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diff --git a/docs/CONTEXTUAL_LEARNING_AND_DELIVERY_VELOCITY_PLAN.md b/docs/CONTEXTUAL_LEARNING_AND_DELIVERY_VELOCITY_PLAN.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Contextual Learning and Delivery Velocity Plan
 
-> **Status:** Every previously eligible engineering lane is implemented and green through B8. Release 1C entered engineering validation on 2026-08-30 under a dated founder exception that waives waiting for real-learner evidence but preserves its security, cost, quality, accessibility, CI, review, rollback, and production-browser gates. Human judge calibration and learner outcomes remain explicit non-claims. B6 still requires its DAU trigger.
+> **Status:** Every previously eligible engineering lane is implemented and green through B8. Release 1C merged, deployed, and passed exact-SHA production verification on 2026-08-31 under the dated founder exception that waived waiting for real-learner evidence while preserving its security, cost, quality, accessibility, CI, review, rollback, and production-browser gates. Human judge calibration and learner outcomes remain explicit non-claims. B6 still requires its DAU trigger.
 >
 > **Prepared:** 2026-07-30
 >
@@ -434,6 +434,18 @@ not promote production. The live rollback/forward-promotion drill is a separate
 post-merge operational obligation required before declaring the production
 gate fully exercised.
 
+**Live-drill completion (2026-08-31):** rollback run
+[`33409584774`](https://github.com/msrivas-7/CodeTutor-AI/actions/runs/33409584774)
+promoted retained candidate `297a09b4d4873d10e1b1e688f151f8a3a325fcb3`
+and passed independent frontend-identity and backend deep-health checks in 2m39s.
+Forward release
+[`33409904066`](https://github.com/msrivas-7/CodeTutor-AI/actions/runs/33409904066)
+restored exact current candidate `4edcd73fa3a8669ac09495fbb7d5234d8ccfc742`;
+production synthetic
+[`33411478984`](https://github.com/msrivas-7/CodeTutor-AI/actions/runs/33411478984)
+and in-app Browser phase audit `fcaf8da5-d989-46be-8f94-3f634c469050`
+then passed. No database migration existed between the two candidates.
+
 Deliver:
 
 - build immutable frontend and backend artifacts once;
@@ -699,15 +711,33 @@ Exit:
 
 ### Release 1C — Contextual tutor offer
 
-**Founder exception and implementation status (2026-08-30):** engineering work
-is in final validation on `dev/contextual-tutor-1c`. The founder explicitly
-waived waiting for real-learner experiment evidence. The exception does not
-weaken the security, cost, AI-quality, deterministic, accessibility,
-live-browser, CI, review, rollback, or production-verification gates. The
-two-human judge calibration is not complete and is not claimed. See
-`docs/RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md` for the decision record and current matrix.
-
-**Entry gate:** Release 1B's preregistered experiment passes the primary recovery rule and every applicable guardrail in Section 10.3; B2, eval v2, authority, idempotency, cost, and security gates also pass. Five qualitative sessions alone cannot unlock 1C.
+**Founder exception and delivery status (2026-08-31):** Release 1C merged in
+PR #41, its evidence-scoped recovery follow-up merged in PR #42, and both exact
+SHAs passed release, production synthetic, and interactive production-browser
+verification. The founder explicitly waived waiting for real-learner
+experiment evidence. The exception did not weaken the security, cost,
+AI-quality, deterministic, accessibility, live-browser, CI, review, rollback,
+or production-verification requirements. Automated rollback contracts passed,
+and Release 0P's separate live production rollback/forward-promotion drill
+subsequently passed on 2026-08-31 with exact identity, health, synthetic, and
+Browser evidence. The two-human judge calibration remains incomplete and is
+not claimed. See
+`docs/RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md` for the decision record and evidence matrix.
+
+**Applied entry gate:** the dated founder exception superseded Release 1B's
+preregistered learner experiment and five-session prerequisites for this
+engineering release. B2, deterministic AI-safety validators, the complete
+automated eval-v2 run, authority, idempotency, cost, security, accessibility,
+CI, review, automated rollback controls, and production journey verification
+remained mandatory and passed. The separate live 0P rollback/forward-promotion
+drill also passed on 2026-08-31, restoring the exact current candidate before
+synthetic and live-browser acceptance. The automated model run was provisional risk evidence, not
+authoritative eval-v2 approval: Section 9.2's separate two-human judge
+calibration was not performed and remains required before automated judging can
+support an authoritative quality claim. The engineering release was supported
+by deterministic safeguards, provisional automated evidence, an independent
+kill switch, exact-SHA deployment, and production-browser verification; it does
+not establish calibrated human agreement, learner recovery, or retention.
 
 **Complexity:** two to four weeks.
 
@@ -1171,7 +1201,10 @@ risk decision. Release 0D is now implemented on this branch, so server
 authority, atomic admission, answer-leak protection, output safety, and model
 eligibility are non-bypassable. The production disable/rollback drill target
 remains under 10 minutes and must be recorded as operational evidence rather
-than inferred from automated tests.
+than inferred from automated tests. The 2026-08-31 live drill completed
+rollback in 2m39s, forward-promoted the exact current candidate, and passed
+synthetic plus Browser acceptance; its evidence is recorded in the Release 0P
+section and `docs/RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md`.
 
 ## 10. Success and stop gates
 
@@ -1243,13 +1276,13 @@ list of unfinished engineering work.
 
 ### P0
 
-1. **0P — implementation complete:** approved candidate manifest and exact artifact promotion; the post-merge live rollback/forward drill remains operational evidence.
+1. **0P — complete:** approved candidate manifest and exact artifact promotion; the 2026-08-31 live rollback/forward drill passed with recorded identity, health, synthetic, and Browser evidence.
 2. **0B — complete:** suffix-scoped E2E teardown, non-test-user deletion guard, and overlapping-run proof.
 3. **1A — complete:** late Run/Check/tutor operation identity and stale-result rejection.
 4. **0D — complete:** atomic platform-AI reservation/admission and complete eval gate v2.
 5. **0C — complete:** first-run complete-answer rescue removed.
 6. **0A — engineering complete:** internal non-counting share preview path and truthful share outcomes; real-destination production unfurls remain external evidence.
-7. **0D before 1C — prerequisite complete:** server-authoritative authenticated lesson/mastery context; 1C remains held by its other conjunctive gates.
+7. **0D before 1C — prerequisite and delivery complete:** server-authoritative authenticated lesson/mastery context shipped before Release 1C; the later founder exception and verified 1C delivery are recorded in `RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md`.
 
 ### P1
 
@@ -1261,7 +1294,7 @@ list of unfinished engineering work.
 ### P2
 
 12. **B1/B2 — complete for engineering:** locked memory and Socratic groundwork; real-user outcomes remain pending.
-13. **1C — correctly held:** contextual tutor offer cannot start until every entry gate passes.
+13. **1C — engineering release complete:** the founder exception waived the learner-evidence prerequisites for this release; automated quality, security, cost, accessibility, CI, review, rollback-contract, deployment, production-journey, and live 0P rollback/forward-promotion gates passed. Human calibration and learner outcomes remain explicit non-claims.
 14. **B3/B7/B8 — engineering complete:** real-user dropoff and other product outcomes remain pending.
 15. **Reporting — engineering controls complete:** real-traffic cost/performance/outcome reporting begins only when traffic exists.
 16. **Visual polish — completed for the eligible surfaces in this workstream:** future polish remains ordinary product-roadmap work.

diff --git a/docs/CONTEXTUAL_LEARNING_ROADMAP_FINAL_AUDIT.md b/docs/CONTEXTUAL_LEARNING_ROADMAP_FINAL_AUDIT.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Contextual learning roadmap — final engineering audit
 
+> **Historical cutoff notice (updated 2026-08-31):** This document records the
+> 2026-07-31 gate state. Its Release 1C hold was later superseded by the dated
+> founder exception and the verified delivery recorded in
+> [`RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md`](RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md). Do not use the 1C row
+> below as the current release status.
+
 Status: every currently eligible engineering lane is complete; deliberately
 gated learner, traffic, post-merge observation, and future-phase work remains
 held rather than being claimed without evidence
@@ -25,8 +31,10 @@ the full retained browser suite have current evidence.
 Five categories are intentionally not represented as completed product or
 operational outcomes:
 
-1. Release 1C cannot start until its locked learner experiment, two-human eval
-   calibration, named ownership, and approvals exist.
+1. At this audit's cutoff, Release 1C could not start until its locked learner
+   experiment, two-human eval calibration, named ownership, and approvals
+   existed. The later founder exception and delivery record supersede this
+   historical hold without claiming human calibration or learner outcomes.
 2. B6 cannot ship until seven-day-average DAU reaches 100. No dated metric
    artifact proving that trigger exists, so the gate remains closed; if it does
    not fire, the locked roadmap carries B6 into Phase C unchanged.
@@ -52,7 +60,7 @@ Cinematic duration remains paused exactly as requested.
 | **0D — AI trust** | Complete | `7d4b4fb` plus provenance/test fixes provides atomic admission, server-owned trusted context, evaluated-model enforcement, output safety, and authoritative eval gates. Required migrations are applied to the linked development Supabase project; production migration remains part of promotion. |
 | **1A — context correctness** | Complete | `b03dc13` rejects stale Run, Check, tutor, selection, completion, and stdin results by revision and operation identity without adding an AI request. |
 | **1B — deterministic guide** | Engineering/internal-dogfood complete | `cf9f0a7` supplies the default-off, authored repeated-error guide with one attention owner and no automatic AI call. Browser, phone-keyboard, accessibility, and reduced-motion evidence pass. The five-session learner gate remains held, so external rollout is not claimed. |
-| **1C — contextual tutor offer** | Correctly not started | `e811e20` and `RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md` prove the conjunctive entry gate is not met. Implementing it now would violate the approved plan. |
+| **1C — contextual tutor offer** | Correctly not started at this audit's cutoff; superseded | `e811e20` captured the 2026-07-31 hold. The current status and later founder exception are recorded in `RELEASE_1C_ENTRY_GATE.md`. |
 | **1D — CI shadow pilot** | Additive implementation complete | `ded15ae` through `0398a4e` adds risk metadata, the advisory critical lane, frozen catch corpus, retained full browser coverage, and measured six-shard execution. The post-merge observation window has not begun and no demotion decision has been made. |
 | **B1 — memory read-side** | Complete | `c81c514` through `2a0f6b9` adds server-scored retrieval evidence, own-user RLS, backend-only writes, export/deletion, authored warm-ups, and failure recovery. It does not claim real-user D7 improvement or expose the Phase C mastery graph. |
 | **B2 — Socratic default** | Complete | `9994ae4` through `74c99b6` enforces one clarifying question first, bounded later help, and no complete answer across scripted/model and auth/anonymous paths; the 60-case gate, preview, persona, and remote checks pass. |

diff --git a/docs/RELEASE_0P_RUNBOOK.md b/docs/RELEASE_0P_RUNBOOK.md
@@ -190,3 +190,26 @@ previous successful 0P candidate and then forward-promote the latest candidate
 again. Record both run URLs in the release issue/audit. The automated failure
 harness is required pre-merge; the live drill is required before declaring
 the operational release gate fully exercised.
+
+## Live drill record
+
+The required first controlled production drill passed on 2026-08-31:
+
+- rollback run
+  [`33409584774`](https://github.com/msrivas-7/CodeTutor-AI/actions/runs/33409584774)
+  promoted successful retained candidate
+  `297a09b4d4873d10e1b1e688f151f8a3a325fcb3` in 2m39s;
+- cache-busted frontend identity and backend deep health independently passed on
+  the rolled-back candidate;
+- forced forward release
+  [`33409904066`](https://github.com/msrivas-7/CodeTutor-AI/actions/runs/33409904066)
+  restored exact current candidate
+  `4edcd73fa3a8669ac09495fbb7d5234d8ccfc742` after the complete CI, E2E, and
+  security gate;
+- production synthetic
+  [`33411478984`](https://github.com/msrivas-7/CodeTutor-AI/actions/runs/33411478984)
+  passed on the restored SHA;
+- in-app Browser phase audit `fcaf8da5-d989-46be-8f94-3f634c469050`
+  passed the anonymous Contextual Tutor journey at desktop and 390×844,
+  duplicate-click admission, focus restoration, and zero-console-error checks;
+- no database migration existed between the rollback and forward candidates.