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@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Justin's own deployment — the one holding the Paul/Reier family tree:
 
 Health check (no auth): `curl https://provenance.paul.farm/health`.
 
-Known drift: that endpoint currently reports `"env":"development"` — the host's
-`.env` never set `APP_ENV=production`. It is informational only (`app_env` is
-reported by `/health` and `/api/v1/admin`; it gates no behavior), but it should
-be corrected on the host.
+It reports `"env":"production"` — the host's `.env` sets `APP_ENV=production`
+(corrected 2026-09-20; it had been left at the `.env.example` default). `app_env`
+is informational: `/health` and `/api/v1/admin` report it, nothing branches on it.