{
  "schema": "kairos-mn-vpn-testing/v1",
  "evidence_cutoff": "2026-08-27",
  "canonical_url": "https://kairos-war-room.leematulis.com/vpn-testing/",
  "study_scope": {
    "users": 1,
    "platform": "macOS",
    "primary_network": "iPhone hotspot",
    "proves": ["defect existence", "candidate mechanisms", "next sizing queries"],
    "does_not_prove": ["prevalence", "demand", "causality", "retained value"]
  },
  "verdict": {
    "priority": "protection truth and deterministic recovery",
    "strength": "STRONG",
    "feasibility": "MEDIUM",
    "standalone_asymmetry": "WEAK",
    "opportunity_board": "provisional #5 challenger inside #2 Retention Economics; not promoted"
  },
  "related_opportunity": {
    "name": "Delight",
    "canonical_url": "https://kairos-war-room.leematulis.com/delight/",
    "relationship": "This field evidence feeds Delight's detect → contain → recover → verify loop.",
    "status": "working opportunity inside #2 Retention Economics; bounded pilot only; not independently promoted"
  },
  "observations": {
    "crashes": {
      "count": 2,
      "signature": "EXC_BAD_ACCESS/SIGSEGV at 0x48; same first 18 faulting frames"
    },
    "state_truth": [
      "false Connected after provider failure",
      "false Disconnected while tunnel active",
      "normal app quit left provider and tunnel active",
      "total Wi-Fi loss retained stale Connected state and blackholed traffic; provider recovered when Wi-Fi returned"
    ],
    "performance": {
      "direct": {"download_mbps": 26.9, "upload_mbps": 34.6, "base_rtt_ms": 83.5, "rpm": 55.3},
      "vilnius_residential": {"download_mbps": 23.6, "upload_mbps": 23.3, "base_rtt_ms": 141.7, "rpm": 9.0},
      "scope": "one same-hotspot A/B run"
    }
  },
  "next_gates": [
    "peer-only failure reproduction while Wi-Fi stays healthy",
    "crash label-versus-blank-row reproduction and longer connected observation",
    "calibrated datacenter-versus-residential blocked-site job",
    "forced-interruption IPv4/IPv6/DNS leak test",
    "warehouse incident-to-support/churn/LTV/retained-value join",
    "feature-flagged one-platform pilot"
  ],
  "dates": {
    "provisional_memo": "2026-09-08",
    "renewal_recommendation": "2026-09-15",
    "next_charge": "2026-09-20"
  },
  "review": {
    "writer": "Talos",
    "reviewer": "Talos self-review",
    "fable_review": false,
    "reason": "Claude Fable 5 quota unavailable until 2026-08-29"
  }
}