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cycle: 357
role: gamma
phase: scaffold
date: 2026-05-12
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# γ Scaffold — Issue #357

## Issue Quality Validation (§2.4)

**Issue conformance:** ✅ **PASS**

Issue #357 meets all `issue/SKILL.md` requirements:
- Gap statement with exists/expected/divergence structure
- Impact analysis with release consistency focus
- Complete ACs numbered AC1-AC7, independently testable
- Non-goals prevent scope creep
- Tier 3 skills identified and justified
- Active design constraints preserve canonical release path
- Related artifacts properly linked
- Priority P2 and mode design-and-build declared
- Success/closure condition is testable
- Work-shape note: substantial cycle (7 ACs, design-and-build mode)

**No issue edits required.** Issue body states it was "refined through multi-agent convergence process" and shows high skill-template conformance.

## Peer Enumeration (§2.2a)

**Searched directories:** `scripts/`, `.cdd/waves/`, `.cdd/unreleased/`

**Gap confirmation findings:**
- `scripts/release.sh` exists and creates lightweight tags with `git tag "$VERSION"` (line 102)
- **No tag message generator found** — `rg "generate.*tag|tag.*message" scripts/` returned no matches
- CDD review artifacts exist in expected locations
- Wave artifacts present in `.cdd/waves/breadth-2026-05-12/`, etc.

**§Gap validation:** The assertion "release metadata outside `RELEASE.md` is absent or manual" is empirically accurate. No automated tag message generation exists from git history, CDD artifacts, or wave context.

## Branch Pre-flight (§2.5)

**Cycle branch status:** `origin/cycle/357` exists at SHA `93801b7e34caeb051f29da238d02a2d8e0289bda`

Branch pre-flight completed successfully:
- ✅ `origin/cycle/357` exists and accessible
- ✅ No stalled `.cdd/unreleased/357/` directory exists on `origin/main`
- ✅ Issue #357 is open
- ✅ Base SHA known: `origin/main`

## Dispatch Prompts Created

**α dispatch prompt:** Ready at `/tmp/alpha-prompt-357.md`
- Includes all required Tier 3 skills from issue: `cdd/release`, `cdd/operator`, `eng/tool`, `eng/test`, `eng/document`
- Adds mandatory `write/SKILL.md` (every α output is written artifact)
- Includes CRITICAL verification instruction for `git diff --stat main..HEAD` before review-readiness signal
- Sets proper git identity: `alpha@cdd.cnos`

**β dispatch prompt:** Ready at `/tmp/beta-prompt-357.md`
- Standard β dispatch format per `gamma/SKILL.md` §2.5
- Includes CRITICAL CI check instruction (rule 3.10)
- Includes merge command with proper `--no-ff` flag and `Closes #357` message
- Sets proper git identity: `beta@cdd.cnos`

## Issue-Quality Gate Result

✅ **PASS** — All gate criteria satisfied:
- Issue satisfies `issue/SKILL.md` ✓
- ACs numbered and independently testable ✓
- Every noun in ACs and work items is in scope ✓
- Non-goals exist (substantial cycle) ✓
- Tier 3 skills named explicitly ✓
- Active design constraints linked and stated plainly ✓
- Related artifacts linked ✓
- Priority stated (P2) ✓
- Work-shape stated (substantial cycle, design-and-build) ✓
- No dependency blockers ✓
- No prompt-only constraints hiding outside issue ✓

## Dispatch Authorization

**Ready for dispatch** — All scaffold requirements satisfied:
- Issue quality validated and conformant
- Peer enumeration confirms stated gap empirically  
- α prompt created with proper Tier 3 skills and verification instructions
- β prompt created with CI and merge instructions
- Cycle branch exists and accessible
- No role reasoning leaked across dispatch boundaries
- Prompts preserve artifact-channel coordination model
- Issue-quality gate passed

**Next phase:** δ should dispatch α and β using the created prompts. γ enters polling mode for cycle coordination once dispatch completes.

## Selection Record

**Selected gap:** Issue #357 — Generate structured annotated tag messages for delta releases
**Decisive CDD rule:** Selected under standard issue processing (issue was pre-validated and ready)
**Intervention size:** Substantial cycle (7 ACs, design-and-build mode)
**Dependencies:** None — issue is unblocked and ready for α implementation

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**γ scaffold complete** — Ready for α/β dispatch through δ operator.