Start autonomous Belgium and North Sea RC

2026-07-18 00:12:34 +02:00
parent 9513f8613e
commit 9c402e0df2
36 changed files with 2235 additions and 115 deletions
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ build/
 /storage/models/*
 /storage/operator-data/*
 /storage/operator-evidence/*
+/storage/release-evidence/*
 /storage/previews/*
 /storage/training/*
 /storage/ultralytics/*
@@ -7,6 +7,27 @@

 # Changelog

+## Autonomous Belgium and North Sea RC program (2026-07-17)
+
+- Expanded the release-candidate geography from Mol/Kempen to all of Belgium
+  and the Belgian North Sea while retaining the existing areas as golden
+  regression references.
+- Added an executable autonomous RC-0 through RC-11 roadmap and explicit
+  national/maritime scope freeze.
+- Folded fresh-install, upgrade, rollback and runtime proof into RC-5 and
+  RC-11 instead of creating a separate RC-12 phase.
+- Added a read-only release-evidence manifest command with Git, migration,
+  dependency, configuration checksum and optional live endpoint evidence.
+- Replaced the obsolete pre-build status with the current implemented
+  foundation and active release blockers.
+- Added atomic PostgreSQL release backup, read-only checksum verification and
+  isolated generated-database restore-smoke tooling.
+- Split health into process liveness and fail-closed readiness covering
+  PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Alembic head and writable storage.
+- Made system capabilities report real PostGIS and configured local YOLO
+  state, added request IDs and exception logging, reduced SQL engine logging,
+  and terminalized impossible orphaned work after all-in-one restarts.
+
 ## Sprint 240 Operational forest, agriculture, nature and soil themes (2026-07-17)

 - Extended the governed Landgebruik Vlaanderen 2025 raster registry with
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 # GeoIntel Backend (Sprint 3 foundation layer)

-FastAPI backend for GeoIntel Kempen Foundation Sprints.
+FastAPI backend for the GeoIntel Belgium and Belgian North Sea workbench.
+
+Runtime probes:
+
+- `GET /health/live`: process liveness, always independent from PostgreSQL.
+- `GET /health/ready`: fail-closed database/PostGIS/migration/storage
+  readiness used by Docker.
+- `GET /health`: compatibility alias for readiness.
+- `GET /api/v1/system/capabilities`: runtime-derived PostGIS, GIS dependency,
+  configured YOLO and provider state.
+
+The all-in-one production runtime enables interrupted job/analysis-run
+reconciliation at startup. Local tests and development leave it disabled
+unless `GEOINTEL_RECONCILE_INTERRUPTED_RUNS_ON_STARTUP=true`.

 The map-first explorer uses the existing persisted vector selection endpoint. Its bounded GeoJSON preview reports `feature_count`, while `total_feature_count` reports the exact PostGIS intersection count before the 1,000-feature response cap. When an active `area_id` is supplied, vector, temporal, derived-dataset and export paths all use `bbox ∩ Area`. A full-work-area bbox resolves to the exact persisted Area geometry; a boundary-crossing rectangle is clipped to the official boundary.

@@ -1,12 +1,23 @@
 from __future__ import annotations

 from importlib import import_module
-from sqlalchemy import text
-from fastapi import APIRouter
+from pathlib import Path
+from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

-from app.schemas.health import HealthResponse, SystemCapabilities
-from app.providers.registry import list_provider_capabilities
+from alembic.config import Config
+from alembic.script import ScriptDirectory
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Response, status
+from sqlalchemy import text
+
+from app.core.config import get_settings
 from app.db.session import get_engine
+from app.providers.registry import list_provider_capabilities
+from app.schemas.health import (
+    HealthResponse,
+    SystemCapabilities,
+    SystemCapabilitiesEnvelope,
+)
+from app.services.model_registry_service import ModelRegistryService

 router = APIRouter()

@@ -19,27 +30,136 @@ def _dependency_enabled(module: str) -> bool:
        return False


-@router.get("/health")
-def readiness() -> HealthResponse:
-    db_status = "ok"
+def _expected_migration_heads() -> list[str]:
+    backend_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[3]
+    config = Config(str(backend_root / "alembic.ini"))
+    config.set_main_option("script_location", str(backend_root / "alembic"))
+    return list(ScriptDirectory.from_config(config).get_heads())
+
+
+def _database_checks() -> dict[str, str]:
+    checks = {
+        "database": "degraded",
+        "postgis": "degraded",
+        "migration": "degraded",
+    }
    try:
        with get_engine().connect() as connection:
            connection.execute(text("SELECT 1"))
+            checks["database"] = "ok"
+            postgis_version = connection.execute(
+                text("SELECT PostGIS_Version()")
+            ).scalar_one()
+            checks["postgis"] = f"ok:{postgis_version}"
+            database_head = connection.execute(
+                text("SELECT version_num FROM alembic_version")
+            ).scalar_one()
+            expected_heads = _expected_migration_heads()
+            if len(expected_heads) == 1 and database_head == expected_heads[0]:
+                checks["migration"] = f"ok:{database_head}"
+            else:
+                checks["migration"] = (
+                    f"degraded:database={database_head};"
+                    f"expected={','.join(expected_heads) or 'none'}"
+                )
    except Exception:
-        db_status = "degraded"
-    return HealthResponse(status="ok", service="geointel-backend", version="0.1.0", database=db_status)
+        return checks
+    return checks


-@router.get("/api/v1/system/capabilities")
-def capabilities() -> dict:
+def _storage_check(storage_root: str) -> str:
+    root = Path(storage_root).expanduser()
+    try:
+        root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        with NamedTemporaryFile(
+            prefix=".geointel-readiness-",
+            dir=root,
+            delete=True,
+        ) as handle:
+            handle.write(b"ok")
+            handle.flush()
+        return "ok"
+    except OSError:
+        return "degraded"
+
+
+def _readiness_payload() -> HealthResponse:
+    settings = get_settings()
+    checks = _database_checks()
+    checks["storage"] = _storage_check(settings.storage_root)
+    ready = all(
+        value == "ok" or value.startswith("ok:")
+        for value in checks.values()
+    )
+    return HealthResponse(
+        status="ok" if ready else "degraded",
+        service="geointel-backend",
+        version=settings.app_version,
+        build_sha=settings.build_sha,
+        build_time=settings.build_time,
+        database=checks["database"],
+        postgis=checks["postgis"],
+        migration=checks["migration"],
+        storage=checks["storage"],
+        checks=checks,
+    )
+
+
+@router.get("/health/live", response_model=HealthResponse)
+def liveness() -> HealthResponse:
+    settings = get_settings()
+    return HealthResponse(
+        status="ok",
+        service="geointel-backend",
+        version=settings.app_version,
+        build_sha=settings.build_sha,
+        build_time=settings.build_time,
+    )
+
+
+def _readiness_response(response: Response) -> HealthResponse:
+    payload = _readiness_payload()
+    if payload.status != "ok":
+        response.status_code = status.HTTP_503_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
+    return payload
+
+
+@router.get("/health", response_model=HealthResponse)
+def readiness(response: Response) -> HealthResponse:
+    return _readiness_response(response)
+
+
+@router.get("/health/ready", response_model=HealthResponse)
+def readiness_explicit(response: Response) -> HealthResponse:
+    return _readiness_response(response)
+
+
+@router.get(
+    "/api/v1/system/capabilities",
+    response_model=SystemCapabilitiesEnvelope,
+)
+def capabilities() -> SystemCapabilitiesEnvelope:
+    settings = get_settings()
    providers = [item.to_dict() for item in list_provider_capabilities()]
-    return {"data": SystemCapabilities(
-        postgis=True,
-        rasterio=_dependency_enabled("rasterio"),
-        geopandas=_dependency_enabled("geopandas"),
-        yolo=False,
-        sam=False,
-        grb="bounded",
-        sentinel="planned",
-        providers=providers,
-    ).model_dump()}
+    configured_yolo = ModelRegistryService.get_model_capability(
+        settings.yolo_model_id,
+        settings=settings,
+    )
+    yolo_configured = bool(configured_yolo and configured_yolo.configured)
+    yolo_status = configured_yolo.status if configured_yolo else "not_configured"
+    postgis_ready = _database_checks()["postgis"].startswith("ok:")
+    return SystemCapabilitiesEnvelope(
+        data=SystemCapabilities(
+            postgis=postgis_ready,
+            rasterio=_dependency_enabled("rasterio"),
+            geopandas=_dependency_enabled("geopandas"),
+            yolo=yolo_configured,
+            yolo_status=yolo_status,
+            sam=False,
+            grb="bounded",
+            sentinel="planned",
+            version=settings.app_version,
+            build_sha=settings.build_sha,
+            providers=providers,
+        )
+    )
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):

    app_env: str = Field(default="development", validation_alias="GEOINTEL_ENV")
    app_version: str = Field(default="0.1.0")
+    build_sha: str | None = Field(default=None, validation_alias="GEOINTEL_BUILD_SHA")
+    build_time: str | None = Field(default=None, validation_alias="GEOINTEL_BUILD_TIME")
    api_prefix: str = Field(default="/api/v1", validation_alias="GEOINTEL_API_PREFIX")
    database_url: str = Field(
        default="postgresql+psycopg://geointel:geointel@localhost:5432/geointel?connect_timeout=1",
@@ -231,6 +233,11 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
    thematic_raster_max_response_mb: int = Field(default=160, ge=1, validation_alias="THEMATIC_RASTER_MAX_RESPONSE_MB")
    redis_url: str | None = Field(default=None, validation_alias="REDIS_URL")
    log_level: str = Field(default="INFO", validation_alias="GEOINTEL_LOG_LEVEL")
+    sql_log_level: str = Field(default="WARNING", validation_alias="GEOINTEL_SQL_LOG_LEVEL")
+    reconcile_interrupted_runs_on_startup: bool = Field(
+        default=False,
+        validation_alias="GEOINTEL_RECONCILE_INTERRUPTED_RUNS_ON_STARTUP",
+    )
    database_statement_timeout_ms: int = Field(default=5_000, validation_alias="DATABASE_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_MS")
    yolo_enabled: bool = Field(default=False, validation_alias="YOLO_ENABLED")
    yolo_models_dir: str = Field(default="/app/models", validation_alias="YOLO_MODELS_DIR")
@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ import logging
 import sys


-def configure_logging(level: str = "INFO") -> None:
+def configure_logging(level: str = "INFO", sql_level: str = "WARNING") -> None:
    logging.basicConfig(
        level=level,
        format="%(asctime)s | %(levelname)s | %(name)s | %(message)s",
        stream=sys.stdout,
+        force=True,
    )
-    for name in ["uvicorn", "uvicorn.error", "uvicorn.access", "sqlalchemy.engine"]:
+    for name in ["uvicorn", "uvicorn.error", "uvicorn.access"]:
        logging.getLogger(name).setLevel(level)
+    logging.getLogger("sqlalchemy.engine").setLevel(sql_level)
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 from __future__ import annotations

+import logging
+import uuid
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+
 from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, Request
 from fastapi.exceptions import RequestValidationError
 from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
@@ -9,6 +13,11 @@ from app.api.routes import analysis, areas, assistant, datasets, demo, detection
 from app.core.config import get_settings
 from app.core.errors import AppError
 from app.core.logging import configure_logging
+from app.db.session import SessionLocal
+from app.services.runtime_reconciliation_service import RuntimeReconciliationService
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("geointel")


 def _to_error_payload(
@@ -27,13 +36,33 @@ def _to_error_payload(

 def create_app() -> FastAPI:
    settings = get_settings()
-    configure_logging(settings.log_level)
+    configure_logging(settings.log_level, settings.sql_log_level)
+
+    @asynccontextmanager
+    async def lifespan(_: FastAPI):
+        if settings.reconcile_interrupted_runs_on_startup:
+            db = SessionLocal()
+            try:
+                result = RuntimeReconciliationService.reconcile(db)
+                logger.info(
+                    "Runtime reconciliation completed: jobs=%s analysis_runs=%s",
+                    result.interrupted_jobs,
+                    result.interrupted_analysis_runs,
+                )
+            except Exception:
+                db.rollback()
+                logger.exception("Runtime reconciliation failed")
+                raise
+            finally:
+                db.close()
+        yield

    app = FastAPI(
-        title="GeoIntel Kempen",
+        title="GeoIntel",
        version=settings.app_version,
        docs_url="/docs",
        redoc_url="/redoc",
+        lifespan=lifespan,
    )

    app.add_middleware(
@@ -60,6 +89,14 @@ def create_app() -> FastAPI:
    app.include_router(temporal.router, prefix=settings.api_prefix)
    app.include_router(assistant.router, prefix=settings.api_prefix)

+    @app.middleware("http")
+    async def request_identity(request: Request, call_next):
+        request_id = request.headers.get("x-request-id") or str(uuid.uuid4())
+        request.state.request_id = request_id
+        response = await call_next(request)
+        response.headers["x-request-id"] = request_id
+        return response
+
    @app.exception_handler(AppError)
    async def app_error(request: Request, exc: AppError):  # noqa: ARG001
        return JSONResponse(
@@ -68,7 +105,7 @@ def create_app() -> FastAPI:
                exc.code,
                exc.message,
                exc.details,
-                request_id=request.headers.get("x-request-id"),
+                request_id=request.state.request_id,
            ),
        )

@@ -88,7 +125,7 @@ def create_app() -> FastAPI:
                code,
                message,
                details,
-                request_id=request.headers.get("x-request-id"),
+                request_id=request.state.request_id,
            ),
        )

@@ -100,19 +137,25 @@ def create_app() -> FastAPI:
                "VALIDATION_ERROR",
                "Validation failed",
                exc.errors(),
-                request_id=request.headers.get("x-request-id"),
+                request_id=request.state.request_id,
            ),
        )

    @app.exception_handler(Exception)
-    async def unexpected_error(request: Request, exc: Exception):  # noqa: ARG001
+    async def unexpected_error(request: Request, exc: Exception):
+        logger.exception(
+            "Unhandled request error request_id=%s method=%s path=%s",
+            request.state.request_id,
+            request.method,
+            request.url.path,
+        )
        return JSONResponse(
            status_code=500,
            content=_to_error_payload(
                "INTERNAL_ERROR",
                "Unexpected server error",
                {"type": exc.__class__.__name__},
-                request_id=request.headers.get("x-request-id"),
+                request_id=request.state.request_id,
            ),
        )

@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@ class HealthResponse(BaseModel):
    status: str
    service: str
    version: str
+    build_sha: str | None = None
+    build_time: str | None = None
    database: str | None = None
+    postgis: str | None = None
+    migration: str | None = None
+    storage: str | None = None
+    checks: dict[str, str] = Field(default_factory=dict)


 class SystemCapabilities(BaseModel):
@@ -31,7 +37,14 @@ class SystemCapabilities(BaseModel):
    rasterio: bool
    geopandas: bool
    yolo: bool | str
+    yolo_status: str
    sam: bool | str
    grb: str
    sentinel: str
+    version: str
+    build_sha: str | None = None
    providers: list[ProviderCapability] = Field(default_factory=list)
+
+
+class SystemCapabilitiesEnvelope(BaseModel):
+    data: SystemCapabilities
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from app.models import AnalysisRun, Job
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class ReconciliationResult:
+    interrupted_jobs: int
+    interrupted_analysis_runs: int
+
+
+class RuntimeReconciliationService:
+    ERROR_MESSAGE = (
+        "PROCESS_INTERRUPTED: the GeoIntel process restarted before this work "
+        "reached a terminal state"
+    )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def reconcile(
+        db: Session,
+        *,
+        finished_at: datetime | None = None,
+    ) -> ReconciliationResult:
+        resolved_finished_at = finished_at or datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+        interrupted_jobs = (
+            db.query(Job)
+            .filter(Job.status == "running")
+            .update(
+                {
+                    Job.status: "failed",
+                    Job.finished_at: resolved_finished_at,
+                    Job.error_message: RuntimeReconciliationService.ERROR_MESSAGE,
+                },
+                synchronize_session=False,
+            )
+        )
+        interrupted_analysis_runs = (
+            db.query(AnalysisRun)
+            .filter(AnalysisRun.status == "running")
+            .update(
+                {
+                    AnalysisRun.status: "failed",
+                    AnalysisRun.finished_at: resolved_finished_at,
+                    AnalysisRun.error_message: RuntimeReconciliationService.ERROR_MESSAGE,
+                },
+                synchronize_session=False,
+            )
+        )
+        db.commit()
+        return ReconciliationResult(
+            interrupted_jobs=interrupted_jobs,
+            interrupted_analysis_runs=interrupted_analysis_runs,
+        )
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ def test_compose_mounts_demo_fixtures_for_backend_runtime() -> None:
 def test_compose_has_backend_and_frontend_healthchecks() -> None:
    compose = (ROOT / "docker-compose.yml").read_text(encoding="utf-8")

-    assert "http://127.0.0.1:8000/health" in compose
+    assert "http://127.0.0.1:8000/health/ready" in compose
    assert "urllib.request.urlopen" in compose
-    assert "http://127.0.0.1/health" in compose
+    assert "http://127.0.0.1/health/ready" in compose
    assert "wget -q -O -" in compose
    assert "start_period: 30s" in compose
    assert "start_period: 10s" in compose
@@ -1,34 +1,100 @@
 from __future__ import annotations

+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
 from fastapi.testclient import TestClient

 from app.api.routes import health
 from app.main import app


-def test_health_endpoint_returns_status_payload() -> None:
-    client = TestClient(app)
-    response = client.get("/health")
+READY_DATABASE = {
+    "database": "ok",
+    "postgis": "ok:3.4 USE_GEOS=1 USE_PROJ=1",
+    "migration": "ok:202607160001",
+}
+
+
+def test_liveness_is_independent_from_database(monkeypatch) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        health,
+        "_database_checks",
+        lambda: (_ for _ in ()).throw(AssertionError("must not query DB")),
+    )
+
+    response = TestClient(app).get("/health/live")

    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert response.json()["status"] == "ok"

+
+def test_readiness_returns_ok_only_when_all_checks_pass(monkeypatch) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.setattr(health, "_database_checks", lambda: READY_DATABASE.copy())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(health, "_storage_check", lambda _: "ok")
+
+    response = TestClient(app).get("/health/ready")
+
+    assert response.status_code == 200
    payload = response.json()
-    assert payload["status"] in {"ok", "degraded"}
+    assert payload["status"] == "ok"
    assert payload["service"] == "geointel-backend"
-    assert payload["version"] == "0.1.0"
+    assert payload["database"] == "ok"
+    assert payload["postgis"].startswith("ok:")
+    assert payload["migration"] == "ok:202607160001"
+    assert payload["storage"] == "ok"


-def test_system_capabilities_reports_gis_dependency_flags(monkeypatch) -> None:
+def test_compatibility_health_is_fail_closed(monkeypatch) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        health,
+        "_database_checks",
+        lambda: {
+            "database": "degraded",
+            "postgis": "degraded",
+            "migration": "degraded",
+        },
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(health, "_storage_check", lambda _: "ok")
+
+    response = TestClient(app).get("/health")
+
+    assert response.status_code == 503
+    assert response.json()["status"] == "degraded"
+
+
+def test_system_capabilities_report_runtime_state(monkeypatch) -> None:
    monkeypatch.setattr(
        health,
        "_dependency_enabled",
        lambda module_name: module_name in {"rasterio", "geopandas"},
    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(health, "_database_checks", lambda: READY_DATABASE.copy())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        health.ModelRegistryService,
+        "get_model_capability",
+        lambda *args, **kwargs: SimpleNamespace(
+            configured=True,
+            status="configured",
+        ),
+    )

-    client = TestClient(app)
-    response = client.get("/api/v1/system/capabilities")
+    response = TestClient(app).get("/api/v1/system/capabilities")

    assert response.status_code == 200
-    payload = response.json()
-    assert payload["data"]["rasterio"] is True
-    assert payload["data"]["geopandas"] is True
+    payload = response.json()["data"]
+    assert payload["postgis"] is True
+    assert payload["rasterio"] is True
+    assert payload["geopandas"] is True
+    assert payload["yolo"] is True
+    assert payload["yolo_status"] == "configured"
+    assert payload["version"]
+
+
+def test_requests_receive_a_correlation_id() -> None:
+    client = TestClient(app)
+
+    generated = client.get("/health/live")
+    retained = client.get("/health/live", headers={"x-request-id": "test-request"})
+
+    assert generated.headers["x-request-id"]
+    assert retained.headers["x-request-id"] == "test-request"
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+SCRIPTS = ROOT / "scripts"
+
+
+def read(name: str) -> str:
+    return (SCRIPTS / name).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def test_backup_is_atomic_read_only_and_checksum_bound() -> None:
+    script = read("backup_release_state.sh")
+
+    assert "pg_dump" in script
+    assert "-Fc" in script
+    assert "--no-owner" in script
+    assert "CHECKSUMS.sha256" in script
+    assert "database-password" not in script.lower()
+    assert "mv \"$PARTIAL\" \"$FINAL\"" in script
+    assert "rm -rf -- \"$PARTIAL\"" in script
+    assert "DROP DATABASE" not in script
+    assert "pg_restore --clean" not in script
+
+
+def test_backup_verification_is_read_only() -> None:
+    script = read("verify_release_backup.sh")
+
+    assert "sha256sum -c CHECKSUMS.sha256" in script
+    assert "pg_restore --list" in script
+    assert "createdb" not in script
+    assert "dropdb" not in script
+    assert "pg_restore --clean" not in script
+
+
+def test_restore_smoke_is_forced_to_generated_isolated_database() -> None:
+    script = read("restore_release_backup_smoke.sh")
+
+    assert "--confirm-isolated-restore" in script
+    assert "geointel_restore_verify_" in script
+    assert 'if [ "$TARGET_DB" = "$DB_NAME" ]' in script
+    assert "createdb" in script
+    assert "dropdb --if-exists" in script
+    assert "pg_restore \\\n  --clean" not in script
+    assert '"production_database_untouched": True' in script
+
+
+def test_release_safety_scripts_have_valid_bash_syntax() -> None:
+    for name in (
+        "backup_release_state.sh",
+        "verify_release_backup.sh",
+        "restore_release_backup_smoke.sh",
+    ):
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            ["bash", "-n", f"scripts/{name}"],
+            cwd=ROOT,
+            capture_output=True,
+            text=True,
+            check=False,
+        )
+        assert result.returncode == 0, f"{name}: {result.stderr}"
+
+
+def test_readiness_gate_checks_release_safety_scripts() -> None:
+    readiness = read("run_readiness_check.sh")
+
+    for name in (
+        "backup_release_state.sh",
+        "verify_release_backup.sh",
+        "restore_release_backup_smoke.sh",
+    ):
+        assert f"bash -n scripts/{name}" in readiness
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import importlib.util
+import json
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+SCRIPT = ROOT / "scripts" / "capture_release_evidence.py"
+
+
+def load_script():
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("capture_release_evidence", SCRIPT)
+    assert spec is not None and spec.loader is not None
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+def test_release_evidence_manifest_is_secret_free_and_read_only(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    module = load_script()
+    args = module.parse_args(
+        [
+            "--output",
+            str(tmp_path / "evidence.json"),
+            "--release-id",
+            "test-rc",
+        ]
+    )
+
+    manifest = module.build_manifest(args)
+
+    assert manifest["schema_version"] == 1
+    assert manifest["release_id"] == "test-rc"
+    assert manifest["read_only"] is True
+    assert manifest["scope"] == "Belgium and the Belgian North Sea"
+    assert "DATABASE_URL" not in json.dumps(manifest).replace(
+        '"DATABASE_URL": false',
+        "",
+    ).replace(
+        '"DATABASE_URL": true',
+        "",
+    )
+    assert manifest["storage"] == {"requested": False}
+    assert manifest["live"] == {"requested": False}
+
+
+def test_release_evidence_cli_writes_single_head_manifest(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    output = tmp_path / "baseline.json"
+
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [
+            sys.executable,
+            str(SCRIPT),
+            "--output",
+            str(output),
+            "--release-id",
+            "test-cli",
+        ],
+        cwd=ROOT,
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        check=False,
+        timeout=60,
+    )
+
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+    payload = json.loads(output.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    assert payload["git"]["commit"]
+    assert payload["migrations"]["single_head"] is True
+    assert payload["files"]["docs/RC_SCOPE_FREEZE_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md"]["sha256"]
+    assert payload["files"]["docs/RC_ROADMAP_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md"]["sha256"]
+
+
+def test_readiness_gate_compiles_release_evidence_command() -> None:
+    readiness = (ROOT / "scripts" / "run_readiness_check.sh").read_text(
+        encoding="utf-8"
+    )
+
+    assert "py_compile scripts/capture_release_evidence.py" in readiness
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
+from app.models import AnalysisRun, Job
+from app.services.runtime_reconciliation_service import RuntimeReconciliationService
+
+
+def test_reconciliation_terminalizes_only_running_work() -> None:
+    db = MagicMock()
+    jobs = MagicMock()
+    runs = MagicMock()
+    jobs.filter.return_value.update.return_value = 5
+    runs.filter.return_value.update.return_value = 2
+    db.query.side_effect = [jobs, runs]
+    finished_at = datetime(2026, 7, 17, 20, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+
+    result = RuntimeReconciliationService.reconcile(
+        db,
+        finished_at=finished_at,
+    )
+
+    assert result.interrupted_jobs == 5
+    assert result.interrupted_analysis_runs == 2
+    jobs.filter.assert_called_once()
+    runs.filter.assert_called_once()
+    job_values = jobs.filter.return_value.update.call_args.args[0]
+    run_values = runs.filter.return_value.update.call_args.args[0]
+    assert job_values[Job.status] == "failed"
+    assert job_values[Job.finished_at] == finished_at
+    assert "PROCESS_INTERRUPTED" in job_values[Job.error_message]
+    assert run_values[AnalysisRun.status] == "failed"
+    assert run_values[AnalysisRun.finished_at] == finished_at
+    assert "PROCESS_INTERRUPTED" in run_values[AnalysisRun.error_message]
+    db.commit.assert_called_once_with()
+
+
+def test_startup_reconciliation_is_enabled_only_in_all_in_one_runtime() -> None:
+    start_script = (
+        __import__("pathlib").Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+        / "deploy"
+        / "unraid"
+        / "all-in-one-start.sh"
+    ).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+    assert (
+        'GEOINTEL_RECONCILE_INTERRUPTED_RUNS_ON_STARTUP:-true'
+        in start_script
+    )
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def test_unraid_all_in_one_runtime_starts_embedded_postgis_backend_and_nginx() -
    assert "migrate_compose_volume_if_needed" in dockerman_script
    assert "docker rm -f geointel" in dockerman_script
    assert "proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/" in nginx_config
-    assert "proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/health" in nginx_config
+    assert "proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/health/ready" in nginx_config
    assert "location = /geointel-icon.png" in nginx_config
    assert "frontend/node_modules" in dockerignore
    assert "storage" in dockerignore
@@ -153,6 +153,6 @@ VOLUME ["/var/lib/postgresql/data", "/app/storage"]
 EXPOSE 80

 HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --retries=10 --start-period=60s \
-  CMD curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1/health >/dev/null || exit 1
+  CMD curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1/health/ready >/dev/null || exit 1

 CMD ["/usr/local/bin/geointel-all-in-one-start"]
@@ -134,10 +134,12 @@ If multiple model files are present, add `--model-file /mnt/user/appdata/geointe
 The helper does not download weights, does not load a model and does not run
 inference; it only updates the env file for the mounted local model.

-Validate:
+Validate liveness, dependency readiness and the canonical API:

 ```bash
-curl -fsS "http://192.168.10.150:${GEOINTEL_FRONTEND_PORT:-1202}/health"
+curl -fsS "http://192.168.10.150:${GEOINTEL_FRONTEND_PORT:-1202}/health/live"
+curl -fsS "http://192.168.10.150:${GEOINTEL_FRONTEND_PORT:-1202}/health/ready"
+curl -fsS "http://192.168.10.150:${GEOINTEL_FRONTEND_PORT:-1202}/api/v1/system/capabilities"
 curl -fsS "http://192.168.10.150:${GEOINTEL_FRONTEND_PORT:-1202}/api/v1/projects"
 curl -I "http://192.168.10.150:${GEOINTEL_FRONTEND_PORT:-1202}/geointel-icon.svg"
 curl -I "http://192.168.10.150:${GEOINTEL_FRONTEND_PORT:-1202}/geointel-icon.png"
@@ -204,6 +206,12 @@ OLLAMA_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=1200
 OLLAMA_CONTEXT_TOKENS=16384
 ```

+`/health/live` proves only that FastAPI is serving. `/health/ready` returns
+HTTP 503 when PostgreSQL, PostGIS, the migration head or persistent storage is
+not ready, and is the container healthcheck. The all-in-one startup also marks
+work left in `running` by a previous process as failed with
+`PROCESS_INTERRUPTED`; synchronous work cannot survive a container restart.
+
 The model dropdown comes from Ollama `/api/tags`, so changing the installed
 models requires no frontend rebuild. Verify after deployment with:

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export CORS_ORIGINS="${GEOINTEL_CORS_ORIGINS:-${CORS_ORIGINS:-http://localhost:1
 export MAX_UPLOAD_MB="${GEOINTEL_MAX_UPLOAD_MB:-${MAX_UPLOAD_MB:-500}}"
 export YOLO_MODELS_DIR="${YOLO_MODELS_DIR:-/app/models}"
 export YOLO_CONFIG_DIR="${YOLO_CONFIG_DIR:-$STORAGE_ROOT/ultralytics}"
+export GEOINTEL_RECONCILE_INTERRUPTED_RUNS_ON_STARTUP="${GEOINTEL_RECONCILE_INTERRUPTED_RUNS_ON_STARTUP:-true}"

 mkdir -p "$PGDATA" "$STORAGE_ROOT" "$YOLO_CONFIG_DIR" /run/nginx /var/log/nginx
 chown -R postgres:postgres "$PGDATA"
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ import urllib.request
 last_error = None
 for attempt in range(1, 61):
    try:
-        urllib.request.urlopen("http://127.0.0.1:8000/health", timeout=3).read()
+        urllib.request.urlopen("http://127.0.0.1:8000/health/ready", timeout=3).read()
        print(f"Backend is ready after attempt {attempt}.")
        break
    except Exception as exc:
@@ -46,6 +46,18 @@ server {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }

+    location = /health/live {
+        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/health/live;
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    }
+
+    location = /health/ready {
+        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/health/ready;
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    }
+
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ services:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy
    healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "python -c \"import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8000/health', timeout=5).read()\""]
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "python -c \"import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8000/health/ready', timeout=5).read()\""]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 12
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ services:
      backend:
        condition: service_healthy
    healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "wget -q -O - http://127.0.0.1/health | grep -q '\"status\"'"]
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "wget -q -O - http://127.0.0.1/health/ready | grep -q '\"status\":\"ok\"'"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 12
@@ -41,48 +41,68 @@ Any valid GeoJSON geometry object. V1 primarily expects `Polygon` and `MultiPoly

 ## Health

-### GET `/health`
+### GET `/health/live`

-Returns service status.
+Returns process liveness only. It never queries PostgreSQL.

 ```json
 {
  "status": "ok",
  "service": "geointel-backend",
-  "version": "0.1.0"
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "build_sha": null,
+  "build_time": null
+}
+```
+
+### GET `/health`
+
+Backward-compatible alias for dependency readiness.
+
+### GET `/health/ready`
+
+Returns dependency readiness. Both readiness routes return HTTP 503 when the
+database, PostGIS, single migration head or writable storage check is
+degraded. Docker uses `/health/ready`.
+
+```json
+{
+  "status": "ok",
+  "service": "geointel-backend",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "database": "ok",
+  "postgis": "ok:3.x",
+  "migration": "ok:202607160001",
+  "storage": "ok",
+  "checks": {
+    "database": "ok",
+    "postgis": "ok:3.x",
+    "migration": "ok:202607160001",
+    "storage": "ok"
+  }
 }
 ```

 ### GET `/api/v1/system/capabilities`

-Returns enabled feature flags and tool availability.
+Returns enabled feature flags and tool availability in the canonical data
+envelope. PostGIS and configured YOLO state are derived at runtime.

 ```json
 {
-  "postgis": true,
-  "rasterio": true,
-  "geopandas": true,
-  "yolo": false,
-  "sam": false,
-  "grb": "bounded",
-  "sentinel": "planned",
-  "providers": [
-    {
-      "provider_name": "grb",
-      "display_name": "GRB",
-      "authority_level": "authoritative",
-      "supported_layers": ["buildings", "roads", "water", "parcels"],
-      "supported_geometry_types": ["Polygon", "MultiPolygon", "LineString", "MultiLineString"],
-      "supported_query_modes": ["bbox", "persisted_area"],
-      "fetch_signature": "POST /api/v1/projects/{project_id}/datasets/grb/acquire",
-      "configured": true,
-      "status": "configured",
-      "limitation_message": "Alleen expliciet begrensde selecties tot 20 km per zijde worden opgehaald.",
-      "attribution": "Bron: Grootschalig Referentie Bestand Vlaanderen, Digitaal Vlaanderen",
-      "license_note": "Hergebruik volgens de open-datavoorwaarden en bronvermelding van Digitaal Vlaanderen.",
-      "not_configured_reason": null
-    }
-  ]
+  "data": {
+    "postgis": true,
+    "rasterio": true,
+    "geopandas": true,
+    "yolo": true,
+    "yolo_status": "configured",
+    "sam": false,
+    "grb": "bounded",
+    "sentinel": "planned",
+    "version": "0.1.0",
+    "build_sha": null,
+    "providers": []
+  }
 }
 ```

@@ -1,38 +1,62 @@
 # GeoIntel Build Status

-Current preparation milestone: M7 Implementation Control Layer.
+Updated: 2026-07-17

-## Done
+## Current state

- Product blueprint.
- Data specifications.
- Architecture specifications.
- API/database/service documentation.
- Codex build plans and prompts.
- Operational readiness docs.
- Autonomy pack.
- M7 build control, regression traps and self-review layer.
+GeoIntel is an implemented map-first GeoAI workbench running as an all-in-one
+Unraid container with embedded PostGIS, FastAPI, React/MapLibre, local
+Ollama integration and optional local YOLO/PyTorch inference.

-## Ready for Codex
+The active release program is
+`docs/RC_ROADMAP_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md`.

-Codex can begin with repository verification and backend foundation using the locked build sequence.
+## Product scope

-## Must Preserve
+- Target: all Belgian land and the separately labelled Belgian territorial
+  sea, EEZ and continental shelf.
+- Existing deep regression references: Mol and the Kempen transport region.
+- Required new golden areas: Wallonia, Brussels, a cross-region area, coast
+  and Belgian North Sea.
+- Architecture: federated authoritative providers with one coverage matrix;
+  no assumption that GRB, PICC, UrbIS and NGI are semantically identical.

- GeoIntel is a GeoAI Workbench for the Kempen.
- GRB-first reference strategy.
- FastAPI + React + PostGIS.
- API-driven frontend.
- CRS-aware geospatial processing.
- Fixture mode must be clearly labeled.
+## Implemented foundation

-## Known Limitations Before Code Build
+- Projects, Areas, Datasets, versions, PostGIS vector features and raster
+  artifacts.
+- Map selection, semantic metrics, historical comparison and exports.
+- Governed Flemish sources for buildings, context, orthophotos, terrain,
+  flooding, soil, nature, agriculture, population and policy rasters.
+- Detection persistence, local configured YOLO/PyTorch path, QA/QC and review
+  evidence.
+- Segmentation persistence foundation without fake production inference.
+- Local Ollama assistant grounded in persisted evidence.
+- Single-container Unraid deployment on port 1202.

- Real GRB WFS integration still needs implementation.
- Real YOLO/SAM inference should follow fixture boundary first.
- Sentinel and LiDAR remain post-foundation roadmap items.
- No production authentication in V1.
+## Release blockers

-## Next Recommended Codex Pass
+- Current production backup and isolated restore proof.
+- Fail-closed readiness and truthful runtime capability reporting.
+- Stale job/run reconciliation and correlated exception logging.
+- Temporal compatibility guard for detection QA.
+- Production secret/configuration parity, immutable images and rollback.
+- Full CI, reproducible dependencies and supply-chain evidence.
+- Critical response-model typing and real frontend/browser E2E coverage.
+- National and maritime scope/providers/golden areas.

-Run `prompts/codex/PASS_00_REPO_AUDIT.md`, then implement backend foundation according to `docs/12-build-control/BUILD_SEQUENCE_LOCK.md`.
+## Latest evidence
+
+Run:
+
+```bash
+python scripts/capture_release_evidence.py \
+  --output storage/release-evidence/rc-current/baseline.json \
+  --release-id rc-belgium-north-sea \
+  --live-base-url http://192.168.10.150:1202
+```
+
+The evidence manifest is runtime output and is deliberately ignored by Git.
+The first captured baseline reported one Alembic head (`202607160001`) and
+reachable live health/capability routes. Health truthfulness is an open RC-2
+blocker until readiness becomes fail-closed.
@@ -1,3 +1,42 @@
+## Autonomous RC program for Belgium and the Belgian North Sea (2026-07-17)
+
+- Froze the RC geography as all Belgian land plus the separately labelled
+  territorial sea, EEZ and continental shelf.
+- Retained Mol and the Kempen as validated regression areas instead of the
+  final product boundary.
+- Added `docs/RC_SCOPE_FREEZE_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md`.
+- Added `docs/RC_ROADMAP_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md` with autonomous stop rules,
+  exact phase gates, evidence requirements and RC-0 through RC-11.
+- Removed the need for a separate RC-12 phase. Fresh-install, upgrade,
+  rollback and runtime evidence remain mandatory inside RC-5 and RC-11.
+- Verified the official source families for NGI/IGN, Statbel, SPW Wallonia,
+  UrbIS Brussels, federal marine planning, RBINS/BMDC and MDK before freezing
+  the coverage architecture.
+- Started RC-0 implementation; the release-evidence command is the first code
+  gate.
+- Implemented and tested `scripts/capture_release_evidence.py`. The first
+  local/live baseline recorded commit `9513f86`, dirty-state evidence, one
+  Alembic head `202607160001`, dependency/configuration checksums and reachable
+  Tower health/capability routes without storing secret values.
+- Replaced the obsolete pre-implementation `docs/BUILD_STATUS.md` with the
+  current RC state and moved runtime release evidence outside Git.
+- RC-0 is complete. RC-1 backup/restore safety is active.
+- Added atomic custom-format PostgreSQL backup, read-only verification and
+  generated-database restore-smoke scripts. Their focused safety/syntax tests
+  pass; Tower backup and isolated restore execution remain the RC-1 live gate.
+- Implemented RC-2 truthful runtime state: independent liveness, fail-closed
+  DB/PostGIS/Alembic/storage readiness, runtime-derived YOLO capability,
+  request correlation IDs, exception trace logging, SQL logging at WARNING
+  and all-in-one startup reconciliation for orphaned `running` jobs/runs.
+- Docker, Nginx, API contracts and health documentation now use
+  `/health/ready`; `/health` remains a compatibility readiness alias.
+- Validation passed: targeted Ruff, backend compile, 963 backend tests,
+  frontend typecheck/build, 122-route contract audit, one Alembic head,
+  complete offline migration SQL and the full readiness gate.
+- Local Docker CLI is unavailable on the Windows Codex host. Docker config,
+  image build, live health truthfulness, backup and restore are therefore
+  scheduled on the Docker-enabled Tower after push.
+
 ## Sprint 229 - Governed ALZ definitive release promotion (2026-07-17)

 Implemented:
@@ -5,8 +5,15 @@ Elke runtime-component moet een eenvoudige en machineleesbare healthcheck hebben

 ## Backend

-### Endpoint
-`GET /health`
+### Liveness
+
+`GET /health/live` returns HTTP 200 while the FastAPI process can serve a
+request. It has no database or storage dependency.
+
+### Readiness
+
+`GET /health/ready` is the Docker healthcheck. `GET /health` is the
+backward-compatible alias.

 ### Response 200
 ```json
@@ -15,8 +22,15 @@ Elke runtime-component moet een eenvoudige en machineleesbare healthcheck hebben
  "service": "geointel-backend",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "database": "ok",
-  "redis": "ok",
-  "storage": "ok"
+  "postgis": "ok:3.x",
+  "migration": "ok:202607160001",
+  "storage": "ok",
+  "checks": {
+    "database": "ok",
+    "postgis": "ok:3.x",
+    "migration": "ok:202607160001",
+    "storage": "ok"
+  }
 }
 ```

@@ -25,10 +39,10 @@ Elke runtime-component moet een eenvoudige en machineleesbare healthcheck hebben
 {
  "status": "degraded",
  "service": "geointel-backend",
-  "database": "unavailable",
-  "redis": "ok",
-  "storage": "ok",
-  "errors": ["database connection failed"]
+  "database": "degraded",
+  "postgis": "degraded",
+  "migration": "degraded",
+  "storage": "ok"
 }
 ```

@@ -51,7 +65,8 @@ Codex mag kiezen tussen een internal endpoint of CLI-command, maar het contract
 Frontend moet een `/status` of settings/statuspanel hebben dat toont: backend bereikbaar, API version, auth status, feature flags en laatste healthchecktijd.

 ## Storage
-Storage healthcheck controleert of upload, originals, derived en exports writable zijn.
+De readinesscheck maakt en verwijdert een tijdelijk bestand in `STORAGE_ROOT`.

 ## Database
-Database healthcheck controleert connectie, PostGIS extension en migrationstatus.
+De readinesscheck controleert `SELECT 1`, `PostGIS_Version()` en dat de
+databaseversie exact overeenkomt met de enige Alembic-head in de image.
@@ -0,0 +1,471 @@
+# Autonomous RC Roadmap: Belgium and the Belgian North Sea
+
+## Mission
+
+Turn the current GeoIntel implementation into a reproducible, demonstrable and
+release-candidate-quality map-first workbench for all of Belgium and the
+Belgian North Sea.
+
+This file is an executable runbook for Codex. It is both the implementation
+order and the release evidence index. Work continues autonomously between
+phases. A separate RC-12 phase is deliberately omitted.
+
+## Sources of truth
+
+Read in this order before changing behavior:
+
+1. `AGENTS.md`
+2. `docs/CODEX_BOOTSTRAP_PROMPT.md`
+3. `docs/RC_SCOPE_FREEZE_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md`
+4. `docs/governance/GEOINTEL_CONSTITUTION.md`
+5. `docs/governance/ARCHITECTURE_INVARIANTS.md`
+6. `docs/governance/FORBIDDEN_DECISIONS.md`
+7. `docs/API_CONTRACTS.md`
+8. `docs/DATABASE_IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md`
+9. `docs/DATA_SPECIFICATION.md`
+10. `docs/DATA_SOURCES.md`
+11. `docs/STORAGE_ARCHITECTURE.md`
+12. `docs/DEFINITION_OF_DONE.md`
+
+## Autonomous execution contract
+
+Codex shall:
+
+- execute phases in order and continue without requesting routine approval;
+- use existing service, dataset, vector-feature, raster and job boundaries;
+- keep every provider bounded, fail-closed and provenance-complete;
+- add or update tests with every behavior change;
+- update `docs/CODEX_EXECUTION_LOG.md`, `docs/TODO.md` and `CHANGELOG.md`
+  after each completed phase;
+- run the phase gate and record exact output under
+  `storage/release-evidence/<release-id>/`;
+- commit and push only after the relevant local gate is green;
+- deploy only a commit that passed the local gate;
+- run browser and live API acceptance after deployment;
+- retain Mol/Kempen as regression references while adding Wallonia, Brussels,
+  cross-region, coast and North Sea golden areas.
+
+Codex stops only when:
+
+- an operation would destructively mutate or delete unbacked production data;
+- an external licence, credential or authority decision cannot be derived from
+  public source metadata;
+- an official endpoint fails security validation and no authoritative
+  alternative exists;
+- the same mandatory gate fails three times for the same external reason; or
+- continuing would require fabricating data, metrics, provenance or model
+  output.
+
+For a stop, write the blocker, evidence and exact resume command to the
+execution log. Continue with independent work when possible.
+
+## Release priorities
+
+### P0 - release blockers
+
+- truthful health/readiness and capability reporting;
+- current backup plus isolated restore proof;
+- stale job/run reconciliation and useful logs;
+- temporally correct detection QA;
+- production secrets, upload limits, configuration parity and rollback;
+- full CI and reproducible dependencies;
+- fresh install and upgrade proof.
+
+### P1 - national product completeness
+
+- national and maritime scope model;
+- governed source coverage matrix;
+- Wallonia, Brussels and North Sea adapters;
+- nationwide bounded selection and mixed-zone result handling;
+- historical compatibility matrix;
+- golden areas outside Flanders.
+
+### P2 - quality and maintainability
+
+- typed response models on critical routes;
+- frontend unit and browser E2E coverage;
+- loading/accessibility/performance hardening;
+- retention and operator documentation;
+- remaining bounded modularization where protected by tests.
+
+## Global gates
+
+Run after every behavior-changing phase:
+
+```bash
+python -m compileall backend/app
+cd backend && python -m pytest
+cd frontend && npm run typecheck
+cd frontend && npm run build
+bash scripts/run_readiness_check.sh
+cd backend && python -m alembic heads
+cd backend && python -m alembic upgrade head --sql
+bash -n scripts/live_migration_smoke.sh
+docker compose config
+```
+
+When Tower is reachable:
+
+```powershell
+.\scripts\deploy_tower.ps1
+```
+
+Then verify:
+
+```bash
+curl -fsS http://192.168.10.150:1202/health/live
+curl -fsS http://192.168.10.150:1202/health/ready
+curl -fsS http://192.168.10.150:1202/api/v1/system/capabilities
+```
+
+The in-app browser acceptance must cover desktop, widescreen and a narrow
+viewport. It must inspect console errors, failed requests and the complete
+map-select-analyse-export flow.
+
+## Official source baseline
+
+The roadmap starts from these verified official families. Machine endpoints,
+editions and licences must still pass source-specific probes before activation.
+
+| Scope | Candidate | Role |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Belgium | NGI/IGN AdminVector and Top10Vector | authoritative boundary and common topographic baseline |
+| Belgium | Statbel statistical sectors/population | authoritative statistical geometry and time series |
+| Flanders | existing Digitaal Vlaanderen/VMM/DOV/INBO/ALZ adapters | detailed authoritative regional layers |
+| Wallonia | SPW Géoportail, PICC, orthophoto, MNT and thematic services | detailed authoritative regional layers |
+| Brussels | Paradigm UrbIS and regional environmental geodata | detailed authoritative urban layers |
+| North Sea | FPS Marine Environment marine spatial plan | legal/use zones |
+| North Sea | RBINS/BMDC and Marine Atlas | marine environment and observations |
+| North Sea | MDK/Flemish Hydrography | bathymetry and nautical source candidate |
+| North Sea | EMODnet | contextual fallback only when explicitly labelled |
+
+## Phase status
+
+| Phase | State | Purpose |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| RC-0 | complete | freeze scope and produce release evidence baseline |
+| RC-1 | in progress | backup, restore and data safety |
+| RC-2 | verification pending | health, capabilities and stale-runtime correctness |
+| RC-3 | pending | temporal detection/QA correctness and observability |
+| RC-4 | pending | national/maritime scope and provider coverage contracts |
+| RC-5 | pending | deployment, secrets, configuration, fresh install and rollback |
+| RC-6 | pending | complete CI, dependency and supply-chain gates |
+| RC-7 | pending | critical API envelope typing and contract validation |
+| RC-8 | pending | frontend and browser E2E release journeys |
+| RC-9 | pending | loading, accessibility and performance hardening |
+| RC-10 | pending | retention, cleanup and national data operations |
+| RC-11 | pending | final package, upgrade proof, release tag and handoff |
+
+## RC-0 - Scope freeze and evidence baseline
+
+**State: complete.** The read-only baseline command and focused tests pass.
+Runtime evidence is stored outside Git under `storage/release-evidence/`.
+
+### Work
+
+- Freeze Belgium plus Belgian North Sea scope.
+- Record current commit, migration head, dependency versions, container image,
+  database/storage sizes and readiness results.
+- Create a release-evidence manifest command.
+- Replace stale product-status wording that still treats Kempen as the product
+  boundary.
+- Add a coverage matrix schema with `operational`, `partial`,
+  `not_configured`, `unsupported`.
+
+### Likely files
+
+- `docs/RC_SCOPE_FREEZE_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md`
+- `docs/RC_ROADMAP_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md`
+- `docs/BUILD_STATUS.md`
+- `docs/DATA_SOURCES.md`
+- `scripts/capture_release_evidence.py`
+- `backend/tests/test_rc_release_evidence.py`
+
+### Evidence and exit
+
+- scope documents contain Belgium, all three regions and maritime zones;
+- evidence command is read-only and deterministic;
+- manifest contains commit, dirty state, Alembic head and gate status;
+- compile and focused tests pass.
+
+## RC-1 - Backup, restore and data safety
+
+### Work
+
+- Add a safe production backup command for PostgreSQL custom-format dumps.
+- Capture schema head, PostGIS version, table counts, model checksums and a
+  storage checksum inventory without duplicating all large artifacts.
+- Reject default/empty production database passwords.
+- Add backup verification with `pg_restore --list` and checksums.
+- Add an isolated restore drill using a temporary database/container; never
+  restore over production.
+- Document retention, encryption boundary and cleanup.
+
+### Likely files
+
+- `scripts/backup_release_state.sh`
+- `scripts/verify_release_backup.sh`
+- `scripts/restore_release_backup_smoke.sh`
+- `deploy/unraid/README.md`
+- `docs/ROLLBACK_AND_RECOVERY.md`
+- `backend/tests/test_rc_backup_restore_scripts.py`
+
+### Exit
+
+- current Tower database has a dated, checksum-verified backup;
+- isolated restore reaches the recorded Alembic head;
+- representative project, dataset, geometry and QA counts reconcile;
+- no production application data was mutated by the drill.
+
+## RC-2 - Truthful runtime state
+
+**State: implementation complete, live verification pending.** Local compile,
+963 backend tests, frontend typecheck/build and the full readiness gate pass.
+
+### Work
+
+- Split process liveness from dependency readiness.
+- Make readiness return HTTP 503 when DB, PostGIS, migration head or writable
+  storage is unavailable.
+- Derive version/build identity and AI capability from runtime configuration.
+- Make Docker use the readiness endpoint.
+- Reconcile orphaned `running` jobs and analysis runs on process startup.
+- Add request IDs and exception logging without exposing secrets or full SQL.
+
+### Likely files
+
+- `backend/app/api/routes/health.py`
+- `backend/app/schemas/health.py`
+- `backend/app/core/config.py`
+- `backend/app/core/logging.py`
+- `backend/app/main.py`
+- `backend/app/services/runtime_reconciliation_service.py`
+- Docker/nginx files and health tests
+
+### Exit
+
+- liveness remains 200 while the process runs;
+- readiness is fail-closed;
+- live capabilities match the active local YOLO state;
+- restart converts impossible orphaned work to a terminal failed state with
+  `PROCESS_INTERRUPTED`;
+- Docker reports unhealthy for a broken database.
+
+## RC-3 - Temporal QA correctness and observability
+
+### Work
+
+- Stop Detection Lab from silently selecting the first raster.
+- Require explicit raster/model choice.
+- Prevent current reference QA against historical imagery unless a compatible
+  reference edition/coverage is selected.
+- Persist source observation period and QA compatibility decision.
+- Add structured request/job/run logs and operator diagnostics.
+- Add a stale-runtime report and safe reconciliation command.
+
+### Exit
+
+- no detection run starts with an implicit old raster;
+- incompatible temporal QA fails with a clear code;
+- compatible current orthophoto/GRB path remains green;
+- logs correlate request, job, analysis run and quality check.
+
+## RC-4 - Belgium and North Sea coverage foundation
+
+### Work
+
+1. Persist NGI authoritative Belgium land and administrative scopes.
+2. Persist territorial sea, EEZ and continental shelf as distinct scope
+   layers.
+3. Implement the coverage matrix and source authority resolver.
+4. Add bounded provider contracts for:
+   - NGI/Statbel national baseline;
+   - SPW/PICC/orthophoto/relief for Wallonia;
+   - UrbIS/environmental context for Brussels;
+   - federal marine zones and BMDC/MDK marine sources.
+5. Normalize the public theme vocabulary without discarding provider-native
+   semantics.
+6. Add Wallonia, Brussels, cross-region, coast and North Sea golden areas.
+7. Make mixed-zone selection split into bounded provider requests and merge
+   only semantically compatible metrics.
+
+### Required rules
+
+- all persistence flows through DatasetService and geospatial services;
+- no provider writes directly to feature tables;
+- no country-wide startup import;
+- no TLS bypass;
+- no implicit vertical datum conversion;
+- unsupported metrics remain unavailable.
+
+### Likely files
+
+- provider registry/base and new regional provider modules;
+- geographic scope and source coverage services;
+- dataset/source schemas;
+- map source portfolio and scope UI;
+- source, API, data and storage documentation;
+- source-specific tests and fixtures.
+
+### Exit
+
+- a user can draw within every golden area and receive an honest coverage
+  matrix;
+- at least the common national baseline is operational on land;
+- regional detailed layers are operational or explicitly partial;
+- maritime legal zones are operational;
+- bathymetry remains gated until a source passes strict acquisition evidence.
+
+## RC-5 - Production deployment and rollback
+
+### Work
+
+- align backend, nginx and proxy upload/time limits;
+- make every runtime setting intentionally configured, internal or documented;
+- reject production default secrets;
+- add image labels with version, commit and build time;
+- deploy immutable tags in addition to `latest`;
+- preserve previous image for one-command rollback;
+- prove fresh install against empty volumes;
+- prove upgrade from a copied current database/storage state;
+- prove rollback without schema or data loss.
+
+### Exit
+
+- Unraid edit fields cover all operator-owned settings;
+- fresh install, upgrade and rollback commands are documented and executed;
+- deployed UI exposes build identity;
+- previous image remains addressable;
+- no mutable-only release is accepted.
+
+## RC-6 - CI and supply-chain gates
+
+### Work
+
+- make CI run backend compile/tests, frontend typecheck/build, readiness,
+  Alembic single-head/offline SQL and Docker config/build;
+- add Python and npm dependency vulnerability checks;
+- add container scan and SBOM;
+- introduce reproducible Python resolution/lock output;
+- preserve optional AI dependency separation;
+- publish gate artefacts.
+
+### Exit
+
+- a broken compile, test, build, migration or contract blocks CI;
+- dependency and container findings have severity policy;
+- a clean checkout can reproduce dependency versions and image metadata.
+
+## RC-7 - Critical API contract hardening
+
+### Work
+
+- replace `response_model=dict` first on health, projects, areas, datasets,
+  jobs, analysis runs, QA, exports and map-critical endpoints;
+- retain canonical `{data: ...}` success and canonical error envelopes;
+- add OpenAPI response validation tests;
+- document intentionally streaming/download responses separately.
+
+### Exit
+
+- all critical map-first routes have concrete response models;
+- actual payloads pass FastAPI validation;
+- API contract audit and frontend typecheck pass.
+
+## RC-8 - Release journey automation
+
+### Work
+
+- add frontend unit tests for selection, coverage, loading and temporal guards;
+- add browser E2E for:
+  - open Belgium map;
+  - select each golden area;
+  - load a theme;
+  - inspect metric/provenance;
+  - compare compatible history;
+  - run a bounded configured detection path;
+  - export;
+  - ask Ollama with persisted context;
+- include no-data, partial coverage, provider failure and unsupported metric
+  journeys.
+
+### Exit
+
+- E2E runs against a real backend/PostGIS fixture;
+- no workflow depends only on source-text assertion tests;
+- console and failed-request audits are clean.
+
+## RC-9 - UX, accessibility and performance
+
+### Work
+
+- replace initial false `missing` source states with explicit loading;
+- provide accessible names, labels, keyboard focus and status announcements;
+- enforce desktop, widescreen and narrow layouts;
+- record API and map-selection budgets for golden areas;
+- virtualize or page large panels;
+- split large modules only where tests protect behavior.
+
+### Exit
+
+- no core control lacks an accessible name;
+- loading, empty, partial, error and ready states are distinct;
+- map selection remains usable at target viewports;
+- no release journey exceeds its documented budget without a visible warning.
+
+## RC-10 - Data operations and retention
+
+### Work
+
+- define lifecycle for raw, normalized, derived, export, AI and evidence
+  artifacts;
+- add dry-run-first cleanup for stale technical projects, failed work and
+  superseded caches;
+- retain immutable official source editions and release evidence;
+- report disk pressure before acquisition;
+- schedule nothing implicitly; provide explicit operator commands;
+- add source freshness reports for national/regional/maritime families.
+
+### Exit
+
+- cleanup cannot remove release evidence or current authoritative editions;
+- every destructive action requires explicit confirmation and a current
+  backup;
+- storage growth and retained provenance are reportable.
+
+## RC-11 - Final release package
+
+### Work
+
+- rerun fresh-install and upgrade proof using the release image;
+- rerun backup/isolated restore and rollback proof;
+- execute every golden area and core browser journey;
+- generate coverage, security, dependency, migration, performance and known
+  limitation reports;
+- update operator/end-user documentation;
+- remove stale status documents from active navigation without deleting
+  historical evidence;
+- assign semantic version, create signed/checksummed release manifest, tag,
+  push and deploy the immutable image.
+
+### Final acceptance
+
+- all P0 findings are closed;
+- every mandatory global gate is green;
+- backup and isolated restore are proven;
+- one Alembic head applies to empty and upgraded PostGIS;
+- Belgium and maritime golden areas pass;
+- no unsupported metric or unavailable source appears as successful;
+- live browser acceptance passes at port 1202;
+- remaining P1/P2 limitations are explicit, bounded and non-deceptive.
+
+## Next command
+
+After creating this roadmap, start RC-0 immediately:
+
+```bash
+python scripts/capture_release_evidence.py --output storage/release-evidence/rc-current/baseline.json
+```
+
+If the command does not exist yet, implementing it and its tests is the first
+code task.
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+# RC Scope Freeze: Belgium and the Belgian North Sea
+
+## Status and precedence
+
+This document freezes the geographic and release scope for the GeoIntel
+release-candidate program. It supersedes the geographic limitation in
+`docs/V1_SCOPE_FREEZE.md`. The existing V1 domain, persistence, provenance,
+GIS-correctness and no-fake-data rules remain in force.
+
+Mol and the Kempen remain golden regression areas. They are no longer the
+product boundary.
+
+## Product identity
+
+GeoIntel RC is a map-first geospatial analysis workbench for:
+
+- the complete land territory of Belgium;
+- the Belgian territorial sea;
+- the Belgian exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, labelled
+  according to their legal meaning;
+- bounded user-drawn areas that may cross municipal, provincial, regional or
+  land/sea boundaries.
+
+The primary flow remains:
+
+1. open the map;
+2. choose one or more understandable themes;
+3. draw or select an area;
+4. load only the authoritative or explicitly contextual data available for
+   that area;
+5. calculate source-appropriate metrics;
+6. inspect provenance, limitations and time;
+7. compare compatible historical editions;
+8. export the result or ask the local assistant about persisted evidence.
+
+## Geographic federation
+
+Belgian coverage is a federation of governed adapters. GeoIntel must never
+pretend that regional datasets have identical semantics merely because they
+can be displayed together.
+
+| Zone | Baseline authority | Detailed authoritative families |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Belgium-wide | NGI/IGN, Statbel, federal geo.be | AdminVector, Top10Vector/CartoWeb, statistical sectors and population |
+| Flanders | Digitaal Vlaanderen and competent Flemish agencies | GRB, orthophotos, DHMV, VMM/VHA, DOV, INBO, ALZ |
+| Wallonia | Service public de Wallonie | PICC, SPW orthophotos, relief, hydrography, land cover and thematic catalogues |
+| Brussels | Brussels Capital Region/Paradigm and competent administrations | UrbIS, BruGIS and Brussels open geodata |
+| Belgian North Sea | federal Marine Environment, RBINS/BMDC, MDK and legally competent publishers | maritime plan and zones, marine environment, hydrography and validated bathymetry |
+
+NGI Top10Vector is the preferred common topographic baseline candidate when
+its machine access, licence, edition and bounded retrieval contract have been
+validated. Regional large-scale products remain preferred where their
+authority and semantic detail are higher.
+
+## Required RC coverage
+
+The RC must provide:
+
+- a persisted authoritative Belgium land boundary;
+- persisted and legally labelled maritime scope boundaries;
+- area selection anywhere inside the combined Belgium/maritime scope;
+- a coverage matrix that reports every theme as `operational`, `partial`,
+  `not_configured` or `unsupported` for the selected zone;
+- source, authority, observation time, publication time, CRS, licence,
+  attribution, coverage and limitation metadata for every result;
+- bounded acquisition and analysis; no browser-side source fetch and no
+  unbounded country-wide request to a public service;
+- compatible historical comparison only where editions, units, coverage and
+  methods are comparable;
+- a stable national theme vocabulary while preserving provider-native fields
+  and semantics.
+
+The minimum common theme vocabulary is:
+
+- administrative context;
+- buildings and built environment;
+- roads and mobility context;
+- surface water and hydrography;
+- land cover and land use;
+- vegetation, forest and nature;
+- population and statistical context;
+- elevation and terrain;
+- orthophoto/aerial imagery;
+- flood or climate context where authoritative data exists;
+- maritime planning, marine environment and bathymetry for the Belgian North
+  Sea where authoritative data exists.
+
+Not every theme must have the same resolution or historical depth in every
+zone. Absence or partial coverage must be visible and must not be replaced by
+fabricated values.
+
+## Golden release areas
+
+National support is validated through bounded golden areas, not one monolithic
+import:
+
+- Mol municipality: existing deep land and AI regression reference;
+- Kempen transport region: existing cross-municipality and partition test;
+- one Walloon urban/rural boundary-crossing area;
+- one Brussels urban area;
+- one cross-region or language-boundary area;
+- one coastal land/sea area;
+- one Belgian North Sea area containing at least two legal/use zones.
+
+Exact golden area identifiers and checksums must be stored in release
+evidence. A source is not nationally operational merely because the Mol test
+passes.
+
+## Maritime and bathymetry rules
+
+- Territorial sea, EEZ and continental shelf are separate legal scopes.
+- TAW, LAT, mDNG, NAP and product-specific vertical references remain
+  separate dimensions.
+- No value is transformed between vertical datums without an authoritative,
+  tested transformation and an uncertainty statement.
+- Bathymetry is bed elevation or depth relative to a stated reference plane.
+  It is not water volume.
+- Water volume requires compatible bed elevation, water-surface elevation,
+  time, coverage and uncertainty contracts.
+- WMTS/WMS imagery may provide visual context but is not an analytical raster
+  unless pixel values and georeferencing are governed and validated.
+
+## Explicit exclusions from this RC
+
+- automatic whole-country mirroring of every source;
+- bypassing TLS, licence or source-integrity failures;
+- claiming semantic parity between GRB, PICC, UrbIS and NGI products;
+- hidden external downloads at application startup;
+- browser-direct provider access;
+- production multi-user authentication;
+- real-time surveillance or operational maritime navigation;
+- unsupported water-volume estimates;
+- a separate RC-12 soak phase.
+
+Fresh-install, upgrade, rollback and runtime-stability evidence are mandatory
+but are incorporated into RC-5 and RC-11.
+
+## Scope change control
+
+During the RC program, a scope change is allowed only when it:
+
+1. fixes a release blocker;
+2. adds missing coverage required by this document;
+3. corrects source authority, provenance, CRS, time or metric semantics; or
+4. improves verification without adding unrelated product capability.
+
+Every accepted change must update the autonomous roadmap, execution log and
+relevant source/API documentation.
@@ -11,3 +11,24 @@ Bestanden worden niet stilzwijgend verwijderd. Gebruik soft-delete waar mogelijk

 ## AI/model rollback
 Elke analysis run bewaart model id, version, parameters, confidence threshold en pipeline version.
+# RC backup and isolated restore gate
+
+Before any release migration, credential rotation or image promotion:
+
+1. run `scripts/backup_release_state.sh` against the running all-in-one
+   container;
+2. run `scripts/verify_release_backup.sh` read-only;
+3. run `scripts/restore_release_backup_smoke.sh` with
+   `--confirm-isolated-restore`;
+4. retain the backup directory and the separate restore-smoke JSON with the
+   release evidence.
+
+The restore smoke may only create databases whose name starts with
+`geointel_restore_verify_`. It refuses the production database name, does not
+use `pg_restore --clean` and drops the temporary database unless an operator
+explicitly asks to retain it.
+
+Storage and model files are inventoried rather than copied into the database
+dump. Release backups must therefore be paired with the persistent storage
+volume backup policy. Use `--inventory-mode sha256` for final release
+evidence.
@@ -1,5 +1,35 @@
 # GeoIntel TODO

+## Actief RC-programma: Belgie en de Belgische Noordzee
+
+`docs/RC_ROADMAP_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md` is vanaf 2026-07-17 het enige actieve
+releasebord. Mol en de Kempen blijven regressiereferenties, maar de
+productscope is nu heel Belgie plus de juridisch correct gelabelde Belgische
+maritieme zones.
+
+- [x] RC-0: Belgische en maritieme scopefreeze vastleggen.
+- [x] RC-0: autonome roadmap zonder afzonderlijke RC-12 vastleggen.
+- [x] RC-0: deterministisch release-evidence manifest implementeren en draaien.
+- [ ] RC-1: actuele productiebackup, verificatie en geisoleerde restore bewijzen.
+- [ ] RC-2: liveness/readiness/capabilities fail-closed en waarheidsgetrouw maken.
+- [ ] RC-2: verweesde jobs en analysis runs na een procesherstart verzoenen.
+- [ ] RC-3: expliciete rasterkeuze en temporeel compatibele detectie-QA afdwingen.
+- [ ] RC-4: nationale basisdekking, Wallonie, Brussel en Belgische Noordzee via
+  beheerde providers en golden areas operationaliseren.
+- [ ] RC-5: secrets/configuratie/uploadlimieten/immutable deploy en rollback
+  bewijzen.
+- [ ] RC-6: volledige CI, dependency-audit, containerscan en SBOM toevoegen.
+- [ ] RC-7: kritieke API-routes concrete responsemodellen geven.
+- [ ] RC-8: echte frontend- en browser-E2E-releaseflows toevoegen.
+- [ ] RC-9: loading, toegankelijkheid, widescreen/mobile en performance afronden.
+- [ ] RC-10: dataretentie, diskdruk en veilige cleanup operationaliseren.
+- [ ] RC-11: fresh install, upgrade, rollback, releasepakket, tag en live
+  acceptatie afronden.
+
+Een aparte RC-12/soakfase wordt niet uitgevoerd. De relevante fresh-install-,
+upgrade-, rollback- en runtimebewijzen zijn verplicht opgenomen in RC-5 en
+RC-11.
+
 ## Actuele V1-productstatus

 Dit is het enige actuele afwerkingsbord. De lange sprint- en
@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ server {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }

+    location = /health/live {
+        proxy_pass http://backend:8000/health/live;
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    }
+
+    location = /health/ready {
+        proxy_pass http://backend:8000/health/ready;
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    }
+
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }
@@ -1938,3 +1938,41 @@ docker exec geointel python /app/scripts/probe_mdk_bathymetry.py

 This performs only `GetCapabilities`, keeps strict TLS verification enabled
 and returns exit code `2` for an honest non-ready source.
+# Release backup and restore proof
+
+The release-candidate safety path is host-operated against the running
+all-in-one container:
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/backup_release_state.sh \
+  --container geointel \
+  --output-root /mnt/user/appdata/geointel/backups \
+  --storage-path /mnt/user/appdata/geointel/storage \
+  --models-path /mnt/user/appdata/geointel/models \
+  --inventory-mode sha256
+```
+
+The backup is written atomically and contains a PostgreSQL custom-format dump,
+archive listing, Alembic/PostGIS metadata, critical table counts, optional
+storage/model inventories and SHA-256 checksums. An empty or known-default
+database password leaves the release gate failed. For an emergency backup
+before rotating that password, add `--allow-insecure-password`; the manifest
+still records the insecure state.
+
+Verify without changing any database:
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/verify_release_backup.sh \
+  --backup-dir /mnt/user/appdata/geointel/backups/<release-id>
+```
+
+Prove restoration only in a generated temporary database:
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/restore_release_backup_smoke.sh \
+  --backup-dir /mnt/user/appdata/geointel/backups/<release-id> \
+  --confirm-isolated-restore
+```
+
+The restore smoke rejects the production database name, compares PostGIS,
+Alembic and retained table counts, and removes its temporary database.
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ DOCS = ROOT / "docs" / "API_CONTRACTS.md"  # docs/API_CONTRACTS.md

 ALLOWED_NON_ENVELOPE_ENDPOINTS = {
    ("GET", "/health"),
+    ("GET", "/health/live"),
+    ("GET", "/health/ready"),
    ("GET", "/api/v1/exports/{export_id}/download"),
    ("GET", "/api/v1/projects/{project_id}/datasets/{dataset_id}/raster/image"),
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+CONTAINER="geointel"
+OUTPUT_ROOT="backups"
+RELEASE_ID="rc-$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)"
+STORAGE_PATH=""
+MODELS_PATH=""
+INVENTORY_MODE="metadata"
+ALLOW_INSECURE_PASSWORD="false"
+
+usage() {
+  cat <<'EOF'
+Usage: bash scripts/backup_release_state.sh [options]
+
+Creates an atomic, read-only release backup from the running all-in-one
+GeoIntel container. It never deletes or restores application data.
+
+Options:
+  --container NAME                 Docker container (default: geointel)
+  --output-root PATH               Host backup root (default: backups)
+  --release-id ID                  Safe backup directory name
+  --storage-path PATH              Optional host storage path to inventory
+  --models-path PATH               Optional host model path to inventory
+  --inventory-mode metadata|sha256 Hash all inventoried files only with sha256
+  --allow-insecure-password        Complete emergency backup despite an
+                                   empty/default production DB password
+EOF
+}
+
+while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --container) CONTAINER="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --output-root) OUTPUT_ROOT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --release-id) RELEASE_ID="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --storage-path) STORAGE_PATH="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --models-path) MODELS_PATH="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --inventory-mode) INVENTORY_MODE="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --allow-insecure-password) ALLOW_INSECURE_PASSWORD="true"; shift ;;
+    --help|-h) usage; exit 0 ;;
+    *) echo "Unknown argument: $1" >&2; usage >&2; exit 2 ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+if ! [[ "$RELEASE_ID" =~ ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._-]{0,127}$ ]]; then
+  echo "Unsafe release id: $RELEASE_ID" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+if [ "$INVENTORY_MODE" != "metadata" ] && [ "$INVENTORY_MODE" != "sha256" ]; then
+  echo "--inventory-mode must be metadata or sha256" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+for required in docker python3 sha256sum git; do
+  if ! command -v "$required" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "Missing required command: $required" >&2
+    exit 2
+  fi
+done
+if [ "$(docker inspect -f '{{.State.Running}}' "$CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true)" != "true" ]; then
+  echo "Container '$CONTAINER' is not running." >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+
+OUTPUT_ROOT="$(python3 -c 'import pathlib,sys; print(pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).expanduser().resolve())' "$OUTPUT_ROOT")"
+mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_ROOT"
+PARTIAL="$OUTPUT_ROOT/.${RELEASE_ID}.partial"
+FINAL="$OUTPUT_ROOT/$RELEASE_ID"
+if [ -e "$PARTIAL" ] || [ -e "$FINAL" ]; then
+  echo "Backup target already exists: $FINAL" >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+mkdir -p "$PARTIAL"
+
+cleanup_partial() {
+  if [ -d "$PARTIAL" ]; then
+    rm -rf -- "$PARTIAL"
+  fi
+}
+trap cleanup_partial EXIT
+
+DB_NAME="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" sh -c 'printf %s "${POSTGRES_DB:-${GEOINTEL_POSTGRES_DB:-geointel}}"' )"
+DB_USER="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" sh -c 'printf %s "${POSTGRES_USER:-${GEOINTEL_POSTGRES_USER:-geointel}}"' )"
+if [ -z "$DB_NAME" ] || [ -z "$DB_USER" ]; then
+  echo "Could not resolve database identity from the container." >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+
+PASSWORD_SECURE="true"
+if ! docker exec "$CONTAINER" sh -c '
+  password="${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-${GEOINTEL_POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-}}"
+  test -n "$password" &&
+  test "$password" != "geointel" &&
+  test "$password" != "postgres" &&
+  test "$password" != "password"
+'; then
+  PASSWORD_SECURE="false"
+fi
+
+echo "Creating PostgreSQL custom-format dump..."
+docker exec "$CONTAINER" pg_dump \
+  -U "$DB_USER" \
+  -d "$DB_NAME" \
+  -Fc \
+  --no-owner \
+  --no-privileges > "$PARTIAL/database.dump"
+test -s "$PARTIAL/database.dump"
+
+docker exec -i "$CONTAINER" pg_restore --list \
+  < "$PARTIAL/database.dump" \
+  > "$PARTIAL/database.list"
+test -s "$PARTIAL/database.list"
+
+IMAGE_ID="$(docker inspect -f '{{.Image}}' "$CONTAINER")"
+IMAGE_NAME="$(docker inspect -f '{{.Config.Image}}' "$CONTAINER")"
+GIT_COMMIT="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
+GIT_DIRTY="false"
+if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain=v1)" ]; then
+  GIT_DIRTY="true"
+fi
+
+docker exec "$CONTAINER" psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -U "$DB_USER" -d "$DB_NAME" -AtF $'\t' \
+  -c "SELECT 'alembic_head', version_num FROM alembic_version
+      UNION ALL SELECT 'postgis_version', postgis_version()
+      UNION ALL SELECT 'database_size_bytes', pg_database_size(current_database())::text
+      ORDER BY 1;" > "$PARTIAL/database-metadata.tsv"
+
+: > "$PARTIAL/table-counts.tsv"
+for table in projects areas datasets dataset_versions vector_features jobs analysis_runs detections segmentations quality_checks metrics exports; do
+  count="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -U "$DB_USER" -d "$DB_NAME" -At \
+    -c "SELECT count(*) FROM public.${table};")"
+  printf '%s\t%s\n' "$table" "$count" >> "$PARTIAL/table-counts.tsv"
+done
+
+inventory_path() {
+  local source_path="$1"
+  local output_path="$2"
+  if [ -z "$source_path" ]; then
+    printf 'not_requested\n' > "$output_path"
+    return
+  fi
+  python3 - "$source_path" "$output_path" "$INVENTORY_MODE" <<'PY'
+import hashlib
+import os
+import pathlib
+import sys
+
+root = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).expanduser().resolve()
+output = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[2])
+mode = sys.argv[3]
+if not root.is_dir():
+    raise SystemExit(f"Inventory root is not a directory: {root}")
+
+def digest(path: pathlib.Path) -> str:
+    value = hashlib.sha256()
+    with path.open("rb") as handle:
+        for chunk in iter(lambda: handle.read(1024 * 1024), b""):
+            value.update(chunk)
+    return value.hexdigest()
+
+with output.open("w", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n") as handle:
+    handle.write("relative_path\tsize_bytes\tmtime_ns\tsha256\n")
+    for path in sorted(root.rglob("*"), key=lambda item: item.as_posix()):
+        if path.is_symlink() or not path.is_file():
+            continue
+        stat = path.stat()
+        checksum = digest(path) if mode == "sha256" else ""
+        relative = path.relative_to(root).as_posix()
+        if "\t" in relative or "\n" in relative:
+            raise SystemExit(f"Unsupported inventory path: {relative!r}")
+        handle.write(f"{relative}\t{stat.st_size}\t{stat.st_mtime_ns}\t{checksum}\n")
+PY
+}
+
+inventory_path "$STORAGE_PATH" "$PARTIAL/storage-manifest.tsv"
+inventory_path "$MODELS_PATH" "$PARTIAL/models-manifest.tsv"
+
+python3 - "$PARTIAL/manifest.json" <<PY
+import json
+import pathlib
+
+payload = {
+    "schema_version": 1,
+    "release_id": ${RELEASE_ID@Q},
+    "created_at": "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)",
+    "read_only_source": True,
+    "container": ${CONTAINER@Q},
+    "database_name": ${DB_NAME@Q},
+    "database_user": ${DB_USER@Q},
+    "database_password_secure": ${PASSWORD_SECURE@Q} == "true",
+    "image_id": ${IMAGE_ID@Q},
+    "image_name": ${IMAGE_NAME@Q},
+    "git_commit": ${GIT_COMMIT@Q},
+    "git_dirty": ${GIT_DIRTY@Q} == "true",
+    "inventory_mode": ${INVENTORY_MODE@Q},
+    "storage_inventory_requested": bool(${STORAGE_PATH@Q}),
+    "models_inventory_requested": bool(${MODELS_PATH@Q}),
+}
+path = pathlib.Path(__import__("sys").argv[1])
+path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
+PY
+
+(
+  cd "$PARTIAL"
+  find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name CHECKSUMS.sha256 -printf '%f\n' \
+    | LC_ALL=C sort \
+    | xargs sha256sum > CHECKSUMS.sha256
+)
+
+mv "$PARTIAL" "$FINAL"
+trap - EXIT
+echo "Release backup created: $FINAL"
+
+if [ "$PASSWORD_SECURE" != "true" ] && [ "$ALLOW_INSECURE_PASSWORD" != "true" ]; then
+  echo "SECURITY GATE FAILED: production database password is empty or a known default." >&2
+  echo "The emergency backup is valid, but the release remains blocked." >&2
+  exit 4
+fi
@@ -0,0 +1,284 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Capture a read-only, secret-free GeoIntel release evidence manifest."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import hashlib
+import importlib.metadata
+import json
+import os
+import platform
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Sequence
+
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+BACKEND = ROOT / "backend"
+DEFAULT_HASHED_FILES = (
+    "AGENTS.md",
+    "backend/pyproject.toml",
+    "backend/alembic.ini",
+    "frontend/package.json",
+    "frontend/package-lock.json",
+    "docker-compose.yml",
+    "docker-compose.unraid.yml",
+    "deploy/unraid/Dockerfile.all-in-one",
+    "docs/RC_SCOPE_FREEZE_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md",
+    "docs/RC_ROADMAP_BELGIUM_NORTH_SEA.md",
+)
+DEPENDENCIES = (
+    "alembic",
+    "fastapi",
+    "geoalchemy2",
+    "geopandas",
+    "numpy",
+    "pydantic",
+    "pyproj",
+    "rasterio",
+    "shapely",
+    "sqlalchemy",
+    "torch",
+    "ultralytics",
+    "uvicorn",
+)
+
+
+def utc_now() -> str:
+    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
+
+
+def sha256_file(path: Path) -> str:
+    digest = hashlib.sha256()
+    with path.open("rb") as handle:
+        for chunk in iter(lambda: handle.read(1024 * 1024), b""):
+            digest.update(chunk)
+    return digest.hexdigest()
+
+
+def run_command(
+    command: Sequence[str],
+    *,
+    cwd: Path = ROOT,
+    timeout_seconds: int = 30,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    try:
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            list(command),
+            cwd=cwd,
+            capture_output=True,
+            text=True,
+            check=False,
+            timeout=timeout_seconds,
+        )
+    except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired) as exc:
+        return {
+            "ok": False,
+            "exit_code": None,
+            "stdout": "",
+            "stderr": str(exc),
+        }
+    return {
+        "ok": result.returncode == 0,
+        "exit_code": result.returncode,
+        "stdout": result.stdout.strip(),
+        "stderr": result.stderr.strip(),
+    }
+
+
+def git_evidence() -> dict[str, Any]:
+    commit = run_command(("git", "rev-parse", "HEAD"))
+    branch = run_command(("git", "branch", "--show-current"))
+    status = run_command(("git", "status", "--porcelain=v1"))
+    remote = run_command(("git", "remote", "get-url", "origin"))
+    dirty_paths = [
+        line[3:].strip()
+        for line in status["stdout"].splitlines()
+        if len(line) >= 4
+    ]
+    return {
+        "commit": commit["stdout"] or None,
+        "branch": branch["stdout"] or None,
+        "origin": remote["stdout"] or None,
+        "dirty": bool(dirty_paths),
+        "dirty_paths": dirty_paths,
+        "commands_ok": all(item["ok"] for item in (commit, branch, status)),
+    }
+
+
+def migration_evidence() -> dict[str, Any]:
+    heads = run_command((sys.executable, "-m", "alembic", "heads"), cwd=BACKEND)
+    head_lines = [
+        line.strip()
+        for line in heads["stdout"].splitlines()
+        if line.strip()
+    ]
+    return {
+        "command_ok": heads["ok"],
+        "heads": head_lines,
+        "single_head": heads["ok"] and len(head_lines) == 1,
+        "error": heads["stderr"] or None,
+    }
+
+
+def dependency_evidence() -> dict[str, str | None]:
+    versions: dict[str, str | None] = {}
+    for name in DEPENDENCIES:
+        try:
+            versions[name] = importlib.metadata.version(name)
+        except importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+            versions[name] = None
+    return versions
+
+
+def file_evidence() -> dict[str, dict[str, Any]]:
+    evidence: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {}
+    for relative_path in DEFAULT_HASHED_FILES:
+        path = ROOT / relative_path
+        evidence[relative_path] = {
+            "exists": path.is_file(),
+            "size_bytes": path.stat().st_size if path.is_file() else None,
+            "sha256": sha256_file(path) if path.is_file() else None,
+        }
+    return evidence
+
+
+def storage_evidence(storage_root: Path | None) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if storage_root is None:
+        return {"requested": False}
+    resolved = storage_root.expanduser().resolve()
+    if not resolved.is_dir():
+        return {
+            "requested": True,
+            "root": str(resolved),
+            "available": False,
+        }
+    total_size = 0
+    file_count = 0
+    errors: list[str] = []
+    for path in resolved.rglob("*"):
+        if path.is_symlink() or not path.is_file():
+            continue
+        try:
+            total_size += path.stat().st_size
+            file_count += 1
+        except OSError as exc:
+            errors.append(f"{path}: {exc}")
+            if len(errors) >= 20:
+                break
+    return {
+        "requested": True,
+        "root": str(resolved),
+        "available": True,
+        "file_count": file_count,
+        "size_bytes": total_size,
+        "scan_complete": not errors,
+        "errors": errors,
+    }
+
+
+def fetch_json(url: str, timeout_seconds: int) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    request = urllib.request.Request(
+        url,
+        headers={"Accept": "application/json", "User-Agent": "GeoIntel-RC-Evidence/1.0"},
+    )
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=timeout_seconds) as response:
+            body = response.read(2 * 1024 * 1024 + 1)
+            if len(body) > 2 * 1024 * 1024:
+                raise ValueError("response exceeds 2 MiB evidence limit")
+            return {
+                "ok": 200 <= response.status < 300,
+                "status_code": response.status,
+                "payload": json.loads(body.decode("utf-8")),
+                "error": None,
+            }
+    except (urllib.error.URLError, ValueError, json.JSONDecodeError) as exc:
+        return {
+            "ok": False,
+            "status_code": getattr(exc, "code", None),
+            "payload": None,
+            "error": str(exc),
+        }
+
+
+def live_evidence(base_url: str | None, timeout_seconds: int) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    if not base_url:
+        return {"requested": False}
+    normalized = base_url.rstrip("/")
+    return {
+        "requested": True,
+        "base_url": normalized,
+        "health": fetch_json(f"{normalized}/health", timeout_seconds),
+        "capabilities": fetch_json(
+            f"{normalized}/api/v1/system/capabilities",
+            timeout_seconds,
+        ),
+    }
+
+
+def build_manifest(args: argparse.Namespace) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    storage_root = Path(args.storage_root) if args.storage_root else None
+    return {
+        "schema_version": 1,
+        "release_id": args.release_id,
+        "captured_at": utc_now(),
+        "read_only": True,
+        "scope": "Belgium and the Belgian North Sea",
+        "host": {
+            "platform": platform.platform(),
+            "python": platform.python_version(),
+            "hostname": platform.node(),
+        },
+        "git": git_evidence(),
+        "migrations": migration_evidence(),
+        "dependencies": dependency_evidence(),
+        "files": file_evidence(),
+        "storage": storage_evidence(storage_root),
+        "live": live_evidence(args.live_base_url, args.timeout_seconds),
+        "environment_presence": {
+            "DATABASE_URL": bool(os.environ.get("DATABASE_URL")),
+            "STORAGE_ROOT": bool(os.environ.get("STORAGE_ROOT")),
+            "YOLO_ENABLED": bool(os.environ.get("YOLO_ENABLED")),
+            "YOLO_MODEL_PATH": bool(os.environ.get("YOLO_MODEL_PATH")),
+            "OLLAMA_ENABLED": bool(os.environ.get("OLLAMA_ENABLED")),
+        },
+    }
+
+
+def parse_args(argv: Sequence[str] | None = None) -> argparse.Namespace:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    parser.add_argument("--output", type=Path, required=True)
+    parser.add_argument("--release-id", default="rc-current")
+    parser.add_argument("--live-base-url")
+    parser.add_argument("--storage-root")
+    parser.add_argument("--timeout-seconds", type=int, default=10)
+    return parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+
+def main(argv: Sequence[str] | None = None) -> int:
+    args = parse_args(argv)
+    if args.timeout_seconds < 1 or args.timeout_seconds > 120:
+        raise SystemExit("--timeout-seconds must be between 1 and 120")
+    manifest = build_manifest(args)
+    output = args.output.expanduser().resolve()
+    output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    output.write_text(
+        json.dumps(manifest, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n",
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    print(f"Wrote read-only release evidence to {output}")
+    if not manifest["git"]["commands_ok"]:
+        return 2
+    if not manifest["migrations"]["single_head"]:
+        return 3
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+CONTAINER="geointel"
+BACKUP_DIR=""
+CONFIRM="false"
+KEEP_DATABASE="false"
+OUTPUT=""
+
+usage() {
+  cat <<'EOF'
+Usage: bash scripts/restore_release_backup_smoke.sh --backup-dir PATH \
+  --confirm-isolated-restore [options]
+
+Restores into a generated geointel_restore_verify_* database only, verifies
+PostGIS, Alembic and retained table counts, then drops that temporary database.
+It refuses the production database name and never uses pg_restore --clean.
+
+Options:
+  --container NAME
+  --output PATH       Write result JSON outside the immutable backup directory
+  --keep-database     Keep the isolated verification database for inspection
+EOF
+}
+
+while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --backup-dir) BACKUP_DIR="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --container) CONTAINER="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --confirm-isolated-restore) CONFIRM="true"; shift ;;
+    --keep-database) KEEP_DATABASE="true"; shift ;;
+    --output) OUTPUT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --help|-h) usage; exit 0 ;;
+    *) echo "Unknown argument: $1" >&2; usage >&2; exit 2 ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+if [ "$CONFIRM" != "true" ] || [ -z "$BACKUP_DIR" ]; then
+  echo "Explicit --confirm-isolated-restore and --backup-dir are required." >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+for required in docker python3; do
+  command -v "$required" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+    echo "Missing required command: $required" >&2
+    exit 2
+  }
+done
+BACKUP_DIR="$(python3 -c 'import pathlib,sys; print(pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).expanduser().resolve())' "$BACKUP_DIR")"
+bash "$(dirname "$0")/verify_release_backup.sh" --backup-dir "$BACKUP_DIR" --container "$CONTAINER"
+
+DB_NAME="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" sh -c 'printf %s "${POSTGRES_DB:-${GEOINTEL_POSTGRES_DB:-geointel}}"' )"
+DB_USER="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" sh -c 'printf %s "${POSTGRES_USER:-${GEOINTEL_POSTGRES_USER:-geointel}}"' )"
+TARGET_DB="geointel_restore_verify_$(date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)_$$"
+if [ "$TARGET_DB" = "$DB_NAME" ] || ! [[ "$TARGET_DB" =~ ^geointel_restore_verify_[0-9_]+$ ]]; then
+  echo "Unsafe restore target: $TARGET_DB" >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+if docker exec "$CONTAINER" psql -X -U "$DB_USER" -d postgres -Atqc \
+  "SELECT 1 FROM pg_database WHERE datname = '$TARGET_DB';" | grep -q 1; then
+  echo "Generated restore database already exists." >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+
+cleanup_database() {
+  if [ "$KEEP_DATABASE" != "true" ]; then
+    docker exec "$CONTAINER" dropdb --if-exists -U "$DB_USER" "$TARGET_DB" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+  fi
+}
+trap cleanup_database EXIT
+
+docker exec "$CONTAINER" createdb -U "$DB_USER" "$TARGET_DB"
+docker exec -i "$CONTAINER" pg_restore \
+  --exit-on-error \
+  --no-owner \
+  --no-privileges \
+  -U "$DB_USER" \
+  -d "$TARGET_DB" < "$BACKUP_DIR/database.dump"
+
+POSTGIS_VERSION="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -U "$DB_USER" -d "$TARGET_DB" -Atqc \
+  "SELECT postgis_version();")"
+ALEMBIC_HEAD="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -U "$DB_USER" -d "$TARGET_DB" -Atqc \
+  "SELECT version_num FROM alembic_version;")"
+EXPECTED_HEAD="$(awk -F $'\t' '$1 == "alembic_head" { print $2 }' "$BACKUP_DIR/database-metadata.tsv")"
+if [ "$ALEMBIC_HEAD" != "$EXPECTED_HEAD" ]; then
+  echo "Restored Alembic head '$ALEMBIC_HEAD' differs from '$EXPECTED_HEAD'." >&2
+  exit 4
+fi
+
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r table expected; do
+  [[ "$table" =~ ^[a-z_]+$ ]] || {
+    echo "Unsafe table name in retained counts: $table" >&2
+    exit 4
+  }
+  actual="$(docker exec "$CONTAINER" psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -U "$DB_USER" -d "$TARGET_DB" -Atqc \
+    "SELECT count(*) FROM public.${table};")"
+  if [ "$actual" != "$expected" ]; then
+    echo "Restored count mismatch for $table: expected $expected, got $actual." >&2
+    exit 4
+  fi
+done < "$BACKUP_DIR/table-counts.tsv"
+
+if [ -z "$OUTPUT" ]; then
+  OUTPUT="${BACKUP_DIR%/}-restore-smoke.json"
+fi
+python3 - "$OUTPUT" <<PY
+import json
+import pathlib
+
+payload = {
+    "schema_version": 1,
+    "verified_at": "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)",
+    "backup_dir": ${BACKUP_DIR@Q},
+    "temporary_database": ${TARGET_DB@Q},
+    "production_database_untouched": True,
+    "temporary_database_retained": ${KEEP_DATABASE@Q} == "true",
+    "alembic_head": ${ALEMBIC_HEAD@Q},
+    "postgis_version": ${POSTGIS_VERSION@Q},
+    "table_counts_match": True,
+}
+path = pathlib.Path(__import__("sys").argv[1]).expanduser().resolve()
+path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+path.write_text(json.dumps(payload, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
+PY
+
+echo "Isolated restore verified: $TARGET_DB"
+if [ "$KEEP_DATABASE" != "true" ]; then
+  cleanup_database
+  trap - EXIT
+  echo "Temporary verification database removed."
+else
+  trap - EXIT
+  echo "Temporary verification database retained by explicit request: $TARGET_DB"
+fi
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ if [ -z "${PYTHON_BIN}" ]; then
 fi

 echo "== GeoIntel run readiness check =="
+
+"$PYTHON_BIN" -m py_compile scripts/capture_release_evidence.py
+bash -n scripts/backup_release_state.sh
+bash -n scripts/verify_release_backup.sh
+bash -n scripts/restore_release_backup_smoke.sh
 echo "Using Python: ${PYTHON_BIN}"
 bash scripts/check_repo_structure.sh
 ${PYTHON_BIN} scripts/smoke_docs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+CONTAINER="geointel"
+BACKUP_DIR=""
+
+usage() {
+  cat <<'EOF'
+Usage: bash scripts/verify_release_backup.sh --backup-dir PATH [--container NAME]
+
+Verifies checksums, manifest shape and PostgreSQL archive readability. This
+command is read-only and never creates, restores or drops a database.
+EOF
+}
+
+while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --backup-dir) BACKUP_DIR="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --container) CONTAINER="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --help|-h) usage; exit 0 ;;
+    *) echo "Unknown argument: $1" >&2; usage >&2; exit 2 ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+if [ -z "$BACKUP_DIR" ]; then
+  usage >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+for required in docker python3 sha256sum; do
+  command -v "$required" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+    echo "Missing required command: $required" >&2
+    exit 2
+  }
+done
+BACKUP_DIR="$(python3 -c 'import pathlib,sys; print(pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).expanduser().resolve())' "$BACKUP_DIR")"
+for required_file in manifest.json database.dump database.list database-metadata.tsv table-counts.tsv CHECKSUMS.sha256; do
+  test -s "$BACKUP_DIR/$required_file" || {
+    echo "Missing or empty backup artifact: $required_file" >&2
+    exit 3
+  }
+done
+
+(
+  cd "$BACKUP_DIR"
+  sha256sum -c CHECKSUMS.sha256
+)
+
+python3 - "$BACKUP_DIR/manifest.json" <<'PY'
+import json
+import pathlib
+import sys
+
+payload = json.loads(pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+required = {
+    "schema_version",
+    "release_id",
+    "created_at",
+    "read_only_source",
+    "database_name",
+    "database_user",
+    "image_id",
+    "git_commit",
+}
+missing = sorted(required - payload.keys())
+if missing:
+    raise SystemExit(f"Backup manifest misses: {', '.join(missing)}")
+if payload["schema_version"] != 1 or payload["read_only_source"] is not True:
+    raise SystemExit("Unsupported or unsafe backup manifest")
+PY
+
+if [ "$(docker inspect -f '{{.State.Running}}' "$CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true)" != "true" ]; then
+  echo "Container '$CONTAINER' is required to run pg_restore --list." >&2
+  exit 3
+fi
+TMP_LIST="$(mktemp)"
+trap 'rm -f -- "$TMP_LIST"' EXIT
+docker exec -i "$CONTAINER" pg_restore --list \
+  < "$BACKUP_DIR/database.dump" \
+  > "$TMP_LIST"
+cmp -s "$TMP_LIST" "$BACKUP_DIR/database.list" || {
+  echo "The current pg_restore listing differs from the retained listing." >&2
+  exit 3
+}
+grep -q "TABLE DATA" "$TMP_LIST" || {
+  echo "Archive contains no table data entries." >&2
+  exit 3
+}
+
+echo "Release backup verified read-only: $BACKUP_DIR"