Why: Synchronize the approved policy candidate with the active simplified merge-window rules now on origin/main.
Evidence: Resolved the two semantic conflicts by preserving upstream queue simplification and this task's goal-first/cursor-per-unit contract; focused task-card regression and cached diff checks passed.
Impact: Retains the active single-window delivery process while replacing mechanical stage approvals with necessary decisions and preserving Cursor-per-unit execution.
Refs: .task/feature-goal-first-delivery.md
Why: Keep authorized work focused on its stated outcome, prevent private scope expansion, and remove mechanical human stage gates.
Evidence: make test-governance passed 344 tests with 18 environment-dependent skips; receipt is recorded in the task card.
Impact: New tasks use goal-first execution while retaining real decision points, independent review, evidence, platform admission, and high-consequence dual keys.
Refs: .task/feature-goal-first-delivery.md
Why: Keep final sync and conflict handling with the merge agent and avoid treating pre-freeze SELF checks as final evidence.
Evidence: Review found one stale anchor, one ownership ambiguity, and one evidence-scope overclaim; all three are corrected.
Impact: Documentation only; no runtime or platform behavior changes.
Refs: Agent-System-Dev #518
Why: Keep branches developing independently and serialize only final sync, validation, and agent merge without expanding into audits or new platform mechanisms.
Evidence: scope and link checks, git diff --check, and recursive worktree verification passed as SELF evidence in the task card.
Impact: Documentation only; existing task-sync, CI, branch protection, and agent merge behavior remain unchanged.
Refs: Agent-System-Dev #518
Why: retain the approved status changes and current documentation while adopting the already approved manual delivery window after real platform validation.
Evidence: original startup, conflict resolution, combination test and writer inventory receipts are preserved in the task card; independent Doc89 and platform replay reports are referenced. Final candidate CI and review remain required.
Impact: publish the delivered Documents merge, manual trial policy and truthful capability state; keep all workflow triggers/checks and original task baseline unchanged.
Refs: Dev PR #489; Documents PR #89; Issue #518; approved merge queue implementation plan r1; user continuation authorization on 2026-10-14
Why: The approved document dependencies have been reviewed and merged. Their actual immutable merge commits must be fixed before final host validation, while operational activation remains a separate gate.
Evidence: Independent document replay and verified PR merges are recorded in the task card. The staged host combination passed make test with actual merged child pointers; final commit build/CI remains pending and will be recorded outside source.
Impact: Advance only the two reviewed merged child pins, expose the real plan path, and record partial stage-seven approval and pending activation. Preserve current main components and existing admission/owner boundaries.
Refs: Guidelines PR #5 (2f5b198); Documents PR #96 (129cc35); Dev PR #519; implementation plan U4-U6; Issue #518
Why: Main advanced after the first fixed candidate passed CI, changing four component pins and invalidating final admission against the new target. Stage progress must also be referenced outside fixed source to avoid status-driven commits.
Evidence: Source-external original receipts preserve the previous clean local test/build, three successful CI jobs on 80f5e9a, detection of target advance, the refused transient lock and successful serial synchronization to 10d54d5. New combination verification and exact-head CI are pending.
Impact: Preserve the merged authoritative component versions; record the expired candidate honestly and replace a temporary stage-status sentence with its authoritative record pointers. No platform protection change or queue activation.
Refs: PR #519; main PR #513; implementation plan U1/U3/U4; Issue #518
Why: Preserve the exact implementation object, independent review findings, remediation evidence and remaining stage gates for the owner review.
Evidence: External task-sync and test-governance receipts measured clean candidate cca59c88dd before and after execution. Governance ran 340 tests: 322 passed and 18 environment-dependent skips. Local receipts remain SELF.
Impact: Task record and removal of one trailing policy blank line only; tested code and check definitions unchanged. No queue activation, platform protection change or real CI/trial claim.
Refs: .task/feature-merge-queue-policy-draft.md; Documents plan ba4044d U1-U6; independent review R1/R2; Issue #518
Why: A LOCAL_READY receipt must permit normal target advancement without accepting a rewind or divergent target history after its observation.
Evidence: Two disposable real Git regressions reproduced erroneous successful recovery before the guard; all 18 task recovery tests pass afterward. Raw SELF receipts are in the task card.
Impact: Reject abnormal target ancestry before receipt import; preserve normal local recovery and strict delivery defaults. Correct stale implementation-stage documentation without activating the queue.
Refs: Documents implementation plan ba4044d U2; independent review R1 and R2; .task/feature-merge-queue-policy-draft.md
Why: agents need consistent entrypoints and recording defaults to avoid retrying synchronization and CI outside the final delivery window.
Evidence: SELF generated-task-card red-green regression and governance suite recorded through make evidence; pending shared record created as Issue #518.
Impact: rules, task template and capability matrix stay explicit about pending activation, default strict startup, manual coordination and unchanged CI triggers.
Refs: U4; policy/merge-queue.md; .task/feature-merge-queue-policy-draft.md
Why: preserve the user's continuation from the delivered r1 specification into a concrete implementation and verification plan.
Evidence: precheck and plan source/link/example checks are preserved as SELF receipts in the task card; code, CI and platform trials remain NOT_RUN.
Impact: approval metadata, plan association and project entry only; the delivery mode remains unchanged and the plan awaits stage 5 review.
Refs: policy/merge-queue.md; .task/feature-merge-queue-policy-draft.md; Documents docs/proposals/2026-10-13-merge-queue-implementation-plan.md
Why: prepare a reviewable delivery window and migration contract that reduces repeated synchronization while preserving final CI and approval requirements.
Evidence: SELF precheck, document checks and read-only platform observations are preserved in .task/feature-merge-queue-policy-draft.md; runtime queue and platform trials remain NOT_RUN.
Impact: proposed policy, project entry and task record only; scripts, workflow, platform protection and guideline gitlink are not changed by this draft.
Refs: policy/merge-queue.md; .task/feature-merge-queue-policy-draft.md