the workflow checks. No account payment or spending setting was changed.

Automatic approval review rejected the direct push of the broad 135-file change to `main`, because general synchronization authorization was insufficient for that default-branch change. The changes were uploaded to a review branch instead. Merging remains pending explicit approval and successful CI.