Merge-Authority Gate, Shadow-First

Status Update · 2026-06-16 · 10:55 AM PT

Status: Active.

What changed: Shipped a merge-authority classifier in shadow mode — it logs what it would auto-merge and merges nothing, so the enforce-flip is earned, not assumed.

What broke: Eight hundred and forty-one abandoned draft pull requests. The bottleneck was never generation; it is the human gate and the work of converging what was generated.

Next step: Enforce-flip after a clean two-week shadow window with zero false positives.

Tags: #governance #systems #execution