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 ### Delegated security administration (Phase 3, no CloudFormation resource)
 
-Account **seahaven-security (001520130573)** will be the org's delegated
-administrator for the detective services. **STATUS: PENDING — delegation has
-NOT been applied yet.** Flip this section to "applied" (with verification
-output) only in the commit that accompanies actual execution.
+Account **seahaven-security (001520130573)** is the org's delegated
+administrator for the detective services. **STATUS: APPLIED 2026-07-14,
+verified** (see evidence below). The hard preconditions were enforced before
+the first delegation call (security review SEC-BASE-B/D — never delegate to an
+account with unhardened root or before its baseline stack exists):
 
-HARD PRECONDITIONS — do not run the first `enable-organization-admin-account`
-call until ALL of these verify true (security review SEC-BASE-B/D: delegating
-to an account with unhardened root and no SCPs hands the org's detection
-nerve center to the weakest credential; delegating before the baseline deploy
-wedges the stack CREATE on the auto-created detector/hub, and the retry
-collides with the orphaned RETAIN fixed-name buckets):
+- Baseline stack `UPDATE_COMPLETE`; root `AccountMFAEnabled: 1`; account
+  parent `ou-nbuj-v0s9630u` with SCPs deny-root-user +
+  protect-security-baseline + security-guardrails inherited.
 
-```bash
-# 1. Baseline deployed:
-aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name seahaven-security-baseline \
-  --query 'Stacks[0].StackStatus'         # expect CREATE_COMPLETE/UPDATE_COMPLETE (as 001520130573)
-# 2. Root hardened (manual, Adam): MFA enabled, no root keys, alternate contacts set
-aws iam get-account-summary --query 'SummaryMap.AccountMFAEnabled'  # expect 1 (as 001520130573)
-# 3. Account moved into the security OU (SCPs in effect):
-aws organizations list-parents --child-id 001520130573 \
-  --query 'Parents[0].Id'                 # expect ou-nbuj-v0s9630u
-```
+Verification evidence (2026-07-14):
 
-Delegation is then applied via CLI from the **management account** (all calls
-idempotent):
+- `organizations list-delegated-administrators` → `001520130573` (all five
+  service principals registered).
+- GuardDuty: `AutoEnableOrganizationMembers: ALL`; members 328440206208 +
+  396287094661 both `Enabled`.
+- Security Hub: org auto-enable on; both members `Enabled`.
+- Org Access Analyzer `seahaven-org-analyzer` created; Config org aggregator
+  `seahaven-org-aggregator` (AllAwsRegions) on the Config SLR; Inspector2
+  auto-enable ec2/ecr/lambda + both members associated.
+- **Findings flow verified end-to-end:** GuardDuty sample findings created in
+  member 396287094661 were listed and fully readable from the admin detector
+  in 001520130573 (`Recon:EC2/PortProbeUnprotectedPort`, AccountId
+  396287094661, sample=true), then archived.
+
+The delegation runbook (all calls idempotent, run from the **management
+account**):
 
 ```bash
 # GuardDuty: delegate + auto-enable all org members (adopts existing detectors)