{
  "confidence": "high",
  "confirmed_points": [
    "All Now-32..35 operations are read-only sidecars that do not mutate production state, indices, or evidence.",
    "No provider jobs, media generation, evidence creation, feedback ingestion, repair/replay, or KG writeback is authorized or performed.",
    "Held rows remain held; no promotion to ready/production occurs under this closeout.",
    "Debt classification and clearance readiness are manifest-driven, with no runtime branching by chapter/entity/title.",
    "The DeepSeek role remains advisory-only, substituting for human judgment only within non-evidentiary tasks.",
    "The recommended sequence correctly keeps Now-32 as the primary activity and labels further steps as `activate_as_read_only_sidecar`, avoiding overt route transitions.",
    "Missing asset gaps are flagged as advisory findings rather than hard closeout blockers, consistent with the asset gap rule.",
    "The overall verdict `supports_now32_35_controlled_closeout` appropriately endorses the approach without elevating it to production readiness."
  ],
  "control_plane_updates_final": [
    "execution_state.next_entrypoint must remain `platform_neutral_prompt_readiness_manual_execution_log_contract` throughout all Now-32..35 operations; no route transition occurs.",
    "All Now-32/33/34/35 artifacts must be written to dedicated sidecar/draft directories, never to production indices or outputs/ folders.",
    "Artifact naming must explicitly include `advisory_` or `draft_` prefixes to prevent confusion with evidence or production artefacts.",
    "The execution state log must record the generation of these sidecar files as advisory actions, not as completed production stages.",
    "No acceptance/operator overlay, canonical KG write, raw KG write, or outputs/index.json mutation is permitted.",
    "Control plane sync includes only non-production file additions; no state promotions occur."
  ],
  "corrections_to_round1": [
    "Artifact names like `now32_clearance_readiness_manifest.json` should be renamed to `now32_advisory_held_debt_audit.json` to avoid implying formal clearance or readiness.",
    "The status `activate_as_read_only_sidecar` should be changed to `advisory_sidecar_artifact_generated`; the word 'activate' may be misinterpreted as a route authority transition.",
    "Explicitly state that the execution of Now-33/34/35 steps does **not** constitute new route entries; they operate under the existing Now-32 authority and must not alter `next_entrypoint`.",
    "Clarify that while missing asset links are not hard failures for this advisory closeout, they **are** absolute blockers for any production evidence pack and must be resolved before that separate gate.",
    "Refine recommended operator actions to acknowledge that DeepSeek may provide advisory recommendations, but any actual evidence creation, promotion, or provider authorization still requires explicit operator or contractual evidence-authorization beyond this closeout.",
    "Add a warning that the Now-34 structural validator and Now-35 reviewer harness are purely advisory tools; their outputs must never be used as automated acceptance gates or production quality scores without a separate reviewed contract."
  ],
  "final_advisory_basis": "This critique evaluates Round 1 against the non-negotiable project boundaries, specific critique questions, and the required output schema. Round 1 correctly confines all activity to read-only advisory sidecars and does not authorize production actions. Minor ambiguities in naming, status language, and operator delegation roles are corrected to further reduce risk of misinterpretation. The underling architecture—debt surfacing, entity-asset mapping, schema/validator drafting, and reviewer harness setup—is well-structured and compatible with the boundaries when the clarifications are applied.",
  "must_not_do_final": [
    "Execute provider jobs or generate any media.",
    "Create filled manual/provider/operator evidence.",
    "Ingest feedback or execute repair/replay.",
    "Write accepted/operator overlay, canonical KG, or raw KG.",
    "Mutate outputs/index.json or outputs/index-lite.json.",
    "Treat DeepSeek/advisory/template artifacts as evidence or acceptance.",
    "Directly continue old B7 downstream without separate authorization.",
    "Runtime-branch by chapter/entity/title/block/sample text; held/debt logic must remain manifest-driven.",
    "Present any Now-33/34/35 output as production payload or provider prompt.",
    "Overwrite the proposed closeout model with any execution-authorizing action.",
    "Use artifact names that imply production readiness (e.g., 'ready', 'accepted', 'evidence').",
    "Automatically promote held rows or transition route authority based on these advisory steps.",
    "Treat Now-34 structural dry-run failures as blocking production gates without operator review.",
    "Claim that DeepSeek advisory constitutes operator evidence or acceptance."
  ],
  "required_contract_clarifications": [
    "Define explicit route authority for executing Now-33/34/35 sidecar generation under the current Now-32 active route; clarify that these steps do not require a `next_entrypoint` change.",
    "Specify the process for transitioning from advisory closeout assets to production evidence creation, including required operator or separate evidence-authorizing contracts.",
    "Clarify the precise boundaries of DeepSeek+agent discretion for 'advice-style gates' versus actions that require real operator/provider evidence.",
    "Establish naming and storage conventions for sidecar/advisory artifacts to prevent accidental misuse as production evidence, including mandatory `advisory_` prefix and dedicated `/sidecars/` paths.",
    "Document the gate between Now-34 structural checks (which may hard-fail on structural contract violations) and full aesthetic/industry quality (which must remain advisory and never automated as pass/fail).",
    "Update the reviewer harness rule (Now-35) to explicitly forbid generation of any file that could be interpreted as a production score or overlay, even if labelled 'advisory'."
  ],
  "residual_risks": [
    "Artifact names, if not corrected, could lead operators or downstream tools to treat them as formal evidence or clearance certificates.",
    "Operator inattentiveness may result in stalled pipeline if they do not actively review manifests and resolve missing assets.",
    "Now-34 structural validator, if over-relied upon, might give a false sense of overall quality; full semantic/aesthetic validation remains out of scope.",
    "Now-35 reviewer harness could be mistakenly activated in a production feedback loop without proper contracts, leading to unintended acceptance or score overwrites.",
    "Missing asset gaps, though documented, may be forgotten if not tied to a mandatory gate before production readiness.",
    "DeepSeek advisory outputs, if not clearly watermarked, could be confused with operator judgments and accidentally promoted to evidence.",
    "The closeout model does not itself enforce operator action; without explicit follow-up tasks, the system could remain indefinitely in a 'ready but not executed' state."
  ],
  "revised_closeout_model": {
    "now32": "Advisory held-debt audit and draft manifest created; no promotions or evidence. Artifacts: `now32_advisory_held_debt_audit.json`, `now32_advisory_blocked_prerequisites_map.json`, `now32_advisory_chapter_readiness_report.json`.",
    "now33": "Advisory entity-link and asset-slot mapping generated as sidecar files; missing assets flagged. Artifacts: `now33_advisory_entity_link_map.json`, `now33_advisory_asset_slot_map.json`, `now33_advisory_missing_asset_report.json`.",
    "now34": "Advisory provider-neutral schema and structural validator drafted; dry-run report produced. Artifacts: `now34_advisory_provider_neutral_schema.json`, `now34_advisory_structural_validator.py`, `now34_advisory_dry_run_structural_report.txt`.",
    "now35": "Advisory DeepSeek reviewer harness configured with sample records; no acceptance scores. Artifacts: `now35_advisory_deepseek_reviewer_config.yaml`, `now35_advisory_review_schemas/`, `now35_advisory_sample_records.json`.",
    "overall_status_label": "advisory_readiness_assessment_completed_non_production"
  },
  "round2_verdict": "round1_supported_with_corrections",
  "validator_expectations_final": [
    "Ensure no acceptance/operator overlay is written during any Now-32..35 step.",
    "Verify no canonical KG, raw KG, or outputs index mutation occurs.",
    "Confirm no provider payload, provider syntax, adapter payload, or media file is generated.",
    "Scan all output paths: they must be in dedicated sidecar/draft locations, not overwriting production files or `outputs/` contents.",
    "Check that `execution_state.next_entrypoint` remains `platform_neutral_prompt_readiness_manual_execution_log_contract`.",
    "For Now-32, validate the manifest does not contain any promoted row assertions or production status claims.",
    "For Now-33, ensure entity links and asset maps reference only existing draft row IDs and no KG write calls are present.",
    "For Now-34, confirm the validator outputs only structural pass/fail and advisory text; no payload artifacts or provider-specific strategies.",
    "For Now-35, verify harness outputs are sample/advisory records with no acceptance scores, index modifications, or evidence claims.",
    "Artifact names must contain `advisory_` or `draft_` prefix and must not use terms like `ready`, `accepted`, `evidence`, or `production`.",
    "Overall, run a boundary trace against the full `must_not_do_final` list; any violation should cause a hard fail.",
    "Confirm that the advisory closeout model does not directly trigger any downstream production pipeline without an explicit, separate route-authority transition contract."
  ]
}