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Problem

The Etsy refinement trial exposed two generalized Process Engine weaknesses:

1. material retrieval/provenance state could become ambiguous across supplied, retrieved, partial, unavailable, and source-unknown material;
2. Review/Trial evidence was insufficiently bound to the exact artifact and deployable scope, allowing an overall-INCOMPLETE trial to be informally narrowed before deployment without a proven new PASS chain.

Evidence

• 12/12 executed Etsy behavioral cases passed, but the overall Trial was INCOMPLETE.
• No proven exact-scope Pattern → Review PASS → Trial PASS chain was found for the later narrowed deployment.
• Native object persistence/read-back does not prove Ship-gate compliance.
• The original unrestricted R6 Summary Gate test caused a real accidental Hermes skill_manage(create) mutation before confirmation; that Hermes rerun was contaminated and excluded as clean-context evidence.
• A replacement non-Hermes behavioral R6 trial passed while preserving the Summary Gate boundary.
• Targeted qualification-continuity trials passed.
• Fresh independent final review returned PASS.

This does not claim full Etsy capability qualification, successful prior Ship, native Turnstone activation proof for the replacement behavioral trial, canonical/live Process Engine alignment, or Hermes cleanup.

Correction

• compact material receipt/provenance continuity;
• truthful handling of supplied/retrieved/partial/unavailable material;
• concise Review qualification-scope statement;
• material vs non-material revision judgment;
• proportional Trial delta and reuse of directly valid evidence;
• Ship verifies applicable Review/Trial PASS against the actual shipped scope;
• INCOMPLETE → no Ship remains a hard invariant.

No new persistence layer, manifest, qualification registry, state machine, evaluator, governance engine, or runtime subsystem was added.

Validation

• structural validation PASS;
• embedded intake-reference equality PASS;
• diff hygiene PASS;
• targeted behavioral trials Q1–Q7 passed;
• fresh independent review PASS.

Evidence artifact

• case-study/case-study-etsy-realignment-2026-08-17.md

The standalone local assessment under docs/evaluations/ is intentionally excluded from this PR.