A dependency bump lands without a person re-authoring it, and no machine enters the contributor graph

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• iss-2609221820487644The attribution gate should let a dependabot dependency bump through without a human re-authoring it. The product thinker asked for this on 2026-09-22 after PR 655 sat blocked with auto-merge armed and every other check green. Two things must be said precisely, because the request names the trailer and the trailer is not what fails. The gate refuses a bot on IDENTITY: check_ident reads dependabot[bot] as a machine in the author role on two independent signals, the forge's [bot] name suffix and the bot mailbox, and it deliberately stays silent about the missing Assisted-by trailer so the remedy is not misread, its own comment saying that adding a trailer is not the fix for a dependency bump and landing it as a human is. No review clears an identity refusal, which is why an armed auto-merge looks like it is waiting for a reviewer when it is waiting for something no reviewer can give. The rule is deliberate and stated in AGENTS.md: the contributor graph is built from the author and committer fields, a machine there asserts an authorship it does not hold, and a squash merge re-appends a mis-identified branch author as a co-author, so the consequence, that a dependabot pull request is not mergeable as authored, is written down as intended. Wanted: a way for a dependency bump to land without a person re-authoring it every time, without letting a machine into the contributor graph on any other change. Candidate shapes for the decision to weigh: the gate exempts a commit whose diff touches only go.mod and go.sum on a branch the forge marks as dependabot's, with the exemption named in the refusal it would otherwise raise; or the repository takes dependabot's bumps through a workflow that re-authors them as the human owner before the gate runs, so nothing about the gate changes; or dependabot is turned off for this repository and bumps are made by hand on a schedule. This reverses a stated rule, so it is an ADR plus a brief invariant before any code moves, not a quiet edit to the script.related
• itd-92abcd tells every repo the truth about its fencebuilds on
• itd-149abcd handles inbound security advisories and issues, and cuts the release, for every managed repo. The 2026-08-27 security-advisory pilot proved the loop by hand across two independent operators: advisory and issue intake, recall-dedup triage against the ledger, record-first fixes in isolated worktrees, one integration branch, an independent adversarial gate over the assembled diff, auto-merge armed only after APPROVE, and a derived release cut through the semantic-receipt gates. This intent automates that loop as abcd capability for any managed repo, with findings F-A through F-W of the pilot note as the acceptance-criteria source and F-U (re-run every required pass against the final content commit; never transfer a verdict) and F-Q (the two release gates are human-by-design) load-bearing.related
• itd-2609150819432059A managed repository that is not a plugin gets the same release gaterelated

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• adr-2609292116133348A dependency bump inside the bound is re-authored as the owner and only pushed by an Apprelated
• itd-2609301020001595A pinned-action bump syncs its scaffold template and lands re-authoredbuilt on by
• spc-2609221843355061a-dependency-bump-lands-without-a-person-re-authoring-it-aimplemented by

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• dcn-26092900000000072026-09-29 — The product thinker answered twenty-six owed rulings and the published-history question in one interview, asked one at a time by orchestrator abcd-23 of autonomous run A (recorded by lane recRulings for orchestrator abcd-cb). The answers are kept verbatim in the local-tier file `.abcd/.work.local/scratch/reports/rulings-answered-2609-29.md`, dated 2026-09-29, and are restated here because that file is not committed. Published history is left as it is, with no rewrite. The build loop's fidelity audit runs once, on the lane that closes the spec, over the whole delivery (AI). On the vendor denylist the product thinker answered, verbatim: "I think we need an allow list rather than trying to catch a deny list." The interviewer's reading of that answer, recorded as a reading and not as the product thinker's words, is that the per-provider allowlist is the control and the vendor denylist is not extended to chase spellings, with whether the bundled `anthropic/*` entry stays as a backstop left to the technical facilitator (AA(a)). Only a route the person set up on their own machine may use their paid key, and a repository's own route to it is refused, which replaces the route half of itd-2609081951381895 decision 8 (AA(b)). The live site setup, the API adapter and the decision adapter may each close on tests against a simulated service, with the live paid check recorded as owed to a person (iss-2609291925387011, iss-2609291925393913, iss-2609291925398978). itd-111's last criterion is met by an agent's timing check on macOS plus the Linux CI run, so the intent may be finished. Automated dependency updates are switched on, pushed with a personal or app token the person creates and stores as a repository secret (itd-2609221842494980; creating the token is the person's act, and the lane builds everything else and names the secret it expects). itd-6 adds a Go MCP module, proposed for the person's explicit sign-off before it is fetched; closing itd-6 on a fake server was not ruled in this interview. (A later answer the same day, H1b in the local-tier file `.abcd/.work.local/scratch/reports/rulings-answered-2609-29-b.md`, dated 2026-09-29, rules that it is not: itd-6 is finished only after running once against the real RepoPrompt app, a check owed to a person.) For itd-148: the store under the home folder wins (adr-2609091248200336); the store draft itd-2609091014076309 owns add, list and clean-up and itd-148 uses them; a session that declares itself the coordinator is exempt from the write block in the primary checkout and every other session is blocked; and the store draft is planned first, with nothing from the store draft, the merged-worktree clean-up included, built before its planning interview (Q4). itd-148's own wait is not part of that ruling: it follows from Q2, because itd-148 uses the store's verbs, and is carried by the `blocked_by` below. itd-148 and spc-42 are rewritten to match in this change, and itd-148 is now `blocked_by` the store draft. A release retrospective is seeded from a release, the intents a tag shipped (AD); itd-24 and its spec are rewritten to the release in this change. An unpointed route is refused naming the one setting to add, as built in 35100512e, so AC11 of itd-2609170822093401 is complete (BR1). A missed target becomes `next`, whatever the following release is numbered (BS1). Spec pieces keep "step" and the lane stages are renamed, a breaking change to the JSON fields `step`, `performed` and `refusal.step` that resolves iss-2609291313276243 and corrects the glossary entry `core/step.md` (BU1), and the old command spellings are removed in that same breaking release (BT1). The text board shows Later as a count only while the site and `--json` keep the full list (BV1), and an intent in progress appears only under Now (BV2). A pause of zero is allowed (BW1); drain stays in the agents' help list until it runs end to end (BX1); a managed repository must hold the drain eligibility decision in its own record, and drain refuses there until it does (BX2); a capture without a remedy is refused (BX3), which tightens the one-line capture friction `commands/capture.md` promises, so the lane that builds it reconciles that page, the principle wording and every caller that files a capture; a run's pick reason keeps the shared `pursued:` kind with its marker (BZ1); and an intent whose blocker was superseded waits on the successor, transitively (BZ2). The five itd-48 follow-ups are planned as one intent, drafted as itd-2609291923559186 (BT2), and all warn rules share one shrink-only baseline file in which a new warning fails, drafted as itd-2609291924469783 (BT3); both drafts wait on their planning interviews. Each ruling that contradicts a shipped behaviour or another record is amended in the change that builds it, not here. itd-7's planning interview stays owed.
• dcn-26093000000000092026-09-30 — The person answered eighteen rulings of autonomous run A on 2026-09-30 (CF1, CF2, CG1, CI1, CI2, CJ1, CK1, CL1, CM1, DR1, DR2, DR4, DR5, DR6, DQ1a, DQ1b, DQ2, DQ3), relayed by the run's interviewer abcd-23 [b1e81b] and recorded by lane recRulingsDR for orchestrator abcd-8d [5bfdfb]. The answers are kept in the local-tier file `.abcd/.work.local/scratch/reports/rulings-answered-2609-29-b.md`, lines 13 to 30, and are restated here because that file is not committed. SETTLED BLOCKERS: a blocker replaced by an accepted ADR counts as settled, so the waiting intent may start (CF1); a blocker reclassified as a discipline counts as settled too (CF2). Neither is built at this entry's base: the blocked pre-start check still refuses both shapes, and iss-2609300751191426 carries the change. AS BUILT: the App token for the dependency re-authoring workflow is minted in the shell, an openssl-signed JWT exchanged with curl and revoked on exit, with no new action (CG1); when the prompt router cannot evaluate a prompt, its envelope carries the error and leaves the active-domain list out, so the client keeps what it had (CI1); a domain that returns to the active set is re-injected on every host, one that appends to a transcript included, not only on a client that snapshots (CI2); `abcd update` shows progress only when stderr is a terminal, and saved output stays clean (DR4). BUILD: the installer (`hooks/bootstrap.sh`) writes the previous release tag into binary-meta when it swaps a binary, the session hook stays read-only, and that tag replaces the setup_version comparison of the itd-111 update notice (CJ1); the SHELL domain also teaches a repository's own guard entries, generated the same way as the bundled registry's (CK1); `step` in `abcd implement check` is renamed `stage` too, in the same breaking v0.12.0 (CM1); the fix rounds a run spends before it hands a lane back are a per-run setting beside `--pace`, for example `--fix-rounds`, default 3 (DR1); the dependency-bump intent itd-2609221842494980 ships now, with the first live bump recorded as owed until the person has created the App and its secrets (DR2); only a self-contained agent is sent to a paid provider by default, so the cold-reading positions may go while a file-reading agent such as the intent auditor is refused with the reason, and a central override, a machine-level settings list the person keeps that no agent or repository can change, may name providers that take bundled-context requests for file-reading agents (DR5); a run works in parallel, building several pieces and running reviewers at once up to its agent limit, which is new build-loop work that makes the pacing intent's criterion 6 testable (DR6); an undecided fidelity audit reopens the work, sending the feature back to a lane, and never closes like a pass (DQ1a, iss-2608290820473197); the audit moves before the merge, as part of the build loop's last lane (per ruling AI), and until that loop is ready it stays after the merge and reopens on an undecided or failed verdict (DQ1b, iss-2608290822140563); the filing-time duplicate check covers every route, the promoted inbox report, the consistency pass and the reading ingest, in a lane after remedyRequired (DQ2, iss-2609281911024185); `abcd ahoy` offers to install gh on an explicit yes (DQ3, iss-2609281911024838). KEEP: a promoted inbox report's own remedy is kept but not usable: the sender's suggestion stays in the issue's text for reference, the remedy field is `none (filed automatically)`, and a drain skips the record until a person writes the fix, so the conservative default recorded above on 2026-09-30 stands and is not widened (CL1). The person added to CL1 that when a person comes to write the real fix for such an issue, the agent offers a state-of-the-art research pass first (principle `prefer-sota`), which `commands/capture.md` says under the `capture remedy` verb. The three rulings of 2026-09-29 owed to this ledger by earlier sessions of the run, the ceilings of five and of eight sub-agents and the remedies ruling, already have their entries above, so this entry adds none.
• iss-2609292030070275The dependency-bump re-authoring (itd-2609221842494980, spc-2609221843355061) has never run against the live forge, so its first acceptance criterion is proven only offline, against a stand-in App API and a local remote. The person's steps are owed: create a GitHub App with Contents read and write, install it on this repository, store its id and private key as the Dependabot secrets DEPENDENCY_REAUTHOR_APP_ID and DEPENDENCY_REAUTHOR_APP_KEY, and set owner_name and owner_email in .abcd/config/dependency-reauthor.conf. Until then every in-bound bump is refused by name and stays a person's to land. Done when one real dependabot go_modules or pip bump is watched re-authored as the owner, re-checked green by the attribution gate and merged; then the spec closes and the intent ships (Refs: iss-2609221820487644).
• iss-2610241550026188record_schema resolves a cross-reference field's target in any record family (internal/core/lint/schema.go:764 checks only that the handle is in the corpus), so itd-2609221842494980 carries related_adrs: [iss-2609221820487644], an issue, and passes record-lint, although the ADR README documents related_adrs as adr-N only; because the link sits in the wrong field, the promote join between that shipped intent and its still-open originating issue is invisible to intent audit --issue-drift.