diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8d9a4ed..c9b5987 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -505,5 +505,17 @@ wp0024-owner-verify: ## Run one owner's named read-only checks (set OWNER)
 wp0024-owner-status: ## Collect current hash-bound owner receipts from State Hub
 	@python3 scripts/wp0024-owner-review.py status
 
-.PHONY: audit-whitehat-e2-preflight audit-whitehat-e2-project audit-whitehat-e2-cleanup audit-database-lease-recovery-preflight audit-database-lease-approval-check audit-database-lease-recovery-exercise railiance01-reboot-preflight wp0024-owner-show wp0024-owner-verify wp0024-owner-status apps-pg-isolation-probe
+wp0024-t02-driver-show: ## Show the exact T02 synthetic-load driver interface
+	@python3 scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py show
+
+wp0024-t02-driver-status: ## Collect a revision-pinned audit-core driver candidate
+	@python3 scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py status
+
+wp0024-t02-driver-register: ## Register committed audit-core driver source without executing it
+	@test -n "$(DRIVER)" || { echo 'set DRIVER to a path relative to the audit-core repo' >&2; exit 2; }
+	@test -n "$(REVIEWER)" || { echo 'set REVIEWER to the audit-core reviewer identifier' >&2; exit 2; }
+	@python3 scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py register \
+	  --repo "$(abspath ../audit-core)" --driver "$(DRIVER)" --reviewer "$(REVIEWER)"
+
+.PHONY: audit-whitehat-e2-preflight audit-whitehat-e2-project audit-whitehat-e2-cleanup audit-database-lease-recovery-preflight audit-database-lease-approval-check audit-database-lease-recovery-exercise railiance01-reboot-preflight wp0024-owner-show wp0024-owner-verify wp0024-owner-status wp0024-t02-driver-show wp0024-t02-driver-status wp0024-t02-driver-register apps-pg-isolation-probe
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diff --git a/docs/wp0024-owner-review-interface.md b/docs/wp0024-owner-review-interface.md
index c4e4652..def5ba1 100644
--- a/docs/wp0024-owner-review-interface.md
+++ b/docs/wp0024-owner-review-interface.md
@@ -63,3 +63,28 @@ are counted as stale and cannot satisfy an aggregate.
 The interface uses `STATE_HUB_URL` when set and otherwise connects to
 `http://127.0.0.1:8000`. The same value can be supplied explicitly with the
 top-level `--api-base` option before the subcommand.
+
+## T02 synthetic-load candidate
+
+After procedure receipts are complete, audit-core can implement directly
+against `interfaces/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-synthetic-load-driver.json`. The
+contract fixes all four phases, exact JSON keys, accepted statuses, retry
+semantics, value-safety requirements, and custody boundary.
+
+The owner registers committed source without executing it:
+
+```bash
+python3 scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py register \
+  --repo ../audit-core \
+  --driver scripts/<approved-driver> \
+  --reviewer audit-core
+```
+
+Registration refuses untracked, modified, non-executable, or out-of-repository
+source. Its State Hub receipt contains the full source commit and SHA-256 driver
+revision. It neither runs synthetic traffic nor authorizes a lease revocation.
+Coordination collects the candidate with:
+
+```bash
+python3 scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py status
+```
diff --git a/interfaces/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-synthetic-load-driver.json b/interfaces/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-synthetic-load-driver.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3012dbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/interfaces/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-synthetic-load-driver.json
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+{
+  "interface": "railiance.synthetic-load-driver",
+  "version": 1,
+  "workplan_id": "RAILIANCE-WP-0024",
+  "task_id": "RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02",
+  "contract_id": "RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-SYNTHETIC-01",
+  "owner": "audit-core",
+  "invocation": [
+    "<driver>",
+    "<phase>",
+    "--contract-id",
+    "RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-SYNTHETIC-01"
+  ],
+  "stdout": "Exactly one JSON object containing exactly the keys declared for the phase.",
+  "stderr": "Must not contain a bearer, payload, response body, database credential, Secret data or OpenBao output.",
+  "phases": {
+    "baseline": {
+      "keys": [
+        "contract_id",
+        "fixture_id",
+        "status",
+        "secret_values_observed"
+      ],
+      "status": [
+        "ready"
+      ]
+    },
+    "expect-unavailable": {
+      "keys": [
+        "contract_id",
+        "fixture_id",
+        "status",
+        "http_status",
+        "attempts",
+        "secret_values_observed"
+      ],
+      "status": [
+        "retryable_unavailable"
+      ],
+      "http_status": [
+        503
+      ],
+      "minimum_attempts": 1
+    },
+    "expect-recovered": {
+      "keys": [
+        "contract_id",
+        "fixture_id",
+        "status",
+        "http_status",
+        "attempts",
+        "secret_values_observed"
+      ],
+      "status": [
+        "accepted",
+        "duplicate"
+      ],
+      "http_status": [
+        200,
+        202
+      ],
+      "minimum_attempts": 1
+    },
+    "cleanup": {
+      "keys": [
+        "contract_id",
+        "fixture_id",
+        "status",
+        "secret_values_observed"
+      ],
+      "status": [
+        "clean"
+      ]
+    }
+  },
+  "invariants": [
+    "contract_id equals the requested contract on every phase",
+    "fixture_id is identical across every phase",
+    "secret_values_observed is false on every phase",
+    "only a separately approved synthetic sender and tenant are used",
+    "the bearer is read only from an approved mounted file and never reaches the parent shell",
+    "expect-unavailable treats HTTP 503 as retryable evidence and never retries 400, 401, 403 or 409",
+    "cleanup stops and removes driver-owned ephemeral runtime; an accepted immutable audit fixture is retained under the audit evidence contract",
+    "temporary sender identity cleanup remains an attended railiance-platform custody action"
+  ],
+  "candidate_receipt": {
+    "source_repo": "audit-core",
+    "required_fields": [
+      "source_revision",
+      "source_path",
+      "driver_revision",
+      "reviewer",
+      "created_at"
+    ],
+    "registration_executes_driver": false
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py b/scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d0b12f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py
@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Register or inspect a revision-pinned T02 synthetic-load driver candidate.
+
+Registration reads and hashes committed source.  It never executes the driver,
+reads a bearer, or authorizes the live database-lease exercise.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import hashlib
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.parse
+import urllib.request
+from datetime import UTC, datetime
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+DEFAULT_CONTRACT = ROOT / "interfaces" / "RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-synthetic-load-driver.json"
+DEFAULT_AUDIT_REPO = ROOT.parent / "audit-core"
+DEFAULT_API_BASE = os.environ.get("STATE_HUB_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:8000")
+PREFIX = "WP0024-T02-DRIVER-CANDIDATE"
+
+
+class CandidateError(RuntimeError):
+    pass
+
+
+def canonical(value: Any) -> str:
+    return json.dumps(value, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"), ensure_ascii=True)
+
+
+def digest(value: bytes) -> str:
+    return hashlib.sha256(value).hexdigest()
+
+
+def load_contract(path: Path = DEFAULT_CONTRACT) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    try:
+        value = json.loads(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError) as exc:
+        raise CandidateError("synthetic-load contract is unavailable or invalid") from exc
+    if (
+        not isinstance(value, dict)
+        or value.get("interface") != "railiance.synthetic-load-driver"
+        or value.get("version") != 1
+        or value.get("task_id") != "RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02"
+        or value.get("owner") != "audit-core"
+    ):
+        raise CandidateError("unsupported synthetic-load contract")
+    phases = value.get("phases")
+    if not isinstance(phases, dict) or set(phases) != {
+        "baseline", "expect-unavailable", "expect-recovered", "cleanup"
+    }:
+        raise CandidateError("synthetic-load contract has the wrong phase set")
+    for phase, record in phases.items():
+        if not isinstance(record, dict) or not record.get("keys") or not record.get("status"):
+            raise CandidateError(f"synthetic-load phase is incomplete: {phase}")
+    return value
+
+
+def contract_digest(contract: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    return digest(canonical(contract).encode("utf-8"))
+
+
+def run_git(repo: Path, args: list[str]) -> str:
+    completed = subprocess.run(
+        ["git", "-C", str(repo), *args], text=True, capture_output=True, check=False
+    )
+    if completed.returncode != 0:
+        raise CandidateError("cannot resolve committed driver source")
+    return completed.stdout.strip()
+
+
+def inspect_driver(repo: Path, source_path: str) -> dict[str, str]:
+    repo = repo.resolve()
+    target = (repo / source_path).resolve()
+    try:
+        relative = target.relative_to(repo).as_posix()
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        raise CandidateError("driver path escapes the audit-core repository") from exc
+    if not target.is_file() or not os.access(target, os.X_OK):
+        raise CandidateError("driver candidate must be an executable file")
+    if run_git(repo, ["status", "--porcelain", "--", relative]):
+        raise CandidateError("driver candidate must be committed with no path-local changes")
+    tracked = run_git(repo, ["ls-files", "--error-unmatch", "--", relative])
+    if tracked != relative:
+        raise CandidateError("driver candidate is not tracked at the requested path")
+    revision = run_git(repo, ["log", "-1", "--format=%H", "--", relative])
+    if not re.fullmatch(r"[0-9a-f]{40}", revision):
+        raise CandidateError("driver source revision is not a full Git commit")
+    return {
+        "source_repo": "audit-core",
+        "source_revision": revision,
+        "source_path": relative,
+        "driver_revision": "sha256:" + digest(target.read_bytes()),
+    }
+
+
+def reviewer(value: str) -> str:
+    if not re.fullmatch(r"[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._:@/+\-]{1,127}", value):
+        raise CandidateError("reviewer must be a stable 2-128 character identifier")
+    return value
+
+
+def build_receipt(
+    contract: dict[str, Any], source: dict[str, str], reviewer_id: str,
+    *, now: datetime | None = None,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    return {
+        "interface": "railiance.synthetic-load-driver-candidate",
+        "version": 1,
+        "workplan_id": contract["workplan_id"],
+        "task_id": contract["task_id"],
+        "contract_id": contract["contract_id"],
+        "contract_digest": contract_digest(contract),
+        "owner": "audit-core",
+        "reviewer": reviewer(reviewer_id),
+        **source,
+        "created_at": (now or datetime.now(UTC)).astimezone(UTC).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z"),
+        "registration_executed_driver": False,
+        "secret_values_observed": False,
+    }
+
+
+def subject(receipt: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    return "/".join((PREFIX, "v1", receipt["contract_digest"], receipt["driver_revision"][7:]))
+
+
+def http_json(method: str, url: str, payload: dict[str, Any] | None = None) -> Any:
+    data = canonical(payload).encode("utf-8") if payload is not None else None
+    request = urllib.request.Request(
+        url, data=data, method=method,
+        headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"} if data else {},
+    )
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=10) as response:
+            return json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
+    except (OSError, urllib.error.URLError, json.JSONDecodeError) as exc:
+        raise CandidateError(f"State Hub request failed: {method} {url}") from exc
+
+
+def post(receipt: dict[str, Any], api_base: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    value = http_json(
+        "POST",
+        f"{api_base.rstrip('/')}/messages/",
+        {
+            "from_agent": "audit-core",
+            "to_agent": "railiance-platform",
+            "subject": subject(receipt),
+            "body": canonical(receipt),
+        },
+    )
+    if not isinstance(value, dict):
+        raise CandidateError("State Hub returned an invalid candidate response")
+    return value
+
+
+def parse_message(message: dict[str, Any], contract: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
+    if message.get("from_agent") != "audit-core":
+        return None
+    try:
+        receipt = json.loads(message["body"])
+    except (KeyError, TypeError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+        return None
+    if not isinstance(receipt, dict):
+        return None
+    try:
+        valid = (
+            message.get("subject") == subject(receipt)
+            and receipt.get("interface") == "railiance.synthetic-load-driver-candidate"
+            and receipt.get("version") == 1
+            and receipt.get("task_id") == contract["task_id"]
+            and receipt.get("contract_id") == contract["contract_id"]
+            and receipt.get("contract_digest") == contract_digest(contract)
+            and receipt.get("owner") == "audit-core"
+            and receipt.get("source_repo") == "audit-core"
+            and re.fullmatch(r"[0-9a-f]{40}", receipt.get("source_revision", ""))
+            and re.fullmatch(r"sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}", receipt.get("driver_revision", ""))
+            and receipt.get("registration_executed_driver") is False
+            and receipt.get("secret_values_observed") is False
+        )
+    except (KeyError, TypeError):
+        return None
+    return receipt if valid else None
+
+
+def status(contract: dict[str, Any], api_base: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    query = urllib.parse.urlencode({"to_agent": "railiance-platform", "limit": 500})
+    value = http_json("GET", f"{api_base.rstrip('/')}/messages/?{query}")
+    if not isinstance(value, list):
+        raise CandidateError("State Hub messages response is not a list")
+    candidates = [item for message in value if (item := parse_message(message, contract))]
+    latest = max(candidates, key=lambda item: item.get("created_at", ""), default=None)
+    return {
+        "interface": contract["interface"],
+        "version": contract["version"],
+        "task_id": contract["task_id"],
+        "contract_id": contract["contract_id"],
+        "contract_digest": contract_digest(contract),
+        "candidate_registered": latest is not None,
+        "candidate": latest,
+    }
+
+
+def parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
+    result = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    result.add_argument("--contract", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_CONTRACT)
+    result.add_argument("--api-base", default=DEFAULT_API_BASE)
+    sub = result.add_subparsers(dest="command", required=True)
+    sub.add_parser("show")
+    register = sub.add_parser("register")
+    register.add_argument("--repo", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_AUDIT_REPO)
+    register.add_argument("--driver", required=True, help="path relative to the audit-core repo")
+    register.add_argument("--reviewer", required=True)
+    sub.add_parser("status")
+    return result
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
+    args = parser().parse_args(argv)
+    try:
+        contract = load_contract(args.contract)
+        if args.command == "show":
+            output = {**contract, "contract_digest": contract_digest(contract)}
+        elif args.command == "register":
+            source = inspect_driver(args.repo, args.driver)
+            receipt = build_receipt(contract, source, args.reviewer)
+            response = post(receipt, args.api_base)
+            output = {"submitted": True, "message_id": response.get("id"), "receipt": receipt}
+        else:
+            output = status(contract, args.api_base)
+    except CandidateError as exc:
+        print(canonical({"ok": False, "error": str(exc)}), file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+    print(json.dumps(output, indent=2, sort_keys=True))
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/tests/test_wp0024_t02_driver_candidate.py b/tests/test_wp0024_t02_driver_candidate.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee9b69b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_wp0024_t02_driver_candidate.py
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import importlib.util
+import json
+import unittest
+from datetime import UTC, datetime
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+
+
+def load(name: str, path: Path):
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(name, path)
+    assert spec and spec.loader
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+candidate = load(
+    "wp0024_t02_driver_candidate",
+    ROOT / "scripts" / "wp0024-t02-driver-candidate.py",
+)
+harness = load(
+    "audit_core_database_lease_recovery_for_driver_contract",
+    ROOT / "scripts" / "audit-core-database-lease-recovery.py",
+)
+
+
+class DriverCandidateTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self) -> None:
+        self.contract = candidate.load_contract()
+
+    def test_contract_exactly_matches_harness_evidence_keys(self) -> None:
+        phase_keys = {
+            phase: set(record["keys"])
+            for phase, record in self.contract["phases"].items()
+        }
+        self.assertEqual(harness.EXPECTED_DRIVER_KEYS, phase_keys)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            "RAILIANCE-WP-0024-T02-SYNTHETIC-01",
+            self.contract["contract_id"],
+        )
+
+    def test_candidate_receipt_round_trip(self) -> None:
+        source = {
+            "source_repo": "audit-core",
+            "source_revision": "a" * 40,
+            "source_path": "scripts/lease-load.py",
+            "driver_revision": "sha256:" + "b" * 64,
+        }
+        receipt = candidate.build_receipt(
+            self.contract,
+            source,
+            "audit-core",
+            now=datetime(2026, 8, 22, 14, 0, tzinfo=UTC),
+        )
+        message = {
+            "from_agent": "audit-core",
+            "subject": candidate.subject(receipt),
+            "body": candidate.canonical(receipt),
+        }
+        self.assertEqual(receipt, candidate.parse_message(message, self.contract))
+        self.assertFalse(receipt["registration_executed_driver"])
+        self.assertFalse(receipt["secret_values_observed"])
+
+    def test_wrong_contract_digest_is_rejected(self) -> None:
+        receipt = candidate.build_receipt(
+            self.contract,
+            {
+                "source_repo": "audit-core",
+                "source_revision": "a" * 40,
+                "source_path": "scripts/lease-load.py",
+                "driver_revision": "sha256:" + "b" * 64,
+            },
+            "audit-core",
+        )
+        receipt["contract_digest"] = "0" * 64
+        message = {
+            "from_agent": "audit-core",
+            "subject": candidate.subject(receipt),
+            "body": json.dumps(receipt),
+        }
+        self.assertIsNone(candidate.parse_message(message, self.contract))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/workplans/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-audit-core-custody-and-recovery-coordination.md b/workplans/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-audit-core-custody-and-recovery-coordination.md
index 62e838f..fb33f38 100644
--- a/workplans/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-audit-core-custody-and-recovery-coordination.md
+++ b/workplans/RAILIANCE-WP-0024-audit-core-custody-and-recovery-coordination.md
@@ -130,6 +130,15 @@ The procedure's responsibility table now uses the same metadata-only selection
 rule; it no longer claims lease metadata exposes or matches a mounted database
 username.
 
+**Owner receipts complete (2026-08-22):** the canonical direct-review contract
+`f86d418f951f829f075de04dd825c6e2e185e577019ee23d6da1fa9040302d62`
+is approved by audit-core (`0c0e3dff-c7fd-4fac-898b-1aec160f4753`),
+rapp-postgres (`e958f75a-4e41-4103-9261-a4393eb6f1ef`), and
+railiance-platform (`52ab4c51-0950-45e8-a592-564dc2a450bb`). T02 no longer
+waits on procedure review. Its remaining gates are a revision-pinned approved
+synthetic-load driver, a named abort operator, and a non-overlapping ≤15-minute
+live window after the Whitehat engagement cleanup.
+
 ## T03 — Define the coordinated railiance01 reboot exercise
 
 ```task
@@ -180,6 +189,16 @@ did not measure the complete post-unseal ESO, audit-chain, and accepted-event
 recovery path required here. T03 therefore still needs one deliberate run, but
 does not need to rediscover the expected boot order.
 
+**Owner receipts complete (2026-08-22):** the same canonical contract is
+approved by audit-core (`0c0e3dff-c7fd-4fac-898b-1aec160f4753`),
+rapp-postgres (`e958f75a-4e41-4103-9261-a4393eb6f1ef`),
+railiance-cluster (`f5919864-b7f1-40b5-b07e-d19055dffca8`),
+railiance-infra (`9bbf986c-7385-42de-964f-9040eebdfee4`), and
+railiance-platform (`52ab4c51-0950-45e8-a592-564dc2a450bb`). T03 no longer
+waits on procedure review. Its remaining gates are the approved outage window,
+fresh encrypted off-host OpenBao snapshot receipt, provider-console access,
+2-of-3 Shamir quorum, and named abort operator.
+
 ## T04 — Route the contracts and approval gates
 
 ```task