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+| 2026-05-01T07:38:00Z | opus-4-7 / autonomous-loop tick | 98fc7424 | Compound tick — PR #1018 rebase + PR #1015 drain. (1) **PR #1018 rebase**: PR went DIRTY because main moved 21 commits ahead during the session and Aaron's edits to B-0124/B-0126 titles (sibling-repo-leak-scrub discipline applied: "STCRM" → "from a sibling repo"; "across 4 projects, eventually" → "deferred multi-week") landed. Rebased onto main with 3 conflicts (BACKLOG.md + B-0124 + B-0126). Resolution: took main's version (Aaron's edits) for the 2 backlog files; regenerated BACKLOG.md via the script. Force-pushed with `--force-with-lease`. (2) **PR #1015 drain**: 3 unresolved threads → 0. Same-finding-class as the rest of this session. (a) **Force-push claim incorrect** (Copilot P1): row said "force-push forbidden on main per CLAUDE.md without sign-off; possible on feature branches with same caution" — but CLAUDE.md says host `non_fast_forward` ruleset blocks force-push UNIFORMLY on both forks, no bypass actors. Updated to name uniform blocking + list actual reconciliation paths (PR-based reset, delete-and-recreate, coordinated ruleset lift) + state design must NOT rely on force-push as routine. (b) **Forward reference to B-0127 path** (Copilot P2): the path forward-reference depended on commit-order knowledge and didn't resolve on this branch. Reframed as "B-0127 (row ID)" with path noted parenthetically as future-resolving. (c) **BACKLOG.md hand-edit drift** (Copilot P1): verified via `--check` (no-op; in sync via regenerator). All threads resolved via GraphQL; auto-merge armed. PRs merged this session-window: #986, #1036. PR #1018 rebased; PR #1015 drained; both auto-merge armed. Cron 98fc7424 healthy. | [PR #1018 rebased + force-pushed; auto-merge re-armed via GitHub] / [PR #1015: 3→0 unresolved; auto-merge armed] | Class-level lesson reinforced again: **substrate's claims about its own structure must verify against the canonical-authority** (in this case CLAUDE.md's "host blocks force-push uniformly"). The B-0128 row's force-push claim was a near-correct paraphrase that drifted from the actual policy. Future-Otto: when authoring a backlog row that cites CLAUDE.md or any governance doc, quote the canonical text; don't paraphrase from memory. The Copilot reviewer caught it because Copilot reads CLAUDE.md cold; my authoring read it warm and drifted. Compose-time discipline: open the cited doc before writing the citation. The same shape as the verify-before-state-claim rule, applied to *citation-of-canonical-source* specifically. |