docs: record the 2026-09-17 maintainer decisions

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Summary

Records Val's four decisions from today's tracking consolidation in docs/reviews/2026-09-17-maintainer-decisions.md and reconciles README, docs/phases.md, and the 2026-09-16 decisions record with them:

1. P0 threads-980: Require one typed terminal close for every opened veto window coven#886 closed on the 2026-09-15 deployed audit census; threads-980 closed. threads-uqx.9 is now dependency-clear (not accepted).
2. Authenticated operation-bound authority path stays fail-closed indefinitely; threads-19p, threads-vdv, threads-xpo, threads-lm4 closed on the recorded deferral branch of their acceptance criteria.
3. threads-76z closed won't-fix; strict SQL retained; draft archived as a tag.
4. test: correct legacy Windows pipe fixture connection ordering coven#1082 merged (fixture-only); threads-4v8 runtime observations stay open.

Human gates #13 / #14 untouched. Carries .beads/interactions.jsonl forward.

Test plan

• bash scripts/agent-check.sh fast passes on this tree
• CI green

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Multiple updated status/ledger statements describe the deployed audit census closure without consistently carrying its explicit profile scope and closure date, which can overstate what was actually inventoried.

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Pull request overview

This PR records Val’s 2026-09-17 tracking-consolidation decisions in a new review document and updates the repo’s status/phase ledger to reflect those decisions (notably around closing #886 / threads-980, and deferring the promotion authority path), while explicitly keeping the Phase-5 human gates (#13 / #14) unchanged.

Changes:

• Add docs/reviews/2026-09-17-maintainer-decisions.md capturing four maintainer decisions and what remains open.
• Reconcile repo status summaries in README.md, docs/phases.md, and the 2026-09-16 decision record to point at / reflect the 2026-09-17 decisions.
• Carry forward Beads interaction history updates in .beads/interactions.jsonl.

File summaries

File	Description
README.md	Updates top-level project status and Phase 5 summary to reflect the 2026-09-17 decisions.
docs/reviews/2026-09-17-maintainer-decisions.md	New decision record documenting Val’s four dispositions from the tracking consolidation.
docs/reviews/2026-09-16-ward-updated-emission-decisions.md	Adds a 2026-09-17 update noting the deferral decision and related bead closures.
docs/phases.md	Updates the authoritative delivery ledger to reflect decision outcomes and newly-closed/deferred beads.
.beads/interactions.jsonl	Records Beads status-change interactions corresponding to the tracking consolidation and closures.

Review details

Suppressed comments (6)

README.md:117

• This Phase 5 summary references the deployed census but doesn’t state its scope. The underlying 2026-09-15 census record is explicitly scoped to the maintainer workstation profile, so it’s worth carrying that qualifier here as well.

- **Phase 5: approval semantics.** `[ACTIVE]`, not frozen. `ApprovalPath` and `Channel` remain independent; delayed apply requires live evidence replay and exactly one typed terminal close. The finite identity, protected-route, and retired-corpus obligations (`threads-okc`, `threads-dgg`, and `threads-zav`) are closed. `threads-980` closed on 2026-09-17 with OpenCoven/coven#886 (deployed census found no opened windows). The [engineering handoff](docs/reviews/2026-09-13-engineering-acceptance.md) records exact acceptance and remaining work. Val's coherence acceptance (`threads-uqx.9`) and subsequent freeze/reaffirmation (`threads-uqx.10`) remain separate human gates.

docs/phases.md:42

• This row attributes closing OpenCoven/coven#886 to the “2026-09-15 census”, which can be misread as the closure date and as a global census. Consider spelling out that the closure occurred on 2026-09-17, based on the 2026-09-15 maintainer-workstation profile census.

| Read-only opened-history census | OpenCoven/coven#1049 merged as `226bfcc89ff6cad4bc9cc9618dad6fea970ecf58`; classification is not repair; OpenCoven/coven#886 was later closed on the 2026-09-15 census with no repair warranted |

docs/phases.md:85

• This paragraph notes that #886 “closed on 2026-09-17 on the evidence-backed deployed census” but doesn’t carry the census’ explicit scope (maintainer workstation profile). Adding that qualifier helps keep this ledger consistent with the referenced 2026-09-15 census record.

their enumerated engineering criteria. OpenCoven/coven#886 closed on 2026-09-17
on the evidence-backed deployed census. Full #13 acceptance and both

docs/phases.md:131

• “Closed … on the deployed-history census” is missing the census scope and doesn’t mention that the census date is 2026-09-15 (with closure decided on 2026-09-17). Clarify both to avoid readers assuming a broader deployed inventory than was actually inspected.

closed OpenCoven/coven#887; OpenCoven/coven#886 closed on 2026-09-17 on the
deployed-history census.

docs/phases.md:199

• This entry cites the 2026-09-15 deployed census as rationale but doesn’t state the census scope (maintainer workstation profile). Since this row is often read in isolation, adding the scope qualifier here would avoid over-claiming what was audited.

| `threads-980` | every opened window needs exactly one typed terminal close | **closed** 2026-09-17 with OpenCoven/coven#886: five typed terminal families at accepted daemon `226bfcc8`, and the 2026-09-15 deployed census found zero opened windows, so no repair was warranted |

docs/reviews/2026-09-17-maintainer-decisions.md:25

• “There is no history to repair” reads as a global claim, but the referenced census record is scoped to a single deployed profile. Adjusting this to “in the inspected profile” avoids contradicting the scope statement in the 2026-09-15 census record while still recording the closure decision.

There is no history to repair. A future profile that surfaces an opened window
without a typed close is a new defect against the census tooling and triggers,
not a reopening of this root. `threads-980` is closed with this disposition,

• Files reviewed: 5/5 changed files
• Comments generated: 3
• Review effort level: Lite

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