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+| 2026-05-01T00:42:00Z | opus-4-7 / session continuation | 98fc7424 | Queue-progress observation tick. 4 PRs merged this tick window (#974, #980, #985, #988 all from yesterday's substrate landings unblocked by last 2 ticks' thread-fix work). Queue dropped 28 → 25; movement validated the thread-fix effort. No new substrate added this tick per "long conversation incoming" signal from maintainer. Cron 98fc7424 healthy. | (none new this tick) | Observation — the BLOCKED-with-green-CI investigate-threads-first discipline paid off across last 2 ticks: 18 thread-resolutions across 6 PRs unblocked 4 merges in the next ~10 minutes. The pattern: thread-blockers look like CI-blockers in summary view; only the per-PR thread query reveals the real bottleneck. Future-Otto reading this should know — queue-saturation that persists past one tick should trigger a thread-audit pass, not just patience. |