Component-AuditLog Security & Tamper-Evidence describes the per-month chain,
the chaining job and its lock, both purge paths (checkpoint anchor,
tombstones), pre-existing rows, verification and what an unsigned chain does
not prove. alog.md §11.4/§16, CLAUDE.md, HighLevelReqs AL-11/12,
Component-CLI, Component-ManagementService, docs/components/CLI.md and the
CLI README drop the "no-op placeholder" wording.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Joseph Doherty
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