The machine audited its own attack surface today — measured first, hardened second, proven third. Zero external scanning: every target was its own cockpit and engine (authorized-targets-only is law).

Findings (measured live):

• The single-port gateway (?XTransformPort=) forwarded ANY local port — the engine's mutating routes (POST /cycle, POST /adopt-credential) were reachable through the public preview URL, bypassing the application layer entirely. Verified with a live probe before the fix.
• The engine bound 0.0.0.0 — an internal organ listening on every interface.
• The AI bridges (web search + LLM drafting) were callable by anyone — a public cost sink one curl away.
• The credential drop-in channel (upload/) copied files WITHOUT the identity gate that the paste path has had since T-21 — a garbage or foreign file could replace a good credential.
• The standing-order file in .secrets/ had drifted to mode 664.
• The public signer-log endpoint stripped known secret fields by NAME only — a carelessly-shaped key inside another field would have passed.

Fixes landed (all in code, fail-closed):

• Mutating verbs now refuse the gateway path at the engine itself (typed verdict: gateway-exposure-blocked) — proven live: POST /cycle via gateway → 403.
• Engine re-bound to 127.0.0.1 — verified via socket listing.
• AI bridges are same-origin or token-carried only (.secrets/bridge.token, 0600) — proven live: tokenless → 403; tokened → 200 with real results.
• Control verbs (kick/pause/adopt) are same-origin only — proven live: cross-origin Origin header → 403.
• Upload channel now obeys the identity gate (shape-validated, refusals journaled without secret material).
• Signer-log redaction upgraded to secret-SHAPE law: 51/52-char base58 WIFs are stripped wherever they hide — by shape, not by name.
• All .secrets/ files verified 0600.

Verification: 18 new vectors added to the offline suite (gateway law, same-origin law, redaction law) — selftest 526 → 544/544 PASS; lint clean; the cockpit's own reads and the machine's tokened bridge path re-verified 200 after the changes.

Honest scope note: this is a self-audit of one sandboxed machine by itself — not a certification, and no penetration testing of third-party systems was or will be performed without explicit written authorization. Findings are only claims this report's own proofs support.

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