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+| 2026-05-01T19:46:00Z | opus-4-7 / autonomous-loop tick | 98fc7424 | Diagnostic-discipline correction tick. **MERGED**: #1144 (1921Z tick-history) at 19:44:17Z; #1147 + #1148 backfill-confirmed merged earlier (19:40:23Z + 19:40:39Z). **Aaron diagnostic corrections this turn**: (1) Stale-base-vs-conflict — with `strict: false` ruleset, stale base alone does NOT block merge; only actual conflicts block. Diagnostic ladder for BLOCKED-with-green-CI: unresolved review threads (most common per Otto-355) > required reviewers > actual conflicts > CI failures. NOT stale-base-as-first-suspect. (2) Read-vs-mutation distinction: auto-merge arming IS mutation, not read. The "refresh env status update" pattern is read-only multi-query. (3) Canonical 3-query read phase per Aaron 2026-05-01: get merge status + get open PR comments/threads + get number of unfinished required CI jobs. Tooling candidate: TS script `tools/pr-status/refresh-env.ts` per prefer-TS-over-bash + factory-first-class discipline. **#1125 (B-0154 Pages)** 4 threads drained: stale Jekyll-no-workflow framing (post Bun-SSG reversal) auto-resolved + Python new-vs-shipped contradiction fixed. Cron 98fc7424 healthy. | [#1144 MERGED via auto-merge; #1125 line-126 fix pushed (a6f0100) + 4 threads resolved] | The tick-wake discipline crystallizes: READ phase (3 queries in parallel) → DIAGNOSE (full picture, not partial) → DECIDE (informed) → MUTATE (action). I had been doing READ-partial → MUTATE → READ-again loop. The CQRS / OODA-loop framing is the structural discipline. Aaron's "that's mutation" catch caught the loop conflation. The brick-wall lesson from earlier this session repeats here at the tick-discipline level: the rules are clear; my behavior has to match. |