Harwinder Sekhon
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2026-08-04 audit, Batch D. Verification outcomes (no behavior changes — comment + tests only): - CP gate-bypass (quality forced to B after the gate chain, exhaustion/ M5-score gates not re-checked) is VALIDATED behavior, not a bug: the pinned shipped-config M5 12mo book carries 226/586 XAU_CP trades (+38.9R), 104 with EXHAUST warnings (+15.3R), 175 below the M5 min-score gate (+28.0R). Removing the "holes" removes validated profit. New test pins the shipped state (PB off, CP BUY-only on M5, ema_partial_neutral M5-only) so any flip is a conscious revalidated decision. - E18 (xau_strategy vs backtest blocked-hours "drift") REFUTED as a defect: the divergence is required by pair isolation — the backtest copy is the generic non-XAU fallback and must not inherit gold-validated deltas. Documented in the factory + a test asserting the delta stays XAU-side. - 6c-upgrade re-arming an exhaustion-D refuted (exhaustion zeroes confidence below 6c's floor; regimes mutually exclusive). "WEEKEND FILTER" CP-suppression branch is defense-in-depth for direct analyze_from_dataframes callers, kept. Suite: 316 green. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UnZkzeFcTu9agFg8BDh2tn