diff --git a/docs/typescript_cutover_plan.md b/docs/typescript_cutover_plan.md
index 41a4d104..1aebaf98 100644
--- a/docs/typescript_cutover_plan.md
+++ b/docs/typescript_cutover_plan.md
@@ -17,9 +17,16 @@ P0 gate is green, Python remains the normative reference
 | Cross-implementation profile interop | green |
 | Sync protocol parity | green |
 | Agent security model | green (TS ahead of Python) |
-| Feature parity for daily use | green for daily use; 3 scoped exclusions |
+| Feature parity for daily use | green for daily use; scoped exclusions below |
+| Interactive mode (TUI) | green — legacy (v1) menu tree ported |
 | Packaging + release | green |
 | Migration + rollback story | green |
+| Independent security review | **not done — the one open blocker** |
+
+The gates below are green. The remaining blocker is not a gate in this list:
+no third party has reviewed the code. Two rounds of subagent review found 9
+criticals/highs between them that self-review missed entirely, which is the
+evidence for treating that as load-bearing rather than optional.
 
 ## P0 gates (must be green to cut over)
 
@@ -47,15 +54,20 @@ P0 gate is green, Python remains the normative reference
    and the TS CLI restores it with secrets intact. **Green.**
 
 5. **Feature parity for real daily use.** **Green for daily use**, with
-   three scoped exclusions that are documented rather than hidden:
+   scoped exclusions that are documented rather than hidden:
    - **PGP RSA keys** — unsupported by design. PyCryptodome's seeded prime
      search is not reproducible, so TS refuses the key type instead of
      deriving a different key. ed25519 PGP is at byte-for-byte parity.
    - **`semantic`** (local vector search) — a derived index that can be
      rebuilt; plan §8.5 rates it P2.
    - **`api`** (FastAPI server) — a separate surface, not vault behavior.
+   - **TUI v2/v3** — interactive mode ports the legacy (v1) menu tree only.
+   - **QR display in the TUI** — no QR encoder in this build; the menu item
+     remains and offers the underlying value instead.
+   - **Script checksum verify/generate** — covers the Python source tree;
+     replaced by the release bundle's `.sha256`.
 
-   Recommendation: none of the three blocks cutover. Each is a bounded,
+   Recommendation: none of these blocks cutover. Each is a bounded,
    named gap with the Python implementation still available for it, and the
    migration guide tells users exactly that. Revisit if a real profile is
    found to depend on RSA PGP entries.
@@ -93,8 +105,12 @@ P0 gate is green, Python remains the normative reference
 - `_system.index0` / atlas content merge — Python-derived state, recomputed
   on load; TS deliberately does not emit it and refuses to merge populated
   index0 rather than corrupt it.
-- TUI v2/v3 — the plan explicitly does not port these; terminal UX is the
-  CLI plus any future interactive mode.
+- TUI v2/v3 — not ported. Interactive mode (`seedpass-js` with no
+  subcommand) reproduces the **legacy v1** menu tree instead: the same eight
+  main-menu items, nine entry types, eighteen settings under the same
+  numbers, and the Profiles/Nostr/entry-action/edit submenus. Items this
+  build cannot perform keep their position and say why, so the numbering
+  Python users have memorised still selects the same thing.
 
 ## Cutover mechanics (once gates are green)
 
@@ -114,3 +130,53 @@ The Python implementation stays in the repository and in CI as the
 compatibility oracle, not as a shipped product. If a future change makes the
 two diverge, the cross-impl suite fails and the change is wrong until proven
 otherwise.
+
+## Session log — 2026-08-15
+
+Everything below was found by *running* the CLI, not by the 348-test suite.
+That ratio is the most useful thing this session produced: keep exercising
+the product by hand.
+
+**Parity gap closed: there was no way to create a vault.** Every path assumed
+an existing seed and told the user to export `SEEDPASS_MNEMONIC`, so a new
+user could not start at all. `fingerprint create` now generates one the way
+Python does (32 bytes of OS entropy through BIP-85 app 39 index 0, with the
+entropy call outside any try/catch so a CSPRNG failure can never be caught
+and substituted). Delivery of the phrase is chosen *before* generation and
+happens *before* the profile is created, so no failure can leave a vault
+whose seed nobody holds; `--out` is 0600 + O_EXCL; a non-TTY stdout with no
+destination refuses outright rather than writing the only copy of a seed
+into a pipe.
+
+**Interactive mode added, then rebuilt.** The first version was list-and-
+arrow-keys and was unnavigable to someone who knows SeedPass; the second
+follows Python's legacy v1 menus item for item. Recorded because the lesson
+generalises: parity means the interaction model, not just the feature list.
+
+**Bugs fixed:** bare `seedpass-js` printed help then `error: (outputHelp)`;
+unknown commands printed their error twice; `use --exec` always exited 0, so
+`use db-pass --exec ./deploy.sh && echo ok` reported success after a failed
+deploy; the sink command spec split on whitespace and ignored quotes, so
+`--exec 'sh -c "..."'` died on an unterminated string; `--tags work,dev`
+silently stored one tag named `work,dev`; a stopped agent reported raw
+`connect ENOENT`; echo came back on between password retries, so a password
+retyped after a typo was echoed in clear text.
+
+**Stale claims corrected:** the capability map said SSH and PGP were not
+ported (both are at parity), and the migration guide said there was no TUI.
+
+**Verified this session:** a TS-generated seed opened in Python with the same
+fingerprint, password and TOTP code; 128 CLI + 220 core tests; 36/36
+cross-impl checks. `test/nostr.test.ts` is flaky under parallel load (live
+relay) — it failed once and passed on rerun and three times in isolation.
+
+### Next
+
+1. **Independent security review before any real secrets.** The standing
+   recommendation, unchanged.
+2. Fold the bundle checksum into the `release-integrity` signing workflow
+   (gate 6's remaining item).
+3. Use the interactive mode for real work and report where it still does not
+   match muscle memory.
+4. Deferred by the user until the project is ready to share: the Tessera
+   agent-plugin skill.
diff --git a/docs/typescript_port_compatibility_matrix.md b/docs/typescript_port_compatibility_matrix.md
index 810f80da..6c5b924b 100644
--- a/docs/typescript_port_compatibility_matrix.md
+++ b/docs/typescript_port_compatibility_matrix.md
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ until a later milestone.
 | Profiles + config (Python `~/.seedpass` layout) | P1 | green* | — | `fingerprint list/add/switch/remove`, `config get/set` over the Python directory layout (fingerprints.json, parent_seed.enc kdf/ct wrapper, index-key-encrypted config with ConfigManager defaults). *Layout-compatible and tested end-to-end in TS; opening a real Python-created profile is verified indirectly via the parent-seed wrapper fixture — direct cross-open test TODO. |
 | Scoped tokens + audit chain (plan §9.3 / M8 core) | P1 | green | — (live agent tests) | Bearer tokens issued/held by the agent (hash-stored, shown once) with read/use/reveal scopes, kind + label-regex constraints, TTL and use counts; token-mode CLI reads the index and materializes secrets agent-side, never sees the mnemonic, and can never escalate to owner ops. Audit log uses Python AuditLogger's chain scheme (HMAC(prev_sig+canonical payload), KEY_INDEX key); verify/tail commands; tamper detection tested. Not yet: approval gates, high-risk partitions, persistent token store. |
 | Session agent (vault unlock/lock) | new (TS-only) | green | — | ssh-agent-style unix-socket daemon holding seeds with TTL (0600 socket, in-memory only); seed resolution env -> agent; full lifecycle tested with no mnemonic in the environment. Designed enforcement point for the section-9.3 lease/token layer. Python has no equivalent (its lock is in-process TUI state). |
+| Seed generation (new vault) | P0 | green | — | `fingerprint create`: 32 bytes of OS entropy through BIP-85 app 39 index 0, matching `PasswordManager.generate_bip85_seed`; 12 or 24 words. The entropy call is deliberately outside any try/catch (Python carries the same note from its entropy audit) so a CSPRNG failure can never be caught and a value substituted. Delivery is chosen before generation and happens before the profile is created, so no failure path leaves a profile whose seed was never delivered. **Was missing entirely until 2026-08-15** — a new user had no way to create a vault. |
+| Interactive mode (legacy v1 TUI) | P1 | green | — | `seedpass-js` with no subcommand reproduces `src/main.py`'s menu tree: eight main-menu items, nine entry types under Add Entry, eighteen Settings items **under the same numbers**, plus Profiles, Nostr, entry-action and edit submenus. Line-based like Python's, blank input goes back. Not ported: TUI v2/v3, QR rendering (no encoder; the item offers the underlying value), semantic index, script checksums — each keeps its menu position and says why, so Python users' numbering still holds. Secret Mode matches Python: it routes reveals to the clipboard. Verified through a pty against a real vault and by 28 scripted-UI tests. |
 
 ## Environment coverage