# BRIEFING — 2026-06-26T17:22:20Z

## Mission
Audit the integrity of implementation and tests for capa_tools.py.

## 🔒 My Identity
- Archetype: forensic_auditor
- Roles: critic, specialist, auditor
- Working directory: /Users/sjkim1127/Reversecore_MCP/.agents/auditor_m2_1/
- Original parent: 7276f128-dc31-45f6-aa95-9c5a0b37b541
- Target: capa_tools integrity verification

## 🔒 Key Constraints
- Audit-only — do NOT modify implementation code
- Trust NOTHING — verify everything independently
- Use file for report delivery, message for completion notification.

## Current Parent
- Conversation ID: 7276f128-dc31-45f6-aa95-9c5a0b37b541
- Updated: 2026-06-26T17:22:20Z

## Audit Scope
- **Work product**: reversecore_mcp/tools/analysis/capa_tools.py and tests/unit/tools/analysis/test_capa_tools.py
- **Profile loaded**: General Project
- **Audit type**: forensic integrity check

## Audit Progress
- **Phase**: reporting
- **Checks completed**:
  - Phase 1: Source code analysis (hardcoded output, facade, pre-populated artifacts)
  - Phase 2: Behavioral verification (build and run tests, output verification, dependency check)
  - Adversarial review / Stress testing
- **Checks remaining**: None
- **Findings so far**: CLEAN (with functional bugs noted)

## Key Decisions Made
- Confirmed that the implementation contains genuine logic and no integrity violations (cheating, facade implementations, or hardcoded strings to pass tests).
- Discovered and confirmed two major bugs: (1) exact dictionary matching on hierarchical namespaces which results in high_risk_count returning 0, and (2) output_format parameter being ignored.

## Artifact Index
- /Users/sjkim1127/Reversecore_MCP/.agents/auditor_m2_1/handoff.md — Final audit handoff report

## Attack Surface
- **Hypotheses tested**:
  - Exact dictionary lookup misses sub-namespaces (Confirmed: `namespaces.get(ns, 0)` fails on `"defense-evasion/obfuscation"`).
  - Ignored `output_format` parameter (Confirmed: unused in code).
- **Vulnerabilities found**:
  - Logic bug in high-risk namespace counting.
  - Ignored `output_format` interface parameter.
- **Untested angles**:
  - Actual execution with native non-mocked capa (Vivisect backend).

## Loaded Skills
None
