After the release-gate manifest's derived values stop being stored (the chore/merge-hotspots branch, under review on 2026-10-15), the brief's 04-surfaces/README.md register is the main remaining line every surface-adding branch edits: its chapter table ends on the newest number and two of its rows are single-line inline lists of verbs, so two such branches conflict there. Measured on the ten surface-adding pull requests of 2026-09-24 to 2026-10-15: the table end in 8, the agents-and-hosts row in 5, the one-file-per-verb list in 5.

After the release-gate manifest's derived values stop being stored (the chore/merge-hotspots branch, under review on 2026-10-15), the brief's 04-surfaces/README.md register is the main remaining line every surface-adding branch edits: its chapter table ends on the newest number and two of its rows are single-line inline lists of verbs, so two such branches conflict there. Measured on the ten surface-adding pull requests of 2026-09-24 to 2026-10-15: the table end in 8, the agents-and-hosts row in 5, the one-file-per-verb list in 5.

Progress (2026-10-15)

The fix for iss-2608220150157511 (merged as #1024) generated one of the three lines this record measures: the one-file-per-verb list in 04-surfaces/README.md is now the commands region, written from the commands/ files by go generate ./internal/surface/cli, so it no longer conflicts. The chapter table and the agents-and-hosts row stay hand-kept, because their numbering, chapter mapping and "Serves" column are not derivable from the files; those two lines were 8 and 5 of the ten measured conflicts. The record's own remedy, one entry per line in a stable order, remains the fix for them.