2026-10-16 — A drain takes a minor issue the after-merge fidelity check files again (product thinker, 2026-10-16): such an issue names the shipped feature it was filed about, yet the promoted hand-back does not hold it when it is minor, so small after-merge fixes get done unattended; a major or security one still goes through the feature's audit or a person's build. This refines dcn-2610161401449155 and dcn-2610161519047899.

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• dcn-26101614014491552026-10-16 — An issue an after-merge audit files is handed back as promoted (facilitator-on-delegation, drain-many-accounts step 4): the owed-check issue names its audited intent in related_intents, so the promoted rule of invariant 19 hands it back to that intent whatever its severity, and its check is paid through abcd intent audit rather than by a drain lane; this replaces the as-built note of dcn-2609300000000027 that an undecided audit's minor inconsistency is one the drain takes, which was the lane's reading and not part of ruling DQ1c, and keeps the rule field-only with no exception by source (grounds: the spec's wording for the rule, dcn-2610161040365515, and one rule over special cases; iss-2610161015370582)
• dcn-26101615190478992026-10-16 — Refines dcn-2610161428244461: a person's own abcd build takes a promoted issue only when no other hand-back would hold it; the rule is asked again with promoted set aside, and an issue that security, category, severity, Waits on, a deferral or a missing remedy still holds is refused with that rule's reason, while the drain still hands every promoted issue back.