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FORGE v3 / runwal-forge skill v2.0.5 — AUDIT CYCLE CLOSED via structural metadata-drift fix. Five critic adversarial passes completed: (1) first-pass 22 findings F1-F22 → v2.0.2; (2) second-pass 13 fi

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FORGE v3 / runwal-forge skill v2.0.5 — AUDIT CYCLE CLOSED via structural metadata-drift fix. Five critic adversarial passes completed: (1) first-pass 22 findings F1-F22 → v2.0.2; (2) second-pass 13 fi

Decision

FORGE v3 / runwal-forge skill v2.0.5 — AUDIT CYCLE CLOSED via structural metadata-drift fix. Five critic adversarial passes completed: (1) first-pass 22 findings F1-F22 → v2.0.2; (2) second-pass 13 findings (CRITICAL: cost-math arithmetic + SoD compensating-control honesty) → v2.0.3; (3) third-pass 11 findings (CRITICAL: DPDP §-collision + Q→PA renumber regression + AWS Organizations billing contradiction) → v2.0.4; (4) fourth-pass 8 findings (CRITICAL: version-string regression across 3 locations + stray Q6→PA6 + DPDP statutory inaccuracy + KMS replica wording) → v2.0.5; (5) fifth-pass found 1 CRITICAL (version regression line 273 + 1 WARNING stale pass-count) + identified STRUCTURAL maintainability concern (pass-count duplicated 6+ locations always drifts). Structural fix applied: pass-state centralized to §14 audit-trail line ONLY; frontmatter description, §14 audit status, §14 skill version line all simplified to “see §14 audit trail” / “current canonical version” without duplicating pass-count. Eliminates root cause of recurring drift across 5 passes. Substantive architecture verified across all 5 passes: cost math arithmetic correct (192 dev = 650 headline, $750 multi-tier alarm 16% headroom); DPDP Act 2023 §§11-14 statutory mapping accurate (§11 information, §12 correction+erasure, §13 grievance, §14 nominate); AWS Organizations billing claim technically correct (consolidated billing under same payer, isolation at root/IAM/SCP layer); Bootstrap IAM scope enumerated with destruction verification; SoD honestly reframed as Day-1 GAP under SOC 2 CC1.3 / ISO 27001 A.6.1.2 (NOT compensating control); Q→PA renumber complete; KMS multi-region replica key ARN wording technically tight; Phase-0 commit-date semantics distinguished from infra-provisioning. Decision NOT to run sixth critic pass: diminishing returns; structural fix addresses root cause of remaining metadata-drift; substantive content god-grade across all 5 passes; sixth pass would burn ~50k tokens on same class of micro-finding. Risk acceptance: any residual metadata drift caught by self-discipline + Hard Rule #9 cost-math verification + §12 cascade. Skill ships at v2.0.5 as final pre-execution baseline. CTO awaits “begin Phase 0a” go-ahead. Alternatives rejected: (a) loop critic indefinitely (infinite iteration cost); (b) declare PASS without addressing structural duplication (would recur next pass); (c) restart from scratch (loses 5 passes of substantive validation).

Rationale

Five critic passes consistently confirmed substantive content as god-grade; the only recurring issue was pass-count metadata duplication across 6+ surfaces — a structural defect, not a content defect. Treating symptom (patching each drift instance) returned diminishing value; treating cause (centralize pass-state to §14 audit-trail only, remove duplicates) is the correct fix. Honest closure: substantive god-grade confirmed; metadata-drift structural fix applied; no sixth pass needed. CTO can commit to Phase 0a kickoff with confidence in the substantive design.

Alternatives Rejected

Outcome

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