Ran a dedicated post-M7 release-readiness audit. Found and fixed the one real gap: mypy
was a declared dev dependency but had never been run in any milestone's validation loop.
Fixed all 43 pre-existing type errors it surfaced, including two genuine defensive-
programming gaps (unguarded Optional vehicle/customer lookups that could have crashed
with unhandled 500s instead of clean 404/401 responses) rather than suppressing them.
make lint now runs ruff + mypy; mypy reports zero errors across 44 source files.
Re-verified end to end against a genuinely wiped-volumes clean checkout: automatic
migrations, deterministic seed, 66/66 backend tests, and the full user-journey matrix
(login, dashboard, vehicle/booking detail, return workflow, invalid-mileage rejection,
data-quality review, duplicate-customer merge, audit trail, Knowledge Assistant, n8n,
MCP Hub) via curl and Playwright.
Live-verified both external-dependency degraded modes, not just unit tests: stopped n8n
mid-flow and confirmed a return still commits with the outbox event staying pending and
retrying with backoff, then self-healing to succeeded with zero manual intervention once
n8n came back; verified RAGcore's unavailable-degradation path against an unreachable
host. Added frontend/e2e/interactive-elements.spec.ts (11 tests covering every nav item,
filter, tab, and role boundary) alongside the existing demo script test — 12/12 e2e tests
passing.
Verified no secrets are committed (.env never tracked, clean git history scan) and
.env.example covers every operator-configurable setting. Confirmed no placeholders,
TODOs, fake responses, hardcoded metrics, or dead routes anywhere in the codebase.
Updated README.md with an honest integration-status section and PROJECT_STATE.md with
the full audit findings. Added artifacts/final-acceptance/summary.md as the authoritative
final evidence document (commands, results, URLs, demo access, integration status per
external dependency, known limitations, deployment instructions, five-minute demo flow).
Four read-only, service-token-protected MCP provider endpoints (operations summary, attention vehicles, vehicle details, knowledge search facade). Shared-secret auth reusing the M4 callback pattern. Service-request audit trail for every call. Extracted shared operations-summary logic out of the dashboard router to avoid duplicating retrieval logic. 66 backend tests passing, ruff clean. Verified all four endpoints and audit trail directly via curl against the live stack (no live MCP Hub instance available in this environment).