# β close-out — cycle/378

**Cycle:** #378 — "cdd: rule 3.11b discoverability under §5.2 wave-mode (wave-manifest as γ-artifact-of-record; cdd-protocol-gap)"
**Verdict history:** R1 APPROVED (no fix-rounds requested; two α-internal pre-handoff rebase fix-rounds noted but not β-RC).
**Merge:** to be performed by δ-as-γ at wave coordination (per `operator/SKILL.md` §3.1 — push β-approved merge to main; wave standing permission grants this).
**β-α-collapse:** acknowledged per §5.2 wave-mode skill-patch precedent.

## Summary

Three coordinated skill-patch edits ship cleanly. All four ACs PASS at R1; zero findings at any severity; cross-skill coherence holds at the text-level grep gate. No CI surface affected per wave manifest §wave-level invariants 1.

## Process observations

- **β-α-collapse review discipline.** β-collapsed-on-δ applied text-level grep checks as the binding gate. This is the strongest available β discipline under super-collapse and matches the property β-on-collapse can satisfy (text-level coherence) without claiming the property it cannot (judgment-level independence). The cross-skill coherence check — verifying all three surfaces use identical wave-mode discoverability phrasing — is exactly the failure mode the issue patches against, so the binding gate is well-aligned with the cycle's subject.

- **Two α-internal rebase fix-rounds (R1.1, R1.2) handled cleanly.** Neither was β-RC. α surfaced both via `git diff --stat origin/main..HEAD` showing unexpected entries; α applied `alpha/SKILL.md` §2.6 row 1 + §2.6 SHA-citations-across-rebase + §2.3 intra-doc rules; β verified via post-restamp grep at review time. The rebase-churn behavior is structural under §5.2 wave-mode with three parallel cycles dispatched concurrently — wave authors should expect this and budget for it.

- **Self-validating cycle observation.** Cycle #378 ran under exactly the §5.2 wave-mode configuration the patch codifies. Wave manifest listed #378 in `## Issues` table (path (b) per the new clause); per-cycle `gamma-scaffold.md` also authored (path (i)). Both clauses (i) and (ii) held at review time; β's §2.0.0 Contract Integrity row "γ artifacts present" passed on both surfaces. This is a clean dogfooding signature — the rule the patch ships is the rule β applies during the review.

- **Cross-cycle no-conflict path** (wave manifest §wave-level invariants 4). Cycle #375 merged mid-α-work (`8e118320`); the rebase absorbed it without conflict because #375 patched `gamma/SKILL.md` §2.5 Step 3b only, which #378 does not touch (orthogonal axis). Merge order was mechanical: #375 first, #378 second. #377 has not landed at review time; the same orthogonal-axis property holds (#377 touches `cross-repo/SKILL.md`, `gamma/SKILL.md`, `post-release/SKILL.md`, none of which #378 touches), so the no-conflict path should continue.

## Voice note

Process observations only per `cdd/CDD.md` §1.4 β close-out conventions. No findings (the verdict was R1 APPROVED).
