diff --git a/docs/roadmap/audit.md b/docs/roadmap/audit.md
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@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ change only roadmap audit documents do not change that production target.
 
 ## Executive Summary
 
-Pending final synthesis. The initial baseline is healthy, and the architecture
-and dependency-boundary review found one Low documentation finding and no
-production dependency inversion.
+Pending final synthesis. The initial baseline is healthy. The architecture and
+configuration/CLI reviews have found one Medium correctness finding and two
+Low findings, with no production dependency inversion.
 
 ## Finding Index
 
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ Final cross-area ordering is pending synthesis.
 | ID | Severity | Category | Title |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | ARCH-001 | Low | Documentation/Comments | Repair broken ADR cross-references |
+| CFGCLI-001 | Medium | Correctness | Reject additional YAML documents |
+| CFGCLI-002 | Low | Correctness | Reject a blank command-level LLM profile |
 
 ## Findings
 
@@ -57,6 +59,63 @@ Final cross-area ordering is pending synthesis.
   edits.
 - **Grouping:** Independent.
 
+### Configuration And CLI Composition
+
+### CFGCLI-001 — Reject additional YAML documents
+
+- **Severity:** Medium
+- **Category:** Correctness
+- **Evidence:** `internal/core/config/file_config.go:327`–`353`
+  constructs a `yaml.Decoder`, enables `KnownFields`, and calls `Decode` only
+  once. `yaml.Decoder.Decode` reads the next YAML document, so input such as a
+  valid version 4 configuration followed by `---` and another configuration is
+  accepted with the second document ignored. The strict file tests in
+  `internal/core/config/file_config_contract_test.go` cover malformed values,
+  unknown fields, and duplicate normalized identifiers, but not an additional
+  document.
+- **Impact:** An operator can append a syntactically valid configuration
+  document, receive a successful validation result, and then run with only the
+  first document. Settings in the ignored document—including operational or
+  pipeline settings—have no effect without a diagnostic, contradicting the
+  documented strict single-file model.
+- **Recommendation:** After decoding `FileConfig`, decode once more and require
+  `io.EOF`; reject any second document, including an empty or malformed one,
+  with a contextual configuration error.
+- **Preserve:** Keep version gating before the full strict decode, unknown-field
+  and duplicate-key rejection, and the existing defaults → file → environment
+  precedence unchanged.
+- **Validation:** Add focused parser cases for a second valid document, a
+  second malformed document, and ordinary trailing whitespace/comments; run
+  `go test ./internal/core/config ./internal/cli`.
+- **Grouping:** Independent.
+
+### CFGCLI-002 — Reject a blank command-level LLM profile
+
+- **Severity:** Low
+- **Category:** Correctness
+- **Evidence:** `internal/cli/run.go:149`–`166` registers `--llm-profile` as a
+  plain string flag, while the command's presence-aware empty-value checks
+  cover session ID, reasoning effort, output/debug directories, and recompute
+  step but not this flag. `runPipelineCommand` passes the resulting string to
+  `Config.Resolve`; `internal/framework/pipeline/profile.go:1255`–`1277` trims
+  an empty override and treats it as absent. The run contract tests cover a
+  valid override and an unknown non-empty profile, but not an explicitly
+  supplied blank value.
+- **Impact:** A shell expansion such as `--llm-profile "$PROFILE"` with an
+  unset or blank value succeeds by silently using binding, pipeline, or
+  PromptKit defaults. The run can therefore use a different model/profile than
+  the operator explicitly intended to select.
+- **Recommendation:** Make the CLI flag presence-aware and reject an explicitly
+  supplied empty or whitespace-only profile ID as command syntax before config
+  loading or physical-state allocation.
+- **Preserve:** Keep a genuinely omitted override optional, trim non-empty IDs,
+  retain command → binding → pipeline → PromptKit precedence, and continue to
+  apply overrides only to selected LLM-backed bindings and validators.
+- **Validation:** Add command-contract cases for blank and whitespace-only
+  values that assert exit status 2 and no state allocation, plus retain the
+  valid and unknown-profile run cases; run `go test ./internal/cli`.
+- **Grouping:** Independent.
+
 <!--
 Finding template for later audit stages:
 
@@ -93,6 +152,26 @@ Finding template for later audit stages:
   private erasure. The checks deliberately turn incompatible values into
   errors at each erased boundary rather than permitting a panic or accepting a
   near-matching type, preserving ADR-0003.
+- `internal/cli.runPipelineCommand` is a large linear orchestrator, but its
+  ordering is policy: syntax and config rejection precede run identity and
+  debug allocation; resolution and profile inspection precede module
+  preparation and input parsing; framework success precedes durable output;
+  and terminal debug publication precedes the optional JSON receipt. Existing
+  helpers isolate reference selection, recomputation, stores, output, result
+  encoding, and terminal error precedence. A generic lifecycle abstraction
+  would hide physical-state allocation and publication boundaries; bounded
+  parsing fixes such as CFGCLI-002 should not reorganize that lifecycle.
+- `internal/core/config.validatePipelineProfiles` explicitly walks pipelines,
+  ordered steps, lanes, bindings, and references. Its nested structure mirrors
+  the public configuration shape and retains the nearest pipeline/step/lane
+  context in errors. Replacing it with a reflection-driven validator would
+  weaken those diagnostics and the presence-aware file-model boundary.
+- `internal/cli.selectedReferenceTargets` and `recomputePolicy` perform
+  explicit resolved-shape traversals for distinct CLI policies: disambiguating
+  reference selectors against selected module capabilities, and computing the
+  forward forced/backward reusable checkpoint closure. Keeping these typed
+  traversals separate avoids adding command syntax or checkpoint policy to the
+  framework resolver.
 
 ## Areas Reviewed Without Findings
 
@@ -141,6 +220,62 @@ Finding template for later audit stages:
   evidence rules, workload profile ownership, centralized asset leaf, and
   deterministic entity identity boundary have corresponding current owners.
 
+### Configuration And CLI Composition
+
+- **End-to-end command path:** `RunWithOptions` normalizes injectable process
+  collaborators once and dispatches to `runPipelineCommand`. The run command
+  parses and normalizes command input, discovers and loads configuration,
+  applies command overrides, builds the effective catalog, resolves reference
+  selectors and the pipeline, inspects effective profiles, materializes
+  references, constructs runtime/state collaborators, invokes `pipeline.Run`,
+  publishes output files, terminalizes debug state, and only then publishes a
+  requested JSON receipt.
+- **Precedence and resolution:** `loadConfig` enforces explicit `--config` over
+  `NOTARIUS_CONFIG` over the system default, then applies `Default`, file
+  configuration, supported environment overrides, and run-only CLI overrides
+  in order. `Config.Resolve` recomputes derived worker defaults, validates,
+  clones the selected profile, and delegates catalog-dependent composition to
+  the framework resolver. Apart from CFGCLI-001 and CFGCLI-002, unknown fields,
+  malformed values, normalized-key collisions, unknown command flags, and
+  invalid selected modules/options are rejected at their owning boundary.
+- **Profile-source equality:** Validation-time
+  `validateExplicitPromptKitProfiles` and runtime
+  `buildProductionLLMClient` pass the same profile directory, profile file,
+  mapped local backend, and shared fallback asset registry. Effective profile
+  collection is sorted, deduplicated, and limited to selected LLM-backed
+  modules and validators, so inspection and runtime selection use the resolved
+  profile values rather than recomputing inheritance.
+- **Session identity:** `resolvePromptSessionID` uses a versioned SHA-256 value
+  over the trimmed resolved input-module key, a separator, and exact raw input
+  bytes. It contains no pipeline ID, reference, profile, retry, input path,
+  working directory, or run ID; an explicit non-empty session replaces the
+  generated value. Run contracts verify the same effective session reaches all
+  prompt-facing requests, manifests, debug metadata, and checkpoint identity.
+- **Reference and recomputation controls:** CLI reference selectors are
+  resolved only against selected chunk/extract/merge/normalize capabilities
+  before the authoritative effective resolution. Recompute policy is derived
+  after reference materialization, forces the requested step and transitive
+  consumers, and requires reusable checkpoints for non-forced transitive
+  producers. Focused contract tests exercise selector ambiguity, lane
+  selection, ordered dependency closure, and execution behavior.
+- **Publication and terminal outcomes:** Syntax/config failures before run
+  identity allocate no output or debug state. After debug allocation,
+  resolution, profile, preparation, input, framework, partial-summary, and
+  output failures all pass through `failPipelineCommand`. `terminalize` writes
+  a run report once, preserves an existing primary failure over report/error-log
+  failures, promotes a success-report failure to primary, and reports other
+  persistence failures secondarily. Framework cancellation follows the same
+  wrapped primary-error path. Durable outputs are attempted only after runner
+  success; a JSON result is encoded before output publication but written to
+  stdout only after output and debug terminalization. A receipt-delivery
+  failure leaves already published bundles intact and returns failure.
+- **Test ownership:** Configuration tests own strict file/env application,
+  structural validation, effective cloning/digests, and redaction. CLI command,
+  run, reference, recomputation, session, production, example, result, and state
+  contracts assert process-level ordering and side effects rather than merely
+  repeating lower-level resolver assertions. The two uncovered command/parser
+  cases are recorded as CFGCLI-001 and CFGCLI-002.
+
 ## Validation Record
 
 | Date | Scope | Command or check | Result |
@@ -153,13 +288,17 @@ Finding template for later audit stages:
 | 2026-08-08 | Baseline whitespace | `git diff --check` | Pass |
 | 2026-08-08 | Production imports | Direct `go list` import-edge audit plus graph call tracing | Pass; no production dependency inversion found |
 | 2026-08-08 | Accepted ADR links | Relative Markdown-link target scan under `docs/adr/` | Two unresolved targets recorded as ARCH-001 |
+| 2026-08-08 | Audit target integrity before configuration/CLI review | `git diff --quiet 92e89076a268089e703978fb9d7176200e93344c..HEAD -- . ':(exclude)docs/roadmap/**'` | Pass; production target unchanged |
+| 2026-08-08 | YAML decoder contract | `go doc gopkg.in/yaml.v3.Decoder.Decode` and `ParseFileConfigYAML` call trace | Decode consumes the next document; no EOF/second-document check, recorded as CFGCLI-001 |
+| 2026-08-08 | Focused configuration and CLI tests | `go test ./internal/core/config ./internal/cli` | Pass |
+| 2026-08-08 | Focused configuration and CLI static analysis | `go vet ./internal/core/config ./internal/cli` | Pass |
 
 ## Coverage Matrix
 
 | Audit area | Status | Packages and documents inspected | Validation run | Finding IDs |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | Architecture and dependency boundaries | Reviewed | Architecture, documentation, and testing policies; internal overview; accepted ADRs; `internal/cli/catalog.go`; production registrars; root `assets` package; representative pipeline, typed-codec, output, and state-owner symbols | Full baseline, fresh graph, direct import map, cross-layer call traces, ADR link scan | ARCH-001 |
-| Configuration and CLI composition | Pending | — | — | — |
+| Configuration and CLI composition | Reviewed | `docs/config.md`, `docs/cli.md`, `docs/operations.md`, internal configuration/CLI docs; `internal/core/config/`; CLI run, catalog, session, profile, result, and terminal owners; focused config, command, run, reference, recomputation, session, production, example, result, and state tests | Target-integrity check, graph call/data-owner traces, YAML decoder contract, focused tests and vet | CFGCLI-001, CFGCLI-002 |
 | Pipeline resolution, preparation, and typed registries | Pending | — | — | — |
 | References and ordered handoffs | Pending | — | — | — |
 | Execution, validation, retry, and concurrency | Pending | — | — | — |