# γ close-out — cycle/414

**Cycle:** cnos#414 — Add design essay `DECREASING-INCOHERENCE.md` to `docs/gamma/essays/` (companion to `CCNF-AND-TYPED-TRUST.md`).
**Role:** γ (with α and β collapsed onto δ for this skill/docs-class cycle).
**Verdict:** Cycle closeable. β R1 APPROVED; all AC1–AC9 PASS; no findings.

## Essay landed and reviewed

Deliverables at `docs/gamma/essays/`:

- `DECREASING-INCOHERENCE.md` (new; 610 lines; DRAFT v0.1.0; verbatim from dispatch brief; Unicode-clean; 21 required sections; all 15 `related:` paths resolve or are documented as cross-repo)
- `README.md` (edit; Document Map row + Reading Order item 5 added)

α self-coherence: PASS (per `self-coherence.md`).
β R1: APPROVED (per `beta-review.md`).

## What γ ships

γ commits per role (`α-414:` for essay authoring + README update, `β-414:` for R1, `γ-414:` for close-outs); pushes `cycle/414` to `origin/cycle/414`; reports to operator.

γ does NOT merge to main — that's the operator's call per dispatch contract.

## Operator merge instruction

When operator decides to merge:

```
git checkout main
git merge --no-ff cycle/414 -m "Merge cycle/414: Add DECREASING-INCOHERENCE.md essay (Closes #414)."
git push origin main
```

The `Closes #414` keyword on the merge commit autolinks issue closure.

## Hand-off notes

- **Essay is DRAFT v0.1.0.** Future revisions can land via standard CDD cycles. Frontmatter `status: DRAFT` and `version: v0.1.0` reflect this; no stability commitment is made.
- **No follow-on cnos issue filed.** This cycle ships Wave 0 of the migration plan named in the essay (`## Migration plan § Wave 0 — Land this essay`). Waves 1–6 are explicit non-goals for this cycle; future cycles may dispatch them under #405 (CCNF-O + TSC steering roadmap), which is the implementation counterpart of this design essay.
- **No protocol-gap findings to forward.** β recorded three non-blocking observations (`related:` schema convention coexistence; companion-essay back-link opportunity; issue-proposal YAML being illustrative not normative) but none rise to a binding finding. cdd-iteration.md is a courtesy stub (protocol_gap_count = 0).

## Closeout files filed

- `gamma-scaffold.md`
- `self-coherence.md` (α-side, all 9 ACs verified)
- `beta-review.md` (β R1 APPROVED)
- `alpha-closeout.md`
- `beta-closeout.md`
- `gamma-closeout.md` (this file)
- `cdd-iteration.md` (courtesy stub; protocol_gap_count = 0)
- INDEX.md row appended

Filed by γ@cnos (γ+α+β-collapsed-on-δ) on 2026-05-22. Cycle closeable.
