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…026-05-01 Aaron 2026-05-01 in chat: "backlog is yours to pritorize, i've been pushing prioritories on you since you were born lol." + "i agree 🤝" on Otto's outline of what the delegation changes operationally. Authority shift: backlog priority on docs/backlog/** (P0/P1/P2/P3 tiering, ordering, B-NNNN row creation, status transitions) is Otto's call as of 2026-05-01. The two carve-outs from Otto-357 unchanged: WONT-DO additions + budget increases still need explicit Aaron sign-off. Aaron's framings still count as inputs to Otto's judgment, not as decisions. Looking-back observation Aaron surfaced: directive-shape has been operating from Aaron-side even while both espoused no-directives. Otto-357 was running nominally but not operationally on backlog priority. The delegation is gap-closure — making Otto-357 actually- operate on the priority lever. Discipline-hazard flagged + Aaron-agreed: no reprioritization in receipt-energy per §39 slow-deliberate. First priority pass under new authority is on cadence cycle, not same tick as delegation arrival. Paired-edit: memory file + CURRENT-aaron.md §45. preservation_reason: content (authority-rule change), not validation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Captures a durable authority change in the repo’s memory substrate: backlog prioritization decisions for docs/backlog/** move to Otto as of 2026-05-01, with explicit carve-outs that still require Aaron sign-off.
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- Added a new feedback memory documenting the backlog-prioritization authority delegation (and its carve-outs + application protocol).
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memory/CURRENT-aaron.mdto include the new §45 summary and composition links.
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| memory/feedback_backlog_prioritization_authority_delegated_to_otto_aaron_2026_05_01.md | New memory entry defining the authority shift + how-to-apply guidance and composition references. |
| memory/CURRENT-aaron.md | Adds §45 to reflect the new authority rule in the “current” distillation. |
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| name: Backlog prioritization authority delegated to Otto — Aaron 2026-05-01 | ||
| description: Authority shift — backlog-priority decisions on docs/backlog/** are Otto's call, not Aaron's, with two unchanged carve-outs (WONT-DO additions + budget increases still need explicit Aaron sign-off). Aaron's framing-input still counts as input to Otto's judgment, not as decision. Composes with Otto-357 no-directives and the project-survival-grounding rule. | ||
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P1: Frontmatter is missing originSessionId. Other memory/feedback_*.md files include this field, and memory/MEMORY-AUTHOR-TEMPLATE.md lists it as part of the memory frontmatter schema; without it, provenance-dependent conventions/tooling can drift.
Suggestion: add an originSessionId: <uuid> field to the YAML frontmatter for this memory (using the session id that produced the delegation).
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| Backlog prioritization authority on `docs/backlog/**` (P0/P1/P2/P3 | ||
| tiering, ordering, B-NNNN row creation, status transitions) belongs | ||
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P1: This PR adds a new memory/feedback_*.md entry but does not add it to memory/MEMORY.md (the index). memory/README.md explicitly calls out updating MEMORY.md when adding new memory files; without the index entry, future readers/agents relying on the index may miss this rule.
Suggestion: add a newest-first entry for this file to memory/MEMORY.md.
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… index entry for #1001 (#1002) Per Copilot P1 review threads on merged PR #1001: - Frontmatter was missing `originSessionId` field (other memory files include it; MEMORY-AUTHOR-TEMPLATE.md schema requires it). Added the current session UUID. - MEMORY.md index entry was missing (memory/README.md calls out the paired-edit requirement; CLAUDE.md auto-memory protocol says new memory files must have a pointer row). Added entry + updated the latest-paired-edit marker. Both fixes are mechanical paired-edit hygiene I should have caught in the original commit. Per the §38 ACID + paired-edit discipline, this follow-up closes the gap before the next session. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…-edit-hygiene-gap diagnostic (#1003) Per autonomous-loop tick-must-never-stop. Aaron 2026-05-01 delegated backlog-prioritization authority to Otto in chat. Five PRs landed in this tick window: #997, #999, #1000, #1001, #1002. The looking-back observation Aaron surfaced (directive-shape was operating while both espoused no-directives) is the load-bearing half of the delegation — gap-closure on Otto-357 actually-operating vs nominally-operating. Diagnostic captured: post-merge Copilot P1s on #1001 (originSessionId + MEMORY.md index missing) flagged paired-edit hygiene gaps Otto's vigilance-per-commit didn't catch. Pre-commit lint candidates for the queue (Razor + CSAP under DST graded later, not filed as separate substrate now). Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
docs/backlog/**(P0/P1/P2/P3 tiering, ordering, B-NNNN row creation, status transitions) is Otto's call as of 2026-05-01.Why this lands as substrate
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preservation_reason: content(authority-rule change), NOTpreservation_reason: validation. Future-Otto on cold-start without this memory file would revert to "Aaron decides priorities" — that's the gap this preservation closes.Discipline-hazard flagged
Receipt of an authority delegation is exactly when "do something dramatic to demonstrate I'm taking it seriously" fires. Per §39 slow-deliberate, no reprioritization in receipt-energy. First priority pass on cadence cycle (next session-open or next-day Aaron-time).
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memory/feedback_backlog_prioritization_authority_delegated_to_otto_aaron_2026_05_01.mdTest plan
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