sales-trainer/docs/engineering-log/2026-08-15-legacy-security-review.md

Legacy security review gate — repeated timeout and final bounded retry

Date: 2026-08-15 Status: blocked pending a valid exact-current independent verdict; no approval claimed

Scope

The reviewer was asked to inspect only the current remediation files and directly relevant tests covering group/tenant redaction, trainee analytics, malformed-auth fail-closed behavior, cross-process JSON-store locking, rate-limit fail-closed behavior, CSV formula-injection protection, and upload-size preflight.

Review result

• Reviewer deleg_ffba9adf ran for 600.11 seconds and returned status timeout with no JSON payload.
• Under the review gate, timeout is no verdict, not approval. No blocking finding can be inferred from the incomplete run, and no approval can be inferred either.
• Replacement reviewer deleg_03d06f1f also ran for 600.10 seconds and returned status timeout with no JSON payload; it is likewise no verdict.

Action taken

• Dispatched bounded retry deleg_03d06f1f against the exact current tree; it timed out without JSON.
• Retry instructions prohibit edits, deploys, credential operations, web/network access, and full-suite execution; the reviewer must return the complete five-key JSON or explicitly fail if it cannot complete the scope.
• Dispatched stricter retry deleg_0cc095f8 with an eight-call file-read budget and no terminal/test/network access; it also timed out after 600.09 seconds without JSON.
• Dispatched final one-call retry deleg_e61f99ff; extraction completed, but the output exceeded the capture window, so the reviewer returned passed=false with a limitation and did not provide an approval verdict.
• Dispatched three fresh scoped exact-current reviewers in parallel (deleg_a274603c, three leaf reviews) to avoid another oversized extraction: tenant/group/analytics, auth/store/rate-limit, and export/upload/API boundaries.

Local evidence and limits

• The local backend regression suite is now green at 209 passed; the earlier 208 passed count was the pre-offline-guard baseline.
• This is local evidence only. No production data, credentials, deployment, or live operation was touched.
• A valid independent verdict is still required before closing the legacy-security review gate.

Exact next action

Validate deleg_e61f99ff only if it returns exactly passed, security_concerns, logic_errors, suggestions, and summary. Treat it as approval only when passed=true and both blocking arrays are empty. The three timeout results remain no verdicts.