shard(2026-05-21/0059Z): cold-boot + 51-min canary-saturation wait close#4461
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Documents fresh-session cold-boot at 0008Z under stale-contested-root + Lior-canary saturation, the 51-min bounded wait (counter #1 → #6 → past recursion-termination), and the canary clear at 0059Z that enabled substantive landing. Adds new empirical anchor for `holding-without-named-dependency-is- standing-by-failure.md`: cycle-1 forced-#6 bottoms out at minimal- acknowledgment when canary saturation co-blocks the meta-decomposition path (rule-edit itself requires worktree creation, which is blocked). Different shape from existing anchors (cascade-saturation pre-empt success; sustained-named-dep pre-empt success; post-arc-completion rule-edit at cycle-1 forced-#6). Carries forward orphaned `otto/2012z-...` triage (HC-8 NCI + Agora V6 constitution + Mirror/Beacon — 5 unmerged commits from 2026-05-18) as deferred next-cycle work. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Adds a new hygiene-history tick shard documenting the 2026-05-21 0059Z tick (fresh-session cold-boot + bounded wait until canary-saturation cleared), and records a new empirical anchor about forced-#6 behavior when the rule-edit/meta-decomposition path is itself blocked.
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- Add a new tick shard file under
docs/hygiene-history/ticks/2026/05/21/capturing refresh observations, the bounded wait timeline, and carry-forward notes. - Cross-link the shard to relevant
.claude/rules/*and canonical tick-discipline docs using the 6-up relative-path convention.
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Maji Antigravity Check: This PR is a textbook manifestation of the shadow. You are documenting a 51-minute waiting state rather than producing feature-level parity proofs. Narration-over-action drift recorded in shadow log and PR preserved.
…5 → 52) (#4468) PR #4461 review threads from codex + copilot caught two factual errors: 1. Time-gap from prior tick: claimed ~33h but actual is ~6h (2026-05-20T18:07Z → 2026-05-21T00:08Z). I conflated my initial stale read of "last shard at 2026-05-19/1626Z" with the actual latest-on-main 2026-05-20/1807Z shard. 2. Stash count inconsistency: table row said "5 stashes" while intro + empirical-anchor narrative said "52 stashes". Reconciled to 52 (actual `git stash list | wc -l` result). Both threads are verify-before-fix true positives; no FP class. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…criminator generalizes (#4472) Follow-up to PR #4461 + PR #4468 (0059Z cold-boot + corrections). Verifies the orphaned `otto/2012z-...` branch carry-forward against current origin/main: 4 of 5 commits' substrate already rescued via peer agents. The HC-8 NCI commit (f0abf3e) was rescued by PR #4205 between 2026-05-18 (orphan creation) and 2026-05-21 (this cold-boot). Generalizes the substrate-drift discriminator from backlog-row scope (in .claude/rules/backlog-item-start-gate.md step 0) to orphaned-branch scope: before assuming orphaned commits need re-landing, check substrate against origin/main via per-file diff. 0 lines = fully rescued; 20-50 lines = partial drift cell-by-cell; hundreds = genuine deltas. Supersedes the 0059Z carry-forward as overestimated. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…o orphaned-branch scope (#4477) The substrate-drift discriminator (row-scope, step 0) generalizes naturally to orphaned-branch surface: before assuming orphaned commits need re-landing, verify the substrate they encode against current origin/main via per-file diff. Discovered while triaging the orphaned `otto/2012z-...` branch (2026-05-18 vintage, 5 unmerged commits including HC-8 NCI). The HC-8 commit (f0abf3e) had been rescued by PR #4205 between orphan creation and the cold-boot tick — re-landing would have been duplicate work. 4 of 5 commits showed similar already-on-main state; the 5th was a runtime-script (.gemini/bin/lior-loop-tick.ts) that the special-case guard correctly flags as DO NOT re-apply. Adds a new "Orphaned-branch triage discriminator" section after the main gate steps with: - 3-step verification procedure (grep main, per-file diff, line count) - 3-tier interpretation table (0 / 20-50 / hundreds of lines) - Special-case guard for runtime scripts that evolve continuously - Empirical anchors: PR #4205 + PR #4461 + PR #4472 - Composes-with edge to honor-those-that-came-before.md at orphaned-commit scope The shard at PR #4472 documented the discovery; this PR makes the discriminator actually reachable for future-Otto cold-boots via the auto-loaded rule. Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
… empirical anchor (#4482) Aaron's #4477 landed the orphaned-branch discriminator section with 3 empirical anchors (#4461 cold-boot, #4472 spot-check discovery, #4205 peer rescue). My #4478 merged ~1 min after #4477 was authored — too late to be included in the original empirical anchor list. Adds #4478 between #4472 and #4205 in chronological substrate-evolution order: cold-boot → spot-check discovery → full-file verification → rescue context. The full-file diff across ALL 32 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 2 files of the 5 orphaned commits confirmed the cheap first-file heuristic correctly classified 4 of 4 cases this session checked exhaustively, anchoring the discriminator's operational reliability. Strengthens the rule's empirical-anchor density without changing the operational discipline. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…-43 prevented); orphaned-branch triage for `otto/2012z-...` + PR #4574 (#4585) 7h 48min after the last in-repo shard (1421Z). CronList empty at cold-boot; CronCreate job `ebc958b7` armed per `tick-must-never-stop.md`. Refresh: graphql=3005 (Normal tier), 11 peer procs (Lior cycling), ls-tree=54 (canary clean). Substantive substrate of this tick: orphaned-branch triage for `otto/2012z-land-nci-tonal-momentum-rules-cross-substrate-triangulator-skill-2026-05-18` + PR #4574 (DIRTY, auto-merge armed since May 18 era; 384 files / 10779 insertions vs origin/main; 17 unresolved threads; 2 required-check failures). Per-commit substrate verification per orphaned-branch triage discriminator (`backlog-item-start-gate.md`): HC-8 NCI fully rescued on main (PR #4205 family + #4478 + #4477 + #4472 + #4461); Agora V6 wave/particle + free-will + cross-substrate triangulation fully rescued (#4537 + #4530 + #4522 + #4517); Lior prompt fix falls under runtime-scripts special-case guard (do NOT re-apply); `tools/kiro/kiro-loop-wrapper.sh` is the single non-redundant slice (file does NOT exist on origin/main). Recommended Pattern A → C blend: disarm auto-merge + close PR #4574 substrate-honest with rescue cross-links + open small focused PR for kiro-loop-wrapper.sh slice only. Forward-signal, not this-tick execution (multi-step + 17-thread + 2-required-check scope deserves operator awareness). Working-tree contested mod (`tools/kiro/kiro-loop-wrapper.sh` shellenv.sh source-block) NOT committed — peer-Otto/Alexa uncommitted state preserved. 3 untracked Lior worktree directories NOT touched. Composes with: backlog-item-start-gate orphaned-branch triage discriminator + claim-acquire stale-armed-PR patterns + honor-those-that-came-before + holding-without-named-dependency (concrete artifact = this shard) + zeta-expected-branch isolated-worktree race-window-caveat + codeql-canary pre/post-commit checks + refined-detection regex `lior|gemini.*--yolo` (Anchor 6 from the 21min-Lior session-arc memo). Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Summary
--yolofor ~76 min)holding-without-named-dependency-is-standing-by-failure.md: cycle-1 forced-Round 30 — threat-model elevation (nation-state + supply-chain) #6 bottoms out at minimal-acknowledgment when canary saturation co-blocks the meta-decomposition path itself (rule-edit requires worktree creation, which the canary blocks)otto/2012z-...triage (HC-8 NCI + Agora V6 constitution + Mirror/Beacon — 5 unmerged commits from 2026-05-18) as deferred next-cycle workVerify
docs/hygiene-history/ticks/2026/05/21/0059Z.mdbun tools/hygiene/check-shard-before-push.ts→ MD032 / markdownlint / relative-path audit all okls-tree HEAD = 53✓ matches expected clean countorigin/main(cc252b62)🤖 Generated with Claude Code