# H7 validation geography → H1 runtime proof

**Execution date:** 3 October 2026  
**Disposition:** BLOCKED at publishing prerequisite; H1 not completed  
**Review:** Project-agent preflight only, not independent review  
**Architecture:** v0.2 remains RECONCILED CANDIDATE — NOT FROZEN; technology pending validation.

## A. Gate identity and authority

Owner's current complete instruction in this conversation authorizes only H7 validation geography → H1 in this separate disposable validation project. North America is explicitly approved for validation only. The supplied Constitution v1.0 and Technical Direction v1.0 were read in full as supplied, before evidence writes. Older cut-specific validation prohibitions are superseded only within the current explicit H1 boundaries.

No independent reviewer is appointed. No subagent was used. No production, H2–H11 execution, journal/outbox, framework comparison, architecture freeze or Phase 1 work is authorized or performed.

This is an evidence record, not a new governing/planning artifact. Origin documents were not accessed or changed.

## B. Environment

**OBSERVED:** Deployment service returned success=true, isDeployed=false, primaryUrl="", deploymentType="", visibility="", hasSuccessfulBuild=false. No public deployment identity or URL exists in that response.

Current execution surface is identified by registered artifact IDs:
- API Server: `3B4_FFSkEVBkAeYMFRJ2e`, `artifacts/api-server`.
- Canvas: `XegfDyZt7HqfW2Bb8Ghoy`, `artifacts/mockup-sandbox`.

These identify the current surface, not a deployed application. The Owner identifies this as the separate disposable project. A managed REPL_ID lookup returned the key's runtime-managed classification, not its value; a globally unique project ID was not independently obtained.

**OBSERVED:** Development Node v24.13.0 and pnpm 10.26.1. Registry latest metadata returned Astro 7.3.5, @astrojs/node 11.1.6, @astrojs/react 7.0.0, React and React DOM 19.3.0. See raw/version-check.txt.

**INFERRED:** These reported non-prerelease registry versions have mutually compatible Astro/React peer ranges and a Node engine range met by development Node. Package metadata is not installation/build/runtime evidence or a production runtime version record.

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** Actual North America publishing selection, Autoscale configuration, published runtime version, account plan, project cost estimate, available credits, machine limits, synthetic-only published environment, globally unique deployment ID. No versions were installed or selected as ratified.

## C. Documentation verification

Preserved the Owner-supplied prerequisite record unchanged in `docs/owner-prerequisite-record.md`, attributed to its origin. Independently searched official documentation and fetched the five full, non-truncated source texts in `docs/`, on 3 October 2026.

**OBSERVED documentation statements:**
- North America publishing is available. Geography is selected at publishing and permanent thereafter. Development/pre-created-resource locations may differ.
- Autoscale can scale to zero; Static has no backend; Reserved VM is always-on with fixed monthly cost.
- Node publishing must expose the intended single port and not bind that listener only to localhost. Ports documentation still uses differing configuration key examples.
- Secrets become environment variables; production secrets are reviewed in Publishing > Adjust settings; account secrets require linking. Collaborator/code access can expose values.
- Autoscale publishing usage includes outbound data, compute and requests; account usage is viewed in account settings.

**Important search-source distinction:** Search synthesis claimed development secrets are not automatically copied to production. The fetched Secrets source does not establish that categorical statement. Neither automatic sync nor automatic separation is established empirically. The original search response is retained with this correction, not treated as authority.

**INFERRED:** No material official-source contradiction to the proposed bounded design. No framework unsuitability conclusion follows from the control-access blocker.

## D. Build/start evidence

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** No Astro app source, proof lockfile, build/start configuration, clean build, listener, Autoscale build or deployed start was created or executed.

Existing starter files are not approved H1 architecture and were not used as substitute evidence. `starter-context/` preserves only non-secret package configuration and initial repository file inventory. Initial exploratory reads preceded receipt of this cut's instruction; no application edits occurred.

## E. Public HTML / no-JS evidence

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** No synthetic public route or initial HTML was built. No browser/no-JS check was run. No screenshot of the starter or local preview is offered as runtime evidence.

## F. React-island evidence

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** Hydration, keyboard/touch behavior, island isolation, intentional island failure and hydration error checks. No island was constructed.

## G. POST validation / error-path evidence

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** Valid synthetic POST, malformed/oversized rejection, forced error, safe response and safe server log observability. No endpoint was constructed or requested. There is no journal-acceptance claim.

## H. Secret-isolation evidence

**OBSERVED:** Managed secret existence tooling reported SESSION_SECRET=true. No secret value was retrieved, printed, copied, linked, changed or deleted.

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** That pre-existing secret's origin or synthetic provenance, account-link status, published secret inventory, marker read at runtime, non-disclosure in public assets/responses/logs, empirical publication-secret behavior. No H1 marker was created. Presence alone is not proof of production credentials; it is also not proof of a synthetic-only environment.

No unrelated existing secret may be deleted under this cut's cleanup authority.

## I. Header evidence

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** Public success, valid/rejected POST and forced-error headers; deployed CSP compatibility; transport/cache policy. No HTTP response headers were fabricated or inferred.

## J. Publication-resilience mock evidence

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** There is no working public synthetic publication, no controlled failed new-source/build publication attempt, and no deployed-retention observation. No local failure is presented as publication resilience. Actual CMS controls were not demonstrated or implemented.

## K. Warm measurements

Actual route samples: **0**. Actual POST samples: **0**. No percentile, TTFB or regional result is available.

The ≥20 route sample and adequate POST sample requirements remain unmet. For a later authorized run, retain individual samples and explicit p95 method (e.g. nearest rank ceil(0.95*n)), client geography, DNS/TLS/connection reuse, timings and cache status; n=20 is exploratory, not robust tail evidence. Targets remain route p95 ≤800 ms and POST p95 ≤1 s. No target was waived.

## L. Idle/cold observations

Actual idle-to-request observations: **0 of required ≥10**. No idle durations, startup events, median, maximum or cohorts exist. Idle alone cannot prove a cold start. No cold p95 is calculated. The 1.5-second target remains unchanged.

## M. LCP / JavaScript / accessibility

**NOT DEMONSTRATED:** Regional/mobile browser profile, navigation LCP p75, raw/compressed/generated/loaded assets, ≤100 KB compressed initial content-route JS, CLS, keyboard/touch, focus, semantics, contrast, reduced motion and accessibility checks.

No production field Core Web Vitals claims. No browser measurement was substituted with server request timing.

## N. Limitations, attempts, cost and cleanup

### Blocker: mandatory pre-publish account controls cannot be verified here

Evidence-producing checks, performed once each:
1. Deployment service query: successful response, unpublished, no live URL/type/geography evidence.
2. Published interface instructions inspected: geography selection and actual publishing are user-operated UI actions; available metadata does not expose pre-publish geography or usage. No documented agent control can verify the mandatory actual selections here.
3. Official source recheck and secret-existence inspection: proposed design remains documented; actual account cost state and published synthetic environment remain unverified.

These are distinct preflight observations, not three failed deployments. **Deployment attempts: 0.** No unchanged retry. Earlier safe BLOCKED conclusion is permitted; no need to exhaust three costly approaches.

**Current hypothesis (INFERRED):** This is an execution-surface/control-access limitation, not observed Astro/Replit runtime failure.

**Cost:** No new subscription, package installation, deployment, database, storage, vendor or material recurring commitment was initiated. Documentation/tool/evidence activity occurred; actual metered agent/account charges and usage were not visible, so no zero-cost claim is made.

**Cleanup:** No cut-created cloud/deployment resource exists to clean. Existing starter resources, workflows and secret were left untouched. Evidence files/archive remain for review; no deletion of evidence or unrelated resources. No governing source documents were altered.

**Smallest proposed disposition:** Owner/review function assesses this BLOCKED return. Any resumption must verify continuing authority and provide observable North America selection, Autoscale/cost settings, synthetic-only secret provenance and the user-operated publish step. Do not reopen frameworks or execute another gate to bypass the blocker.

## O. Final disposition

**BLOCKED.** Mandatory publishing prerequisites cannot be verified with the available controls. H1 runtime, security, quality, performance and resilience acceptance evidence has not been obtained. No PASS or PASS WITH ADJUSTMENT is supportable.

H7 Owner validation-geography approval is recorded; actual deployed geography and H7 production closure are not demonstrated. Technical gate disposition is not independent acceptance or closure.

**STOP for independent review and Owner disposition.**