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 # ThothII — Project State
 
-> Starting-point snapshot for new sessions. Last updated: 2026-08-08 (final review fix round 1).
+> Starting-point snapshot for new sessions. Last updated: 2026-08-08 (final verification).
 > Point a fresh session here ("read PROJECT_STATE.md") before substantial work.
 
 ## Internal Qdrant + Ollama semantic infrastructure — LIVE 2026-08-08
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
   volume resolution, and cleanup removes the lock only when its ownership labels still match.
 - **Verification recorded for Task 13 final audit.** On Apple M4 Pro
   (`Darwin 25.5.0`, Docker Server `29.6.2 linux/arm64`), harness pytest passed
-  **819 passed / 4 deselected**; backend Vitest passed **464/464** plus TypeScript and build;
+  **827 passed / 4 deselected**; backend Vitest passed **477/477** plus TypeScript and build;
   frontend Vitest passed **374/374** plus TypeScript and build; `git diff --check` passed.
   Deployment contracts passed:
   `test-default-compose.sh`, `test-unified-compose.sh`, `test-internal-semantic-compose.sh`,
@@ -68,13 +68,15 @@
   schema-v3 operator manual or supported runtime deployment path retains external vector or
   embedding endpoint coupling.
 - **Final review fix verification.** Backend Vitest passed **477/477** plus TypeScript and build;
-  harness pytest passed **824 passed / 4 deselected** with the existing 74 warnings; touched Python
-  files are Ruff-clean. The deterministic backup/restore safety test proves lock ownership,
-  backup–backup and backup–restore contention, rollback, and cleanup. Internal semantic Compose
-  and no-deployment-coupling contracts pass. A fresh one-shot unified deployment smoke reached its
-  pre-existing `thothctl` bad-candidate rollback scenario and failed there before backup/restore;
-  its exact resource-cleanup proof passed, so this run is recorded as a limitation, not as a
-  successful revalidation of the earlier Task 13 unified-smoke result.
+  harness pytest passed **827 passed / 4 deselected** with the existing 74 warnings; touched Python
+  files are Ruff-clean. The complete `thothctl` Go suite, deterministic backup/restore safety test,
+  internal semantic Compose contract, no-deployment-coupling gate, CPU/offline semantic smoke, and
+  unified deployment smoke all pass on `fb95be3`. The intermittent `thothctl` rollback failure was
+  traced to Docker Desktop alternating equivalent bind sources between `/private/...` and
+  `/host_mnt/private/...`; the persistence fingerprint now normalizes only the known macOS Docker
+  Desktop aliases while retaining distinct Linux `/host_mnt` paths. The rollback-only smoke passed
+  twice consecutively after the fix, and the subsequent full unified smoke passed with exact
+  cleanup.
 
 ## Historical snapshots and archived reference notes