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flex-auth asked ops-warden to help close FLEX-WP-0007 T4 (joint OpenBao + policy-gate production smoke) against their deployed runtime (reachable on CoulombCore via the flex-auth-coulombcore tunnel at 127.0.0.1:18090). The smoke previously spawned its own local flex-auth, so it never exercised the deployed runtime. Add FLEX_AUTH_EXTERNAL=1 to scripts/policy_gate_production_smoke.sh: skip the local serve/load-registry and run the allow/deny/vault paths against the already-running flex-auth, with a /healthz precheck that fails fast with a tunnel-up hint. Verified the committed production_registry_snapshot.json is current vs inventory (4 actors). Recorded in ADHOC-2026-06-29. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>