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---
cycle: 369
role: beta
issue: "https://github.com/usurobor/cnos/issues/369"
date: "2026-05-17"
verdict: APPROVED
rounds: 2
merge_sha: "ff54f2a045d5b8b8574ef6f335d7f30c5f8b23fd"
merge_actor: "gamma-acting-as-delta"
base_sha_origin_main_at_merge: "f82b0b7dbcb29260c64bde96f1764ee3b6497262"
head_sha_cycle_at_merge: "4e179db6"
disconnect_class: "docs-only"
late_dispatch: true
late_dispatch_note: "β close-out written via γ-coordinated re-dispatch after merge; deferred from R2 exit because γ-acting-as-δ held the merge boundary (Phase 4 δ split not landed). See §Process Observations."
---

# β Close-out — #369

## Review Summary

Cycle #369 ships Phase 2 of the #366 roadmap: three draft CUE schemas (`schemas/cdd/{contract,receipt,boundary_decision}.cue`), one schema-layer README (`schemas/cdd/README.md`), and four fixtures (`schemas/cdd/fixtures/{valid-receipt,invalid-override-masks-verdict,invalid-fail-no-boundary-decision,invalid-gamma-preflight-authoritative}.yaml`) — the schema-typed receptor that `RECEIPT-VALIDATION.md` (#367) defined at doctrine level. The schemas pin verdict × action → transmissibility as structural (not declarative) and freeze the three #367 doctrine invariants (override polarity, δ-authoritative ordering, γ-preflight-non-authoritative) as `cue vet`-rejectable receipts. Surface containment held: nine new files, zero existing files modified, all paths under `schemas/cdd/` or `.cdd/unreleased/369/`.

**Verdict trajectory:**

| Round | Verdict | Review SHA | Diff base (origin/main) | Branch CI | Driver |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | REQUEST CHANGES | `6835197d` | `704365d2` | green (run on `6835197d` `success` at `2026-05-17T12:18:49Z`) | D1 — `.cdd/unreleased/369/gamma-scaffold.md` missing on cycle branch; no `## Protocol exemption` in sub-issue body; `review/SKILL.md` rule 3.11b binding. D-severity, classification `contract / protocol-compliance`. |
| 2 | APPROVED (unconditional) | `227d2373` | `f82b0b7d` | green (run `25990929089` on `227d2373` `success` at `2026-05-17T12:31:50Z`) | D1 closed by γ commit `227d2373` (gamma-scaffold.md authored on cycle branch, recovery path (a) canonical per rule 3.11b). Pre-merge gate rows 1–4 all PASS. Contract integrity 11/11 rows yes. |

**Merge commit:** `ff54f2a045d5b8b8574ef6f335d7f30c5f8b23fd` by γ-acting-as-δ — `git merge --no-ff origin/cycle/369` into `main` with `Closes #369` in the merge body. The merge-boundary reassignment from β to γ-acting-as-δ is γ-coordinated per `beta/SKILL.md` §Role Rule 2 ("unless γ coordinates a reassignment"), grounded in three on-branch citations: γ's R2 dispatch context, `gamma-scaffold.md:115` ("β does **not** merge in this cycle — γ-acting-as-δ holds the merge boundary because Phase 4 δ split has not landed"), and `gamma-scaffold.md` §Branch and sequence "γ merge target." Not a β authority drift.

## Implementation Assessment

**All ten ACs PASS** under independently re-runnable oracles (β R1 §2.0 AC Coverage). β re-executed `cue vet -c=false …` (AC1), schema-ID grep (AC2), §Scope-Lift Invariant + §Projection-* + receipt.cue if-chain reads (AC3), four scratch-fixture rejection cases against the action enum and `#Override` polarity (AC4), `#Receipt` required-field rule via two scratch fixtures (AC5), the documented invocation against `valid-receipt.yaml` (AC6), the three invalid fixtures (AC7), `git diff cn-cdd-verify/` (AC8), surface-containment grep against the prohibited-paths list (AC9), and the literal multi-line `cue vet` invocations in the README (AC10). Every claim α made in `self-coherence.md` reproduces from the diff alone.

**α deliverable shape:**

- **Eight new schema-layer files + one cycle-evidence file** — `schemas/cdd/{contract,receipt,boundary_decision}.cue` (three CUE files, single `package cdd`, same-package references, no `import` needed); `schemas/cdd/README.md` (206L; §Scope-Lift Invariant + §Projection-1/2/3 + §Projection-under-scope-lift-not-role-renaming + §Files + §How to run + §What-this-directory-does-NOT-do + §Related); four fixtures (one positive AC6, three doctrine-load-bearing negative AC7). The cycle-evidence file is `.cdd/unreleased/369/self-coherence.md` (378L; review-readiness signal at the 14-row pre-review gate green).

- **Authoring discipline executed against the eight γ-pre-flagged failure modes** (gamma-scaffold §Failure modes 1–8). β R1 §2.0 verified each independently: AC4 transmissibility is computed via `_|_` literals on the two invalid combinations (CUE-structural, not declarative); `#Override` polarity is required-iff via paired `if action == "override"` / `if action != "override"` blocks (`boundary_decision.cue:71–78`); `boundary_decision` is mandatory at receipt scope (`receipt.cue:60`); `#ProtocolGapRef` is a structured object (id + source enum + ref) not a string; the seven role-artifact evidence refs are typed and required; README §Scope-Lift framing names projection-under-scope-lift explicitly (heads off the role-renaming misread); surface containment held; both `cue vet` invocations are documented in literal multi-line form. Zero failure mode leaked.

- **AC4 — load-bearing structural enforcement** is the cycle's central correctness claim and α anchored it at five points: the action enum's exact five values, the `#Override` required-iff block pair, the receipt-side if-chain unifying transmissibility with the PASS/FAIL × accept/override matrix, the consistency constraint `protocol_gap_count: len(protocol_gap_refs)` propagating count drift to vet-level errors, and the three #367-doctrine invalid fixtures that exercise the rejections at oracle scale. The structural anchoring is verifiable from the diff via `cue vet -c=false` + the documented fixture-validation invocation; a future cycle that tries to weaken any of the five anchors would have to alter at least one CUE file shipped this cycle.

- **§Scope-Lift Invariant (AC3, README §Scope-Lift Invariant + three §Projection-N subsections + §Projection-under-scope-lift-not-role-renaming) is named and anti-named.** The closing subsection ("…not role-renaming") explicitly heads off the most likely misread: that a `#Receipt` at scope n is a `#BetaReview` at n+1. The schemas keep the surfaces typed at each end (`#Receipt` is a receipt, full stop); the recursion is projection-under-scope-lift, not renaming. β reads this as the right shape for the next phase to inherit.

## Technical Review

**Pre-merge gate (β/SKILL.md §Pre-merge gate, exercised in full at R2):**

| Row | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Identity truth | PASS | `git config --get user.email` returned `beta@cdd.cnos` at R2 start and re-verified after merge-test teardown; row-1-known worktree-config-leak (cycle #301 O8 lesson) pre-empted by setting `--worktree user.{name,email}` to `beta-merge-test*` during the merge-test, not to shared local. |
| 2 — Canonical-skill freshness | PASS | `origin/main` advanced from R1's `704365d2` to R2's `f82b0b7d` (cycle #370 merge, 16 commits). β re-fetched synchronously and ran a path-filter diff against the β load order: zero β-loaded canonical surface touched. Seven-file delta on main was scope-isolated (six `.cdd/unreleased/370/*` + one new doctrine file `COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md`, additive, not in β's load order). No re-loaded skill, no re-evaluated plan derived. |
| 3 — Non-destructive merge-test | PASS | Built merge tree in `/tmp/cnos-merge-test-369/wt`; `git merge --no-ff --no-commit origin/cycle/369` reported `Automatic merge went well`; zero unmerged paths; 11 files staged as `A`. Re-ran cycle's own validator (`cue vet -c=false …` schema-only + `cue vet -c -d '#Receipt' …` against all four fixtures) on the merge tree — all five oracle outcomes matched α's claims (positive vet exit 0; three invalid fixtures exit 1; schema-only compile exit 0). Worktree torn down; shared repo config re-verified post-teardown. |
| 4 — γ artifact completeness (rule 3.11b) | PASS at R2 (FAIL at R1) | R1: `.cdd/unreleased/369/gamma-scaffold.md` absent on cycle branch; no `## Protocol exemption` in sub-issue body; rule 3.11b fired binding D1. R2: γ authored the scaffold at `227d2373` (149 lines, 9 H2 sections matching the #367 precedent one-for-one + 1 §Process note section appropriate for path (a) context). Structural spot-check vs #367 green. |

**Rule 3.10 (CI-green gate).** R1 review SHA `6835197d` and R2 review SHA `227d2373` both green at Build CI; no required workflow red/pending/missing at either pass. R1's verdict held merge on the artifact-completeness gate, not the CI gate.

**Honest-claim verification (rule 3.13).** All four sub-checks PASS at R1, re-confirmed unchanged at R2 (R2 delta is `gamma-scaffold.md`-only; touches no α-side surface):
- (a) Reproducibility — every cue vet outcome α claims is re-runnable from the diff using the documented multi-line invocations; β re-ran all five (schema-only + four fixtures) on both the cycle branch and the merge tree.
- (b) Source-of-truth alignment — terms (`ValidationVerdict`, `BoundaryDecision`, `Override`, `Transmissibility`, `ProtocolGapRef`, projection-under-scope-lift) trace to `RECEIPT-VALIDATION.md` + `COHERENCE-CELL.md` + `COHERENCE-CELL-NORMAL-FORM.md` (#370, merged on main mid-cycle but not picked up into cycle/369; the merge-base remained `704365d2`). No drift.
- (c) Wiring claims — `package cdd` declared in all three CUE files; same-package references resolve via unification; `cue vet -c=false` confirms.
- (d) Gap claims — α §Gap names the receptor as named-but-not-typed; verified against `RECEIPT-VALIDATION.md` (no `.cue` reference) and against the `schemas/` corpus (only `skill.cue` + `cdd/` present after this cycle).

**Verdict-shape lint (rule 3.4a).** R2 verdict APPROVED is single-terminal, no conditional qualifiers, zero unresolved findings; passes. R1 verdict REQUEST CHANGES was likewise single-terminal with recovery paths confined to §Recovery (not smuggling approval).

## Process Observations

### 1. R2 was a single-row narrowing per the resumption protocol

R2 re-checked exactly the R1 "no" row (γ artifact completeness, contract integrity row 11) plus the binding CI re-verification (rule 3.10) plus the full pre-merge gate (β/SKILL.md §Pre-merge gate). R2 did **not** re-litigate AC1–AC10, contract integrity rows 1–10, architecture/design check, or honest-claim verification — all those were satisfied at R1 against `6835197d` and the R1→R2 delta (`6835197d..227d2373`) touched exactly one file (`.cdd/unreleased/369/gamma-scaffold.md`, 149 insertions; no α-side surface). This narrowing follows `beta/SKILL.md` §Closure discipline and the resumption protocol (append, do not restart completed sections). Settled β judgment from R1 was preserved through R2; the review file's two rounds compose as a single coherent verdict trail.

### 2. Merge-boundary reassignment to γ-acting-as-δ is a γ-coordinated reassignment, not an authority drift

`beta/SKILL.md` §Role Rule 2 carves the carry-through rule explicitly: "The same β session or follow-on β session owns review through merge and β close-out unless γ coordinates a reassignment." For cycle #369, γ coordinated the reassignment in three places on the cycle branch — γ's R2 dispatch context, `gamma-scaffold.md:115` ("β does **not** merge in this cycle — γ-acting-as-δ holds the merge boundary because Phase 4 δ split has not landed"), and `gamma-scaffold.md` §Branch and sequence "γ merge target." This is the §Role Rule 2 escape clause exercised properly: the reassignment is documented on the cycle branch, auditable post-merge, and grounded in the named structural reason (Phase 4 δ split not yet landed). β did **not** unilaterally hand off the merge — γ named the boundary and β R2 approved the verdict that γ-acting-as-δ then carried through.

A symmetric corollary applies to β close-out: §Role Rule 5 (Closure discipline) says "the same β session that reviews and merges also owns the release and β close-out." When γ-coordinated reassignment moves the merge boundary, the close-out can either travel with the merge (γ-acting-as-δ writes it) or stay with β via a γ-coordinated re-dispatch. This cycle exercised the latter — γ requested β re-dispatch for the close-out post-merge — which preserves β-side audit-trail authority over the review arc (R1 → recovery → R2 → merge) while keeping the merge boundary with γ-acting-as-δ. The result is two complementary close-out surfaces: `beta-closeout.md` (this file) owns the β-side audit trail; `gamma-closeout.md` (γ authors next, per `gamma-scaffold.md` §Dispatch configuration step 6) owns the merge actor's release evidence + the PRA.

### 3. The late-authored gamma-scaffold trigger is the canonical PRA candidate

The R1 D1 finding (gamma-scaffold.md missing) surfaced via `review/SKILL.md` rule 3.11b's binding artifact-presence gate. The trigger is γ-axis, not α-axis: α's review-readiness signal (`self-coherence.md §Review-readiness`) ran the 14-row pre-review gate green at `6835197d`, but α's gate has no row for "gamma-scaffold.md exists on the cycle branch" because the scaffold is γ's pre-dispatch artifact, not α's responsibility. The gap surfaces at γ's pre-dispatch surface — `gamma/SKILL.md` §2.5 Step 3a/3b — which currently does not block dispatch on the scaffold's existence on the cycle branch.

This is documented on the cycle branch in `gamma-scaffold.md` §Process note (late-authored scaffold) with a candidate next-MCA: add a pre-dispatch row in `gamma/SKILL.md §2.5` Step 3a/3b or in `CDD.md` step 3 that mechanically blocks Step 3b on the artifact's presence. β's reading from the review-side: the candidate MCA is high-leverage because rule 3.11b is already a binding β-side gate; making the γ-side gate the same mechanically aligns the two surfaces and removes the recovery-after-dispatch path entirely. **β-axis triage signal for γ's PRA:** this is the canonical PRA candidate from cycle #369; the path (a) recovery worked cleanly, but the failure mode is "scaffold-after-α-dispatch" and the mechanical fix lives on the γ side, not the β side. β R2's `Findings` section is empty; the PRA work is γ's.

### 4. β close-out is the bound rule-5 surface that γ-coordinated re-dispatch preserves

`beta/SKILL.md` §Role Rule 5 (Closure discipline) names the §Closure ideal as "Review → narrow → merge → release → write `.cdd/unreleased/{N}/beta-closeout.md` in the same β pass, then γ writes the PRA." When γ-coordinated reassignment splits the chain mid-stream (γ-acting-as-δ holds merge; β returns post-merge for close-out), the rule's intent (single ownership of the audit trail through the cycle's β surfaces) is preserved by re-binding the close-out to β — exactly what this cycle exercised. The β session that authored R1 + R2 + this close-out is the single source of β-axis judgment for the cycle, even though the merge actor differs. If γ had instead authored the close-out (i.e. carried it through with the merge boundary), the file would correctly be a γ-closeout (which γ is writing separately).

## Release Notes

**Mode:** docs-only disconnect — per `release/SKILL.md` §2.5b. No tag. No version bump. `VERSION` unchanged. `scripts/check-version-consistency.sh` not required. This cycle adds declarative-only schema artifacts (three CUE schemas + README + fixtures) with zero runtime behavior change and zero CI workflow change. AC8 explicitly preserved `cn-cdd-verify` behavior unchanged (git diff against `commands/cdd-verify/` empty).

**Merge:**

- Merge commit: `ff54f2a045d5b8b8574ef6f335d7f30c5f8b23fd`
- Merge actor: γ-acting-as-δ (Phase 4 δ split not yet landed)
- Merged into: `main`
- Closes: #369 (verified `gh issue view 369 --json state` returns `CLOSED`)
- Base SHA at merge: `f82b0b7d` (origin/main, advanced from R1 base `704365d2` by cycle #370 mid-cycle)
- Head SHA at merge: `4e179db6` (β R2 APPROVED commit on cycle branch)
- Merge-base (cycle/369 ↔ main): `704365d2` (unchanged between R1 and R2; cycle/369 did not pick up #370's commits — verified by β R2 §Re-load assessment)

**Post-merge CI state on `ff54f2a0` (origin/main):**

| Job | Status |
|---|---|
| SKILL.md frontmatter validation (I5) | success |
| CDD artifact ledger validation (I6) | success |
| Go build & test | success |
| Package/source drift (I1) | success |
| Repo link validation (I4) | success |
| Protocol contract schema sync (I2) | success |
| Binary verification | success |
| Package verification | success |
| notify (Telegram notification) | **failure** |

All 8 build/validation jobs green. The `notify` job's `Telegram notification` step fails with no build/test/validation impact. This is **not a new regression introduced by `ff54f2a0`**: the identical pattern (8 jobs green + `notify` step failure) appears on the immediately preceding main commits `f82b0b7d` (cycle #370 close-out, run `25991016825`) and `704365d2` (cycle #367 docs-only disconnect, run `25921652668`). The red is a pre-existing Telegram-notify-only infrastructure surface, not a cycle-369 regression. Operator-visible runtime behavior is unchanged; CDD validators (I1, I2, I4, I5, I6) are all green on the merged commit.

**Cycle artifacts on `main` at this close-out:**

- `.cdd/unreleased/369/self-coherence.md` (α, 378L)
- `.cdd/unreleased/369/gamma-scaffold.md` (γ, 149L; recovery path (a) canonical)
- `.cdd/unreleased/369/beta-review.md` (β R1 + R2 verdict trail, 319L)
- `.cdd/unreleased/369/beta-closeout.md` (this file)

**Schema-layer artifacts on `main` (the cycle's deliverable):**

- `schemas/cdd/contract.cue` — `#Contract` shape (eight fields, schema ID `cnos.cdd.contract.v1`)
- `schemas/cdd/receipt.cue` — `#Receipt` shape including `boundary_decision` required, `protocol_gap_count` consistency with `protocol_gap_refs` length, seven required evidence refs, structural transmissibility derivation via if-chain
- `schemas/cdd/boundary_decision.cue` — `#ValidationVerdict`, `#BoundaryDecision` (five-value action enum), `#Override` (required iff `action == "override"`), `#Transmissibility` (three-value enum), `#ProtocolGapRef` (structured)
- `schemas/cdd/README.md` — §Scope-Lift Invariant + three §Projection-N + §Projection-under-scope-lift-not-role-renaming + literal multi-line `cue vet` invocations + §Files + §How to run + §What-this-directory-does-NOT-do + §Related
- `schemas/cdd/fixtures/valid-receipt.yaml` (positive, AC6)
- `schemas/cdd/fixtures/invalid-override-masks-verdict.yaml` (AC7 row 1; #367 AC6 override polarity)
- `schemas/cdd/fixtures/invalid-fail-no-boundary-decision.yaml` (AC7 row 2; #367 AC3 δ-authoritative ordering)
- `schemas/cdd/fixtures/invalid-gamma-preflight-authoritative.yaml` (AC7 row 3; #367 AC3 γ-preflight-non-authoritative)

**Outstanding for γ (PRA + disconnect):**

- Write `.cdd/unreleased/369/gamma-closeout.md`
- Write `.cdd/unreleased/369/alpha-closeout.md` (if not already produced by α post-merge; α's bounded-dispatch close-out note in `self-coherence.md §Review-readiness` deferred this to post-merge γ-coordinated re-dispatch)
- Move `.cdd/unreleased/369/` → `.cdd/releases/docs/2026-05-17/369/` per `gamma-scaffold.md §Dispatch configuration step 6` and the #367 precedent (`.cdd/releases/docs/2026-05-15/367/`)
- Write the PRA — the canonical PRA candidate from this cycle is the γ-axis late-scaffold trigger (rule 3.11b discoverability on the γ side; candidate MCA in `gamma/SKILL.md` §2.5 or `CDD.md` step 3; see §Process Observations #3)

**Downstream cycles unblocked (per #366 roadmap):**

- Phase 3 — `cn-cdd-verify` refactor — has its typed input contract (`#Receipt` shape + `#BoundaryDecision` + `#Override` + `#ProtocolGapRef`); the validator's input schema is now declarative, not prose-only.
- Phase 4 — δ split — has its receipt-side surface for `boundary_decision` typed (action enum, override polarity, required-iff pairing); δ's authority over `BoundaryDecision` is structurally inviolable from the V side.
- Phase 6 — ε relocation — has `protocol_gap_count` + `protocol_gap_refs` typed in `receipt.v1` now, so ε's relocation does not require a v2 schema bump.

**β close-out complete.** γ owns PRA and docs-only disconnect from here. The R1 + R2 verdict trail in `beta-review.md` + this file are the cycle's β-side audit record. The merge actor's release evidence will live in `gamma-closeout.md` (forthcoming).
