iss-35 semantic release gate was self-referential under changelog-driven auto-release (adr-37): it armed receipt_gate with the tagged commit but read receipts from that commit's own tree, which can never hold a receipt naming itself. Dormant while private, it fail-closed the first public release (v0.3.0).

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• adr-37Releases are changelog-driven — rolling `[Unreleased]` is the release decision, and automation tags exactly that commit
• dcn-26071800000000012026-07-18 — The iss-35 semantic release gate was self-referential
• dcn-26082100000000012026-08-21 — Bug-hunt round 4, branch bughunt-b/round-4. Baseline (make preflight
• iss-35brief-vs-shipped-surface reconciliation: 05-internals/08-skills.md claims abcd ships zero user-facing skills and six top-level commands while 04-surfaces/README.md itself tables nine and /abcd:consult and /abcd:ingest are shipped; the shipped skills violate the brief criterion that any artefact mutation is a command, not a skill; the skills/ layout described (abcd-ahoy, commit-attribution, secrets-and-pii) is fictional vs the real consult/ and ingest/; the implemented, user-reachable abcd docs lint and abcd history verbs have no home in 04-surfaces at all; the operator-internal paragraph contradicts the commands/ directory that exists. Detector (per spec-moves-with-the-surface): a record-lint cross-check that every entry under commands/ and skills/ resolves to a brief surface row, and every brief surface row resolves to a shipped or explicitly staged surface. Acceptance corpus: each falsified claim above — the check fails on all of them today. Fix amends the criterion or the surface in one change, never silently.
• iss-2608211142142469The release-gate runbook describes the semantic-receipt gate as 'Dormant until the public flip' (README.md blockquote) and phrases arming as a future condition ('Once the fail-closed verify rule is armed, the tag is rejected'), but the repo is public and the gate is armed and fed receipts on every release — it has fail-closed two: v0.3.0 (iss-108, the self-reference defect) and v0.6.0 (iss-326, a missing receipts commit, leaving a permanently unpublishable tag). The runbook a maintainer follows at tag time thus tells them receipts are not yet required, which is iss-326's proximate cause. It also misstates the failure mode ('the tag is rejected' — the tag survives, anti-tag-move; the publication is refused) and self-contradicts at the adjacent parenthetical ('dormant... never exercised' vs iss-108's v0.3.0 firing). Inverts the enforcement-claims-are-facts principle (an under-claimed live gate).
• itd-93abcd Scaffolds a Release Gate That Works on the First Try
• spc-14abcd-scaffolds-a-hardened-changelog-driven-release-gate-into