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Keep a Parked Handoff Blocked While Any Decision on Its Work Waits - #4154
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The `blocked` label on a handoff parked on a maintainer decision came off once a session wrote the next round and left no `decision` issue it had filed on that work unanswered. A decision an earlier session filed on the same work could still be open, so the label came off and a running loop could take a lane it could only park again. The condition now counts every unanswered `decision` issue on that work, whichever session filed it, in `GOVERNANCE.md` "Durable Knowledge and Self-Improvement" and in `session-handoff` "The Attended Session" step 6. The `agent-conduct` include and the generated trees are regenerated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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No active review issues are reported, and the governance, handoff procedures, generated Skills, and source digests are synchronized with the broader decision rule.
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This PR keeps handoffs marked blocked while any unanswered maintainer decision remains for their work, regardless of which session filed it.
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- Updates the canonical governance and session-handoff rules.
- Synchronizes authored and generated
agent-conductandsession-handoffSkills. - Refreshes Claude distribution source digests.
| File | Description |
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| GOVERNANCE.md | Broadens the blocked-label clearing condition to include all unanswered decisions on the work. |
| .github/skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md | Synchronizes the GitHub Copilot session-handoff procedure with the broader decision rule. |
| .github/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Synchronizes the GitHub Copilot governance include with the updated blocked-handoff rule. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md | Synchronizes the Claude session-handoff Skill with the broader decision rule. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Synchronizes the Claude governance include with the updated blocked-handoff rule. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/session-handoff | Refreshes the generated session-handoff source digest. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/agent-conduct | Refreshes the generated agent-conduct source digest. |
| .agents/skills/session-handoff/SKILL.md | Updates the authored handoff-closing procedure to inspect decisions filed by any session. |
| .agents/skills/agent-conduct/SKILL.md | Updates the authored governance include with the broader blocked-handoff rule. |
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… Rules (#4189) ## Summary Promotes the backlog-burndown rounds and changes from other hub sessions from `develop` to `main`. - Hooks and the prose gate: #4132, #4134, #4136, #4145, #4152, #4184. The Husky hook reads its path list once and diffs a merge against `MERGE_HEAD`. Interrupts re-raise their signal, a Markdown code span reads as quoted data, and the gate picks a commit's diff base and recognizes a conflicted promotion's branch cut from `main`. - Procedures and carried rules: #4133, #4139, #4141, #4149, #4166, #4177, #4179, #4183, #4185. Resync, audit and check-this-repo procedure gaps, code style and shell interrupt rules, review-loop gaps across four skills, the context and delegation section of `AGENTS.md`, question rules in governance, the promotion line in pull request bodies, closing-keyword behavior on promotion, and the history-rewrite premise. - Review and cleanup tooling: #4138, #4148, #4154, #4156, #4157, #4163, #4164, #4168, #4174, #4180. Cleanliness reads, parked handoffs, the backlog report's JSON output, exact inline script pins, trusted inputs, env-file includes, the bounded review wait, side-reviewer matching, and a Copilot billing-failure notice read as a refusal. - Workflow and runbook contract: #4153, #4155, #4169, #4171, #4178, #4182. The runtime-secrets check, a registry entry and spec references, the Copilot runbook pointers, credential-free checkout steps, and the deploy-key and runner wording. - From other hub sessions: #4159 (a repository's own .NET line under a fleet default), #4161 (the 1Password CLI as an optional host tool), #4162 (Codex's Windows installer and one managed opencode copy). These carry no promotion line. #4182 carries no promotion line by design, and #4175 holds the split-out part of #4057's scope. Both #1448 and #4175 stay open. Fixes #1071 Fixes #1154 Fixes #1391 Fixes #1471 Fixes #1594 Fixes #1620 Fixes #1627 Fixes #1650 Fixes #1801 Fixes #2853 Fixes #3620 Fixes #3668 Fixes #3697 Fixes #3766 Fixes #3787 Fixes #3837 Fixes #3840 Fixes #3842 Fixes #3844 Fixes #3865 Fixes #3882 Fixes #3890 Fixes #3894 Fixes #3912 Fixes #3916 Fixes #3954 Fixes #4014 Fixes #4015 Fixes #4016 Fixes #4043 Fixes #4050 Fixes #4057 Fixes #4058 Fixes #4062 Fixes #4084 Fixes #4097 Fixes #4098 Fixes #4099 Fixes #4104 Fixes #4108 Fixes #4114 Fixes #4115 Fixes #4117 Fixes #4118 Fixes #4119 Fixes #4121 Fixes #4122 Fixes #4123 Fixes #4131 Fixes #4135 Fixes #4140 Fixes #4142 Fixes #4143 Fixes #4144 Fixes #4151 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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Summary
A handoff parked on a maintainer decision carries the
blockedlabel. The label came off once a session wrote the next round and left nodecisionissue it filed on that work unanswered. A decision an earlier session filed on the same work could still be open at that point. The label then came off, and a runningbacklog-burndownaway-mode loop could take a lane it could only park again. That is the outcome the rule's own closing sentence says it prevents.The finding holds. The "it filed" scope came from #4013 item 2, which named only a new decision the closing session raised. It was not a deliberate exclusion, and "Communicating with the User" already presents the whole labeled queue whichever session filed it.
GOVERNANCE.md"Durable Knowledge and Self-Improvement": the label comes off only once a session writes the next round and leaves nodecisionissue on that work unanswered, whichever session filed it.session-handoff"The Attended Session" step 6: the same condition, stated the same way.agent-conductinclude region and the generated.github/skills/and.claude-plugin/trees are regenerated withscripts/build_dist.py.No other skill restates when the label comes off.
backlog-burndownanddecision-triageonly read it.Verification
uv run --no-project --script scripts/build_dist.py --checkreports the generated distributions current.local-strict-reviewpass covers the head, attested below.Closes on promotion: #4119
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