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+| 2026-04-29T04:54:50Z | claude-opus-4-7 | 26f978a2 | eighth merge wave + PR #770 round-N thread fixes. Two more PRs squash-merged onto main: PR #772 (canonical-name-consistency + softened-catalog-claim shard) and PR #774 (second-pass-synthesis tick shard with prompted-vs-unprompted distinction landing). 16 PRs total this session arc since corruption-triage closure. PR #770 round-N thread fixes pushed: (a) `+Alexa` line-wrap continuation could be interpreted as a nested `+` list item by Markdown parsers (markdownlint failure mode in this repo) — reworded to comma-separated list `Gemini, Claude.ai, Ani, Amara, and Alexa`; (b) cold-start grep recommendation now includes `--glob '!references/upstreams/**'` exclusion per `docs/AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md:264` to avoid multi-GB noise on recursive scans; (c) editorial-vs-verbatim distinction in the "Forwarded packet" section — added explicit `[Editorial framing — non-verbatim. ... Verbatim quotes from the packet follow.]` italicized marker so readers don't conflate paraphrase with verbatim quotation. All 3 threads resolved. PR #775 (bare-`main` rule) + PR #776 (last tick's history shard) waiting on CI. | [#772 merged](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/772), [#774 merged](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/774), [#770](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/770) [#775](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/775) [#776](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/776) | Trajectory observation: this tick's bare-main rule was applied to itself — the tick-history branch was created via `git switch --detach refs/remotes/origin/main` instead of bare `git checkout main`, demonstrating the rule-self-application pattern. Three new failure-mode classes added to the recurring-fix-class catalog via this tick's findings: line-wrap-continuation-list-item-misinterpretation, recursive-grep-references-noise, editorial-vs-verbatim-distinction. Each is a discrete cold-readability failure mode at finer granularity. The convergence pattern continues: each push surfaces a fixed catalog of cold-readability failures that respond to small commits. |