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+{
+  "evidence_id": "gen2-deploy-002-production-drill-2026-08-30",
+  "task_id": "GEN2-DEPLOY-002",
+  "task_revision": 1,
+  "status": "BLOCKED_BY_MISSING_CAPABILITY",
+  "integration_revision": "7f8a05c",
+  "candidate_revision": "7f8a05c",
+  "stable_revision_after_rollback": "3182092d5cc758f5a536ce10f5428b5d782bb961",
+  "release_set": ["creator-web", "core-runtime", "cognitive-worker", "research-runtime"],
+  "drill": {
+    "candidate_health_readiness_revision": "PASS; all four candidate containers healthy and image revision checked",
+    "candidate_dependency_isolation": "PASS; creator->core candidate, core->research candidate, core/cognitive candidate routes verified in compose wiring",
+    "canary_header": "PASS; Supervisor selected candidate for X-Assistant-Canary=true",
+    "forced_component_failure": "PASS; research-runtime-candidate stopped, ReleaseSet observation rejected with HTTP 409",
+    "whole_set_rollback": "PASS; Supervisor restored stable 3182092 and traffic mode STABLE",
+    "promotion": "PASS; healthy candidate was promoted through Supervisor",
+    "supervisor_restart": "PASS; promoted ReleaseSet and rollback target survived restart",
+    "post_rollback_health": "PASS; public health/readiness both HTTP 200"
+  },
+  "telemetry": {
+    "startup_events_observed": ["non-bootstrap-env-consumers", "migration-compatibility-switches"],
+    "authenticated_path_observation": "NOT_COMPLETED",
+    "observation_window": "NOT_STARTED",
+    "reason": "The existing browser session was stale and production requested re-authentication before chat submission. No credentials were read or entered."
+  },
+  "final_production_state": {"traffic_mode": "STABLE", "revision": "3182092d5cc758f5a536ce10f5428b5d782bb961", "candidate_containers": "retained but not serving stable traffic"},
+  "not_done": ["telemetry confirmation for all nine paths", "bounded observation window", "retirement tasks", "main merge", "milestone tag"],
+  "scope": {"schema_or_migrations_changed": false, "v1_paths_removed": false, "gen3_started": false, "ui_changed": false}
+}