Evidence manifest: media gateway live validation

This directory contains the bounded, sanitized public record for the exact merged media-gateway live validation performed on 2026-08-28.

Files

• live-validation.json — machine-readable source, protocol, artifact, quality, negative-control, restoration, and caveat data.
• publication-summary.md — derivative compact copy and claim ledger.
• Dated finding — complete narrative, method, failures, and promotion boundary.

Provenance and sanitization

The record was produced from authenticated exact-build gateway, controller, Hermes, A2A, artifact, decoder, and managed-lifecycle observations. It names display labels only. Private addresses, endpoint URLs, credentials, personal paths, raw prompts, job identifiers, artifact identifiers, logs, and runtime databases are omitted.

The generated PNG/MP4 files and contact sheet were transient validation artifacts. They are not checked in because public evidence policy excludes binary artifacts without an approved immutable external home. The JSON retains their byte sizes, SHA-256 digests, format/decode facts, and the separately administered adversarial review dispositions. This preserves the review record but does not make the pixels publicly re-inspectable; the dated finding states that limitation explicitly.

The isolated candidate services and credential-bearing runtime directories were removed after verification. The managed ComfyUI model volumes and pinned assets remain operator-owned and were not deleted.