diff --git a/.ciagent/ARCHITECTURE.md b/.ciagent/ARCHITECTURE.md
index de17d56..0247b77 100644
--- a/.ciagent/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/.ciagent/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ The demo is a three-repo, stub-driven system that simulates an autonomous cloud
 | `acdl-contracts` repo | Developer + agentic entry surface; holds contracts + issue workflow | Triggers main pipeline on push | `acdl` reusable workflow |
 | `acdl-evidence` repo | Pages host for `audit.json` + `index.html` timeline | Read-only for the pipeline; written at finalize stage | evidence_writer.py output |
 | Reusable pipeline workflow | Dev → QA → Prod → Finalize stages with environment gates | Gitea Actions; calls core scripts | All core scripts |
+| `evidence-ui/index.html` | Vanilla-JS timeline UI (Phase 05); fetches `./audit.json` and renders events | Single HTML file with inline CSS+JS; no frameworks (REQ-14) | `audit.json` on `acdl-evidence` main |
+| `scripts/run_demo.sh` | Phase 05 dry-run simulation of the 4 demo acts; calls core scripts + writes evidence + uploads `audit.json` + `index.html` to `acdl-evidence` | Bash; uses `evidence_writer.py` + `finalize_evidence.py` + the file-contents API | All Phase 03/04 artifacts |
 
 ## Phase 04 pipeline topology (research)
 
@@ -90,6 +92,32 @@ Because each stage is a separate dispatch, the workflow file uses `if:` conditio
 
 This means a full pipeline = 3 dispatches (initial, qa-approve, prod-approve). The human drives each via the Gitea UI or the dispatch API.
 
+## Phase 05 dry-run + UI (research)
+
+Phase 05 has no act_runner available in this environment, so the "dry run"
+is a local bash simulation (`scripts/run_demo.sh`) that produces the same
+`audit.json` shape a real pipeline run would, then uploads it (plus the
+UI) to `acdl-evidence` via the file-contents API. The simulation covers:
+
+- **Act 1 — Friction:** a single evidence event "manual 2-week deployment (legacy process)" at `stage: dev` with a red-colored timeline marker.
+- **Act 2 — Developer Self-Service:** `l2-commodity-price-feed` contract, full pipeline (dev → qa → prod → finalize), 4 evidence events.
+- **Act 3 — Citizen Developer:** Issue body fed to `l3b_agent_stub.py`, generates the same `l2-commodity-price-feed` contract, identical pipeline, 4 evidence events.
+- **Act 4 — Safety Net:** `l2-regulatory-reporting` contract with `public-ingress: true`, dev rejects (confidence 0.40 < 0.50), 1 evidence event "dev rejected: POLICY_VIOLATION:PUBLIC_INGRESS".
+
+The `audit.json` after `run_demo.sh` contains the genesis + all act
+events (typically ~14 events). The UI fetches `./audit.json` and renders
+a vertical timeline with stage-colored markers and a per-event hash
+preview.
+
+### UI rendering contract (D-032, D-033)
+
+`evidence-ui/index.html`:
+- Single file, inline CSS + JS, no external resources.
+- Fetches `./audit.json` (relative URL; works against any raw-URL origin).
+- Renders events as a vertical timeline; each event card shows `seq`, `ts`, `stage` (color-coded: `dev` blue, `qa` yellow, `prod` orange, `finalize` green, `genesis` gray, rejected events red), `event` text, and a 12-char hash preview (`hash.slice(0, 12)…`).
+- Handles fetch failure with a "No audit data yet" message.
+- Refresh button to re-fetch.
+
 ## Data Flow
 
 1. A `contract.yaml` arrives either by direct push (L3A) or by the issue workflow running `l3b_agent_stub.py` (L3B).
diff --git a/.ciagent/PERSONAS.md b/.ciagent/PERSONAS.md
index 097be0d..7288b94 100644
--- a/.ciagent/PERSONAS.md
+++ b/.ciagent/PERSONAS.md
@@ -59,12 +59,12 @@ verification_toolchain:
 
 ### frontend-engineer
 - **Domain:** frontend
-- **Active:** false
-- **Reason:** No UI in Phases 01-04. The single UI artifact (`index.html`, vanilla JS) is built in Phase 05. frontend-engineer is reactivated for Phase 05 only (see Phase-specific overrides below).
-- **Phase-specific:** true (reactivates in Phase 05)
+- **Active:** true  # REACTIVATED for Phase 05 (evidence UI + dry run)
+- **Reason:** Phase 05 builds the vanilla-JS `index.html` timeline UI (REQ-14) and runs the 4 demo acts end-to-end dry run (REQ-15). Inactive for Phases 01-04 (no UI).
+- **Phase-specific:** true (this reactivation is for Phase 05 only; will be deactivated again after the milestone ships if the project continues)
 - **Frameworks:** vanilla-js, dom-api, fetch-api
-- **Constraints:** no-frameworks, single-file, fetch-from-same-origin-raw-url
-- **Territory:** `acdl-evidence/index.html` (Phase 05)
+- **Constraints:** no-frameworks, single-file, fetch-from-same-origin-raw-url, relative-url-for-audit-json
+- **Territory:** `evidence-ui/**` (the source-of-truth `index.html` in the `acdl` repo; pushed to `acdl-evidence` by `run_demo.sh`)
 
 ## Phase-specific overrides