[docs] Developer instructions v8.3 maintenance tone scan

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Maintenance scan of 64 spec files in scratchpad/. Fixed 3 tone issues in 2 files. gastown.md: removed subjective 'proven patterns'. mdflow.md: replaced 'out-of-the-box' with technical description; rewrote promotional closing sentence. dev.md bumped to v8.3.

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Q Weekly Run — May 1, 2026

Completed a full weekly scan of 20 recent runs (last 7 days) plus 30 runs over the last 14 days. Here's what I found:

🟢 System Health: All Clear

Metric	Value
Total runs analyzed	50 (7-day + 14-day window)
Failed runs	0
Missing tools	0
Errors	0
Codemods needed	0

Investigated Runs

Workflow	Run ID	Turns	Status
Daily Copilot PR Merged Report	#25220359274	31	✅ success
Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier	#25220604697	62	✅ success
Developer Documentation Consolidator	#25220510148	78	✅ success
Metrics Collector	#25220935190	35	✅ success
Design Decision Gate	#25222221666	13	🔄 in progress

Findings

Firewall "Blocks" — Not Real Issues

The observability data flagged 31/63 blocked requests (49%) for Daily Copilot PR Merged Report. Investigation found these are error:transaction-end-before-headers entries from localhost (::1) — internal keepalive/health-check connections from the Squid proxy that close before sending headers. These are not workflow domain blocks and require no action.

Transient "Unknown Tool" Errors — Normal Initialization Behavior

Gateway logs showed 3× unknown tool "mcpscripts-gh" for the PR merged report, and 2× unknown tool "push_repo_memory" + 1× unknown tool "noop" for the Metrics Collector. These occur during MCP session initialization as the Copilot model probes available tools, then retries on the correct server path. Runs succeed despite these. No configuration change needed.

High Turn Counts — Expected for Scope

• Daily Rendering Scripts Verifier (62 turns): downloads logs, runs parser harness, runs test suite, potentially applies fixes — multi-phase workflow with large scope
• Developer Documentation Consolidator (78 turns): scans 64 spec files — expected

Design Decision Gate Drift (4–13 turns) — Normal PR Complexity Variance

max-turns: 12 is correctly set. The 13-turn run (#25222221666) is currently in-progress on this PR. Variable turn counts reflect different PR sizes/complexity.

Automated Codemods: None Needed

gh aw fix found no deprecated fields across all 205 workflow files.

Action Taken

No changes needed — repository workflows are healthy and well-configured. Cache state saved for next weekly run.

🔍 Q weekly scan by Q · analyzed 50 runs across 14 days

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