2026-08-23

Nine PRs merged today, most of them circling the same crack: what counts as a guard-script change worth escalating to a human. The new prune-trial Skill (#1021, ADR-0027) charters instruction pruning as an evidence-gathering trial, but its own chartering session surfaced five major frictions — among them a targeting rule phrased so it authorized deleting a rule's justification, and a self-merge step written broadly enough to sidestep ADR-0004's human-only guard-code escalation. That same gap wasn't hypothetical: a frictions-to-fixes run earlier in the week had already self-merged a guard-script PR (#972) under a "not on the pinned file list" reading, and #1025 / #1026 corrected the trial's test from did this PR touch a guard file to does it change guard behaviour. Elsewhere: Monitor got wired into the subagent-background guard (#1029), two blog posts landed (Eyra, Kevin), and an audit-docs sweep fixed a stale count.

Shipped: #1021 prune-trial Skill (ADR-0027) · #1025/#1026 guard self-merge test fix · #1029 Monitor wired into background guard · #1027/#1020 blog posts (Eyra, Kevin) · #1019 audit-docs fix Sessions: 11 (all completed) · Frictions: 24 logged (5 major, 5 moderate, 4 minor, 10 nit) — sharpest: the guard-script self-merge gap hit twice in one week, once as an actual wrongful self-merge (#972) and once baked into the trial Skill meant to catch exactly this kind of mistake.