God-grade quality audit + cascade-update sweep: 6 parallel auditors covering aj-workspace + aj-ea + /root/.claude/ + ~/.claude/ + cross-workspace + live VPS produced 25+ findings (4+ P0, 30+ P1). Reme

Decision

God-grade quality audit + cascade-update sweep: 6 parallel auditors covering aj-workspace + aj-ea + /root/.claude/ + ~/.claude/ + cross-workspace + live VPS produced 25+ findings (4+ P0, 30+ P1). Remediated within session: Permanent 7→8 cascade across 89 files (canonical bucket name renamed after researchclaw promotion), dead pointer fix in MEMORY.md, openclaw.md indexed, duplicate seedance file removed, 2 orphan skill shells deleted with proposals relocated to docs/proposals/, vault SKILL.md description added, 3 stale skill refs cleansed (agent-router, next-js-app-audit, session-close phase-4), 12 orphan log files GC’d, containers.md recounted to 107, core-platforms.md terminology disambiguated (Permanent 3 OAuth Trio vs MCP Permanent 8). 10 items surfaced for explicit AJ authorization (operational-layer changes: crontab 7 dead entries, 3 Prometheus alerts, UUID MCP perms, SOUL.md NOVA-DNA, EA context refresh).

Rationale

Triggered by AJ’s god-grade audit request after the CIOS/Paperclip cascade-update revealed depth of post-eradication drift. 4-Artifact Component-Removal Rule (recorded earlier this session as decision 9ab9a4ea) applied: artifact 1 (runtime stop) + artifact 2 (slot removal) were complete pre-session; artifact 3 (documentation cascade) closed by 89-file sweep + 14 surgical fixes; artifact 4 (automation-layer cleanup) deferred to AJ auth (sandbox correctly enforced this boundary on prior attempt). Headline finding: researchclaw promotion to Permanent 8 never cascaded — 81 skills + 6 memory files + aj-ea CLAUDE.md/MEMORY.md all stuck at Permanent 7 for unknown duration, breaking Law 2 (Zero Ambiguity). All 8 Permanent MCPs verified live + healthy. MEMORY.md cross-refs all resolve (86/86). Confidence anchored at 0.9: cleanup verified by post-execution rg sweep returning zero true positives; deferred items have backups + clear auth asks.

Alternatives Rejected

Outcome

Pending