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# β Close-out — Cycle #385

**Issue:** #385 — Streamline activation soul: collapse 6 CA skills → 2 (cap + clp); deprecate cnos.core/AGENTS.md and hub pre-skill scaffolding
**β identity:** beta / beta@cdd.cnos
**Date:** 2026-05-20

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## Review Summary

**Verdict:** APPROVED — Round 1 (no RC rounds).

**Review scope:** 9 ACs, 14 files changed, 527 insertions / 200 deletions. Doctrine-and-code cycle: skill authoring (activate, cap, mca, mci, coherent, agent-ops, kata), Go renderer (activate.go), Go tests (pkgbuild), and file deletion (AGENTS.md).

**AC coverage:** All 9 ACs met. Evidence-bound verification for each: grep-reproducible for skill content claims; Go test pass for renderer and pkgbuild claims; frontmatter validator pass for AC8.

**Findings:** Zero findings at any severity. One non-finding observation logged in beta-review.md §Notes: no integration test explicitly asserts the 2-skill `{cap,clp}` path in rendered output (code correct by inspection; under Rule 3.5/3.6 not raised as formal finding). Recommended improvement for follow-up.

**CI state:** Provisional — Build workflow failing on review SHA `cfa64b86` and origin/main `6a187c62` throughout the cycle. Pre-existing pattern (all recent main commits affected). Local Go tests pass. R5-activate kata 27/27. Frontmatter validator 67 SKILL.md, no findings.

**Pre-merge gate:** All 4 rows passed.
- Row 1: identity truth — `beta@cdd.cnos` (worktree config override needed; alpha session had left `config.worktree` with alpha identity)
- Row 2: canonical-skill freshness — `origin/main` = `6a187c62` unchanged at merge time; skills not re-loaded (main unchanged)
- Row 3: non-destructive merge-test — zero conflicts; all 13 Go packages pass on merge tree; frontmatter validator passes; R5-activate kata skipped in worktree (missing dist/ — environmental; kata passed 27/27 in main repo context pre-merge)
- Row 4: γ artifact completeness — `gamma-scaffold.md` present on `origin/cycle/385`

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## Merge Evidence

**Merge commit:** `45dbcc47`
**Commit message:** `Closes #385: Streamline activation soul — collapse 6 CA skills → 2 (cap + clp); deprecate AGENTS.md`
**Branch merged:** `cycle/385` (`d09d86ae` → includes β review commit)
**Merged into:** `main` at `6a187c62`
**Push:** `6a187c62..45dbcc47 main -> main` — confirmed

**Issue auto-close:** `Closes #385` in merge commit message — GitHub will auto-close issue #385 on push.

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## Process Observations

**No new protocol-level findings.** The cycle followed §5.1 canonical multi-session dispatch. γ scaffold was present. α review-readiness signal was clear and evidence-bound.

**Worktree identity inheritance (Row 1 note):** α's session had set `config.worktree` with `user.email = alpha@cdd.cnos`. β's `git config --local` writes did not override this (worktree config takes precedence over local). Resolution: `git config --worktree user.name beta && git config --worktree user.email beta@cdd.cnos`. This is the same class of issue documented in pre-merge gate row 1 (cycle #301 O8). The gate caught it; the fix was mechanical. No β-authored commits were made under the wrong identity.

**#383 dependency note (from gamma-scaffold):** Cycle #383 (renderer prompt collapse) will need to reconcile with this cycle's `ca-skills` path change at `activate.go:505` and the kata.md fixture. The gamma-scaffold already documents this: "#385 should land first." With #385 merged, #383 can proceed.

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## Release Signal

This cycle ships a Go code change (`activate.go`) and is not docs-only. A tagged release is required.

**β signals: release ready for δ tag.**

β has completed review, merge, and β close-out. γ writes the post-release assessment next. δ performs release-boundary preflight (§5a) before tagging.

β does not tag, push tags, bump versions, or write CHANGELOG/RELEASE.md — those are γ's and δ's authority.
