FEATURE-ci-audit-fixtures-and-evidence: Mark task complete

Author: etr

specs/tasks/FEATURE-ci-audit-fixtures-and-evidence.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # FEATURE-ci-audit-fixtures-and-evidence
 
-Status: In Progress
+Status: Complete (local implementation/validation/finalization; native CI pending).
 Base: local v3 `6918a230c549d0322116760e141283cd71ecf744`
 
 Repair the four supported native Windows audit fixture assumptions and retain
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ and selected-archive recovery paths. Preserve strict policy and original failure
 - [x] Retain failed artifact, actual inspection command/status/output and resolved tool where available.
 - [x] Persist early package-lane failure evidence without masking the original failure.
 - [x] Verify actual subprocess/orchestration and both existing failure recovery paths locally.
-- [ ] Caller validation and finalization.
+- [x] Caller validation and finalization.
 
 Evidence: primary `.debug/ci-audit-fixtures-evidence-pgijityi/journal.md`.
 Windows native RED: 43 fixtures, six failures and two errors, retained at
@@ -38,3 +38,10 @@ not native FreeBSD parser compatibility. Actual native format and later loader
 health remain unknown. No parser, dependency policy, runtime allowance, recovery
 workflow, public API or library source changed. Caller validation/finalization
 and native post-fix execution remain pending.
+
+Groundwork validation `76fe38b0ec454b69576216cbb1224b18` sealed PASS for
+implementation `e6d1da57b0de0cefc9029669c2fa28a209319229`: one iteration,
+nine fresh domain approvals, zero fixes and one unworked finding persisted
+by the helper. Its report is retained without caller reading it. Native
+post-fix gates remain incomplete; FreeBSD parser format remains unknown
+and existing audit failure remains failed. Overall CI is unsuccessful.

specs/unworked_review_issues/manual-validation_validation_76fe38b0ec454b69576216cbb1224b18.md

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+# Unworked Review Issues
+
+**Run:** 2026-10-23 20:59:32
+**Task:** manual-validation
+**Total:** 1 (0 critical, 0 major, 1 minor)
+
+## Minor
+
+1. [ ] **code-simplifier** | `scripts/test-v3-installed-package.py:513` | code-structure
+   The metadata-failure test catches Exception and then separately checks that it is AuditError, making the expected failure less explicit.
+   *Recommendation:* Use self.assertRaises(audit.AuditError) directly and keep the message and retained-command assertions.