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Expand Up @@ -354,6 +354,48 @@ Review`, exit 1. It is `landed-check`'s terminal twin — both name In Review
hand-correction here from the older wording wrote the prediction twice before
the board falsified it.

- **"The branch name lost" was measured on one row and read as a contest. It is
not one: EVERY key a PR carries moves, and every one collects the
attachment.** The entry above is right that a `Closes` key is what redirects
_completion_; it is wrong to conclude the branch's own row sat still. Both
rows moved, on both events, on both PRs — re-read from the board 2026-08-22,
from the same two PRs the entry above cites.

| event | PR (branch names CLOUD-847) | body | CLOUD-847 | CLOUD-860 |
| ----------------- | --------------------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ---------------------------- |
| opened `22:22:19` | #635 | `Closes CLOUD-860` | → In Progress `22:22:22` | (claimed by hand `22:21:49`) |
| merged `23:24:33` | #635 | " | → In Review `23:24:35` | → In Review `23:24:35` |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Scope the movement claims to the state-dependent behavior shown by the evidence, and align the summary with the table. The current universal wording says every referenced key moves, but the cited #604 counterexample has CLOUD-740 remaining in Todo; state that referenced keys can move on PR events, moved rows collect the attachment, and Todo rows are not guaranteed to move. Also change “A PR opening drags a linked row BACKWARDS” to “A PR opening can move a linked row BACKWARDS,” since #639 demonstrates the transition without establishing a universal rule. Finally, the #635 summary should not say both rows moved on both events: CLOUD-860 was claimed by hand before #635 opened, so revise the summary to describe only the measured transitions or add the missing before-and-after state.

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In @.serena/memories/workflow/board-states.md around lines 314 - 320, Update the
summary above the `#635` table to accurately describe the recorded transitions:
CLOUD-847 moved on both events, while CLOUD-860 was claimed manually before the
PR opened and only moved to In Review on merge. Do not state that both rows
moved on both events unless the table is amended with the missing opening
transition.

Apply the same fix in @.serena/memories/workflow/board-states.md around lines
310 - 315: The same universal-claim correction applies to this repeated wording.

| opened `23:26:18` | #639 | `DO-NOT-CLOSE`, `Refs: CLOUD-860` | → In Progress `23:26:21` | → In Progress `23:26:21` |
| merged `00:27:23` | #639 | " | → In Review `00:27:26` | → In Review `00:27:26` |

Three things follow, and the third is the one that costs something.

**Attachment is a UNION, not a winner.** #635 and #639 are each attached to
both rows. So the starvation shape CLOUD-847's arm I predicted — a row ending
In Review with no PR attached while an unrelated row hoards PRs it did not
produce, which is exactly what `graph-check`'s `in-review-no-pr` refuses —
**does not reproduce.** Do not re-derive that fear from the precedence entry
above; it is about state, and attachment does not behave like state.

**`DO-NOT-CLOSE` stops `closing-key-check`, not the board.** #639 declared it,
closed nothing, and still moved two rows twice. It is an exemption from the
body convention, never a hold on the automation — a PR deliberately not
completing its row should expect the row to move anyway, and check.

**A PR opening drags a linked row BACKWARDS.** #639 knocked CLOUD-860 out of
In Review, where #635 had just landed it, back to In Progress — a row losing
ground to a PR that was not its work. `landed-check` names a board behind git
and is the gate that catches this; the fix is a hand-move forward, and the
avoidance is not to mention a settled row in a body that is about to open a PR.

What this does NOT overturn is the completion half. `Refs:` still does not
_close_ (#398 vs #400 above stands, and no row here reached Done). The
unresolved tension is narrower than it looks: #398's `Refs:`-only body moved
nothing at all, while #639's moved two rows to In Review. The discriminating
variable is untested — likeliest that #398 predates the merged→In Review
mapping's effect on merely-linked rows. Whoever next needs it should measure a
`Refs:`-only PR against a row in Todo, and write the condition down.

- **It does not guard on the source column, so it can resurrect a dead issue.**
CLOUD-35 was **Canceled** when that merge landed, and the automation moved it
to Done — a closed-out issue silently reappearing as completed work it never
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