{
  "confidence": "high",
  "findings": [
    {
      "category": "boundary",
      "description": "Consumption guard gate blocks on pending deepseek advisory. The contract defines deepseek engagement as advisory-only and does not require its success for the guard to pass; all hard no-writeback/advisory-only boundaries are otherwise satisfied.",
      "required_fix": "Adjust gate logic so that deepseek advisory failures are treated as warnings and do not prevent the gate from returning pass, consistent with the advisory-only role specified in the contract.",
      "severity": "high"
    },
    {
      "category": "fingerprint",
      "description": "NOW-33 gate omits target_source_fingerprint; the guard infers it from the selected registry and preflight gate. The inferred value matches the registry payload and preflight gate, providing sufficient linkage. This inference should be explicitly accepted rather than left as an unresolved warning.",
      "required_fix": "Document the inference as an acceptable warning-level linkage and ensure downstream consumers are aware it does not compromise source integrity.",
      "severity": "low"
    },
    {
      "category": "schema",
      "description": "Candidate refs originally stored the surface under a legacy field name; the guard normalised this to matched_surface. This is a cosmetic change and does not affect data integrity or advisory-only semantics.",
      "required_fix": "None required; the normalization is acceptable.",
      "severity": "low"
    }
  ],
  "overall_verdict": "supports_now33_candidate_consumption_guard_no_writeback_closeout",
  "recommended_closeout_label": "NOW33 CANDIDATE CONSUMPTION GUARD NO-WRITEBACK CLOSED",
  "required_fixes": [
    "Remove deepseek advisory pass dependency from consumption guard gate criteria; log failures as warnings only.",
    "Explicitly accept the target_source_fingerprint inference as a valid warning linkage in the guard gate and documentation."
  ],
  "scope_audit": {
    "candidate_refs_remain_advisory_only": true,
    "canonical_uid_binding_or_writeback_blocked": true,
    "deepseek_advisory_only": true,
    "kg_raw_entity_store_overlay_row_mutation_blocked": true,
    "now33_gate_missing_fingerprint_warning_acceptable": true,
    "provider_manual_evidence_route_output_index_blocked": true,
    "registry_content_review_packet_only": true,
    "surface_to_matched_surface_normalization_acceptable": true
  }
}