chore(squad): record agentic-workflows audit decisions and agent history

[bradygaster]

Merges the decision inbox from the overnight agentic-workflows audit session and appends the corresponding Booster and Flight history entries.

Context

This session audited all 8 squad worktrees from last night's agentic-workflows work to confirm nothing was left uncommitted, then landed the two remaining loose ends:

• docs(e2e): record E4 agent-binding verification result (PASS, n=1) #1813 — docs(e2e): record E4 agent-binding verification result (PASS, n=1) — resolved an add/add conflict and merged (Sims)
• chore(gh-aw): ignore downloaded workflow logs under .github/aw/logs #1815 — chore(gh-aw): ignore downloaded workflow logs under .github/aw/logs — authored by Booster, reviewed and merged by Flight

Audit result: 6 of 8 worktrees were fully merged and safe. bradygaster-glowing-engine was a review-only session with no commits by design. bradygaster-scaling-tribble produced no work at all. Every uncommitted file across all worktrees was pure CRLF/LF renormalization noise from #1790/#1805 — no real work was ever at risk.

Decisions recorded (4)

1. The E4 conflict was an add/add, not a divergence. .squad/e2e/E4-agent-binding-verification.md did not exist at the merge base — dev added the procedure via docs(e2e): add E4 agent-binding verification procedure for #1784 #1791 marked ⛔ NOT YET EXECUTED, while the branch added the same procedure updated to ✅ EXECUTED with results attached.
2. Git plumbing merge pattern for dirty working trees. CRLF-normalized files made the working tree too dirty for git merge to start. Resolution used merge-tree --write-tree → mktree → commit-tree instead. Captured with the important caveat that hand-building trees can silently drop sibling entries, so it must be paired with a tree-inventory diff.
3. .gitignore placement — colocation over root rules.
4. scaling-tribble session produced no work — intent unrecorded.

Verification

The plumbing merge on #1813 was independently verified rather than taken on report: the squash commit touched exactly one file (+124/−14), .squad/e2e/ and .squad/ tree inventories were identical before and after, and all 47 markdown headings present pre-merge survive post-merge.

Scope notes

• Session logs and orchestration-log entries are intentionally excluded. .squad/ is local-only via .git/info/exclude, so only the already-tracked decisions.md and history.md files are carried here — no git add -f override.
• Additive only — 72 insertions, 0 deletions. Confirmed via git diff --cached --diff-filter=D returning empty.
• No changeset required: no packages/*/src/ changes, and the changeset gate's .squad/ trigger targets charter.md only, not history.md.
• The Squad File Leakage check will flag these .squad/ paths — that gate is informational (exit code: always 0) and these changes are deliberate.

[github-actions]

🟢 Impact Analysis — PR #1816

Risk tier: 🟢 LOW

📊 Summary

Metric	Count
Files changed	3
Files added	0
Files modified	3
Files deleted	0
Modules touched	1

🎯 Risk Factors

• 3 files changed (≤5 → LOW)
• 1 module(s) touched (≤1 → LOW)

📦 Modules Affected

squad-state (3 files)

• .squad/agents/booster/history.md
• .squad/agents/flight/history.md
• .squad/decisions.md

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[github-actions]

🛫 PR Readiness Check

ℹ️ This comment updates on each push. Last checked: commit 69496f8

PR Scope: 🔧 Infrastructure

⚠️ 3 item(s) to address before review

Status	Check	Details
✅	Single commit	1 commit — clean history
✅	Not in draft	Ready for review
❌	Branch up to date	dev is 2 commit(s) ahead — rebase recommended
❌	Copilot review	No Copilot review yet — it may still be processing
✅	Changeset present	No source files changed — changeset not required
✅	Scope clean	⚠️ PR includes 3 .squad/ file(s) — ensure these are intentional
✅	No merge conflicts	No merge conflicts
❌	Copilot threads resolved	3 unresolved Copilot thread(s) — fix and resolve before merging
✅	CI passing	All checks passing

Files Changed (3 files, +72 −0)

File	+/−
.squad/agents/booster/history.md	+2 −0
.squad/agents/flight/history.md	+2 −0
.squad/decisions.md	+68 −0

Total: +72 −0

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[github-actions]

⚠️ Squad File Leakage Detected

The following .squad/ files were modified in this PR:

• .squad/agents/booster/history.md
• .squad/agents/flight/history.md
• .squad/decisions.md

These files affect team routing, agent charters, and decisions.
If intentional, ensure approval from the team lead.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Records agentic-workflows audit decisions and appends Flight/Booster history entries.

Changes:

• Adds four audit decisions and merge-safety guidance.
• Records PR #1815 history for Flight and Booster.
• Documents audit outcomes, including the no-work session.

Show a summary per file

File	Review findings
.squad/decisions.md	Two critical issues (1 vote each): constrain plumbing merges to disposable normalization noise while preserving real work, and reconcile the checked-out index/worktree after ref updates or restrict the recipe to non-checked-out refs.
.squad/agents/flight/history.md	Nit (2 votes): correct the colocation rationale and use the actual decision heading for cross-reference.
.squad/agents/booster/history.md	No findings.

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Suppressed comments (3)

.squad/agents/flight/history.md:77

• This cross-reference is not followable: gitignore-colocation is neither the filename nor a heading/identifier in .squad/decisions.md, so readers cannot reliably locate the recorded decision from this history entry. Please point to the actual .squad/decisions.md heading (or add a stable anchor).

- 📌 **Team update (2026-08-21 — Agentic-Workflows Audit):** Reviewed PR #1815. Independently re-verified all five of Booster's claims. Resolved git-negation-semantics question (* + !.gitignore correct for flat-file dirs). Judged .github/aw/logs/.gitignore correct placement over root .gitignore rule (colocation beats surviving directory deletion). Squash-merged at 2026-08-21T16:23:46Z. Decision captured in decisions.md: gitignore-colocation. PR #1815 APPROVED + MERGED ✅.

.squad/decisions.md:42

• The documented safety check is incomplete: the reconstruction walks from an affected subtree up to the repository root, but the verification example only names .squad/e2e/ and .squad. If a sibling such as .github/ or packages/ is omitted while rebuilding a parent/root tree, those checks still pass. Require and record a repository-root recursive inventory (or explicit checks for every rebuilt parent) before treating this pattern as safe.

Hand-building trees can silently drop sibling entries. This technique MUST be paired with a tree-inventory diff before and after to verify nothing was lost. The coordinator verified PR #1813's plumbing merge: 1 file changed (+124/−14), `.squad/e2e/` and `.squad/` inventories identical, all 47 markdown headings present before the merge survive after it. The 14 deletions were the status banner and the Phase 0d correction — intentional, not loss.

.squad/decisions.md:8

• These four decision blocks are prepended immediately after the header, but this ledger is explicitly append-only and its existing newest entries are at the end (see .github/agents/squad.agent.md:538-542,710-712). Prepending breaks the established write order and can make later union merges/history reads misleading; append the blocks after the existing final entry instead.

### 2026-08-21: E4 conflict was add/add, not a divergence

• Files reviewed: 3/3 changed files
• Comments generated: 3
• Review effort level: Lite