diff --git a/.github/actions/required-check-skip-guard/reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py b/.github/actions/required-check-skip-guard/reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py
index 955db2f59e..b1b84021b0 100644
--- a/.github/actions/required-check-skip-guard/reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py
+++ b/.github/actions/required-check-skip-guard/reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py
@@ -58,13 +58,28 @@ def fetch_live_contexts(repo: str, branch: str) -> list[str]:
 
 
 def reconcile(
-    manifest_path: Path, live_contexts: list[str]
+    manifest_path: Path, live_contexts: list[str], branch: str | None = None
 ) -> tuple[set[str], set[str]]:
+    """Compare manifest REQUIRED rows against a branch's live required contexts.
+
+    OMN-15117: the manifest is otherwise single-branch (dev-scoped, see the
+    file header), but a REQUIRED row may carry an optional `branch:` field to
+    mark it as applying to one specific branch only (e.g. `verify / verify`,
+    live-required on `main` and absent from `dev`'s required set). A row
+    without `branch:` is treated as applicable regardless of which branch is
+    being reconciled (legacy/default behavior, unchanged). A row WITH
+    `branch:` is only counted toward `manifest_required` when it matches the
+    `branch` argument — this prevents a main-only addition from surfacing as
+    a false `stale_in_manifest` when reconciling against `dev` (and vice
+    versa). When `branch` is None (no branch context given), every REQUIRED
+    row counts, matching pre-OMN-15117 behavior.
+    """
     manifest = yaml.safe_load(manifest_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) or {}
     manifest_required = {
         gate["name"]
         for gate in manifest.get("gates", [])
         if gate.get("mode") == "REQUIRED"
+        and (branch is None or gate.get("branch", branch) == branch)
     }
     live_set = set(live_contexts)
 
@@ -81,7 +96,9 @@ def main() -> int:
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     live_contexts = fetch_live_contexts(args.repo, args.branch)
-    missing_from_manifest, stale_in_manifest = reconcile(args.manifest, live_contexts)
+    missing_from_manifest, stale_in_manifest = reconcile(
+        args.manifest, live_contexts, branch=args.branch
+    )
 
     if missing_from_manifest or stale_in_manifest:
         if missing_from_manifest:
diff --git a/.github/required-checks.yaml b/.github/required-checks.yaml
index ead4e83f5e..d0ceb5a574 100644
--- a/.github/required-checks.yaml
+++ b/.github/required-checks.yaml
@@ -460,6 +460,23 @@ gates:
     skip_semantics: never
     rationale: "Central OCC eligibility gate (cross-repo reusable hosted in omnibase_core)."
 
+  - name: "verify / verify"
+    mode: REQUIRED
+    branch: main
+    producer_kind: cross_repo
+    caller_workflow: call-receipt-gate.yml
+    caller_job: verify
+    cross_repo_ref: "OmniNode-ai/omnibase_core/.github/workflows/receipt-gate.yml@main"
+    skip_semantics: never
+    rationale: "Receipt Gate — live required status check on omniclaude `main` branch protection
+      (dev→main promotion boundary), absent from `dev`'s required set. This manifest is otherwise
+      dev-scoped (see file header); this row is a deliberate main-only addition (OMN-15117) closing
+      a guard blind spot: `verify / verify` was live-required on main since OMN-10411 but had zero
+      row here, so validate_no_required_check_skip_vectors.py never had a context to check it
+      against and OMN-15057's remediation (#1931) never touched this file. `verify`'s `needs:
+      occ-preflight` had no `if:` at all (vector-5, OMN-15057 shape) until this ticket added
+      `if: always()`."
+
   - name: "call-reject-skip-token / scan / reject-skip-gate-token"
     mode: REQUIRED
     producer_kind: local
diff --git a/.github/workflows/call-receipt-gate.yml b/.github/workflows/call-receipt-gate.yml
index 45a59c0ce8..7ad10d0087 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/call-receipt-gate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/call-receipt-gate.yml
@@ -34,8 +34,29 @@ jobs:
       contracts-dir: contracts
       receipts-dir: drift/dod_receipts
 
+  # OMN-15117 (OMN-15057 vector-5 shape, missed by #1931 because `verify / verify`
+  # had no required-checks.yaml row for the guard to check): `needs: occ-preflight`
+  # with no `if:` override means GitHub's implicit job-level `if:` — `success()`
+  # evaluated over `needs:` — SKIPS this job on any occ-preflight failure/
+  # cancellation, and a skipped job satisfies branch protection (skipped counts
+  # as passing). `verify / verify` is live-required on `main` (the dev->main
+  # promotion boundary), so that was a silent-pass bypass on the load-bearing gate.
+  #
+  # `if: always()` makes `verify` run unconditionally so it can never silently
+  # skip-as-pass. This is a PARTIAL fix in isolation — a job whose body is
+  # `uses:` (calls a reusable workflow) cannot also declare `steps:`, so there
+  # is no way to insert an inline `needs.occ-preflight.result != 'success'` ->
+  # `exit 1` guard step ahead of the call (unlike Shape-A jobs with their own
+  # steps, e.g. main-target-guard.yml, url-authority-gate.yml). Real enforcement
+  # does not depend on this job's own result: `occ-preflight / eligibility`
+  # (produced unconditionally, no `needs`/`if`, by call-occ-preflight.yml) is
+  # independently required on this repo's dev+main branch protection, so an
+  # occ-preflight failure still blocks merge via that separate required context
+  # even though this job decouples. Same precedent/rationale as omnibase_core#1499
+  # applied to its own `deploy-gate`/`verify` jobs (identical `uses:`-only shape).
   verify:
     needs: occ-preflight
+    if: always()
     # self-gating-ok: intentional cross-repo caller — omniclaude does not host
     # receipt-gate.yml itself; the reusable workflow lives in omnibase_core.
     uses: OmniNode-ai/omnibase_core/.github/workflows/receipt-gate.yml@main
diff --git a/.github/workflows/required-check-manifest-reconcile.yml b/.github/workflows/required-check-manifest-reconcile.yml
index 65db63c452..8f7fc5e4ef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/required-check-manifest-reconcile.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/required-check-manifest-reconcile.yml
@@ -9,15 +9,21 @@
 # branch protection needs a token scope (administration:read) that must not be
 # granted to a PR-triggered workflow (read/exfil risk from a malicious PR).
 #
-# SCOPE NOTE (OMN-14854): `main`'s required_status_checks set is verifiably
-# NOT identical to `dev`'s (confirmed live 2026-07-20 — e.g. main additionally
-# requires "Security Gate" and "verify / verify"; dev additionally requires
-# "Cross-Repo Boundary Parity" and "no-noncanonical-lifecycle-classes"). The
-# manifest schema in this PR is single-branch (dev). A `main`-scoped manifest
-# section is an explicit open follow-up, not resolved here — do not add a
-# `main` reconcile step until the manifest schema grows a per-branch gates
-# list; a naive main-vs-this-manifest comparison would fail on every run by
-# construction, which is worse than no signal.
+# SCOPE NOTE (OMN-14854, updated OMN-15117): `main`'s required_status_checks
+# set is verifiably NOT identical to `dev`'s (confirmed live 2026-07-20 — e.g.
+# main additionally requires "Security Gate" and "verify / verify"; dev
+# additionally requires "Cross-Repo Boundary Parity" and
+# "no-noncanonical-lifecycle-classes"). The manifest is still single-branch
+# (dev) in the sense that this job only ever reconciles against `dev` — no
+# `main` reconcile step exists here, and adding one against the current
+# manifest would still fail on every run by construction (most rows have no
+# `branch:` field, i.e. dev-only in practice). OMN-15117 added an optional
+# per-row `branch:` field (`reconcile()` in reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py) so
+# a specific main-only-required context (`verify / verify`) can be represented
+# without corrupting this dev-only reconcile — reconcile() excludes any row
+# whose `branch:` doesn't match the branch being checked. This is NOT a full
+# `main`-scoped manifest section (the remaining main-only gap, "Security
+# Gate", still has no row) — that remains an open follow-up.
 #
 # This job is NOT itself a required status check (push/schedule cannot be
 # gated by required_status_checks anyway). Its failure surfaces as a
diff --git a/.secrets.baseline b/.secrets.baseline
index ad45c8dea8..499901bf66 100644
--- a/.secrets.baseline
+++ b/.secrets.baseline
@@ -364,5 +364,5 @@
       }
     ]
   },
-  "generated_at": "2026-07-25T06:22:53Z"
+  "generated_at": "2026-07-25T14:10:03Z"
 }
diff --git a/tests/ci/test_reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py b/tests/ci/test_reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py
index c2dbb8af87..2abdb218db 100644
--- a/tests/ci/test_reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py
+++ b/tests/ci/test_reconcile_manifest_vs_live.py
@@ -74,3 +74,65 @@ def test_advisory_rows_are_excluded_from_manifest_required_set(tmp_path: Path) -
     missing, stale = reconcile(manifest_path, ["A"])
     assert missing == set()
     assert stale == set()
+
+
+def test_branch_scoped_row_excluded_when_reconciling_a_different_branch(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    """OMN-15117: a REQUIRED row carrying `branch: main` must not surface as
+    `stale_in_manifest` when reconciling `dev` — it simply isn't in scope for
+    that branch's comparison."""
+    manifest_path = _manifest(
+        tmp_path,
+        [
+            {"name": "A", "mode": "REQUIRED"},
+            {"name": "verify / verify", "mode": "REQUIRED", "branch": "main"},
+        ],
+    )
+    missing, stale = reconcile(manifest_path, ["A"], branch="dev")
+    assert missing == set()
+    assert stale == set()
+
+
+def test_branch_scoped_row_included_when_reconciling_its_own_branch(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    """The same row IS in scope, and must resolve cleanly, when reconciling
+    against the branch it declares."""
+    manifest_path = _manifest(
+        tmp_path,
+        [
+            {"name": "A", "mode": "REQUIRED"},
+            {"name": "verify / verify", "mode": "REQUIRED", "branch": "main"},
+        ],
+    )
+    missing, stale = reconcile(manifest_path, ["A", "verify / verify"], branch="main")
+    assert missing == set()
+    assert stale == set()
+
+
+def test_branch_scoped_row_missing_from_live_is_still_flagged_on_its_own_branch(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    """A branch-scoped row is not exempt from detection on its own branch —
+    only exempt from cross-branch noise."""
+    manifest_path = _manifest(
+        tmp_path,
+        [{"name": "verify / verify", "mode": "REQUIRED", "branch": "main"}],
+    )
+    missing, stale = reconcile(manifest_path, [], branch="main")
+    assert missing == set()
+    assert stale == {"verify / verify"}
+
+
+def test_no_branch_argument_preserves_legacy_behavior(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    """Calling reconcile() without a `branch` kwarg (pre-OMN-15117 call sites)
+    must count every REQUIRED row regardless of any `branch:` field — this is
+    the pre-existing, un-scoped comparison."""
+    manifest_path = _manifest(
+        tmp_path,
+        [{"name": "verify / verify", "mode": "REQUIRED", "branch": "main"}],
+    )
+    missing, stale = reconcile(manifest_path, ["verify / verify"])
+    assert missing == set()
+    assert stale == set()