Sync billing gate env-file evidence (#2021)

docs/ECC-2.0-GA-ROADMAP.md

@@ -50,10 +50,20 @@ partner/sponsor funnel, consulting/talk funnel, and social launch plan.
   into this repo as `30f60710d4e0424fc70d9bbdc105009db141d9d8`. The post-merge
   main CI run `26135974576` completed green across lint, coverage, security,
   validation, and the full OS/package-manager matrix.
+- ECC PR #2020 merged the selected-target announcement-gate mirror as
+  `c2471fe5c535310f8a8008c9ed7ea9f6757b33f2`. The post-merge main CI run
+  `26136949698` completed green across lint, coverage, security, validation,
+  and the full OS/package-manager matrix.
 - ECC-Tools PR #90 added the selected-target official announcement gate for
   `billing:announcement-gate -- --select-ready-target`; safe production
   preflight no longer requires a raw GitHub login and now blocks only on the
   local/internal `INTERNAL_API_SECRET` input before live execution.
+- ECC-Tools PR #91 added `--env-file` support to both billing gate scripts so
+  ignored local operator credential files can supply `INTERNAL_API_SECRET`,
+  Cloudflare auth, Wrangler auth mode, or target fallbacks without printing
+  secret contents. Verify, Security Audit, and Workers Builds passed before
+  merge as `72119a1`, and main CI run `26137280847` completed successfully after
+  merge.
 - Linear ITO-54 and the ECC Platform Roadmap now have the May 20 ECC-Tools
   hosted observability update comments
   `74dcc101-3be5-4173-be13-62b80d54f569` and
@@ -70,6 +80,8 @@ partner/sponsor funnel, consulting/talk funnel, and social launch plan.
   Pro release-gate comments `467d148a-712a-4777-aad9-95593e9f1739` and
   `7642ee9c-3107-400c-a229-53e2895a8914`, recording ECC-Tools #89, ECC #2019,
   the green post-merge CI run, and the remaining internal bearer-token gate.
+  The repo mirror now also records ECC-Tools #90 and #91 as the selected-target
+  announcement gate and billing gate env-file operator-path follow-up.
 
 ## 2026-05-19 Delta
 
@@ -498,6 +510,13 @@ As of 2026-05-20:
   local/internal `INTERNAL_API_SECRET` bearer token. Native-payments copy remains
   blocked until that token path is available and the live
   `billing:announcement-gate -- --select-ready-target` call passes.
+- ECC-Tools PR #91 merged as `72119a1acc6f5a0cd3bb5d90afd6e87fd1fefd05`
+  after Verify, Security Audit, and Workers Builds passed. It adds the billing
+  gate env-file operator path with `--env-file` support for the announcement
+  gate and KV readback scripts, plus sentinel tests proving loaded secrets and
+  account logins are not printed. The local May 20 live recheck still found no
+  usable `INTERNAL_API_SECRET`, and Wrangler readback still failed with
+  Cloudflare auth code `10000`; no native-payments announcement is unblocked.
 - Handoff `ecc-supply-chain-audit-20260513-0645.md` under
   `~/.cluster-swarm/handoffs/`
   records the May 13 supply-chain sweep: no active lockfile/manifest hit for
@@ -909,13 +928,13 @@ is not complete unless the evidence column exists and has been freshly verified.
 | Manage repository discussions | Repo-family discussion recheck plus response playbook | Platform audit reports 0 discussion maintainer-touch gaps and 0 answerable Q&A missing accepted answers; trunk has 59 total discussions after #2003 was routed with a maintainer response; `docs/architecture/discussion-response-playbook.md` distinguishes support, maintainer coordination, stale/concluded, release, informational, and security-sensitive response paths | Complete |
 | Manage PR discussions | PR review/comment closure plus merge/close state | ECC #1990-#2013 merged through the harness audit, canonical identity, release video suite, growth outreach, evidence refresh, visual QA, suite-count, owner-approval packet, owner-approval dashboard gate, Linear readiness evidence, supply-chain evidence gate, per-project Claude Code adapter, continuous-learning project-registry hygiene, GateGuard quoted git introspection, and deterministic release-approval gate batch; ECC-Tools #79 and JARVIS #15/#16 also merged; no open tracked PRs remain | Complete |
 | Salvage useful stale work | `docs/stale-pr-salvage-ledger.md` plus `docs/legacy-artifact-inventory.md` | Ledger records salvaged, superseded, skipped, and manual-review tails; #1815-#1818 added cost tracking, skill scout, frontend design guidance, code-reviewer false-positive guardrails, and the May 12 gap pass; #1687, #1609, #1563, #1564, and #1565 localization tails are attached to Linear ITO-55 for language-owner review and no automatic import remains release-blocking | Complete; repeat legacy scan before release |
-| ECC 2.0 preview pack ready | Release docs, quickstart, publication readiness, release notes | `docs/releases/2.0.0-rc.1/` and readiness docs are in-tree; May 19/20 evidence records queue-zero state, canonical ECC identity, release video suite, growth outreach pack, owner approval packet, local 2568-test suite, PR #2001 merge and GitHub Actions run `26102500291`, PR #2002 owner-approval dashboard gate refresh and GitHub Actions run `26103853507`, PR #2004 Linear readiness evidence sync and GitHub Actions run `26105012698`, PR #2008 supply-chain evidence gate CI run `26108473648`, post-PR #2006 main CI run `26109953093`, PR #2009 project-registry hygiene GitHub Actions run `26111313938`, post-PR #2009 main CI run `26111946778`, post-PR #2011 GateGuard main CI run `26113695068`, post-PR #2013 release-approval main CI run `26128749863`, post-PR #2019 main CI run `26135974576`, May 20 operator dashboard, `owner-approval-packet-2026-05-19.md`, `release-approval-gate.js`, and preview-pack smoke digest `eebb8a66c33e` | Needs final release approval |
+| ECC 2.0 preview pack ready | Release docs, quickstart, publication readiness, release notes | `docs/releases/2.0.0-rc.1/` and readiness docs are in-tree; May 19/20 evidence records queue-zero state, canonical ECC identity, release video suite, growth outreach pack, owner approval packet, local 2568-test suite, PR #2001 merge and GitHub Actions run `26102500291`, PR #2002 owner-approval dashboard gate refresh and GitHub Actions run `26103853507`, PR #2004 Linear readiness evidence sync and GitHub Actions run `26105012698`, PR #2008 supply-chain evidence gate CI run `26108473648`, post-PR #2006 main CI run `26109953093`, PR #2009 project-registry hygiene GitHub Actions run `26111313938`, post-PR #2009 main CI run `26111946778`, post-PR #2011 GateGuard main CI run `26113695068`, post-PR #2013 release-approval main CI run `26128749863`, post-PR #2019 main CI run `26135974576`, post-PR #2020 main CI run `26136949698`, ECC-Tools #91 main CI run `26137280847`, May 20 operator dashboard, `owner-approval-packet-2026-05-19.md`, `release-approval-gate.js`, and preview-pack smoke digest `eebb8a66c33e` | Needs final release approval |
 | Hermes specialized skills included safely | Hermes setup/import docs and sanitized skill surface | Hermes setup and import playbook are public; secrets stay local | Needs final release review |
 | Naming and rename readiness | Naming matrix across package/plugin/docs/social surfaces | `docs/releases/2.0.0-rc.1/naming-and-publication-matrix.md` records current package, repo, Claude plugin, Codex plugin, OpenCode, and npm availability evidence | Complete for rc.1; post-rc rename remains future work |
 | Claude and Codex plugin publication | Contact/submission path with required artifacts and status | Publication readiness, naming matrix, and May 12 dry-run evidence document plugin validation, clean-checkout Claude tag/install smoke, and Codex marketplace CLI shape | Needs explicit approval for real tag/push and marketplace submission |
 | Articles, tweets, and announcements | X thread, LinkedIn copy, GitHub release copy, push checklist, partner/sponsor/talk pack | Draft launch collateral and approval-gated outreach copy exist under rc.1 release docs | Needs URL-backed refresh and human approval before posting or sending |
 | AgentShield enterprise iteration | Policy gates, SARIF, packs, provenance, corpus, HTML reports, exception lifecycle audit, baseline drift Action/CLI surfaces, evidence-pack redaction, harness adapter registry, editor-native Zed/VS Code adapter coverage, Dependabot alert closure, enterprise research roadmap, supply-chain hardened release path, CI-safe baseline fingerprints, corpus accuracy recommendations, remediation workflow phases, env proxy hijack corpus coverage, Mini Shai-Hulud full-campaign package IOCs, CI-provenance evidence packs, plugin-cache runtime-confidence triage, evidence-pack consumer readback, fleet-level evidence-pack routing, fleet review items, fleet review ticket payloads, checksum-backed policy export, checksum-verified policy promotion, policy promotion review items, package-manager hardening drift detection, npm age-gate guidance correction, workflow action-runtime pin refresh, package-manager hardening Action outputs, policy-promotion Action outputs, ECC-Tools hosted consumption of promotion Action outputs, ECC-Tools operator-visible promotion output values, and ECC-Tools hosted promotion judge audit traces | PRs #53, #55-#64, #67-#69, #78-#92, #94, and #95 landed with test evidence, ECC-Tools #76 consumes the fleet-summary output in hosted security review, #77 surfaces source evidence paths in hosted finding output, and #78 links fleet routes to harness owner review; AgentShield #91 adds `agentshield policy export` bundles for branch-protection review and downstream promotion; AgentShield #92 adds `agentshield policy promote` with digest verification, tamper rejection, explicit pack selection, dry-run review, and JSON output before writing active policy; AgentShield #94 adds Zed/VS Code adapter detection, `.zed/settings.json` and `.zed/tasks.json` scan discovery, and `.zed/setup.mjs` AI-tool persistence IOC coverage; AgentShield #95 clears the `brace-expansion` Dependabot alert with a patched lockfile and 0 open Dependabot alerts after merge; AgentShield commit `87aec47` adds `reviewItems` for digest evidence, owner review, protected rollout PR handoff, and runtime smoke testing with green local and remote CI; AgentShield commit `28d08c7` adds package-manager hardening drift detection for plaintext registry credentials, lifecycle-script enablement, and weak pnpm/Yarn release-age cooldowns with green local and remote CI; AgentShield commit `659f569` refreshes all workflow action runtime pins to SHA-pinned checkout v6.0.2 and setup-node v6.4.0 with green remote CI and no remaining action-runtime deprecation annotation; AgentShield commit `ee585cd` corrects npm release-age guidance by flagging unsupported npm age keys and keeping enforceable cooldown findings on pnpm/Yarn with green local and remote CI; AgentShield commit `1124535` exposes package-manager hardening status/count outputs and a redacted job-summary section for registry credentials, lifecycle scripts, and release-age gates with green local and remote CI; AgentShield commit `1593925` exposes policy-promotion status/count/digest outputs plus job-summary review items for owner approval, protected rollout, and runtime smoke, and marks runtime smoke verified when the same Action job scans with the promoted policy; AgentShield commit `840952a` adds Linear/operator-ready fleet review ticket payloads and expands current Mini Shai-Hulud IOC breadcrumbs with green local and remote CI; ECC-Tools commit `8658951` routes those policy-promotion Action outputs into hosted security review findings and Hosted Promotion Readiness scoring; ECC-Tools commit `16c537f` renders policy-promotion status, pack, review item count, action-required count, and digest in hosted security job comments/check-runs; ECC-Tools commit `05d4e82` renders hosted promotion judge request fingerprints and allowed-citation counts without raw provider output; native PDF export deferred in favor of self-contained HTML plus print-to-PDF until explicit enterprise demand appears; `docs/architecture/agentshield-enterprise-research-roadmap.md` now has baseline drift, evidence-pack bundle, redaction, adapter-registry, supply-chain hardening, hashed baseline fingerprints, corpus accuracy recommendation, remediation workflow, env proxy hijack corpus, Mini Shai-Hulud full-campaign package-table, `ci-context.json` provenance, `plugin-cache` confidence, `evidence-pack inspect` readback, `evidence-pack fleet` routing, fleet `reviewItems`, fleet review ticket payloads, policy export, policy promotion, policy promotion `reviewItems`, package-manager hardening Action outputs, policy-promotion Action outputs, hosted consumption of promotion Action outputs, operator-visible promotion output values, hosted promotion judge audit traces, editor-native adapter coverage, and Dependabot closure landed | Next workflow automation should deepen live operator approval/readback after Marketplace/payment gates |
-| ECC Tools next-level app | Billing audit, PR checks, deep analyzer, sync backlog, evaluator/RAG corpus, hosted promotion judge audit trace, native-payments readback, ready Marketplace Pro target selection, selected-target announcement gate, hosted observability, AgentShield fleet-summary hosted routing, hosted finding evidence paths, harness-route policy linking, policy-promotion Action-output hosted telemetry, and operator-visible promotion output values | PRs #26-#43 plus #53-#90 landed with test evidence across hosted analysis, hosted promotion readiness, model-judge execution, native-payments announcement gating, AgentShield evidence consumption, hosted remediation/Linear sync, hosted observability readback, ready Marketplace Pro target selection, and selected-target official announcement gating; ECC-Tools #89 merged as `512bca6` after Verify, Security Audit, and Workers Builds passed, and the 2026-05-20 production Wrangler OAuth readback found ready-like Marketplace Pro records with webhook provenance, selected a target with both key families, and reported 0 blockers without printing the login; ECC-Tools #90 merged as `16a5bb3` after Verify, Security Audit, and Workers Builds passed, and production preflight now requests `/api/billing/readiness?selectReadyTarget=1` without a raw login | Next work is obtain or rotate the local/internal `INTERNAL_API_SECRET` bearer-token path, then run the live selected-target billing announcement gate before publishing native-payments copy |
+| ECC Tools next-level app | Billing audit, PR checks, deep analyzer, sync backlog, evaluator/RAG corpus, hosted promotion judge audit trace, native-payments readback, ready Marketplace Pro target selection, selected-target announcement gate, billing gate env-file operator path, hosted observability, AgentShield fleet-summary hosted routing, hosted finding evidence paths, harness-route policy linking, policy-promotion Action-output hosted telemetry, and operator-visible promotion output values | PRs #26-#43 plus #53-#91 landed with test evidence across hosted analysis, hosted promotion readiness, model-judge execution, native-payments announcement gating, AgentShield evidence consumption, hosted remediation/Linear sync, hosted observability readback, ready Marketplace Pro target selection, selected-target official announcement gating, and env-file operator loading; ECC-Tools #89 merged as `512bca6` after Verify, Security Audit, and Workers Builds passed, and the 2026-05-20 production Wrangler OAuth readback found ready-like Marketplace Pro records with webhook provenance, selected a target with both key families, and reported 0 blockers without printing the login; ECC-Tools #90 merged as `16a5bb3` after Verify, Security Audit, and Workers Builds passed, and production preflight now requests `/api/billing/readiness?selectReadyTarget=1` without a raw login; ECC-Tools #91 merged as `72119a1` with `--env-file` support for ignored local billing credentials and sentinel no-secret/no-login output tests | Next work is obtain or rotate the local/internal `INTERNAL_API_SECRET` bearer-token path, via exported env or ignored `--env-file`, then run the live selected-target billing announcement gate before publishing native-payments copy |
 | GitGuardian/Dependabot/CodeRabbit-style checks | Non-blocking taxonomy, deterministic follow-up checks, and local supply-chain gates | ECC-Tools risk taxonomy check plus follow-up signals landed, including Skill Quality, Deep Analyzer Evidence, Analyzer Corpus Evidence, RAG/Evaluator Evidence, PR Review/Salvage Evidence, and AgentShield evidence-pack evidence; #1846 added npm registry signature gates; #1848 added the supply-chain incident-response playbook and `pull_request_target` cache-poisoning validator guard; #1851 added the privileged checkout credential-persistence guard; AgentShield #78, JARVIS #13, and ECC-Tools #53 applied the same hardening outside trunk | Current supply-chain gate complete; deeper hosted review features remain future |
 | Harness-agnostic learning system | Audit, adapter matrix, observability, traces, promotion loop | Audit/adapters/observability gates plus `docs/architecture/evaluator-rag-prototype.md`, `examples/evaluator-rag-prototype/`, and ECC-Tools PR #40 define read-only stale-salvage, billing-readiness, CI-failure-diagnosis, harness-config-quality, AgentShield policy-exception, skill-quality evidence, deep-analyzer evidence, and RAG/evaluator comparison scenarios with trace, report, playbook, verifier, and predictive-check artifacts; ECC-Tools PRs #68-#72 now turn that corpus into a deterministic PR check-run gate with cached hosted-output scoring, ranked retrieval candidates, a model prompt seed, a fail-closed hosted model-judge request contract, and opt-in live model execution behind strict hosted-evidence gates | Deterministic hosted PR check, cached output scoring, retrieval planning, judge contract, and gated model execution integrated |
 | Linear roadmap is detailed | Linear project document/comments plus repo mirror | Repo mirror exists and issue creation works again; the May 19 sync adds post-PR #2002 document `ecc-may-19-post-pr-2002-sync-64cef8f668e0`, project comment `a6411e3a-8c8e-4a58-adba-687e77d4c543`, ITO-44/47/48/49/51/54/56 issue comments, and In Progress state for ITO-47, ITO-48, ITO-49, ITO-51, ITO-54, and ITO-56; the late-pass batch adds document `ecc-may-19-late-queue-zero-and-release-gate-sync-1c26f65e6b3f`, project comment `d42bf0e2-7a8e-4934-9f3f-e281498ee805`, and ITO-44/50/54/56/61 comments for PR #2013, ECC-Tools #79, and JARVIS #15/#16 because project status updates are disabled in the workspace | Needs recurring document/comment updates after each significant merge batch |
@@ -939,7 +958,7 @@ repo evidence and merge commits.
 | Harness OS core | Audit, adapter matrix, observability docs, `ecc2/` | HUD/session-control acceptance spec | Weekly until GA |
 | Evaluation and RAG | Reference-set validation, harness audit, traces, ECC-Tools corpus | Read-only evaluator/RAG prototype plus stale-salvage, billing-readiness, CI-failure-diagnosis, harness-config-quality, AgentShield policy-exception, skill-quality evidence, deep-analyzer evidence, and RAG/evaluator comparison fixtures; ECC-Tools #68 publishes the corpus as a hosted promotion readiness check-run, #69 scores cached hosted job outputs against the same corpus, #70 emits ranked retrieval candidates plus a model prompt seed, #71 adds a fail-closed hosted model-judge request contract, and #72 executes that judge only when explicitly enabled and backed by hosted retrieval citations; ECC-Tools `16c537f` surfaces policy-promotion Action output values in hosted security comments/checks; ECC-Tools `05d4e82` adds hosted model-judge audit traces with request fingerprints and allowed-citation counts | Marketplace Pro billing-state verification with webhook provenance |
 | AgentShield enterprise | AgentShield PR evidence and roadmap notes | Fleet routing landed in #89 after evidence-pack inspect/readback shipped in #88; #90 emits fleet `reviewItems`; #91 exports checksum-backed policy bundles; #92 promotes checksum-verified policies from those bundles into active policy files; #94 adds Zed and VS Code adapter detection, Zed project scan discovery, and `.zed/setup.mjs` persistence IOC coverage; #95 closes the `brace-expansion` Dependabot alert with 0 open alerts after merge; AgentShield `87aec47` adds policy promotion `reviewItems`; `28d08c7` adds package-manager hardening drift detection; `659f569` refreshes workflow action runtime pins; `ee585cd` corrects unsupported npm release-age guidance and keeps enforceable cooldown findings on pnpm/Yarn; `1124535` exposes package-manager hardening Action outputs for CI/hosted routing; `1593925` exposes policy-promotion Action outputs and runtime-smoke job-summary evidence; `840952a` adds fleet review ticket payloads and current Mini Shai-Hulud IOC breadcrumbs; ECC-Tools #76 consumes fleet summaries, #77 surfaces source evidence paths in hosted findings, #78 links fleet routes to harness owners, ECC-Tools `8658951` consumes policy-promotion Action outputs, and ECC-Tools `16c537f` renders operator-visible output values | Deepen live operator approval/readback after Marketplace/payment gates |
-| ECC Tools app | ECC-Tools PR evidence, billing audit, risk taxonomy, evaluator/RAG corpus | ECC-Tools #53 published the supply-chain workflow hardening branch, #54 tracks copy-ready PR drafts in the Linear/project backlog, #55 classifies analysis-depth readiness, #56 exposes the hosted execution plan, #57 executes the first hosted CI diagnostics job, #58 executes the hosted security evidence review job, #59 executes the hosted harness compatibility audit, #60 executes the hosted reference-set evaluation, #61 executes the hosted AI routing/cost review, #62 executes hosted team backlog routing, #63 publishes the hosted depth-plan check-run, #64 dispatches hosted jobs from PR comments, #65 persists hosted result history/check-runs, #66 exposes hosted job status from PR comments, #67 makes depth-plan recommendations cache-aware, #68 publishes hosted promotion readiness from the evaluator/RAG corpus, #69 scores cached hosted job outputs against that corpus, #70 emits ranked retrieval candidates plus a model prompt seed, #71 emits the gated `hosted-promotion-judge.v1` contract without live model calls, #72 adds opt-in live model-judge execution behind hosted-evidence and strict JSON/citation gates, #73 adds a fail-closed native-payments `announcementGate` to billing readiness, #74 adds `npm run billing:announcement-gate` for operator verification, #75 tightens the billing announcement gate for live Marketplace readback, #76 routes AgentShield fleet-summary evidence into hosted security findings, #77 adds source evidence paths to hosted finding output, #78 links AgentShield fleet target paths to hosted harness owner findings, `8658951` routes AgentShield policy-promotion Action outputs into hosted security review and promotion readiness, `16c537f` renders policy-promotion status/pack/count/digest values in hosted security comments/checks, `05d4e82` renders hosted promotion judge request fingerprints plus allowed-citation audit traces, `91a441b` adds billing announcement preflight output for required readback inputs, `eb69412` records the initial production readback state, `95d0bec` adds aggregate `billing:kv-readback` evidence, `2859678` requires Marketplace webhook provenance in billing readiness, `42653f9` adds Wrangler OAuth readback with live aggregate production counts, `632e059` adds sanitized target-account billing readback for the exact Marketplace test account, ECC-Tools #89 adds selected-ready-target KV readback, and ECC-Tools #90 adds selected-target official announcement gating without raw login input | Obtain or rotate the local/internal `INTERNAL_API_SECRET` bearer-token path, then run the live selected-target billing announcement gate |
+| ECC Tools app | ECC-Tools PR evidence, billing audit, risk taxonomy, evaluator/RAG corpus | ECC-Tools #53 published the supply-chain workflow hardening branch, #54 tracks copy-ready PR drafts in the Linear/project backlog, #55 classifies analysis-depth readiness, #56 exposes the hosted execution plan, #57 executes the first hosted CI diagnostics job, #58 executes the hosted security evidence review job, #59 executes the hosted harness compatibility audit, #60 executes the hosted reference-set evaluation, #61 executes the hosted AI routing/cost review, #62 executes hosted team backlog routing, #63 publishes the hosted depth-plan check-run, #64 dispatches hosted jobs from PR comments, #65 persists hosted result history/check-runs, #66 exposes hosted job status from PR comments, #67 makes depth-plan recommendations cache-aware, #68 publishes hosted promotion readiness from the evaluator/RAG corpus, #69 scores cached hosted job outputs against that corpus, #70 emits ranked retrieval candidates plus a model prompt seed, #71 emits the gated `hosted-promotion-judge.v1` contract without live model calls, #72 adds opt-in live model-judge execution behind hosted-evidence and strict JSON/citation gates, #73 adds a fail-closed native-payments `announcementGate` to billing readiness, #74 adds `npm run billing:announcement-gate` for operator verification, #75 tightens the billing announcement gate for live Marketplace readback, #76 routes AgentShield fleet-summary evidence into hosted security findings, #77 adds source evidence paths to hosted finding output, #78 links AgentShield fleet target paths to hosted harness owner findings, `8658951` routes AgentShield policy-promotion Action outputs into hosted security review and promotion readiness, `16c537f` renders policy-promotion status/pack/count/digest values in hosted security comments/checks, `05d4e82` renders hosted promotion judge request fingerprints plus allowed-citation audit traces, `91a441b` adds billing announcement preflight output for required readback inputs, `eb69412` records the initial production readback state, `95d0bec` adds aggregate `billing:kv-readback` evidence, `2859678` requires Marketplace webhook provenance in billing readiness, `42653f9` adds Wrangler OAuth readback with live aggregate production counts, `632e059` adds sanitized target-account billing readback for the exact Marketplace test account, ECC-Tools #89 adds selected-ready-target KV readback, ECC-Tools #90 adds selected-target official announcement gating without raw login input, and ECC-Tools #91 adds `--env-file` support for ignored local billing credentials without printing secrets or logins | Obtain or rotate the local/internal `INTERNAL_API_SECRET` bearer-token path, via exported env or ignored `--env-file`, then run the live selected-target billing announcement gate |
 | Linear progress | Linear project status updates, `docs/architecture/progress-sync-contract.md`, generated `operator:dashboard` output, and this mirror | Status update with queue/evidence/missing gates | Every significant merge batch |
 
 The project status update should always include:
@@ -1201,9 +1220,10 @@ Acceptance:
    ECC-Tools commit `42653f9` adds Wrangler OAuth KV readback and confirms the
    current blocker is not Cloudflare read access; it is the absence of a
    ready-like Marketplace Pro billing-state record with webhook provenance.
-   ECC-Tools commit `632e059` adds sanitized target-account readback, so the
-   final operator gate should verify the exact Marketplace test account without
-   printing its login or raw KV key names.
+   ECC-Tools commit `632e059` adds sanitized target-account readback, and PRs
+   #89/#90/#91 move the final operator path to selected-target readback,
+   selected-target announcement gating, and ignored env-file credential loading
+   without printing account logins or raw KV key names.
    ECC-Tools PR #79 redacts the billing announcement gate account output;
    PR #80 requires failure reasons in runtime receipts; PRs #81/#82 preserve
    and render AgentShield fleet approval IDs; PR #83 makes Linear follow-up
@@ -1213,9 +1233,10 @@ Acceptance:
    hosted status comments and hosted depth-plan check-runs; and PR #88 exposes
    authenticated hosted observability API readback for operator dashboards.
 2. Run `npm run billing:announcement-gate -- --preflight
-   --select-ready-target`, then run the same command without `--preflight` and
-   require `announcementGate.ready === true` before any native GitHub payments
-   announcement.
+   --select-ready-target`, adding `--env-file /path/to/ecc-tools.env` when the
+   local bearer token is stored in an ignored operator file, then run the same
+   command without `--preflight` and require `announcementGate.ready === true`
+   before any native GitHub payments announcement.
 3. Enable/configure the merged Linear backlog sync path after workspace issue
    capacity clears or the Linear workspace is upgraded, then verify PR-draft
    salvage items land in the expected project.