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Promotes ten merged pull requests from develop to main.

What this promotes

Closing references

A develop-targeted pull request registers no closing reference, so the issues
those pull requests settled close with this promotion.

#1470 is the one that needs a word. Two of its seven acceptance items are not
met as literally written, and the maintainer's decision to close it here anyway,
with the basis for both, is recorded on the issue itself.

Closes #1483
Closes #1473
Closes #1487
Closes #1482
Closes #1475
Closes #1470

Left open deliberately

Verification

origin/main..origin/develop merges clean, no end-of-line conflict. Each
promoted pull request ran the fleet gate set on its own branch before merging;
this promotion adds no content of its own.

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## What this changes

One word. The `Reducing the Carried Surface Further` cluster in
`TODO.md` moves from
`**State** \`decision\`` to `**State** \`measure\``.

## Why

The cluster asked for a maintainer decision that has been made, so a
session reading the backlog
selects it under the wrong rule from "How to Select the Next Item".
`measure` rather than `ready`
because the cluster's own deliverable line and its only remaining
sub-bullet both state a
measurement, and its lone `Open`, whether `AUDIT.md` moves, is answered
by that count rather than
before it. That matches how the file's other three `measure` clusters
are labelled.

## Why it is only one word

The decision, its measurements, and what is still unmeasured are
recorded on #1321 and #1464. A
fuller record was written into this cluster and then reverted. Five
adversarial review rounds over
it raised roughly 66 findings, every one on the restated text and none
on anything pre-existing,
because restating a decision that is already filed duplicates it into a
file whose stated purpose is
work not yet filed. The state was the only thing this file actually had
wrong.

## Carried over rather than fixed here

The review noted that this cluster's `Cost` clause names only edits,
where the file's other three
`measure` clusters lead their `Cost` with the count and sequence the
edit after it. It is a
three-of-three convention rather than a stated rule, the measurement is
still stated on the cluster's
own deliverable line and sub-bullet, and the `Cost` line was
deliberately left untouched, so it is
reported here rather than changed.

Two things about #1321 itself, relevant to anyone following the pointer:

- Its title and body describe the option that was **not** selected,
which retires the carried skills
tree. The selection keeps that tree and retires four documents instead.
A note now sits at the top
  of that issue's body saying so.
- The selection retires four documents and this cluster covers only
`AUDIT.md`. The other three are
  tracked in #1321's own scope rather than in the backlog.

## Verification

`prose_lint.py`, `markdownlint-cli2`, `spec/validate.py`, `spec/audit.py
--selftest`,
`spec/workflow_reuse.py --selftest`, `gh-write-guard.py --selftest`, and
the full `unittest` suite
at 1168 passed. `canonical_review.py check` reports no carried canonical
unit changed. A
`local_review.py` receipt covers this content.

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…#1479)

## Summary

- ship `catalog/snippets/workflows/publish-release.yml`, the
NuGet-library release caller stub, pinned to
`6c88850128629bb449fd73c7fbf82968c6cd1557 # 2.0.587`
- drop the three adopter-facing claims that the release chain cannot be
adopted yet
- point the release-with-smoke `smoke-build` job at the hub's
`build-release-task.yml` by pin instead of the repo-local copy that
`spec/divergences.json` dispositions `retire`

## Root Cause

Three places told an adopter the release chain was blocked on the
renamed
.NET publish interface reaching a hub release. That interface shipped in
`822af248` and released as `2.0.376`, so the claim had been false for
211
releases against a current `2.0.587`. Nothing fails when a point-in-time
sentence like that stops being true, which is why it went unnoticed.

The same staleness reached the guidance: "Adopting the Gates" told a
release-with-smoke repo to keep calling its own `build-release-task.yml`
by local path, a file the audit dispositions `retire`, so a repo working
both surfaces could satisfy neither. The pilot, PhotoCleaner, already
carries the hub-pinned shape and no local copy.

## Impact

The `publish-release.yml` catalog snippet exists, so the workflow with
the
most per-repo surface now has a copyable snapshot rather than a shape an
adopter has to hand-resolve. The full shape in "Adopting the Release
Chain"
is that snippet byte for byte. The smoke stub grants `contents: read`,
names its secrets rather than inheriting them (`inherit` is never used
on a
cross-repository call), and lists its `enable_*` inputs, since every one
of
them defaults `true` on the task.

`ptr727/aiopurpleair` can proceed with its `build-release-task.yml`
deletion, which this was blocking.

## Out of Scope

The `@<hub-main-commit-sha> # <release-tag>` placeholders in shapes that
have no catalog snippet of their own stay as they are. Replacing them is
the fleet-level call in #1472, deliberately not pre-empted here.

Two pre-existing findings are filed rather than fixed, neither
introduced
by this change:

- `docs/reusable-workflows.md` "Adopting the Release Chain" says the
smoke
job passes "the paths-filter's `enable_*` outputs", while the canonical
  single-target stub emits one `release` output.
- The shipped snippet interpolates `${{ github.ref_name }}` and
`${{ github.run_id }}` into `run:` shell text, against the
`env:`-passing
  convention the rest of the tree holds.

## Verification

- `scripts/prose_lint.py --diff`, `scripts/repo_gate.py` (eol,
eol-coverage,
sha-pin), `spec/validate.py`, and `scripts/docker_lint.py`
(markdownlint,
  cspell, editorconfig-checker, actionlint, shellcheck, shfmt,
  PSScriptAnalyzer) all clean.
- Positive control: corrupting one hex digit of the new pin made
`sha-pin`
  fail on all three lines of the new snippet, so the gate demonstrably
  reaches the added file rather than skipping it.
- The doc's fenced block and the snippet are byte-identical, checked
  mechanically rather than by eye.
- Four local strict-review passes recorded; the last returned no
findings.

Settles #1473. A `develop`-targeted pull request registers no closing
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Settles #1467, which found that `spec/files.json` applies the
`publish-release.yml` interface contract to `releaseTrigger:
publish-on-merge` while the task that contract names,
`publish-plan-task.yml`, has no publish-on-merge path at all. Its push
arm publishes only when the ref is `main` and the actor is
`ptr727-codegen[bot]` or `dependabot[bot]`, so a repository that
genuinely published on merge could not satisfy the contract while its
declared trigger stayed true.

Of the three resolutions the issue put up, this takes retirement, for
two reasons the issue names and one it does not. `GOVERNANCE.md`
"Release Model" and `WORKFLOW.md` D4.1 already state fleet-wide that a
human merge never auto-publishes, so the value described an intent the
fleet's own contract forbids rather than a supported mode, which is why
giving the plan task a publish-on-merge path would have meant changing
that rule first. aiopurpleair was the only registry holder and migrated
in ptr727/aiopurpleair#92, so the value has no users. And dropping it
from the one `appliesTo` list while leaving it in the enum would have
left a declared trigger with no publisher contract at all.

## What changes

- `registry/repos.schema.json`, `spec/validate.py`, and the
`spec/scope-model.md` selector table drop the token from the
release-trigger vocabulary.
- `spec/files.json`'s `publish-release.yml` entry applies to `two-phase`
and `dispatch-only`.
- `registry/repos.json` moves aiopurpleair to `two-phase`, which
`spec/validate.py` requires in the same change and which the live
repository now satisfies: its publisher calls `publish-plan-task.yml`
and its push trigger is `main`-only.
- `.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md` step 5 no longer
enumerates the vocabulary. Distributions regenerated.

## On the skill sentence

Four whole-unit review passes ran over that step. The first rewrite
asserted the fleet rule as an operational fact, which the live fleet
does not satisfy, and a second attempt to name the exception was
defeated by the two repositories that carry it. The final text is the
bare instruction, and the rule it rested on stays where it is already
stated. `reports/canonical-review.json` records the passes.

## Filed rather than fixed here

- The 33 pre-existing findings those passes raised against that same
unit, none introduced by this change.
- MediaTools, which is registered `two-phase` and genuinely publishes on
a human merge, with KiCadLibrary latently behind an unset repository
variable. That is a repository to migrate rather than a value to keep,
and the registry entry is false today either way.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Release Process**
  - Removed support for the `publish-on-merge` release trigger.
- Releases now use `two-phase`, `dispatch-only`, or `none` as the
supported trigger options.
- Updated release guidance to use explicit dispatching when automatic
publishing does not apply.

- **Configuration**
- Updated the `aiopurpleair` repository to use the `two-phase` release
model.
- Adjusted validation and workflow coverage to reflect the supported
release options.

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)

## What this changes

`.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc` gains `ignores` and `globs`. `scripts/docker_lint.py`
drops `node_modules` from target discovery, with three tests. `GOVERNANCE.md`,
`OPERATIONS.md`, and `scripts/README.md` say so where each already describes that
discovery. `.gitignore` gains `node_modules/`.

## Why

Per #1466, `"gitignore": true` was the config's only ignore source and no fleet
`.gitignore` listed `node_modules`, so a checkout that had ever run a Node tool
locally linted third-party Markdown. Measured against markdownlint-cli2 v0.23.2:
1711 errors under `node_modules`, 0 after the `ignores` entry, which filters
explicitly named file arguments as well as globs.

`**/node_modules/**` rather than `node_modules`, because the bare form matched the
root copy only and left a nested workspace copy linted.

`globs` is declared alongside it because the `ignores` entry only subtracts, so an
invocation with no positive glob lints nothing and exits 0, where the same
invocation before this change exited 2 on a usage error. A command-line glob still
unions with it and a command-line negation still wins, so a repository narrowing
the Lint Markdown step's own `globs:` input is unaffected.

## Why the wrapper is in scope too

`docker_lint.py` discovers targets with `git ls-files --others --exclude-standard`,
so an untracked, unignored `node_modules/**/*.sh` became a shellcheck and shfmt
target, which no linter config can reach because neither tool has one.
editorconfig-checker and cspell are immune, measured: the first excludes
`node_modules` by default, the second takes two literal root paths.
`:(glob,exclude)` rather than `:(exclude)`, because without `glob` magic the
leading `**/` does not match zero directories and the root copy leaked.

## Why not only `.gitignore`

#1466 offered that as the alternative, on the premise that `.gitignore` is not a
carried file. It is carried, at `presence` fidelity, so hub content does not
propagate and a carrier would keep the defect. Raising the fidelity is not the fix
either, since `intent` never judges content and a `.gitignore` legitimately varies
by language. It is added here for this repository's own tree.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses #1475.

`validate-task.yml` pinned the interpreter in both places that use one
and exposed no input to change it, so a repository whose package claims
more than one interpreter lost every leg but 3.13 on adoption. Nothing
failed and nothing warned: the required check went green on the one
version the task ran while the repository went on claiming the rest.

## What changes

A `python-versions` input, a JSON array defaulting to `["3.13"]`, that
the `unit-test` job reads through `fromJSON` as its matrix, one leg per
entry, with `fail-fast: false` so a failing interpreter reports beside a
passing one rather than cancelling it. Each leg's Codecov upload carries
a `python-<version>` flag, which keeps the legs apart in the dashboard
rather than merging them into one number.

A caller naming nothing runs the single leg this job ran before. Two
things move on adoption, and the adopter docs say so rather than
claiming nothing changes: the nested check reads `Unit test job (Python
3.13)` rather than `Unit test job`, which binds no ruleset since only
the caller's own aggregator is bound, and a repo that already uploaded
Python coverage here uploaded it unflagged, so that series stops and a
`python-3.13` one starts beside it.

## Why the input is checked

An entry holding no non-whitespace character is the value that would
otherwise carry a run green on an interpreter nobody chose. `setup-uv`
trims what it reads and then reads an empty input as an absent one, so
the leg expands, tests on whatever uv picks, and reports success under
the flag `python-` and the name `Unit test job (Python )`. A caller
reaches that by interpolating an unset value of its own, and a stray
space beside it reaches the same place, which is why each entry is
tested for content rather than for length.

An unquoted entry is the other half of the same slip and announces
itself either way. `fromJSON` admits a JSON array of numbers, so
`'[3.13, 3.14]'` expands into legs; a decimal form that survives the
round trip runs the right interpreter, while one that loses a trailing
zero, `3.10` becoming `3.1`, fails in the `Sync dependencies step`
rather than in `setup-uv`, which exports the version rather than
resolving it. What the check buys there is a named cause rather than a
silent pass prevented.

The check is the `unit-test` job's entry step, the shape `GOVERNANCE.md`
"Workflow YAML Conventions" gives for an assertion whose guarded work is
in the same job. It reads the raw input rather than
`matrix.python-version`, which by then cannot say whether its `3.2` was
written `3.2` or `3.20`. An empty array, and anything that is not a JSON
array at all, never reach it: the matrix is expanded before any step
runs, so those fail there, loudly and with an unnamed cause. A job of
its own would name them too, and costs a job allocation on the critical
path of every pull request and publish run in the fleet to do it.

## What is deliberately not in it

The `lint` job stays on the one interpreter the task pins, which costs a
repository two things. Its type check is performed at that interpreter,
`mypy` and `pyright` each defaulting their target to the one they run
under where the repository's own section does not name a version, while
`ruff` takes its target from `requires-python` where a `[project]` table
declares one. That much a repository settles in its own configuration.
What it cannot settle there is a lockfile: one carrying a `uv.lock`
whose `requires-python` floor is above the pinned interpreter fails the
lint job's sync step outright, and no value of `python-versions` moves
that job. #1475 called the `lint` job a separate decision, and that half
is filed rather than taken here.

A caller carrying a .NET test project as well repeats that half of the
job once per leg, the matrix being on the job rather than on its Python
steps. That spends runner minutes and re-uploads an identical report
rather than measuring anything new. Splitting the two halves into jobs
of their own is what that costs, and no repository in the fleet carries
both a .NET test project and more than one interpreter today.

## On the tests

`test_validator_pytest_leg_fans_out_over_every_named_interpreter`
asserts the matrix expression, the uv setup reading the matrix rather
than a literal, `fail-fast: false`, the per-leg flag, the job name's
matrix interpolation, and the default's shape rather than its content,
so neither bumping the fleet default nor adding a second interpreter to
it is a regression there.

`test_validator_refuses_a_python_versions_value_fromjson_would_admit`
lifts the entry step's whole `run:` script out of the workflow and
executes it over ten values, and asserts the step is that job's first,
matched on the step's dash rather than on a `name:` key so a step
leading with `uses:` cannot slip in ahead unseen. Running the script
rather than its filter alone is what makes the test cover the gate:
inverting the condition and exiting zero each leave a filter-only
assertion green while the step admits everything.

Eight regressions were run against these tests and each one fails them:
dropping the per-entry content test, narrowing it back to a length test,
inverting the condition, `exit 0` instead of `exit 1`, weakening the
filter to an array check, re-pinning the interpreter literal, removing
the matrix interpolation from the job name, and inserting a bare `uses:`
step ahead of the guard.

## Verification

`prose_lint.py`, `repo_gate.py` across eol, eol-coverage and sha-pin,
`spec/validate.py`, `spec/audit.py --selftest`, `spec/workflow_reuse.py
--selftest`, `build_dist.py --check`, `ruff check`, `ruff format
--check`, `mypy`, the full `unittest` suite at 1170 passed, and
`docker_lint.py` over actionlint, markdownlint, editorconfig-checker and
cspell. `canonical_review.py check` reports no carried canonical unit
changed, and a `local_review.py` receipt covers this content.

Nine adversarial review rounds ran over this branch before it was
pushed, raising 45 findings. Two shaped the result rather than polishing
it. The guard was first placed in the `lint` job, where a matrix
expanding per job meant it gated nothing; and its filter twice admitted
a value that would run green on an unpinned interpreter, `[""]` and then
`[" "]`, the second because `setup-uv` trims before it decides an input
is absent. One measured hole is left deliberately: `[""]` is admitted,
since jq's `\S` treats a BOM as non-whitespace while JavaScript's
`String.trim()` strips it. Reaching it means typing a BOM codepoint
inside a JSON array literal in a caller's own workflow YAML, the fleet
charset gate catches that upstream, and widening the regex to chase one
codepoint is enumeration growth rather than a fix.

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…ng (#1486)

## The decision

#1483 posed a fork: make the `spec/files.json` entry conditional, or
confirm the unconditional requirement is deliberate and state it where a
reader looks. This repository has already settled it. `STANDUP.md` and
the
hub's own `host-tools.json` note both say a repository with nothing to
add
carries the stub with an empty `tools` list, on the same footing as
`OPERATIONS.md`, so the declaration sits where a reader finds it rather
than
where they must know to look. A committed rule outranks a suggestion, so
this takes the second branch and fixes what contradicted it.

Declined, from the issue's own suggestions: dropping the manifest entry,
and
reporting a present-but-empty file as `DRIFT` so repositories can shed
it.
The stub is the conformant state rather than a leftover, which is what
the
carry rule says.

## What changed

Three surfaces were wrong or silent about the rule.

- `scripts/host_gate.py`'s comment at the overlay load called carrying
no
local file the common case, the reverse of what the manifest encodes. It
states the rule, and says why an absence is silent there anyway: the
gate
  measures a host against floors, and `spec/audit.py` is what reports a
  baseline file a repository does not carry.
- `docs/host-setup.md` said nothing about the carry rule. It leads with
it
  and gives the reason.
- `scripts/README.md` described the file as one a repository adds when
it
  needs more than the fleet does, which reads as conditional creation.

The manufactured warning is fixed. `overlay_above()` named any ancestor
carrying the file, so a bare run started inside a repository whose
overlay
declares nothing told the operator to re-run with `--repo` so that no
floor
would count. It reads the overlay and passes over one declaring no tool,
while still naming one it cannot parse, since the failed parse is what
leaves open whether it declares anything. The warning names the re-run
and
promises nothing about its outcome, because a re-run against an
unparseable
overlay exits 2 with a diagnostic rather than applying anything.

`STANDUP.md` and `docs/fleet-map.md` each stated when the gate warns,
and
the behaviour change made both false. Both now match it.

## Verification

- Full suite (1173 tests), `ruff format --check`, `ruff check`, `mypy`,
`spec/validate.py`, `scripts/prose_lint.py`, `scripts/repo_gate.py`
(eol,
  eol-coverage, sha-pin), `scripts/build_dist.py --check`, and
`scripts/docker_lint.py` (markdownlint, cspell, editorconfig-checker)
all
  clean.
- The three overlay states were exercised by running the gate rather
than
  reasoned about: an empty overlay is silent, a declaring one and an
  unparseable one each warn.
- Every behaviour-pinning test was proved by reverting what it pins.
Removing the empty-overlay skip fails two cases, removing the
`isinstance`
  branch fails the case that patches `read_declaration` to an empty
  diagnostic, and neutering `quote_argument` fails the spaced-path case.
- That last one was dead. Removing the warning's trailing clause left it
asserting the absence of an unquoted path followed by a space, and
nothing
can follow the path any more, so it passed with the quoting neutered. It
  is anchored on the newline and fails again.
- Four local strict-review passes, 25 findings across them. The code
settled
  after the first pass and every round since found defects only in prose
describing it, so the last round answered by deleting the qualifiers
that
  kept drawing findings rather than rewriting them again.

Settles #1483. A `develop`-targeted pull request registers no closing
reference, so the issue closes with the promotion.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Documentation**
- Clarified host setup requirements: every repository provides a
host-tools declaration, including an empty declaration when no
additional tools are needed.
- Expanded guidance for layered repository overlays, bare runs,
unapplied ancestor overlays, and overlays that cannot be parsed.
- Updated troubleshooting and fleet documentation to reflect the refined
warning scenarios.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Host checks now distinguish empty overlays from overlays that declare
tools or contain invalid configuration.
- Warning messages more clearly identify overlays that were not applied.

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The pull request adds an issue-based handoff chain, expands workflow validation, adds a NuGet release caller, checks deployment environments, excludes node_modules from lint targets, refines host overlay handling, and updates related documentation and records.

Changes

Release workflow adoption

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release trigger and caller contract
.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md, catalog/snippets/workflows/publish-release.yml, registry/*, spec/*
The supported release triggers exclude publish-on-merge. The new caller plans, validates, builds, publishes NuGet packages through OIDC, and cleans up artifacts.
Release adoption documentation
catalog/snippets/workflows/README.md, docs/reusable-workflows.md
The documentation describes released pins, caller wiring, smoke builds, Python matrix behavior, and NuGet publication.

Validation and repository policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Python-version matrix
.github/workflows/validate-task.yml, scripts/tests/test_release_guards.py
The unit-test job validates a JSON version array, runs one non-fail-fast leg per interpreter, and uploads per-version Codecov flags.
Deployment environment checks
repo-config/configure.sh, spec/validate.py, registry/repos.schema.json, registry/repos.json, scripts/tests/test_spec_validate.py
Registry environment declarations support custom and none branch policies. Check mode compares declared policies with live environments.

Repository tooling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lint target exclusion
.gitignore, .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc, scripts/docker_lint.py, scripts/tests/test_docker_lint.py
Lint discovery excludes node_modules paths at any depth, including pattern-free checks.
Host overlay discovery
scripts/host_gate.py, scripts/tests/test_host_gate.py, docs/host-setup.md
Empty overlays remain silent, declaring overlays are identified, and unreadable overlays are reported.

Session handoff chain

Layer / File(s) Summary
Handoff policy and CLI
AGENTS.md, .agents/skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md, scripts/handoff.py, repo-config/labels.json
Handoffs use one labeled open issue per track with predecessor metadata. The CLI supports current, resume, chain, new, link, and tracks operations.
Handoff validation
scripts/tests/test_handoff.py, scripts/README.md
Tests cover parsing, traversal, writes, refusal cases, malformed data, dry runs, race detection, and command behavior.

Governance and records

Layer / File(s) Summary
Governance and operating guidance
GOVERNANCE.md, OPERATIONS.md, STANDUP.md, CODESTYLE.md, docs/*, .agents/skills/*
Guidance reflects carried content, nested Markdown configuration, host overlays, deployment environments, handoff rules, and current workflow behavior.
Specification and review records
reports/canonical-review.json, spec/*, TODO.md
Review entries, divergence records, fidelity guidance, secret notes, release baselines, and planning state are updated.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b48bb

Deployment-policy checks can report success without completing validation, and hand-edited handoff chains can fork silently. These issues should be fixed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
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The promotion looks internally consistent and well-tested, with only a minor overlay_above() docstring wording mismatch noted.

Pull request overview

This promotion PR rolls up six previously-merged develop changes into main, updating the fleet host-tools carry rule behavior, expanding the validator to support multi-interpreter pytest runs, and retiring the unsupported publish-on-merge release trigger across the spec/registry/docs.

Changes:

  • Refines host_gate.py overlay discovery to stay silent for empty overlays while still warning for unapplied/non-empty or unreadable overlays, and updates related docs/tests.
  • Adds a python-versions workflow input to fan the validate-task.yml pytest leg out across multiple Python interpreters with input validation and per-leg Codecov flags.
  • Removes publish-on-merge from release-trigger vocabulary and updates the publish-release interface applicability plus the release caller snippet/docs.
File summaries
File Description
TODO.md Retags the carried-surface cluster state from decision to measure.
STANDUP.md Clarifies the host gate rerun rationale for a not-yet-existent target repo.
spec/validate.py Drops publish-on-merge from the release-trigger vocabulary.
spec/scope-model.md Updates the selector vocabulary table for release triggers.
spec/files.json Removes publish-on-merge from publish-release.yml applicability.
scripts/tests/test_release_guards.py Adds regression coverage for multi-interpreter validate-task behavior and guard script.
scripts/tests/test_host_gate.py Extends overlay warning tests for empty/unreadable/nearest-overlay behavior.
scripts/tests/test_docker_lint.py Adds coverage that node_modules is excluded from docker lint target discovery.
scripts/README.md Documents node_modules exclusion and the clarified host-tools overlay behavior.
scripts/host_gate.py Implements empty-overlay skip behavior and updates warning wording.
scripts/docker_lint.py Excludes node_modules at discovery via a git pathspec exclude.
reports/canonical-review.json Records additional canonical review stamps for promoted units.
registry/repos.schema.json Removes publish-on-merge from the schema enum.
registry/repos.json Updates aiopurpleair release trigger to two-phase.
OPERATIONS.md Documents node_modules exclusion in docker lint discovery.
GOVERNANCE.md Documents node_modules exclusion in docker lint discovery.
docs/reusable-workflows.md Updates adoption guidance for release chain + python-versions + smoke build pinning.
docs/host-setup.md States unconditional host-tools.json carry rule and overlay warning semantics.
docs/fleet-map.md Updates the G2 closure notes to include empty/unreadable overlay handling.
catalog/snippets/workflows/README.md Updates snippet availability notes and adds the publish-release caller row.
catalog/snippets/workflows/publish-release.yml Adds the released publish-release caller snippet pinned to 2.0.587.
.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc Adds explicit globs and ignores for node_modules at any depth.
.gitignore Ignores node_modules/ in this repo.
.github/workflows/validate-task.yml Adds python-versions matrix fan-out + guard + per-leg Codecov flags.
.github/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md (Generated) Removes publish-on-merge wording from the procedure.
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md (Generated) Keeps plugin distribution in sync with the source skill.
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/merge-and-release (Generated) Updates the source digest for the skill distribution.
.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md Updates the canonical skill procedure to retire publish-on-merge mention.
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Describe the publish gate accurately.

publish-plan-task.yml sets publish=true for workflow_dispatch, schedule, or a push to main by ptr727-codegen[bot] or dependabot[bot]. A human merge still triggers the caller, but its publish output is false, so validation, release, and package-publish jobs skip. Update the claims in docs/reusable-workflows.md:455, catalog/snippets/workflows/publish-release.yml:4, and catalog/snippets/workflows/README.md:12 to state that qualifying bot pushes may auto-publish; human merges do not.

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In `@docs/reusable-workflows.md` at line 455, Update the publish-trigger
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accurately state that qualifying pushes to main by ptr727-codegen[bot] or
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Three surfaces describing the release caller stub said its merges
publish. `publish-plan-task.yml` has said the opposite since it was
written, in its own header comment and in the branch its `push` arm
takes: a human merge that reaches the trigger still leaves the plan at
`publish=false`, and every job the plan gates skips.

The claim was already stale before #1476 retired the `publish-on-merge`
release trigger, and that retirement leaves nothing behind it at all.
Raised by CodeRabbit as an outside-diff finding on the `develop -> main`
promotion PR #1489, where it cannot be fixed directly, so it lands here
first.

## What changed

- `docs/reusable-workflows.md` "Adopting the Release Chain" no longer
says a NuGet or PyPI repo's merges should auto-publish. It says the push
trigger is not the release gate, names the task that is, and routes the
gate's own conditions to `WORKFLOW.md` D4.1 rather than paraphrasing
them. The paragraph's first sentence already states the trigger policy,
so the lead-in below it no longer restates one.
- `catalog/snippets/workflows/publish-release.yml` and its embedded copy
in the same document drop the descriptor entirely. The file's own `on:`
block sits two lines under it and is the authority a reader wants.
- `catalog/snippets/workflows/README.md`'s row for that stub does the
same.

## Why nothing here states the gate's conditions in prose

A first attempt did, and every one of the four findings the local review
pass drew was against that paraphrase. It dropped the actor allowlist
and the code-affecting filter that `WORKFLOW.md` D4.1 and
`GOVERNANCE.md` both keep. It read as if a `workflow_dispatch` from any
ref publishes, where the task exits non-zero off `main` and `develop`.
It described the human-merge path without the warning the task
deliberately raises on it. And the replacement trigger descriptor
identified the shape by the one trigger that never publishes for a
human, contradicting its own paragraph two clauses earlier.

The rule has three correct statements already, so a fourth was the
defect. The second round deleted the paraphrase rather than narrowing
it.

## Verification

`prose_lint.py`, `repo_gate.py` across eol, eol-coverage and sha-pin,
`spec/validate.py`, `spec/audit.py --selftest`, `spec/workflow_reuse.py
--selftest`, `build_dist.py --check`, `ruff format --check`, `ruff
check`, `mypy`, the `unittest` suite at 1178 passed, and
`docker_lint.py` over its seven linters. `canonical_review.py check`
reports no carried canonical unit changed, and a `local_review.py`
receipt covers this content.

A tree-wide sweep for the same claim in any other wording found none
outside these three surfaces. Every other statement of the rule already
reads "a human merge never auto-publishes".

The snippet and the document's embedded copy stay byte-identical, which
an assertion in the edit checked rather than the eye, and the review
pass re-checked programmatically afterwards.

Two local strict-review passes ran, raising five findings. The four
above shaped the result. The fifth is pre-existing and untouched by this
diff, filed as #1497 rather than fixed here: the Docker delta list in
the same section never says to remove the `push:` block, so a Docker
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@coderabbitai the outside-diff finding on docs/reusable-workflows.md is accepted and fixed, in #1498, squashed to develop as e9d4530, which this promotion now carries.

Describe the publish gate accurately.

publish-plan-task.yml sets publish=true for workflow_dispatch, schedule, or a push to main by ptr727-codegen[bot] or dependabot[bot]. A human merge still triggers the caller, but its publish output is false, so validation, release, and package-publish jobs skip. Update the claims in docs/reusable-workflows.md:455, catalog/snippets/workflows/publish-release.yml:4, and catalog/snippets/workflows/README.md:12 to state that qualifying bot pushes may auto-publish; human merges do not.

All three surfaces you named are fixed, and the fix took the opposite approach to the one suggested: rather than restating the gate's conditions accurately, it stops restating them at all.

A first attempt did state them, and a local review pass found four defects in that one sentence. It dropped the actor allowlist and the code-affecting paths filter that WORKFLOW.md D4.1 keeps. It implied a workflow_dispatch from any ref publishes, where the task exits non-zero off main and develop. And it described the human-merge path without the warning publish-plan-task.yml deliberately raises on an unrecognized actor pushing to main.

So docs/reusable-workflows.md now says the push trigger is not the release gate, names publish-plan-task.yml as what is, uses the fleet's existing wording that a human merge never auto-publishes, and routes the conditions themselves to WORKFLOW.md D4.1. The trigger descriptors in the snippet comment and the README row were deleted rather than reworded, since the snippet's own on: block sits two lines below one and the paragraph's own first sentence carries the other.

One finding from the same pass is pre-existing rather than introduced, so it is filed as #1497 rather than fixed here: the Docker delta list in that same section is exhaustive on every other change but never says to remove the push: block.

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docs/reusable-workflows.md Line 455 now identifies publish-plan-task.yml as the release gate and states that a human merge never auto-publishes. The snippet header and catalog table no longer duplicate the detailed gate conditions. WORKFLOW.md D4.1 remains the authoritative source for those conditions.

The separate Docker delta-list omission is tracked in #1497. This does not affect this finding.


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Learning: In this repository, `WORKFLOW.md` D4.1 is the authoritative specification for the `publish-plan-task.yml` release gate. It specifies that a human merge never auto-publishes; publishing requires a code-affecting allowlisted bot push to `main`, a valid `workflow_dispatch` on `main` or `develop`, or the main-only Docker schedule. Documentation in `docs/reusable-workflows.md`, `catalog/snippets/workflows/publish-release.yml`, and `catalog/snippets/workflows/README.md` should refer to D4.1 instead of duplicating these detailed conditions.

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Settles #1487.

## The decision

#1487 put up three dispositions for `ptr727/Financial-Modeling`'s
modified `.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc`: accept the divergence, re-vendor
and erase its two exclusions, or declare a seam. This takes the seam.

A repository excluding a subtree of its own puts a
`.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc` carrying its own `ignores` beside that
content, rather than editing the shared root config. The canonical stays
`verbatim` and fleet-generic, so `MD013`, `MD033`, `MD046`, and `MD060`
keep byte-level drift detection.

The alternatives cost more. `accept` leaves that repository permanently
reporting as modified fixed content, needing a hand merge on every hub
change to the file. Dropping the file to `intent`, which is what
`.editorconfig-checker.json` does for the same repo-local-exclusions
reason, would stop the rule block being judged at all, per
`spec/fidelity-model.md`. A plain `re-vendor` puts a committed document
archive and the owner's freeform notes back under a bare local run, the
failure class #1466 was filed about.

## Measured, not inferred

Against markdownlint-cli2 `0.23.2`, the build bundled in the pinned
`markdownlint-cli2-action` `v24.2.0`:

| Behavior | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Nested `ignores` | Honored, in a bare run, a CI-style glob run, and a
run naming files explicitly |
| Nested pattern base | The directory holding the file. `**/`-prefixed
works; a repo-root path matches nothing and reports no error |
| Nested `globs` / `gitignore` | Inert, read only from the config in the
directory the linter is invoked from |
| Nested `config` block | Works, and settings merge with those above
rather than replacing them |
| Negated CI glob | Still subtracts, even with the root config
contributing a positive `globs` |
| `ignores` and no `globs` | Lints 0 files, exits 0. With neither key,
usage and exit 2 |

The explicit-file-argument case matters because that is how
`scripts/docker_lint.py` invokes the linter.

## The audit check this would have broken

`spec/project-types.json`'s `parity.markdownlint` asserted "One
`.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc`", at `letter` verdict and `appliesTo` `*`,
with `AUDIT.md` stating it in prose. The first repository to follow the
prescription in `spec/divergences.json` would have drawn a
`linter-parity` drift finding for doing what `CODESTYLE.md` now
mandates. Both now say the count is of the root config, so a nested one
is not a second one.

Two narrower wordings were tried and were wrong. Permitting a nested
config "carrying only a subtree exclusion" fails this repository's own
`host-setup/agent-safety/claude/.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc`, which carries
an `MD041` override and no exclusion. Keying on a subtree "the
repository does not author" splits from the scope wording every other
surface uses, and from the ledger row in this change.

## Second carrier

`Blog` is owed this too and has not adopted it. It excludes `content/**`
and `themes/*/**` through the CI input only, and its root config
predates the `globs` key, so its migration is the re-vendor plus one
nested file per excluded tree. `themes/` takes `*/**` rather than
`**/*.md` so its own authored `themes/README.md` stays linted, and that
placement also sits outside the vendored theme directories, where a
re-vendor cannot delete it.

## Deliberately not done here

`reports/divergences.md` is not regenerated. `RESYNC.md` regenerates it
"before using it as a work list", and generating it from this branch
bakes in a canonical that exists nowhere yet: the run listed
ProjectTemplate itself as a stale carrier of its own file, alongside
about thirty lines of unrelated fleet movement from other unpromoted hub
work. The ledger entry is the durable record and the report regenerates
at the next resync.

## Filed rather than fixed

The review passes raised roughly 50 findings that predate this change,
none introduced by it, split across two follow-up issues. Four are
verified defects in fleet-carried content, including the `MD060` comment
having `compact` and `tight` inverted against the rule's own vocabulary.

## Verification

- `prose_lint.py` (whole tree), `repo_gate.py --check eol`,
`spec/validate.py`, `build_dist.py --check`, `spec/audit.py --selftest`,
`workflow_reuse.py --selftest`, `gh-write-guard.py --selftest`, and 1171
unit tests, all clean.
- `docker_lint.py` for markdownlint, cspell, and editorconfig-checker,
clean over 182 Markdown files.
- Ten review passes recorded across five canonical units and the branch
diff. The final pass returned all three re-read units clean and one
finding on the diff, which is fixed in `93b1f0d`.

A `develop`-targeted pull request registers no closing reference, so
#1487 closes with the promotion.

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🔵 Needs a closer look

This promotion updates multiple fleet contracts (spec, workflows, and host tooling behavior) across a wide surface area, so it warrants a final human review pass despite no specific defects found.

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…le (#1492)

Settles both halves of #1482, which are two artifacts of the same
`repo-config/` retirement: a correction, and a scope decision the
maintainer took as "restore the check, registry-driven, no apply".

## The carried-payload rule

`GOVERNANCE.md` "Hub-Hosted Tooling" listed the ruleset payloads among
what a repository carries. No repository carries one. No
`spec/files.json` entry declares them, `spec/divergences.json` gives all
three a `retire` disposition downstream, and both `configure.sh` and
`spec/audit.py` diff a repository's live configuration against the
hub's. An agent running `AUDIT.md` against a converged repository could
read that clause, find no payloads in the tree, and record a
`branch-model` miss for content the fleet deliberately retired.

The clause is **deleted rather than restated**. Two attempts to replace
it with a sentence explaining the move each drew fresh review findings,
and the paragraph's own reason clause, that a file holding no per-repo
content is a copy whose only future is to go stale, already covers a
payload. `spec/fidelity-model.md` drops them from its intent-fidelity
examples, where they had become an example of nothing. That surface is
not named in the issue and was found while checking it.

## The deployment-environment check

Nothing hub-side applied or checked a deployment environment. The
retired per-repo `configure.sh` carried a `check_environment`; the
hub-hosted replacement never had one, so the retirement was a net loss
of coverage for the two repositories that use an environment.

`configure.sh check` gains one, driven by a new registry `environments`
field. For each declared environment it asserts that the environment
exists, that its deployment-branch policy is the declared form, and
under `custom` that the entries it allows are exactly the declared
branches. An environment the registry declares nothing about is reported
in a note, never asserted, since GitHub creates some without being
asked.

| Repository | Declaration | Why |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `aiopurpleair` | `pypi`, `custom`, `develop` + `main` | The refs its
OIDC publish may mint a token from |
| `Blog` | `production` and `staging`, both `none` | Its ref gate is a
job in the deploy workflow, not a branch policy. Recording `none` makes
a policy appearing later read as a change rather than as the gate
arriving |

**There is no `apply` counterpart, by decision.** An environment's
secrets and variables are credentials that exist nowhere in the hub, so
an `apply` could create the environment and set its policy and still
leave it unable to publish, while reporting success.

**GitHub's third policy form is not offered.** "Protected branches only"
counts *classic* branch protection rules, which `docs/repo-config.md`
instructs an operator to remove in favor of rulesets, and no fleet
repository has one: `main` is classically unprotected on
ProjectTemplate, aiopurpleair, Blog and LanguageTags alike. Declaring it
would have asserted a gate that does not exist. The form is still
derived from live state, so an environment set to it fails as the drift
it is.

## A false claim on three surfaces

`repo-config/configure.sh`, `docs/repo-config.md` and
`spec/secrets.json`'s own note each said an environment-scoped store
cannot be enumerated. Measured against a live environment holding both,
the API returns a secret's name but not its value, and a variable's name
and value. Each now says no tool here queries that store rather than
that none can.

## Verification

`spec/validate.py` enforces the schema's required-fields and
branches-iff-custom rules by hand, since CI runs no JSON-schema
validation, with unit tests over each shape and one case asserting the
live registry against them. The validator was proved by mutation to
redden its own tests.

`configure.sh check` was run live against `ptr727/aiopurpleair`,
`ptr727/Blog` and `ptr727/LanguageTags`, covering the `custom`, `none`
and undeclared paths. Every failure path was reproduced by mutating the
registry and reverted: a missing environment, a wrong policy form, a
wrong branch set, an entry that is a bare string, a non-list
`environments`, a `custom` entry with no `branches`, a `branches` of
`"main"`, a `branches` of `[1, 2]`, and `null`, `false`, `0` and `""` as
the declared value. Both registration cases, a name absent from the
registry and a duplicated one, were reproduced too.

Full gate set green: `prose_lint`, `repo_gate`, `spec/validate`,
`canonical_review check`, `build_dist --check`, ruff check and format,
mypy, the Docker lint set, and 1182 tests.

## Review

Six `local-strict-review` passes ran against this branch, two over each
carried canonical unit it changes and four over the diff. They raised 30
introduced findings, every one of which is fixed here, and the last four
commits are each one round answering the previous pass. Notable among
them: a `custom` entry with no `branches` aborted the whole run under
`set -e` mid-check; a `branches` of `[1, 2]` was silently asserted
against the live set as the branch names "1" and "2"; and a declared
`null` collided with a sentinel value, reporting a registered repository
as unregistered and skipping the group with no failure.

**Both findings this description originally listed as open are now
fixed**, in `8dfd668`, after Copilot's first round raised the same two
independently. A duplicated registry entry was told "nothing is declared
to check. Verify by hand whether this repo uses one" when the cause is
the duplicate; the two counts render separately now. And
`registry/repos.schema.json` gave an environment's `name` and its
`branches` entries no `minLength: 1`, where every other field keyed
`name` in that file has one; both now carry it, verified with
`jsonschema` under Draft 2020-12.

The 21 pre-existing findings those passes surfaced in `GOVERNANCE.md`
"Hub-Hosted Tooling" and `AUDIT.md` section 6 are filed separately and
are not touched here.

The hub's own live `pypi` environment stays undeclared, deliberately:
the hub hosts the generic pypi, nuget and docker machinery without
publishing through any of it, so that environment gates nothing and
declaring a policy for it would assert a gate that matters when it does
not.

Settles #1482. The closing keyword belongs on the `develop` -> `main`
promotion pull request, since a closing reference on a
`develop`-targeted one never registers.

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spec/validate.py environment validation currently permits leading/trailing whitespace in environment and branch names, which will cause repo-config's exact-name matching checks to fail incorrectly.

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Implements #1470. The session handoff moves from a scratch file to a
chain of GitHub issues, one open link per track per repository.

## Why

A handoff written to a scratch file fails three ways a chain closes. The
file is not found where the next session looks. More than one candidate
is found and nothing says which is current. And it holds no history, so
a later round re-runs a path an earlier round already tried and already
wrote down. The value of a handoff is the record of what has been
attempted, and one overwritten file on one machine is the shape that
cannot hold it.

## What ships

| Surface | Change |
| --- | --- |
| `repo-config/labels.json` | `handoff` declared beside the other
sixteen |
| `repo-config/README.md` "Labels" | surface marker, never a triage
label, excluded from backlog counts |
| `scripts/handoff.py` | six subcommands, a three-value exit contract,
`--dry-run` on both writers |
| `scripts/tests/test_handoff.py` | 114 cases, 99% coverage, every guard
held by a revert check |
| `.agents/skills/session-handoff/` | the judgment half, carrying
`GOVERNANCE.md` "Communicating with the User" as a generated include |
| `AGENTS.md` "Session Scope" | the file rule replaced by the issue
rule, still setting a size rule for `GOVERNANCE.md` to name |
| `.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/` "Ranking" | `handoff` filtered out
of the ranking and every backlog count |

The chain is machine-readable from one HTML comment on the body's last
line, so a retitled or hand-edited issue still chains and nothing parses
the title. The invariant is one open link per track, read from that
block rather than from the label. Two on a track is reported, never
resolved by picking.

## `adopt` is not in v1

#1470 specified a seventh subcommand, `adopt`, to put the label and the
block on an issue predating both. It was built, and then removed. #1499
records the reasoning and what a returning design must answer.

The short version is that it was measured rather than argued. A
randomised search over reachable stores, built only from command
sequences that exited 0, found 60 distinct all-green sequences that fork
or orphan a track in 20000 trials, and every one required `adopt`. Two
controls restricted to `new` and `link` found none in 400 trials and
none in a further 150. An issue predating the chain joins it by hand
now, and the tool's refusals name the edit.

## Verification

Fifteen adversarial review passes ran against this branch, at the
strongest tier available, and the branch answers all of them. Defects
found per pass: 8, 8, 7, 4, 5, 2, 5, 2, 2, 4, 3, 6, 4, 4, 1. Every one
was the same class, a multi-step write leaving the chain forked while
each step exits 0.

Three things beyond the ordinary gates are worth naming:

- **A revert check holds every guard.** 61 guards are reverted one at a
time and the suite must fail on each. It does, 61 of 61. This exists
because a pass found that six of one round's seven fixes could be
reverted with the suite still green.
- **The test double models `gh` rather than a superset of it.** It
projects `--json`, honors `--label`, `--state` and `--limit`, and
refuses any call carrying no `--repo`. Before that, a caller reading a
field it never requested passed the suite and raised against the real
tool, which is exactly what happened once.
- **The reachable-state question was searched rather than reasoned.**
Exhaustive breadth-first search over the six subcommands, seeded with
irregular states, because `link` exists for lanes that are already
irregular and a healthy-state search provably cannot reach its defects.

Gates: ruff, ruff format, mypy, `build_dist.py --check`, 1282 tests,
`repo_gate.py --check eol`, `spec/validate.py`, whole-tree
`prose_lint.py`, markdownlint, cspell, and 14 of 14 changed canonical
units covered by a recorded review pass.

## Live

`repo-config/configure.sh check ptr727/ProjectTemplate release` passes,
which also cleared two pre-existing drifts: `has_projects` and the
`decision` label's description. #1469 was marked by hand and now reads
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The promotion consistently applies the intended contract updates across spec/schema/docs/tooling and includes targeted tests for the behavior changes.

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In `@repo-config/configure.sh`:
- Around line 478-479: Update the ambiguous registry-entry branch in the
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- Line 530: URL-encode the environment name variable ename before interpolating
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Comment thread repo-config/configure.sh
Comment on lines +478 to +479
note "deployment environments: $entry_count registry entries named '$name', so which entry declares them cannot be resolved. Resolve the duplicate (spec/validate.py refuses it once run)."
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fail when registry entry resolution is ambiguous.

This branch returns without setting FAILED. cmd_check can then report Configuration matches without checking any deployment environment.

Use fail instead of note. A separate spec/validate.py run does not make this command fail closed.

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-        note "deployment environments: $entry_count registry entries named '$name', so which entry declares them cannot be resolved. Resolve the duplicate (spec/validate.py refuses it once run)."
+        fail "deployment environments: $entry_count registry entries named '$name', so which entry declares them cannot be resolved"
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note "deployment environments: $entry_count registry entries named '$name', so which entry declares them cannot be resolved. Resolve the duplicate (spec/validate.py refuses it once run)."
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fail "deployment environments: $entry_count registry entries named '$name', so which entry declares them cannot be resolved"
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In `@repo-config/configure.sh` around lines 478 - 479, Update the ambiguous
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assert "environment '$ename' branch policy = $policy" test "$got" = "$policy"
# The allowed set exists only under a custom policy, so a mismatch above skips it rather than reporting a second failure for the same cause.
if [ "$policy" != custom ] || [ "$got" != custom ]; then continue; fi
if ! policies="$(gh api --paginate "repos/$repo/environments/$ename/deployment-branch-policies" --jq '.branch_policies[]' | jq -s '.')"; then

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

URL-encode ename before constructing the gh api path.

If ename contains /, the raw interpolation can split the environment name into multiple path segments. The request can address the wrong endpoint. Encode ename before the call.

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-    local entries entry_count count i row ename policy live_envs env_live got want policies extra
+    local entries entry_count count i row ename encoded_ename policy live_envs env_live got want policies extra
...
+        encoded_ename="$(jq -rn --arg value "$ename" '$value | `@uri`')"
-        if ! policies="$(gh api --paginate "repos/$repo/environments/$ename/deployment-branch-policies" --jq '.branch_policies[]' | jq -s '.')"; then
+        if ! policies="$(gh api --paginate "repos/$repo/environments/$encoded_ename/deployment-branch-policies" --jq '.branch_policies[]' | jq -s '.')"; then
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encoded_ename="$(jq -rn --arg value "$ename" '$value | @uri')"
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marker = row.get("marker")
if marker is None:
try:
marker = parse_marker(row.get("body") or "", row["number"])
except Refusal as exc:
unreadable.append(str(exc))
continue
if marker and marker["track"] == track and marker["previous"] == str(number):
row["marker"] = marker
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Treat a link with no metadata block as unresolvable in successor_of, not as "no successor".

Line 845 re-parses a row whose marker is absent. A body that raises Refusal lands in unreadable. A body that simply carries no block returns None and line 851 skips it silently.

newest_closed already rejects that reasoning for the same data. Its comment at Lines 703-705 states an absent block and an unreadable block are the same hazard, because either way the link's track and round are unknown.

cmd_link never calls require_marked, so a bare row reaches successor_of on the link path. If that bare row is in fact the successor of --previous, the guard at Line 911 returns None, link proceeds, and the chain forks while the run exits 0. That is the exact outcome the refusal text at Line 916 says it prevents. Line 776 of this file already states a hand-edited lane reaches this code.

🐛 Proposed fix to collect bare rows alongside unreadable ones
     unreadable: list[str] = []
+    bare: list[str] = []
     for row in [*open_handoffs(repo), *closed]:
         if row["number"] == ignore:
             continue
         marker = row.get("marker")
         if marker is None:
             try:
                 marker = parse_marker(row.get("body") or "", row["number"])
             except Refusal as exc:
                 unreadable.append(str(exc))
                 continue
+        if marker is None:
+            bare.append(
+                f"#{row['number']} carries the `{LABEL}` label and no metadata block, so its "
+                "track cannot be read."
+            )
+            continue
         if marker and marker["track"] == track and marker["previous"] == str(number):
             row["marker"] = marker
             return row
-    if unreadable:
+    if unreadable or bare:
         raise Refusal(
-            cut(" ".join(unreadable))
+            cut(" ".join([*unreadable, *bare]))
             + f" One of those could already succeed #{number}, so whether pointing a second link "
             "at it forks the chain cannot be read."
+            + (
+                " Add the block to each body that carries none by hand, or take the label off it."
+                if bare
+                else ""
+            )
         )

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In `@scripts/handoff.py` around lines 844 - 853, Update successor_of around
parse_marker so a row with no metadata block is collected in unreadable and
treated like a Refusal, rather than silently skipped as no successor; preserve
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…ng Whitespace (#1504)

Reject a Deployment Environment Name or Branch That Carries Surrounding
Whitespace

`environment_errors_for_repo` tested a declared name and each custom
branch name for emptiness through `.strip()` truthiness, which a padded
value passes. `"pypi "` and `" main"` were therefore valid declarations
that `repo-config/configure.sh` can never resolve, since it matches the
environment with `select(.name == $n)` and compares each declared branch
to the live policy names directly. The repository reports the
environment
as missing, or the branch set as drifted, while carrying both correctly.

## What changed

`spec/validate.py` reports each case in its own branch rather than
widening an existing message.

- A name that survives the emptiness check but differs from its own
  stripped form is reported as padded, before the duplicate check rather
  than after, so a padded twin of an existing name is named for what is
  wrong with it rather than for colliding.
- A custom branch set is checked for padding after the non-empty check,
  so a whitespace-only entry is still reported as empty and reported
  once. The message names every padded entry, since reporting the first
  alone would hide the rest behind a fix round.

`repo-config/configure.sh`'s note that its own jq shape test is narrower
than the validator's listed the two shapes that differed. This change
adds two more, so the note states the category instead of a list that
goes stale on every change that widens the gap.

## The schema was left alone, on measurement

`registry/repos.schema.json` co-declares this shape with `minLength: 1`,
so a padded value is schema-valid and validator-invalid. Tightening it
with the `^\S(?:[^\n\r]*\S)?$` idiom that file already uses was tried
here and reverted, because it made the disagreement worse rather than
smaller.

`registry/repos.json` names that schema and no CI job validates against
it, so the only reader that ever applies the pattern is the author's
editor, and its engine is ECMA-262. ECMA-262 `\s` includes U+FEFF where
Python's does not, so the editor refuses a name the validator accepts.
Under Python `re`, which is what a command-line schema checker uses, `$`
matches before a trailing newline, so `"pypi\n"` satisfies the pattern
and fails the validator. A one-directional gap where an advisory schema
admits what the
gate refuses became a two-directional one where each refuses something
the other allows, and a false rejection in an editor is the worse half.

Closing it needs a positive grammar both engines agree on, per field,
which is a design change rather than a tightening. That is #1503.

## What this does not do

Padding is not the whole class. `str.strip()` encodes Python's notion of
whitespace, and a zero-width space or a byte-order mark is invisible,
equally unmatchable by an exact comparison, and not whitespace to
Python,
so this check accepts one exactly as the truthiness check did. That gap
is pre-existing rather than introduced here, and it is #1503 as well.

## Verification

Four of the five added tests fail against the unfixed
`environment_errors_for_repo`, measured by reverting only that file into
a scratch tree: six subtest failures across the padded-name,
padded-twin,
identical-twins and padded-branches cases. The fifth,
`test_an_empty_branch_is_reported_as_empty_rather_than_as_padded`,
passes
either way by design, guarding the ordering the fix introduces so that a
later edit cannot let the new check swallow the empty case.

`spec/validate.py` against the live registry, `prose_lint.py`,
`repo_gate.py` across eol and eol-coverage, `spec/audit.py --selftest`,
`spec/workflow_reuse.py --selftest`, `build_dist.py --check`,
`ruff format --check`, `ruff check`, `mypy`, the `unittest` suite at
1313
passed, and `docker_lint.py` over shellcheck, shfmt,
editorconfig-checker and cspell. `canonical_review.py check` reports no
carried canonical unit changed.

Three adversarial passes ran before this was pushed. Two of what they
raised changed the code: the schema tightening above, reverted on the
second pass's measurement, and the coverage gap that became #1503. The
rest were defects in this change's own account of itself, including a
comment claiming every padding shape reaches the consumer intact, where
command substitution and the `jqr` helper eat a trailing newline before
the comparison, and a count of failing tests wrong by one in the
direction that understated the evidence.

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Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings September 10, 2026 04:44

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🔵 Needs a closer look

repo-config/configure.sh should URL-encode environment names before interpolating them into REST endpoints to preserve compatibility with valid names containing spaces.

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repo-config/configure.sh:532

  • check_environments() interpolates the environment name directly into the REST path (repos/$repo/environments/$ename/deployment-branch-policies). The registry/schema/validator allow environment names that contain spaces or other characters that require URL encoding, which will make this call fail or hit the wrong endpoint for otherwise-valid entries.
  • Files reviewed: 62/63 changed files
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  • Review effort level: Lite

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