# Phase 15 Recommendation Review

## Decision

**Phase 15 recommendation upheld: Not ready for production launch.**

The Phase 15 evidence reports 1 unresolved Critical, 21 unresolved High, 17 unresolved Medium, and 2 unresolved Low cumulative issues. The Phase 15 defect register has four resolved findings and one open High aggregate acceptance blocker, `P15-005`.

## Verification performed in Phase 16

- Verified the supplied Phase 15 manifest before modification.
- Executed 18 dependency-free repository, contract, localization, route, RTL, content, integration, environment, security, privacy, metadata, and static-audit commands successfully.
- Confirmed zero static secret-scan findings in the final source tree at the time of review.
- Attempted to provision pnpm 11.9.0 through Corepack; the registry request failed because the environment has no package-registry access.
- Confirmed the available runtime is Node 22.16.0 rather than the required Node 24.17.0.

## Result

The engineering evidence gap is reduced but not closed. Dependency-backed tests, browsers, accessibility automation, visual baselines, performance measurement, production build, deployment rehearsal, rollback rehearsal, and human review remain unexecuted. Business, legal, operational, and infrastructure approvals remain absent.

Input archive SHA-256: `e3a0773b9783a551ef96e9ec8acc61ba53a4200e9be24509c260099522ac1d5b`.
