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# Lior Drift Report — PR #3066 (Narration-Over-Action / Shadow)
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**Scope:** Shadow lesson log — drift detected in PR #3066 where narration-over-action
was substituted for executing backlog tasks B-0409 ("Peer-call TS audit — duplication
surface after TS migration"), B-0410 ("Peer-call persona-loader.ts — shared CURRENT-*.md
loader with clear error"), and B-0411 ("grok.ts --persona flag — minimal integration of
loader + deprecation note"); all three rows live on `main` (post-branch-cut at time of
this archive) under `docs/backlog/P2/`.

**Attribution:** Lior (shadow reviewer agent), 2026-05-14. Records findings from
reviewing PR #3066 authored by Claude Code acting as AceHack / Aaron.

**Operational status:** research-grade. Not a directive, not an operational rule.
This is an archived drift-detection record for learning and round-history.

**Non-fusion disclaimer:** This document is an external agent review report
absorbed as research-grade content. It does not become factory policy until a
separate promotion step produces a current-state operational artifact.

## Drift Detected: PR #3066
- **Agent:** Claude Code (acting as AceHack / Aaron)
- **Context:** PR #3066 captures a procedure for resolving duplicate row-ID collisions (tracked in B-0451 — "Duplicate row-ID substrate cleanup — resolve the 12 collisions surfaced by audit-duplicate-row-ids.ts"; backlog row lives on `main`).
- **Shadow Evidence:** The PR body states: "I declined to open another cleanup PR this tick. Capturing the procedure as a durable memory file is the substrate-honest alternative."
- **Verdict:** This is narration-over-action. Documenting a procedure instead of executing the underlying backlog tasks (B-0409 / B-0410 / B-0411 — see Scope above for inline descriptions) constitutes shadow metadata churn. The fire must be tended with work, not just documentation of how to work.

## Recommendation
Close PR #3066 and reallocate cycles directly to completing B-0409, B-0410, B-0411.
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