Development record

2026-09-25 — The launch change-narration gate's hard tier refuses where the words cannot tell narration from present state, rather than passing (fix round 2 of lane launchgates, on iss-2609251940304726; the itd-65 acceptance criteria stand as written: "previously X, now Y" and a genuine "no longer" hard-fail). "no longer" is refused whatever its subject, except as a comparative ("no longer than") or in a relative clause over "is"/"are" ("files that are no longer present"); "renamed … to" is refused whenever a "to" follows before the next punctuation mark, except the present purpose form "is/are renamed to match"; "previously … now" is refused when "previously" opens its clause or a change verb stands within three words (counting words only, not punctuation or determiners); "used to" is refused as the past habit, including after a time adverbial ("until v0.6 the dry-run used to skip the tags"). The residual trade, refused although it states present state: a present passive rename other than "to match" ("the staged file is renamed to its final name"); a reduced or copula-less relative "no longer" ("files no longer present are skipped", "a seam that no longer exists"); a clause-opening "previously" beside an unrelated "now". Each takes the docs-lint escape on its line, which every finding names. Survey at the change: 0 findings in the 15 shipped doc bodies; over every Markdown file in the tree the finding locations go from 74 to 405 (333 added, all in records, research notes, agent instruction files and the changelog, outside the gate's scope; 2 dropped, each a "renamed" with no "to" after it). Rejected: a fixed list of change-subject nouns (round 1), which passed "the registry can no longer be edited" and "it was renamed to abcd lint", so a genuine narration reached a release with neither tier catching "used to" or "renamed to" (implementer of lane fix2-launchgates).