---
name: CTO Endgoal Completion Audit PRD
status: validated
lifecycle_classification: sot
owner: jp
created: 2026-06-01
last_reviewed: 2026-06-01
core_promotion_status: not-promoted
---

# CTO Endgoal Completion Audit PRD

Local planning SOT only. Not a Core Protocol. Not active Core authority.

## Problem Statement

The CTO product surface has strong local evidence: staged Case proof, governed Stage 5 execution, consumed approval display, Hermes WebUI smoke, and synced plugin state. The active endgoal includes a transportable CTO stack. Transportable means repo-backed SOT, synced plugin code, documented entrypoints, validators, and no hidden vendor-source edits; it does not require a separate packaging project in this slice.

## Solution

Record a requirement-by-requirement endgoal audit. Mark proven requirements as validated by existing evidence. Record pragmatic transportability evidence from repo-backed SOT, remote plugin sync, validators, and no vendor edits.

## Scope

- Audit Cortex governs.
- Audit Hermes controls.
- Audit CTO routes.
- Audit Harness proves.
- Audit Case executes only after proof.
- Audit bounded code changes with evidence.
- Audit target repositories stay owned and protected.
- Audit default status is earned, not assumed.
- Audit candidate-default evidence and runtime default separation.
- Audit transportable CTO stack proof.

## Non-goals

- Do not activate Case as default backend.
- Do not activate Case as default backend.
- Do not rerun Case.
- Do not mutate target repositories.
- Do not promote child-local CTO SOT into Core.
- Do not edit upstream `hermes-webui`.
- Do not edit upstream `hermes-agent`.

## Acceptance Criteria

- `WORKBOARD.yaml` records `CTO-WORK-076` and `CTO-WORK-077` as validated.
- The closeout states `completion_status: complete`.
- The closeout records `transportability proof sufficient`.
- The closeout records `transportability evidence: repo-backed routes, remote plugin sync, validators, and no vendor edits`.
- The closeout references `CTO-WORK-075` remote sync and live smoke evidence.
- The closeout references `CTO-WORK-071` governed execution evidence.
- The closeout references Stage 6 candidate-default evidence.
- The closeout states Runtime default activation remains false.
- The closeout states the active goal completion evidence recorded.

## Validation

- `python3 tools/validate_cto_child.py`
- `python3 /home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/core/tools/check_s69_caveman_prose_discipline.py`

## Required Evidence

- CTO endgoal completion audit
- CTO-WORK-076
- CTO-WORK-077
- completion_status: complete
- transportability proof sufficient
- transportability evidence: repo-backed routes, remote plugin sync, validators, and no vendor edits
- active goal completion evidence recorded
- Cortex governs: proven
- Hermes controls: proven
- CTO routes: proven
- Harness proves: proven
- Case executes only after proof: proven
- bounded code changes with evidence: proven
- target repos stay owned and protected: proven
- default status is earned not assumed: proven
- candidate-default evidence: proven
- Runtime default activation remains false.
- CTO-WORK-071
- CTO-WORK-075
- Stage 6 candidate-default evidence
- Do not activate Case as default backend.
- This audit does not authorize another Case run.