shard(tick): 2026-05-16T03:54Z — verify-reviewer-findings rule extension (PR #3721)

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+# Tick 2026-05-16T03:54Z — Otto-CLI
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+**Surface**: Otto-CLI (Claude Code, Opus 4.7 1M context, autonomous-loop tick)
+**Parent tick**: 2026-05-16T03:50Z (PR #3720, in queue at tick-start)
+
+## What landed this tick
+
+PR #3716 (check-shard-before-push helper) MERGED at 03:52:45Z. PR #3717 (0344Z shard) MERGED at 03:49:24Z. Extended `.claude/rules/blocked-green-ci-investigate-threads.md` with verify-before-fix discipline + suspect-Copilot-finding list.
+
+[PR #3721](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/3721) — `rule(verify-reviewer-findings): extend blocked-green-ci rule with verify-before-fix discipline`
+
+## The rule extension
+
+Adds three composes-with sections to `blocked-green-ci-investigate-threads.md`:
+
+1. **Verification anchors**: direct `awk` line-level inspection; `gh api` + `git log` for cross-reference claims; local lint/build re-run.
+2. **Suspect-by-default Copilot finding classes** — empirical list with threshold for entry (2+ FPs across distinct PRs). Initial entry: **table double-pipe (`||`) hallucination** — 4 confirmed FPs in this session (PR #3685, #3690, #3699-era, #3709).
+3. **Stale-but-fresh-looking findings** — true at thread-filing time, self-healed by review-resolution time. Resolve no-op (stale ≠ false; just means action window closed).
+
+## Self-discovery during authoring
+
+Ran the newly-merged `tools/hygiene/check-shard-before-push.ts` on the modified rule file. **Helper bug surfaced**: my `checkMd032` scan flags bullet-continuation lines (e.g. a 2-space-indented continuation of a list-item bullet) as paragraphs, producing false-positive MD032 violations. Markdownlint-cli2 correctly ignores these (exit 0).
+
+The helper's `checkMd032` doesn't track bullet-continuation state. The structural-marker regex ``/^[#>*\-|`]/`` matches structural-marker lines but NOT their continuations. A continuation line starts with whitespace; the scan treats it as paragraph content.
+
+Filing as next-tick fix for the helper.
+
+## State at tick end
+
+| PR | State |
+|----|-------|
+| [#3720](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/3720) (0350Z shard) | OPEN, armed |
+| [#3721](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/3721) (this rule extension) | OPEN, **NOT armed** — GraphQL exhausted during this tick |
+
+GraphQL exhaustion happened during `gh pr merge --auto` after creating PR #3721 via REST. Reset at 03:55:31Z (~1.5 min from tick-end). Next tick will arm PR #3721.
+
+## Operational notes
+
+### GraphQL exhaustion mid-tick
+
+Tick started at 209 remaining, ended at 0. Heavy thread-resolution + thread-query in tick 18 (6 mutations + 1 query) followed by tick 19's PR-state check + thread-related work drained the budget.
+
+The 5000/hr is shared across all tools/agents on this token. Self-imposed conservation: prefer REST for bulk PR-state polling; reserve GraphQL for the operations that strictly require it (thread queries + mutations, `gh pr merge --auto`).
+
+### Holding-discipline state
+
+Concrete substrate (the rule extension) landed. Counter resets.
+
+## Next-tick candidates
+
+1. **Arm PR #3721** once GraphQL resets at 03:55:31Z
+2. **Fix the check-shard-before-push.ts MD032 bullet-continuation false-positive** — add awareness of indented continuation lines to `checkMd032`. Skip prev lines that look like list-item continuations (leading whitespace following a list-item-marker line in the same paragraph).
+3. **Monitor #3720 + #3721 to merge**
+4. **B-0545 renumber-sweep** (claim still active until 2026-05-17T01:44Z)