The record grammar: gates per paragraph, Gate resolved only, per-comment verdicts, IDs match the milestone

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What this does

M13-R6 in full: four rules about what recorded text means, tightened for protocol 2.0. Every one of them reclassifies text already written on GitHub, which is why they ride a major rather than a minor. Tracker-only in code apart from the three verbs' call sites; it touches no path, so it is independent of #255.

1. A gate is read per paragraph. **Gate raised:** now counts wherever **Decision:** does — any paragraph, anywhere in a comment — instead of only when it opens the comment body. A gate raised as a comment's second paragraph used to not exist to task finish, so GATE_UNRECORDED never fired for it (Claude finding 6a). The gate labels also accept the parenthetical qualifier the rest of the family may carry, and ExtractRecords and UnresolvedGates now share one paragraphs() splitter, so there is one placement rule and one implementation of it.

2. Only a **Gate resolved:** record resolves a gate, and per gate. The single trailing "last resolution index" is gone. Comments are read in order, paragraph by paragraph: a **Gate raised:** paragraph opens a gate, a **Gate resolved:** paragraph closes every gate opened before it and still open — one comment may still answer several questions — and never one opened after it. A bare **Decision:** on any subject resolves nothing, which is SPEC §8's wording (Claude finding 6b). UnresolvedGates returns one entry per unresolved gate, so a comment raising two unanswered gates counts twice. The cc:needs-decision label remains the hard block. The rule is stated precisely in the Decision on #260.

3. Verdicts per comment, code stripped. ParseVerdicts reads a comment through StripCode and emits at most one verdict per requirement ID per comment — the first. milestone close's existing last-write-wins tally over that stream therefore now means exactly "the latest comment carrying a verdict for the ID wins, and within it the first match counts", so a QA comment may quote the verdict it supersedes without superseding itself, and a verdict inside a code span or a fence is content, as a URL in code already was (Claude finding 7). stripCode and its helpers move from internal/cli/evidence.go to internal/tracker/markdown.go as tracker.StripCode — one implementation, so the record-reading rule and the citation-reading rule cannot drift apart again (Decision).

4. A requirement ID carries its milestone's own number. New tracker.MismatchedRequirementIDs(body, n) and the new refusal REQUIREMENT_ID_MISMATCH, naming every offending ID and the milestone read. milestone close checks it inside its existing "requirements declared" gate (the gate list and the dry run keep their shape) before any verdict is counted against a foreign requirement; milestone evidence checks it before walking the record; status prints it as a line and carries on, because it reports the board rather than gating it (Decision). SPEC §4's ID grammar was conventional until now (Codex finding 5). milestone new already writes correct IDs and --dry-run is unaffected.

Docs

SPEC §4 (the placement rule covers the gate labels; the per-comment verdict rule with code as content; the ID grammar is enforced), §8 (only **Gate resolved:** resolves, per gate), and the §6 rows for task finish, milestone close and milestone evidence, plus a new every-verb row for the ID check. roles/qa.md asks for one verdict per ID per comment and points at the fence as the safe place to quote an earlier one; roles/implementer.md says a gate may be raised in any paragraph and only a **Gate resolved:** reply answers it. docs/introduction.md's refusal-code list gains the code under the verbs that raise it, thirty-two → thirty-three, with the README's count. CHANGELOG: ### The record grammar, tightened.

Tests

Table tests in the tracker package for each rule: a gate raised as a second paragraph is unresolved and resolvable; a bare Decision after a gate leaves it unresolved; a Deviation resolves nothing; one Gate resolved clears every earlier open gate; two gates in one comment are two gates; a label mid-line is not a gate; a verdict in a fence and in a code span is content; two verdicts for one ID in one comment take the first; a later comment supersedes; the close's tally over that stream; matching and mismatched requirement-ID sets, including that a prefix (M1-R1 under M13) is a mismatch and that IDs outside ## Requirements are not requirements; StripCode directly. internal/cli covers the new refusal's code and detail, and the status note.

Fixtures. No testdata/ fixture encoded the old behaviour, so none needed changing: the M5 corpus carries the project's one hand-raised gate (#68) and its **Gate resolved:** answer, which stays resolved. TestUnresolvedGatesM5Corpus now asserts that over the live corpus so a future loosening is caught. The one test that did encode the old rule — TestUnresolvedGates's "gate then decision counts" case — is rewritten as its opposite.

Live history. Checked: no open issue in the hub carries a **Gate raised:** record (the search hits are prose in titles and capture bodies), so nothing open is newly blocked; closed issues are re-read only by milestone evidence. Smoke test against the live hub, read-only: milestone evidence 13 prints the same output before and after the change (requirements counted: M13-R1 … (8) / all 0 cited links resolve across 10 issues); milestone evidence 12 refuses NOT_FOUND before and after, M12 being closed — that is M13-R9's job, not this task's.

For the reviewer

• The code-stripping boundary is deliberate and is the judgment call most worth a second opinion: verdicts and citations are read through StripCode, records and gates are not. Reasoning and the rejected alternatives are in the Decision.
• unsatisfied vs not satisfied (the second half of Claude finding 7) is out of scope here, as the task says. It is worth its own requirement: unsatisfied currently reads as "no verdict at all" and surfaces as VERDICT_MISSING, which is the most misleading refusal in the set.

Satisfies M13-R6.

Closes #260

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Request changes.

Finding: the PR adds the new requirement-ID mismatch behavior to milestone evidence
and status, but the tests only cover the shared parser, the close helper, and
the status note string. The behavior promised by M13-R6 is that close and evidence
refuse REQUIREMENT_ID_MISMATCH, while status reports the same condition and
continues. The changed call sites in internal/cli/evidence.go and
internal/cli/status.go need verb/report-level tests that would fail if those
call sites were removed.

Verification run:

• go test ./... passed.
• go vet ./... passed.
• gofmt -l . reported files under the requested local gomodcache; tracked Go
  files are gofmt-clean via git ls-files '*.go' | xargs gofmt -l.
• go build -o ./gh-codecrew ./cmd/codecrew passed.
• ./gh-codecrew milestone evidence 13 passed read-only.
• ./gh-codecrew milestone close 13 --dry-run refused OPEN_TASKS before the
  requirement gate, writing nothing.
• ./gh-codecrew status printed the live board successfully.
• ./gh-codecrew milestone evidence 12 still refused NOT_FOUND, matching the
  PR's stated out-of-scope boundary.

Record checks:

• Reviewer App config id matched gh api /apps/radiusred-checky --jq .id.
• Reviewer identity differs from the PR author.
• Task plan existed before the first commit.
• Decision comments were recorded on #260 before the commits.
• PR body contains Closes #260.
• Commit subjects are conventional, lowercase after type, within 100 characters,
  and all commit messages reference (#260).

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Addressed in f40750c (rebased onto b48ffb6, #262's two commits picked up on the way).

You are right that the two new call sites were untested: TestRequirementIDMismatch exercised requireRequirements and requirementIDMismatchNote directly, so deleting the evidence.go and status.go call sites left every test green. Both now have verb/report-level tests with the fake tracker.

milestone evidence — evidenceFake (yours, from #262) grows a body per milestone and records whether the walk was entered:

• TestMilestoneEvidenceRefusesMismatchedRequirementID — M13's body carries M12-R3; the verb refuses REQUIREMENT_ID_MISMATCH, the detail names M12-R3, M13 and o/r#254 and not M13-R1, the requirements note is printed first, and f.walked is false — the check runs before the citation walk, which is the ordering M13-R6 asks for.
• TestMilestoneEvidenceWalksWhenRequirementIDsMatch — the milestone's own IDs pass and the walk is entered and reports.

status — statusFake gains an overridable body:

• TestStatusReportsRequirementIDMismatch — the note names the code and the offending ID and not the milestone's own, and the report carries on past it to the task line and gates raised: none. That last pair is the "reports rather than gates" half of the requirement.
• TestStatusSilentWhenRequirementIDsMatch — a well-formed section prints no line, so the note is not free.

Mutation-checked both: with the evidence.go and status.go call sites removed, TestMilestoneEvidenceRefusesMismatchedRequirementID and TestStatusReportsRequirementIDMismatch fail; restored, everything is green.

Two things from the rebase worth your eye:

• I had split milestoneEvidence into a runMilestoneEvidence(c, w, arg) to make the verb testable; #262 had already split it as milestoneEvidenceReport(w, c, n). I dropped mine and the tests use yours.
• evidenceHub()'s single fixed body (M11-R1) was served for M13 too, which the new ID check would have refused — so the fixture is now one body per milestone (233 → M11-R1, 254 → M13-R1). TestMilestoneEvidenceSaysNothingForAnOpenMilestone reads the same as before.
• CHANGELOG conflict resolved by keeping both entries; the SPEC milestone evidence row keeps your closed-milestone sentences and gains the ID-grammar one; the introduction's milestone evidence list keeps your reworded NOT_FOUND and gains the new code.

go test ./..., go vet ./... and gofmt -l . clean; both required checks pass on f40750c.

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Approved. Round-two finding 5125242306 is closed: the evidence and status REQUIREMENT_ID_MISMATCH call sites now have verb/report-level tests, and a compile-safe mutation that disables those branches makes TestMilestoneEvidenceRefusesMismatchedRequirementID and TestStatusReportsRequirementIDMismatch fail for the missing behavior. Rebase check is clean: CHANGELOG keeps both entries, and SPEC's milestone evidence row carries both #262's closed-milestone wording and the ID-grammar sentence.

Verification: go test ./..., go vet ./..., gofmt -l ., and go build -o ./gh-codecrew ./cmd/codecrew all passed with local caches. Read-only/dry-run smoke checks ran for status, milestone evidence 13, milestone close 13 --dry-run, and task finish 260 --dry-run. Record checks passed: plan and Decisions precede the first commit, PR body has Closes #260, commits are conventional and reference (#260), and the reviewer App identity differs from the PR author.