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+# Fleet final UI artifact qualification — 7 October 2026
+
+Status: qualified UI artifact archived; **not deployed**. Corrected Fleet backend
+qualification and coordinated backend/UI delivery remain required. This receipt
+does not authorize an OTA/ISO or replace actual-node Fleet transport acceptance.
+
+## Source and test boundaries
+
+The full combined UI suite passed **1,459 tests in 177 files**, zero failures,
+from a separate frozen copy of all **771 tracked UI inputs**. Input hashes were
+verified before and after the run. One worker, 1 GB Node heap bound. Baseline:
+`~/.local/state/archipelago/release-qualification/fleet-combined-ui-20261007/`.
+Its `provenance.json`, `inputs.json`, `test-results.json`, `test.log` and
+`test-receipt.json` preserve the exact source and result.
+
+A later reviewed alert/cache provenance correction was integrated as `ff522086`.
+Exactly three UI files differ from that full-suite baseline:
+`FleetAlerts.vue`, `useFleetData.ts`, and `FleetPartialFailure.test.ts`.
+The final snapshot gate verified that all three match the qualified isolated
+source hashes and that no other UI inputs changed. This delta passed **31 focused
+Fleet tests in five files** and the exact app-project typecheck
+(`vue-tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.app.json`, 2 GB heap, exit 0).
+This is full baseline plus focused delta qualification, **not a full-suite rerun
+after the final delta**.
+
+Alert rows label unsigned collector reports explicitly. Cached node/alert identity
+claims remain unverified until a fresh corrected server response; cached content
+and metrics remain visible. These labels require the corrected backend provenance
+gate and do not themselves authenticate identities.
+
+## Frozen build and artifact
+
+Final directory:
+`~/.local/state/archipelago/release-qualification/fleet-final-ui-20261007/`.
+The final 771-input frozen source passed the production Vite/PWA build with a
+1 GB heap bound. Input hashes remained unchanged before and after build and the
+subsequent narrow browser fixture. Installed dependencies were reused; no install
+or catalog-copy prebuild ran. The tracked public catalog remained frozen.
+
+- Index SHA256: `2469e5f2ea2f16598982174e6a0944b3bddadc2e0e587e2f6b3a4253366f0078`
+- Archive: `qualified-ui.tar.gz`
+- Archive SHA256: `063752912fdcae2d1abf2abaccd53bfad39acce23c9a5d896ce52ba1e1996080`
+- Receipts: `qualification-ready.json`, `build-receipt.json`, `qualification-final.json`
+- Manifests: `inputs.json`, `dist-inputs.json`
+
+An existing isolated source-component browser harness was pointed at the exact
+frozen final source and styles. At **390px and 1440px**, the collector alert header
+remained contained, its unverified provenance label was visible, and there were
+no page errors or horizontal overflow. All RPC responses were synthetic and all
+non-loopback requests were blocked. This narrowly verifies final source layout;
+it is **not a production-dist browser run**, a live authorization check, or proof
+of distributed transport behavior. Logs and fixture scripts are archived beside
+the artifact. Owned browser, server and compiler processes were stopped.
+
+## Explicit remaining gates
+
+No services, wallets, payments, catalogs, APKs, default downloads, or live UI
+files were changed by this qualification. No deployment occurred. Fleet backend
+tests and coupled delivery remain pending; real-node mixed-version, trust,
+partition/reconnect and supported-action acceptance remain separate.
+
+Companion background playback remains operator-accepted. Notification artwork
+still failed the operator's phone check and is explicitly deferred to task 23 at
+the end of the remaining work. Existing artwork source is included in the combined
+snapshot; no new artwork investigation or acceptance claim was made.