diff --git a/implement/SKILL.md b/implement/SKILL.md
index 6bf09e2..0576ec5 100644
--- a/implement/SKILL.md
+++ b/implement/SKILL.md
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ NEVER PUSH PAST `BLOCKED` BY HAND.
 ON `PARTIAL` OR `BLOCKED`, THE END-REPORT CARRIES THE `BLOCKED.md` CONTENT (`artifacts.blocked_md`); THE ORCHESTRATOR'S FIRST ACTION ON READING SUCH A REPORT IS WRITING IT VERBATIM TO `BLOCKED.md` AT THE REPO ROOT — UNCOMMITTED BY CONVENTION. ON `DONE`, `artifacts.blocked_md` IS NULL. (EXCEPTIONS WHERE IT IS ALSO NULL: A NO-OP ITERATION — ITS TREE IS ALREADY CLEAN — AND ANY PRE-LOOP EARLY EXIT (MALFORMED CARRIER, DIRTY-TREE PREFLIGHT, PLAN-EXTRACT GUARD): NOTHING RAN AND NOTHING WAS WRITTEN, SO THE STATUS + `infra:`-PREFIXED REASON RIDE THE END-REPORT AND THERE IS NOTHING TO CLEAN UP OR EXPLAIN.)
 `DONE` REQUIRES POSITIVE EVIDENCE THAT AN EDIT LANDED — A NO-OP ITERATION (`git status --porcelain` EMPTY, untracked files INCLUDED) IS NEVER `DONE`, IT IS `BLOCKED` (the issue #11 vacuous-green shape, guarded on the main path). THE VERDICT IS THE GIT TREE COUNT, NEVER A SELF-REPORT.
 IN MINI MODE THE RED->GREEN IS OBSERVED, NOT ASSERTED: AN INDEPENDENT VERIFY RE-RUNS THE HANDED-OFF RED TEST AND THE SUITE; A STILL-RED TEST OR A REGRESSION IS `BLOCKED` (route back to debug, RED-first).
+IN STANDARD MODE THE END-VERIFY RE-RUNS THE FULL SUITE INDEPENDENTLY: SUITE RED IS `BLOCKED` (route back to debug, RED-first) — GREEN IS OBSERVED, NEVER TAKEN FROM PER-TASK SELF-REPORTS.
 THE COMPILER-DRIVEN ARM COMMITS ONLY ON CLEAN BUILD + SUITE GREEN UNCHANGED; ELSE IT BOUNCES (specify for a design hole, tdd for discovered new behaviour, debug for a regression).
 ```
 
@@ -141,15 +142,18 @@ positive evidence that an edit landed. The verdict is taken from **git
 ground truth, never a self-report** — a self-report must never be able to
 *fail* a run that actually did the work:
 
-- **Iteration gate (standard mode)** — a dedicated `tree-check` agent runs
-  `git status --porcelain | wc -l` after the per-task loop but **before**
-  E2E and finalize. A `DONE` outcome with a zero count is a no-op iteration
-  → `BLOCKED`. `git status --porcelain` (not `git diff HEAD`) is used so a
-  brand-new **untracked** file — the implementer leaves edits unstaged —
-  still counts; running before E2E/finalize keeps fixtures and the
-  stats/`BLOCKED.md` artefacts from inflating it; and a non-returning agent
-  is treated as `BLOCKED` (infra), never waved through. A clean-tree no-op
-  writes no `BLOCKED.md` (nothing to clean up — see Step 4).
+- **Iteration gate (standard mode)** — a dedicated end-`verify` agent runs
+  after the per-task loop but **before** E2E, with two independently-gating
+  legs: `git status --porcelain | wc -l` (a `DONE` outcome with a zero count
+  is a no-op iteration → `BLOCKED`) and a full **independent suite run**
+  (suite red → `BLOCKED`, route back to `debug` RED-first — standard mode
+  previously had no end-of-iteration suite gate while mini and
+  compiler-driven both re-run the suite; the asymmetry is closed).
+  `git status --porcelain` (not `git diff HEAD`) is used so a brand-new
+  **untracked** file — the implementer leaves edits unstaged — still counts;
+  running before E2E keeps fixtures from inflating it; and a non-returning
+  agent is treated as `BLOCKED` (infra), never waved through. A clean-tree
+  no-op carries no `BLOCKED.md` content (nothing to clean up — see Step 4).
 - **Mini mode gate** — an independent `mini-verify` agent re-runs the
   handed-off RED test and the suite and checks the tree is dirty
   (`git status --porcelain`); a still-red test, a regression, or a clean
diff --git a/implement/workflows/implement-loop.js b/implement/workflows/implement-loop.js
index c149464..b1b826a 100644
--- a/implement/workflows/implement-loop.js
+++ b/implement/workflows/implement-loop.js
@@ -394,18 +394,26 @@ const MINI_VERIFY_SCHEMA = {
     detail: { type: 'string', description: 'on any false: which test is still red, what regressed, or that the tree is clean' },
   },
 }
-// Standard-mode no-op gate (issue #12, facets 1+2): the authoritative ground
-// truth that the iteration's per-task work actually landed. Runs after the loop
-// but BEFORE E2E, so E2E fixtures cannot inflate the count (stats/BLOCKED.md
-// are no longer written in-loop at all — the orchestrator writes them from the
-// end-report, after this gate). Uses `git status --porcelain` (counts brand-new
-// UNTRACKED files — the implementer leaves edits unstaged, so a new-file deliverable
-// is untracked and `git diff HEAD` would miss it). A self-report can never reach
-// this verdict; it is git ground truth.
-const TREE_SCHEMA = {
+// Standard-mode end-verify (issue #12 facets 1+2 + issue #29 / the pipeline
+// audit): the authoritative ground truth that the iteration's per-task work
+// actually landed AND left the project suite green. Runs after the loop but
+// BEFORE E2E, so E2E fixtures cannot inflate the count (stats/BLOCKED.md are
+// no longer written in-loop at all — the orchestrator writes them from the
+// end-report, after this gate).
+// Two legs, both gating:
+//   • files_touched from `git status --porcelain` (counts brand-new UNTRACKED
+//     files — the implementer leaves edits unstaged, so a new-file deliverable
+//     is untracked and `git diff HEAD` would miss it). 0 → no-op BLOCKED.
+//   • suite_green from a full independent suite run. Standard mode previously
+//     rode on the per-task implementers' self-reported green while mini and
+//     compiler-driven both re-ran the suite as a hard gate — this closes that
+//     asymmetry. red → BLOCKED (route back to debug, RED-first). Same
+//     flaky-suite exposure mini-verify already has, by design.
+// A self-report can never reach this verdict; it is git/suite ground truth.
+const STD_VERIFY_SCHEMA = {
   type: 'object',
   additionalProperties: false,
-  required: ['files_touched'],
+  required: ['files_touched', 'suite_green'],
   properties: {
     files_touched: {
       type: 'integer',
@@ -413,6 +421,13 @@ const TREE_SCHEMA = {
         'the line count of `git status --porcelain` (every changed/added/untracked path). Run exactly that — do NOT ' +
         'use `git diff`, which omits untracked new files. Do NOT edit anything. 0 means the iteration is a no-op.',
     },
+    suite_green: {
+      type: 'boolean',
+      description:
+        "the FULL project suite passes (the test command from the project's CLAUDE.md facts), re-run by you — " +
+        'never taken from an earlier report',
+    },
+    detail: { type: 'string', description: 'on suite_green false: which tests failed' },
   },
 }
 // Cross-task discard guard (issue #23): the per-boundary snapshot verdict.
@@ -999,23 +1014,29 @@ if (mode === 'mini' && outcome === 'DONE') {
 } else if (mode === 'standard' && outcome === 'DONE') {
   phase('Verify')
   treeState = await agent(
-    `${STANDING}\n\nReport the working-tree footprint of an implement iteration WITHOUT changing anything. Run ` +
-      '`git status --porcelain` and report files_touched = its line count (every changed, added, or untracked ' +
-      'path). Use `git status --porcelain`, NOT `git diff`, so brand-new untracked files are counted. Do NOT edit, ' +
-      'do NOT commit.',
-    { model: 'sonnet', effort: 'medium', label: 'tree-check', phase: 'Verify', schema: TREE_SCHEMA },
+    `${STANDING}\n\nEnd-verify an implement iteration WITHOUT changing any code or test. Two independent checks:\n` +
+      '1. Run `git status --porcelain` and report files_touched = its line count (every changed, added, or ' +
+      'untracked path). Use `git status --porcelain`, NOT `git diff`, so brand-new untracked files are counted.\n' +
+      '2. Run the FULL project suite (the test command from the CLAUDE.md project facts) and report suite_green — ' +
+      'on red, name the failing tests in detail.\n' +
+      'Do NOT edit, do NOT commit.',
+    { model: 'sonnet', effort: 'medium', label: 'verify', phase: 'Verify', schema: STD_VERIFY_SCHEMA },
   )
-  if (!treeState || treeState.files_touched === 0) {
+  if (!treeState || treeState.files_touched === 0 || !treeState.suite_green) {
     outcome = 'BLOCKED'
     synthBlock = {
       task: null,
       reason: !treeState
-        ? 'infra: tree-check agent did not return — cannot confirm the iteration landed; treat as not-done'
-        : 'no-op iteration: `git status --porcelain` is empty — every task reported DONE but nothing landed in the working tree',
-      detail: null,
+        ? 'infra: end-verify agent did not return — cannot confirm the iteration landed; treat as not-done'
+        : treeState.files_touched === 0
+          ? 'no-op iteration: `git status --porcelain` is empty — every task reported DONE but nothing landed in the working tree'
+          : 'suite red at end-verify: the iteration regressed the project suite — route back to debug (RED-first)',
+      detail: treeState && !treeState.suite_green ? treeState.detail || null : null,
     }
     // a confirmed-empty tree is a clean no-op (no BLOCKED.md); a null agent is infra
-    // (tree state unknown — possibly dirty), so leave noopClean false.
+    // (tree state unknown — possibly dirty), so leave noopClean false. A suite-red
+    // verdict has a dirty tree by definition — BLOCKED.md is written (by the
+    // orchestrator, from the end-report).
     if (treeState && treeState.files_touched === 0) noopClean = true
   }
 }