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# Conformance-loop handoff
**Repository:** gate-house
**Project family:** NetKingdom
**Status:** First posture return reviewed; whitehat return pending
**Date:** 2026-09-01
**Workplan:** GH-WP-0001-T06
**Artifact commit:** `8cb7250`
## What Gate House published
- `docs/assurance/asm-t01-t10-executable-targets.md` — hostile setup,
observable oracle, evidence, and known-bad calibration for every Canon test;
- `docs/assurance/asm-targets.yaml` — machine-readable T-01…T-10 index;
- `docs/contracts/conformance-reporting.md` — outcome and doctrine-disposition
return contract;
- `docs/contracts/posture-findings-return.md` — posture asymmetry, origin
linkage, stream completeness, and findings return path;
- `docs/conformance/README.md` — Gate House review-register rules and honest
`not_run` initial state.
## Agreement already in force
King's Guard accepted the Staff placement, posture asymmetry, and Engine-only
actuation boundary in `KG-DEC-2026-001`. Its `KG-WP-0003-T06` requires
containment proposals to retain observation/signal origin, and T07 requires the
first live observation to be reported to Gate House. The return-path contract
consolidates those accepted and planned obligations; it does not assign a new
responsibility.
Whitehat-security's layering review note and open `WHITEHAT-IN-0001` name the
split: Gate House specifies T-01…T-10; whitehat-security attacks and judges
whether controls held. The executable-target handoff supplies the missing
specification detail without changing whitehat-security's targeting and
authorization rules.
## Durable handoffs
### Whitehat-security
State Hub message:
`8229c9a4-862f-4d55-842c-5c95702f79d9`
Requested disposition:
- triage all ten tests as applicable, not applicable, or pending;
- map or extend whitehat's target representation in its own repository;
- name target surface, known-bad calibration, and report route;
- preserve Canon IDs when revising or splitting a target;
- return every outcome under `conformance-reporting.v1`;
- treat the handoff as no authorization for any fixture or live probe.
### King's Guard
State Hub message:
`50d392ad-b342-4e90-85e7-d4c5495f3671`
Requested disposition:
- apply or contest the consolidated contract through existing
`KG-WP-0003-T06/T07`;
- preserve posture's restrictive asymmetry and Engine-only actuation;
- return origin-linked posture/findings via the named State Hub envelope;
- report stream completeness separately from record richness.
## Why T06 is waiting
Publication and handoff are necessary but do not make the conformance loop
turn. At this point:
- whitehat-security has not returned a triaged ASM target or calibrated run;
- kings-guard T06/T07 are still open and no live-observation result has
returned under this contract;
- `docs/conformance/` therefore truthfully records `not_run`.
T06 can move from `wait` to `done` after:
1. whitehat-security records disposition for the target set and returns at
least one known-bad-calibrated fixture or authorized target outcome;
2. kings-guard confirms or revises the return-path contract and reports the
status of its origin-link/live-observation lane;
3. Gate House records the first returned report's doctrine disposition and
routes every residual to a live owner.
Anything less would establish document flow, not a conformance loop.
## Progress — 2026-09-02
King's Guard accepted the contract without revision, finished
`KG-WP-0003-T06/T07`, and returned the first live observation under the
`[GH-POSTURE]` envelope. Gate House disposition:
`docs/conformance/2026-09-02-kings-guard-qonto-live-observation.md`.
The qonto-assistant lane is now staffed for observation, not proven complete.
The load-bearing deny stream has no heartbeat/cadence or reconciliation view,
so completeness is `unknown`. Residual messages to qonto-assistant,
net-kingdom, and info-tech-canon were delivered and remain unread.
The whitehat handoff `8229c9a4-862f-4d55-842c-5c95702f79d9` also remains
unread. Whitehat separately accepted the responsibility boundary with one
useful correction: Gate House specifies invariants and targets; whitehat
authors probes. The published target pack already assigns attack design and
verdict to whitehat, and Gate House explicitly accepted the correction in its
follow-up.
Coordination receipts:
- Gate House acknowledged King's Guard by reply to posture return
`23480b81-bc34-4df4-92cc-840fbc8514fd`, linked the recorded `no_change`
disposition at commit `feff576`, and preserved the qonto/Taxonomy residuals
as pending.
- Gate House marked the supporting contract-acceptance and cadence-draft
messages read after incorporating them into the disposition.
- Gate House accepted whitehat's correction and requested target triage plus
one fixture-safe, known-bad-calibrated result in reply
`c33c3a72-5bf3-4693-8861-9e9ad37d5908`. The request explicitly authorizes
no live probe.
Gate House then received a concrete, fixture-safe T-06 candidate from
secrets-engine in message `99bf84bf-18d2-4e63-a7ac-25078e1c72d5`. Revision
`3cd9955` implements consume-before-OpenBao; its focused unit suite passed
17/17 at observed repository revision `465c0d7`. This is target-suitability
evidence only. The required whitehat-owned probe, known-bad calibration, and
verdict remain pending. Candidate record:
`docs/conformance/2026-09-02-secrets-engine-t06-candidate.md`.
Coordination receipts for the candidate:
- Gate House acknowledged secrets-engine's implementation in reply
`118135d2-bf53-41c5-8bfb-11582359f1c3`.
- Gate House handed the bounded fixture surface to whitehat-security in message
`cc19a1c4-2acf-448d-b90f-e9843a57a7d4`, preserving Whitehat ownership and
explicitly authorizing no live target or effect.
Whitehat-security then created open intake `WHITEHAT-IN-0002` and returned
message `f9fab770-d840-4709-bb07-8e14a3e4db3f`. Gate House accepted the intake
as an accurate transcription with no contract correction in reply
`311e6d65-4e4c-4481-9506-9a758103f43b`. Intake is acknowledgement and triage,
not an execution report, so the whitehat completion gate remains open.
Gate House also routed the qonto-assistant completeness finding through the
required risk-nexus path in message
`53645a75-0215-4261-a700-f7aedf09e7e8`. The route leaves severity and
finding-versus-note classification to risk-nexus and leaves remediation with
qonto-assistant. A resulting risk record or explicit rejection is pending.
Whitehat-security subsequently promoted and closed `WHITEHAT-IN-0002` into
`WHITEHAT-WP-0007` at triage revision `5384f05`. T-01 through T-10 have
individual registrations, known-bad designs, blockers, and result routes. Gate
House accepted the triage and Whitehat's `fixture-asm` / `asm` class split
without revising either Gate House contract. All ten registrations remain
`pending`, so no conformance result exists.
The T-06 blocker did not account for the already-supplied secrets-engine
candidate. Gate House requested a Whitehat-owned sufficiency decision in
message `418fe53b-4a4b-4ebb-909e-62d206cd005f`: admit T-06 as fixture-only and
author the calibration, or preserve `pending` and name the smallest missing
artifact. Review:
`docs/conformance/2026-09-02-whitehat-asm-triage-review.md`.