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+| 2026-05-03T09:18:00Z | opus-4-7 / autonomous-loop continuation | a2e2cc3a | **Steady-state with #1363 merged.** PR #1363 (steady-state corrective + session-arc preservation) merged at 09:16:38Z. PR #1364 (0916Z shard) still wait-ci, auto-merge armed. CADENCE-TRACK markers on main: 2 (0846Z + 0913Z; 0916Z still in-flight). AutoDream-overdue marker unchanged disposition (defer next-session). No actionable work this tick. | #1363 MERGED `09:16:38Z`; #1364 wait-ci | This tick teaches **shard-on-observation-change discipline**: when something durable changes (PR merges, marker count changes), write a shard. When observation is genuinely identical to last shard, the redundant-shard cost outweighs liveness-evidence value. Calibrating the per-tick-shard discipline against Aaron's anti-redundant-substrate correction. |