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+| 2026-04-29T05:18:02Z | claude-opus-4-7 | 26f978a2 | seventeenth tick — single PR merge. PR #784 (fifteenth merge wave shard, 3-PR drain narrative) squash-merged onto main. 25 PRs total this session arc since corruption-triage closure. Only 2 PRs still open: PR #775 (bare-main rule, BLOCKED with CI re-running on the round-4 Codex fix) and PR #785 (last tick's history shard, CI in flight). | [#784 merged](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/784), [#775](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/775) [#785](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/785) | Trajectory observation: queue depth has stabilized at 2 PRs (the active rule-being-reviewed + the most-recent shard). The "approaching steady-state" pattern Amara predicted is now firmly visible — the recurring-fix-class catalog continues to bound the work, mechanical fixes drain in 1-2 ticks, and the catalog of finding-classes has stopped growing significantly with each new push. The session arc has produced durable substrate: cold-readability + bare-`main` discipline + verbatim-preservation + Confucius cold-readability addendum + soulfile recalibration + corruption-triage discipline + hard-stop pattern + paired-edit lint + audit-memory-index-duplicates lint discovery + multiple smaller hygiene refinements. |