# A-014

- **Artifact ID:** A-014
- **Status:** RETIRED
- **Public record:** https://record.cybersecurityhq.com/assumptions#A-014
- **Machine-record SHA-256:** `6c895edf5dc14e654fc61004f548e7199151b60807bb4a903fa600957380e7f5`

## Complete structured record

```json
{
  "id": "A-014",
  "statement": "Faster patching meaningfully reduces exploit risk at scale",
  "status": "RETIRED",
  "category": "Retired",
  "ledger_references": [],
  "retirement_date_bound": "On or before 2026-02-17",
  "retirement_rationale": "No contemporaneous retirement rationale or supporting instrument is recoverable. CHQ-P-2026-007 addressed ROTATION_AS_ASSURANCE, not patching efficacy, and its withdrawal cannot transfer or erase provenance it never supplied.",
  "supersession_pointer": "NONE — CHQ-P-2026-007 EXCLUDED",
  "related_positions": [],
  "retirement_evidence_state": "UNRECOVERABLE",
  "retirement_audit": "UNRECOVERABLE — A-014 is not supported by withdrawn CHQ-P-2026-007. Threshold compliance cannot be demonstrated; retained only as a historical registry fact and ineligible as retirement precedent."
}
```