Development record

2026-10-28 — Merge-gate step 2 (itd-2610150602547271, spc-2610161609350616): until step 4 wires the merge gate to read facilitator.mode, the board names a person as the merger in every repository and draws an auto as set but not yet read, never as abcd merging. Grounds: landing's mergeGate still runs ruling AM1, so every repository is in human mode today, and a board saying abcd merges would contradict what abcd land does in the same repository; the spec has step 2 name the mode and its layer, which the line still does. Step 4 changes the wording when the gate reads the mode. Found by the round-2 review pair.