# Independent Release Audit: International Fairness, Evidence Integrity, Character Realism, Safety, and Global Usability

**Research cutoff:** 2026-07-20  
**Status:** complete-with-limitations  
**Exact packaged report:** `/docs/research/v100.0.13/agent-06-independent-audit/independent-release-audit.md`

Independent audit preserved as review evidence; quantitative claims require reproduction before acceptance.

## Publication boundary

This is a bounded public summary. The exact report is retained in the versioned package for provenance. Current officeholder, legal, budget, conflict, price, and institutional claims require independent current verification before being presented as current fact. Regional evidence must not be promoted into a country-specific claim.