diff --git "a/tasks/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock.json" "b/tasks/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock.json"
--- "a/tasks/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock.json"
+++ "b/tasks/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock.json"
@@ -1,171 +1,700 @@
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-        "enforced_by": "vcode:deployment.investigation_was_read_only",
-        "id": "deployment.investigation_was_read_only"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_standard_capacity_date",
+        "description": "Read 2026-03-07 as CloudCap's independently confirmed standard delivery date from vendor order VEND-5.",
+        "field": "standard_capacity_date",
+        "id": "read_standard_external_readiness",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "deployment",
-        "description": "establish current evidence before the first task state transition",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:deployment.v3_evidence_before_state_change",
-        "id": "deployment.v3_evidence_before_state_change"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_expedited_capacity_date",
+        "description": "Read 2026-03-04 as CloudCap's independently confirmed expedited delivery date (USD 1350) from vendor order VEND-5.",
+        "field": "expedited_capacity_date",
+        "id": "read_expedited_external_readiness",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
+      {
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_capacity_request_replicas",
+        "description": "Bound the vendor request to the 3 uncovered replicas rather than the full 12-replica requirement.",
+        "field": "capacity_request_replicas",
+        "id": "bound_external_recovery_quantity",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
+      {
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_next_change_window",
+        "description": "Read the notifications change calendar (2026-03-05, 2026-03-08, 2026-03-11, 2026-03-14) from the current operating control and identified 2026-03-05 as the next window.",
+        "field": "next_change_window",
+        "id": "identify_safe_window",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "deployment",
-        "description": "record the handoff only after the task-specific operational state change",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:deployment.v3_source_work_precedes_handoff",
-        "id": "deployment.v3_source_work_precedes_handoff"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_standard_plan_completion",
+        "description": "Calculated standard_capacity_plan outcome as 2026-03-08: the first change window on or after standard delivery.",
+        "field": "standard_plan_completion",
+        "id": "compare_baseline_plan",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "deployment",
-        "description": "reopen the exact case-room conversation after posting the completion handoff",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:deployment.v3_handoff_read_back",
-        "id": "deployment.v3_handoff_read_back"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_expedited_plan_completion",
+        "description": "Calculated expedite_capacity outcome as 2026-03-05: the first change window on or after expedited delivery.",
+        "field": "expedited_plan_completion",
+        "id": "compare_accelerated_plan",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "quality",
-        "description": "record the evidence that supports the finding",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:quality.evidence_recorded",
-        "id": "quality.evidence_recorded"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_reserved_release_completion",
+        "description": "Calculated release_reserved_capacity outcome as 2026-03-03 and kept its separate-approval condition.",
+        "field": "reserved_release_completion",
+        "id": "compare_escalated_plan",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "quality",
-        "description": "reach a conclusion within 14 tool calls",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:quality.efficient_investigation",
-        "id": "quality.efficient_investigation"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "quality",
-        "description": "close ticket OPS-127 once reported",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:quality.ticket_closed",
-        "id": "quality.ticket_closed"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "quality",
-        "description": "close OPS-127 only once the finding is submitted, not before",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:quality.closed_after_the_work",
-        "id": "quality.closed_after_the_work"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "quality",
-        "description": "a hardcoded credential was introduced into the monorepo",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:quality.no_new_hardcoded_secrets",
-        "id": "quality.no_new_hardcoded_secrets"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_recommended_option",
+        "description": "Compared the date, cost and authority of standard_capacity_plan, expedite_capacity and release_reserved_capacity; selected expedite_capacity as the best currently authorised plan under the readiness standard.",
+        "field": "recommended_option",
+        "id": "choose_task_specific_option",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 2.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "quality",
-        "description": "Verify no unproductive ci loops against the task-scoped final state and append-only audit log.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:quality.no_unproductive_ci_loops",
-        "id": "quality.no_unproductive_ci_loops"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_recommended_outcome_date",
+        "description": "Calculated 2026-03-05 as the supported outcome date for expedite_capacity.",
+        "field": "recommended_outcome_date",
+        "id": "calculate_recommended_outcome",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 2.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "investigation",
-        "description": "Resolve DOB-005 by immutable Jira key and its explicit cross-tracker link; a matching title is insufficient.",
-        "enforced_by": "exact argument-aware MCP trace",
-        "id": "investigation.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.identity"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_recommended_incremental_cost_usd",
+        "description": "Applied USD 1350 as the documented incremental cost of expedite_capacity.",
+        "field": "recommended_incremental_cost_usd",
+        "id": "calculate_selected_cost",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "investigation",
-        "description": "Establish OPS-CONTROL-2026.03 as operative and treat OPS-CONTROL-2025.11 only as a competing historical hypothesis.",
-        "enforced_by": "current and retired Confluence page reads",
-        "id": "investigation.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.authority"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_escalation_approval_required",
+        "description": "Recognised that release_reserved_capacity remains outside current authority and needs incident-commander approval beyond CHG-5.",
+        "field": "escalation_approval_required",
+        "id": "apply_escalation_authority",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "investigation",
-        "description": "Use the case-005-notifications room to recover the request, the live-system warning, and the unverified prior-owner suggestion.",
-        "enforced_by": "exact Slack history read",
-        "id": "investigation.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.conversation"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_approval_reference",
+        "description": "Applied change approval CHG-5 only to the authorised expedite_capacity scope.",
+        "field": "approval_reference",
+        "id": "apply_approval_record",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      },
       {
-        "category": "investigation",
-        "description": "Confirm current notifications ownership and escalation context instead of trusting a stale display name.",
-        "enforced_by": "owner workbook and provider identity reads",
-        "id": "investigation.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.ownership"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_outcome_vs_control_days",
+        "description": "Compared 2026-03-05 with the independent control date 2026-03-05 and calculated a signed variance of +0 day(s).",
+        "field": "outcome_vs_control_days",
+        "id": "calculate_outcome_variance",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.5
+      },
       {
-        "category": "investigation",
-        "description": "Reconcile the task's source systems with live notifications operational state before choosing the supported branch.",
-        "enforced_by": "successful category-specific evidence route",
-        "id": "investigation.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.live-state"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "decision",
-        "description": "Keep the stale-note and broad-workaround alternatives visible, and reject them for evidence and scope reasons rather than by label.",
-        "enforced_by": "task-specific options and negative controls",
-        "id": "decision.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.alternatives"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "procedure",
-        "description": "Complete every causal context read before the first operational mutation; a final state reached before investigation is not accepted.",
-        "enforced_by": "mcp_trace sequence check",
-        "id": "procedure.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.read-before-write"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "state",
-        "description": "Produce the exact task-specific source transition using only submit_diagnosis, update_ticket where supported by the live state.",
-        "enforced_by": "source vcode final-state and audit checks",
-        "id": "state.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.source-transition"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "state",
-        "description": "Write exactly one completion handoff for DOB-005 after the supported work, without claiming a broader result.",
-        "enforced_by": "exact message state assertion",
-        "id": "state.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.handoff"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "procedure",
-        "description": "Reopen case-005-notifications after the handoff so the persisted post, not the write response, is verified.",
-        "enforced_by": "post-write readback sequence check",
-        "id": "procedure.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.readback"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Preserve all frozen neighboring services, policies, trackers, secrets, and seeded audit history outside the task-authorized changes.",
-        "enforced_by": "source blast-radius and unauthorized-write control",
-        "id": "containment.tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock.scope"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated alert_firings rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest e570ba463417a526 as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.alert_firings.digest"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated alert_rules rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 4f00f93e0935855f as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.alert_rules.digest"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated alert_silences rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest f63fb5fbfd87ddef as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.alert_silences.digest"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated approval_policy rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 2e32c7a055a80ab7 as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.approval_policy.digest"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated channels rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 2e8e377b992ad061 as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.channels.digest"
-      },
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_decision_timing_status",
+        "description": "Reported ON_TIME; did not relabel a controlled but late result as on time.",
+        "field": "decision_timing_status",
+        "id": "state_honest_timing_status",
+        "milestone_id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 1.0
+      }
+    ],
+    "case_reference": "DOB-005",
+    "facts": [
+      {
+        "id": "authoritative_identity",
+        "rubric": "Located DOB-005 for notifications through immutable Jira and GitHub identities and preserved OPS-CONTROL-2026.03 as the effective control.",
+        "sources": [
+          "jira",
+          "github"
+        ],
+        "statement": "DOB-005 resolves to Jira DOB-005 and GitHub issue #9005 for notifications; the effective control is OPS-CONTROL-2026.03."
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "effective_requirement",
+        "rubric": "Derived 12 replicas from 3 per zone x 4 zones, with control date 2026-03-05.",
+        "sources": [
+          "confluence",
+          "pagerduty"
+        ],
+        "statement": "The readiness standard requires 3 healthy replicas per zone and the PagerDuty scale record shows 4 zones: 12 replicas are required before the 2026-03-05 cutover."
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "eligible_coverage",
+        "rubric": "Reconciled 13 observed less 4 reserved to 9 usable replicas and a 3-replica gap.",
+        "sources": [
+          "pagerduty",
+          "linear"
+        ],
+        "statement": "The pool holds 13 replicas; 4 are reserved for the search freeze, leaving 9 usable and a gap of 3."
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "conditional_external_recovery",
+        "rubric": "Used CloudCap's confirmed standard and expedited dates as inputs, not as authorisation or as completion dates.",
+        "sources": [
+          "jira"
+        ],
+        "statement": "CloudCap vendor order VEND-5 confirms 3 replicas: standard delivery 2026-03-07, expedited delivery 2026-03-04 for USD 1350."
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "finite_capacity",
+        "rubric": "Applied the published notifications change calendar to derive every plan's completion without using excluded or unapproved scope.",
+        "sources": [
+          "confluence"
+        ],
+        "statement": "Change windows for notifications are 2026-03-05, 2026-03-08, 2026-03-11, 2026-03-14; work outside a window needs incident-commander approval."
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "approval_scope",
+        "rubric": "Applied CHG-5 only to expedite_capacity and kept release_reserved_capacity outside current authority.",
+        "sources": [
+          "jira"
+        ],
+        "statement": "CHG-5 approves the standard and expedited plans within published windows; releasing reserved capacity is outside current authority."
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "business_impact",
+        "rubric": "Compared the selected outcome with the 2026-03-05 cutover and reported ON_TIME honestly.",
+        "sources": [
+          "status_page",
+          "slack"
+        ],
+        "statement": "The customer cutover is published for 2026-03-05; the recommended plan lands +0 day(s) versus it (ON_TIME)."
+      }
+    ],
+    "mode": "capacity_plan",
+    "options": [
+      {
+        "approval": "AVAILABLE_NOT_RECOMMENDED",
+        "completion": "2026-03-08",
+        "consequence": "Standard delivery only reaches the 2026-03-08 window, 3 day(s) after expedite_capacity, and would land 3 day(s) after the cutover; it is authorised but inferior.",
+        "control_status": "FEASIBLE_WITH_INFERIOR_TRADEOFF",
+        "id": "standard_capacity_plan",
+        "incremental_cost": 0,
+        "label": "standard_capacity_plan: outcome 2026-03-08, incremental cost USD 0, FEASIBLE_WITH_INFERIOR_TRADEOFF",
+        "recommended": false
+      },
+      {
+        "approval": "APPROVED",
+        "completion": "2026-03-05",
+        "consequence": "Expedited CloudCap delivery on 2026-03-04 lands in the 2026-03-05 change window, on the 2026-03-05 cutover date, keeps the 4 reserved replicas untouched, and carries the documented incremental cost of USD 1350.",
+        "control_status": "SUPPORTED_AND_APPROVED",
+        "id": "expedite_capacity",
+        "incremental_cost": 1350,
+        "label": "expedite_capacity: outcome 2026-03-05, incremental cost USD 1350, SUPPORTED_AND_APPROVED",
+        "recommended": true
+      },
+      {
+        "approval": "ADDITIONAL_APPROVAL_REQUIRED",
+        "completion": "2026-03-03",
+        "consequence": "Releasing the 4 replicas reserved for the search freeze would cover the 3-replica gap today, but it breaks a reservation another team depends on, needs incident-commander approval beyond CHG-5, and adds the USD 1200 re-provisioning charge.",
+        "control_status": "SEPARATE_APPROVAL_OR_POLICY_EXCEPTION_REQUIRED",
+        "id": "release_reserved_capacity",
+        "incremental_cost": 1200,
+        "label": "release_reserved_capacity: outcome 2026-03-03, incremental cost USD 1200, SEPARATE_APPROVAL_OR_POLICY_EXCEPTION_REQUIRED",
+        "recommended": false
+      }
+    ],
+    "question_id": "DOB-005-capacity-plan",
+    "record": "DOB-005",
+    "revision": "OPS-CONTROL-2026.03",
+    "selected_completion": "2026-03-05",
+    "selected_option": "expedite_capacity",
+    "source_document": "DOB-005 change-readiness standard, CloudCap order VEND-5, change approval CHG-5",
+    "subject": "notifications customer cutover readiness for DOB-005"
+  },
+  "expected": {
+    "answer": {
+      "approval_reference": "CHG-5",
+      "business_need_date": "2026-03-05",
+      "capacity_request_replicas": 3,
+      "decision_timing_status": "ON_TIME",
+      "escalation_approval_required": 1,
+      "expedited_capacity_date": "2026-03-04",
+      "expedited_plan_completion": "2026-03-05",
+      "next_change_window": "2026-03-05",
+      "observed_replicas": 13,
+      "outcome_vs_control_days": 0,
+      "production_zones": 4,
+      "quantity_unit": "replicas",
+      "recommended_incremental_cost_usd": 1350,
+      "recommended_option": "expedite_capacity",
+      "recommended_outcome_date": "2026-03-05",
+      "replica_gap": 3,
+      "replicas_per_zone": 3,
+      "required_replicas": 12,
+      "reserved_release_completion": "2026-03-03",
+      "reserved_replicas": 4,
+      "standard_capacity_date": "2026-03-07",
+      "standard_plan_completion": "2026-03-08",
+      "usable_replicas": 9
+    },
+    "answer_checks": [
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated code_exercises rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 7b9b026a08cf3153 as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.code_exercises.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_business_need_date",
+        "description": "Reported business_need_date as '2026-03-05' in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "business_need_date",
+        "id": "answer_business_need_date",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated commits rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 1f6427e1efd902be as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.commits.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_replicas_per_zone",
+        "description": "Reported replicas_per_zone as 3 in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "replicas_per_zone",
+        "id": "answer_replicas_per_zone",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated confluence_pages rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 8153972b4a723a3d as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.confluence_pages.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_production_zones",
+        "description": "Reported production_zones as 4 in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "production_zones",
+        "id": "answer_production_zones",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated contract_rules rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 2c182f50d686376d as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.contract_rules.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_required_replicas",
+        "description": "Reported required_replicas as 12 in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "required_replicas",
+        "id": "answer_required_replicas",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 2.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated db_grants rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 6ff78fa526650616 as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.db_grants.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_observed_replicas",
+        "description": "Reported observed_replicas as 13 in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "observed_replicas",
+        "id": "answer_observed_replicas",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated documents rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest cd621e0bce3765fe as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.documents.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_reserved_replicas",
+        "description": "Reported reserved_replicas as 4 in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "reserved_replicas",
+        "id": "answer_reserved_replicas",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 1.5
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated github_issues rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 0fd946772b0580f1 as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.github_issues.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_usable_replicas",
+        "description": "Reported usable_replicas as 9 in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "usable_replicas",
+        "id": "answer_usable_replicas",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 2.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated infra_components rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest 927e234eee9e682e as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.infra_components.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_replica_gap",
+        "description": "Reported replica_gap as 3 in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "replica_gap",
+        "id": "answer_replica_gap",
+        "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 2.0
       },
       {
-        "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Leave unrelated issue_links rows unchanged; the verifier recomputes frozen digest d99f4e6e510c25f1 as part of world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.issue_links.digest"
+        "check_id": "correctness.v5_answer_quantity_unit",
+        "description": "Reported quantity_unit as 'replicas' in the DOB-005-capacity-plan decision record.",
+        "field": "quantity_unit",
+        "id": "answer_quantity_unit",
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+          "evidence": "node-c1 is Ready=Unknown with a kernel soft lockup on CPU#3 and stopped posting node status 14 minutes ago; notifications-1b7d-hh88 still reports Running because the kubelet stopped reporting, not the pod, so pod phase alone says the service is healthy while it is unreachable",
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+          "fault_type": "node_unhealthy",
+          "offending_key": "node-c1",
+          "scope": "notifications-unreachable",
+          "service": "notifications"
+        },
+        "tool": "submit_diagnosis"
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+          "assumptions": "Required 12 = 3 per zone x 4 zones from the readiness standard and the PagerDuty scale record; usable 9 = 13 observed - 4 reserved in CAP-5; gap 3 covered by VEND-5; completion is the first published change window on or after delivery; release_reserved_capacity needs approval beyond CHG-5 so it is not selected.",
+          "question_id": "DOB-005-capacity-plan",
+          "sources": [
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+            "pd_change_events",
+            "linear_issues",
+            "jira_issues",
+            "status_page_posts",
+            "messages"
+          ]
+        },
+        "tool": "submit_answer"
+      }
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+    "note": "Acceptance is causal and state-based: all semantic milestones must hold over successful material reads, provider state, post-write readback, the append-only audit log, and write-scope containment."
+  },
+  "instruction_guided": "This is an investigation, not a change. Do NOT modify production state: no pull requests, deploys, flag toggles, migrations or resolutions. Investigate with the read tools and report what you find with submit_diagnosis(...).\n\nOPS-127 — Root cause: notifications are not being delivered\n\nGet to the bottom of notifications-unreachable: not just which service, but the mechanism and the exact setting responsible. The service's own code is not necessarily where this lives — confirm it against the state of the system rather than inferring it from the symptom alone. Submit your finding under scope 'notifications-unreachable' with the responsible service, the fault type, the offending key, and your evidence.\n\nProcedure: read the production logs and the error tracker, inspect the deployed configuration, and then look one layer down - at the cluster the service runs on, its nodes, its pods and their events - because a fault there leaves no trace in the service's own code or metrics. Confirm the mechanism against that state before submitting.",
+  "metadata": {
+    "benchmark": "DevOpsBench-100",
+    "business_reasoning_primitives": [
+      "employee_outcome:aiops_analysis:rca_node_deadlock",
+      "authority:current_control_over_retired_shortcut",
+      "investigation:correlate_rca_node_deadlock_across_live_sources",
+      "alternatives:rca_node_deadlock:supported_vs_hold_vs_broad_action",
+      "capacity:required_minus_reserved_usable_capacity_then_vendor_delivery_to_change_window",
+      "capacity_options:expedite_capacity:date_cost_authority",
+      "state:submit_diagnosis",
+      "state:update_ticket",
+      "verification:reopen_each_persisted_change",
+      "handoff:source_backed_operating_result"
+    ],
+    "call_order_policy": "The reference trajectory is illustrative. Material evidence may be investigated in any valid order and equivalent query shapes may add safe optional arguments; each causal read must succeed before its dependent mutation, and persisted state must be read back afterward.",
+    "case_id": "DOB-005",
+    "category": "aiops_analysis",
+    "code_license": "Apache-2.0",
+    "curation_rationale": [
+      "aiops_analysis",
+      "expert",
+      "10-call-oracle",
+      "curated",
+      "hardest-of-category-quota",
+      "controls-rejected:pristine"
+    ],
+    "data_license": "CC-BY-4.0",
+    "decision_mode": "capacity_plan",
+    "difficulty": "expert",
+    "graded_answer_fields": 23,
+    "grading": "deterministic",
+    "guided_instruction_available": true,
+    "harbor_name": "blobfishai/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock",
+    "llm_judge": false,
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+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/02-the-cross-tracker-link-registry.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/03-the-linked-github-issue-population.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/04-the-operating-control-index.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/05-the-exact-control-revision.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/06-the-exact-control-revision.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/07-the-case-room-conversation.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/08-the-pagerduty-change-event-history.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/09-the-current-customer-status-record.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/10-the-live-dependency-path.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/11-live-kubernetes-pod-state.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/12-runtime-resource-and-process-state.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/13-the-employee-work-item.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/14-the-exact-control-revision.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/15-the-authoritative-jira-work-item.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/16-the-authoritative-jira-work-item.json",
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+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/18-customer-status-history.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/19-the-current-owner-register.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/material/20-the-pagerduty-service-catalog.json"
+    ],
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+    "providers": [
+      "Atlassian Confluence page retrieval",
+      "Atlassian Confluence search",
+      "Atlassian Jira issue retrieval",
+      "Atlassian Jira issue search",
+      "GitHub issues",
+      "Microsoft Graph workbook",
+      "PagerDuty change events",
+      "Slack conversation history",
+      "cross-tracker link registry"
+    ],
+    "reasoning_contract": {
+      "change_or_record": "Establish the exact business state for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Coordinate the linked records for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: close ticket OPS-127 once reported. Keep “Notifications are not being delivered.” contained to its supported records and service boundary: fabricate no records or evidence; preserve every frozen out-of-scope record; introduce no hardcoded credentials.",
+      "decide": "Choose the branch for “Notifications are not being delivered.” that can legitimately produce this business state: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Reject a stale-record shortcut, an unsupported hold, and any broader workaround. Compare three concrete, linked readiness options for “Notifications are not being delivered.” through notifications: standard capacity finishes 2026-03-08 at USD 0; expedited capacity finishes 2026-03-05 at USD 1350; releasing reserved capacity finishes 2026-03-03 at USD 1200 but requires approval beyond CHG-5. Recommend expedite_capacity, record its 2026-03-05 outcome and +0-day variance, and report ON_TIME honestly.",
+      "deliver": "Leave the employee-facing conclusion for “Notifications are not being delivered.” with the exact supported insight: record the evidence-backed root cause for notifications unreachable; record the evidence that supports the finding; write a natural scoped completion note, not a keyword list or serialized benchmark object; state the selected option (expedite_capacity) in the scoped completion handoff; state the outcome date (2026-03-05) in the scoped completion handoff; state the approval reference (CHG-5) in the scoped completion handoff; state the timing status (ON_TIME) in the scoped completion handoff; state the binding constraint (CloudCap expedited capacity on 2026-03-04) in the scoped completion handoff. Close “Notifications are not being delivered.” only after the business state and readbacks are complete: close OPS-127 only once the finding is submitted, not before.",
+      "employee_outcome": "Notifications are not being delivered.",
+      "investigate": "Build the causal case for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: first resolve the same work across the authoritative Jira work item, the cross-tracker link registry, and the linked GitHub issue population; then use the operating-control index and the exact control revision to select the effective rule over the retired shortcut; reconcile ownership, approval, and reported context through the case-room conversation, the PagerDuty change-event history, and the current customer-status record; finally test the competing explanation against the live dependency path (from notifications), live Kubernetes pod state (notifications), runtime resource and process state (notifications), and the employee work item. All 20 exact causal facts must be present inside the 27-read investigation before they support this outcome: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Preserve this additional control: the responsible service is notifications; the root cause is a node_unhealthy fault; the offending key is node-c1; an investigation must not change production state. Prove that the same outcome for “Notifications are not being delivered.” is deliverable through notifications, using scattered records: 3 healthy replicas per zone across 4 zones means 12 required; 13 observed less 4 reserved for search leaves 9 usable and a 3-replica gap. Reconcile that gap with CloudCap's 2026-03-07 standard and 2026-03-04 expedited deliveries, the published change windows, and the independent 2026-03-05 customer date.",
+      "verify": "Prove the observable result for “Notifications are not being delivered.” after the transition: reopen the employee work item and confirm the persisted result. After the last guarded transition for “Notifications are not being delivered.”, reopen the employee work item, then reopen the completion conversation so persistence and communication are both proven."
+    },
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+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/03-cross-tracker-links.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/04-github-issue.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/05-current-operating-control.pdf",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/06-retired-shortcut-note.pdf",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/07-case-room-thread.json",
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+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/21-deployment-history.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/22-ci-runs.csv",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/23-pull-request-context.json",
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+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/25-security-scanner-report.pdf",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/26-approval-policy.md",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/27-current-versus-stale-notes.txt",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/28-change-readiness-standard.pdf",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/29-vendor-capacity-order.csv",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/30-change-approval-record.csv",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/31-capacity-reservation-register.json",
+      "task_files/dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock/32-customer-cutover-notice.json",
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+      "list_issue_links",
+      "github_list_issues",
+      "confluence_search",
+      "confluence_get_page",
+      "list_messages",
+      "pd_list_change_events",
+      "get_status_page",
+      "check_network_path",
+      "k8s_pods_list",
+      "get_runtime_stats",
+      "get_ticket",
+      "linear_list_issues",
+      "list_status_page_posts",
+      "read_owner_spreadsheet",
+      "pd_list_services",
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+      "query_metrics",
+      "search_logs",
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+      "k8s_events_list",
+      "submit_diagnosis",
+      "update_ticket",
+      "submit_answer",
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+      "submit_diagnosis",
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+    ],
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+      "intake_employee_outcome",
+      "resolve_cross_tracker_identity",
+      "select_effective_control_over_retired_authority",
+      "correlate_aiops_analysis_rca_node_deadlock_signals",
+      "test_rca_node_deadlock_competing_hypotheses",
+      "derive_rca_node_deadlock_supported_branch",
+      "execute_submit_diagnosis",
+      "execute_update_ticket",
+      "plan_notifications_cutover_capacity_expedite_capacity",
+      "reconcile_rca_node_deadlock_post_change_state",
+      "handoff_source_backed_result_to_owner",
+      "reopen_persisted_state_and_conversation"
+    ],
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+    "source_task_id": "tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock",
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+  },
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+            "key": "OPS-127"
+          },
+          "tool": "get_ticket"
+        }
+      ],
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+      "description": "Reopened get_ticket after update_ticket for DOB-005 and confirmed persisted provider state, not merely the write acknowledgement.",
+      "id": "readback_01",
+      "milestone_id": "verification.outcome"
+    }
+  ],
+  "prompt": "Notifications are not being delivered. The incident record describes the visible effect, but it does not establish whether the apparent owner, a dependency, or the deployed configuration is responsible. For notifications, the affected business boundary includes receipts, retry policy, delivery templates, and downstream messaging reliability. Separate upstream cause from downstream symptoms and leave a concise, evidence-linked handoff that another engineer can independently challenge. The supported cause controls whether notifications can enter the recovery window on 2026-03-05, making this one incident decision rather than a separate planning exercise. Resolve whether the committed window can be met and what would have to change to improve it. Distinguish an approved acceleration from an attractive but unauthorised shortcut.",
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+      "any_of": [
+        {
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+            "key": "DOB-005"
+          },
+          "tool": "jira_get_issue"
+        }
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+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_case_identity_resolved",
+      "description": "Located DOB-005 by immutable Jira key rather than title similarity.",
+      "group": "identity",
+      "id": "investigation_01",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.scope"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
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+            "source": "DOB-005"
+          },
+          "tool": "list_issue_links"
+        }
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+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_case_identity_resolved",
+      "description": "Bound DOB-005 to its linked GitHub record through the cross-tracker registry.",
+      "group": "identity",
+      "id": "investigation_02",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.scope"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "repo": "novacart/notifications",
+            "state": "open"
+          },
+          "tool": "github_list_issues"
+        }
+      ],
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+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_case_identity_resolved",
+      "description": "Located GitHub issue #9005 in novacart/notifications by immutable number.",
+      "group": "identity",
+      "id": "investigation_03",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.scope"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "query": "DOB-005",
+            "space": "OPS"
+          },
+          "tool": "confluence_search"
+        }
+      ],
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+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_authority_reconciled",
+      "description": "Located current, retired, and readiness controls for DOB-005 by page identity.",
+      "group": "authority",
+      "id": "investigation_04",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.authority"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
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+          },
+          "tool": "confluence_get_page"
+        }
+      ],
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+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_authority_reconciled",
+      "description": "Applied OPS-CONTROL-2026.03 and its notifications change windows: 2026-03-05, 2026-03-08, 2026-03-11, 2026-03-14.",
+      "group": "authority",
+      "id": "investigation_05",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.authority"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "page_id": 11005
+          },
+          "tool": "confluence_get_page"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_authority_reconciled",
+      "description": "Recognized OPS-CONTROL-2025.11 as historical evidence, not current authority.",
+      "group": "authority",
+      "id": "investigation_06",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.authority"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "channel": "case-005-notifications",
+            "limit": 50
+          },
+          "tool": "list_messages"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_material_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Separated the case-room business request from formal operational authority for notifications.",
+      "group": "ownership_and_conversation",
+      "id": "investigation_07",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.causal_reasoning"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "pd_service_id": "PD-DOB-005",
+            "since_day": 330
+          },
+          "tool": "pd_list_change_events"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_material_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Read the live notifications pool record: 13 replicas across 4 zones.",
+      "group": "ownership_and_conversation",
+      "id": "investigation_08",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.causal_reasoning"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "limit": 20
+          },
+          "tool": "get_status_page"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_material_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Correlated the live notifications get_status_page record that controls the aiops_analysis decision.",
+      "group": "ownership_and_conversation",
+      "id": "investigation_09",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.causal_reasoning"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "from_service": "notifications"
+          },
+          "tool": "check_network_path"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_live_state_correlated",
+      "description": "Correlated the live notifications check_network_path record that controls the aiops_analysis decision.",
+      "group": "live_state",
+      "id": "investigation_10",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.live_state"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "service": "notifications"
+          },
+          "tool": "k8s_pods_list"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_live_state_correlated",
+      "description": "Correlated the live notifications k8s_pods_list record that controls the aiops_analysis decision.",
+      "group": "live_state",
+      "id": "investigation_11",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.live_state"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "service": "notifications"
+          },
+          "tool": "get_runtime_stats"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_live_state_correlated",
+      "description": "Correlated the live notifications get_runtime_stats record that controls the aiops_analysis decision.",
+      "group": "live_state",
+      "id": "investigation_12",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.live_state"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "key": "OPS-127"
+          },
+          "tool": "get_ticket"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_live_state_correlated",
+      "description": "Correlated the live notifications get_ticket record that controls the aiops_analysis decision.",
+      "group": "live_state",
+      "id": "investigation_13",
+      "milestone_id": "investigation.live_state"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "page_id": 14005
+          },
+          "tool": "confluence_get_page"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v5_capacity_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Established the notifications requirement of 3 healthy replicas in each production zone.",
+      "group": "capacity_plan",
+      "id": "investigation_14",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "key": "VEND-5"
+          },
+          "tool": "jira_get_issue"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v5_capacity_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Read CloudCap order VEND-5, including both confirmed delivery dates and expedite cost.",
+      "group": "capacity_plan",
+      "id": "investigation_15",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "key": "CHG-5"
+          },
+          "tool": "jira_get_issue"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v5_capacity_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Applied approval CHG-5 only to its documented capacity scope.",
+      "group": "capacity_plan",
+      "id": "investigation_16",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "team": "team-notifications"
+          },
+          "tool": "linear_list_issues"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v5_capacity_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Excluded 4 replicas reserved for the search freeze.",
+      "group": "capacity_plan",
+      "id": "investigation_17",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {
+            "since_day": 330
+          },
+          "tool": "list_status_page_posts"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v5_capacity_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Preserved 2026-03-05 as the independent customer need date.",
+      "group": "capacity_plan",
+      "id": "investigation_18",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.capacity_plan"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {},
+          "tool": "read_owner_spreadsheet"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_material_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Confirmed the accountable notifications owner and scoped case channel.",
+      "group": "corroborating_context",
+      "id": "investigation_19",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.causal_reasoning"
+    },
+    {
+      "any_of": [
+        {
+          "arguments": {},
+          "tool": "pd_list_services"
+        }
+      ],
+      "before_primary_mutation": true,
+      "check_id": "correctness.v4_material_evidence_complete",
+      "description": "Correlated the live notifications pd_list_services record that controls the aiops_analysis decision.",
+      "group": "corroborating_context",
+      "id": "investigation_20",
+      "milestone_id": "analysis.causal_reasoning"
+    }
+  ],
+  "rubric": {
+    "checks": [
+      "investigation.scope",
+      "investigation.authority",
+      "investigation.live_state",
+      "analysis.causal_reasoning",
+      "analysis.capacity_plan",
+      "decision.supported_path",
+      "decision.options",
+      "state.primary",
+      "state.coordination",
+      "verification.outcome",
+      "verification.readback",
+      "execution.sequence",
+      "containment.scope",
+      "answer.insights",
+      "execution.efficiency",
+      "execution.delivery"
+    ],
+    "criteria": [
       {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "resolve DOB-005 through its immutable Jira key, linked GitHub issue, and cross-tracker relationship",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v4_case_identity_resolved",
+            "name": "v4_case_identity_resolved"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "investigation",
+        "description": "Treat “Notifications are not being delivered.” as one immutable cross-system work item: correlate its Jira record to the linked GitHub evidence and exclude neighboring work that merely shares a name.",
+        "id": "investigation.scope",
+        "weight": 5
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "compare current control OPS-CONTROL-2026.03 with retired control OPS-CONTROL-2025.11 before acting",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v4_authority_reconciled",
+            "name": "v4_authority_reconciled"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "investigation",
+        "description": "Use OPS-CONTROL-2026.03 as the operative control and treat OPS-CONTROL-2025.11 as a conflicting historical shortcut before deciding “Notifications are not being delivered.”.",
+        "id": "investigation.authority",
+        "weight": 5
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "correlate the task-specific notifications provider state instead of relying on files or tracker text alone",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v4_live_state_correlated",
+            "name": "v4_live_state_correlated"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "investigation",
+        "description": "For “Notifications are not being delivered.”, interrogate the live dependency path (from notifications), live Kubernetes pod state (notifications), runtime resource and process state (notifications), and the employee work item; tracker prose and seeded files alone cannot establish the current answer.",
+        "id": "investigation.live_state",
+        "weight": 7
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "the responsible service is notifications",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.service_localized",
+            "name": "service_localized"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "the root cause is a node_unhealthy fault",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.fault_type_correct",
+            "name": "fault_type_correct"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "the offending key is node-c1",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.offending_key_correct",
+            "name": "offending_key_correct"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "an investigation must not change production state",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.investigation_was_read_only",
+            "name": "investigation_was_read_only"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "complete all 20 materially causal evidence joins inside the larger reference investigation before changing state",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v4_material_evidence_complete",
+            "name": "v4_material_evidence_complete"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "analysis",
+        "description": "Build the causal case for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: first resolve the same work across the authoritative Jira work item, the cross-tracker link registry, and the linked GitHub issue population; then use the operating-control index and the exact control revision to select the effective rule over the retired shortcut; reconcile ownership, approval, and reported context through the case-room conversation, the PagerDuty change-event history, and the current customer-status record; finally test the competing explanation against the live dependency path (from notifications), live Kubernetes pod state (notifications), runtime resource and process state (notifications), and the employee work item. All 20 exact causal facts must be present inside the 27-read investigation before they support this outcome: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Preserve this additional control: the responsible service is notifications; the root cause is a node_unhealthy fault; the offending key is node-c1; an investigation must not change production state.",
+        "id": "analysis.causal_reasoning",
+        "weight": 6
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "Preserved 2026-03-05 from the published status-page cutover notice as the control date; did not infer urgency from the ticket title.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_business_need_date",
+            "name": "v5_answer_business_need_date"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Read 3 healthy replicas per production zone from the DOB-005 change-readiness standard.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_replicas_per_zone",
+            "name": "v5_answer_replicas_per_zone"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Read 4 production zones from the PagerDuty scale record for PD-DOB-005.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_production_zones",
+            "name": "v5_answer_production_zones"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Derived 3 per zone x 4 zones = 12 replicas required before the notifications cutover.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_required_replicas",
+            "name": "v5_answer_required_replicas"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Read 13 replicas in the notifications production pool from the PagerDuty scale record.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_observed_replicas",
+            "name": "v5_answer_observed_replicas"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Excluded 4 replicas reserved for the search freeze in Linear CAP-5.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_reserved_replicas",
+            "name": "v5_answer_reserved_replicas"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Calculated 13 observed - 4 reserved = 9 usable replicas.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_usable_replicas",
+            "name": "v5_answer_usable_replicas"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Calculated 12 required - 9 usable = 3 replicas uncovered.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_replica_gap",
+            "name": "v5_answer_replica_gap"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Kept every capacity quantity in replicas.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_quantity_unit",
+            "name": "v5_answer_quantity_unit"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Read 2026-03-07 as CloudCap's independently confirmed standard delivery date from vendor order VEND-5.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_standard_capacity_date",
+            "name": "v5_answer_standard_capacity_date"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Read 2026-03-04 as CloudCap's independently confirmed expedited delivery date (USD 1350) from vendor order VEND-5.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_expedited_capacity_date",
+            "name": "v5_answer_expedited_capacity_date"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Bound the vendor request to the 3 uncovered replicas rather than the full 12-replica requirement.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_capacity_request_replicas",
+            "name": "v5_answer_capacity_request_replicas"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Read the notifications change calendar (2026-03-05, 2026-03-08, 2026-03-11, 2026-03-14) from the current operating control and identified 2026-03-05 as the next window.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_next_change_window",
+            "name": "v5_answer_next_change_window"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "read the readiness standard, CloudCap order VEND-5, change approval CHG-5, the Linear reservation and the status-page cutover notice before changing state",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_capacity_evidence_complete",
+            "name": "v5_capacity_evidence_complete"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "analysis",
+        "description": "Prove that the same outcome for “Notifications are not being delivered.” is deliverable through notifications, using scattered records: 3 healthy replicas per zone across 4 zones means 12 required; 13 observed less 4 reserved for search leaves 9 usable and a 3-replica gap. Reconcile that gap with CloudCap's 2026-03-07 standard and 2026-03-04 expedited deliveries, the published change windows, and the independent 2026-03-05 customer date.",
+        "id": "analysis.capacity_plan",
+        "weight": 9
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "derive and execute the task-supported branch rather than the stale-note or broad-workaround alternatives",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v4_supported_path_selected",
+            "name": "v4_supported_path_selected"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "decision",
+        "description": "Choose the branch for “Notifications are not being delivered.” that can legitimately produce this business state: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Reject a stale-record shortcut, an unsupported hold, and any broader workaround.",
+        "id": "decision.supported_path",
+        "weight": 5
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "record the DOB-005 capacity plan once as the JSON reconciliation answer to DOB-005-capacity-plan",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_capacity_plan_recorded",
+            "name": "v5_capacity_plan_recorded"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Calculated standard_capacity_plan outcome as 2026-03-08: the first change window on or after standard delivery.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_standard_plan_completion",
+            "name": "v5_answer_standard_plan_completion"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Calculated expedite_capacity outcome as 2026-03-05: the first change window on or after expedited delivery.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_expedited_plan_completion",
+            "name": "v5_answer_expedited_plan_completion"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Calculated release_reserved_capacity outcome as 2026-03-03 and kept its separate-approval condition.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_reserved_release_completion",
+            "name": "v5_answer_reserved_release_completion"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Compared the date, cost and authority of standard_capacity_plan, expedite_capacity and release_reserved_capacity; selected expedite_capacity as the best currently authorised plan under the readiness standard.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_recommended_option",
+            "name": "v5_answer_recommended_option"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Calculated 2026-03-05 as the supported outcome date for expedite_capacity.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_recommended_outcome_date",
+            "name": "v5_answer_recommended_outcome_date"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Applied USD 1350 as the documented incremental cost of expedite_capacity.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_recommended_incremental_cost_usd",
+            "name": "v5_answer_recommended_incremental_cost_usd"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Recognised that release_reserved_capacity remains outside current authority and needs incident-commander approval beyond CHG-5.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_escalation_approval_required",
+            "name": "v5_answer_escalation_approval_required"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Applied change approval CHG-5 only to the authorised expedite_capacity scope.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_approval_reference",
+            "name": "v5_answer_approval_reference"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Compared 2026-03-05 with the independent control date 2026-03-05 and calculated a signed variance of +0 day(s).",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_outcome_vs_control_days",
+            "name": "v5_answer_outcome_vs_control_days"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Reported ON_TIME; did not relabel a controlled but late result as on time.",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_answer_decision_timing_status",
+            "name": "v5_answer_decision_timing_status"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "apply CHG-5 to expedite_capacity only and keep release_reserved_capacity outside current authority",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_approval_applied_to_selected_scope",
+            "name": "v5_approval_applied_to_selected_scope"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "decision",
+        "description": "Compare three concrete, linked readiness options for “Notifications are not being delivered.” through notifications: standard capacity finishes 2026-03-08 at USD 0; expedited capacity finishes 2026-03-05 at USD 1350; releasing reserved capacity finishes 2026-03-03 at USD 1200 but requires approval beyond CHG-5. Recommend expedite_capacity, record its 2026-03-05 outcome and +0-day variance, and report ON_TIME honestly.",
+        "id": "decision.options",
+        "weight": 8
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "complete each task-required state-changing capability at least once successfully",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v4_source_mutations_completed",
+            "name": "v4_source_mutations_completed"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "state",
+        "description": "Establish the exact business state for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done.",
+        "id": "state.primary",
+        "weight": 14
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "close ticket OPS-127 once reported",
+            "dimension": "quality",
+            "id": "quality.ticket_closed",
+            "name": "ticket_closed"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "state",
+        "description": "Coordinate the linked records for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: close ticket OPS-127 once reported.",
+        "id": "state.coordination",
+        "weight": 6
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "reopen the persisted provider and tracker state after the final source mutation instead of trusting acknowledgements",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v4_state_readbacks_complete",
+            "name": "v4_state_readbacks_complete"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "verification",
+        "description": "Prove the observable result for “Notifications are not being delivered.” after the transition: reopen the employee work item and confirm the persisted result.",
+        "id": "verification.outcome",
+        "weight": 7
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "perform provider readback only after the task-specific operational state change",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v4_source_work_precedes_readback",
+            "name": "v4_source_work_precedes_readback"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "reopen the exact case-room conversation after posting the completion handoff",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v4_handoff_read_back",
+            "name": "v4_handoff_read_back"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "verification",
+        "description": "After the last guarded transition for “Notifications are not being delivered.”, reopen the employee work item, then reopen the completion conversation so persistence and communication are both proven.",
+        "id": "verification.readback",
+        "weight": 6
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "establish every material fact before the first successful task state transition",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v4_evidence_before_state_change",
+            "name": "v4_evidence_before_state_change"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "derive the capacity plan only after every source fact it depends on has been read successfully",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v5_decision_evidence_precedes_record",
+            "name": "v5_decision_evidence_precedes_record"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "record the capacity plan before stating it in the completion handoff",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v5_record_precedes_handoff",
+            "name": "v5_record_precedes_handoff"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "execution",
+        "description": "Respect the causal order for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: derive the capacity plan only after every source fact it depends on has been read successfully; record the capacity plan before stating it in the completion handoff.",
+        "id": "execution.sequence",
+        "weight": 6
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "scoped change no fabricated data",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.scoped_change_no_fabricated_data",
+            "name": "scoped_change_no_fabricated_data"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "world invariants intact",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.world_invariants_intact",
+            "name": "world_invariants_intact"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "a hardcoded credential was introduced into the monorepo",
+            "dimension": "quality",
+            "id": "quality.no_new_hardcoded_secrets",
+            "name": "no_new_hardcoded_secrets"
+          }
+        ],
         "category": "containment",
-        "description": "Preserve exactly 4 seeded rows in vulnerabilities; additions or deletions outside scope fail world integrity.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness.world_invariants_intact",
-        "id": "containment.vulnerabilities.row_count"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "answer",
-        "description": "Return the task-supported scope field in the auditable result, with the exact type and scope enforced by the source-state verifier.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness answer or diagnosis checks",
-        "id": "answer.scope"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "answer",
-        "description": "Return the task-supported fault_detected field in the auditable result, with the exact type and scope enforced by the source-state verifier.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness answer or diagnosis checks",
-        "id": "answer.fault_detected"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "answer",
-        "description": "Return the task-supported service field in the auditable result, with the exact type and scope enforced by the source-state verifier.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness answer or diagnosis checks",
-        "id": "answer.service"
-      },
-      {
+        "description": "Keep “Notifications are not being delivered.” contained to its supported records and service boundary: fabricate no records or evidence; preserve every frozen out-of-scope record; introduce no hardcoded credentials.",
+        "id": "containment.scope",
+        "weight": 7
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "submit a root-cause result for scope 'notifications-unreachable'",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.diagnosis_submitted",
+            "name": "diagnosis_submitted"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "record the evidence that supports the finding",
+            "dimension": "quality",
+            "id": "quality.evidence_recorded",
+            "name": "evidence_recorded"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "write exactly one scoped completion handoff for DOB-005",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v4_completion_handoff_exactly_once",
+            "name": "v4_completion_handoff_exactly_once"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "write a natural scoped completion note, not a keyword list or serialized benchmark object",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_handoff_is_natural_completion",
+            "name": "v5_handoff_is_natural_completion"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "state the selected option (expedite_capacity) in the scoped completion handoff",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_handoff_states_selected_option",
+            "name": "v5_handoff_states_selected_option"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "state the outcome date (2026-03-05) in the scoped completion handoff",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_handoff_states_outcome_date",
+            "name": "v5_handoff_states_outcome_date"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "state the approval reference (CHG-5) in the scoped completion handoff",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_handoff_states_approval_reference",
+            "name": "v5_handoff_states_approval_reference"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "state the timing status (ON_TIME) in the scoped completion handoff",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_handoff_states_timing_status",
+            "name": "v5_handoff_states_timing_status"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "state the binding constraint (CloudCap expedited capacity on 2026-03-04) in the scoped completion handoff",
+            "dimension": "correctness",
+            "id": "correctness.v5_handoff_states_binding_constraint",
+            "name": "v5_handoff_states_binding_constraint"
+          }
+        ],
         "category": "answer",
-        "description": "Return the task-supported fault_type field in the auditable result, with the exact type and scope enforced by the source-state verifier.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness answer or diagnosis checks",
-        "id": "answer.fault_type"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "answer",
-        "description": "Return the task-supported offending_key field in the auditable result, with the exact type and scope enforced by the source-state verifier.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness answer or diagnosis checks",
-        "id": "answer.offending_key"
-      },
-      {
-        "category": "answer",
-        "description": "Return the task-supported evidence field in the auditable result, with the exact type and scope enforced by the source-state verifier.",
-        "enforced_by": "vcode:correctness answer or diagnosis checks",
-        "id": "answer.evidence"
+        "description": "Leave the employee-facing conclusion for “Notifications are not being delivered.” with the exact supported insight: record the evidence-backed root cause for notifications unreachable; record the evidence that supports the finding; write a natural scoped completion note, not a keyword list or serialized benchmark object; state the selected option (expedite_capacity) in the scoped completion handoff; state the outcome date (2026-03-05) in the scoped completion handoff; state the approval reference (CHG-5) in the scoped completion handoff; state the timing status (ON_TIME) in the scoped completion handoff; state the binding constraint (CloudCap expedited capacity on 2026-03-04) in the scoped completion handoff.",
+        "id": "answer.insights",
+        "weight": 4
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "reach a conclusion within 14 tool calls",
+            "dimension": "quality",
+            "id": "quality.efficient_investigation",
+            "name": "efficient_investigation"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "no unproductive ci loops",
+            "dimension": "quality",
+            "id": "quality.no_unproductive_ci_loops",
+            "name": "no_unproductive_ci_loops"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "complete without a rejected state-changing call; failed exploratory reads remain recoverable",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v4_no_rejected_mutations",
+            "name": "v4_no_rejected_mutations"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "execution",
+        "description": "Complete “Notifications are not being delivered.” without unsafe retries or unproductive loops: reach a conclusion within 14 tool calls; avoid repeated validation runs that make no progress.",
+        "id": "execution.efficiency",
+        "weight": 3
+      },
+      {
+        "atomic_checks": [
+          {
+            "description": "close OPS-127 only once the finding is submitted, not before",
+            "dimension": "quality",
+            "id": "quality.closed_after_the_work",
+            "name": "closed_after_the_work"
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "post the completion handoff only after the changed provider state has been reopened",
+            "dimension": "deployment",
+            "id": "deployment.v4_readback_precedes_handoff",
+            "name": "v4_readback_precedes_handoff"
+          }
+        ],
+        "category": "execution",
+        "description": "Close “Notifications are not being delivered.” only after the business state and readbacks are complete: close OPS-127 only once the finding is submitted, not before.",
+        "id": "execution.delivery",
+        "weight": 2
       }
     ],
     "decision_options": [
       {
-        "id": "supported-tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock",
-        "label": "Evidence-supported scoped outcome",
-        "reason": "For DOB-005, current authority and live notifications state support the task-specific transition (submit_diagnosis, update_ticket) and a verified handoff.",
-        "selected": true
+        "approval": "AVAILABLE_NOT_RECOMMENDED",
+        "completion": "2026-03-08",
+        "consequence": "Standard delivery only reaches the 2026-03-08 window, 3 day(s) after expedite_capacity, and would land 3 day(s) after the cutover; it is authorised but inferior.",
+        "control_status": "FEASIBLE_WITH_INFERIOR_TRADEOFF",
+        "id": "standard_capacity_plan",
+        "incremental_cost": 0,
+        "label": "standard_capacity_plan: outcome 2026-03-08, incremental cost USD 0, FEASIBLE_WITH_INFERIOR_TRADEOFF",
+        "reason": "Standard CloudCap delivery 2026-03-07 reaches the 2026-03-08 window at USD 0. Standard delivery only reaches the 2026-03-08 window, 3 day(s) after expedite_capacity, and would land 3 day(s) after the cutover; it is authorised but inferior.",
+        "recommended": false,
+        "selected": false
       },
       {
-        "id": "stale-tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock",
-        "label": "Follow the retired note",
-        "reason": "OPS-CONTROL-2025.11 is retained evidence, not operative authority, and its first-signal shortcut is not corroborated for DOB-005.",
-        "selected": false
+        "approval": "APPROVED",
+        "completion": "2026-03-05",
+        "consequence": "Expedited CloudCap delivery on 2026-03-04 lands in the 2026-03-05 change window, on the 2026-03-05 cutover date, keeps the 4 reserved replicas untouched, and carries the documented incremental cost of USD 1350.",
+        "control_status": "SUPPORTED_AND_APPROVED",
+        "id": "expedite_capacity",
+        "incremental_cost": 1350,
+        "label": "expedite_capacity: outcome 2026-03-05, incremental cost USD 1350, SUPPORTED_AND_APPROVED",
+        "reason": "Expedited CloudCap delivery 2026-03-04 reaches the 2026-03-05 window for USD 1350. Expedited CloudCap delivery on 2026-03-04 lands in the 2026-03-05 change window, on the 2026-03-05 cutover date, keeps the 4 reserved replicas untouched, and carries the documented incremental cost of USD 1350.",
+        "recommended": true,
+        "selected": true
       },
       {
-        "id": "broad-tsk_rca_notifications_node_deadlock",
-        "label": "Apply a broad workaround",
-        "reason": "A broad reset or unrelated production mutation exceeds the notifications work item and violates deterministic write-scope containment.",
+        "approval": "ADDITIONAL_APPROVAL_REQUIRED",
+        "completion": "2026-03-03",
+        "consequence": "Releasing the 4 replicas reserved for the search freeze would cover the 3-replica gap today, but it breaks a reservation another team depends on, needs incident-commander approval beyond CHG-5, and adds the USD 1200 re-provisioning charge.",
+        "control_status": "SEPARATE_APPROVAL_OR_POLICY_EXCEPTION_REQUIRED",
+        "id": "release_reserved_capacity",
+        "incremental_cost": 1200,
+        "label": "release_reserved_capacity: outcome 2026-03-03, incremental cost USD 1200, SEPARATE_APPROVAL_OR_POLICY_EXCEPTION_REQUIRED",
+        "reason": "Releasing the 4 replicas reserved for the search freeze covers the gap today but needs approval beyond CHG-5. Releasing the 4 replicas reserved for the search freeze would cover the 3-replica gap today, but it breaks a reservation another team depends on, needs incident-commander approval beyond CHG-5, and adds the USD 1200 re-provisioning charge.",
+        "recommended": false,
         "selected": false
       }
     ],
     "grading": "deterministic",
     "llm_judge": false,
-    "pass_rule": "every correctness and deployment check holds over the final world state and audit log",
+    "pass_rule": "all 16 semantic milestones hold over causal tool evidence, the graded capacity-plan decision record, final world state, readback, and containment",
+    "reasoning_contract": {
+      "change_or_record": "Establish the exact business state for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Coordinate the linked records for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: close ticket OPS-127 once reported. Keep “Notifications are not being delivered.” contained to its supported records and service boundary: fabricate no records or evidence; preserve every frozen out-of-scope record; introduce no hardcoded credentials.",
+      "decide": "Choose the branch for “Notifications are not being delivered.” that can legitimately produce this business state: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Reject a stale-record shortcut, an unsupported hold, and any broader workaround. Compare three concrete, linked readiness options for “Notifications are not being delivered.” through notifications: standard capacity finishes 2026-03-08 at USD 0; expedited capacity finishes 2026-03-05 at USD 1350; releasing reserved capacity finishes 2026-03-03 at USD 1200 but requires approval beyond CHG-5. Recommend expedite_capacity, record its 2026-03-05 outcome and +0-day variance, and report ON_TIME honestly.",
+      "deliver": "Leave the employee-facing conclusion for “Notifications are not being delivered.” with the exact supported insight: record the evidence-backed root cause for notifications unreachable; record the evidence that supports the finding; write a natural scoped completion note, not a keyword list or serialized benchmark object; state the selected option (expedite_capacity) in the scoped completion handoff; state the outcome date (2026-03-05) in the scoped completion handoff; state the approval reference (CHG-5) in the scoped completion handoff; state the timing status (ON_TIME) in the scoped completion handoff; state the binding constraint (CloudCap expedited capacity on 2026-03-04) in the scoped completion handoff. Close “Notifications are not being delivered.” only after the business state and readbacks are complete: close OPS-127 only once the finding is submitted, not before.",
+      "employee_outcome": "Notifications are not being delivered.",
+      "investigate": "Build the causal case for “Notifications are not being delivered.”: first resolve the same work across the authoritative Jira work item, the cross-tracker link registry, and the linked GitHub issue population; then use the operating-control index and the exact control revision to select the effective rule over the retired shortcut; reconcile ownership, approval, and reported context through the case-room conversation, the PagerDuty change-event history, and the current customer-status record; finally test the competing explanation against the live dependency path (from notifications), live Kubernetes pod state (notifications), runtime resource and process state (notifications), and the employee work item. All 20 exact causal facts must be present inside the 27-read investigation before they support this outcome: record a node unhealthy diagnosis localizing responsibility to notifications and identifying node-c1 with cited evidence; move the employee work item to done. Preserve this additional control: the responsible service is notifications; the root cause is a node_unhealthy fault; the offending key is node-c1; an investigation must not change production state. Prove that the same outcome for “Notifications are not being delivered.” is deliverable through notifications, using scattered records: 3 healthy replicas per zone across 4 zones means 12 required; 13 observed less 4 reserved for search leaves 9 usable and a 3-replica gap. Reconcile that gap with CloudCap's 2026-03-07 standard and 2026-03-04 expedited deliveries, the published change windows, and the independent 2026-03-05 customer date.",
+      "verify": "Prove the observable result for “Notifications are not being delivered.” after the transition: reopen the employee work item and confirm the persisted result. After the last guarded transition for “Notifications are not being delivered.”, reopen the employee work item, then reopen the completion conversation so persistence and communication are both proven."
+    },
     "score_weights": {
-      "correctness": 0.6,
-      "deployment": 0.3,
-      "quality": 0.1
+      "analysis.capacity_plan": 9,
+      "analysis.causal_reasoning": 6,
+      "answer.insights": 4,
+      "containment.scope": 7,
+      "decision.options": 8,
+      "decision.supported_path": 5,
+      "execution.delivery": 2,
+      "execution.efficiency": 3,
+      "execution.sequence": 6,
+      "investigation.authority": 5,
+      "investigation.live_state": 7,
+      "investigation.scope": 5,
+      "state.coordination": 6,
+      "state.primary": 14,
+      "verification.outcome": 7,
+      "verification.readback": 6
     },
     "type": "deterministic",
     "verifier": "verifiers/verify_dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock.py"
   },
   "task_id": "dob100-005-rca-notifications-node-deadlock",
-  "task_name": "A change-window reviewer found that the ticket and operating records no longer line up. Keep this to an investigation; production should remain unchanged. OPS-127 — Root cause: notifications are not being delivered Get to the bottom of notifications-unreachable: not just which service, but the mechanism and the exact setting responsible. The service's own code is not necessarily where this lives — confirm it against the state of the system rather than inferring it from the symptom alone. Leave an audit-ready diagnosis for 'notifications-unreachable' that names the responsible service, the fault type, the offending key, and your evidence. The work item is DOB-005 for notifications. Its business boundary is receipts, retry policy, delivery templates, and downstream messaging reliability. Reconcile current authority with live state, make only supported changes, and leave a case-room handoff that you have reopened and verified.",
+  "task_name": "Notifications are not being delivered.",
   "world_id": "env_software_devops_0ec42f0f"
 }