diff --git a/STATUS.md b/STATUS.md
index 6e35ecc..bed6cfd 100644
--- a/STATUS.md
+++ b/STATUS.md
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ askari.)
 
 | Thing | State |
 |---|---|
-| `roles/integration_test/` | **Built** — installs/enables libvirt+QEMU+virtinst on `control` group hosts; adds `sjat`/`claude` to `libvirt` group; creates image-cache dir; drops the driver. Molecule + pytest clean. |
-| `scripts/integration-vm.py` | **Built** — stdlib-only lifecycle driver over `virsh`/`virt-install`/`cloud-localds`: `up / apply / reboot / assert / cycle / reset / down / prune / console`. Lazily ensures the golden Debian-13 genericcloud image. pytest clean (transient-inventory generation, var/overlay merge, `--certs` mapping, DHCP-lease parsing, resource-guard math). |
-| `tests/integration/` (profile, verify, overrides) | **Built** — "be askari" profile + var overlay + `verify.yml` outcome assertions (Docker up, published-port DNAT, nft sane, `wt0` up). pytest clean. |
+| `roles/integration_test/` | **Built** — installs/enables libvirt+QEMU+virtinst on `control` group hosts; adds `sjat`/`claude` to `libvirt` group; creates image-cache dir. Lint clean; applied live to ubongo (substrate installed); molecule scenario present, not run in the build env. |
+| `scripts/integration-vm.py` | **Built** — stdlib-only lifecycle driver over `virsh`/`virt-install`/`cloud-localds`: `up / apply / reboot / assert / cycle / down / prune / console`. Lazily ensures the golden Debian-13 genericcloud image. pytest clean (transient-inventory generation, var/overlay merge, `--certs` mapping, DHCP-lease parsing, resource-guard math). |
+| `tests/integration/` (profile, verify, overrides) | **Built** — "be askari" profile + var overlay + `verify.yml` outcome assertions (Docker active, forward-chain accepts present, published-port DNAT alive). Validated end-to-end by the RED→GREEN acceptance run. |
 | `make test-integration` / `make test-integration-clean` | **Built** — wired into `Makefile`. |
 | ADR-025 | **Accepted (2026-06-18)** — decision recorded, approach A, cert tiers, safety invariants, UEFI boot requirement, and claude-sudo dependency documented. |
 | **RED/GREEN acceptance (ubongo live pass)** | **PASSED (2026-06-18).** A throwaway KVM VM on ubongo reproduced the 2026-06-17 incident (base nftables forward default-deny kills Docker forwarding on reboot) = RED. Applying the `docker_host` container-forward drop-in and rebooting survived = GREEN. Nine shakedown findings captured in `docs/FRICTION.md`; key learnings (UEFI boot, claude sudo) recorded in ADR-025. `docs/TODO.md` item 2.4 closed. |
diff --git a/docs/decisions/015-control-host.md b/docs/decisions/015-control-host.md
index 58d58eb..78e0da5 100644
--- a/docs/decisions/015-control-host.md
+++ b/docs/decisions/015-control-host.md
@@ -98,7 +98,12 @@ Manual, on bare metal:
   account/key can be revoked without touching the operator's access. (ADR-021 left the
   on-`ubongo` agent identity unspecified; this records it.)
 
-  **Amendment (2026-06-18) — `claude` now has `NOPASSWD:ALL` sudo.** During the
+  **Amendment (2026-06-18) — `claude` now has `NOPASSWD:ALL` sudo.**
+  > **Superseded by [ADR-025](025-local-vm-integration-testing.md)** (per ADR-023 §4): the
+  > "no local sudo" sub-decision is reversed. The shakedown that necessitated it is ADR-025;
+  > the resulting two-account access model is ADR-021; the accepted risk is R7.
+
+  During the
   integration-testing harness shakedown, the original "no local sudo" sub-decision was
   reversed. No-sudo blocked the AI-worker from diagnosing a failed VM: `virsh`,
   `virt-install`, `cloud-localds`, `journalctl`, `nft` — nearly all low-level
diff --git a/docs/decisions/025-local-vm-integration-testing.md b/docs/decisions/025-local-vm-integration-testing.md
index ae42f99..fd58b52 100644
--- a/docs/decisions/025-local-vm-integration-testing.md
+++ b/docs/decisions/025-local-vm-integration-testing.md
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ The nine full shakedown findings (including the UEFI boot-loop) are in
 
 - ADR-006 — Terraform owns production VM existence (boundary this ADR respects).
 - ADR-008 — Testing methodology (Levels 1–4); this ADR is the concrete build of Level 2/3.
-- ADR-015 — Control host (ubongo); this ADR reconciles "not a hypervisor" with ephemeral test VMs; amended 2026-06-18 for claude sudo.
+- ADR-015 — Control host (ubongo); this ADR reconciles "not a hypervisor" with ephemeral test VMs. **Supersedes** ADR-015's "no local sudo" sub-decision for the AI-worker — the shakedown necessitated `claude` NOPASSWD sudo (ADR-023 §4; access model in ADR-021, risk R7).
 - ADR-016 — Mesh VPN; the "be askari" profile includes the coordinator role.
 - ADR-020 — Firewall strategy; firewall × Docker interaction is what this harness tests.
 - ADR-021 — Operational access; sudo model for `claude` and `sjat` on `ubongo`.
diff --git a/roles/integration_test/README.md b/roles/integration_test/README.md
index e978e85..22609e2 100644
--- a/roles/integration_test/README.md
+++ b/roles/integration_test/README.md
@@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ the tooling needed to spin up short-lived test VMs (see ADR-015).
 
 ## Related decisions
 
-- [ADR-025](../../docs/decisions/025-integration-testing.md) — local VM integration testing
+- [ADR-025](../../docs/decisions/025-local-vm-integration-testing.md) — local VM integration testing
 - [ADR-015](../../docs/decisions/015-control-host.md) — control host scope (ubongo is not a hypervisor)
diff --git a/scripts/integration-vm.py b/scripts/integration-vm.py
index 417c1e7..b5ec90e 100644
--- a/scripts/integration-vm.py
+++ b/scripts/integration-vm.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import json
 import os
 import pathlib
 import re
-import shutil
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import time