docs(mission): record motoko iteration 9 — red-dev triage, standing down for #759 - #760
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…ng down for #759 Pick was not the queue head: origin/dev was RED, which outranked the queue under the rulebook in force at pick time. The red was two reds. `test` failed at steps=41 on `Check changelog index hygiene` — a repo command that ran. `lint` and `Build macos-latest` (x2) failed at steps=1 / `Set up job`, inside a declared GitHub incident whose window covers the run; those were diagnosed, never reverted. Negative control: the same three jobs came back green on our PR head at 21:30Z on a byte-different tree. The finding: scripts/check_changelog.sh enumerated Keep-a-Changelog KEYWORDS, and this repo writes none — measured at 0002c9b it saw 1 of 5 real offenders while printing a green checkmark over 168 stranded lines, and it had no test at all. Fixed in #758 (21 checks green, 4/4 required), then CLOSED: V1's iteration 217 had opened the identical six-file fix in #759 four minutes behind, and landed c2022c7 scoping red-dev ownership to the repo-owning mission mid flight. V1's detector is strictly more general than ours, so standing down is right on merit as well as ownership. Two measurements were handed to #759: the index has accreted two MORE stranded blocks since the red (7 now, not 5, including a ### SECURITY entry #759 would strand as written), and the outage-vs-real split so a lingering lint/Build red is not misattributed. Queue untouched — a hand-off is not a pick; row 6b remains [NEXT]. STATUS rotation asserted: charter 600 -> 600 lines, 3 stamps, queue-row control present, and the archive gained the iteration-5 stamp it lost (control: ITERATION 4 present). No CHANGELOG entry: #759 is in flight rewriting CHANGELOG.md and changelogs/v0.18-current.md, and a third concurrent edit to those files is the exact collision surface this iteration is reporting. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… auto-merge is not a landing mechanism Iteration 9's entire mission record sat in PR #760, OPEN and BLOCKED for 12h13m on a `test` red inherited from its base `714f1cecc`. Its own prediction came true — #759 merged 26 minutes later and `cf56772bf` reads `test=success` — and the PR still did not merge: GitHub auto-merge merges when the PR's own required checks pass, and never re-runs them when the base advances. Rebased onto a green `origin/dev`, which is what produces a new head SHA and a new check set. Also corrected in the inherited diff: it wrote the bare `design_docs/mission-dashboard.md`, the unnamespaced path V1's iteration-216 rule forbids. That hunk is reverted to origin (the file still holds motoko's own stale iter-7 snapshot; left alone per the rule) and the snapshot goes to `design_docs/motoko-mission-dashboard.md`. Queue row 6b CLOSED as a measurement rather than a tag: of the 15 charter-orphaned issues, 3 have closed since the sweep, 11 carry `ailang-message` + `from:<consumer>` labels and are already enumerated in V1's charter at v1-mission.md:2104-2109, and the 12th (#687) is V1's declared next pick. Motoko owns none of them, so the hand-off the row prescribed was already satisfied. Gate-5, ONE skill edit (Gate 3b): auto-merge is not a landing mechanism when the red is base-inherited. Two recorded frictions in the class it extends — Gate 2's died-mid-flight rule (iterations 121, 148/149, 160/161) and motoko 6→7 — and this iteration supplies the new mechanism with a clean negative control. It also carries the step-level diagnosis rule: #760's body blamed `Check changelog index hygiene`, which was `skipped` on both the PR head and the base, while the real failure was step 14 `Run stdlib .ail test suites` on both. Rotation assertions: charter 623 -> 623 lines (invariant before+2-2*1 satisfied), `^## STATUS 2026` count still 3, queue-row controls (`6b.`, `7. **Profile restoration`, `14. [PARKED`) all still present, and the archive GAINED the moved iteration-7 stamp (count 6 -> 7; control `ITERATION 5` present). No code. No CHANGELOG entry: `make check-changelog` rc=0, and the gate is an index check, not a per-PR entry requirement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Mission-record only: two iterations' records (9 recovered, 10 new), the charter STATUS rotation, the namespaced dashboard, and ONE Gate-5 skill edit. No code.
What this PR now is
It began as iteration 9's record. That record never landed: it was armed with auto-merge over a
testred inherited from its base714f1cecc, and auto-merge merges when the PR's own required checks pass — it does not update the branch and does not re-run checks when the base advances. Measured: the PR body's own prediction ("it goes green once #759 lands") came true —#759merged at2026-08-17T20:02:27Z, 26 minutes later, and its merge commitcf56772bfreadstest=success— and the PR still satMERGEABLE/BLOCKEDwithupdatedAtunmoved at19:36:34Z12h13m later.Iteration 10 found it via Gate 2's died-mid-flight check, rebased onto a green
origin/dev(which is what produces a new head SHA and therefore a new check set), and recorded both iterations.Correction to the previous body (rule 3b(v): re-derive, don't inherit)
The earlier body attributed this PR's red to the
Check changelog index hygienestep. Measured onactions/jobs/95482959213: that step is 17 and its conclusion isskipped— it never ran. The failing step is 14.Run stdlib .ail test suites, and the base714f1cecc(actions/jobs/95481571091) fails at step 14 identically. So the verdict — inherited, not caused by a docs-only diff — was right, and the mechanism cited for it was wrong.check-runsreports the job, never its steps.Rotation assertions (the most destructive edit this loop makes)
after == before + 2 − 2×1satisfied^## STATUS 2026count still 3 (stamps: iterations 10, 9, 8)6b.,7. **Profile restoration,14. [PARKEDITERATION 5present) — the charter-side arithmetic alone cannot show thisDashboard path corrected
The inherited diff wrote the bare
design_docs/mission-dashboard.md, the unnamespaced path V1's iteration-216 rule forbids. That hunk is reverted to origin (git diff origin/devon it is empty) and the snapshot goes todesign_docs/motoko-mission-dashboard.md. The bare file still holds motoko's own stale iteration-7 snapshot and is left alone per the rule, flagged as one line of future cleanup.Local gates
make check-changelogrc=0 ·make check-file-sizesrc=0. No CHANGELOG entry: the gate is an index check, not a per-PR entry requirement, and this PR touches no code. Gates ran on darwin/arm64 only (rule 3b(viii)).🤖 Generated with Claude Code