IRINA closeout taskset plan — verification round, and an honest CONCLUSIVE/NOT-CONCLUSIVE split

Date: 2026-09-25 Status: closed Supersedes: none Superseded-by: none — current

Context

Closes the 6-taskset plan run this session (2026-09-25, taskset-gating workflow, stratt-taskset-gating skill) against the question “what are the next key tasksets that conclusively assert the full IRINA automation throughput/end-to-end closeout.” Per MR-10, a verification round is mandatory before any phase-shaped work is declared closed. This doc is that round — it does not declare blanket closeout, because the evidence doesn’t support one.

Verification round

CONCLUSIVELY proven (verified, not inferred):

1. Cross-runner WIP-cap lock exclusion against real irina-cycle.yml dispatches — docs/decisions/2026-09-23-ir-012-burn-in-against-real-dispatches.md § Result. Two genuinely overlapping runs (35873615815, 35873620028, confirmed 2s-apart in_progress via the Actions API, not assumed from dispatch timing), one refused by name (WIP_CAP_LOCK_HELD: ... held by 35873620028:2271), the other opened exactly one PR (devarno-cloud/hermes#94). No double-open. This is IRINA’s core mechanical throughput guarantee and it holds.
2. docs-invariants.yml runs and enforces on petrova-codes itself — confirmed live via gh run list, green on every push/PR this session (taskset 3, no-op because already true).
3. Deep-probe clock unstuck, staleness now surfaced loudly — 16/44 slugs re-probed 2026-09-25 (0 failed), check-probe-staleness.mjs wired into state-sweep.yml’s existing 30-min cadence (taskset 2).
4. Full 44-row registry-vs-contract state is current, not an 18% sample — 25/44 present, 2 gaps closed since 2026-09-22 (tektree-io, sparki-tools), 1 regression caught (so1-io, docs/findings/20260925-0844-so1-io-contract-regression.md) (taskset 4).
5. META-RULES corpus drift closed — vendored core/templates/ copy now matches eva-hq canonical v1.3 exactly, not v1.2 (petrova-codes/templates#7, pointer bumped to f16555e, taskset 1 Q2).

NOT conclusive — real, open, each with its own filed artefact (not silently dropped):

1. Mímir Q1 (governance-of-governance identity) is still open. The 2026-09-25 arno-host ruling (docs/decisions/2026-09-25-arno-host-final-interfacing-governance-layer.md) resolved a different axis (human-facing interface layer) and explicitly does not touch 2026-09-22-mimir-reconciliation-scoping.md’s Q1-Q4. Those remain unresolved. docs/audit/state.md’s own “knot” — no source of truth for who governs the fleet — is therefore still the knot.
2. 3 high-priority contract gaps unresolved: skyflow-hq, templates, abacus — all strict/production-tier, all still absent per the 2026-09-25 re-run (taskset 4). Findings on file, none closed.
3. so1-io contract regression, uninvestigated as to cause (docs/findings/20260925-0844-so1-io-contract-regression.md) — filed, not yet triaged with the repo owner.
4. RALPH branch→PR governance was never applicable — the premise (a console-layer PR-opening path exists and lacks WIP-cap awareness) doesn’t hold; no such code exists anywhere in rocky-hq (docs/findings/20260925-0900-ralph-pr-path-does-not-exist.md). This is not a governance gap to close — it’s a feature that was never built, and building it is rocky-hq’s roadmap call, not an IRINA closeout item.
5. Three decision docs from this session sit Status: open, countersign unticked: 2026-09-25-arno-host-final-interfacing-governance-layer.md, and (pre-existing, re-surfaced by this round) 2026-09-23-ir-012-burn-in-against-real-dispatches.md and 2026-09-22-mimir-reconciliation-scoping.md stays closed (its own status) but the questions it scoped remain unanswered. Per docs/decisions/2026-08-10-countersign-gates-closed-status.md, an agent never ticks these — they need you.

Decision

Verdict: PARTIAL, not full, closeout. The mechanical claim — “IRINA’s cross-runner concurrency guarantee holds against real dispatches” — is CONCLUSIVELY asserted by item 1 above and needs no further work. The broader claim this session opened with — “full IRINA automation throughput/end-to-end closeout” at the org-governance level — is NOT conclusive: the org still has no ratified source of truth for who governs the fleet (Mímir Q1), and 3 strict-tier repos still lack contracts. Declaring blanket closeout here would repeat the exact failure mode docs/decisions/2026-09-05-ratified-status-mapped-to-closed.md and this session’s own MR-9 discipline (Taskset 1) were invoked to avoid.

What would make it conclusive

1. Mímir Q1 ruled (human decision, 2026-09-22-mimir-reconciliation-scoping.md).
2. The 3 high-priority contract gaps closed (skyflow-hq, templates, abacus).
3. This doc, the arno-host doc, and IR-012’s burn-in doc all countersigned.

None of these are blocked on more agent work — they’re blocked on rulings and contract-authoring that need a human or the consumer-repo owners.

Consequences

For code: none — this is a verification-round doc.

For docs: none superseded. Surfaces three open countersigns in one place rather than leaving them scattered across the session.

For in-flight phases: none in petrova-codes.

For invariants: MR-10 (verification round mandatory at close) is what this doc discharges. MR-9 (no invented invariants) is why it doesn’t round up to “done.”

References

• docs/decisions/2026-09-23-ir-012-burn-in-against-real-dispatches.md
• docs/decisions/2026-09-25-arno-host-final-interfacing-governance-layer.md
• docs/decisions/2026-09-22-mimir-reconciliation-scoping.md
• docs/audit/contract-sweep-2026-09-22.md
• docs/findings/20260925-0844-so1-io-contract-regression.md
• docs/findings/20260925-0900-ralph-pr-path-does-not-exist.md
• docs/audit/state.md

Update — 2026-09-25 (post-approval, contract gaps closed)

Item 2 of “what would make it conclusive” is done: all 3 strict-tier PRs (petrova-codes/templates#8, devarno-cloud/abacus#49, skyflow-blue/skyflow-hq#154) confirmed MERGED via gh pr view. Fresh 44-row sweep (docs/audit/contract-sweep-2026-09-25.md, node scripts/registry-contract-sweep.mjs) confirms all three now read present via gh api (not local, so not subject to the so1-io directory-mislabeling bug). Count: 27/44 present (up from 25/44).

so1-io still reads present via local method in this same sweep — this is the same mislabeled-directory false-positive documented in docs/findings/20260925-0844-so1-io-contract-regression.md, not a new or reopened gap; so1-io/veritas (the registered repo) has confirmed zero contract via gh api 404. Not re-litigated here.

Remaining from the “what would make it conclusive” list: item 1 (Mímir Q1 ruling) and item 3 (3 countersigns) are both human-only actions, not agent-actionable. No further agent tasksets change this doc’s verdict — still PARTIAL pending those two.

Update — 2026-09-25 (all 5 countersigns ticked, verdict flips)

All 5 open countersigns ticked by alex@devarno.com in this session: 2026-09-23-ir-012-burn-in-against-real-dispatches.md, 2026-09-25-arno-host-final-interfacing-governance-layer.md, 2026-09-25-integrations-console-panto-cloud-not-applicable.md, 2026-09-25-mimir-retired-not-ratified.md, and this doc itself. Each Status: flipped open → closed to match, per this repo’s own gate (2026-08-10-countersign-gates-closed-status.md).

All three items on the “what would make it conclusive” list are now satisfied: (1) Mímir Q1 ruled — retired, countersigned; (2) 3 strict-tier contract gaps closed and merged (previous update, this doc); (3) all 3 named countersigns plus this doc’s own are ticked.

Verdict: CONCLUSIVE. Full IRINA automation throughput/end-to-end closeout — mechanical guarantee (IR-012 cross-runner WIP-cap lock) and org-governance layer (Mímir retirement, arno-host interfacing ratification, contract coverage) are both now asserted, not partial.

Sign-off

• Subagent: claude-sonnet-5 (session_01488gmoyur1UAMfpNMgUAhC)
• Human: alex@devarno.com — confirms this verification round’s CONCLUSIVE/NOT-conclusive split is accurate and that the “what would make it conclusive” list is the right remaining scope (not more agent tasksets).
• Countersigned by human:alex@devarno.com on 2026-09-25.