{
  "previous_overall": 8.8,
  "overall": 8.8,
  "categories": [
    {
      "name": "Security and access control",
      "score": 9,
      "reason": "Authenticated merchant recurrence terms, single-use base mandates and atomic agent occurrence caps join existing signature/cart/replay checks. Live custody remains unqualified.",
      "previous": 9,
      "assessment_note": "Carried forward; not independently reassessed in this scoped review"
    },
    {
      "name": "Observability and diagnosability",
      "score": 9,
      "reason": "Local real-engine notification firing, retry and recovery now pass. Production host traces, queue/pool telemetry, SLOs, access/retention controls and the actual on-call route remain unqualified. Score retained at 9.0.",
      "previous": 9
    },
    {
      "name": "Reliability and scale",
      "score": 9,
      "reason": "Budget and occurrence races, reconciliation rollback, replay and uncertain commit pass. Real backup/restore preserves the complete ledger snapshot; broad production load and PITR are not qualified.",
      "previous": 9,
      "assessment_note": "Carried forward; not independently reassessed in this scoped review"
    },
    {
      "name": "Configuration and data",
      "score": 9,
      "reason": "Idempotent terminal reconciliation, preserved replay/count state, legacy schema migration and unknown legacy ages are tested. External journal authentication and stale-backup recovery remain host responsibilities.",
      "previous": 9,
      "assessment_note": "Carried forward; not independently reassessed in this scoped review"
    },
    {
      "name": "Deployment and release",
      "score": 8.5,
      "reason": "Local tests, lint, ABI and alert gates pass and are wired into workflows. Changes remain uncommitted; hosted validation and a release for this tree are still outstanding.",
      "previous": 8.5,
      "assessment_note": "Carried forward; not independently reassessed in this scoped review"
    },
    {
      "name": "Testing and documentation",
      "score": 8.5,
      "reason": "50 intent tests, expanded conformance profile, real PostgreSQL restore and nine Prometheus evaluations pass. Full cross-stack conformance and wider SDK branch coverage remain incomplete.",
      "previous": 8.5,
      "assessment_note": "Carried forward; not independently reassessed in this scoped review"
    }
  ],
  "rubric": "Same six equally weighted categories; only observability reassessed. Engineering judgment, not certification.",
  "arithmetic": "53 / 6 = 8.8333, rounded half-up to 8.8"
}