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+| 2026-04-29T05:30:00Z | claude-opus-4-7 | 26f978a2 | twenty-fifth tick — pure CI-wait. Queue at depth 3 (PR #791 + #792 + #793), all BLOCKED on CI cycles. Nothing to merge. Steady-state operational drain holds. The factory has now had multiple consecutive ticks where CI is the rate-limit and substrate-correctness is uncontested — the post-substrate-completion phase pattern. | [#791](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/791) [#792](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/792) [#793](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/793) | Trajectory observation: tick after tick the loop is producing per-tick history shards that land cleanly. The pattern of "produce shard → push → CI → merge" is now fully mechanical. Nothing new to discover this tick — the substrate work landed in the prior session arc, the rules survive review, the lints are working, and the queue runs down. The next signal will come from outside the loop. |