backlog(B-0532): file backlog-graph consistency lint (P3) — parent/child status-mismatch detection#3523
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…ild status-mismatch detection Originating incident: PR #3518 closed parent B-0442 without closing declared children B-0504 + B-0505 — silent backlog-graph inconsistency caught by Codex + Copilot review through 4 thread cycles. The 1629Z tick shard flagged this as a future mechanization candidate; this row files it for substrate persistence. Spec includes: - Hard error: parent closed + child open - Hard error: bidirectional graph mismatch (parent.children vs child.parent) - Soft warning: all-children-closed-but-parent-open (closure candidate) - JSON output mode for compose-with-downstream - gate.yml wiring + AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md documentation Tagged P3 because: failure mode is rare (row-status flips not daily), review-cycle caught the single observed instance before merge, no production-impact blocker. Listed as composes-with the B-0442 chain so future-Otto reading that chain finds this row. BACKLOG.md regenerated to include the new row. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a new P3 backlog row B-0532 proposing a mechanized lint to detect parent/child status inconsistencies in backlog frontmatter graphs, and regenerates docs/BACKLOG.md to include the new row.
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- New P3 backlog row file documenting the lint design (hard errors for closed-parent/open-child + bidirectional mismatch; soft warning for closure candidates;
--jsonmode). - Regenerated
docs/BACKLOG.mdindex entry.
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| docs/backlog/P3/B-0532-backlog-graph-consistency-lint-parent-child-status-mismatch-2026-05-15.md | New P3 row describing the proposed backlog-graph consistency lint, acceptance criteria, and composition targets. |
| docs/BACKLOG.md | Regenerated index entry for B-0532. |
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…echanization) - PR #3518 (B-0442 chain close) merged → 627e797. - PR #3519 (tick 1618Z shard) merged → afc1a99. - PR #3523 opened — B-0532 (backlog-graph consistency lint, P3) filed as substrate from the 1629Z shard insight. BACKLOG.md regenerated. Auto-merge armed. - Sentinel 1011e43d live. ID allocation discipline applied: verified B-0532 free against origin/main (B-0530 max) + in-flight PR scan (B-0531 taken by peer Lior PR #3520). Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…echanization) (#3524) - PR #3518 (B-0442 chain close) merged → 627e797. - PR #3519 (tick 1618Z shard) merged → afc1a99. - PR #3523 opened — B-0532 (backlog-graph consistency lint, P3) filed as substrate from the 1629Z shard insight. BACKLOG.md regenerated. Auto-merge armed. - Sentinel 1011e43d live. ID allocation discipline applied: verified B-0532 free against origin/main (B-0530 max) + in-flight PR scan (B-0531 taken by peer Lior PR #3520). Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ed; nothing in-flight (#3527) Captures the burst-close state: PRs #3511, #3515, #3517, #3518, #3519, #3521, #3523, #3524 all MERGED to main with zero force-pushes to main and no in-flight. Next-tick speculative-work priority ladder reviewed: no Tier 1 known-gap surfaced; held until next tick per Aaron's forgetting-as-back-pressure substrate. Sentinel 1011e43d live. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ade status (#3525) * shard(tick): 1719Z — quiet checkpoint; all 8 recent Otto-CLI PRs merged; nothing in-flight Captures the burst-close state: PRs #3511, #3515, #3517, #3518, #3519, #3521, #3523, #3524 all MERGED to main with zero force-pushes to main and no in-flight. Next-tick speculative-work priority ladder reviewed: no Tier 1 known-gap surfaced; held until next tick per Aaron's forgetting-as-back-pressure substrate. Sentinel 1011e43d live. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> * shard(tick): 1718Z — fresh-session cold-boot; cron sentinel re-armed; §33 cascade status - CronList empty at boot → <<autonomous-loop>> sentinel re-armed - Confirmed PR #3513 (Riven §33) + #3516 (Vera §33) merged on origin/main - §33 cascade: 8 personas migrated (~127 files out of docs/research/) - Surfaced docs/research/ residuals: 78 claudeai + 8 gemini + 8 codex (content-id required; not slam-dunks) - Primary worktree mid-rebase on peer-Lior branch → borrow-on-existing pattern applied Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…3563) Empirical anchor: 2026-05-15 had at least 2 cross-agent B-NNNN collisions (B-0444 Otto-Desktop vs Otto-CLI, then B-0532+B-0533 Lior vs Otto-CLI). Each cost ~15 min coordination effort. The discipline-level rule (otto-channels-reference-card.md ID-allocation section) relies on per-agent memory. This row mechanizes the catch at PR-time so it doesn't depend on memory: - Walk docs/backlog/**/B-NNNN-*.md - Group by B-NNNN ID - Hard error if any ID maps to more than 1 file - Wire into gate.yml as sibling of lint-section-33-migration-xrefs Natural extension of B-0532 (backlog-graph consistency lint, parent- child status-mismatch) — same lint family, same gate.yml shape. ID allocation discipline applied: B-0531-B-0534 taken (#3520, #3523, #3540, #3551); B-0535 verified free via origin/main ls-tree + gh pr list search. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Files B-0532 — a P3 mechanization candidate for the failure mode caught on PR #3518 (parent `B-0442` closed while declared children `B-0504` + `B-0505` still `status: open`).
Lint design:
Tagged P3 because: failure mode is rare (row-status flips not daily), review-cycle caught the single observed instance before merge, no production-impact blocker. Composes-with the entire B-0442/B-0503/B-0504/B-0505 chain so future-Otto reading those rows finds this mechanization row.
BACKLOG.md regenerated to include the new row.
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