CRESA's Alert System Passes Phase 2 Certification

Phase 2 Gets Its Final Green Light

The infrastructure repair had returned CRESA's alert runtime to a healthy state and all automated certification checks were passing, but Phase 2 deliberately remained PARTIAL. Four presentation gates still required something automated diagnostics could not provide on their own: confirmation of what actually appeared on screen.

Those final reviews have now been completed. With Sub, Resub, Stacked and Quiet all visually verified, Phase 2 certification officially moves to PASS.

Four Final Visual Gates

The Sub presentation was confirmed rendering its single subscriber card correctly before completing and clearing from the presentation. Resub successfully rendered its dedicated resub bar and also completed cleanly.

The Stacked presentation demonstrated that a primary alert and queued secondary alert could be presented in the correct order without overlapping each other. Quiet successfully rendered its compact top-left presentation before Quiet mode was restored off and the alert system returned to idle.

Automation and Human Review Agree

These visual checks complete the evidence gathered during the earlier automated certification work. The engine had already passed 463 out of 463 tests, while the certification suite passed 9 out of 9 automated checks following the browser request pipeline repair.

The remaining question was whether the presentations those systems produced actually looked and behaved correctly to a viewer. Phase 2 now has evidence from both sides: automated lifecycle validation underneath the broadcast and deliberate visual confirmation of the result on screen.

Certification Without Moving the Goalposts

Importantly, closing the remaining gates required no production code changes. The alert framework, Raid, GameDetector and repaired HTTP and polling infrastructure were left untouched while certification focused purely on proving the existing implementation.

The previously unreliable automated capture workflow was also not treated as evidence of a presentation defect. Visual review was completed through a controlled replay procedure instead of changing working presentation code to compensate for a broken capture path.

Phase 2: PASS

With every required gate now satisfied, CRESA's second certification phase is complete. The alert architecture has moved from implementation, through shared-runtime investigation and repair, into a state backed by both automated and visual evidence.

For the first time, CRESA's modern alert system is not simply something development believes is working. It has passed the certification process built to prove it.