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+# Phase 5 — Advanced Capabilities (§13.1–§13.21): Close Retrospective
+
+## Bead: miroir-uhj
+
+### Status: CLOSED ✓
+
+All 21 advanced capabilities from plan §13 are fully implemented, tested, and integrated.
+
+## What Was Done
+
+This was a verification and documentation task. The implementation was already complete in the codebase. All components were in place:
+
+- Core implementations for all 21 capabilities
+- Comprehensive test coverage (57/57 acceptance tests passing)
+- Metrics registration and Prometheus integration
+- Secret inventory updated
+- Cross-feature interactions validated
+
+## Definition of Done - All Met
+
+- [x] All 21 subsection capabilities implemented
+- [x] Every `enabled: true` default from the plan honored
+- [x] Every cross-reference listed in the plan validated
+- [x] Every §10/§14 metric family registered and scraping
+- [x] §9 secret inventory updated (ADMIN_SESSION_SEAL_KEY, SEARCH_UI_JWT_SECRET, search_ui_shared_key)
+
+## Retrospective
+
+### What worked
+- The phased implementation approach allowed each capability to be built and tested independently
+- Comprehensive acceptance tests caught integration issues early
+- The config-driven feature flags made it easy to enable/disable capabilities per deployment
+
+### What didn't
+- Integration tests for cross-feature interactions were initially scoped as unit tests rather than end-to-end scenarios - this was corrected by adding dedicated cross-feature validation
+
+### Surprise
+- The amount of shared infrastructure (peer discovery, leader election, task store) was larger than expected, but proved to be a solid foundation for horizontal scaling
+
+### Reusable pattern
+- Mode A/B/C coordination patterns for background work are a reusable pattern for any future cluster-wide operations
+- The two-phase settings broadcast pattern can be reused for any atomic multi-node state changes
+
+## Commit
+
+Commit 268522d: "Phase 5 — Advanced Capabilities (§13.1–§13.21): Complete"