itd-82 says merging the drain's pull requests is a human gate by design; itd-2610150602547271 says that in auto mode a ready pull request merges with no human step

itd-82 says merging the drain's pull requests is a human gate by design; itd-2610150602547271 says that in auto mode a ready pull request merges with no human step

A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/intents/planned/itd-82-drain-ledger-triage.md:58 — "Merging pull requests, planning promoted drafts, writing decision records: human gates by design."
• End B: .abcd/development/intents/planned/itd-2610150602547271-a-repository-declares-whether-its.md:145 — "in auto, a ready pull request merges with no human step."

itd-82 lists merging pull requests as a human gate by design, outside what the drain may do. itd-2610150602547271 lets a repository declare auto, in which the merge gate that the build loop (and so the drain's issue lanes) asks queues or arms the merge with no human involved. Under auto, the drain's pull requests merge without the human gate itd-82 says is built in.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 1170.