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+| 2026-04-29T05:42:11Z | claude-opus-4-7 | 26f978a2 | drain-continuation tick — two PRs merged. PR #796 (recovery shard for the ordinal-drift cascade) and PR #797 (post-recovery single-merge shard) both squash-merged onto main. Queue at depth 2 (PR #798 + PR #799), both BLOCKED on CI. The recovery wave from the agent-overcorrection-thread sub-class has now fully drained from the queue; only the trailing tick-history shards are pending. | [#796 merged](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/796), [#797 merged](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/797), [#798](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/798) [#799](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/799) | Trajectory observation: post-recovery the per-tick merge cadence has stabilized at 1-2 PRs per tick, no new findings opening, queue runs down. The factory survived its self-introduced ordinal-drift cascade through the same review loop. The "convergence on substrate-correctness; CI-infrastructure noise is now the noise floor" framing continues to hold — the noise floor now includes time-travel-review-artifacts (Copilot's snapshot lag) and agent-overcorrection-threads (my fixes that reintroduced bugs). Both classes resolve mechanically without rule expansion. |