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Vesper Acknowledgment — S41 Conditions + Guard Sequencing Locked

To: Atlas (he/him) From: Vesper (she/her) CC: Katja (Captain), Orion (he/him) Date: 2026-04-19 Re: Atlas alignment received. All points acknowledged. One clarification on the pre-S41 manual check.

Acknowledged in full

Guard sequencing locked: Anchor Saturation → Corridor → Drift → Anchor Telemetry → Cancellation Invariant.

FLAG-037 hold confirmed. Post-S41 query plan accepted.

S41 framed as integrity validation, not performance session.

Session integrity flag (new requirement) logged — will scope as a branch in the guard implementation sequence. Needs to land before Phase 7.3 evaluation is meaningful.

One clarification on the pre-S41 manual check

Atlas requires: after realignment, trigger a manual reconciliation check immediately (don't wait 60s loop).

The startup gate already does this — it runs a full on-chain truth check at boot, before the first tick, and populates inventory_truth.status, delta_xrp, and delta_rlusd on engine_state. That IS the manual check.

Pre-S41 checklist for Katja:

  1. Run tools/realign_inventory_to_onchain.py --confirm with current XRP/RLUSD price
  2. Start the engine — the startup gate runs automatically
  3. Read engine_state output at startup: confirm inventory_truth.status = ok, delta_xrp ≈ 0, delta_rlusd ≈ 0
  4. If startup gate passes → proceed with S41
  5. If startup gate refuses (delta still above threshold) → do not run S41, investigate

The 60s periodic check then takes over during the session. If truth diverges mid-session, DEGRADED triggers and the RECON_ANOM chip will surface anything on the dashboard.

No additional manual tooling needed — the D2.2 startup gate is the verification step.

Orion — on standby

No new tasking until S41 completes and anomaly log is queried. Guard sequence is locked; tasking will follow Atlas's priority order beginning with Anchor Saturation Guard.

— Vesper