[Audit I-01] Production configuration and independent protocol assurance are incomplete

[hmzakhalid]

Finding

Severity: Informational

Confirmed against baseline commit d4277510d. The production manifest permitted unsafe placeholders and incomplete policy, wiring, artifact, canary, and independent-review evidence.

Full audit report

Required remediation

Fail closed unless the exact release commit has nonzero production wiring, Safe policy, independently authored contracts-and-circuits reports, pinned VK artifacts, staging validation, and valid/invalid live proof canaries. Keep release NO-GO until external evidence exists.

The dedicated fixing commit and remediation PR will be linked in a follow-up comment.

[hmzakhalid]

Fixed by commit 88302058db84a8df89803fd7aa5e01c9033f0052.

[hmzakhalid]

Validated as a release-assurance finding rather than a source-code defect. There is no remediation commit. This issue remains open until the exact release receives independent assurance and the production-readiness evidence is complete.