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  "schema": "mi-6.4.8-oew-continuity-successor-discoverability-audit.v1",
  "master_index_thread": "6.4.8",
  "date": "2026-09-14",
  "mode": "bounded observational audit; no remediation implemented",
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    "bare_mirror_main": "40a4df0c8039c0548b61254de33adaff3a652497",
    "worktree": "clean"
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    "machine_findings": "artifacts/analysis/mi-6.4.4.1-retrospective-oew-archaeology-20260905/retrospective-oew-custody-findings.json",
    "validator": "tools/validate_mi_6_4_4_1_retrospective_oew_archaeology.js",
    "serious_candidates_or_candidate_clusters_reviewed": 31,
    "live_or_adequately_custodied": 18,
    "resolved_closed_superseded_or_non_operational": 13,
    "new_live_uncustodied_obligations": 0,
    "new_oew_entries_admitted": 0,
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      "OEW-6.4.4.1-0002": "DISPOSITIONED",
      "OEW-6.4.4.1-0003": "MATERIALLY_AFFECTED",
      "OEW-6.4.4.1-0004": "MATERIALLY_AFFECTED"
    },
    "current_parent_oew_states_after_family_closure": {
      "OEW-6.4.4.1-0001": "DISPOSITIONED",
      "OEW-6.4.4.1-0002": "DISPOSITIONED",
      "OEW-6.4.4.1-0003": "DISPOSITIONED",
      "OEW-6.4.4.1-0004": "DISPOSITIONED"
    }
  },
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    "docs/operations/pending-adjudications.md",
    "governance/registers/c1-verification-residuals.md",
    "governance/registers/open-residuals.md",
    "governance/registers/standing-tripwires.md",
    "canon/operational-topology.v1.json",
    "governance/deposition-catalog-v1.0.md"
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    {
      "candidate": "CAND-001",
      "title": "C1 verification residual register path mismatch",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.4.1-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "current_custody": "dispositioned by MI 6.4.4 family closure cross-reference; standing C1 residual register and deposition-catalog evidence persist; mismatch unrepaired",
      "successor_discoverability": "recoverable through MI 6.4.4.1 OEW and family closure records, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "CUSTODY_PRESERVED_DISCOVERABILITY_DEGRADED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-002",
      "title": "Cloudflare semantic-analysis attribution boundary",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.4.1-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "current_custody": "dispositioned by MI 6.4.4 final closure cross-reference to settled Cloudflare archaeology; attribution/mechanism questions preserved as unadjudicated",
      "successor_discoverability": "recoverable through MI 6.4.4 family closure and Cloudflare archaeology records, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "CUSTODY_PRESERVED_DISCOVERABILITY_DEGRADED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-003",
      "title": "Phase II-C positive-lexicon continuation boundary",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.4.1-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "current_custody": "transferred to project-standing residual R-PHASE-II-C-LEXICON-01 in governance/registers/open-residuals.md",
      "successor_discoverability": "recoverable through open-residuals and MI 6.4.4 final pre-Phase-A custody settlement; not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "CUSTODY_PRESERVED_DISCOVERABILITY_DEGRADED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-004",
      "title": "PA-004 duplicate QX_STATE ownership",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/operations/pending-adjudications.md",
      "current_custody": "standing pending-adjudications custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through standing pending-adjudications surface, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-005",
      "title": "PA-007 mutation-authority residual",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/governance/pa-007-disposition-01.md",
      "current_custody": "specific PA-007 disposition evidence; not duplicated into successor OEW",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through PA-007 disposition evidence and retrospective census",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-006",
      "title": "PA-009 geometry continuity",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/operations/pending-adjudications.md",
      "current_custody": "standing pending-adjudications custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through standing pending-adjudications surface, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-007",
      "title": "PA-010 navigational-form residual",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/operations/pending-adjudications.md",
      "current_custody": "standing pending-adjudications custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through standing pending-adjudications surface, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-008",
      "title": "PA-011 Layer 2 / Layer 3 session ontology",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "docs/operations/pending-adjudications.md",
      "current_custody": "standing pending-adjudications custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through standing pending-adjudications surface, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-009",
      "title": "VR-C1-R2 stale-token discard",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/registers/c1-verification-residuals.md",
      "current_custody": "standing C1 verification residual register custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through standing C1 residual register, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-010",
      "title": "VR-C1-R3 session boundary",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/registers/c1-verification-residuals.md",
      "current_custody": "standing C1 verification residual register custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through standing C1 residual register, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-011",
      "title": "R-IDENTITY-DECL-01 source_thread_id identity declaration",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/registers/open-residuals.md",
      "current_custody": "standing open-residuals custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through open-residuals, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-012",
      "title": "PA-003-T1 C1-7 Path B forward eligibility tripwire",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/registers/standing-tripwires.md",
      "current_custody": "standing tripwire custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through standing-tripwires, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-013",
      "title": "Operational topology uuid-field-detail Supabase 500 observation",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "canon/operational-topology.v1.json",
      "current_custody": "operational topology unresolved-observation custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through operational topology, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-014",
      "title": "Operational topology historical F008 adjudication observation",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "canon/operational-topology.v1.json",
      "current_custody": "operational topology unresolved-observation custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through operational topology, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-015",
      "title": "Deposition catalog GAP-1 verification residual sub-lifecycle surfaces",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/deposition-catalog-v1.0.md",
      "current_custody": "deposition-catalog custody with MI 6.4.4.1 OEW cross-reference",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through deposition catalog and retrospective records, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-016",
      "title": "Deposition catalog GAP-2 superseded constitutional instrument location",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/deposition-catalog-v1.0.md",
      "current_custody": "deposition-catalog custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through deposition catalog, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-017",
      "title": "Deposition catalog GAP-3 docs/archaeology and docs/recon substates",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/deposition-catalog-v1.0.md",
      "current_custody": "deposition-catalog custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through deposition catalog, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate": "CAND-018",
      "title": "Deposition catalog GAP-4 Lifecycle 2 formal-deposit threshold",
      "retrospective_state": "live_adequately_custodied",
      "original_owner": "governance/deposition-catalog-v1.0.md",
      "current_custody": "deposition-catalog custody",
      "successor_discoverability": "discoverable through deposition catalog, not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "STANDING_CUSTODY_PRESERVED"
    },
    {
      "candidate_range": "CAND-019..CAND-031",
      "count": 13,
      "retrospective_state": "resolved_closed_superseded_or_non_operational",
      "current_custody": "no live successor custody required by September 5 retrospective accounting",
      "successor_discoverability": "recoverable through retrospective census if historical review is needed",
      "audit_classification": "NO_LIVE_CUSTODY_REQUIREMENT"
    }
  ],
  "post_september_5_oew_landscape": [
    {
      "entry": "OEW-6.4.6-0001",
      "current_state": "HELD",
      "surface": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.6-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "successor_discoverability": "not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "OLDER_PREDECESSOR_OEW_DISCOVERABILITY_GAP"
    },
    {
      "entry": "OEW-6.4.6-0002",
      "current_state": "OPEN",
      "surface": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.6-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "successor_discoverability": "not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "OLDER_PREDECESSOR_OEW_DISCOVERABILITY_GAP"
    },
    {
      "entry": "OEW-6.4.6-0003",
      "current_state": "OPEN",
      "surface": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.6-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "successor_discoverability": "not compactly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening",
      "audit_classification": "OLDER_PREDECESSOR_OEW_DISCOVERABILITY_GAP"
    },
    {
      "entry": "OEW-6.4.6-0004",
      "current_state": "CLOSED",
      "surface": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.6-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "successor_discoverability": "closed by MI 6.4.6.1 reduction adjudication",
      "audit_classification": "CLOSED_NO_SUCCESSOR_CUSTODY_REQUIRED"
    },
    {
      "entry": "OEW-6.4.7-0001",
      "current_state": "CARRIED_FORWARD",
      "surface": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.7-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "successor_discoverability": "explicitly exposed in MI 6.4.8 opening as non-blocking observational provenance watch",
      "audit_classification": "EXPLICITLY_PRESERVED_IN_SUCCESSOR_OPENING"
    },
    {
      "entry": "OEW-6.4.8",
      "current_state": "ZERO_ENTRY_OPEN",
      "surface": "docs/archaeology/mi-6.4.8-open-ended-whatnots.md",
      "successor_discoverability": "zero local OEW entries admitted by opening or this audit",
      "audit_classification": "NO_LOCAL_OEW_ADMISSION"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "FINDING-001",
      "classification": "NO_CUSTODY_LOSS_OBSERVED",
      "statement": "No live September 5 census item was found uncustodied after tracing through MI 6.4.4 closure, MI 6.4.5, MI 6.4.6, MI 6.4.6.1, MI 6.4.7, and MI 6.4.8."
    },
    {
      "id": "FINDING-002",
      "classification": "SUCCESSOR_DISCOVERABILITY_GAP",
      "statement": "MI 6.4.8 opening does not compactly expose the older standing unresolved landscape or still-open MI 6.4.6 OEWs, even though those matters remain independently retrievable."
    },
    {
      "id": "FINDING-003",
      "classification": "NO_ESTABLISHED_EXECUTION_NONCOMPLIANCE",
      "statement": "The current opening protocol and validator do not impose an automatic multi-generation inherited-unresolved census at every successor opening."
    },
    {
      "id": "FINDING-004",
      "classification": "OPENING_TEMPLATE_GAP_AND_VALIDATOR_COVERAGE_GAP",
      "statement": "Opening templates, helper arguments, and validation can carry inherited unresolved landscapes when supplied, but do not require or validate a standard successor-discoverability scan."
    },
    {
      "id": "FINDING-005",
      "classification": "REDUCE_TO_EXISTING_OPENING_AND_INDEX_MACHINERY",
      "statement": "Any future remediation should prefer current CPR/WPC/OEW opening machinery, existing indexes, and standing custody surfaces rather than a new global OEW register or copying predecessor OEWs into every successor."
    }
  ],
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    "predecessor_oews_modified": false,
    "standing_registers_modified": false,
    "opening_protocol_modified": false,
    "validator_modified": false,
    "publication_or_deployment_performed": false
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}