What was reviewed
2026-08-31-studio-charter.md (full); reviews 09-06, 09-13; rounds.md:391-593; escalations.md:242-437; queue.md:17-20; origin/main 1f3848c; ARCHITECTURE.md; live site.
Findings
- Output outruns merges. Since 09-22: 17 studio PRs opened (#352-358, #360-369), 0 merged; open PRs 7→20 (rounds.md:529→:593). Last studio merge #337 (09-21); founder merged 15 of 26 since 09-16. Flips stalled: 43 live/48 pending (escalations.md:423). §7's "production was never the bottleneck" (L385-390).
- Kill criteria: dormant by letter (L19) but untriggerable: "launched" still undefined 26 days after strategy-spec-audit.md:84-86, while scribbleworks.co is public (200, robots
Allow: /). - §8c: 0 trips in 7 rounds (rounds.md:494-585); 4 at-cap fails, never consecutive; §7 signal 1 clear. Drift: 09-16 round merged #307-309 (rounds.md:459: 09-12 auto-deploy precedent), firing 3 production website releases 05:39-06:44 ET (gh; 06:44 run 35086622204 failed verification), contra L436-437; never flagged; stopped 09-19 (rounds.md:494). L50/L481 vs L436-437 unreconciled.
- §8d: 181 merged since 09-02, 65 since 09-14 (gh; rounds.md:570) vs cap 10 (L466); no hardening since 09-14 (rounds.md:391); R7 logged at 1 of 10 closes.
- Regressions: Daily delivery release failed on main head (run 35887356007, 09-23, "Active version/source/settings mismatch", daily-release.mjs:114), not in rounds/escalations/queue; production Worker state unverified. ARCHITECTURE.md:51-58 omits #349's preview UGC D1 + 3 KV namespaces. Secret scanning still off.
- Follow-through: 09-13 R9 done, R7 partial, R8 held (queue.md:18-20); decisions 1-4, 6-7 unruled 14 days; two-week review (L438-439) never held. escalations.md:242-437: 60 numbered items, 2 resolved (:391, :419); rebaseline draft pending-founder 25 days.
Proposed queue.md changes
@@ -42,0 +43,3 @@
+## 2026-09-27 review (reviews/2026-09-27-charter-kill-criteria-hardening-check.md)
+R28. [engineering, S] Root-cause Daily delivery release run 35887356007 (log + daily-release.mjs:114); fix PR or diagnosis; no re-run, no production access.
+R29. [engineering, XS] ARCHITECTURE.md §1: add #349's preview UGC D1 + 3 KV namespaces. Docs-only PR.
Decisions needed
- Throttle L430 while ≥N PRs await taps (guess N=10): keep 4; cap 2; pause new games. Bear: no tap capacity gained; L430 wants more reps.
- Clear 14 ready PRs: batch-tap; allow-rule for Ray's daytime merges (09-14 grant, rounds.md:405); close stale.
- Overnight merges: allow (09-16) or bar (09-19); amend L436-437 or L50. Bear: ruling 32: release as they pass, no batch holds.
- Define "launched": first non-household print; Search Console verified; date; stay dormant.
- §8d + L50 critic gate (escalations.md:416): weekly hardening + R8; amend L466; strike.
- Two-week review, #34, rebaseline, §4 text: batch-rule or strike.
- Daily Worker: authorize read-only production check; you check; await R28.