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Summary

The intent-staleness advisory (check_intent_staleness/hub_last_change in spec/audit.py)
compared two dates and read no content at all: a downstream copy's last commit against the hub
canonical's last commit. The verbatim engine already normalizes three classes of governed drift
before hashing (spec/fidelity-model.md "Normalization"): line endings, a uses: <action>@<sha>
pin with its trailing version comment, and a job's needs: list. The intent advisory applied
none of that, so a Dependabot pin bump on a workflow file's hub canonical marked every downstream
carrier as "possibly trailing" at once, for a class of drift the fidelity model already treats as
governed per-repo churn rather than a deviation.

Fix

hub_last_change() now walks the canonical's full git history and returns the newest revision
whose normalized content differs from its predecessor's (_last_effective_change), falling back
to the file's creation revision if every bump back to it was normalized-only. git_file_history()
and hub_last_change() now share one cached history walk (_git_revisions) instead of two
separate git log calls.

Verified live against the two files named in the issue: publish-release.yml now dates from a
real job-condition change (#844) instead of the pin-only Dependabot bump (#612) the issue
measured, and validate-task.yml picks up its most recent real change.

Added self-test coverage for _last_effective_change (pin-only chain back to creation, a real
change under a later pin bump, a single-revision file, and unreadable history treated as
effective rather than silently skipped). Updated the fidelity-model.md "intent" description and
the check_intent_staleness/hub_last_change docstrings to state the normalization explicitly.

Validation

  • python3 spec/audit.py --selftest (includes the new _last_effective_change cases)
  • ruff check / ruff format --check / mypy on spec/audit.py
  • python3 scripts/prose_lint.py
  • python3 scripts/repo_gate.py
  • python3 scripts/host_gate.py
  • Live-checked hub_last_change() against publish-release.yml and validate-task.yml,
    confirming the returned commit is a real content change, not the Dependabot pin bump.

Fixes #735.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved intent-staleness detection by ignoring changes limited to line endings, dependency action pins, or workflow job-order metadata.
    • Dependabot-only workflow pin updates no longer incorrectly mark related items as outdated.
    • Added more reliable handling for missing, unreadable, empty, or newly created revision history.
  • Documentation

    • Updated fidelity guidance to reflect the refined change-detection rules.

ptr727 and others added 30 commits May 11, 2026 17:57
…nups (#77)

Release merge: brings two squashed PRs and one unnecessary back-merge
commit from `develop` into `main`.

## Squashed PRs included

- **#76 — Document `dotnet/nbgv@master` exception and drop redundant
`secrets: inherit`.**
- `.github/workflows/get-version-task.yml`: inline comment carves out
`dotnet/nbgv@master` as the deliberate deviation from the AGENTS.md
SHA-pinning rule (upstream tag stream is dormant, Dependabot would stall
or attempt a downgrade if we pinned, upstream owner is Microsoft so
retargeting risk is low).
- `.github/workflows/build-nugetlibrary-task.yml`: dropped `secrets:
inherit` from the `get-version` job call (same fix PR #74 applied to
`build-pypilibrary-task.yml`).

- **#78 — Forward-only develop with dual-target Dependabot + codegen.**
The substantive change in this release:
- **AGENTS.md "Branching Model"** explicitly codifies forward-only
develop (no `main → develop` back-merges; develop squash-only ruleset
blocks them) and the dual-target bot model with rationale.
- **`.github/dependabot.yml`** duplicates every ecosystem entry per
branch (six entries total) so Dependabot opens parallel PRs against both
`main` and `develop` independently. Both branches stay current on dep
versions without back-merges.
- **`.github/workflows/run-codegen-pull-request-task.yml`** runs as a
matrix over `main` and `develop`. Branch names `codegen-main` and
`codegen-develop`; each opens a PR against its own base.
- **`.github/workflows/merge-bot-pull-request.yml`** `merge-codegen` job
uses strict head/base pairing and dispatches `--squash` (develop) vs
`--merge` (main) per base, same `case` statement pattern as
`merge-dependabot`.
- **README.md "Template - Release Distribution Model: Push vs. Pull"**
(new section) — documents the default push-on-merge model and the
manual-release alternative for HACS / distro-vendored projects,
referencing
[homeassistant-purpleair](https://github.com/ptr727/homeassistant-purpleair)
as the working example.
- **README.md "Template - GitHub Setup"** rulesets section split into
separate Develop (squash-only + `Require linear history`) and Main
(merge-commit-only) rulesets with shared settings extracted. Repo-level
Pull Requests block now correctly shows **both** `Allow merge commits`
and `Allow squash merging` enabled (the prior wording suggested merge
would be disabled, which contradicted the actual main ruleset).

## Unnecessary back-merge `5ce95cf` (acknowledged misstep)

I opened this release with a `Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'
into develop` commit assuming the back-merge pattern was the standard
cycle close. **It wasn't.** That model conflicts with AGENTS.md's
squash-only develop rule (the push only succeeded via admin bypass). PR
#78's AGENTS.md update now explicitly forbids future back-merges and
routes both bots to update both branches independently — closing the gap
that made this pattern feel necessary.

The back-merge commit is left in place: reverting requires a destructive
force-push to develop. Behavioral effect is a one-time gitHeight bump,
which fixes the `--pre` channel ordering (develop's next dev publish is
now unambiguously higher than main's last release).

## Operator action items (already completed)

- `CODEGEN_APP_ID` / `CODEGEN_APP_PRIVATE_KEY` in both Actions and
Dependabot secret stores. ✓
- `WORKFLOW_PAT` secret + PAT revoked. ✓
- `pypi` GitHub environment Deployment branch rule allows `main` and
`develop`. ✓

## Open follow-up (tracked separately, not in this release)

PR #78 documented a limitation in the actor-check guardrail on
`merge-codegen` / `merge-dependabot`: it stops the merge-bot from
re-invoking `gh pr merge --auto` on a maintainer-triggered
`synchronize`, but **does not** disable auto-merge that's already
enabled. Once auto-merge is on a bot PR, maintainer commits will land.
The honest workaround is documented (`gh pr merge --disable-auto <PR>`
before pushing). The real safeguard — a `synchronize`-triggered job that
disables auto-merge automatically when the actor isn't the bot — is a
follow-up PR I'll open after this release lands.

## Notes

- Merge method: **merge-commit** (per [AGENTS.md branching
model](https://github.com/ptr727/ProjectTemplate/blob/develop/AGENTS.md#branching-model)).

## Test plan

- [ ] CI passes on the merge commit.
- [ ] `publish-release.yml` on main publishes `1.0.<N>.<B>` as the next
stable release.
- [ ] After release, `pip install ptr727-projecttemplate-library`
resolves to the new stable; `pip install --pre
ptr727-projecttemplate-library` resolves to the latest develop dev
(assuming develop's gitHeight exceeds main's, which the back-merge
ensures).
- [ ] Next Dependabot scheduled run opens **two** PRs per ecosystem (one
against main, one against develop).
- [ ] Next codegen weekly run opens **two** PRs (`codegen-main` against
main, `codegen-develop` against develop).
- [ ] Each bot PR auto-merges via the merge-bot with the correct method
(`--squash` for develop, `--merge` for main).
…rules-docs alignment (#80)

Release merge: brings two squashed PRs from `develop` into `main`.

## Squashed PRs included

- **#79 — Disable auto-merge on maintainer push to bot PR.** Started
narrow (a `synchronize`-triggered job that calls `gh pr merge
--disable-auto` when a maintainer pushes to a bot PR, closing the gap PR
#78 documented but didn't fix) and grew to cover repo-wide SHA pinning
of every action after the maintainer corrected my reading of AGENTS.md's
first-party-actions clause.

  ### What landed
- **New `disable-auto-merge-on-maintainer-push` job** in
`.github/workflows/merge-bot-pull-request.yml`. Fires on
`pull_request.synchronize` events against bot-authored PRs (Dependabot
or codegen) when the event actor isn't the same bot — calls `gh pr merge
--disable-auto`. App-token-driven (Dependabot PRs run with restricted
secrets regardless of event actor).
- **`merge-dependabot` and `merge-codegen` restricted to
`opened`/`reopened`** so auto-merge is enabled exactly once per PR;
skipping `synchronize` is what keeps the disable safeguard sticky
against bot rebases.
- **`concurrency.cancel-in-progress: false`** in
`merge-bot-pull-request.yml` so the three-job model runs events to
completion in arrival order.
- **Every action SHA-pinned** across all workflows: `actions/*`
(checkout, setup-dotnet, create-github-app-token, upload-artifact,
download-artifact), `docker/*` (setup-qemu-action, setup-buildx-action,
login-action, build-push-action), and `RubbaBoy/BYOB`.
`dotnet/nbgv@master` is the only documented exception.
- **AGENTS.md "Workflow YAML Conventions"** tightened: every action must
be SHA-pinned (the prior "first-party `actions/*` encouraged but not
required" softening is gone). `# vX` major-only comment allowed when
upstream's floating major tag doesn't correspond to a specific
patch/minor release SHA. Concurrency convention gains a documented
exception for `merge-bot-pull-request.yml`.
- **AGENTS.md "Branching Model"** + **README "Template - GitHub Setup"**
updated for the new disable job and the auto-merge condition list.

- **#81 — Drop "branches up to date" rule from main ruleset
(incompatible with forward-only).** Resolved the root cause behind PR
#80 being initially blocked. GitHub's "Require branches to be up to date
before merging" is a graph-based check (it asks whether main's tip merge
commit is reachable from develop) that's fundamentally incompatible with
the forward-only develop model PR #78 codified. Historical back-merges
had been quietly compensating for this; PR #78 forbade them but left the
README's documented "shared settings" ruleset block contradictorily
listing the rule.
- **README "Rules / Rulesets"**: moved `Require branches to be up to
date before merging` out of "Shared settings" into the Develop-only
ruleset entry (where it's standard hygiene). Added explicit
"intentionally OFF" callout in the Main ruleset entry with the full
rationale.
- **AGENTS.md "Branching Model"**: new bullet codifying *why* the main
ruleset omits this rule, framed purely in graph-reachability terms.

## Operator action already completed

- `Require branches to be up to date before merging` unticked on
Settings → Rulesets → Main. ✓ Verified via API.

## Notes

- Merge method: **merge-commit** (per [AGENTS.md branching
model](https://github.com/ptr727/ProjectTemplate/blob/develop/AGENTS.md#branching-model)).
- **No rebase required.** With the ruleset rule now disabled, GitHub no
longer enforces graph-reachability of main's tip from develop, so the
merge proceeds cleanly without admin bypass or back-merge.

## Test plan

- [ ] CI passes on the merge commit.
- [ ] `publish-release.yml` on main produces the next stable release.
- [ ] Next bot PR (Dependabot or codegen) opens with auto-merge enabled
exactly once. A maintainer push to the bot's branch disables auto-merge;
re-enable manually to land the maintainer's edits.
- [ ] No floating-tag actions remain anywhere in `.github/workflows/`
except `dotnet/nbgv@master`.
- [ ] Future develop → main releases land without admin bypass.
## Summary

- Closes #82 — drop strict "Require branches to be up to date before
merging" from the `develop` ruleset (already applied on the live ruleset
id 15886282). With strict on, two bot PRs against `develop` landing
within the same window left the second OPEN forever: the first merge
flipped it to `mergeStateStatus: BEHIND`, GitHub's auto-merge will not
fire while strict is on, and the merge-bot only enables auto-merge on
`opened`/`reopened`.
- Closes #83 — fix the GitHub Pre-Release shield with `&filter=*-g*`
(NBGV pre-release tags carry a `-g<sha>` suffix, stable tags don't);
drop the NuGet Pre-Release badge because shields.io's `vpre` endpoint
accepts no filter parameter and silently returns the latest stable
whenever one exists.
- AGENTS.md "Branching Model" + README.md "Rules / Rulesets" updated in
lockstep — both rulesets now document distinct reasons for omitting the
strict flag.

## Test plan

- [ ] Visual: rendered README badge row shows three pre-release-aware
badges (GitHub Release, GitHub Pre-Release, NuGet Release) — `NuGet
Pre-Release` is gone.
- [ ] Shield URL spot-check:
`https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/<owner>/<repo>?include_prereleases&filter=*-g*`
renders an NBGV pre-release tag, not the latest stable.
- [ ] `gh api repos/ptr727/ProjectTemplate/rulesets/15886282 | jq
'.rules[] | select(.type=="required_status_checks")'` shows
`strict_required_status_checks_policy: false` (already verified).
- [ ] Next pair of overlapping Dependabot/codegen PRs against `develop`
both auto-merge without one stalling in `BEHIND`.
This PR updates the codegen files.
…90) (#91)

## Summary

Promotes develop → main. Two squashed commits ride along:

- **PR #90** — Migrate `actions/create-github-app-token` from deprecated
`app-id` to `client-id` (closes #88), bump pin `v1.12.0` → `v3.2.0`,
drop inert `codegen` entry from `test-pull-request.yml`'s base-branch
filter (closes #89), and relax `AGENTS.md`'s "agents never commit" rule
to allow scope-bound, signing-gated authorization. 5 files, 16+/17-.
- **PR #86** — `[ptr727-codegen]` weekly codegen refresh; 1 line in
`CodeGen/CodeGen.cs`.

The `CODEGEN_APP_CLIENT_ID` secret is already provisioned in both
Actions and Dependabot stores. The legacy `CODEGEN_APP_ID` secret can be
deleted after one round of each bot workflow runs green on main
post-merge.

## Test plan

- [ ] CI green on this PR.
- [ ] Post-merge: trigger `run-periodic-codegen-pull-request.yml` via
`workflow_dispatch`; both matrix legs (main, develop) mint App tokens
and open codegen PRs as `ptr727-codegen[bot]`.
- [ ] Post-merge: next Dependabot PR auto-merges cleanly via
`merge-bot-pull-request.yml` `merge-dependabot`.
- [ ] After one green round of each bot workflow, delete legacy
`CODEGEN_APP_ID` secret from both Actions and Dependabot stores.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
Release merge of `develop` into `main`.

## Headline change (#98, closes #97)

Two-phase CI/CD that decouples merging from publishing across all four
delivery targets (Docker, NuGet, PyPI, console executable):

- **PRs smoke-test only** — path-gated, reduced builds (Docker
`linux/amd64`, trimmed executable matrix), no publish.
- **Sole publisher** — `publish-release.yml` (weekly schedule + manual
dispatch) builds/publishes **both** branches via a matrix; the `push`
trigger publishes only when the **`PUBLISH_ON_MERGE`** repository
variable is `true` (opt-in legacy continuous-release). Default is
two-phase.
- Parameterized chain (`ref`/`branch`/`smoke`, per-target `enable_*`
gates), branch-suffixed artifacts, branch-scoped Docker cache, hardened
required-status aggregator.
- Robustness: skip GitHub release on a duplicate version (no-op weeks),
pin the release tag to NBGV `GitCommitId`, global publish concurrency,
`cache-to`/login gating reviewed.
- CodeGen weekly → daily; `test-release-task.yml` +
`publish-periodic-docker-release.yml` removed.
- Corrected the Copilot review runbook (reliable `requestReviews`
mutation) and made the wait-for-maintainer-merge gate explicit.

Also includes routine codegen updates (#93, #95).

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This PR updates the codegen files.
Release of develop → main. Carries three changes:

- **Decouple GitHub-release assembly from per-target builds (#109)** —
`github-release` collects assets by the `release-asset-<branch>-*`
convention instead of naming build jobs, so the release orchestration is
reusable verbatim by downstreams. Fixes #108.
- **Back-port CI/CD fixes discovered during the PlexCleaner port
(#107)** — commit-pinned release leaves, event-aware github-release
gating, Docker cache-export tolerance, publish concurrency scoping,
smoke-build gating, badge filtering, Copilot runbook login fix.
- **Update codegen files (#106).**

Merge-commit (not squash) per the branching model, so main records
develop's tip as the second parent.
This PR updates the codegen files.
Release of develop -> main. Two changes:

- **Standardize ASCII and `.editorconfig` line endings repo-wide;
tighten doc conventions (#114)** - replace typographic Unicode
(em-dashes, arrows, `<=`, ellipsis) with ASCII across all tracked files;
bring every file to its `.editorconfig` line ending; add the ruleset
export/import + signing-order setup docs; add AGENTS rules (Character
Set, Line Endings, current-state tense, ruleset-setup). Source edits are
comments/docstrings/cosmetic-strings and line endings only - no logic
change.
- **Update codegen files (#113).**

Merge-commit (not squash) per the branching model.

The insertions/deletions count is dominated by line-ending normalization
(whole-file churn under `* -text`); `git diff --ignore-cr-at-eol
main...develop` isolates the real content edits.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
This PR updates the codegen files.
Promotes `develop` to `main`.

- **#124** - Propagate template contract to derived repos: shared
`.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc` (#116), explicit verbatim-copy contract +
line-ending mandate + upstream-defect-reporting contract (#117),
brownfield `required_signatures` migration (#111), and known-working
actionlint/markdownlint Docker linter guidance. Review-loop feedback
applied (modern re-sign, maintainer-only force-push).
- **#123 / #120 / #119** - Update codegen files.
Promotes `develop` to `main`: template-doc refinements captured from the
downstream realignment - the ruleset full-payload-PUT caveat (README)
and the markdownlint `--fix` first-adoption step incl. CRLF re-check
(AGENTS), plus the US-English 'judgment' fix. (#126)
Promotes the versioning-policy documentation to `main` (#131): the
develop-leads + maintenance-hold model stated in AGENTS.md, README.md,
and .github/copilot-instructions.md. Documentation only; version
unchanged (maintenance).
This PR updates the codegen files.
ptr727 added 20 commits August 22, 2026 06:45
## Summary

- Scope WORKFLOW.md D1.6's `spec/secrets.json` `typeMechanisms` pointer
to the C# and Python repos it applies to, so a repo whose adapted copy
carries `baseline` alone does not read the pointer as pointing at a key
it should have.

## Included Work

- `538b471` Scope WORKFLOW.md D1.6's secrets.json Pointer to Applicable
Repos (#906).

## Tracking

Fixes #728.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Clarified that `typeMechanisms` is required in `spec/secrets.json`
only for applicable C# and Python repositories with tests.
* Confirmed that Codecov coverage, token, configuration, and
artifact-handling requirements remain unchanged.
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Promotes the fleet membership check (#909, fixes #550) from develop to
main.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Audits now detect owned, non-fork repositories missing from the
registry.
* Audits identify archived-status mismatches and report membership
issues.
* Registry support added for `archived` and `excluded` repository
statuses.
  * Three archived repositories were added to the registry.

* **Validation**
* Repository URLs, names, statuses, and duplicate identities are
validated more strictly.
  * Excluded repositories must include an explanation.

* **Documentation**
* Updated governance, audit, README, and standup guidance for registry
coverage and repository statuses.
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Promotes the declared repository description (#913, fixes #639) from
develop to main.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Repository catalogs can define a canonical description for README,
GitHub About, and Docker Hub summaries.
* README taglines remain the fallback when no catalog description is
provided.
  * Added a documented description for ProjectTemplate.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved auditing for inconsistent descriptions and Docker Hub lookup
failures.
* Prevented empty repository metadata from being processed as a tool
entry.

* **Validation**
* Descriptions must be nonempty, single-line, link-free text of no more
than 100 characters.
* Added validation for duplicate repository names and invalid
description formats.
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Promotes #920 (Stop the 3.7 Bootstrap Probes From Reading as This Repo's
Python Floor) from develop to main.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Clarified Python 3.13 as the repository-wide baseline for type hints
and modern syntax.
* Documented intentional lower-version exceptions and guidance for
future imports and legacy typing.
* Expanded interpreter compatibility details and improved setup-tool
error guidance.
  * Removed an outdated Copilot review instruction record.

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Promotes develop to main.

Closes #924, Closes #925, Closes #926.

#929 and #931 are filed and tracked in TODO.md but not resolved, both
are pending a maintainer decision, so they stay open.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- Added guided workflows for pull-request review, promotion, merging,
and release steps.
  - Added configurable Markdown file exclusions to validation workflows.
- Added deployment verification using optional authentication
credentials, including incomplete-credential validation.
  - Added Skill refresh support after releases.

- **Documentation**
- Documented pull-request, promotion, release, deployment, and
validation workflows.
- Added rollout guidance and follow-up items for deployment
authentication and line-ending consistency.

- **Configuration**
- Enabled additional approval requirements for unattributed changes on
development and production branches.
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Promotes develop to main.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved release and post-merge cleanup reliability with stricter
branch and repository verification.
* Added safer handling for missing branches, query failures, mismatched
revisions, and partially completed cleanup.
* Prevented cleanup when local working-tree content could be
overwritten.
* Improved reporting for timed-out, failed, and non-started release
runs.

* **Chores**
  * Standardized the default release-run timeout to 45 minutes.
  * Updated internal skill metadata.

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Routine promotion.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- Shell validation now covers extensionless Bash and sh scripts
identified by their shebang.
  - CI checks shell scripts with both ShellCheck and shfmt.

- **Documentation**
  - Clarified shell-formatting requirements and verification tools.
- Updated reusable deployment workflow guidance, including environment
and secret handling.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved deployment workflow validation and environment configuration
checks.
  - Strengthened shell-script discovery and linting coverage.
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Routine promotion.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Added optional path exclusions for repository validation scans.
  * Supports multiple newline-separated exclusion patterns.
  * Reports when exclusions narrow the scan or match no files.
* **Documentation**
* Documented the new workflow input and exclusion syntax, with examples.
* **Bug Fixes**
  * Improved error reporting for repository file-listing failures.
  * Correctly handles scans where exclusions remove all eligible files.
  * Preserved existing scan behavior when no exclusions are configured.
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Promotes develop to main.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added standard local pre-commit configurations for .NET and Python
projects.
* Added formatting, linting, type-checking, documentation, and
line-ending checks.
  * Added VS Code tasks for prose and end-of-line validation.

* **Documentation**
* Expanded guidance for configuring, troubleshooting, and rolling out
local hooks.
  * Added governance and audit requirements for hook coverage.

* **Chores**
  * Added tooling to retrieve and run shared validation checks.
  * Registered pre-commit in the shared tools catalog.
  * Simplified installation with host-level pre-commit setup.
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## Included

- #968 — Ignore mypy cache directory (.gitignore).
- #969 — Detect Copilot account-quota exhaustion in `pr_review.py`'s
`wait`/`status`
  (distinct refusal cause, repo-wide silent-exhaustion short-circuit,
  `--ignore-quota-signal` override), plus a generic identity-level
  generalization of thread-resolution tracking, head-presence, and
  rate-limit-marker detection to cover CodeRabbit and Qodo alongside
  Copilot.

## Testing

Both source PRs were driven through full review loops (Qodo +
CodeRabbit,
Copilot quota-exhausted throughout) and merged clean. 272 tests, ruff,
ruff-format, mypy, and prose_lint all pass on develop's current head.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
  - Added tracking for CodeRabbit, qodo, and Copilot review activity.
- Review status now includes unresolved threads, rate limits, quota
exhaustion, and per-reviewer results.
- The workflow can automatically request reviews and identify
repository-wide Copilot quota limits.
- Added an option to ignore Copilot quota signals while waiting for
results.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved handling of missing thread authors and generic review
refusals.
- Prioritizes pull-request-specific outcomes over broader repository
signals.
- Improved reviewer attribution and status reporting across review
history.
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Promotes develop to main.

Includes:
- #974: Fix ssh-signing.md allowed_signers snippet to match
host-setup.md (fixes #713)

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Updated SSH signing setup and troubleshooting instructions to use the
email address configured globally in Git.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved validation for intent references, including anchored paths
and invalid or unsafe path formats.
  * References must now resolve to existing files within the repository.
* Staleness checks consistently use the canonical intent reference path.
* **Tests**
* Added coverage for reference precedence, fallback behavior, anchor
handling, literal `#` characters, and path traversal scenarios.
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Promotes #981 (issue #947) to `main`.

## What

- `merge-and-release/SKILL.md` step 7's clean-tree preflight now scopes
its
  `git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all --ignored` check to
`-- .agents/skills/ .claude-plugin/` (all three carried copies), instead
of
  the whole checkout, matching `skills_install.py`'s own `source_ref()`
watched-path list. An ordinary build cache or lockfile elsewhere in the
  tree no longer blocks the refresh.
- `skills_install.py`'s install summary prints two separate lines, one
per
install target's own outcome, instead of folding both into one sentence.

## Review

PR #981 went through two review rounds:

- qodo flagged the PR title's lowercase "to" as a title-case violation.
Declined: `to` is an allowed lowercase title-case bind word per the
fleet's
  own convention, and this exact false positive is already documented in
  `docs/pr-reviewer-evaluation.md`.
- CodeRabbit correctly caught that the first pass under-scoped the
preflight
  to `.agents/skills/` alone, missing `.claude-plugin/`, which
`skills_install.py` also reads (`claude plugin marketplace add` installs
from it). Fixed, and CodeRabbit's re-review on the fixed head came back
  clean ("No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.").

Copilot's review account is still quota-exhausted repo-wide (confirmed
again
this session, consistent with recent PRs #974-980), so PR #981 merged to
`develop` on qodo + CodeRabbit coverage alone, both clean on the final
head,
CI green (8/8), `mergeStateStatus: CLEAN`.

Closes #947


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Refined Skills refresh checks to include tracked, untracked, and
ignored files in all relevant installation paths.
  * Unrelated ignored files no longer block Skills refreshes.

* **Improvements**
* Installation results now separately report global Skills setup and
marketplace registration for clearer status visibility.

* **Documentation**
* Updated Skills refresh guidance to clarify which installation paths
are checked and how ignored files are handled.
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Promotes #986 (issues #985, #973) to `main`.

## What

- `copilot_history` widens its Copilot-reviewer-bot-id/quota lookback
  from 20 to 100 most-recently-updated pull requests once the narrow
  window comes back with no reviewer activity at all, so a long
  outage no longer reverts `wait` to a full blind poll on every call
  (#985).
- `Q_FULL`'s `reviewThreads(first:100)` now tracks `hasNextPage`, and
  `threads=`/`unresolved=` print a trailing `+` with a `THREADS
  TRUNCATED` block when a pull request carries more than 100 review
  threads, rather than undercounting silently (#973).

## Review

PR #986 review loop: CodeRabbit and qodo reviewed, three findings
raised and closed (two fixed, in cbb1bbc; one declined with evidence
of pre-existing precedent in the file, resolved with authorization).
Copilot's own review account is in the fleet's known repo-wide quota-
exhausted state (confirmed live via the fixed `wait` itself, in 6s
rather than the ~45-minute blind poll the unfixed version would have
spent), so this proceeded on the other two reviewers' coverage per
standing precedent.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Review status now indicates when thread results are incomplete,
including marked thread and unresolved counts.
* Added guidance to use the paginated reply path when additional review
threads are available.
* Copilot activity searches can expand from the latest 20 to the latest
100 pull requests when no activity is found.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved handling of empty Copilot history and missing bot
identifiers.
  * Added coverage for paginated threads and expanded history searches.
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Promotes #994 (issues #988, #989, #990) to `main`.

## What

- `.editorconfig` rewords the comment above the `.NET`-only block so it
  states the whole-file carry model instead of contradicting
  CODESTYLE.md's "General" section (#988).
- `spec/files.json` declares `"When in Doubt"` in the `sections` array
  for `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, so the hub's own canonical
  fourth heading is no longer flagged as undeclared drift (#989).
- `spec/divergences.json` adds two `accepted` gap entries, for
  `.github/actionlint.yaml` and `.github/actions/validate/action.yml`,
  matching the existing `accepted` pattern for path collisions (#990).
- `copilot-instructions-keeper`'s SKILL.md (source plus both
  regenerated distribution trees) is updated to enumerate all four
  declared sections instead of three, a follow-up fix from PR #994's
  own review loop.

## Review

PR #994 review loop: qodo-code-review raised one real finding (the
keeper skill's stale three-section enumeration), fixed and resolved
in b626b25. Copilot's own review account is in the fleet's known
repo-wide quota-exhausted state (confirmed live on every request this
round), so this proceeded on qodo's coverage per standing precedent.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Updated Copilot instruction guidance to include the required “When in
Doubt” section.
* Updated synchronization instructions and baseline requirements
accordingly.
* Added guidance for safely retiring outdated local paths during
resynchronization.
  * Clarified .NET line-ending governance across derived repositories.
  * Refreshed divergence reporting and the current stale-copy inventory.

* **Chores**
  * Recorded approved repository-specific configuration differences.
  * Refreshed internal skill metadata and synchronization records.
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Promotes `develop` to `main`.

Latest change: #1000 (date-stamp the stale carrier list in the
`validate-task.yml` gap entry,
fixes #998).

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Documentation**
- Updated divergence records to identify the carrier repository snapshot
as of August 16, 2026.
- Replaced ambiguous “current” or “today” wording with a specific
snapshot date.
  - Confirmed the snapshot includes thirteen known carrier repositories.

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Promotes #1003 (issue #949) to `main`.

## What

- `spec/audit.py`: `_code_view()` drops YAML block-scalar bodies (`key:
|`/`key: >`,
including a step's `- run: |` and an anchored `key: &label |`) from the
interface
token-matching view, so a crafted or ordinary block scalar can no longer
satisfy or
trip a `requireTokensInJob`/`forbidTokensInJob` check as though it were
real YAML
  structure (#949).

## Review

PR #1003 review loop: CodeRabbit found one real bug (a sequence-item's
block-scalar
boundary used the dash's column instead of the key's, dropping a genuine
sibling key
alongside the body) and qodo found a second real bug (an anchor property
before the
indicator was not recognized) plus several comment-style findings, all
fixed and
resolved. One qodo informational finding (task-specific issue-number
references in
comments) was declined with in-file precedent (spec/audit.py:13, :281,
:2764 already
cite issue numbers the same way). Copilot's own review account is in the
fleet's
known repo-wide quota-exhausted state (confirmed live on every request
this round),
so this proceeded on CodeRabbit's and qodo's coverage per standing
precedent.
Promotes #1006 (issue #747) and #1007 (issue #954) to `main`.

## What

- `repo-config/README.md`: every `configure.sh` invocation now names its
hub path
and target explicitly, matching
`OPERATIONS.md`/`STANDUP.md`/`RESYNC.md`/
`AUDIT.md`'s existing convention, per `GOVERNANCE.md` "Hub-Hosted
Tooling" (#747).
- `host-setup/bootstrap.sh`, `host-setup/linux/install-tools.sh`,
`host-setup/linux/upgrade-host.sh`: four of the five sites named in #954
now fail
closed when their precondition check itself fails to run (apt-get
install
simulation, sudoers scan, `dpkg --audit`, `apt list --upgradable`),
instead of
silently proceeding into a mutation as though the check had passed. The
fifth
(`bootstrap.sh`'s `resolve_ref()`) is kept deliberately lenient with an
inline
  comment explaining why, since it gates no mutation.

## Review

PR #1006 review loop: CodeRabbit's shell-quoting suggestion on
`release|operational`
declined with cross-file precedent (used unmodified in 4 other docs);
qodo's
PR-title-case finding fixed.

PR #1007 review loop: CodeRabbit caught a real bug in the sudoers-scan
fix (the
initial fix still conflated `sudo` itself failing with grep's ordinary
no-match), fixed by folding the exit-1 remap inside the privileged
sub-shell so
the outer status can only mean "sudo couldn't run this" or "grep hit a
real
error", verified live against three cases plus a simulated sudo failure.
qodo
raised 7 comment-quality findings (task-specific issue-number citations,
overlong prose), all fixed.

Copilot's review account is in the fleet's known repo-wide
quota-exhausted
state throughout both PRs, so both proceeded on CodeRabbit's and qodo's
coverage per standing precedent.


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* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved host setup reliability by correctly detecting package-manager
simulation and repository scan failures.
* Upgrade checks now distinguish command failures from systems with no
available upgrades.
* Release precondition checks now report package audit failures instead
of suppressing them.
* Improved upgrade status reporting to clearly indicate when upgrade
information is unavailable.

* **Documentation**
* Expanded repository configuration guidance, including explicit
repository arguments, payload resolution, workflow model settings, and
apply/check behavior.
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Includes:
- #1010's three deferred code-review findings (commit 1071653)
- #763: route a missing lint binary to its documented Docker invocation
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## What

The intent-staleness advisory compares two dates: a downstream copy's last
commit against the hub canonical's last commit, and read no content at all.
The verbatim engine already normalizes three classes of governed drift
before hashing (spec/fidelity-model.md "Normalization"): line endings, a
`uses: <action>@<sha>` pin with its trailing version comment, and a job's
`needs:` list. The intent advisory applied none of that, so a Dependabot
pin bump on a workflow file's hub canonical marked every downstream carrier
as "possibly trailing" at once, for a class of drift the fidelity model
already treats as governed per-repo churn rather than a deviation.

## Fix

`hub_last_change()` now walks the canonical's full git history and returns
the newest revision whose normalized content differs from its predecessor's
(`_last_effective_change`), falling back to the file's creation revision if
every bump back to it was normalized-only. `git_file_history()` and
`hub_last_change()` now share one cached history walk (`_git_revisions`)
instead of two separate `git log` calls. Verified live against the two
files named in #735: `publish-release.yml` now dates
from a real job-condition change (#844) instead of a pin-only Dependabot
bump (#612), and `validate-task.yml` picks up its most recent real change.

Added self-test coverage for `_last_effective_change` (pin-only chain back
to creation, a real change under a later pin bump, a single-revision file,
and unreadable history treated as effective rather than silently skipped).
Updated the fidelity-model.md "intent" description and the
`check_intent_staleness`/`hub_last_change` docstrings to state the
normalization explicitly.

ruff, ruff format, mypy, the audit self-test suite, prose_lint.py,
repo_gate.py, and host_gate.py all pass clean.

Fixes #735.
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Ignore Normalized Pin Bumps in Intent-Staleness Dates

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• Ignore normalized-only canonical revisions when dating intent-staleness advisories.
• Reuse one cached Git history for fidelity and staleness checks.
• Cover effective-change edge cases and document normalized intent semantics.
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  A["Git History"] --> B["Cached Revisions"] --> C["Revision Pair"] --> D["Normalize Content"] --> E{"Effective Change"}
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The shared full-history walk plus adjacent normalized-content comparison is the appropriate approach because it applies the existing fidelity model directly and avoids duplicate Git queries. Commit-message heuristics or special-casing Dependabot authors were considered implicitly but would miss other normalized churn such as EOL and needs: changes; separate history walks would also add cost without improving correctness.

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Bug fix (1) +111 / -40
audit.pyDerive intent staleness from effective canonical changes +111/-40

Derive intent staleness from effective canonical changes

• Adds a cached revision-history loader shared by verbatim fidelity and intent-staleness checks. Selects the newest substantive normalized-content change, conservatively treats unreadable revisions as effective, and adds self-tests for pin-only histories, real changes, creation, empty history, and read failures.

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fidelity-model.mdDocument normalized intent-staleness history +1/-1

Document normalized intent-staleness history

• Clarifies that intent-staleness dates skip revisions containing only governed line-ending, action-pin, or job-needs churn, preventing routine Dependabot pin bumps from flagging every downstream carrier.

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Hub history loading now retains revision metadata and decoded content. Effective changes exclude normalized line-ending, action-pin, and job-needs-only revisions. Intent staleness uses the newest effective revision. Tests cover history edge cases.

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Intent staleness filtering

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Effective revision history
spec/audit.py
Cached history stores dates, SHAs, and content. _last_effective_change excludes normalized-only revisions and treats creation or unreadable revisions as effective. Self-tests cover real, normalized-only, creation, unreadable, and empty histories.
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spec/audit.py, spec/fidelity-model.md
hub_last_change reports the newest effective revision. The intent fidelity documentation describes the normalization rules for line endings, action pins, and job-needs changes.

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In `@spec/audit.py`:
- Around line 1726-1731: Update _git_revisions() and the audit flow used by
check_intent_staleness() to fetch the hub’s main branch immediately before
reading history, then resolve revisions and file content from that canonical
checkout instead of the current HEAD. Preserve existing date/SHA handling while
ensuring unpublished checkout changes cannot affect DRIFT decisions.
- Around line 1733-1734: Update the git history command handling around
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instead of returning an empty list; reserve the empty-list result for successful
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1. Replace spaced sentence hyphen ✓ Resolved 📜 Skill insight ✧ Quality
Description
The _git_revisions docstring uses  -  as an interrupting dash after never absence. The prose
must use a comma, parentheses, or separate sentence instead.
Code

spec/audit.py[1721]

+    `text` is None where `git show` failed (rare: a permission or encoding fluke, never absence -
Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent audit.py prose reviews accepted punctuation and wrapping fixes, including docstring style
changes.

PR-#901
PR-#978

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Rule 2826777 prohibits  -  when it joins or interrupts prose, and the added docstring contains
exactly that construction.

spec/audit.py[1721-1721]
Skill: comment-and-doc-style

Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The `_git_revisions` docstring uses a spaced hyphen as sentence punctuation.

## Issue Context
Rewrite the interruption with ASCII punctuation such as parentheses or a separate sentence.

## Fix Focus Areas
- spec/audit.py[1721-1722]

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2. Shorten three-line test comment ✓ Resolved 📜 Skill insight ⚙ Maintainability
Description
The _last_effective_change test introduction is a single sentence wrapped across three comment
lines that elaborates on test behavior rather than expressing an irreducible constraint. Comments
should default to one line, with a second line allowed only for a genuine constraint, and each
sentence in a multiline comment must occupy exactly one line.
Code

spec/audit.py[R3188-3190]

+    # _last_effective_change: the intent-staleness date must skip a normalized-only bump (a
+    # Dependabot pin, per ptr727/ProjectTemplate#735) and keep walking history for a real change,
+    # falling back to the creation revision if every bump back to it was normalized-only.
Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent audit.py reviews accepted shortening and rewrapping overlong comments to repository prose
rules.

PR-#901
PR-#978

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Evidence
Rule 2826677 permits one comment line by default and a second only for a genuine constraint, but the
added comment spans three lines merely to summarize test behavior. Rule 2826725 also forbids
mid-sentence wrapping, while the sentence beginning on line 3188 continues across lines 3189 and
3190.

spec/audit.py[3188-3190]
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Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The new `_last_effective_change` self-test introduction unnecessarily wraps a single prose sentence across three comment lines.

## Issue Context
Keep only a concise reason that the test cases themselves cannot communicate. Reduce the comment to one concise line, or, if multiple complete sentences are necessary, place each sentence on its own line without mid-sentence wrapping; a second line is appropriate only for a genuine constraint.

## Fix Focus Areas
- spec/audit.py[3188-3190]

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3. Nonlinear history misidentifies changes ✗ Dismissed 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
_last_effective_change() compares each snapshot with the next row from a default git log, but
adjacent rows can come from different branches rather than a commit and its predecessor. A pin-only
commit can therefore appear to contain a real change inherited from another branch, causing
hub_last_change() to retain the pin bump and emit the false staleness advisory this PR is intended
to remove.
Code

spec/audit.py[R1771-1772]

+        older_text = revisions[i + 1][2]
+        if text is None or older_text is None or normalize(text) != normalize(older_text):
Relevance

●● Moderate

Potential nonlinear-history bug is substantive, but no close precedent confirms this exact Git
parentage concern.

PR-#434
PR-#391

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The history producer uses ordinary path-limited git log and records no parent relationship. The
consumer then defines the next list element as older_text and compares against it, while
hub_last_change() directly exposes the resulting commit; thus correctness depends on an unverified
linear-history assumption.

spec/audit.py[1717-1749]
spec/audit.py[1757-1773]
spec/audit.py[1803-1807]

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
`_last_effective_change()` compares adjacent entries from default `git log` output even though they are not guaranteed to be predecessor revisions in merged or parallel history. Determine effective changes by comparing each commit's file content with its actual relevant parent snapshot.

## Issue Context
The revision list contains only dates, SHAs, and snapshots, so it loses the parent relationship needed to attribute a content change to a commit. Preserve or query parent information, handle merge commits explicitly, and add a branched-history regression test where a newest pin-only bump follows integration of a real side-branch change.

## Fix Focus Areas
- spec/audit.py[1717-1749]
- spec/audit.py[1757-1773]
- spec/audit.py[3188-3230]

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4. Test public staleness behavior ✗ Dismissed 📜 Skill insight ▣ Testability
Description
The new self-test directly calls and asserts the private _last_effective_change helper. A
behavior-preserving refactor that removes or restructures this helper would therefore break the test
even if hub_last_change remains correct.
Code

spec/audit.py[R3224-3226]

+    for label, revisions, want in lec_cases:
+        got = _last_effective_change(revisions)
+        if got != want:
Relevance

●● Moderate

Testing public behavior is a reasonable maintainability concern, but history lacks a close accepted
or rejected precedent.

PR-#901
PR-#978

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Evidence
Rule 2827113 requires tests to verify observable contracts rather than implementation details, and
the added loop invokes the underscore-prefixed helper directly.

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Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The self-test is coupled directly to the private `_last_effective_change` implementation helper.

## Issue Context
Exercise the observable `hub_last_change` or intent-staleness behavior with controlled revision data so internal refactoring does not invalidate the test.

## Fix Focus Areas
- spec/audit.py[3196-3229]

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Informational

5. Remove hub_last_change internals ✗ Dismissed 📜 Skill insight ✧ Quality
Description
The hub_last_change docstring explains normalization internals, the private
_last_effective_change helper, full-history traversal, and the previous implementation. A
docstring should state the result callers can rely on rather than how it is computed.
Code

spec/audit.py[R1795-1798]

+    "Effective" excludes normalized churn (spec/fidelity-model.md "Normalization": EOL, a
+    Dependabot action-pin bump, a pruned `needs:` list) the same way the verbatim check already
+    does, via _last_effective_change over the file's full history. A raw last-commit date treated
+    every one of those bumps as the copy "trailing", even though the fidelity model already
Relevance

●●● Strong

Recent audit.py reviews accepted replacing implementation-heavy prose with clearer behavior-focused
documentation.

PR-#978
PR-#901

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Evidence
Rule 2827096 requires docstrings to focus on behavior contracts, while these added lines describe
_last_effective_change, full-history traversal, and the raw-date implementation being replaced.

spec/audit.py[1795-1798]
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Agent prompt
The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
The `hub_last_change` docstring documents private implementation mechanics and prior behavior.

## Issue Context
Keep the caller-visible definition of an effective change and move any essential implementation rationale to a concise inline comment.

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- spec/audit.py[1792-1801]

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The self-test comment embeds ptr727/ProjectTemplate#735, tying source commentary to the current
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spec/audit.py[3189]

+    # Dependabot pin, per ptr727/ProjectTemplate#735) and keep walking history for a real change,
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A same-day audit.py precedent explicitly rejected removing issue-specific references from docstrings
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Rule 2827092 bars current-task or ticket context from inline comments, and the added comment
explicitly says the behavior is per ptr727/ProjectTemplate#735.

spec/audit.py[3189-3189]
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## Issue description
The new inline comment references the issue that motivated the PR.

## Issue Context
Retain only durable behavioral rationale and leave task history in the PR or commit metadata.

## Fix Focus Areas
- spec/audit.py[3188-3190]

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ptr727 added 2 commits August 25, 2026 16:57
- _git_revisions() now raises on a genuine `git log` execution failure instead
  of silently returning an empty history, which previously read identically
  to "no history" and would have cleared the intent-staleness advisory or
  dropped verbatim's past-revision list on a tool fault rather than reporting
  it (CodeRabbit).
- Replaced a spaced-hyphen interruption in _git_revisions()'s docstring with
  a comma, per CODESTYLE.md's ASCII punctuation rule (Qodo).
- Shortened the three-line _last_effective_change self-test intro comment to
  one line (Qodo).
Qodo flagged a real theoretical gap: comparing adjacent git-log entries only
identifies the actual predecessor when a canonical file's history is a single
line, not a branching graph. Verified empirically that every intent-fidelity
canonical file's full history in this repo satisfies that today (0 non-ancestor
adjacent pairs across AGENTS.md, WORKFLOW.md, GOVERNANCE.md, CODESTYLE.md, and
both workflow files named in #735, spanning their combined 344 commits), which
this repo's forward-only branching model (no back-merges, squash-only feature
merges) makes structural rather than incidental. Documented the assumption and
its failure mode instead of leaving it implicit.

Also fixed a spaced-hyphen sentence interruption the same docstring introduced,
per CODESTYLE.md's ASCII punctuation rule.

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- Around line 1721-1722: Preserve the None result from git show through
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ptr727 merged commit b445af1 into develop Aug 26, 2026
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ptr727 deleted the worktree-issue-735-intent-staleness-pin-normalization branch August 26, 2026 00:14
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