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+| 2026-04-29T05:43:42Z | claude-opus-4-7 | 26f978a2 | drain-continuation tick — single PR merge. PR #798 (recovery-tail shard) squash-merged onto main. Queue at depth 2 (PR #799 + #800), both BLOCKED on CI cycles. The ordinal-drift cascade closure narrative is now fully on main. | [#798 merged](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/798), [#799](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/799) [#800](https://github.com/Lucent-Financial-Group/Zeta/pull/800) | Trajectory observation: per-tick merge cadence holds at 1-2 PRs/tick. Queue depth bounded. Steady-state operational drain. The factory continues producing tick-history shards that land cleanly through CI; no new substrate has surfaced this tick. Best preserved framing: *"the loop has become steady-state inspectable; the next signal will come from outside the loop."* |