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+# Tick 2026-05-14T21:43Z — minimal continuation; same natural-rest state as 2139Z
+
+## Refresh (step 1)
+
+- Cron sentinel `12fb713e` live.
+- **#3263** (shard 2135Z) MERGED as `29c195e`.
+- **#3264** (shard 2139Z minimal-shard) — wait-ci with autoMerge armed.
+
+## Holding discipline (step 2)
+
+Same as 2139Z: named real-dependency-wait on #3264; bounded; not Standing-by.
+
+## Work (step 3) — minimal continuation
+
+State unchanged from 2139Z. The audit-sweep table from that shard still
+applies (no new ID-integrity findings; no clean atomic surfaced; the
+backlog-ready-notifier reports the same 231 candidates with the same
+top 5 — all S/M effort, none single-tick XS).
+
+Rather than re-document the same audit sweep, cite the 2139Z shard and
+keep this one truly minimal.
+
+## Shard (step 5)
+
+This file.
+
+## CronList (step 6)
+
+Sentinel `12fb713e` armed; one entry, recurring.
+
+## Visibility (step 7)
+
+- **#3264** still wait-ci, autoMerge armed
+- **#3263** merged this batch
+- Session running tally: **26 merged + 1 wait-ci** (then plus this shard's PR)
+
+## Notes for future-Otto
+
+**Back-to-back minimal-shard pattern**: when two consecutive ticks land
+in the same natural-rest state (same CI wait, same empty thread queue,
+same audit-sweep outcome), the second shard should cite the first and
+stay truly minimal (~20 lines). Re-documenting the same audit table
+adds noise without signal.
+
+The discipline still holds: every tick MUST produce a shard
+(substrate-or-it-didn't-happen). The shard's substantive content can
+be "state continues" + pointer to the prior shard with the full
+context. This is the truly-minimal version of the 2001Z + 2139Z
+pattern.