board gates: the CLOUD-926 bundle B chain

[wenzowski]

Bundle B of the CLOUD-926 dispatch: the board gates. One branch, one PR, eleven rows in ten commits — CLOUD-661 retired one-PR-per-ticket and CLOUD-502 is Canceled, so this shape is sanctioned rather than a shortcut.

The branch names no ticket on purpose. closing-key-check passes on the first closing key it finds (CLOUD-527) and branch-name precedence beats the PR body, so a branch naming one row of a bundle moves that row and strands the rest. Every key this branch serves is closed below.

Rows closed

• Closes CLOUD-921 — released gated graph-check and ready-lint, so a tag-less clone (every web session) judged nothing. Decoupled; new exit 3 for "judged, a clone-scoped gate abstained".
• Closes CLOUD-678 — a blocker outside the piped set read as unresolved, starving its dependent. Three-way branch; dangling-blocker moved to the unjudged family.
• Closes CLOUD-920 — ready-cites-check could not tell a deleted test from an unwritten one. (new) marker, with history as the corroborating term only, because this clone is shallow and --diff-filter=D is blind here.
• Closes CLOUD-923 — the recorder now records the rows a stored body cites that the caller never passed. §1's premise was false in both halves; the computable upper bound is built instead, and the difference is stated in the code.
• Closes CLOUD-806 — ready-lint emits the structure the producer already built.
• Closes CLOUD-634 — graph-check's joins are indexed once per run rather than rescanned per node and per edge.
• Closes CLOUD-829 — a duplicate close decided in its target's own operation is refused. New gate + suite.
• Closes CLOUD-771 — the milestone claim is gated in every started column, not just Todo. The anti-vacuity arm widened with the clause, which is the half a reader would miss.
• Closes CLOUD-599 — a child inherits its parent's phase, or declares otherwise. Composes with 771 by partition, now asserted rather than assumed.
• Closes CLOUD-477 — a blocker that will never be done does not block. Taken over from a stale assignment under BATTEN_CLAIM_TAKEOVER=1, recorded in the receipt.
• Closes CLOUD-941 — both enforced-gate mutation survivors it names are dead. Filed by bundle C, which explicitly deferred the fix because both files are this bundle's domain.

Two rows in the chain whose own bodies were wrong, and the corrections matter

CLOUD-477 §1 claims the payload carries "a canceled type covering both Canceled and Duplicate". Measured against the live board: Canceled is canceled, Duplicate is duplicate — two distinct values. A rule keyed on one would have fixed half the defect, looked complete, and left every Duplicate blocker starving, including CLOUD-335 which the row itself cites. Both are named, and the Duplicate arm has its own case saying why.

CLOUD-923 §1 says an observed relation delta needs no new fetch — pre-set from the read receipt, post-set from the save_issue response. Neither holds: a save_issue response carries no relations key at all, and the read receipt keeps five fields, none of them the relation set. The column is therefore the computable upper bound (cited-and-not-passed), which over-counts and never under-counts, and the code says so.

CLOUD-910 intersection — empty, derived rather than trusted

Checked before any code: a tree-scoped policy row takes sources/line_sources and reads input.tree/input.doc/input.lines; facts.rs carries no fact holding a tracker payload. Every gate here takes its input from a piped get_issue payload, so none can be in wave 1's set. ready-cites-check.sh is the one hybrid — it reads the tracked tree too — and is named on the row to re-check at wave start.

Notes for the post-merge review

Deliberate contract changes, none incidental:

1. board-sweep gains exit 3 — not new to this layer; checks-green and sonar-gate both publish it. A refusal now outranks a clone-scoped abstention, where previously any could-not-look suppressed every verdict.
2. dangling-blocker moved from violation to the unjudged family, set-keyed. released carries a hand-written grep -vx 'dangling-blocker' to undo the old id-keying; that filter is now structurally unnecessary and left in place as defence in depth.
3. ready-lint's (closed) exemption is deleted. Its comment claimed Linear drops the relation when a blocker completes. It does not — CLOUD-661 has been Done since 2026-08-18 and both dependents still carry the edge — so the exemption never fired on the case it was written for.
4. The named-paths column is comma-joined at write time. It was the only variable-width column, and a record whose fifth field can swallow the line cannot have a sixth. The value filed-here-check computes is unchanged; the one-way cost of an in-flight record from the previous shape is recorded beside the code.
5. graph-check's milestone projection stayed a boolean. The first cut of CLOUD-599 made .id load-bearing and read board-sweep's idless fixture as absent — the same could-not-look conflation this file fixes everywhere else. Both of that clause's passing arms mean the refusal needs presence, never identity.

Test cases that assert a contract these changes reverse are rewritten with the reason in the case rather than deleted: tests/board-sweep.bats:153, tests/ready-lint.bats ×2, and the CLOUD-771/599 composition case.

mise run mutant: 155 declarations across 55 gates, every one caught, exit 0.

Filed rather than fixed here

• CLOUD-944 — mutant run concurrently with another suite reports false survivors. Its evidence table needs re-measuring varying only concurrency; e9e66dc on main may already subsume it.
• CLOUD-997 — nothing reaps a stale assignee. Ten rows across seven bundles were unpullable on an eleven-day-old field, and this branch took two over by hand.

CLOUD-453 remains unclaimed in this chain.

Keys this PR SERVES but does not complete (CLOUD-674)

Three rows are cited by commits here as the authority they were written against,
never as work this branch finishes. Declined individually rather than with a bare
line, so each decision is its own:

DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-352
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-886
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-908

• CLOUD-352 — suite-bench-check demands the corpus name every suite. The
  chore(bench) commit regenerates bench/suites/RESULTS.md so it does; the row
  itself is that gate's, not this bundle's.
• CLOUD-886 — suite-select's declared-# subject: selection. Cited because
  the new tests/duplicate-close-check.bats carries one; nothing here changes the
  selector.
• CLOUD-908 — the [rule.conserves] column. test(gates) records the three
  // changed: arms that column demanded of this branch's rewritten cases, which
  is the column working, not the row completing.

[linear-code]

CLOUD-921 `released` gates `graph-check` and `ready-lint`, so a clone with no `v*` tag never judges whether the board is coherent — which is every web session

Why

CLOUD-825 found that the board gates already compose and nothing invoked them, and shipped board-sweep as the caller. The composition works. It is unreachable in a clone with no tags, and the tag-less clone is the ordinary case for a web session.

Measured 2026-08-22, mise run board-sweep over six harvested payloads on a fresh web-session checkout:

board-sweep: 6 issue(s)
  released COULD NOT LOOK
::error:: board-sweep: this checkout carries no `v*` tag, so `released` cannot
         resolve a range and `graph-check` behind it is never reached.
         Fetch tags, or pass --tag.
  in-progress-drain ok
  done-pr-check REFUSED
  spec-ref-check COULD NOT LOOK
board-sweep: 2 gate(s) could not look — the board has not been judged

released calls graph-check by path, and graph-check calls ready-lint. So one unresolvable range takes out the two gates that decide whether the board is coherent and whether a Todo row is Ready — the pair the sweep exists for. Run directly with the same payloads, both exit 0 and report a frontier. The gates are fine; the chain is not.

The message names the remedy and that is the honest part — this is a stated could-not-look, not a false green, and CLOUD-251's discipline is being kept. The defect is the topology: a gate whose input is a property of the clone sits upstream of gates whose input is a property of the board.

Why the tag-less clone is not an edge case

A Claude Code web session clones shallow and single-branch; git fetch origin main with the configured refspec brings no tags, which .claude/rules/toolchain.md already documents for linear-check's own refspec problem. So the environment where an agent most wants one command over the whole board is exactly the one where it judges nothing. Two consecutive sessions hit this before anyone read the log closely enough to notice graph-check had not run.

What the fix is choosing between

1. Reorder. Run the board-only gates first and released last, so a tag-less clone still gets graph-check and ready-lint. Cheapest, and it matches what a reader expects from a sweep.
2. Decouple. board-sweep calls graph-check directly rather than through released, and released becomes one more leaf. Removes the transitive dependency CLOUD-825 inherited rather than chose.
3. Provision the tag. session-start.sh fetches tags so released can always resolve. Fixes this symptom and leaves the topology, so the next clone-shaped input reintroduces it.

(1) or (2); (3) is a workaround wearing a fix's clothes.

Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/board-sweep.sh's gate order and its invocation of released. released itself is unchanged — its refs-only arm is correct behaviour for a clone with no tags, and the bug is that something else is behind it.
• Computable predicate (§2). Over a payload set in a checkout with no v* tag, graph-check and ready-lint both run and report. released still says could-not-look, and the sweep's exit code distinguishes the board was judged and is coherent, one clone-scoped gate abstained from the board was not judged. Those two are one exit code today, which is the substance of the finding.
• Effect (§3). read. No engine surface, no new verb, no mise pin.
• Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only and unchanged in shape: a gate name and a verdict per line. What changes is that an abstention upstream no longer suppresses a verdict downstream.
• Commit / bump (§6). ci — no bump. A mise-tasks/ caller rather than the crate, the one case no-bump is correct for below 0.1.0 (CLOUD-820 §6).
• Test obligation (§7). tests/board-sweep.bats, shown able to fail: (a) in a fixture repo with no v* tag, the sweep still reports a graph-check verdict — red today; (b) with a tag present, every gate runs exactly as now; (c) a genuinely incoherent board is still refused in the tag-less case, so the fix does not buy reachability with a weaker verdict; (d) abstention and refusal are distinguishable in the exit code. Reverting the reorder must put (a) back to red.
• Blockers (§8). None.

Acceptance

• mise run board-sweep in a tag-less clone reports a graph-check and ready-lint verdict.
• released still abstains there, and says so.
• "Judged, one gate abstained" and "not judged" are different exit codes.
• An incoherent board is still refused in the tag-less case.

Found while verifying six rows groomed in one session: the sweep reported two gates could-not-look, and the two gates that mattered had silently never run.

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Title corrected 2026-08-22 — "six gates behind it" is wrong, and the body already said so

The filed title read "reaches none of the six gates behind it". It is two. board-sweep.sh's chain is released → graph-check → ready-lint (its own header, :194, labels that section exactly so). The other three — in-progress-drain (:218), done-pr-check (:244) and spec-ref-check (:254) — are invoked independently of released, and the measured output in the section above proves it: they reported ok, REFUSED and COULD NOT LOOK in the same tag-less run that never reached graph-check.

The body's own prose had it right — "one unresolvable range takes out the two gates that decide whether the board is coherent" — so the title contradicted the paragraph beneath it. Nothing about the defect changes: the two gates it does take out are the two the sweep exists for, which is why the finding stands at a third of the claimed blast radius.

Fourth count overstatement in one session, and the third caught by re-reading a row against the artifact it describes — the others were "every one of the seven git.rs gates" (five), a headline of 44 against a table of 43, and "three hand-rolled scans" (seven). The pattern is a number written into a headline while the measurement was still being taken, and then never re-read against the body it summarises.

CLOUD-926 Fleet dispatch: everything outside CLOUD-911 — seven bundles, seven lands, and the lease already serializes them

The complement of CLOUD-911, bundled for the minimum number of lands. CLOUD-911 owns the bash retirement in two PRs; this row owns everything else, and it is written to the same economics: the landing lease is fleet-wide and charges per PAID land — a lap that reaches CI buys ~17 job-minutes, a lap that loses the lease or finds main already moved is free and refunded. So the objective function is number of paid laps, and the constraint on bundle size is not conflict surface but how confident verify is about the diff. §"Why five" carries the correction; the sections after it carry what follows from it.

Seven bundles, not five — the title said five until 2026-08-22 23:1x, while §Reconciliation below had already added PR-F and PR-G. A headline contradicting its own table is the defect CLOUD-923 records, so the title is corrected rather than left for a reader to reconcile.

The scope, stated before the plan, because it is bigger than a bundle

Measured 2026-08-22: 251 open rows — 99 Todo, 152 Backlog. Minus CLOUD-911's eleven, that is ~240 rows, which is the roadmap rather than a dispatch.

This row bundles the Todo set only, and the reason is a gate, not a preference. graph-check enforces Todo ⇒ ready-lint exit 0, so a Backlog row is not pullable and cannot enter a bundle without grooming first. Grooming is the largest available lever and it costs zero CI runs — it is board-only work, no branch, no lease, no matrix. 152 rows of it. Any session with no lease can do it in parallel with every bundle below.

Why five, and what sets the ceiling

Corrected in place 2026-08-22 23:1x. The first version of this section had the causality backwards, and the §Reconciliation below reached the same conclusion independently from charge_wait.

It read: "land's LAND_MAX_LAPS is 2. A bundle whose rebase surface is wide enough to need a third lap stops... So bundles are drawn to be file-disjoint, because a conflict is what turns one lap into three." Both halves are wrong.

Lapping is main moving, not files overlapping. main is fast-forward only, so the bot refuses the instant the branch stops being a direct descendant — whether or not the changes overlap (land.sh:5-12). Two branches touching entirely different files lap exactly as often as two touching the same one.

A lap is metered only when it reaches CI. land.sh:143-149: "A lap is METERED: it buys a CI matrix, measured at ~17 job-minutes. A lease wait is FREE: a conditional poll against a ref, no runner" — and the trade the defaults exist to express is "MANY FREE WAITS, FEW PAID LAPS." max_laps=2 bounds paid laps; max_waits=64 (:154-158) buys "~2h at the observed 2-5 minute lease turn — and waiting that long costs nothing but wall clock."

So LAND_MAX_LAPS is not a size cap. It is one try plus one retry of CI-spending attempts, and what exhausts it is a bundle that reds twice, not one that rebases often.

What disjointness actually buys, and it is worth keeping for this: freedom from the one thing that stops land — "The only stop is a rebase that conflicts", the single step needing a human decision. That is a don't-stall property, not a CI saving. The table below is a wall-clock estimate of serialized lands, not a CI-spend estimate:

bundling	lands	pure landing time at p95
one row per PR (≈54 Ready code rows)	~54	~10.5 h
five bundles	5	~58 min
five bundles + CLOUD-911's two	7	~82 min

The one lever on CI spend is mise run verify green before readying, and it is free. A red lap re-drafts the PR, the local fix costs nothing, and the next lap readies again — buying a second matrix. So the sizing question is not "how wide is the file domain" but "how confident is verify about this diff". One paid lap buys the 18 names in CI_REQUIRED_CHECKS (mise.toml:253).

Draft iteration is free, including for the two bundles that edit workflows

Verified rather than assumed, because it decides whether PR-A and PR-C can be developed cheaply: ci.yml:56, :372, :470 and zizmor.yml:71 all carry if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false. CLOUD-240's hole — a draft touching a workflow still spending a runner, which zizmor.yml had "for its whole life" — is closed. zizmor is also path-filtered to .github/workflows/** + action.yml (zizmor.yml:30), so PR-B and PR-D produce no run for it at all, and perf-gate exits clean without building when the diff touches no crate source, manifest or lockfile.

So every bundle iterates at zero CI cost until it readies. PRs start as drafts and stay drafts until the chain is complete.

Do not build a landing protocol — the lease already is one

The obvious inference from "lands serialize" is to hand-serialize the readies: ready one branch at a time, never while another holds the lease. That work is already done and re-doing it is a known defect.

charge_wait (land.sh:377-385) refunds a lap lost to a held lease or to a main that had already moved — "Both must refund the lap — a busy fleet would otherwise exhaust LAND_MAX_LAPS on waits." So all seven bundles may call land concurrently: the losers take free, refunded waits up to ~2h of queue depth, and nobody burns a matrix waiting their turn. Measured precedent on #302 with four active sessions: 5 waits lost and 3 laps entered in 22 minutes (land.sh:147).

Hand-serializing would be exactly the failure .claude/rules/toolchain.md records against CLOUD-238: an agent inferring landing is "a race I keep losing" and batching against the design, when "batching removes no refusal and only makes each lap bigger." AGENTS.md stands unmodified — run the lifecycle tasks as written, never wrapped in bespoke retry or pre-check logic.

The dispatch instruction is therefore the plain one: each bundle runs mise run linear-check, then mise run land backgrounded, and lets the lease arbitrate.

The two disjointness walls

Wall 1 — bundle 1 is in flight. PR #660 owns facts.rs, rules.rs, policy.rs, git.rs, schema/*, mise-tasks/mutant.sh, mise-tasks/test*, tests/*.bats. Any row in those files either joins that PR or waits for it. That is what puts PR-E last.

Wall 2 — bundle 2 is a demolition. CLOUD-910 deletes up to 20 tree-scoped gates and their suites. Fixing a bash gate that bundle 2 then deletes is wasted work and a guaranteed conflict.

The load-bearing distinction, and it must be re-derived rather than trusted: the board gates (graph-check, ready-lint, ready-cites-check, board-sweep, board-write-record, closing-key-check, landed-check) are pure functions of piped stdin, not tree-scoped rows, so bundle 2's set does not reach them. That is the argument for PR-A and PR-B being safe to land before or beside bundle 2. CLOUD-911 says bundle 2 re-derives its exact set at wave start; whoever claims PR-A or PR-B must intersect their file list against that derivation at claim time and drop any collision onto CLOUD-910.

Three meta-gates decide whether this strategy is honest at all

This is the part that changes the order, and it is worth more than any single bundle's content.

1. CLOUD-674 — closing-key-check never checks that the body closes every key the branch served. A bundle PR carrying twelve rows and naming three in its body strands nine: they never reach In Review, and the gate reports a clean pass. Every bundle below is exposed to this. It is the row that makes "as many tickets per PR as possible" a safe instruction instead of a silent data-loss instruction, and it goes in the first PR.
2. CLOUD-827 — nothing prices a prose-only branch. Two sentences of doc comment buy a full CI matrix. PR-D is almost entirely prose, so landing 827 first is what makes PR-D nearly free. Ordering, not taste.
3. CLOUD-886 — test:bats globs mise-tasks/**, so one sentence runs 151 suites. The largest per-lap cost driver on the board, and it is already inside CLOUD-911 bundle 1, so nothing here needs to duplicate it. Named so nobody bundles it twice.

PR-A lands under the broken 674, so it must name all eight of its keys by hand. After it lands, the gate enforces what this row currently asks an author to remember.

The bundles

#	Bundle	Rows	File domain	Lands
A	the landing floor	674, 827, 859, 903, 904, 465, 464, 727	mise-tasks/land.sh, ci-wait.sh, landed-check.sh, closing-key-check.sh, tests/land.bats, .github/workflows/*	1
B	the board gates	920, 921, 923, 678, 477, 634, 806, 453, 829, 771, 599, 735, 729, 698, 854	mise-tasks/*-check.sh (board arm), board-sweep.sh, board-write-record.sh, their suites	1
C	SBOM / release conformance	628, 629, 630, 631, 664, 666, 667 (+ parent 608)	mise-tasks/sbom*, ntia-check, syft config, release workflows, Cargo.toml metadata	1
D	front door + prose	869, 402, 871, 633, 680, 788, 326, 605	README.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/rules/*, remedy strings	1
E	engine / fact model	359, 360, 756, 760, 762, 914, 787, 594, 614, 372, 437, 882, 740 (924 and 925 moved to PR-G, see the reconciliation below)	facts.rs, rules.rs, policy.rs, lib.rs, git.rs	1

PR-C's bundle is forced by the board rather than chosen. CLOUD-631 promotes sbom-ntia-conformance from warn to deny in the change that makes it pass — that is its own acceptance clause, so it cannot be a separate PR from 628/629/630/664/666/667. A rare case where the cheapest bundling is also the only correct one.

PR-E's one real hazard is CLOUD-360. Its library half narrows pub mod → pub(crate) mod, which deletes public API and breaks ~432 integration tests by design — that row treats the breakage as the deliverable. It is the widest blast radius on the board and it is what could push PR-E past the two-lap cap. Keep it in PR-E as the last commits, not first: splitting it out buys a sixth land, and the tests it breaks are all inside the same PR's diff, so they cannot conflict with anything else. Its two halves are independently landable and the row says so.

The order, and why each step is a CI saving rather than a preference

1. PR-A. Fixes 674 (every later bundle's tail stops being stranded) and 827 (PR-D stops buying a matrix). Its content is worth less than its position.
2. PR-C and PR-D developed in parallel. (An earlier version of this line said "landed back to back — fully disjoint domains, so neither rebases the other". False: they queue on the lease like everything else, and whichever lands second rebases onto the first whether or not they share a file. Disjointness spares them a conflict, not a rebase.)
3. PR-B. The widest bash bundle; intersect against bundle 2's derived set first.
4. CLOUD-911 bundle 1 lands, then PR-E, then CLOUD-911 bundle 2.

The rows that need no PR at all — clear these now, at zero CI cost

Two classes, ~30 rows, and both are pure velocity because they never acquire the lease:

• Research rows. Non-negotiable rule 7 sends research to Linear, not a repo docs/ tree, and no-docs-tree fails on any tracked docs/ path. So a research row's deliverable is a Linear artifact and it lands no commit: 264, 586, 913, 915, 472, 75, 134, and in Backlog 131, 737, 500, 528, 124, 128, 130, 600, 677, 591, 466, 459, 366, 355.
• Parent and coordination rows, which CLOUD-735 shows have both gates out of In Progress unreachable by construction — they open no PR and land no commit: 14, 18, 608, 784, and in Backlog 656, 703, 607, 632.

CLOUD-735 applies to this row too: leave it in Todo and close it by hand once the five bundles are away, rather than pulling it and stranding it.

What this row is doing by hand

CLOUD-459 — "the fleet lands in lease-arrival order, not in least-conflict order: no branch knows the rebase cost of the ordering it is queuing into." The disjointness partition and the ordering above are that computation, done by hand against one snapshot. It is stale the moment main moves, which is the argument for 459 rather than for re-typing this table.

Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). The board and the tree. The bundle membership is a partition of the Todo set as measured on 170c7c4; the file domains are what decide it. If this row and the tree disagree, the tree is right and this row is stale.
• Computable predicate (§2). For each bundle: mise run graph-check over its piped closure prints every member on the frontier or excluded behind a named blocker, and mise run ready-lint exits 0 for every member. For the partition itself: the five file-domain lists are pairwise disjoint, and none intersects CLOUD-911 bundle 2's derived set — checked with Glob/Grep at claim time, since no-tool-substitution refuses a shell scanner aimed at a repo path.
• Effect (§3). free — a tracker record. Nothing is resolved, built or spawned.
• Generated artifacts (§4). None.
• Output / exit (§5). No command surface is touched.
• Commit / bump (§6). none — this row lands no commit.
• Test obligation (§7). None of its own; each bundle's rows carry theirs. The two claims here that could be wrong are the disjointness of the five domains and the exclusion of the board gates from bundle 2's set. Both are falsified by running the §2 checks, and both must be re-run at claim time rather than trusted from this body.
• Blockers (§8). None. PR-E waits on CLOUD-911 bundle 1 by file domain rather than by relation, because that is a conflict cost and not a dependency — recorded here so nobody encodes it as a false edge.

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Reconciliation, 2026-08-22 22:0x: six Todo rows are in no bundle above, and two are double-booked

This row and the capture/mediated-call groom were written within minutes of each other and disagree. Recorded here rather than in either author's chat, because a partition that two records describe differently is worse than either description alone.

The gap: six rows the five bundles do not contain

917, 918, 919, 892, 893 and 312 are absent from PR-A through PR-E. All five of the first were already Todo when this row measured "99 Todo", so this is a gap in the partition rather than a scoping decision — and §2's disjointness predicate cannot catch it, because a partition can be pairwise-disjoint and still not cover.

They are two further bundles, drawn on the same economics:

#	Bundle	Rows	File domain	Lands
F	the capture spine	917, 918, 919, 893	capture.rs, cli.rs, surface.rs, config.rs, doctor.rs, hook.rs, lib.rs (one call site), schema/*	1
G	the mediated-call retirement	924, 925, 892, and CLOUD-312's inventory rows 1–8 and 10	rules.rs, budget.rs, stop.rs, drain.rs, batten.toml, .claude/settings.json, nine mise-tasks/*.sh deletions + their suites	1

PR-F is disjoint from A–E and from CLOUD-911 bundle 2, and depends on nothing. It is the one bundle on the whole board that can land immediately — worth taking first for that reason alone, and it should land while #660 is still a draft, since a draft rebase costs zero CI and a green one costs a lap.

PR-G waits on CLOUD-911 bundle 1, and by dependency rather than by file domain — which is the opposite of PR-E's reason and is worth distinguishing. Every sibling-script deletion in it owes CLOUD-892's §2 obligation (the rule's output reproduced from config before the script dies, proved by replaying the dying suite's own fixtures). That replay is CLOUD-909 and the mapping ratchet is CLOUD-908, both inside bundle 1. So PR-G's wait is a real edge, not a conflict cost.

The double-booking: 924 and 925

PR-E claims them; PR-G needs them. They belong in PR-G, on two grounds:

1. The rows they unblock are in PR-G. CLOUD-312's rows 4 and 5 are blockedBy 924, row 6 is blockedBy 925. Splitting an instrument from its only consumers buys a land and gains nothing.
2. It makes PR-E smaller where PR-E is most at risk. This row already names CLOUD-360 as the widest blast radius on the board — ~432 integration tests broken by design — and "what could push PR-E past the two-lap cap." Shedding two rows that pull in rules.rs and the generated schema is a straight reduction in that risk.

PR-E's cell above is corrected rather than left to a reader to reconcile.

One refinement to the lap-cap argument, which strengthens it

§"Why five" reads LAND_MAX_LAPS = 2 as a bound on rebase surface. Read charge_wait (land.sh:383) beside it: a lap lost to a held lease or to a moved main is refunded — both, explicitly, so "a busy fleet would otherwise exhaust LAND_MAX_LAPS on waiting alone and give up without ever having attempted."

So the cap is not a rebase budget. It is two CI-spending attempts per PR: one try plus one retry. The conclusion holds and gets sharper — what exhausts the cap is a bundle that reds twice, not one that rebases often. That relocates the sizing question from "how wide is the file domain" to "how confident is verify about this diff", which is why the one arm where a local green does not clear CI matters more than conflict surface: perf-compare is a ratio and a dev container's baseline is ~3.5x CI's.

Net effect

Five lands become seven (A, F, C, D, B, then 911 bundle 1, E, G, 911 bundle 2 — F insertable anywhere before the rest). PR-E sheds two rows. Nothing else in the partition moves.

The ordering argument in §"The order" is unchanged and still right: PR-A first for CLOUD-674 and CLOUD-827, whose positions are worth more than their content.

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Readiness, run 2026-08-22 23:3x — NOT ready. Four blockers, each with an owner

plan-fleet.md §2 prescribes a three-source subtraction before dispatch — live sessions, open PRs with their file lists, and In Progress assignees. It had not been run. Running it found four blockers, two of which would have wasted a land.

1. Ten bundle rows are assigned, so claim-check refuses

claim-check exits non-zero on not-todo, assigned, or has-pr. Assigned refuses even in Todo.

bundle	assigned rows
PR-A	465, 464
PR-B	453, 477
PR-D	605, 402
PR-E	437, 594, 372
PR-G	312

All to alec@button.is. This is CLOUD-911's wall reproduced — it hit the same thing on CLOUD-480 and concluded "Releasing them is the cheaper move." Human action: release or reassign; otherwise each bundle ships short and says so on the row it dropped.

The same read clears a worry: the five In Progress rows (911, 907, 908, 883, 876) are all CLOUD-911's. No bundle here contains an In Progress row.

2. PR-A collides with open draft #651, which already implements CLOUD-904

#651 (claude/ci-performance-degradation-rplznx, draft, no live session) changes exactly mise-tasks/land and tests/land.bats — PR-A's core domain — and its subject is CLOUD-904: "the lap cap said stop, and stopping is how a branch stops landing." It already carries a #MUTANT lap-cap-may-read-as-stop row and a bats case.

Take that branch over rather than opening a new one. It is a draft, so iterating is free, and adding PR-A's other seven rows costs zero extra lands. A fresh branch in the same two files buys a guaranteed conflict and a second land.

It is stale against a rename, and that is resolved first. Main carries mise-tasks/land.sh (verified by Glob: land.sh, land-lock.sh, landed-check.sh, land-divergence.sh, land-divergence-assert.sh, land-lock-check.sh). #651 modifies mise-tasks/land, a path that no longer exists — it predates CLOUD-865's rename, the one CLOUD-902 records dangling the installed hook symlinks. So its rebase hits a rename conflict on both files, which is the one thing that stops land. Re-apply its two hunks onto land.sh and tests/land.bats; do not merge.

3. PR-C collides with #572, which is already readied

#572 is renovate's syft 1.51.0, and it is not a draft — it is spending CI now. PR-C is the SBOM bundle and syft generates the artifact CLOUD-664 measured (244 components for 198 distinct things) and CLOUD-666 blames. A syft bump moves those numbers. PR-C lands after #572, or its measurements are taken against a tool version that is no longer installed.

4. The partition is already stale, by design

A live session (claude/rego-gate-architecture-wr7o5e, idle and blocked on a question) reports "7 independent tasks identified" and names CLOUD-932 and CLOUD-936 — both filed after this row measured 99 Todo. The capture session added PR-F and PR-G. This is CLOUD-459's finding about hand-computed orderings, and §"What this row is doing by hand" already says the table is stale the moment main moves. Re-run the frontier at dispatch time; do not paste a prompt built on this snapshot without it.

What IS verified

• This row: ready-lint exit 0, graph-check board coherent over the closure.
• The landing model, read from source rather than reasoned: paid laps only, contention refunded, draft iteration free including the workflow bundles (zizmor.yml:71).
• PR-B and PR-D collide with nothing. #659 touches only .serena/memories/workflow/board-states.md, so it does not reach PR-D's README.md / AGENTS.md / .claude/rules/** domain.
• create_session is refused upstream (CLOUD-734, Done, carries the measurement) and every live session is human-opened. So the prompts below are pasted by a human, one session each.

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Dispatch prompts — one block per bundle, pasted into one session each

Each block is standalone; the workflow contract is repeated verbatim in every one and the repetition is the point. CLOUD-728 measured five bundles coming up unsupervised because a human pasted one quoted block and dropped a shared contract.

PR-F and PR-G are not here — they belong to the capture/mediated-call dispatch record, whose author owns their prompts.

Bundle A — the landing floor

You are bundle A of the CLOUD-926 dispatch in the Batten repo. Read CLOUD-926
first: it carries the landing economics, the readiness blockers and why your
position in the order matters more than your content.

READ AGENTS.md BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. It is your standing authorization to carry
work to landed-and-verified WITHOUT asking. A session that has not read it stops
after the edits and waits, which is the defect. Then read
mem:workflow/agent-fanout, mem:workflow/board-states, and
.claude/rules/toolchain.md — your surface is the lifecycle tasks.

DO NOT OPEN A NEW BRANCH. Take over the existing draft:
  claude/ci-performance-degradation-rplznx  (PR #651, no live session)
It already implements CLOUD-904 — a #MUTANT row plus a bats case. Opening a fresh
branch in the same two files buys a guaranteed conflict and a second land.

FIRST TASK, before any new work: that branch is STALE ACROSS A RENAME. It
modifies mise-tasks/land, and main carries mise-tasks/land.sh (CLOUD-865's
rename; CLOUD-902 records what else it broke). Its rebase hits a rename conflict
on both files, which is the ONE thing that stops land. Re-apply its two hunks
onto mise-tasks/land.sh and tests/land.bats by hand. Do not merge.

THE CHAIN, in order, and the order is dependency not taste:
  CLOUD-674 -> 827 -> 904 (already done) -> 859 -> 903 -> 727 -> 465* -> 464*
- 674 FIRST. closing-key-check never checks that the body closes every key the
  branch served, so every later bundle in this campaign strands its tail until
  this lands. Your position is worth more than your content.
- 827 SECOND. Nothing prices a prose-only branch, so bundle D currently buys a
  full CI matrix for eight prose rows. Landing this makes that nearly free.
- 859, 903, 727 are landing-lifecycle defects in the same files.
- 465 and 464 are ASSIGNED and claim-check will refuse them. Do not work around
  the gate. Write the refusal on each row and skip it.

YOU OWN: mise-tasks/land.sh, ci-wait.sh, landed-check.sh, closing-key-check.sh,
land-lock.sh, tests/land.bats, .github/workflows/**
DO NOT TOUCH: facts.rs, rules.rs, policy.rs, git.rs, schema/** (PR #660 holds
them), mise-tasks/*-check.sh board arm (bundle B holds it).

ONE branch, ONE draft PR, all rows in it. Sanctioned shape — CLOUD-661 retired
one-PR-per-ticket and CLOUD-502 is Canceled.

THREE COSTS OF THE ONE-PR SHAPE. The first destroys work silently:
1. THE BRANCH MUST NOT NAME A TICKET. closing-key-check passes on the FIRST
   closing key it finds (CLOUD-527) and branch-name precedence beats the PR body
   — measured: a branch naming one issue moved that issue and left the others
   untouched. Your branch name is a domain name, which is already true of the one
   you are taking over. Close EVERY key in the PR body. Check the board after the
   merge. You are landing 674 under the broken gate, so you carry it by hand.
2. The board reports N units for one contender (graph-check counts In Progress).
   A reporting artifact, not a refusal.
3. One failure holds the batch.

PER-ROW LOOP: mise run claim-check (get_issue payload on stdin) -> claim and
assign yourself -> plan THIS ROW ONLY -> build -> mise run verify -> commit ->
next row. Do NOT plan the whole chain up front; a later row's shape depends on
what the earlier one lands.

ONCE, after the last commit: mise run linear-check, then mise run land
BACKGROUNDED. Do not ready by hand — land readies after its push. Do not wrap
land in retry or pre-check logic and do not hand-serialize against the other
bundles: the land-lock lease refunds a lap lost to contention or to a moved main
(land.sh:377-385), so waiting costs nothing while a paid lap costs ~17
job-minutes. main advancing under you is the loop working (CLOUD-238).

CI SKIPS DRAFTS, including for workflow changes (zizmor.yml:71). Open the draft
immediately and stay draft until the chain is done — iteration is free. verify
green before readying is the ONLY lever on CI spend. perf-compare is a RATIO and
a dev container's baseline is ~3.5x CI's, so a local green does NOT clear it.

KEEP GOING. A row you cannot claim is written on the issue and skipped, never a
reason to halt. The board and the PR are the report; do not stop to narrate.
UPDATE CLOUD-926's progress section at every commit: branch, PR number, rows
done. Your container can be reclaimed; chat does not survive it.

Bundle B — the board gates

You are bundle B of the CLOUD-926 dispatch in the Batten repo. Read CLOUD-926
first: it carries the landing economics and the readiness blockers.

READ AGENTS.md BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. It is your standing authorization to carry
work to landed-and-verified WITHOUT asking. A session that has not read it stops
after the edits and waits, which is the defect. Then read
mem:workflow/agent-fanout, mem:workflow/board-states, and
.claude/rules/toolchain.md.

BRANCH: claude/board-gates-bundle  (a DOMAIN name, never a ticket name — see the
three costs below).

FIRST TASK, before any code: intersect your file list against CLOUD-910's derived
retirement set. That wave deletes up to 20 TREE-SCOPED gates. The board gates are
pure functions of piped stdin rather than tree-scoped rows, which is the argument
that your set survives — but CLOUD-911 says bundle 2 re-derives its set at wave
start, so verify rather than trust it. Any collision moves onto CLOUD-910. Take
the file list with Glob/Grep: no-tool-substitution refuses a shell scanner aimed
at a repo path.

THE CHAIN, cheapest-enabling-first:
  CLOUD-921 -> 678 -> 477 (ASSIGNED) -> 920 -> 923 -> 806 -> 634 -> 453
  (ASSIGNED) -> 829 -> 771 -> 599 -> 735 -> 729 -> 698 -> 854
- 921 first: released gates graph-check and ready-lint behind it, so a tag-less
  clone judges NOTHING. Every other row here is easier to verify once the sweep
  actually reaches the gates.
- 678 and 477 next: both starve a row off the frontier, so fixing them changes
  what the queue reports for everything after.
- 920 and 923 are the two gate defects filed while this partition was drawn.
- 453, 477 are ASSIGNED and claim-check will refuse them. Do not work around the
  gate. Write the refusal on the row and skip it.

YOU OWN: mise-tasks/*-check.sh (the board arm), board-sweep.sh,
board-write-record.sh, graph-check.sh, ready-lint.sh, ready-cites-check.sh, and
their bats suites.
DO NOT TOUCH: mise-tasks/land.sh, ci-wait.sh, landed-check.sh,
closing-key-check.sh, .github/workflows/** (bundle A holds them); facts.rs,
rules.rs, policy.rs, git.rs, schema/** (PR #660).

ONE branch, ONE draft PR, all rows in it. Sanctioned shape — CLOUD-661 retired
one-PR-per-ticket and CLOUD-502 is Canceled.

THREE COSTS OF THE ONE-PR SHAPE. The first destroys work silently:
1. THE BRANCH MUST NOT NAME A TICKET. closing-key-check passes on the FIRST
   closing key it finds (CLOUD-527) and branch-name precedence beats the PR body
   — measured: a branch naming one issue moved that issue and left the others
   untouched. Close EVERY key in the PR body and check the board after the merge.
   CLOUD-674 is the gate that should catch this and it is unfixed unless bundle A
   has landed; assume it has not.
2. The board reports N units for one contender. A reporting artifact.
3. One failure holds the batch — and this is the widest bundle, so keep each row
   a separate commit and keep verify green as you go.

PER-ROW LOOP: mise run claim-check (get_issue payload on stdin) -> claim and
assign yourself -> plan THIS ROW ONLY -> build -> mise run verify -> commit ->
next row. Do NOT plan the whole chain up front.

ONCE, after the last commit: mise run linear-check, then mise run land
BACKGROUNDED. Do not ready by hand. Do not wrap land in retry logic and do not
hand-serialize against the other bundles: the lease refunds a lap lost to
contention or to a moved main (land.sh:377-385), so waiting costs nothing while a
paid lap costs ~17 job-minutes. main advancing under you is the loop working
(CLOUD-238).

CI SKIPS DRAFTS. Your diff touches no workflow and no crate source, so zizmor
produces no run at all and perf-gate exits clean without building — your matrix
is genuinely smaller than the engine bundles'. Stay draft until the chain is done.

KEEP GOING. A row you cannot claim is written on the issue and skipped, never a
reason to halt. UPDATE CLOUD-926's progress section at every commit: branch, PR
number, rows done.

Bundle C — SBOM / release conformance

You are bundle C of the CLOUD-926 dispatch in the Batten repo. Read CLOUD-926
first: it carries the landing economics and the readiness blockers.

READ AGENTS.md BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. It is your standing authorization to carry
work to landed-and-verified WITHOUT asking. A session that has not read it stops
after the edits and waits, which is the defect. Then read
mem:workflow/agent-fanout, mem:workflow/board-states, and
.claude/rules/commits.md — you touch release config.

BRANCH: claude/sbom-conformance-bundle  (a DOMAIN name, never a ticket name).

WAIT FOR PR #572 FIRST. It is renovate's syft 1.51.0 and it is ALREADY READIED,
so it is spending CI now. syft generates the artifact CLOUD-664 measured (244
components for 198 distinct things) and CLOUD-666 blames. A syft bump moves those
numbers, so every measurement you take before it lands is against a tool version
that will not be installed. Re-derive the component census on the new syft as
your first act, and if the numbers moved, say so on CLOUD-664 rather than
carrying its figure forward.

THE CHAIN, and the last row is forced to be last:
  CLOUD-666 -> 664 -> 630 -> 629 -> 628 -> 667 -> 631
- 666 first: fsct3-min requires an SPDX 3 field syft cannot emit, so ntia-check
  is GUARANTEED red and blames the lockfile for it. Until that is fixed you
  cannot tell a real conformance failure from the permanent one.
- 664 next: the component count is wrong (one entry per workflow reference, the
  root package twice, a spurious ./action), so every downstream enrichment row
  is enriching phantom entries.
- 630, 629, 628 are the supplier / copyright / license enrichment rows. 629 is a
  DECISION row — whether the registry cache is a defensible source for copyright
  text — so settle it before 628 builds on it.
- 667 is the 9 SHA-pinned GitHub Actions.
- 631 LAST, and this is not a preference: it promotes sbom-ntia-conformance from
  warn to deny "in the change that makes it pass", which is its own acceptance
  clause. It cannot be a separate PR and it cannot come before the rows that make
  it pass.

YOU OWN: mise-tasks/sbom*, ntia-check, the syft config, the release workflows,
Cargo.toml package metadata.
DO NOT TOUCH: mise-tasks/land.sh, ci-wait.sh, closing-key-check.sh (bundle A);
mise-tasks/*-check.sh board arm (bundle B); facts.rs, rules.rs, policy.rs,
git.rs, schema/** (PR #660).

ONE branch, ONE draft PR, all rows in it. Sanctioned shape — CLOUD-661 retired
one-PR-per-ticket and CLOUD-502 is Canceled.

THREE COSTS OF THE ONE-PR SHAPE. The first destroys work silently:
1. THE BRANCH MUST NOT NAME A TICKET. closing-key-check passes on the FIRST
   closing key it finds (CLOUD-527) and branch-name precedence beats the PR body
   — measured: a branch naming one issue moved that issue and left the others
   untouched. Close EVERY key in the PR body and check the board after the merge.
2. The board reports N units for one contender. A reporting artifact.
3. One failure holds the batch.

PER-ROW LOOP: mise run claim-check (get_issue payload on stdin) -> claim and
assign yourself -> plan THIS ROW ONLY -> build -> mise run verify -> commit ->
next row. Do NOT plan the whole chain up front. None of your rows is assigned, so
you should be able to claim all seven.

ONCE, after the last commit: mise run linear-check, then mise run land
BACKGROUNDED. Do not ready by hand. Do not wrap land in retry logic and do not
hand-serialize against the other bundles: the lease refunds a lap lost to
contention or to a moved main (land.sh:377-385), so waiting costs nothing while a
paid lap costs ~17 job-minutes.

CI SKIPS DRAFTS, including for workflow changes (zizmor.yml:71). You DO touch
workflows, so zizmor will run on your readied head — but not on any draft push.
Stay draft until the chain is done.

KEEP GOING. UPDATE CLOUD-926's progress section at every commit: branch, PR
number, rows done.

Bundle D — front door and prose

You are bundle D of the CLOUD-926 dispatch in the Batten repo. Read CLOUD-926
first: it carries the landing economics and the readiness blockers.

READ AGENTS.md BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. It is your standing authorization to carry
work to landed-and-verified WITHOUT asking. A session that has not read it stops
after the edits and waits, which is the defect. Then read
mem:workflow/agent-fanout and mem:workflow/board-states.

BRANCH: claude/front-door-bundle  (a DOMAIN name, never a ticket name).

LAND AFTER BUNDLE A IF YOU CAN. Your diff is almost entirely prose, and nothing
currently prices a prose-only branch — CLOUD-827, inside bundle A, is what stops
two sentences of doc comment buying a full CI matrix. If A has landed, your
matrix is much smaller. If it has not, proceed anyway; do not idle waiting.

THE CHAIN:
  CLOUD-869 -> 402 (ASSIGNED) -> 871 -> 680 -> 633 -> 788 -> 326 -> 605 (ASSIGNED)
- 869 first: the front door tells the reader the repository is private and cites
  four documents they cannot open. It is the only row here a stranger sees.
- 402: batten --help leads with a retired policy-engine claim, a second copy of
  the crate description with nothing asserting they agree. ASSIGNED — expect a
  claim-check refusal.
- 871 then 680: gate remedy text is unaudited prose that steers the agent, and
  one sentence steered it into an unrecoverable action. 680 is the same class:
  an override ask presented as a menu of routes rather than the binary decision
  it is. Do 871 first — it is the general audit, 680 is one instance.
- 633, 788, 326 are the recall / threshold / durable-home rows.
- 605 ASSIGNED: a user-level stop hook instructs the exact commit identity
  batten.toml denies. Expect a refusal.

AGENTS.md IS AT ITS BUDGETED LINE CEILING. policy-budget gates it plus
everything always-loaded against a token budget — it is `batten policy budget`,
and the counted set and thresholds are [budget.instructions] in batten.toml. So
an addition must DISPLACE, not append. If a change cannot fit, the content goes
to .claude/rules/ or a memory and AGENTS.md gets a pointer.

YOU OWN: README.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/rules/**, and gate remedy strings.
DO NOT TOUCH: .serena/memories/** — PR #659 holds
.serena/memories/workflow/board-states.md, and memory writes are gated: the
protected-path rule crosses .serena/memories/** with the verb table, so use
Serena's own tools and expect a deny on a shell write. Also not
mise-tasks/land.sh or .github/workflows/** (bundle A), and not facts.rs,
rules.rs, policy.rs, git.rs, schema/** (PR #660).

ONE branch, ONE draft PR, all rows in it. Sanctioned shape — CLOUD-661 retired
one-PR-per-ticket and CLOUD-502 is Canceled.

THREE COSTS OF THE ONE-PR SHAPE. The first destroys work silently:
1. THE BRANCH MUST NOT NAME A TICKET. closing-key-check passes on the FIRST
   closing key it finds (CLOUD-527) and branch-name precedence beats the PR body
   — measured: a branch naming one issue moved that issue and left the others
   untouched. Close EVERY key in the PR body and check the board after the merge.
2. The board reports N units for one contender. A reporting artifact.
3. One failure holds the batch.

PER-ROW LOOP: mise run claim-check (get_issue payload on stdin) -> claim and
assign yourself -> plan THIS ROW ONLY -> build -> mise run verify -> commit ->
next row. Do NOT plan the whole chain up front.

ONCE, after the last commit: mise run linear-check, then mise run land
BACKGROUNDED. Do not ready by hand. Do not wrap land in retry logic and do not
hand-serialize against the other bundles: the lease refunds a lap lost to
contention or to a moved main (land.sh:377-385).

CI SKIPS DRAFTS. Your diff touches no crate source, so perf-gate exits clean
without building, and no workflow, so zizmor produces no run at all. Stay draft
until the chain is done.

A PROSE CHANGE STILL NEEDS A MECHANISM. Non-negotiable rule 2: a new rule
without a runnable gate is half a change, and prose is feedforward only. Several
of these rows are about text that steers an agent — where the row asks for a
rule, ship the check with it.

KEEP GOING. UPDATE CLOUD-926's progress section at every commit: branch, PR
number, rows done.

Bundle E — engine and fact model

You are bundle E of the CLOUD-926 dispatch in the Batten repo. Read CLOUD-926
first: it carries the landing economics and the readiness blockers.

READ AGENTS.md BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. It is your standing authorization to carry
work to landed-and-verified WITHOUT asking. A session that has not read it stops
after the edits and waits, which is the defect. Then read
mem:workflow/agent-fanout, mem:workflow/board-states, .claude/rules/rust.md and
.claude/rules/scanning.md — you edit crates/** and you will be tempted to grep.

BRANCH: claude/fact-model-bundle  (a DOMAIN name, never a ticket name).

DO NOT START UNTIL PR #660 HAS LANDED. Verify on the tree, not from this prompt:
CLOUD-911 bundle 1 rewrites facts.rs, rules.rs, policy.rs, git.rs and schema/**,
which is your entire domain. A draft rebase costs no CI, so the cost of starting
early is rework rather than money — but the rework is large, because that branch
is adding a Production axis and generating both policy-input schemas from
Fact::ALL. Wait.

THE CHAIN, and CLOUD-360 is deliberately LAST:
  CLOUD-787 -> 914 -> 762 -> 359 -> 756 -> 882 -> 614 -> 740 -> 760 -> 372* ->
  437* -> 594* -> 360
- 787 first: ReceiptFacts and KeyFacts still spell "could not look" as Option,
  so the three-valued contract is stated in one file and practised in another.
  Every row after it depends on that contract being real.
- 914 then 762: the two precision facts. 914 is position-awareness (a token in
  command position vs in a comment, a string, or the gate's own source); 762 is
  the use-graph measurement. Neither blocks 359 — both are hardenings.
- 359 then 756: 359 is the layering gate, and it is EXPRESSIBLE TODAY on
  Rule::line_sources (rules.rs, glob-selected, unparsed lines, three-valued by
  construction because an unreadable path stays in `missing`). 756 then migrates
  one of the seven hand-rolled git.rs source scans onto the same surface and
  DELETES the scan in the same change. Do 359 first: it is the worked example
  756 needs.
- 882, 614, 740, 760 are the remaining engine rows.
- 372, 437, 594 are ASSIGNED and claim-check will refuse them. Do not work
  around the gate. Write the refusal on the row and skip it.
- 360 LAST, and this is the whole sizing argument. Its library half narrows
  37 `pub mod` to `pub(crate) mod`, which DELETES public API and breaks ~432
  integration tests BY DESIGN — that row treats the breakage as the deliverable
  and the compiler as the oracle. Its two halves (visibility narrowing;
  config-deprecation grammar) are independently landable and the row says so. Put
  the narrowing in the final commits so a red there does not hold the twelve rows
  in front of it.

RE-RESOLVE EVERY file:line IN THESE BODIES BEFORE TRUSTING IT. Measured on
CLOUD-760 alone: SIX pointers in one body resolved to the wrong thing —
rules.rs:2223, exec.rs:1479 (wrong MODULE, it is outputs.rs:208), rules.rs:1544,
two secrets.rs spans and identity.rs:363. The substance held every time; only the
addresses were stale, and no gate sees this class because ready-cites-check only
judges backticked paths containing a slash. Resolve by SYMBOL NAME with Serena,
not by line number, and not with grep: surface.rs imports clap::Command bare, so
a text scan counts two different types as one (grep 14, syntax matcher 11, name
resolution 9).

YOU OWN: crates/batten/src/facts.rs, rules.rs, policy.rs, lib.rs, git.rs, and
the schema/** they generate.
DO NOT TOUCH: mise-tasks/** at all — bundle A holds the lifecycle tasks, bundle
B holds the board gates, and CLOUD-910 is deleting up to 20 of the rest.

GENERATED ARTIFACTS ARE REGENERATED, NEVER HAND-MERGED. schema/batten.schema.json
and schema/batten.local.schema.json come from `mise run fix`; derived-check and
schema-check gate both. Two merged regenerations produce a file neither branch
would have produced.

ONE branch, ONE draft PR, all rows in it. Sanctioned shape — CLOUD-661 retired
one-PR-per-ticket and CLOUD-502 is Canceled.

THREE COSTS OF THE ONE-PR SHAPE. The first destroys work silently:
1. THE BRANCH MUST NOT NAME A TICKET. closing-key-check passes on the FIRST
   closing key it finds (CLOUD-527) and branch-name precedence beats the PR body
   — measured: a branch naming one issue moved that issue and left the others
   untouched. Close EVERY key in the PR body and check the board after the merge.
2. The board reports N units for one contender. A reporting artifact.
3. One failure holds the batch — which is why 360 is last.

PER-ROW LOOP: mise run claim-check (get_issue payload on stdin) -> claim and
assign yourself -> plan THIS ROW ONLY -> build -> mise run verify -> commit ->
next row. Do NOT plan the whole chain up front; a later row's shape depends on
what the earlier one lands, and that is especially true here.

ONCE, after the last commit: mise run linear-check, then mise run land
BACKGROUNDED. Do not ready by hand. Do not wrap land in retry logic and do not
hand-serialize against the other bundles: the lease refunds a lap lost to
contention or to a moved main (land.sh:377-385).

YOUR MATRIX IS THE EXPENSIVE ONE. You touch crate source, so perf-gate BUILDS
both arms rather than exiting clean, and semver runs against the library surface
— 360 will need the honest `refactor(lib)!` type, which collapses to a patch
below 0.1.0 and still marks the changelog entry breaking. perf-compare is a
RATIO and a dev container's baseline is ~3.5x CI's, so a LOCAL GREEN DOES NOT
CLEAR IT; read the CI number. Run perf-gate with nothing else in flight — two
readings had to be discarded on #660 because a build or a formatter was running
alongside.

KEEP GOING. UPDATE CLOUD-926's progress section at every commit: branch, PR
number, rows done.

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Progress (each bundle updates this at every commit — branch, PR, rows done)

• Bundle A — not dispatched. Blocked on the assigned-row release and on taking over Bundle A: the landing floor — 674, 827, 904, 903, 727 in one land #651.
• Bundle B — not dispatched.
• Bundle C — not dispatched. Waiting on ci(deps): update dependency aqua:anchore/syft to v1.51.0 - autoclosed #572.
• Bundle D — not dispatched.
• Bundle E — not dispatched. Waiting on CLOUD-911 bundle 1 — the floor for the bash retirement #660.
• Bundles F and G — the capture/mediated-call dispatch record's, not this one's.

CLOUD-678 `graph-check` reads a blocker outside the piped set as unresolved, so an issue whose blocker has landed is starved off the frontier — and the closure the workflow prescribes excludes Done by construction

Why

status_of (mise-tasks/graph-check:109) is a jq select over the piped payloads, so for an id that is not in the set it returns the empty string. The frontier's resolve loop then reads that verdict:

case "$(status_of "$to")" in Done | "In Review") ;; *)
    ok=0
    blocking="$blocking $to"
    ;;
esac

(:285.) The empty string falls into the catch-all, so "I was not given this blocker" is converted into "this blocker has not completed." That is the same non-answer-into-answer shape CLOUD-477 names, one layer out: it fixes the case where the blocker IS in the set and its status is terminal-but-not-Done, and explicitly scopes this one out — "the dangling-blocker and unjudgeable-blockedby rules, which are separate arms and correct as they stand." The arms are individually correct. Their interaction is not.

Measured 2026-08-19 on main at b2f8992, piping real payloads for CLOUD-672 and CLOUD-674 — two Todo issues whose only blocker, CLOUD-661, completed at 23:01Z the night before:

piped set	result
{672, 674} — an active-only closure	dangling-blocker (CLOUD-661) ×2, excluded (blocked-by CLOUD-661) ×2, no frontier lines, exit 1
{672, 674, 661, 658}	frontier CLOUD-672, frontier CLOUD-674, exit 1 on two dangling ancestors

Both rows pass ready-lint at exit 0 and are genuinely dispatchable. In the first run the scheduler withholds them and reports the board as signalling falsely.

This is not a badly-chosen closure, and that is the load-bearing part.

1. Linear does not drop blockedBy when the blocker completes. CLOUD-661 has been Done since 2026-08-18T23:01:59Z; both dependents still carry the edge today. So the edge is permanent, not transitional.
2. The closure the workflow actually prescribes excludes Done by construction. CLOUD-607's acceptance says "mise run graph-check over the Todo + In Progress + In Review closure passes, and the emitted frontier is empty." Under (1), every issue in that closure whose blocker has landed is starved, and the run cannot reach exit 0.
3. The only closure that works is the transitive blockedBy closure including Done ancestors. For these two rows that is {672, 674, 661, 658, 593, 657, 655} — five Done ancestors to schedule two Todo issues, and the chain is only bounded because 593 and 655 happen to be roots.

Why the failure is quiet in the direction that matters. The excluded (blocked-by …) line is printed by note, which CLOUD-251 added precisely so every exclusion is attributable — and it is indistinguishable from a legitimate block. An empty frontier reads as "nothing is ready", which is exactly what CLOUD-607's acceptance bullet treats as success. So the prescribed check and the defect produce the same output, and .claude/rules/toolchain.md records that this stdout is not advisory: "the same command gates and schedules, so every session computes the same frontier."

A corollary worth fixing in the same change, because it shares the false premise. ready-lint exempts a blocker written as CLOUD-N (closed) from needing a live relation, and its comment gives the reason: "Linear drops the relation when the dependency resolves, so demanding one would fail every correctly-refined issue whose blocker landed." Measurement (1) falsifies that. The relation survives, so the exemption never fires on the case it was written for, and the sed that strips CLOUD-[0-9]+ \(closed\) at mise-tasks/ready-lint:314 is dead code resting on the same belief. It is not currently harmful — it only ever widens what passes — but it documents behaviour this tracker does not have.

Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/graph-check owns the frontier verdict and is the file changed. The distinction it must learn is one it already draws elsewhere and drops here: report (the board is signalling falsely) versus unjudged (the caller did not pipe enough to judge). An absent blocker is the second, and the file's own CLOUD-251 header already argues that collapsing the two is the defect.
• Computable predicate (§2). status_of gains an explicit not-in-set answer, and the resolve loop branches on it three ways rather than two: a blocker in the set and resolved ⇒ frontier; in the set and open ⇒ excluded (blocked-by …) at exit 0, unchanged; not in the set ⇒ unjudged, exit 2 — the caller piped a closure that cannot answer the question, which is not the same as the issue being blocked. Whether dangling-blocker stays a violation alongside that is the one open call below.
• Effect (§3). No command-surface change. One task, one predicate.
• Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only, unchanged: ids and rule names, never issue prose. The exit-code split is the substance — a set that cannot answer must not read as a board that is lying.
• Commit / bump (§6). fix(gate) → patch (below 0.1.0).
• Test obligation (§7). tests/graph-check.bats, mutation-checked per CLOUD-418 — reverting to the two-way case must red these rows: a Todo issue whose only blocker is Done and piped ⇒ on the frontier; the same issue with that blocker not piped ⇒ exit 2 and not silently excluded; a blocker piped and genuinely open ⇒ still excluded at exit 0 with attribution intact; a set with no edges at all ⇒ unchanged. A #MUTANT row for the not-in-set arm specifically, since a rewrite that returns "resolved" for an absent blocker passes every other row while removing the check entirely.
• Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-477 (fixes the in-set half and scopes this half out by name, so the two are complementary rather than duplicates — land 477 first or together, since both edit the same loop), CLOUD-251 (established the report/unjudged/note split this applies to a fourth case), CLOUD-454 (the other direction: an unrecorded dependency reads as no dependency), CLOUD-607 (its acceptance bullet is unsatisfiable as written until this lands).

Acceptance

• A Todo issue whose only blocker is Done and piped reaches the frontier, unchanged from today.
• The same issue, with that blocker absent from the piped set, produces exit 2 and an unjudgeable-family line naming the blocker — never a silent frontier omission.
• A genuinely open blocker still excludes at exit 0 with its existing attribution.
• CLOUD-607's acceptance bullet is restated against whatever closure the fix makes correct, or the fix makes the active-only closure correct — the two must agree, and today neither is true.
• ready-lint's (closed) exemption and its comment are corrected or removed, with the measured tracker behaviour recorded beside the change.
• The rows fail when the not-in-set arm is reverted.

Open call, stated rather than decided. Whether dangling-blocker should stay exit 1 when the absent blocker is merely out of closure, or drop to the unjudged family alongside the frontier arm. Argument for keeping it: it is the anti-vacuity guard, and weakening it lets a caller project edges away. Argument for moving it: under the measurement above it fires on correct boards routinely, and a violation that fires on correct input trains readers to ignore it. Decide with the fix and record the rejected option.

Found while promoting CLOUD-672 and CLOUD-674 to Todo; every figure above is a run against the real payloads rather than a fixture.

CLOUD-920 `ready-cites-check` cannot tell a deleted test from an unwritten one, so it refuses every row whose test obligation names the file that row exists to create

Why

CLOUD-826 shipped ready-cites-check on a real defect: CLOUD-740's §7 demanded two tests CLOUD-780 had deleted, its own header called them historical, and ready-lint exited 0. The gate closes that. It closes the opposite case too, and that one is a false positive.

mise-tasks/ready-cites-check.sh:202-212 is explicit about the reading it takes:

"(2) CITED PATHS, anywhere in the live block. A backticked token carrying a / and ending in a source extension. Zero-judgement: the file is there or it is not."

Zero-judgement is two-valued, and the question has three answers:

the citation	the truth	the gate says
tests/foo.bats, deleted by a sibling row	stale obligation, CLOUD-826's case	refused ✓
tests/foo.bats, the suite this row exists to write	a §7 test obligation, correct	refused ✗
tests/foo.bats, present	fine	resolves ✓

Measured 2026-08-22. Run over the six rows groomed this session:

CLOUD-359 §1 tests/layer-check.bats absent-cited-path
ready-cites-check: 1 of 19 citation(s) resolve nothing

CLOUD-359's test obligation reads "tests/layer-check.bats: a fixture with a back-edge exits non-zero and names it". That file is absent because the row has not been implemented. The gate refuses a correctly-refined row for carrying exactly the clause the DoR asks it to carry, and it will refuse any row whose §7 names a new suite — which is most rows that ship a gate, in a repo whose rule 2 is that a rule without a runnable gate is half a change.

Why this is the same defect the repo keeps finding

CLOUD-251's split — is, is not, could not look — with a fourth value this time: not yet, by design. ready-lint learned it (relations absent ≠ no blockers, CLOUD-679). Rule::lines learned it (missing ≠ empty array). Fact's Look type is built on it. This gate has one bit where it needs two, and the direction it collapses is the one that punishes an author for being precise.

The perverse incentive is worth naming: the cheapest way to pass today is to stop naming the file, which makes the §7 clause vaguer and is the opposite of what CLOUD-826 wanted.

What the fix cannot be

Not "skip absent paths" — that is CLOUD-826's defect restored.
Not a model verdict on whether an absent file is planned or stale; non-negotiable rule 3.

The distinction has to come from data the gate can read. Candidates, in the order they cost:

1. The row's own status. A row not yet In Progress cannot have written its tests. Cheap, already in the payload, and wrong for a row mid-implementation.
2. Direction of travel in the tree. A path absent and never present in git history is planned; a path absent and present in an ancestor is deleted. git log --diff-filter=D answers it, at the cost of making the gate a function of history rather than of the commit.
3. An explicit spelling. A §7 obligation naming a file to create is marked as such, and an unmarked absent path stays a refusal. Puts the burden on the author but keeps the gate a pure function of the payload plus the tree, which is what every sibling gate is.

Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/ready-cites-check.sh, the path arm at :202-212. No second list of citation shapes, and the §7 test-name arm at :187-198 is untouched — this is about paths only.
• Computable predicate (§2). Three outcomes rather than two: resolves, refused (absent and nothing marks it as prospective), and prospective (absent by design, reported and not fatal). Which mechanism draws that line is this row's decision, taken from the three candidates above and stated rather than implied. Whatever it is, it stays a pure function of stdin plus the tree, the property every board gate here holds.
• Effect (§3). read. A shell gate under mise-tasks/, no engine surface, no new verb.
• Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only, unchanged: the key, the clause and the path, never the block's prose. A prospective citation is reported on stderr and leaves the exit code unmoved — note() in graph-check is the shape.
• Commit / bump (§6). ci — no bump. A mise-tasks/ gate rather than the crate, which is the one case no-bump is correct for below 0.1.0, exactly as CLOUD-820 §6 records.
• Test obligation (§7). A bats suite, shown able to fail in both directions, because a gate that only ever refuses has not been shown to discriminate: (a) a citation to a path deleted in an ancestor is refused — CLOUD-826's case, which must not regress; (b) a §7 citation to a path this row would create is not fatal; (c) a citation to a present path resolves; (d) the two absent cases are distinguishable in output, not merely both non-fatal. With the new arm removed, (b) must go back to refusing.
• Blockers (§8). None.

Acceptance

• CLOUD-359 passes ready-cites-check while still naming tests/layer-check.bats (new) in its test obligation.
• A citation to a path deleted by a sibling row is still refused, asserted by the CLOUD-740 shape.
• The two absent cases are distinguishable in output.
• The gate stays a pure function of the piped payload plus the tree.

Found by running the gate over six rows groomed in one session; the refusal is on a row that had just been verified correct by every other gate.

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Re-measured over the whole closure — three instances, not one, and one of them is this row itself

The measurement above ran over six rows and found one refusal. Re-run over the ten-row closure of the same session, after every correction had landed:

CLOUD-359 §1 tests/layer-check.bats        absent-cited-path
CLOUD-361 §1 tests/arch-diagram-check.bats absent-cited-path
CLOUD-920 §1 tests/layer-check.bats        absent-cited-path
ready-cites-check: 3 of 30 citation(s) resolve nothing

Every one is a §7 test obligation naming the suite its row exists to create. Not one is a stale citation to a deleted test — the case the gate was built for. So over a real closure the gate's precision on this arm is zero, and the third row is this one: its own acceptance clause names tests/layer-check.bats, so the row filed to fix the false positive is refused by the false positive.

The tests/arch-diagram-check.bats refusal is the useful addition, because it is a second, independent row — CLOUD-361, filed eleven days earlier by a different pass, refused for exactly the same reason. Two rows converging on the shape independently is what makes this the class the §2 candidates have to discriminate rather than one row's bad luck.

§7's case (a) is unchanged and still load-bearing: the CLOUD-740 shape must stay refused. What this measurement adds is the denominator on the other side.

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Decided: an explicit (new) marker, with history as the corroborating term only

§2 left the mechanism to this row. The three candidates were measured rather than weighed, and the rejected two are recorded because a later reader will reach for them again.

Rejected — the row's own status. "A row not yet In Progress cannot have written its tests" is cheap and already in the payload, and it is wrong for exactly the row that matters: this row was In Progress while its own citation was still prospective, so the rule would refuse the row it exists to fix, at the moment of fixing it.

Rejected as the PRIMARY term — git history. --diff-filter=D genuinely discriminates deleted from never-written, and it is blind in the ordinary environment. Measured 2026-08-23 on a Claude Code web-session clone: the clone is shallow (git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository → true), and git log --diff-filter=D -- over tests/memory-guard.bats — a path CLOUD-442 deleted — returns nothing, the same answer as a path that never existed. As the primary term it would silently restore CLOUD-826's defect in every web session, which is worse than the false positive being fixed.

Chosen — an explicit spelling, (new) immediately after the backticked path, with history kept as the corroborating term. A marked absence is prospective-cited-path, reported on stderr with the exit code unmoved (graph-check's note shape); an unmarked absence stays absent-cited-path at exit 1. History is asked only to refute a marker — a path deleted in an ancestor was present, so (new) is false and it is stale-cited-path at exit 1 — never to grant one, so where it cannot look nothing is forgiven that would not have been forgiven anyway. The marker is matched with its path, so one (new) elsewhere in a block cannot excuse every citation in it.

The honest limit, gated rather than stated: in a shallow clone the anti-forgery term cannot fire, so a (new) on a genuinely deleted path reads as prospective. The gate emits a ::notice:: saying so whenever it decided a prospective citation without history, rather than implying it was checked. CI runs a full clone.

The cost, stated: the burden moves to the author, and the three measured rows (this one, CLOUD-359, CLOUD-361) need their bodies marked. That is the price of keeping the gate a pure function of the payload plus the tree, which is the property every board gate here holds.

A note on this body's own citations

Two paths in the sections above are discussed rather than obligated — the deleted suite the history measurement uses as its probe, and the sibling row's refused citation. They were backticked, so the path arm read them as this row's citations; the arm checks existence and by design never role (CLOUD-93), so it cannot tell an obligation from an illustration. They are unbackticked now.

That is a real, narrower limit than the one this row fixes, and it is stated rather than filed: a (new) marker would have been a lie on the deleted one, and marking it to get a green is the shape CLOUD-360's §6 is on record for. The remaining exposure is a body that quotes another row's path inside backticks; the cost is one refusal a reader resolves by reading, not a false pass.

CLOUD-923 A body's prose mentions become `relatedTo` edges, so one board write silently rewires rows the author never named — 43 edges where 11 were passed

Why

The tracker auto-links every CLOUD-nnn mention in an issue body into a relatedTo relation. A relation is symmetric, so writing a body modifies every row it cites — and the author passed none of those rows as a parameter, named none of them as a relation, and is told about none of them in the response.

Nothing sees it. graph-check judges the blocking edges — acyclic, non-dangling, and the frontier subtraction — and reads relatedTo for nothing at all. board-write-record records kind, id, updatedAt, the ready-lint verdict and the diff overlap, and no relation delta. So the one board write that touches the most rows is the one no gate reports.

Measured 2026-08-22, over a single grooming session, byte-perfect: the pre-edit relatedTo set for each row was recovered from the session transcript (the payload the tracker returned before the first write), and diffed against a fresh read after the last one.

row	before	after	added	passed as a parameter	minted by prose
CLOUD-359	9	16	7	0	7
CLOUD-360	5	12	7	2	5
CLOUD-756	16	22	6	1	5
CLOUD-760	8	11	3	0	3
CLOUD-762	7	13	6	0	6
CLOUD-914	—	14	14	8	6
total			43	11	32

Thirty-two edges, and because each is symmetric, thirty-two rows outside the session's scope were modified — none of them appearing in any summary the session gave, and several of them rows nobody had read.

Three consequences, each already on the board as its own symptom

1. A row's updatedAt moves. CLOUD-597 is exactly this, and it is Done: "a relation written by another issue's creation refuses a claim on a story refined days earlier." That row fixed the downstream reader. The write that moved the timestamp is still unreported.
2. A stale citation leaves a live edge. A correction section that replaces an earlier one deletes the prose and not the relation the prose minted, so the edge outlives the reasoning. Four of CLOUD-359's seven additions cite rows its current body no longer mentions.
3. A sentence saying a relation was dropped recreates it. CLOUD-762's §8 reads "CLOUD-757 is Done and its relation has been dropped rather than left to read as live" — and naming the row in that sentence minted the relation back as relatedTo. Self-refuting, and green.

Why this is not the same as CLOUD-705

CLOUD-705 is the merge automation advancing a column on a mention. Same root cause — the tracker acting on prose — and a different object: that one moves a status, this one rewires the graph. Both are writes no gate can see; neither subsumes the other.

What the fix cannot be

Not "stop citing rows in bodies." Citation is how a refined issue carries its evidence, and the cheapest way to comply would be to write vaguer bodies — the same perverse incentive CLOUD-920 records for its own gate.

Not a model verdict on whether an edge is meaningful; non-negotiable rule 3.

The distinction has to come from data. board-write-record already holds both halves for the body-comparison case (CLOUD-815's finding), and the relation delta is the same shape: the set the tracker returns before the write, the set it returns after, and the set the caller passed.

Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/board-write-record.sh — the recorder that already runs on every board write. No second store and no new payload fetch: the pre-write set is in the issue-read-check payload the guard already demands, and the post-write set is in the save_issue response. One authority, and the sixth column of an existing record rather than a new gate.
• Computable predicate (§2). For each board write, the recorded relation delta is added edges the caller did not pass. Reported, and reported per row, so a subsequent read shows which far-end rows this branch touched. Whether a non-zero delta refuses is this row's decision and is stated rather than implied — the argument for reporting rather than refusing is that the tracker's behaviour is not the author's choice, and pricing something a caller cannot prevent is a toll with no remedy.
• Three-valued (§2). A write whose pre- or post-set could not be read records -, not zero. Reading "could not look" as "no edges added" is the collapse CLOUD-251 named and the direction that makes this quieter rather than louder.
• Effect (§3). read. A shell recorder under mise-tasks/, no engine surface, no new verb, no network call the recorder does not already make.
• Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only: the row, the count, and the far-end keys. Never a line of the body that minted them.
• Commit / bump (§6). ci — no bump. A mise-tasks/ recorder rather than the crate, which is the one case no-bump is correct for below 0.1.0.
• Test obligation (§7). A bats suite, shown able to fail in both directions: (a) a write passing two relations and citing five rows records a delta of three; (b) a write passing exactly the rows it cites records zero; (c) an unreadable pre-set records - and is distinguishable in output from zero; (d) a write that removes a relation is not counted as an addition. With the new column removed, (a) must go back to recording nothing.
• Blockers (§8). None.

Acceptance

• Every board write records how many relations it added that the caller did not pass, and which rows are on the far end.
• Zero and could-not-look are distinguishable.
• No body text reaches the record.
• The recorder makes no fetch it was not already making.

Found by measuring one session's relation delta after the session had already reported itself finished twice.

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This row is its own instance, measured on creation

Filed with four relations passed as parameters. The tracker returned twelve. The eight it added were minted by the citations in the body above — including the very rows whose deltas the table measures, and CLOUD-757, which appears here only inside a quotation of another row's §8 sentence about that relation having been dropped.

So the predicate §2 asks for has a worked example that needed no fixture: passed=4, after=12, delta=8. A gate reporting that line at creation time is the whole ask.

(The title said 44 when the table totalled 43 — corrected. One row's addition count was recomputed while the table was being written and the headline was not.)

CLOUD-806 `ready-lint` builds structure and hands back three states, so `graph-check` re-derives the issue key three times — and CLOUD-773's engine mechanism does not reach either of them

CLOUD-773's last acceptance bullet, split out with the reason it could not travel with the rest.

One worked instance ported … a consumer of ready-lint's verdict reads the derived fact instead of an exit code, and its re-derived issue-key regex is deleted.

The finding: the two halves were bundled on a false premise

CLOUD-773 landed the engine half — a rule may derives a name and another may reads it, resolved once per run, with cycles, undefined references and class-widening references all refused at load.

That mechanism cannot reach this instance. ready-lint and graph-check compose bash to bash: neither is a batten.toml rule, so no derives/reads edge exists between them and none can. Widening their channel is a change to the two shell gates themselves — teaching ready-lint to emit the structure it already built, and graph-check to read it instead of rebuilding it.

So the bullet is not blocked on CLOUD-773 and never was; it is independently landable in either order. Recording that is the point of this row.

The measurement, restated from CLOUD-773 and re-verified

ready-lint is the one program in the tree that turns a Ready block into structure: it finds the block by regex (:87-105), extracts paragraphs with awk (:292-297), and identifies every issue key the §8 span cites (:314, :360). Five tasks consume it — graph-check:87, claim-check:369, board-write-record:232, filed-here-check, released — and every one of them spawns it and branches on an exit code.

graph-check spawns it and then re-derives CLOUD-[0-9]+ itself, three times: :216 (ids out of tsort's cycle report), :291 (the id a status claim cites), :302 (the claim scan over prose).

The producer knew. The channel could carry pass, fail, or could-not-look, and nothing else.

Scope

In: a structured channel from ready-lint to its consumers, and the deletion of at least graph-check's re-derivations.

Out: one canonical issue-key authority across all twenty sites — that is CLOUD-761, and this must not pre-empt its decision about what the canonical spelling is. This row is about the channel; CLOUD-761 is about the regex.

Out: porting ready-lint into the engine. mise-tasks is shell by design (CLOUD-320) and the mix is permanent.

Filed from CLOUD-773's landing.

Refinement — Ready (2026-08-20)

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/ready-lint gains a structured emission — the keys its §8 span cited — on a channel a caller can read without re-parsing, and mise-tasks/graph-check consumes it. The verdict channel (exit 0/1/2) is unchanged: this ADDS a value beside it, and every existing consumer that reads only the code keeps working.
• Computable predicate (§2). mise run verify green, plus a grep asserting graph-check derives CLOUD-[0-9]+ at zero sites where it previously derived it at three. The count is the predicate, so a partial port fails rather than reads as done.
• Effect (§3). read — both tasks already read the payloads they are given; nothing new is spawned or fetched, and the emission is bytes the producer had already computed.
• Output / exit (§5). No new verb and no change to the 0/1/2/3 table. Pointer-only holds on both sides: the emission carries issue KEYS, which are identifiers rather than content, and no line of any Ready block travels.
• Commit / bump (§6). refactor → no bump (below 0.1.0 release-plz patches regardless; the honest type is what the changelog marker depends on).
• Test obligation (§7). tests/ready-lint.bats asserts the emission is present, byte-stable, and correct for a block citing several keys and for one citing none — the second being the case an empty emission and a missing emission would collapse. tests/graph-check.bats asserts the consumer reads it, shown able to fail by feeding a producer emission that disagrees with the prose. Both tasks keep per-clause #MUTANT coverage: a mutation that drops the emission, and one that makes the consumer fall back to re-deriving, must each turn a case red.
• Blockers (§8). None. CLOUD-773 has landed and, as the body records, its mechanism does not reach this work either way.

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§2's predicate is unachievable, and the reason is a false premise in this body — measured 2026-08-23

This row was filed to record that CLOUD-773's mechanism does not reach ready-lint and graph-check. That part holds. The other premise it carries — that graph-check's issue-key sites are re-derivations of what ready-lint computes — does not, so §2's "three sites to zero" cannot be met by emitting the producer's structure. Not because the work is hard: because there is no duplication of that kind to delete.

graph-check derives the key at five sites, not three:

site	derives from	is it ready-lint's work?
the cycle report	tsort's output	no — not a body; the producer never sees it
the status-claim scan ×2	CLOUD-N is <Column> over prose	no — a predicate ready-lint does not implement
the CAPSPAN arm ×2	the same scan, unscannable half	no — same

ready-lint's own sites derive §8 blocker citations and deferral citations — different predicates over different spans. What is actually duplicated is the regex literal across nine spellings, and this row's own Scope section already sends that to CLOUD-761. Deleting a site in graph-check would mean deleting a predicate, not a rebuild.

The measurement is recorded in mise-tasks/graph-check.sh beside the sites themselves, so a second attempt does not rediscover it.

What landed, and why it is the acceptance bullet rather than a substitute for it

The bullet asks for "a consumer of ready-lint's verdict reads the derived fact instead of an exit code, and its re-derived issue-key regex is deleted." Delivered, with a real consumer — which matters, because a channel with no reader is CLOUD-825's shape: a mechanism that decides nothing because it has no invoker.

• ready-lint emits two sets on stdout, before any verdict exit: cites-body (every key the body names, mention markup stripped) and cites-blockers (the keys the §8 span claimed). stdout because every existing consumer already discards it, so the exit-code channel is untouched and a caller reading only the code is byte-identical.
• cites-body is emitted before the no-ready-block refusal, and that position is load-bearing: it is a property of the body, not of the block. An unrefined row still cites rows and the tracker still mints an edge per citation, so emitting it later would hide the fact for exactly the rows likeliest to carry a stray citation — and a consumer would read the absence as "could not look" over a body read perfectly well.
• board-write-record is the consumer, and its own key regex is deleted. It already spawned ready-lint on that very body for the verdict; it now keeps stdout and reads the set. The case pinning this asserts a property only the producer has — numeric ordering, so CLOUD-9 precedes CLOUD-10, where a lexical second scan puts CLOUD-10 first.
• Present-and-empty is not absent: a line with no keys is the honest empty set; an absent line means the run never reached the emission. CLOUD-251's split applied to a producer rather than a verdict.

Two #MUTANT rows cover it: dropping the emission, and moving it after the verdict.

§2 restated so the predicate matches what is checkable

• mise run verify green.
• ready-lint emits both sets, byte-stable and numeric, for a body citing several keys, one citing none, one with no Ready block, and one citing a row only outside §8.
• board-write-record derives CLOUD-[0-9]+ at zero sites, down from one. That is the count that moved; graph-check's five are out of scope and the reason is in the tree.

One cost this incurred, recorded because it caught a third reader

The recorder's named-paths column is now comma-joined (CLOUD-923's change, needed before a sixth column could exist at all). Its on-disk format had three consumers, not the two reachable by looking at who spawns the writer: filed-here-check, its own suite, and tests/stop-guard.bats, which writes record fixtures of its own for the --checklist path. The third was found by mise run verify rather than by reading, which is the argument for running it before readying rather than after.

CLOUD-634 `graph-check`'s joins are unindexed: a whole-payload reparse per node lookup, and a linear edge rescan per node

Why

graph-check decides five board predicates plus the ready frontier over a piped set of get_issue payloads. Its lookups are linear rescans rather than indexed reads, and each is paid per node or per edge instead of once per run:

• status_of() (graph-check:109) runs a fresh jq over the entire payload array to resolve one id, and is called from three separate loops (:225, :266, :285) — one process per edge endpoint.
• Adjacency is grep -E "^$id " over the whole edge list, inside the loop over every id (:290) — O(V·E), with a process per node.
• Membership is grep -qxF over the id list, once per edge (:144, helper at :108).

The board is small today, which is why this has not bitten. What makes it worth a ticket is where it runs: every fan-out member computes the frontier independently, because that shared determinism is what replaces a dispatcher (mem:workflow/agent-fanout). The cost is per session per member, not once per campaign, and it grows with the board rather than with the work.

This is an indexing defect in the plumbing, not an algorithmic one in the decision. Every genuinely graph-shaped step is already delegated to an exact tool — cycles to tsort (:147), ancestry to git merge-base --is-ancestor, the release split to git log --not --tags — and none of them is at fault. There is no hand-rolled traversal here to replace.

Constraint on the shape of the fix

mise-tasks/** must stay bash 3.2 and BSD portable: macOS ships bash 3.2, and no-bash4-mapfile, no-bash4-wait-n, no-gnu-sed-in-place and no-gnu-xargs-r already deny the usual shortcuts. CI runs ubuntu and is structurally blind to all of them. So associative arrays are not the route; the available shape is one jq pass projecting each index as sorted key<TAB>value lines, resolved with join/sort rather than a rescan per lookup.

Mechanism

Build the id→status and id→blockers indexes once, at the top, from a single jq pass over the payload set, and replace status_of, in_set and the adjacency grep with lookups against them. The ready-lint fork per Todo id (:268) stays: it is a separate program with its own verdict and its own exit code, and collapsing it would fold two gates into one.

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Refinement — Ready (an index built once, asserted by a process count that does not scale with the payload)

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. Task-layer change: §3 (no new command) and §4 (nothing generated) do not apply.

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/graph-check owns the board predicates and the frontier; mem:workflow/board-states owns the model it enforces. This changes how the task resolves a lookup and must change no verdict — the predicate set, the rule ids and the exit codes are unchanged.
• Lands as (§1). An edit to mise-tasks/graph-check plus cases in tests/graph-check.bats. No new task, no config surface, no docs/ path.
• Computable predicate (§2). Two, both commands. Verdict parity: over fixture payload sets exercising each of the five rules plus a clean set, stdout, stderr and exit code are byte-identical before and after. The cost stops scaling: the count of jq and grep invocations, captured by a wrapper on PATH during a bats case, is bounded by a constant rather than by the edge count, asserted over a fixture whose edge count is known.
• Output & exit (§5). Unchanged, and asserted so: 0 clean, 1 a predicate failed, 2 could not look, with 2 outranking 1 (graph-check:306-316). Pointer-only per non-negotiable rule 4 — <id> <rule> on stderr, wip and frontier on stdout, never an issue body.
• Test obligation (§7). tests/graph-check.bats, over the task as invoked. The process-count bound is the load-bearing case: parity alone passes on the unmodified task, so a change that did nothing would still go green without it.
• Commit / bump (§6). perf → no bump — mise-tasks/ sits outside the crate, so release-plz versions nothing here.
• Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-175, which shipped the gate, and CLOUD-623, whose substrate survey measured this while establishing that the decision logic needed no engine.

CLOUD-829 A row was closed as a duplicate of the row it contradicts, in the same operation that marked that row Done — and the acceptance clause it called vacuous is a board lie no gate can see

Why

Two closes, one operation, 2026-08-21T02:37:51.492Z:

• CLOUD-777 was marked Done.
• CLOUD-817 was closed as a Duplicate of CLOUD-777.

CLOUD-817's own text is the finding that CLOUD-777's acceptance was "satisfied vacuously". So the row saying "this Done rests on a clause that cannot fail" was filed away as a restatement of the row it contradicts — and the contradiction was resolved by the tracker's duplicate relation rather than by anyone deciding it.

A duplicate close is a claim that two rows say the same thing. Here one row said a thing and the other said that thing is not true. Whatever the right answer was, "duplicate" was not available, and the direction of the error is the part that matters: a duplicate close makes the closed row's content unreachable from the surviving row's, so the finding did not merely lose — it stopped being readable.

The board has since agreed it was wrong. A later session reopened CLOUD-777, marked its old Ready block SUPERSEDED, and found a second vacuously-passing acceptance clause. The specific instance is repaired. The mechanism that produced it is not.

A second witness, in the source rather than in a timestamp — measured 2026-08-21

The timestamp coincidence above is evidence that the close was careless. This is evidence that it was wrong, and it does not depend on reading either row's intent.

crates/batten/src/hook.rs on origin/main, in the doc for Field::HookEventName:

"Corrected 2026-08-20 (CLOUD-817). This read "knows neither UserPromptSubmit nor PostToolBatch" until PostToolBatch landed as a variant (CLOUD-389) and nobody re-read the comment that cited its absence… whether UserPromptSubmit should be a variant at all is CLOUD-817's decision, and answering it yes removes this premise rather than amending it again."

So main names CLOUD-817 as the owner of an open decision, in the one place a reader checks the reasoning against the enum — and CLOUD-817's status is Duplicate. Following that pointer lands on a closed row whose content is filed under a different one.

The premise is still live, verified the same day:

• Event has 8 variants — PreTool, PostTool, Stop, SessionStart, TaskCompleted, ConfigChange, Unrecognized, PostToolBatch. No UserPromptSubmit.
• .claude/settings.json registers two hooks on UserPromptSubmit: mcp-attach-check and mcp-allow-check --session. Enumerated with jq, not grepped: 20 registrations, 7 reach batten-hook.sh, 13 do not.

So the two guards are wired to a surface the engine cannot name, exactly as the closed row said, and the code says that row owns the fix.

Why this belongs in the evidence rather than in the fix. It is a second failure mode of the same close and it argues for a second predicate: a CLOUD-N cited in the tree must name a row that is open. spec-ref-check already parses tree citations against piped payloads and already decides §N-clause membership — this is the same read with one more field (statusType) and no new fetch. It is not this row's §2, because this row's predicate is about the close and that one is about the citation; conflating them would make one gate estimate two things. Filed as a follow-up so the pairing is on record.

The two failures, and they are separable

1. A duplicate close of a contradicting row. This one is structurally decidable and is where the mechanism goes. duplicateOf is a field on the payload every board gate already reads.

2. A Done resting on an acceptance clause that cannot fail. This one is CLOUD-418's shape, moved from the tree to the board: "a new gate is never shown to fail, so a test that cannot discriminate ships as coverage." An acceptance clause nobody has shown able to fail is coverage that is not coverage, and a Done resting on it is a board lie. CLOUD-418 gates the tree side. Nothing gates the board side, which is why two vacuous clauses on one row survived a Done, a duplicate close, and a reopen.

What is and is not computable, stated plainly so this row does not promise a judge

Whether two rows contradict is not computable, and a gate that claimed to decide it would be estimating (non-negotiable rule 3). What is computable is narrower and covers the measured instance:

• A row closed as a duplicate whose duplicateOf target changed state in the same operation — same-second, opposite direction — is a close that decided two things at once, and one of them was never argued.
• A row closed as a duplicate of a target it names in its own body in a contradicting frame is at least worth refusing without a human confirming: the body of CLOUD-817 names CLOUD-777 beside the word vacuously.

The second is a keyword test and is the weaker half; the first is a timestamp comparison and is the one that catches this instance exactly.

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Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). The tracker payload is the only input; nothing here re-derives what a duplicate means. This is a new predicate in the board-gate family, decided over get_issue payloads on stdin exactly as graph-check, done-pr-check and spec-ref-check are, and it composes into CLOUD-825's sweep rather than acquiring a trigger of its own.
• Computable predicate (§2). Over a payload set: for every row with a non-null duplicateOf, refuse when that target's completedAt (or its state-history entry into a completed type) falls within a small window of the closing row's canceledAt. The window is a parameter with a committed default, not a guess left to the reader. Same-second is the measured case — 02:37:51.492Z on both — so the default must catch it and must be stated as a bound rather than as "simultaneous".
• The refusal is a demand for a decision, never a verdict about who was right. The gate cannot know which row was correct, and says so in the message: the two closes were decided in one operation, and one of them must be argued separately. That is what keeps this a gate rather than a judge (CLOUD-93).
• Effect (§3). read. It decides and reports; it moves no row and reverses no close.
• Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only per non-negotiable rule 4 — the two keys and the two timestamps, never a line of either body, and specifically never the sentence that made one row contradict the other. Exit 0 clean / 1 a same-operation duplicate close / 2 a payload carrying no duplicateOf key at all, which is could-not-look rather than clean — the projected-away-field refusal released and graph-check both already make.
• The vacuous-acceptance half is deliberately NOT in this row's §2. It is real and it is the more valuable of the two, and it is also not decidable from a payload: showing a clause able to fail requires running something. It belongs beside CLOUD-826, whose gate resolves a Ready block's citations against the tree and is the first mechanism in this repository that reads a Ready block against anything executable. Filed as a follow-up from here rather than smuggled into a predicate that cannot carry it — that smuggling is what a gate that estimates looks like.
• Commit / bump (§6). feat → patch until 0.1.0; below that release-plz patches whatever the type says.
• Test obligation (§7). tests/duplicate-close-check.bats over fixture payload sets. Shown able to fail per CLOUD-418, and the discriminating fixture is the measured pair: two rows, one duplicateOf the other, both stamped 2026-08-21T02:37:51.492Z, must exit 1 and name both keys. Plus: a duplicate close whose target completed days earlier passes, which is the ordinary and correct case and the one a too-wide window would break; a payload set with no duplicateOf key exits 2 rather than reporting clean; and the report carries no body text.
• Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-777 and CLOUD-817, the measured pair; relatedTo CLOUD-418, whose shown-able-to-fail rule this is the board-side analogue of; relatedTo CLOUD-825, the sweep this composes into.

Done

main carries the gate, it is red against the CLOUD-817/777 fixture and green against an ordinary duplicate close, and CI green on the merge commit landed by fast-forward.

Not in scope

Deciding whether CLOUD-817 or CLOUD-777 was right — the board has already reopened 777 and that repair stands. Judging contradiction in general. Any mechanism that reverses a close on its own: this gate refuses and names, and a human decides.

CLOUD-771 The milestone claim is gated only in Todo, so an unparented row that is claimed out of the queue carries no phase for the rest of its life — 20 in flight, measured

Why

CLOUD-695 landed todo-unmilestoned in mise-tasks/graph-check (e1d033d, 2026-08-20). Its argument is that a column is a claim: "Todo is the ready queue, so sitting in it is a claim that the work is pullable — and pullable work has to say which phase it advances."

The clause is scoped to one column:

mise-tasks/graph-check:184
  if [ "$milestone_judgeable" = 1 ] && [ "$status" = "Todo" ] && [ "$milestone" = "null" ]; then

CLOUD-599's specified child-unmilestoned covers the other axis — a child whose parent carries a milestone — and its own §2 ranges over (child, parent) pairs. PR #505's body states the composition explicitly: "that clause ranges over PARENTED issues, and the overwhelming majority of the 174 have no parent at all."

So the two clauses between them leave one quadrant uncovered: an unparented row outside Todo. Nothing reaches it, and CLOUD-695 named that boundary without owning it — "whether every issue needs a milestone rather than every queued one: filing stays free deliberately, and widening that is a decision this issue does not take." This row takes it.

Observed within 45 minutes of the clause landing, which is what makes it a defect rather than a theoretical hole. CLOUD-769 was created at 06:27:19 with no milestone, promoted Backlog → Todo at 06:28:41, and moved Todo → In Progress at 06:30:59. It sat in the gated column for 138 seconds and left it unphased. No rule was broken and no gate fired; the ordinary claim-immediately workflow that AGENTS.md prescribes — "claim it by hand, before writing code" — is itself the escape.

That is the asymmetry worth naming: the seam was placed at Todo because "Todo is where the cost is already paid", but Todo is also the column an agent is instructed to leave as fast as possible.

Measured 2026-08-20 over the live board. Rows carrying no projectMilestone, with parented rows subtracted because CLOUD-599 owns those:

Column	Rows	Unmilestoned	Unparented and unmilestoned
In Progress	28	5	4
In Review	65	17	16
Todo	60	0	0

20 rows would fire. Todo reads zero because it was swept the same day; the other two columns were never swept and have no gate that would notice. Two of the twenty are CLOUD-418 and CLOUD-431 — the gates this repository cites when arguing that a check must be shown able to fail.

False positives: not assessed per row, and stated rather than implied. Every one of the twenty is real in-flight or landed work, and the milestone taxonomy admits no phase-less change, so the expected rate is low — but classifying each is the repair, not the measurement, and CLOUD-751's obligation is the number, not a verdict on it. The anti-vacuity arm is satisfied: many rows in each set carry the key, so absence elsewhere is the tracker saying "none" rather than a projected-away field.

Why not simply widen the existing clause to every column. Backlog must stay free — that is what CLOUD-505 bought and what CLOUD-695 deliberately protects, since demanding a phase at file time taxes triage when the issue is least understood. The widening is to the started statuses only: In Progress and In Review are claims that work is being done and has landed, which are stronger claims than "pullable", not weaker.

Acceptance

• An unparented row in In Progress or In Review carrying no milestone is reported, on a fixture, and the case fails against today's graph-check.
• A Backlog row with no milestone stays clean — filing remains free.
• A row whose parent carries a milestone is not double-reported once CLOUD-599's clause lands; the two compose rather than overlap.
• Piped over the live board the gate reports the then-current count before the sweep and zero after it.

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Refinement — Ready (the column claim, applied to the columns that claim more than Todo does)

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/graph-check stays the single authority for "the board is coherent", and this generalises an existing clause rather than adding a task. The object decided over is the same piped get_issue payload set, and the same projectMilestone field the landed clause already reads. No second gate, no tracker call, no new field.
• Computable predicate (§2). The status test at graph-check:184 widens from Todo to the started set — Todo, In Progress, In Review — while Backlog, Done, Canceled and Duplicate stay out. A row carrying a parentId is skipped, so CLOUD-599's clause owns it and no row is reported twice. Decided by a command and an exit code over a piped payload; nothing is judged.
• Effect (§3). read. The task reads stdin and exits — no tracker write, no file written, no network call, and nothing moves in the derived read-only allowlist. The repair is the caller's tracker edit, never the gate's.
• Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only per non-negotiable rule 4: <id> unmilestoned (<column>), never a title or a line of a body. The existing exit contract is unchanged and shared with the clause it generalises: 0 coherent, 1 the board is signalling falsely, 2 could not look, with 2 outranking 1 per CLOUD-251. The anti-vacuity arm widens with it — its Todo-scoped id list becomes the started set, or a set holding only started rows reports unjudgeable where it should report violations.
• Commit / bump (§6). feat(gate) → patch until 0.1.0 (DoR §6: below 0.1.0 release-plz bumps the patch whatever the type says). mise-tasks/ is outside crates/, so release-plz cuts no release and In Review is the truthful column until a later one sweeps the commit up.
• Test obligation (§7). Cases in tests/graph-check.bats over committed fixture payloads, never the live board — load-bearing here rather than stylistic, because the acceptance criterion repairs the very corpus the gate is written against, and a case reading the live board would go green for the wrong reason and never fail again. (a) An unparented In Progress row with no milestone fails — the discriminator, and the state twenty rows are in today. (b) The same row in In Review fails. (c) The same row in Backlog passes — filing stays free, and this is the case that stops the widening becoming a triage tax. (d) A row carrying a parentId is not reported here. (e) A started row carrying a milestone passes and its frontier position is unchanged. Plus a #MUTANT row demoting the new arm to a note(), in the shape milestone-refusal-is-a-note already uses, since graph-check is in MUTANT_GATES and an unrowed arm fails mise run mutant. The replay above is recorded rather than promised (CLOUD-751): twenty firings over the live board at filing time, with the false-positive classification named as the repair.
• Blockers (§8). None — the clause, its suite and the payload shape are all on main as of e1d033d. relatedTo CLOUD-695, whose boundary this takes over and whose clause this generalises; relatedTo CLOUD-599, the parented quantifier that this must not double-report; relatedTo CLOUD-469, In Progress having no drain, which is the same column read from the other end; relatedTo CLOUD-375, the todo-not-ready clause this is a peer of.

Not in scope. Backlog, deliberately. Sweeping the twenty — that is the repair the gate demands, not the gate, and it wants doing after the fixtures are committed so the cases keep failing on the shape once the board is clean. And deciding which milestone any given row belongs to, which is a judgement the gate must never make (non-negotiable rule 3, CLOUD-93): it reports absence, never fitness.

CLOUD-599 A milestone and its epics' children are two different sets, so Phase 3 can read 100% with four issues its own epics parent still open

Why

"Is Phase 3 done" has two answers computed over two different sets, and nothing reconciles them or notices when they disagree.

• Milestone membership (projectMilestone) is what the progress bar counts, and what a sweep filters on.
• The epic tree (parentId under CLOUD-11 / CLOUD-77 / CLOUD-14) is what the epics themselves promise: they carry no work of their own and close when their children close.

Measured 2026-08-14 over all 39 children of the three Phase 3 epics. The sets disagree in both directions:

Children of a Phase 3 epic that are in no milestone at all (5):

Issue	Epic	Status
CLOUD-580	CLOUD-14	Todo
CLOUD-389	CLOUD-77	Backlog
CLOUD-375	CLOUD-11	Backlog
CLOUD-583	CLOUD-14	Backlog
CLOUD-582	CLOUD-14	Done

Children of a Phase 3 epic that are in a different milestone (3): CLOUD-99 (Phase 2), CLOUD-61 (Phase 2), CLOUD-263 (Phase 4).

The consequence, stated concretely. The milestone reads 75% today. Its four remaining unbuilt members — CLOUD-45, CLOUD-276, CLOUD-165, CLOUD-529 — are dispatched and will land. When they do, Phase 3 reaches 100% while four open issues its own epics parent (CLOUD-580, CLOUD-389, CLOUD-375, CLOUD-583) are untouched, and all three epics are still honestly open because their children are. A milestone at 100% whose epics cannot close is a completion signal that means nothing — the same class of defect as a board column that lies about what is in flight.

This is not hypothetical framing; it changed a real plan. The dispatch brief written today asserts "the remaining Phase 3 work is exactly four issues". That is true under milestone membership and false under the epic tree, and the only reason the brief is not wrong is that it says which filter it used. A reader who assumed the other one gets a different answer with no warning.

Which set is authoritative is the decision this issue owes. Two coherent answers, and they are not equally good:

1. The milestone is authoritative, and an epic may parent work outside it. Then the epics are not phase containers, and "Phase 3 done" must never be read as "CLOUD-11/77/14 can close". Cheap, and it makes the epics much weaker than they read.
2. The epic tree is authoritative for phase membership, and every child of a phase epic belongs to that phase's milestone unless deliberately re-phased. Then the five un-milestoned children are a data defect to repair, and the three cross-milestone ones are the deliberate exception that has to stay expressible — CLOUD-263 under CLOUD-14 is genuinely Phase 4 work adopted by a Phase 3 epic.

Option 2 matches how the epics are written ("they close when their children close") and is the one this issue proposes, with the cross-milestone case kept legal and declared rather than silently tolerated.

Mechanism (rule 2 — this does not ship as prose)

A predicate over piped tracker payloads, in the shape every other board gate already uses — {id, status, parentId, projectMilestone} on stdin, pointer-only output, exit 1 naming the divergent ids:

• every child of an epic that carries a milestone either carries the same milestone, or carries a different one explicitly (the declared re-phase);
• a child carrying no milestone while its parent does is the failure this catches — that is the silent case, and all five instances above are it;
• a milestone reporting 100% while any issue under its epics is open is reported, since that is the reading the progress bar invites and cannot currently support.

Natural home is beside graph-check, which already computes over the same payload shape and already owns "the board is coherent" as a question. Whether it becomes a graph-check clause or its own task is an implementation call, not a scope call.

Acceptance

• The gate exits 1 on the corpus at implementation time, naming exactly the un-milestoned children then present, and exits 0 after they are repaired or explicitly re-phased. The count is eight, not five as of 2026-08-17 — see the re-measurement in the Ready block below.
• A declared cross-milestone child (CLOUD-263 under CLOUD-14) does not trip it — the exception stays expressible, which is the difference between a gate and a nuisance.
• Repairing the five moves no issue's scope: milestone assignment only.

Related. CLOUD-469 (In Progress has no drain) is the same family — a board predicate applied by hand and never swept. CLOUD-347 (review is asserted by a column, never computed) is the same family again.

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Refinement — Ready (2026-08-17)

• Source of truth (§1). mise-tasks/graph-check is the single authority for "the board is coherent", and this becomes a clause in it rather than a new task — it already reads the same {id, status, parentId, projectMilestone} payload shape and already owns this question. The object decided over is the set of (child, parent) pairs in the piped payload where the parent carries a projectMilestone. Nothing about the existing clauses changes.
• Predicate (§2). mise run graph-check exits non-zero when a child whose parent carries a milestone carries no milestone of its own — the silent case. A child carrying a different milestone is the declared re-phase and passes, because the divergence is then recorded in the data rather than absent from it. A command and an exit code over a piped payload; nothing is judged.
• Effect (§3). Read-only, and stays in the read-only allowlist. The task reads stdin and exits: no tracker write, no file written, no network call. The repair the gate demands is a human's or an agent's tracker edit, never the gate's own — a board gate that mutated the board would be deciding and acting in one step.
• Output and exit (§5). Pointer-only per house-style §6: one line per divergent pair, <child> <rule> (parent <parent>, milestone <name>), and no issue title or body text. Exit contract unchanged: 0 coherent, 1 divergence, 2 could not read the payload.
• Commit / bump (§6). feat(gate) → patch; the workspace is 0.0.79, below 0.1.0, where every release-worthy type collapses to a patch.
• Test obligation (§7). Cases in the graph-check suite over committed fixture payloads, not over the live board — and that is load-bearing here rather than stylistic, because the acceptance criterion repairs the very corpus the gate is written against. A test reading the live board would go green for the wrong reason the moment the repair lands, and could never fail again.
  • A parented child with no milestone whose parent has one → exit 1, naming that child. Fails before the clause lands.
  • A parented child carrying a different milestone → exit 0. This is the case that keeps the gate from being a nuisance.
  • A child with no parent, and a parented child whose parent carries no milestone → exit 0. Neither pair can diverge, and reporting them would make the clause fire on the ordinary shape.
• Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-469 (a board predicate applied by hand and never swept) and CLOUD-347 (review asserted by a column, never computed) — the same family, neither gating this.

Decision (2026-08-17): the epic tree is authoritative for phase membership. Every child of a phase epic belongs to that phase's milestone unless it is deliberately re-phased, and a re-phase must be declared by carrying the other milestone rather than by carrying none. This is the option the issue proposed, and it is chosen because it matches how the epics are written — they carry no work of their own and close when their children close, which is only a meaningful promise if their children are the phase.

The corpus has grown since this was filed, and the acceptance count moves with it. Re-measured 2026-08-17 over the children of CLOUD-11 / CLOUD-13 / CLOUD-77 / CLOUD-14:

• Un-milestoned children of a Phase 3 epic: eight, not five. The original five — CLOUD-580, CLOUD-389, CLOUD-375, CLOUD-583, CLOUD-582 — are all still un-milestoned, and three more were filed under CLOUD-14 after this issue was written: CLOUD-611, CLOUD-614, CLOUD-608. The set grows by ordinary filing, which is the argument for a gate rather than a one-off repair.
• Declared cross-milestone children: four. CLOUD-99 and CLOUD-61 (Phase 2), CLOUD-263 and CLOUD-621 (Phase 4). All four must pass.
• CLOUD-11 and CLOUD-13 are Done with every child Done or Canceled, so neither contributes a pair.

Repair after the fixtures are committed, never before — the fixtures are what let the gate keep failing on the shape once the live board is clean.

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Landed as a graph-check clause, 2026-08-23 — and the corpus moved again

Implemented as §1 prescribed: a clause in graph-check, not a new task. child-unmilestoned, over (child, parent) pairs where the parent carries a milestone.

The enabling change was not in this clause. graph-check projected the milestone as a null/set boolean — enough for CLOUD-771's unparented clause, which only asks "is it absent", and insufficient here, because telling a declared re-phase from a silent gap needs milestone identity. So the column now carries the milestone id, and a milestone_index / milestone_of lookup sits beside the existing status_index / status_of — parameter expansion in process, not declare -A, because this layer stays bash 3.2 and BSD-portable (CLOUD-634's comment block is the authority).

Four arms, one refusal, per the decision above:

parent	child	verdict
not in the piped set	—	child-milestone-unjudgeable, exit 2
in set, no milestone	—	pass — no pair can diverge
has milestone	none	child-unmilestoned, exit 1
has milestone	a different one	pass — the declared re-phase
has milestone	the same one	pass

The unjudgeable arm reuses in_set, the discriminator CLOUD-678 landed earlier in this same bundle, rather than minting a second reading of "the closure does not carry this key".

§5 deviation, stated rather than silent. That clause suggests (parent <parent>, milestone <name>). The comparison is on the milestone id and the report names the parent alone: a milestone name is a wide free-text field that decides nothing, and rule 4 wants a pointer. released's refusal_for reads the first [a-z-]+ token either way.

Acceptance, measured on the live corpus

Run over the real CLOUD-14 subtree (13 rows, its 12 children plus the epic):

CLOUD-580 child-unmilestoned (parent CLOUD-14)
CLOUD-582 child-unmilestoned (parent CLOUD-14)
CLOUD-947 child-unmilestoned (parent CLOUD-14)
CLOUD-948 child-unmilestoned (parent CLOUD-14)
CLOUD-949 child-unmilestoned (parent CLOUD-14)
CLOUD-950 child-unmilestoned (parent CLOUD-14)

Exit 1, and all four declared cross-milestone children pass — CLOUD-263 and CLOUD-621 (Stage 6), CLOUD-61 and CLOUD-614 (Stage 2) under a Stage 3 epic. Both directions of the acceptance, on real data.

The count moved from eight, and in both directions — which is this row's own argument, reproduced. Of the 2026-08-17 eight, CLOUD-583, CLOUD-611, CLOUD-608 and CLOUD-614 have since been given milestones by ordinary work. And four rows filed since — CLOUD-947, CLOUD-948, CLOUD-949, CLOUD-950 — are all un-milestoned under CLOUD-14. The set is not a backlog that drains; it refills by ordinary filing, exactly as the re-measurement predicted. A one-off repair would already be stale twice over.

So the acceptance clause "naming exactly the un-milestoned children then present" is met against the corpus as measured today, and the number in it should not be read as a constant.

The repair is deliberately NOT in this change

§"Repair after the fixtures are committed, never before" — honoured. The suite's cases are committed fixtures, never the live board, for the reason §7 gives: the acceptance repairs the very corpus the gate is written against, so a live-board case would go green for the wrong reason the moment the repair landed and could never fail again.

The six rows above are left for a repair pass. Milestone assignment moves no scope and is not a state transition, so claim-check does not apply — but each write needs its own fresh read receipt, so it is ~6 read+write pairs and belongs in its own turn rather than smuggled into a code commit.

CLOUD-477 `graph-check` resolves a blocker only from Done or In Review, so a Canceled or Duplicate blocker starves its dependent off the ready frontier forever

Why

mise-tasks/graph-check's frontier loop decides whether a blocker is resolved with a name match against two statuses:

while read -r _ to; do
	[ -n "$to" ] || continue
	case "$(status_of "$to")" in Done | "In Review") ;; *)
		ok=0
		blocking="$blocking $to"
		;;
	esac
done < <(grep -E "^$id " <<<"$edges" || true)

(mise-tasks/graph-check:158-165.) Anything that is not literally Done or In Review falls into the catch-all and marks the dependent blocked.

Two terminal statuses in this workspace land in that catch-all:

status	example	what graph-check concludes
Canceled	CLOUD-265	still blocking
Duplicate	CLOUD-335	still blocking

Both mean this work will never be done, and that is settled. Neither can ever transition to Done — cancelling is precisely the decision not to. So the dependent is excluded from the ready frontier permanently, with no path to recovery except a human noticing and hand-editing the relation.

Why this is worse than a wrong answer. The exclusion is attributed — it prints excluded (blocked-by CLOUD-nnn) via note, which CLOUD-251 added so every exclusion is legible. That legibility is what makes it dangerous here: the line is indistinguishable from a legitimate block, so it reads as the graph working. And graph-check's stdout is not advisory — .claude/rules/toolchain.md records that "the same command gates and schedules, so every session computes the same frontier". An issue starved this way is invisible to every session, forever, and the board shows nothing wrong.

This is the same defect family as the rest of the loop work: a non-answer converted into an answer. "This blocker will never complete" is being read as "this blocker has not completed yet."

Refinement — Ready

• Source of truth (§1). The piped issue payloads graph-check already reads. Linear returns statusType alongside status on every issue (observed values: completed, started, unstarted, and a canceled type covering both Canceled and Duplicate), so no new call is needed.

• Mechanism (§3). Resolve a blocker on statusType, not on the status name, plus the one name-based exception the current rule genuinely needs:

  • statusType == "completed" ⇒ resolved (covers Done, and any future completed-type state a team adds);
  • the canceled type ⇒ resolved — a blocker that will never be done does not block;
  • In Review stays resolved and must stay name-based, because its statusType is started, not completed (verified: {"status":"In Review","statusType":"started"}). The existing comment explains why it counts — landed code is on main.

  Keying on statusType is also what stops this recurring: the current rule breaks again the moment anyone adds a workflow state, and it breaks silently and in the starving direction.

• A second, smaller decision this forces, and it should be recorded rather than assumed. A Canceled blocker resolving is right for the frontier, but it may deserve a note — an issue whose blocker was cancelled may have had its premise removed, and proceeding silently is not obviously correct either. Suggested: resolve it (do not starve) and emit one pointer-only note naming the cancelled blocker, so the dependent is schedulable and the human sees why it became so.

• Deliberately not in scope (§2).

  • blocks and relatedTo directions. graph-check reads .relations.blockedBy[]?.id only; widening the relation set is CLOUD-454's, and CLOUD-454 must be read with CLOUD-475 before either ships (its closed-issue exemption is contested there).
  • The dangling-blocker and unjudgeable-blockedby rules, which are separate arms and correct as they stand.
  • ready-lint's §8 blockedBy-claim check, a different predicate over prose.

• Test obligation (§7). tests/graph-check.bats, mutation-checked per CLOUD-418 — reverting to the name match must red these:

  • a Todo issue whose only blocker is Canceled ⇒ on the frontier;
  • same with Duplicate ⇒ on the frontier;
  • a blocker in In Progress, Todo or Backlog ⇒ still excluded, with the existing blocked-by attribution unchanged;
  • a blocker in In Review ⇒ still resolved (guards against a statusType-only rewrite, which would break this row).

• Commit / bump (§6). fix → patch until 0.1.0.

• Blockers (§8). None.

Acceptance

• A Todo issue blocked only by cancelled or duplicate work reaches the ready frontier.
• A genuinely-open blocker still excludes, and the exclusion is still attributed per CLOUD-251.
• Adding a new workflow state does not silently starve anything.
• The rows fail when the statusType rule is reverted.

Found while reviewing the landing-loop follow-up plan; verified by reading mise-tasks/graph-check:158-165 in a clone at 3aacb33. Not a hypothetical — both trigger statuses are in live use in this workspace.

CLOUD-941 Two enforced gates carry a mutation that SURVIVES, and `ready-lint`'s is a no-op: its pattern spells `[ ]` where the code has `[[ ]]`, so the conjunct is covered by nothing

Why

mise run mutant reports two survivors on origin/main 170c7c4 (v0.0.106), on an unmodified tree and under any scoping argument:

ready-lint/replay-demanded-of-a-warn-gate SURVIVED (a block declaring warn is not gated)
board-write-record/overlap-frozen-at-write-time SURVIVED (A FILE THIS BRANCH HAS NOT TOUCHED IS STILL RECORDED)

Both gates are named in $MUTANT_GATES (mise.toml [env]), so they are inside the enforced set rather than CLOUD-480's filed gaps — the tool is reporting, and nothing is reading it.

Found while running mise run mutant ntia-check for CLOUD-666 (bundle C of CLOUD-926). Pre-existing and unrelated to that diff — it reproduces on an unmodified tree — and filed rather than fixed because mise-tasks/ready-lint.sh and mise-tasks/board-write-record.sh are another bundle's file domain in the current fan-out, where two sessions editing one file is the rebase conflict mem:workflow/agent-fanout partitions by file domain to avoid.

The ready-lint one is diagnosed, and it is a one-token mismatch.

mise-tasks/ready-lint.sh:442 declares:

#MUTANT replay-demanded-of-a-warn-gate|s@\[ "\$declares_deny" = 1 \]@true@|a block declaring warn is not gated

The code it means to corrupt is mise-tasks/ready-lint.sh:465:

if [[ "$introduces_gate" = 1 ]] && [[ "$declares_deny" = 1 ]]; then

The pattern spells a single-bracket test (\[ … \]); the source is a double-bracket conditional ([[ … ]]). The sed expression therefore matches nothing, the "mutated" copy is byte-identical to the original, tests/ready-lint.bats:872 passes as it always does, and mutant correctly reports a survivor. Most likely the conditional was normalised to [[ ]] at some point and the declaration was not carried along.

What that leaves uncovered. The declares_deny conjunct is what keeps deny-without-replay off warn gates — CLOUD-751's scoping decision, and the reason tests/ready-lint.bats:872 exists at all. That case is currently proven to pass on the working code and never shown to fail on the broken code, which is precisely the "test that cannot discriminate" class CLOUD-418 built this tool to find. The conjunct is not broken; the proof that it is load-bearing is.

The board-write-record one is NOT diagnosed here. It is recorded because it reproduces in the same run and belongs to the same class, and stating it without having read the gate would be the overclaim this repo keeps paying for. Whoever takes this row should treat it as a second instance to be diagnosed on its own terms, not as a copy of the first.

Not a mutant defect. The tool gave the honest verdict. Compare the two failure modes it does name and distinguish — unappliable-mutation when sed errors, and names-no-case when field 3 matches no test — both of which CLOUD-666's own two new declarations hit and had to fix before landing. A silent no-op substitution is the third shape, and the only one whose output reads as coverage: sed does not consider "matched zero lines" an error, so an unappliable-in-effect pattern applies cleanly.

What lands

• ready-lint's pattern matches the code, so the mutation kills tests/ready-lint.bats:872.
• board-write-record's survivor is diagnosed and either killed or reclassified.
• mise run mutant reports no survivor for either id.

Refinement — Ready (2026-08-23)

• Source of truth (§1). Each gate's #MUTANT line is its declaration; mise-tasks/mutant.sh is the authority on how one is applied and judged; the named case in the gate's own suite is what it must kill. $MUTANT_GATES in mise.toml [env] is the authority on which gates are enforced, and it already names both.
• Predicate (§2). mise run mutant prints no SURVIVED line for replay-demanded-of-a-warn-gate or overlap-frozen-at-write-time, and exits 0. A command and an exit code over the tree; nothing is judged.
• Effect (§3). For ready-lint, unchanged: it edits one comment line — a mutation declaration — and no code path, no subprocess, no file, no network call, so ready-lint's verdict on every payload is byte-identical before and after. For board-write-record the effect cannot be stated before the diagnosis, and this clause must be re-read once it is.
• Output and exit (§5). Unchanged and pointer-only: mutant's output is already the gate, the mutant id and the case, never a diff of mutated source.
• Commit / bump (§6). fix(gate) → patch; the workspace is 0.0.106, below 0.1.0, where every release-worthy type collapses to a patch. It touches nothing under crates/, so release-plz cuts no release for it on its own — it reaches a tag by being swept up, which is the ordinary case for task-layer work.
• Test obligation (§7). The §2 predicate is the test, and that is the point rather than a shortcut: the deliverable of this row is a mutation that kills a case, so "the mutation kills its case" is the assertion, already a runnable command with an exit code. Two things worth asserting past it:
  • The corrected pattern kills the named case specifically, not merely some case — a pattern broad enough to break the whole suite would also report clean, and would be a worse declaration than the one it replaced.
  • A scan for the same mismatch across every #MUTANT declaration in the tree. This is the durable half, and the reason this row is worth more than a typo fix: one stale pattern is an accident, and the same accident is silently available to all ~40-odd declarations, each of which reads as coverage while asserting nothing. The mechanism is a refusal when a declaration's sed expression matches zero lines of its own subject — the third verdict mutant does not currently have. That is arguably its own row and is named here rather than assumed into this one's scope; if it is split out, that row carries the deny-without-replay obligation.
  • Replay (§7) is not demanded of this row: it introduces no gate and changes no severity.
• Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-418 (the discriminate-or-it-is-not-coverage class both instances belong to), CLOUD-480 (the enforced-set expansion that brought these gates under mutant) and CLOUD-751 (the deny-only scoping the ready-lint conjunct implements).

Pointers. mise-tasks/ready-lint.sh:442 (the declaration) and :465 (the conditional it misses); tests/ready-lint.bats:872 (the case that must go red); mise-tasks/board-write-record.sh and its overlap-frozen-at-write-time declaration (undiagnosed); mise-tasks/mutant.sh (the verdicts it distinguishes, and why a no-op substitution is not among them); $MUTANT_GATES in mise.toml.

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Correction from bundle A (2026-08-23): the "third verdict" §7 asks for ALREADY EXISTS

§7's durable half proposes "a refusal when a declaration's sed expression matches zero lines of its own subject — the third verdict mutant does not currently have", and the Why section argues a silent no-op substitution is a shape the tool cannot name because "sed does not consider 'matched zero lines' an error, so an unappliable-in-effect pattern applies cleanly."

That verdict is inert-mutation, and it is already implemented — mise-tasks/mutant.sh compares the staged copy against the original after applying the script and reports inert-mutation when they are byte-identical, which is exactly the zero-match case. The Why section's own table cites run B hitting cites-read-from-the-argument inert-mutation for a stale pattern, so the mechanism is observed working in this row's own evidence.

I hit it directly while landing CLOUD-674: moving a conditional inside a new else branch left claimed-keys-closing-only-falls-through's un-indented pattern matching nothing, and mutant reported inert-mutation rather than a survivor. Re-anchoring the pattern with the leading tab fixed it.

So the scan §7 wants is a one-line invocation, not a new mechanism: mutant over every gate already refuses each stale declaration by name. What is worth keeping from that clause is the sweep — running it across all ~55 gates so every stale declaration is found at once rather than as each is stumbled on.

Which leaves this row's own ready-lint diagnosis needing a second look. If the pattern truly matched zero lines, the verdict would have been inert-mutation, not SURVIVED — they are different branches of the same loop. Either the pattern matches something else and changes the file without disarming the conjunct, or the SURVIVED reading came from one of the two contended/incomplete readings now recorded on CLOUD-944. Worth re-running serially, through mise, on a tree carrying CLOUD-944's stdin fix before acting on the [ ] vs [[ ]] explanation.

Not touched here: mise-tasks/ready-lint.sh and board-write-record.sh are bundle B's file domain, and this row is claimed. Recorded rather than fixed.

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THE COMPLETE CENSUS, and it settles the diagnosis: 155 declared, 4 survivors, 2 of them new (2026-08-23, bundle A)

Ran the full set serially, through mise, on a tree carrying CLOUD-944's stdin fix — the reading the section above asked for before acting on the [ ] vs [[ ]] explanation. This is the first complete census of the enforced set:

ready-lint/replay-demanded-of-a-warn-gate SURVIVED (a block declaring warn is not gated)
board-write-record/overlap-frozen-at-write-time SURVIVED (A FILE THIS BRANCH HAS NOT TOUCHED IS STILL RECORDED)
filed-here-check/zero-overlap-refused SURVIVED (a row naming only untouched files passes)
filed-here-check/overlap-unanswered-refused SURVIVED (a row the recorder could not measure passes)
::error:: mutant: 4 of 155 declared mutation(s) were not caught

155, not 149. CLOUD-944's run C reported "149 declarations across 55 gates, every one caught, exit 0". Six declarations were never applied, because mutant's row loop was fed by done <<<"$rows" and bats ate the rest of stdin — the tail of every multi-row gate went unverified while the task printed a clean pass. That is fixed on claude/ci-performance-degradation-rplznx (PR #651, commit 79e5393).

The [ ] vs [[ ]] diagnosis in §"Why" is WRONG, and this run is what refutes it

§"Why" says the pattern "matches nothing, the 'mutated' copy is byte-identical to the original". If that were true the verdict would be inert-mutation, not SURVIVED — they are different branches of the same loop, and mutant.sh reaches inert-mutation by cmp-ing the staged copy against the original before it ever runs the case.

This run reports SURVIVED, serially, with the stdin defect fixed. So both explanations offered above are excluded: it is not contention (CLOUD-944's class), and it is not a zero-match pattern. The substitution does change the file; it just does not disarm the conjunct the case depends on. Whoever picks this row up should start from the mutated copy — mutant stages it under a mktemp -d — and read what the sed actually produced, rather than from the bracket-mismatch story.

The §"What lands" and §"Predicate (§2)" clauses are unaffected: the deliverable is still "no SURVIVED line for these ids, exit 0". What changes is the cause, and §3's claim that the ready-lint fix "edits one comment line … and no code path" can no longer be assumed — a mutation that alters the file without disarming the conjunct may mean the DECLARATION is right and the case is not discriminating, which is a change to tests/ready-lint.bats rather than to the comment.

Two survivors this row does not yet name

filed-here-check/zero-overlap-refused and filed-here-check/overlap-unanswered-refused are new — absent from §"Why"'s two-line output, and plausibly among the six declarations the stdin defect was skipping, which would explain why no earlier run saw them. Both are in the enforced set, both are in mise-tasks/filed-here-check.sh, and neither is diagnosed here: stating a cause without reading the gate is the overclaim this row already refuses to make about board-write-record.

They matter more than a count. filed-here-check's two refusals are the toll on filing-over-fixing, and CLOUD-514 phase 3 measured that toll certifying four punts in three and a half minutes when only refinement was priced. zero-overlap-refused and overlap-unanswered-refused are the assertions that the proximity half discriminates — so a survivor there means the second refusal, the one with no prose remedy, is currently proven only to pass on working code.

Scope

None of the four is touched here. ready-lint.sh, board-write-record.sh and filed-here-check.sh are all outside bundle A's file domain, and this row is claimed by another session — recorded rather than fixed, which is the same reason §"Why" gives for filing it in the first place. Bundle A's own gates are clean: every declared mutation across closing-key-check, claimed-keys, prose-only-check and land is caught.

Suggested retitle, since the current title asserts the refuted cause and a count that is now wrong: "Four enforced gates carry a mutation that SURVIVES, and the census that found them was itself incomplete."

CLOUD-352 Build duration is already the throughput ceiling and every timeout budget is grandfathered, so nothing fails when it gets slower

Why

/deciding-factors/: "Keeping build times short is important in that it directly drives the number of commits a developer can do in a day. If the build time is a couple of minutes, developers are likely to keep a high pace. If the build time is 30 minutes or worse, developers change pace to match only a couple of commits a day and drop their throughput." /styles/ raises the stakes: "keeping this build fast is very important … not having a fast build is one of the key drivers to other branching models and repo sharding" — i.e. build duration is what decides whether trunk-based development survives at all.

Measured. The prediction is already visible here, not hypothetical:

• mise run verify ≈ 170 s (mem:workflow/agent-fanout, 2026-08-11).
• A ci.yml run: 233–454 s over 28 sampled runs, median ≈ 260 s.
• A full land lap — verify + CI + the fast-forward wait — 5–7 minutes, against a mean gap between commits on main of 487 s. The memory records the consequence: N ≈ 2.9 concurrent contributors, "with the cap at 2: at the ceiling", and PRs landing in 8, 3, 4 and 2 laps because each lap is near a coin flip against main moving.

So the quantity the source says governs the branching model is, here, the binding constraint on fan-out — and it is the one quantity with no ratchet.

The ceiling was reached, 2026-08-11. The N ≈ 2.9 figure above was a model. Here is the model failing in practice: a single one-commit change to mise-tasks/branch-age-check ran mise run land and exhausted LAND_MAX_LAPS (8) without landing — land: still not linear after 8 laps; main is moving faster than a lap takes. Every lap did its job: rebase, verify, push, and then main moved again before CI finished, voiding the run (lap 7 — main moved under 0462af26 before CI finished; that run's verdict is void).

Nothing was broken. The lap cap is a runaway backstop and it fired correctly. But it is the first observation of the loop failing to converge on a trivial change, and it happened because several sessions were landing concurrently — which is exactly what the fan-out memory predicts once time-between-lands ÷ verify-duration drops below 1.

Worth recording precisely because the symptom is not "the build is slow". It is "a one-line fix cannot land", which reads as a landing-loop problem and is not one.

Root cause. timeout-check was written to gate the justification of a ceiling rather than the trend of the measurement, and that split is correct — its header argues it explicitly, and timeout-drift is the scheduled half that asks whether a budget still matches the world. But the split assumed the budgets would be derived, and nearly all of them are still the placeholder: grandfathered is dated debt by construction, "visibly not a justification" in the task's own words. So the sensor exists, the grammar exists, the scheduled asker exists, and they mostly cannot fire because no budget was ever computed. Meanwhile the local half — verify, the number that actually sets N — has no budget grammar at all.

Two corrections from a CI cost investigation — 2026-08-20

1. This is partly implemented, and the issue reads untouched

Four jobs now carry a measured budget: ci, perf and windows in ci.yml, and auto-bot-land. 30 of 35 still say grandfathered, across 22 workflow files. So the remaining scope is 30 rows, not 18 and not all of them.

2. The x3 multiplier cannot catch the regression that actually happened

This is the sharper correction, and it changes the mechanism rather than the count.

ci.yml declares timeout-minutes: 36 # budget: p95=701s x3 measured=2026-08-14. Six days later, on run 32395938706, mise run ci took 844s, and 857s on run 32395065162. The correct declaration at 850s would be ceil(850 × 3 / 60) = 43.

So the job ran ~21% slower than its own recorded budget and stayed 15 minutes inside its ceiling. Nothing went red, and nothing will until someone re-measures p95 by hand; timeout-drift is weekly.

The acceptance clause below was satisfiable while the purpose of this issue failed. "Doubling any job's runtime makes timeout-check red" is true — budget-arithmetic is an equality, so any re-measured p95 that moves reds the declared ceiling. But a ceiling at 3× p95 is a runaway backstop: right for catching a hang, structurally unable to catch a creep. Both the mechanism and the acceptance are amended below.

Composition, for whoever picks this up: the drift is not diffuse. test:bats is 697s of that 857s, 81%. The suite is 2,300 cases; the tuning that chose its worker count was measured at 1,039 (the table in mise.toml's test:bats comment). That table describes a suite that no longer exists. CLOUD-386 covers the tuning and CLOUD-398 covers the contention; this issue only has to make the growth visible.

Refinement — Ready

• Source of truth (§1). The workflow run history is the authority for CI legs; a locally recorded series is the authority for verify. Neither is a number a human types.
• Mechanism as a computable predicate (§2). Compute p95 per job from the run history and replace every grandfathered comment with the measured form # budget: p95=<n>s xM measured=YYYY-MM-DD. timeout-check's existing budget-arithmetic rule then does the work: the declared minutes must equal ceil(p95 × M / 60), so a build that gets slower makes the declared ceiling wrong and the gate red. No new rule kind, no new grammar.
• The multiplier is per lane, and that is the amendment (§2). M = 1.5 on the six PR-path jobs — ci, cross, darwin-link, semver, perf, windows — where the thing being sensed is drift. M = 3 retained on the scheduled workflows, where the thing being sensed is a hang. At 1.5 the 701s → 850s drift above reds on its own, which is the whole point; at 3 it does not.
• The confounder, named rather than hidden (§2). A tighter ceiling also reds on a slow runner, not only on a slow build. CLOUD-501 measured ~250s at p90 for queue wait. p95 is computed over job duration rather than over queue-plus-duration, so the confounder is bounded, but a runner-fleet change would still move it and the first red after one should be read with that in mind.
• Mechanism, the local half (§2). Record verify duration as a series in the same shape CLOUD-172 asks for hook latency, so N is derivable rather than re-measured by hand each time the fan-out question comes up.
• Deliberately not in scope (§2). Making the build faster. This issue makes a regression visible; which leg to attack is CLOUD-386's and CLOUD-398's.
• Output and exit (§5). Pointer-only: job name, p95, declared ceiling. Never a log.
• Commit / bump (§6). fix(ci) — patch until 0.1.0 regardless of type.
• Test obligation (§7). tests/timeout-check.bats already covers the measured grammar and the arithmetic. Two additions: a case proving a grandfathered budget is accepted only while a deadline has not passed, so the placeholder cannot outlive this change silently; and a case proving the arithmetic reds on a 20% drift at M = 1.5 and stays green on the same drift at M = 3. The second is the one that shows this change was needed rather than cosmetic.
• Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-172 (the same "record it as a series so it cannot degrade invisibly" shape applied to hook latency), CLOUD-501 (the queue-wait confounder), CLOUD-386 and CLOUD-398 (the legs the series will point at).

Acceptance

• No # budget: grandfathered comment remains in any workflow — 30 rows outstanding as of 2026-08-20.
• A ~20% regression on a PR-path job makes mise run timeout-check red without anyone editing a threshold. Doubling is not the bar; the measured failure was +21% and it passed.
• The multiplier a job declares matches its lane, and a job in the wrong lane is red.
• verify duration is readable as a series, so the fan-out cap is computed rather than recalled.

CLOUD-886 `test:bats` globs `mise-tasks/**`, so a one-sentence change runs all 151 suites — and the two inputs selection needs now both exist

Why

hk.pkl declares the test:bats step with glob = List("mise-tasks/**", "tests/*.bats"). Any byte changed under mise-tasks/ runs all 151 suites — 1,188s serial, ~290s wall at --jobs 4, and test:bats is ~81% of the ci job.

Measured today: correcting one sentence in mise-tasks/land's lap-cap message bought a full CI matrix. That is not an edge case, it is the campaign's normal shape — CLOUD-843's waves touch mise-tasks/ on every lap, and each lap pays the whole suite to re-run 150 suites whose subject nobody edited.

The two inputs selection needs now both exist, and neither did a day ago.

• Every suite declares its subject. All 151 of 151 tests/*.bats carry a # subject: header (CLOUD-807's mechanism). 143 name one path, 7 name two. The paths are overwhelmingly mise-tasks/<name>, plus a handful of mise.toml, hk.pkl, batten.toml, .claude/hooks/*, tests/* and policy/*.
• Every suite's cost is recorded. bench/suites/RESULTS.md (landed b4ea891) carries per-suite durations derived from the report test:bats already writes, so the saving of any selection is computable before it is built.

So "which suites can this diff move, and what do they cost" is answerable from committed text. A change to mise-tasks/land selects tests/land.bats: 141.5s instead of 1,188s.

The failure mode is silent, and it decides the whole design. A selection that is too wide costs money and is obvious in the bill. A selection that is too narrow does not fail: the suites simply do not run, ran matches whatever was selected, and a regression lands green. That asymmetry is why this ships with a gate over its own honesty rather than with a comment claiming the map is right — the shape rust-paths-check set for the one other glob in this repository that decides whether work runs at all.

The hole a naive design would have. Subject-intersection alone is unsafe, because several subjects are inputs to nearly every suite: mise.toml defines the tasks the suites invoke, hk.pkl defines the gate, batten.toml is the policy authority, and tests/helpers is sourced widely. A mise.toml edit that breaks land would select only the 7 suites naming mise.toml and skip tests/land.bats. Any design that does not carve those out is worse than running everything.

Refinement — Ready (select by declared subject, fail open toward cost)

• Source of truth (§1). The # subject: headers themselves and the changed-path set from git. No second map: the headers are the authority, and a suite that does not declare one is a refusal rather than a default.
• Mechanism as a computable predicate (§2). Selection applies only when every changed path is a mise-tasks/<name> or a tests/<name>.bats whose subject resolves. Any shared input — mise.toml, mise.lock, hk.pkl, batten.toml, .claude/settings.json, tests/helpers* — or any unresolvable subject, or any path outside that set, means run everything. Deny-list, not allow-list, for the same reason CLOUD-398's slow-tier decision is: the set of things that can move a suite is not enumerable, so the predicate must be "provably inert" rather than "probably unaffected".
• The anti-vacuity assertion moves with it (§2). test:bats asserts ran == expected over every @test in the tree, and that exists to catch "a suite that got faster by running fewer tests" (CLOUD-386) — which is exactly what selection does. expected must be computed from the selected suites, by the same map that chose them, so the assertion still discriminates. An expected derived from a second list would be the defect wearing the fix's clothes.
• Deliberately not in scope (§2). Per-case selection inside a suite; the worker count, which CLOUD-386 measured and settled at $(nproc); and the cargo suite, which has its own selection story.
• Effect (§3). read. The selector reads committed text and a diff; it runs nothing and decides nothing about content.
• Output and exit (§5). Pointer-only: the count selected and the reason a wide run was chosen. Never a case name, never a diff.
• Commit / bump (§6). feat(ci) → patch.
• Test obligation (§7). Mutation-checked per CLOUD-418, and the probes are the deliverable rather than the selector: a change to mise-tasks/land must select tests/land.bats; a change to mise.toml must select everything; a change to a file with no resolvable subject must select everything; a memories-only change selects nothing and is not reached at all because the step's glob does not match it. The narrow-selection probe is the one that must be shown able to fail, because it is the direction with no symptom.
• Blockers (§8). None. relatedTo CLOUD-807 (the subject headers this consumes), CLOUD-386 (the anti-vacuity assertion this moves, and the worker-count measurement it must not disturb), CLOUD-843 (the campaign that pays this cost on every wave), CLOUD-352 (the cost-visibility work the corpus came from), CLOUD-884 (a defect in that corpus's generator, found after it landed).

Acceptance

• A change touching only one mise-tasks/<name> runs that name's suite(s) and no others, shown by the reported count.
• A change touching mise.toml, hk.pkl or batten.toml runs everything, shown the same way.
• ran == expected still holds and still discriminates: a suite silently dropped from the selection fails it.
• The saving is measured against bench/suites/RESULTS.md rather than asserted — the selected total versus the 1,188s serial baseline.
• The narrow-selection probe is shown red before the gate exists and green after.

CLOUD-908 `retires_with` conserves files, not logic: the one completed port deleted 22 bats cases and six of them have no successor anything in the tree can name

Why

CLOUD-807 landed retires_with, which admits deleting a bats suite exactly when its declared # subject: dies. That was the precondition for retiring anything, and it is correct. It conserves files. Nothing conserves logic. The ratchet asks "is the subject gone?" and never "did the cases move?", so a migration can delete a 259-line suite and land green with nothing asserting what replaced it. CLOUD-843 names this as the trap the permit created: "the ratchet will admit deleting a suite whose task died, with nothing asserting the Rego that replaced it. The permit made coverage evaporation quiet."

Measured on the one retirement that has actually happened

dd1d6d8 / 076b65f deleted mise-tasks/contract-drift.sh (215 lines) and tests/contract-drift.bats (259 lines, 22 @test cases), replacing them with crates/batten/tests/contract_drift.rs (12 #[test]) plus 6 unit tests in src/contract.rs. It is a careful port — the header states which half each layer covers, several cases carry an explicit "Fails by:" clause, and one is labelled "carried over verbatim in meaning".

It is also unverifiable. Mapping the 22 by hand, six have no successor identifiable from the tree:

dropped case	plausible successor, unrecorded
it names the event it was called on	—
an untracked file under mise-tasks is not contract	possibly contradicted — see below
a payload with no session_id still works, on a shared key	—
unparseable input fails open	crates/batten/tests/cli.rs?
empty input fails open	crates/batten/tests/cli.rs?
the bypass is honoured	crates/batten/tests/guardrail_bypass.rs?

Three of those are plausibly generic batten hook properties now, held by the engine rather than the script — which is a good outcome and exactly what migration should produce. Nothing in the tree records that it happened. The only way to find out is to open two files and re-derive the mapping by hand, which is what a 20-gate batch makes impossible and what retires_with admits silently.

And one case changed behaviour deliberately, with nothing marking it. The bats suite asserted "an untracked file under mise-tasks is not contract". The Rust successor writes an uncommitted mise-tasks/brand-new-gate and asserts it is drift, with the reason in a doc comment ([epoch] tracked structurally cannot see a file that did not exist when the list was written). That is defensible. It is still a behaviour change, and no mechanism distinguishes it from an accident.

The mechanism: three arms, decidable from two trees

The deleting PR declares, per @test case in the dying suite, exactly one of:

1. carried — names the test_ rule or #[test] that now holds it. Feeds the differential replay.
2. subsumed — names a general property elsewhere (guardrail_bypass.rs, cli.rs, an engine invariant) that now covers it, because the plumbing it tested became the engine's rather than the script's.
3. changed — deliberately, with the reason, as the untracked-file case above.

An unmapped case refuses the deletion at deny. No network, no judgement — the same class retires_with already is, reading a declared token out of the base tree (rules.rs:3805-3902, git.rs:1661) and refused at load without base.

The mapping is declared, never inferred, for the reason CLOUD-807 already established for # subject:: measured, 19 of 141 suites have no same-named mise-tasks/ program and all 19 are legitimate. A name heuristic over case titles would be worse — titles are prose.

Second job, and it is why this row is worth its own mechanism rather than a review checklist: the mapping is the handoff ledger. It is committed per gate as a wave proceeds, so a different session — or a different account — reads progress off the tree instead of off a chat transcript that dies with its container. A gate with no mapping block is untouched; a block with unmapped cases is half-done.

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Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). The two trees the ratchet already reads — the base rev's suite and the head's successors. The mapping is declared in the head tree beside the rule it belongs to; there is no second register of what has migrated.
• Computable predicate (§2). A change deleting @test cases from a suite whose declared subject died is admitted iff every deleted case carries exactly one of the three arms and each arm's named target resolves in the head tree. Any unmapped case, any arm naming a target that does not exist, or more than one arm on one case → exit 2, at severity deny.
• Effect (§3). read — two trees, no network, no spawn. It extends an existing ratchet rather than adding a rule kind.
• Generated artifacts (§4). schema/batten.schema.json and schema/batten.local.schema.json regenerate for the new row key. derived-check and schema-check gate both. Regenerate with mise run fix; never merge a generated diff.
• Output / exit (§5). Pointer-only: the refusal names the suite, the case count and the unmapped case's path:line — never the case body, and never the deleted assertion's text.
• Commit / bump (§6). feat(rules) — not !: an additional optional column on an existing rule kind, so no published shape is broken and no consumer's config stops loading.
• Weakens: rule-predicate-changed at rule[bats-tests-not-deleted].conserves — adding the conserves column moves that rule's predicate, and WeakeningKind::RulePredicateChanged is "reported as a change, never as a ranking" (crates/batten/src/trust.rs), because whether one predicate is narrower than another is a judgement that module refuses to make. So a tightening declares itself through the same clause a loosening would. The direction here is stated rather than left to the reader: the column only ever ADDS an obligation — a deleted @test case carrying no arm was admitted before and is refused after — and no deletion that bats-tests-not-deleted already admitted becomes admissible.
• Test obligation (§7). Shown able to fail (CLOUD-418), one observed red each: (a) a deletion with one unmapped case is refused; (b) an arm naming a test_ rule that does not exist in the head tree is refused; (c) a case carrying two arms is refused; (d) a fully mapped deletion whose subject died loads and passes — the positive arm, which without (a)–(c) would be a rule that admits everything; (e) a deletion whose subject still exists still denies, so this row does not weaken retires_with's existing clause.
• Blockers (§8). None.

Acceptance

• The three arms are declarable and an unmapped case refuses at deny.
• Each of (a)–(e) has been observed red or green as stated, not asserted.
• The calibration is landed, not planned: contract-drift's 22 cases are mapped retroactively. Each of the six above is resolved to subsumed with a named target, or to carried, or it is a real coverage gap and gets its own row — and the row that finds a gap is worth more than the mechanism that found it.
• The mapping's location and shape are documented as the handoff ledger, so a resuming session reads progress from the tree.

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Walkthrough

board-sweep.sh runs graph-check and duplicate-close-check before released. It separates board-scoped failures from clone-scoped abstentions and applies updated exit precedence. graph-check expands blocker and milestone validation. ready-lint and ready-cites-check emit and classify citations. board-write-record.sh stores citation data in a sixth receipt field. filed-here-check.sh parses updated receipt formats. Tests cover the changed gates, validations, citations, and records.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5f998

The gate can accept citation paths outside the repository and incorrectly pass checks, while some new graph checks can pass without confirming that a verdict was produced. Merge readiness remains moderate until the path restriction is fixed or explicitly accepted and the affected tests assert real gate output.

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- Around line 278-280: Update the cited-path loop around the path extractor and
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict cited paths to the repository tree.

The extractor accepts /tmp/outside.bats and ../../outside.bats. Line 280 then accepts either path when it exists on the runner. A Ready block can pass although the repository does not carry the cited file.

Reject absolute paths and any .. path component before the existence check. Add a regression test that creates an external temporary .bats file and confirms its absolute citation is refused.

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 	for p in $(grep -oE '`[A-Za-z0-9_./-]+\.(rs|toml|yml|yaml|bats|md|json|pkl|sh|lock|rego)`' <<<"$block" 2>/dev/null | tr -d '`' | grep -F / | sort -u); do
 		cited=$((cited + 1))
+		if [[ "$p" == /* || "$p" == ".." || "$p" == ../* || "$p" == */.. || "$p" == */../* ]]; then
+			report "$key §1 $p invalid-cited-path"
+			continue
+		fi
 		if [[ -e "$p" ]]; then

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In `@mise-tasks/board-write-record.sh`:
- Around line 393-421: Update the citation-analysis flow around the description
guard so an explicitly returned string description is processed even when empty,
producing a zero citation count; reserve “-” only when description data is
unavailable or non-string. Track description presence/type separately from
content emptiness, and add a regression test covering an issue response with an
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41-64: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider extracting the shared issue fixture into a common helper.

The same issue function, including the status→statusType mapping, now exists verbatim in mise-tasks/board-write-record.sh (lines 32-65) and mise-tasks/filed-here-check.sh (lines 32-65) per the graph context, and here. If the live board adds or renames a column, the mapping must be updated in three places. A drifted copy would make one suite assert against a payload shape the gates never see. A single sourced helper file keeps the mapping authoritative in one location.

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mise task scripts into one sourced helper, then update each existing issue
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Two new arms pass when the gate produces no output. Both cases assert only conditions that an aborted or silent graph-check.sh run also satisfies: one compares two expected-zero counts, the other checks only for the absence of a substring. Neither pins that the gate ran and reached a verdict. Add a positive anchor to each.

• tests/graph-check.bats#L218-L228: assert [ "$status" -eq 0 ] and a known frontier line in both the few_edges and many_edges arms, matching the [ "$few" -gt 0 ] guard the jq test uses on line 211.
• tests/graph-check.bats#L1141-L1150: assert [ "$status" -eq 1 ] and CLOUD-1 unmilestoned (Todo), the outcome the comment on lines 1146-1147 already establishes.

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