validation

Journey editorial validation

Status: focused draft validation passed; the draft remains unpublished and unapproved.

Scope and boundary

This validation concerns the unpublished Heaven and Household draft only. The Journey card list remains empty, and a draft status must continue to make createJourneyHandoff refuse launch. The archive is serving prepared candidate editions under the current RELEASE_SERVES_UNCERTIFIED decision, but neither work has a certification record: src/content/archive/certifications.json is empty. That is distinct from resolving a draft against the exact bytes in the repository.

Source identity checked

The committed release inventory identifies the two candidate editions as:

Work	Edition identity	Revision	Current certification
Paradise Lost	standard-ebooks:john-milton/paradise-lost	sha256:e1f747c0f0e2d1b13433f6b2f51c9be28e53fe496c0ebb11904b8ef0c26c467e	Candidate; no matching certification record
The Iliad	standard-ebooks:homer/the-iliad_william-cullen-bryant	sha256:0695d06ded3af9669b8f314f1ae76e8186b1d67e81b6a726992a8c5ed88cf143	Candidate; no matching certification record

These identities were read from src/content/archive/release-inventory.json; src/content/archive/certifications.json currently contains {}. RELEASE_SERVES_UNCERTIFIED is true, so the default reader-facing archive includes these candidates. A certified-only archive selection would currently contain no works. Do not describe candidate status as certification.

The source report and authored passage records are tracked separately in sources.md. The committed-content resolver confirms each locator against these editions. Milton's excerpt begins at a sentence start and ends at a period. The Bryant route begins with Andromache's speech and closes Hector's reply at “I hear thy cries as thou art borne away!” The following lines begin a new beat in which he embraces his son and leaves; the selected excerpt therefore does not end at the earlier comma boundary.

Checks completed so far

• Read the Journey handoff and compiler paths. Handoff resolves passages, checks supplied expected checksums, compiles again with text-derived passage metrics, and carries source edition, revision, and checksum into provenance.
• Read archive certification and release selection code. The underlying works are present in the admitted archive; candidate text is available on the default reader path, while the certified-only set is empty.
• Ran the focused test file with node_modules/.bin/vitest.cmd run src/content/journeys/heaven-and-household.test.js: 1 file and all 5 tests passed. It confirms both current excerpts resolve, their authored SHA-256 pins match, the source edition IDs and revisions match the archive inventory, both sources survive compilation, the movement boundary survives handoff and session compilation, drift is refused, and the actual draft manifest is unlaunchable.
• Read the full Bryant excerpt in its surrounding source context and checked the current source packet at sources.md.
• The parent ran the focused draft test alongside system-design, Journey compiler, scheduler, and Journey session tests: 77 tests passed in total. The parent also reported a successful production build, first-load size of 58.4 KB Brotli against a 64 KB budget, and successful security:compat check. The 77-test combined run was repeated after the final manifest wording changes. Build and first-load checks cover the unchanged public app; this draft is not imported by its catalog.

Checks not yet run

The tests exercise source resolution, compilation, handoff, and the canonical session timeline. They do not exercise Chamber playback, browser interaction, or human editorial approval. No browser or live playback test has been run. The manifest is not in the Journey catalog, and this validation makes no publication or certification claim.

No claim of playback, archive certification, or publication follows from compiler structure or hash matching alone.

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