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Summary

Upgrades k8s-aibom from v1.3.0 to v1.5.1 and makes the component a recipe-level opt-in across stock GKE recipes: aicr recipe --runtime-inventory enabled can now add it to a GKE recipe that neither declares nor declines it, where previously it could only confirm an existing declaration.

Motivation / Context

Part of: #2962
Related: #2271 (single stock recipe), #2234 (registry-only adoption), GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-aibom#8

Deliberately Part of rather than Fixes. This delivers the mechanism and the first two "Done when" criteria, but #2962's third criterion asks for an ADR-019 amendment plus qualification evidence, and three pieces of that are genuinely not here:

• API-server cost — not measured. Controller cost is (2m CPU / 21MiB against 50m/128Mi requests); the API-server side of the watch load is not.
• A measured rollback — not performed. The upgrade direction is measured end to end on live GKE; v1.5.1 → v1.3.0 is not.
• Managed-GKE evidence per workload/platform combination — covered by render and validate across all 8 grantable leaves, but live-cluster evidence exists for one combination, not each.

The ADR-019 amendment is a separate matter: it is not an oversight but a convention call, explained under "What this supersedes" below. Uninstall behaviour is covered (owner-ref cleanup verified live, and CRDs outlive helm uninstall as ownsCRDs implies).

Leaving #2962 open so the remaining evidence lands against it deliberately, rather than auto-closing the issue on merge.

The two halves are one change, not a convenience bundle. v1.5.1 fixes pod-to-workload attribution: it was selector-based, so in a namespace with overlapping selectors and a shared container name, one workload's image digest could land in another workload's BOM — including, adversarially, a digest planted by anything with pod-create in an opted-in namespace. Today that is contained: one stock recipe ships the component and namespace observation is opt-in. This PR is precisely what widens that blast radius, from 1 GKE recipe to 19. So the fix is a precondition for the expansion, not a coincidence of timing, and every qualification claim below is against v1.5.1 only.

What this supersedes, and why there is no ADR amendment

ADR-019 decided registry-only adoption scoped to a single stock recipe (h100-gke-cos-inference). That decision stands as a point-in-time record and is deliberately not edited — ADRs here record what was decided and when; editing one hides that the thinking moved. This PR description is the record of the change.

What changes:

• Eligibility is now criteria.service == gke. Not an allowlist, not overlay-chain inspection.
• Defaults are untouched. h100-gke-cos-inference still ships the component by default; no other recipe gains it without an explicit flag.
• An explicit recipe decline still outranks the flag, on any service. h100-gke-cos-inference-dynamo keeps its decline because k8s-aibom alongside grove and dynamo-platform is a combination nothing has qualified. Its comment previously said "Remove this ref when adoption widens past the single recipe" — that instruction was written against a premise that has now changed, and following it would have shipped an unqualified stack. The ref stays; the comment now says why it is permanent-until-qualified.
• Code comments citing ADR-019's single-recipe scope as current are corrected to name Make AI BOM a recipe-level opt-in across all GKE recipes #2962 as the superseding decision. ADR-019 is still cited as the origin.

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Documentation update
• Refactoring (no functional changes)
• Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

• CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
• API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
• Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
• Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
• Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
• Validator (pkg/validator)
• Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
• Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)
• Other: recipes/registry.yaml, recipes/components/k8s-aibom/, recipes/checks/k8s-aibom/

Implementation Notes

The grant. applyRuntimeInventoryMode gains one branch: when mode is enabled, the component is absent, and the service is GKE, it injects a ComponentRef built from the registry entry via ApplyRegistryDefaults — so chart, source and version come from the pin, never from literals. deploymentOrder needed no new code: it is derived by TopologicalSort over ComponentRefs, and applyBuildConfig already recomputes it.

The decline guard is untouched and still reads before any override is written, which matters because setComponentOverride writes the same install key an overlay uses to decline — writing first would clobber the overlay's decision and a post-write check would only read back what it just wrote.

Artifact identity, verified from two directions. The chart's rendered image equals crane digest of tag v1.5.1, and both the image digest (sha256:7b027315…) and chart digest (sha256:a417e059…) match what upstream states on k8s-aibom#8. SLSA provenance and SBOM verified bound to that digest with the identity anchored to ^https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-aibom/ — an unconstrained cosign verify proves nothing.

We are jumping two minors, not one. Upstream's "the delta is exactly the two fixes" describes v1.5.0 → v1.5.1. From v1.3.0 we also inherit v1.4.0 and v1.5.0, including an entire Sigstore/Rekor model-signature verification subsystem.

The verification block is deliberately left unset. Absent or disabled reproduces pre-v1.5.0 behaviour exactly, which is what ADR-019's secure-inactive-by-default rule asks for. This is recorded as a decision in values.yaml, not an omission. Worth a follow-up: upstream notes a self-hosted Sigstore trust root is an implicit signer-identity constraint, so trustRootMode=tufMirror against AICR's own TUF repo would yield meaningful verified results with zero identity configuration. That needs its own qualification.

Upgrade record

k8s-aibom is ownsCRDs: true and had no ADR-021 record. One is added, verdict manual. The CRD delta is additive-only (188 lines added, 0 removed — an optional verification field) with served/storage versions identical across both charts, which is why it is not blocked.

It is not safe, and the reason is structural rather than evidentiary: safe must not carry steps (pkg/upgrade/wellformed.go:132), and this transition has real ones. No amount of live evidence could have moved it, which means the record's first draft — which framed the verdict as pending the UAT lanes — was giving the wrong reason. That is corrected.

The live run then corrected the record's substance, not just its framing. Executing the boundary on GKE turned up three things the record had wrong:

Path	CRDs	Measured result
default values (what AICR ships)	stale v1.3.0	deployed, controller 1/1 Ready on v1.5.1
config.verification set	stale v1.3.0	UPGRADE FAILED, release failed, Deployment already advanced
config.verification set	v1.5.1 applied first	deployed, field stored

1. apply-new-crds was unconditional for helmfile. It is needed only when the upgrade sets config.verification; a default-values bump upgrades cleanly on every deployer. Now conditional.
2. verify-crd-update asserted storedVersions == v1beta1 — which reads v1beta1 in both the clean and the stranded case, so it could never distinguish them. It now checks for the spec.verification field the v1.5.1 schema adds. docs/user/component-catalog.md carried the same mistake and is corrected.
3. The failure mechanism was described as the API server rejecting an unknown field. It is actually helm failing while building the server-side-apply patch, and it aborts after the Deployment has rolled to v1.5.1. Notably it is not silent pruning — that was the hypothesis worth ruling out, and it was ruled out explicitly.

The helmfile/default arm asymmetry is still real: AICR's bundles cover helm (generated apply-crds.sh), flux (spec.upgrade.crds: CreateReplace) and Argo CD (crds/ as ordinary manifests); only helmfile has no such path.

Known gap, disclosed rather than papered over. The record's from domain is >=1.3.0 <1.5.1. AICR's first k8s-aibom pin was 1.2.0, and a cluster still on it resolves to unknown rather than guidance. Widening to <1.5.1 would be wrong — it would apply these helmfile CRD steps to the 1.2.0 → 1.3.0 boundary, which crossed the v1alpha1 → v1beta1 storage flip, a data-migration mechanism these steps do not describe. Closing it properly needs a second transition with its own steps. pkg/upgrade/wellformed.go documents that coverage starts at the lowest from floor by design, so the checker is satisfied; this is a deliberate scope call, not an oversight.

Three upstream issues came out of this run, each offering a PR, all accepted and milestoned to v1.6.0 by the maintainer: k8s-aibom#104 (verification silently disabled when the served CRD schema predates the controller, with every health signal green), #105 (the half-applied upgrade above), #106 (no signal distinguishes "opted in, nothing matched" from broken).

A comment whose premise inverted

recipes/checks/k8s-aibom/health-check.yaml asserts the controller config at aibom.k8saibom.dev/v1alpha1, justified by a comment saying 1.3.0 "renders the controller config CR itself at v1alpha1" and instructing "Do not 'fix' the two to match." Chart 1.5.1 renders it at v1beta1. Both versions remain served with storage on v1beta1 in both charts, so the assertion still resolves — but through version serving rather than by matching the rendered object. The comment is corrected and the assertion deliberately stays at v1alpha1: rather than change a deployment-validation assertion on reasoning alone, the shipped check was run against a live GKE cluster on 1.5.1, where it passes 4/4. Keeping it at v1alpha1 also means the check keeps exercising that v1alpha1 is still served, which is what would actually break operators on a future removal.

Testing

make qualify
go test ./pkg/recipe/... -race -count=1
golangci-lint run -c .golangci.yaml ./pkg/recipe/...

make qualify passes clean (test-coverage 85.0% ≥ 83% floor, lint 0 issues under the pinned golangci-lint, e2e, scan, license-check, api-diff, openapi-diff). pkg/recipe coverage: 90.7% → 90.6% (-0.1%), within the per-package threshold.

Render/validate coverage. All 8 grantable GKE leaf recipes × 4 deployers = 32/32 bundles, each carrying only the qualified digest and no other k8s-aibom digest; all 8 pass aicr validate --no-cluster. h100-gke-cos-inference-dynamo correctly rejects the opt-in. (19 GKE overlay files resolve to 9 leaves plus 10 bases; 8 grantable + 1 declining accounts for all 9.)

Unit coverage pins the boundaries that matter: no grant off GKE, no grant on disabled, no grant with nil criteria, the dynamo decline outranking the flag, stock resolution unchanged without the flag, and — added after review — that a granted ref carries the same hydrated health check as a declaring one, byte-for-byte. That last test was mutation-checked: it fails (0 vs 9139 bytes) against the per-ref defaulting form and passes only with the package-level hydration. Each negative test asserts the component was not added, not merely that an error came back — a regression that grants and then errors separately would pass the weaker check.

A pre-open self-review (five-persona) caught a blocker before push. The grant defaulted the ref with the per-ref ApplyRegistryDefaults, which does not hydrate healthCheck.assertFile — so a granted k8s-aibom shipped with no deployment-validation asserts, and the deployment validator skips a component with no asserts rather than failing it. Net effect: the controller being down would have passed validation silently. Fixed by routing through the package-level applyRegistryDefaults(provider, …), which also fixed a second finding in the same line — the grant read the embedded singleton registry instead of the bound DataProvider, so a --data registry override of k8s-aibom was silently discarded (verified: an external pin of 9.9.9/example.invalid now flows through). Both are covered by the new test and reproduced by hand.

Live GKE evidence (v1.35.6-gke.1250000, 3× e2-standard-4 + 2× a3-megagpu-8g):

• The v1.5.1 attribution fix is proven, not assumed. Two Deployments in one namespace both selecting app: shared (so each selector matches both pods) with both containers named app — the exact shape the pre-v1.5.1 selector-based attribution got wrong. workload-alpha's BOM carries only busybox@sha256:2919d017…; workload-beta's only alpine@sha256:c5b1261d…. No cross-contamination.
• v1alpha1 reads resolve (served=true/storage=false; v1beta1 storage=true; storedVersions ["v1beta1"]).
• Shipped health check make check-health COMPONENT=k8s-aibom: PASS, 4/4 assertions.
• Reconcile is deterministic: inputHash stable across a no-op reconcile. BOM is CycloneDX 1.6, sha256 4fb4c9c8….
• Owner-ref cleanup verified — deleting a workload removes its AIBOM.
• Resource envelope: 2m CPU / 21MiB against 50m/128Mi requests. This confirms v1.5.1 did not regress the floor; it does not re-establish the 1,001-workload ceiling, which has only ever been measured on v1.3.0, and values.yaml now says exactly that rather than implying a re-measurement.

One methodology note in the interest of not overclaiming: busybox/alpine are not detected inference runtimes, so the attribution test required patching discovery.inferenceRuntimeImagePatterns with custom patterns rather than pulling multi-GB vLLM images. The attribution logic under test is the same; the discovery trigger was substituted.

Risk Assessment

• Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
• Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
• High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Widens a component's reach from 1 recipe to 19 and moves a pinned artifact two minor versions. No default changes: absent the flag, every recipe resolves byte-identically to before. The expansion is opt-in and an explicit decline still wins. The version move is the larger half of the risk, which is what the upgrade record and the live lanes address.

Rollout notes: Operators on v1.2.0 get unknown from the upgrade record — see the disclosed gap above. The verification subsystem arrives but stays off, reproducing pre-v1.5.0 behaviour exactly.

Checklist

• Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
• Linter passes (make lint)
• I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
• I added/updated tests for new functionality
• I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
• Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
• Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S) — GPG signing info

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Walkthrough

The change allows --runtime-inventory enabled to add k8s-aibom to eligible GKE recipes that do not declare or explicitly decline it. Tests cover selection rules, rejection cases, health-check assertions, and deployment ordering. The k8s-aibom chart pin moves from 1.3.0 to 1.5.1. The change also updates the image digest, upgrade record, and CRD upgrade documentation.

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The GKE opt-in and chart upgrade are mergeable after normal checks. The remaining suggestions improve comment compliance and regression coverage; the CRD guidance now explains when the manual step is needed.

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🟡 Minor · Make the helmfile instruction conditional on the upgrade record. · component-catalog.md:1036-1047

docs/user/component-catalog.md:1036-1047
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the helmfile instruction conditional on the upgrade record.

The 1.3.0 → 1.5.1 upgrade with default values does not require manual CRD application. This step is required for that transition only when config.verification is set. The current “always” and “every” wording can cause unnecessary manual CRD updates.

Suggested documentation fix

-`helmfile` has no automated equivalent: the manual command below is always required for its `ownsCRDs`
-components.
+`helmfile` has no automated equivalent. Apply the CRDs manually when the
+upgrade transition requires a schema addition; see the
+[k8s-aibom upgrade record](#k8s-aibom-runtime-inventory).

-- **`helmfile`: always, including from a generated bundle.** Nothing runs it
-  for you on this deployer, so it is a required step before every `ownsCRDs`
-  upgrade, not a fallback.
+- **`helmfile`: follow the upgrade record.** For the documented `1.3.0` to
+  `1.5.1` transition, a default-values upgrade does not require manual CRD
+  application. Apply the CRDs first when the upgrade sets
+  `config.verification`.

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Update the helmfile guidance in the deployer table and surrounding CRD
instructions to make manual application conditional, not required for every
ownsCRDs upgrade. For the documented 1.3.0-to-1.5.1 transition, state that
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Registry change: scoped to recipes that reference a changed component
entry in recipes/registry.yaml (not every leaf).

Protected recipes

Recipes with committed evidence (recipes/evidence/<slug>/<source>/<digest>.yaml) that this PR affects: 1

Recipe	Source	Pointer	Verify	Digest match
gb200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo-gpustack-bundle-installer	2e85f8702c6214cafcc0ed714d928720	sha256-e82e86218d9ad37af63e06c528972fc6a62f8295196fbc0631acf3d148f955c2	✅ passed	⚠️ stale (b832bbfb4aba… vs current fcd353a4fa81…)

Other affected recipes without evidence yet: 4

These recipes are affected by this PR but carry no committed evidence pointer, so there is
nothing to verify. This is expected — evidence is hardware-gated and added over time.

• b200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo
• h100-gke-cos-inference-dynamo
• h100-gke-cos-inference
• h100-gke-cos-training-kubeflow

How to refresh evidence

Run on a cluster matching the recipe's criteria:

aicr snapshot -o snapshot.yaml
# Profiled families (AKS/GKE gpuStack): hydrate the recipe with the
# pointer's recorded 'profile:' selection first — validating the raw
# overlay resolves only the declaration default, and 'aicr validate'
# has no --profile flag. AKS additionally needs the pool projection
# (GKE uses the plain snapshot above):
#   az aks nodepool list -g <rg> --cluster-name <cluster> -o json > pools.json
#   aicr snapshot --aks-gpu-pools pools.json -o snapshot.yaml
#   aicr recipe -s snapshot.yaml --intent <intent> [--platform <platform>] \
#     --profile <name>=<value> -o recipe.yaml
# State the target leaf's intent/platform explicitly (the snapshot
# fingerprint supplies service/accelerator/OS but intent and platform
# default to 'any') and pass -r recipe.yaml below instead of the raw
# overlay.
aicr validate \
  -r recipes/overlays/<slug>.yaml \
  -s snapshot.yaml \
  --emit-attestation ./out \
  --push ghcr.io/<your-fork>/aicr-evidence
# Copy to the per-source path printed in the emit 'copyTo' hint:
#   recipes/evidence/<slug>/<source>/<bundle-digest>.yaml

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the helmfile CRD guidance conditional.

The helmfile deployer does not apply CRDs automatically, but the manual step is not required for every upgrade. For the documented k8s-aibom 1.3.0-to-1.5.1 transition, it is needed when config.verification is set; a default-values bump does not require it. Do not state that applying CRDs first is “never harmful”; the upgrade record supports only the conditional requirement.

Suggested wording

-equivalent: the manual command below is always required for its `ownsCRDs`
-components.
+equivalent: the manual command below is never run for you on this deployer.
+Whether a given upgrade needs it depends on the transition; see the upgrade record.

-- **`helmfile`: always, including from a generated bundle.** Nothing runs it
-  for you on this deployer, so it is a required step before every `ownsCRDs`
-  upgrade, not a fallback.
+- **`helmfile`: run it yourself when the transition requires it, including from a generated bundle.**
+  Nothing runs it for you on this deployer. Whether an upgrade needs it depends
+  on the transition; see the upgrade record.

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Review comment at @docs/user/component-catalog.md around lines 1084 - 1085:
Update the `helmfile` CRD guidance in the component catalog to say the deployer
never applies CRDs automatically, but whether a manual CRD step is needed
depends on the upgrade transition. Remove claims that it is always required or
“never harmful”; retain the documented `k8s-aibom` verification-config
transition as conditional guidance and clarify that a default-values bump does
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Thanks — two of the three points are actionable, one I'm pushing back on. Also flagging that the review above ran against 6512d479f, which is the pre-rebase SHA; the branch has since been rebased onto main (conflicts resolved, MERGEABLE) and the "resolve merge conflicts" finishing-touch is stale.

Conflicting upgrade instructions — fixed in bcb1862e8.

You were right, and it was a real contradiction rather than a wording nit. The deployer table at docs/user/component-catalog.md said helmfile's manual CRD step is needed "Always", while the ADR-021 record this PR adds says it is needed only when the upgrade also sets config.verification. Someone reading both would reasonably conclude the guidance was broken.

I resolved it toward the conservative side rather than weakening the table, because the two errors are not symmetric:

• applying CRDs that were already current is harmless
• skipping a needed apply fails the release after the Deployment has already rolled to the new image, leaving a half-applied release

So the table now reads "Assume yes — see note below", and the note states the actual rule: helmfile never updates CRDs, so the deployer can never narrow the step; only a per-transition ADR-021 record can. The k8s-aibom v1.3.0 → v1.5.1 bump is named as a case that genuinely does not need it at default values. That specific claim is measured, not inferred — a default-values upgrade against stale v1.3.0 CRDs came up 1/1 Ready on a live GKE cluster, and the same upgrade with config.verification set aborted with .spec.verification: field not declared in schema.

ADR-019 amendment — deliberately not doing this.

This is a repo convention rather than an oversight. ADRs here are point-in-time records of what was decided and when; amending one to match current thinking hides that the thinking moved. The maintainer confirmed this explicitly for this PR. The superseding decision is recorded in the PR description under "What this supersedes, and why there is no ADR amendment", and the code comments that cited ADR-019's single-recipe scope as current were corrected to name #2962 as the superseding decision while still citing ADR-019 as the origin.

Qualification evidence for the expanded scope — already in the PR description.

Specifically: all 8 grantable GKE leaf recipes × 4 deployers = 32/32 bundles, each carrying only the qualified digest; all 8 pass aicr validate --no-cluster; h100-gke-cos-inference-dynamo correctly rejects the opt-in (19 GKE overlays resolve to 9 leaves plus 10 bases, and 8 grantable + 1 declining accounts for all 9). Live GKE evidence covers upgrade, health check (4/4), owner-ref cleanup on uninstall, reconcile determinism, and the controller cost envelope (2m CPU / 21MiB against 50m/128Mi requests).

One limit stated plainly rather than papered over: that envelope confirms v1.5.1 did not regress the floor, but it does not re-establish the 1,001-workload ceiling, which has only ever been measured on v1.3.0. values.yaml says exactly that.

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🟡 Minor · Update the earlier unconditional CRD instructions. · component-catalog.md:1084-1085

docs/user/component-catalog.md:1084-1085
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Update the earlier unconditional CRD instructions.

Line 1084 says the manual apply is always required. Lines 1090–1092 repeat that it is required before every ownsCRDs upgrade. The transition guidance at Lines 1190–1198 says the v1.3.0-to-v1.5.1 upgrade with default values works with stale CRDs; a manual apply is needed only when config.verification is set. Update the earlier instructions to preserve this exception. Otherwise, operators receive conflicting steps and may run the documented --force-conflicts apply unnecessarily.

The transition record in recipes/components/k8s-aibom/upgrades.yaml confirms this exception.

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Three issues. The first should be fixed before merge.

The GKE grant adds k8s-aibom to the b200 and gb200 dynamo recipes, next to grove and dynamo-platform. The h100 dynamo overlay declines that same pairing as unqualified. Details are inline on runtimeinventory.go.

Merging would close #2962 before its evidence is recorded. The PR says "Fixes: #2962", but the issue's completion criteria include results that aren't in the PR yet:

• managed-GKE evidence for the distinct workload/platform combinations
• API-server cost
• a measured rollback
• a measured uninstall of the component

Either add them or change it to "Part of #2962".

The Ready-check reason in upgrades.yaml is wrong. Details are inline.

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@yuanchen8911 all three addressed in fa317faeb. Replies are on the two inline threads; summarising the third here.

1. b200/gb200 dynamo grant — fixed. Reproduced exactly as you described, then added the install: false ref to both overlays. More importantly, the test that should have caught it now sweeps every GKE dynamo accelerator instead of hard-coding h100, and I mutation-verified it fails on b200 and gb200 with the declines reverted. Detail on the thread.

2. Fixes: #2962 — changed to Part of: #2962. You are right that merging would have closed the issue ahead of its evidence. I have also written into the PR description exactly what is missing rather than leaving it implied:

• API-server cost — not measured. Controller cost is (2m CPU / 21MiB against 50m/128Mi requests); the API-server side of the watch load is not.
• A measured rollback — not performed. The upgrade direction is measured end to end on live GKE; v1.5.1 → v1.3.0 is not.
• Managed-GKE evidence per workload/platform combination — render and validate cover all 8 grantable leaves, but live-cluster evidence exists for one combination, not each.

Uninstall behaviour is covered (owner-ref cleanup verified live; CRDs outlive helm uninstall, as ownsCRDs implies), so I have not listed it as outstanding.

The ADR-019 amendment is the one item I am not treating as a gap. That is a convention call rather than an oversight — ADRs here record what was decided and when, and the maintainer confirmed for this PR that the superseding decision belongs in the PR description instead. Happy to revisit if you read that differently, since it is the one place where #2962's literal text and the repo's convention disagree.

3. Ready-check reason — fixed in both arms. failOnInvalidConfig does not exist; the key is readiness.strictConfig and AICR sets it true, so the behaviour was stated backwards for an AICR install. Detail on the thread.

make qualify green on the result. Re-requesting review.

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All three points are addressed.

• b200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo and gb200-gke-cos-inference-dynamo now decline k8s-aibom. --runtime-inventory enabled is rejected on all three GKE dynamo recipes, the default b200 dynamo bundle carries no k8s-aibom, and non-dynamo GKE recipes (for example a100 training) still get the grant. TestEveryGKEDynamoRecipeRejectsTheOptIn covers h100, b200 and gb200.
• The PR now says "Part of: #2962", so merging leaves the issue open for the remaining evidence.
• Both upgrade-record reasons now name readiness.strictConfig and describe AICR's value correctly.

Verified at 6fac2ff: go test -race ./pkg/recipe ./pkg/bundler passes.

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