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Not an independent third-party audit.","cannot_establish":"A valid signature proves this record is authentic and unmodified; it does NOT prove the system behaved correctly. It does not establish that the findings are complete, correctly graded, or that no other issues exist.","open_findings":[],"withheld_findings":0,"capabilities":["security-audit","trust-bar"],"verify":{"method":"ed25519-log","artifact_url":"/evidence/securityAudits.json","receipt_url":null,"public_key":"fIQ/oPZSVq30nXqR5yU0Ny47QhHVNrD/PDqxkoIyEck=","public_key_source":"committed in the repository (scripts/security-audit-public-key.mjs) and in public/evidence/quoxtrust-verify.mjs","locator":{"file":"/evidence/securityAudits.json","path":"cycles[13]","cycle":14},"verifier_cmd":"node quoxtrust-verify.mjs ./securityAudits.json","reproduction":"Download /evidence/securityAudits.json and /evidence/quoxtrust-verify.mjs (dependency-free, Node 18+). Run the verifier command. It recomputes every WARD receipt chain_hash under the published recipe and verifies the Ed25519 signature over the canonicalized log with the committed public key. Exit 0 means authentic and unmodified; it does not mean the findings are complete or correct.","browser_verifiable":true},"citations":[{"url":"https://quox.ai/security","label":"Quox security audit log"}],"detail":{"cycle":14,"cycle_kind":"trust-bar","engagement_id":"ENG_01M3X5EAMEKZYA6YZX53KZYA6Y","scope":{"covered":"Spend (paid-API tools), concurrency/rate, exec-time/output/payload, queue depth + loop triad across the collector tool surface + schedulers + telegram queue.","excluded":["Hostile third-party plugin isolation -> v2.0 (design).","Network-layer DDoS / edge rate limiting (infra concern).","Load/throughput benchmarking (bar is bound-existence + durability, not perf)."]},"method":null,"summary":"Attack with volume. 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Scheduler triad present across feed/inboxq/quoxseo/reach/reflection/telegram/x pollers."],"totals":{"critical":0,"high":1,"medium":2,"low":0,"fixed":3,"open":0,"refuted":0},"ward":{"chain_id":"ward:org/quox/env/production","hash_recipe":"sha256(prev_chain_hash|chain_id|seq|ward_entry_id|witnessed_at|source_kind|source_id|payload_hash), hex","receipts":2},"version":"v1.8","bar_name":"Resource & Abuse Bounds","verdict":"PASS","known_debt":["RB2: no REAL per-org cost-budget/spend-ceiling infra yet (propose-first is interim). Build the budget gate for unattended paid-tool use.","RB4: outbound queue in-memory (not durable across restart), depth cap bounds the live process; persist lane state for cross-restart durability. Depth-cap pin DEFERRED (trivial synchronous guard; module hides lane internals for a non-flaky test).","securityScanScheduler is cadence-driven; backoff/retirement N/A by design (noted)."],"passed_date":"2026-10-02","contract_version":"1.0.0"},"human_url":"/evidence/explore#cycle:14","machine_url":"/evidence/items/cycle:14.json","api_url":"/api/evidence/cycle:14","contract":{"authentic_is_not_correct":"A valid signature or a recomputed hash proves a record is authentic and unmodified. It does not prove the system behaved correctly or that a finding list is complete.","independence":"self = issued by Quox and recomputable by anyone, not audited by a third party. visitor-recomputable = the reader recomputes it offline from published material. external = an outside party issued or hosts the primary record. Quox-verified is never independently verified.","curated_status":"status OWNER-APPROVED means the owner approved the wording for publication. It is not a computed VERIFIED status. computed_status, where present, is computed from proof-engine runs and is reported separately.","verify_caveat":"authentic != correct. A valid signature proves this record is authentic and unmodified; it does NOT prove the system behaved correctly."}}