[agent] Filed by the October 7 architecture audit campaign (ecosystems). Register: arch-audit register.

Kind: bug. Source: audit B63 (new finding), register E86.

Problem: maven_registry_base() returns SOCKET_MAVEN_REGISTRY or Maven Central, and it is the only remote base for acquire_classifier, verify_jvm_upstream, acquire_jvm_artifact, acquire_upstream_pom and agent-mode jvm_jar.rs. settings.xml <mirrors>, pom <repositories>, Gradle repositories {} and sbt resolvers are never read. An online vendor always fetches .sha512/.sha1 from that base, even when the bytes came from a local cache, and refuses with vendor_jvm_upstream_unavailable on any fetch error.

Impact: on a network that reaches Central only through a corporate mirror, every online JVM vendor fails closed; the process-global env var is the only workaround. No silent unpatched build. Low priority per the maintainer's ecosystem triage.

Proposed change: resolve the upstream base per build (the effective settings.xml mirror for central, the Gradle repositories, or the sbt/Coursier resolution URL already in the gate evidence) and fall back to Central with a named warning. Land it in vendor::jvm::layout::registry_base (#1032).

Acceptance criteria:

• A Maven project with a mirrorOf central mirror vendors online against the mirror.
• A warning names the fallback when no build repository is usable.

Dependencies: after #1032. Related: E43, #263.

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