# Steward 2026-10-07 — first run (interactive, with the owner present): 6 PRs merged, 3 closed, 1 held; the delegation itself lands with this PR

Window: the delegation's first evening. Run interactively under the owner's
instruction of 2026-10-07 (quoted in `ops/STEWARD.md`), before the scheduled
routine (`trig_01TWukhL8Nq1dkQUjm5t1ith`, weekdays 23:00Z) existed.
Read: all 12 open PRs (each reviewed by an independent session that rebased
it and ran the tests), the public repo state, the tbx-win cutover gates
(check-only), and — read-only — the owner's inbox, to inventory what was
reaching him. NOT-READ: nothing skipped.

## Did

- **merged #168** — the digest's dark-routine exception read the wrong key and
  could never fire.
- **merged #171** — reconcile read the broker→local membership set through a
  date window; tonight's after-close meanrev batch (62 orders, accepted for the
  next open) would have produced a false drift red around 2026-10-22.
- **merged #177** — the digest's VRP gate clock (62 days) disagreed with the
  gate itself (51). Comment-only change to `config/vrp.yaml`; keystones verified.
- **merged #224** — the digest now waits for in-flight sleeve runs before
  judging NO RUN (tonight's "meanrev NO RUN" was false). The independent review
  reproduced one case it still misses — dirty tracked `data/macro` files abort
  the pull on a day momentum's backup leg trades — and the one-line fix is
  posted on the PR.
- **merged #191, #193** — records stranded by the September Actions outage.
- **closed #174** — after the tbx-win cutover its only input is GitHub's
  backup leg, so it would report LATE every day for every sleeve (replayed on
  10-01→10-07: 15 of 15).
- **closed #187** — its central claim (outbox branches are orphans that cannot
  be merged forward) was a shallow-clone artifact.
- **closed #190** — superseded by #218, which carried all its annotations.
- **held #176** — right fix, wrong label today (it calls an open cohort
  "complete"); the per-cohort fix is written on the PR.
- **opened #225** — the VRP gate smoke test asserted NOT PASSED against live
  state inside the pre-trade gate; the first day the gate passes it would have
  fail-closed every sleeve. Moved to the observability tier, verdict-agnostic.
- **steward routine settled with the owner watching:** the five connectors the API
  attached at creation removed in the UI; `ultrathink` dropped (standard effort);
  model set to Opus 5.5 — all verified by reading the stored config back.
- **healthchecks.io silenced:** the Thales project's only email integration
  removed and the account's monthly email report turned off; the 10 checks
  stay (still pinged, so nothing goes red) as a passive dashboard. The other
  project there (one non-Thales check, no integrations) was left untouched.
- **folded into this PR:** #189's missing 2026-09-28 audit-log row, and #197's
  four procedure edits (3 and 4 as written; 1 and 2 rewritten for the steward
  and for squash-merges).

## NEEDS-OWNER

NEEDS-OWNER: merge #225 — the steward cannot merge what its own session wrote.
NEEDS-OWNER: decide which VRP pessimistic-twin total counts for the v1 reading (raw ledger sum vs annotated rows excluded) as a dated append before the gate matures (~2027-01); the two differ by ~$48, enough to flip the sign (#176).

## Carried forward

- **tbx-win's first live session (Thu 10-08):** the scripted cutover runs at
  18:00 PT tonight (all gates held at 15:25). Verify each sleeve's 10-08 state
  commit carries the `Runner: tbx-win` trailer and lands before ~15:30Z.
- **Close #189 and #197** as carried into this PR, once it is merged.
- **#224's follow-up fix** (restore tracked `data/macro` before the pull) —
  daily-audit lane; review and merge when it arrives.
- **#176's per-cohort fix** — review when revised.
- **CQA-3** (skew capture days taken after the close pass every gate) — the
  owner was told on 10-07 that this needed a decision; recommendation for the
  first scheduled run: approve it (P3 moat, a concrete done-when, no
  owner-only content).
- The tbx-win dispatch replaces the Mac's, which missed the 10-07 midday slot:
  the skew capture's in-session timing should improve from 10-08; watch it.