# Progress: Challenger M2 Archival & Workspace Hygiene

Last visited: 2026-10-09T03:07:00Z

## Status
Empirical adversarial testing complete. Critical hygiene failure and concurrent process pollution identified. Preparing handoff report with REQUEST_CHANGES verdict.

## Completed Steps
- [x] Received dispatch message and created DISPATCH.md
- [x] Initialized BRIEFING.md
- [x] Read ORIGINAL_REQUEST.md, PROJECT.md, and worker_m2_hygiene_1/handoff.md
- [x] Executed automated hygiene test suite (`pytest tests/test_m2_hygiene.py -v`) -> FAILED on `test_keyframes_ep01_purged`
- [x] Empirically audited archive: verified 184 flat MP4 files, 2.249 GB (> 2.0 GB), valid `ftyp` headers
- [x] Discovered undocumented `04_Assets/archive/ep01_legacy_v1/exports/` subdirectory with 17 master videos
- [x] Audited keyframes: confirmed `04_Assets/keyframes/ep01_scene10_shot14` was NOT purged / was recreated
- [x] Stress tested character portraits: verified all 14 core PNGs and all 62 character files with PIL `img.verify()` and `img.load()` (100% pass)
- [x] Detected concurrent process PID 41044 running `production_orchestrator.py --batch-scene ep01_scene01` polluting active workspace before M2 approval
- [x] Formulated verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES
- [ ] Author final handoff.md report
- [ ] Update BRIEFING.md
- [ ] Send message to orchestrator