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# verify_v3.py hardening patch
#
# pre-hardening  sha256 507a53d2c6fd38fba3eb4cbe50c73cb43c1689061920f944c18995b748afcc3d  (attested in sha256sums.txt line 30)
# post-hardening sha256 d6c1d4299aab831d61174daea651e8e779b6fa46ae7279cc17bd33a6de1f47c4
#
a/verify_v3.py	2026-08-10 19:40:29.385003841 -0400
+++ b/verify_v3.py	2026-08-10 19:43:40.148932456 -0400
@@ -29,10 +29,12 @@
 HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 sys.path.insert(0, HERE)
 
+import exclusivity_model  # noqa: E402
 import preflight  # noqa: E402
 import privilege_graph  # noqa: E402
 
 ATTACK_RESULTS = os.path.join(HERE, "attack_results.json")
+TOPOLOGY = os.path.join(HERE, "PRIVILEGE_TOPOLOGY.json")
 CARRIER_MATRIX = os.path.join(HERE, "carrier_matrix.json")
 REGISTRY = os.path.join(HERE, "ROOT_EQUIVALENCE_REGISTRY.json")
 ANALYSIS = os.path.join(HERE, "AUTHORITY_PRINCIPAL_ANALYSIS.json")
@@ -40,16 +42,17 @@
 HISTORY_PATH = os.path.join(HERE, "run_history.jsonl")
 REQUIRED_IDENTICAL_RUNS = 4
 
-VERIFIED = "VERIFIED_EXCLUSIVE_AUTHORITY"
-BLOCKED_ROOT = "BLOCKED_ROOT_EQUIVALENCE"
-BLOCKED_AUTHORITY = "BLOCKED_AUTHORITY_EQUIVALENCE"
+VERIFIED = exclusivity_model.VERIFIED
+BLOCKED_ROOT = exclusivity_model.BLOCKED_ROOT
+BLOCKED_AUTHORITY = exclusivity_model.BLOCKED_AUTHORITY
+BLOCKED_UNCERTAIN = exclusivity_model.BLOCKED_UNCERTAIN
 INTEGRATION_BLOCKED = "INTEGRATION_BLOCKED"
 PROVABLY_UNREACHABLE = "PROVABLY_UNREACHABLE"
 ENV_NOT_EQUIVALENT = "ENVIRONMENT_NOT_EQUIVALENT"
 
 #: Conditions whose failure is caused by the host's privilege configuration
 #: rather than by the architecture. Used to compute the conditional result.
-CUTOVER_DEPENDENT = {"06", "07", "12", "17"}
+CUTOVER_DEPENDENT = {"06", "07", "12", "17", "19"}
 
 
 def die(label: str, message: str) -> None:
@@ -64,7 +67,13 @@
     return subprocess.run(argv, cwd=HERE, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=1800)
 
 
-def conditions_from(attacks: dict, registry: dict, analysis: dict, graph: dict) -> dict:
+def conditions_from(
+    attacks: dict,
+    registry: dict,
+    analysis: dict,
+    graph: dict,
+    topology: dict | None = None,
+) -> dict:
     carriers = {entry["carrier"]: entry for entry in attacks["carriers"]}
     attack = attacks["attacks"]
     protocol = attacks["protocol"]
@@ -241,6 +250,13 @@
     # Condition 18 is filled in by `repeatability()` once the verdict and digest
     # for this run are known; it is the only condition that cannot be evaluated
     # from a single run's measurements.
+    #
+    # Condition 19 is the hardening added after the cutover preflight found that
+    # `registry["unknown_paths"]` was recorded and consumed by nothing: a host
+    # whose only remaining escalation path was UNKNOWN would have been reported
+    # VERIFIED. It unions the registry's UNKNOWNs with the read-only topology
+    # inventory's.
+    conditions["19"] = exclusivity_model.unknown_condition(registry, topology)
     return conditions
 
 
@@ -275,7 +291,7 @@
     )
     return {
         "text": f"{REQUIRED_IDENTICAL_RUNS} consecutive verifier runs produce the "
-                f"same result and evidence digest",
+        f"same result and evidence digest",
         "met": identical,
         "evidence": {
             "runs_recorded": len(history),
@@ -289,8 +305,11 @@
 def property_split(conditions: dict, registry: dict) -> dict:
     """Section 15: three properties that fail independently."""
     dac = all(conditions[key]["met"] for key in ("03", "04", "05"))
+    # 19 belongs to exclusivity: an unresolved escalation path is exactly the
+    # question "can the agent obtain equivalent capability", left unanswered.
     exclusivity = all(
-        conditions[key]["met"] for key in ("06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12")
+        conditions[key]["met"]
+        for key in ("06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12", "19")
     )
     liveness = all(conditions[key]["met"] for key in ("13", "14", "15", "16"))
     return {
@@ -318,8 +337,11 @@
     # architecture or of the host's privilege configuration. Counting it as an
     # architectural failure while the run window fills would misreport every
     # run before the fourth.
-    failed = [key for key, entry in conditions.items()
-              if entry["met"] is False and key != "18"]
+    failed = [
+        key
+        for key, entry in conditions.items()
+        if entry["met"] is False and key != "18"
+    ]
     failed_independent = [
         key for key in failed if not conditions[key].get("cutover_dependent")
     ]
@@ -342,8 +364,9 @@
     }
 
 
-def evidence_digest(attacks: dict, registry: dict, analysis: dict,
-                    graph: dict, conditions: dict) -> str:
+def evidence_digest(
+    attacks: dict, registry: dict, analysis: dict, graph: dict, conditions: dict
+) -> str:
     """A digest over the security-relevant surface only.
 
     Built from an explicit whitelist rather than by filtering volatile keys out
@@ -354,32 +377,42 @@
     hashed.
     """
     surface = {
-        "carriers": {entry["carrier"]: entry["verdict"]
-                     for entry in attacks["carriers"]},
+        "carriers": {
+            entry["carrier"]: entry["verdict"] for entry in attacks["carriers"]
+        },
         "attacks": {
             "D_subuid": attacks["attacks"]["D_subuid"]["verdict"],
             "E_setns_procfs": attacks["attacks"]["E_setns"]["procfs_route"]["verdict"],
             "E_setns_docker": attacks["attacks"]["E_setns"]["docker_route"]["verdict"],
             "F_ptrace": attacks["attacks"]["F_ptrace"]["verdict"],
             "F_ptrace_control": attacks["attacks"]["F_ptrace"][
-                "control_attached_agent_owned_process"],
+                "control_attached_agent_owned_process"
+            ],
             "H_rootful": attacks["attacks"]["container_roots"][
-                "H_rootful_container_root"]["verdict"],
+                "H_rootful_container_root"
+            ]["verdict"],
             "I_rootless": attacks["attacks"]["container_roots"][
-                "I_rootless_container_root"]["verdict"],
-            "J1": attacks["attacks"]["J_broker_replacement"][
-                "J1_host_write_to_code"]["verdict"],
+                "I_rootless_container_root"
+            ]["verdict"],
+            "J1": attacks["attacks"]["J_broker_replacement"]["J1_host_write_to_code"][
+                "verdict"
+            ],
             "J2": attacks["attacks"]["J_broker_replacement"][
-                "J2_docker_cp_into_container"]["verdict"],
+                "J2_docker_cp_into_container"
+            ]["verdict"],
             "K_socket": attacks["attacks"]["K_socket_impersonation"]["verdict"],
             "Q_key": attacks["attacks"]["Q_key_material"]["verdict"],
         },
-        "protocol": {name: entry.get("pass")
-                     for name, entry in attacks["protocol"].items()
-                     if isinstance(entry, dict)},
-        "leakage": {name: entry.get("verdict")
-                    for name, entry in attacks["leakage"].items()
-                    if isinstance(entry, dict)},
+        "protocol": {
+            name: entry.get("pass")
+            for name, entry in attacks["protocol"].items()
+            if isinstance(entry, dict)
+        },
+        "leakage": {
+            name: entry.get("verdict")
+            for name, entry in attacks["leakage"].items()
+            if isinstance(entry, dict)
+        },
         "git_all_passed": attacks["workspace_git"]["all_passed"],
         "git_check_count": attacks["workspace_git"]["count"],
         "identity_separation": {
@@ -387,8 +420,10 @@
             "broker_uid": attacks["environment"]["broker_uid"],
             "decision_uid": attacks["environment"]["decision_uid"],
         },
-        "registry": {name: entry["classification"]
-                     for name, entry in registry["mechanisms"].items()},
+        "registry": {
+            name: entry["classification"]
+            for name, entry in registry["mechanisms"].items()
+        },
         "root_equivalent_paths": sorted(registry["root_equivalent_paths"]),
         "authority_uid": analysis["selected_authority_uid"],
         "graph_edges": sorted(
@@ -396,8 +431,9 @@
             for entry in graph["edges"]
         ),
         "graph_closed": graph["closure"]["closed"],
-        "conditions": {key: entry["met"] for key, entry in conditions.items()
-                       if key != "18"},
+        "conditions": {
+            key: entry["met"] for key, entry in conditions.items() if key != "18"
+        },
     }
     return hashlib.sha256(
         json.dumps(surface, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":")).encode()
@@ -431,6 +467,16 @@
     if analysis_run.returncode != 0 or not os.path.exists(ANALYSIS):
         die(BLOCKED_ROOT, f"analysis failed: {analysis_run.stderr.strip()[:400]}")
 
+    topology_run = run_stage(
+        "privilege topology inventory",
+        [sys.executable, os.path.join(HERE, "privilege_topology.py")],
+    )
+    if topology_run.returncode != 0 or not os.path.exists(TOPOLOGY):
+        die(
+            BLOCKED_UNCERTAIN,
+            f"topology inventory failed: {topology_run.stderr.strip()[:400]}",
+        )
+
     attacks_run = run_stage(
         "attack suite",
         [sys.executable, os.path.join(HERE, "attack_suite", "run_attacks_v3.py")],
@@ -445,18 +491,23 @@
     with open(ANALYSIS, encoding="utf-8") as handle:
         analysis = json.load(handle)
 
+    with open(TOPOLOGY, encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+        topology = json.load(handle)
+
     graph = privilege_graph.build_and_save(attacks, registry)
-    conditions = conditions_from(attacks, registry, analysis, graph)
+    conditions = conditions_from(attacks, registry, analysis, graph, topology)
     digest = evidence_digest(attacks, registry, analysis, graph, conditions)
-    # Section 16's ordering: root-equivalence dominates everything else.
-    if registry["agent_is_root_equivalent"]:
-        verdict = BLOCKED_ROOT
-    elif not graph["closure"]["conditions"]["no_path_to_authority_principal"]["holds"]:
-        verdict = BLOCKED_AUTHORITY
-    elif all(entry["met"] for key, entry in conditions.items() if key != "18"):
-        verdict = VERIFIED
-    else:
-        verdict = BLOCKED_AUTHORITY
+    # Section 16's ordering, now computed by exclusivity_model: root-equivalence
+    # dominates everything, then authority-equivalence, then UNRESOLVED privilege
+    # paths -- which can no longer be silently absorbed into a VERIFIED verdict.
+    exclusivity = exclusivity_model.compute(
+        registry,
+        topology,
+        graph["closure"],
+        conditions,
+        ignore_conditions={"18"},
+    )
+    verdict = exclusivity["verdict"]
 
     conditions["18"] = repeatability(verdict, digest)
     split = property_split(conditions, registry)
@@ -478,6 +529,12 @@
         "privilege_graph_closure": graph["closure"],
         "root_equivalent_paths": registry["root_equivalent_paths"],
         "unknown_paths": registry["unknown_paths"],
+        "exclusivity": exclusivity,
+        "privilege_topology": {
+            "counts": topology["counts"],
+            "root_equivalent_paths": topology["root_equivalent_paths"],
+            "unknown_privilege_paths": topology["unknown_privilege_paths"],
+        },
         "selected_authority_uid": analysis["selected_authority_uid"],
         "prior_packages_unchanged": prior_unchanged,
         "environment_equivalence": pre["environment_equivalence"],
@@ -518,7 +575,15 @@
         f"{conditional['would_hold_after_cutover']}"
     )
     print()
-    print(f"root-equivalent paths: {registry['root_equivalent_paths']}")
+    print(f"root-equivalent paths: {exclusivity['root_equivalent_paths']}")
+    print(
+        f"unresolved privilege paths: "
+        f"{len(exclusivity['unknown_privilege_paths'])} "
+        f"{exclusivity['unknown_privilege_paths'][:4]}"
+        f"{' ...' if len(exclusivity['unknown_privilege_paths']) > 4 else ''}"
+    )
+    for reason in exclusivity["reasons"]:
+        print(f"  verdict reason: {reason}")
     print(f"privilege graph closed: {graph['closure']['closed']}")
     print(f"prior packages unchanged: {prior_unchanged}")
     print(f"evidence digest: {result['evidence_digest'][:32]}")