Two findings, no behavior change. Both are about **recorded reasoning
that was wrong** — the kind that sends the next person the wrong way.
## 1. The coding-ideas column collapse does not work (IR change
reverted)
I implemented it — deleted `ideas`, moved its `intake`/`autoTriage:
false` onto Planning, repointed the `start` anchor, updated the IR
suites to the merged shape (they went green, 44/44). Then the wider
suites failed and showed why it cannot work.
**The manual gate IS the column boundary.** `replan-target.ts` names the
discriminator in its own comment: *"The real discriminator is which lane
the triage service SCANS, which depends on the intake column's
`autoTriage` config."* So `ideas` is unscanned, `todo` is scanned, and
"promote" means moving the card from one into the other. Merge them and
one column must be both:
| if… | consequence |
|---|---|
| `autoTriage: false` wins | never scanned → nothing is ever planned →
the capacity hold releases an **unplanned** card into `in-progress`,
violating FN-7648 |
| scanning wins | `autoTriage: false` is meaningless → the manual gate
is gone → the preset duplicates the default Coding workflow |
**8 tests fail, and they are not fixtures** — they encode the promotion
flow itself, e.g. `store-create-intake-column.test.ts` › *"promotes an
Ideas-parked task to todo without planning it (still bootstrap-stub
PROMPT.md)"*. Rewriting them would have meant inventing what "promote"
means with no destination column, which is how a broken flow gets
blessed by a green suite.
**What it would actually take:** a promoted flag the triage scan reads,
so one column can hold both "not yet promoted" and "being planned". That
is a new lifecycle signal, not a column merge — the same shape as the
deferred `needs-replan` follow-up. Happy to scope it.
**I also corrected my own earlier checklist** in this doc, which said to
delete the now-dead `isUnplannedStartCreate` arm. Wrong: `autoTriage` is
a general trait field (`builtin-traits.ts`), so any custom workflow can
declare a manual intake with `intake !== hold`. The arm is dead only for
this preset.
## 2. `replan-target.ts` recorded the U11 merge backwards
The note claimed U11 deletes `todo` and keeps `triage`. It is the
reverse — Shape B kept the id `todo` and deleted `triage`, precisely so
the ~120 `column === "todo"` guards kept their meaning and no data
migration shipped. The default lineage now declares `todo, in-progress,
in-review, done, archived`.
The lookups are correct today, but **for the opposite reason to the one
recorded**: the default lineage falls *through* the `triage` lookup and
lands on `todo`, its merged planning column. `triage` still matches the
workflows that genuinely declare it (Lead generation, PR review).
Also flagged without changing (it would be a behavior change): the
`return "triage"` fallbacks on the no-match and throw paths name a
column the default lineage no longer declares, so a workflow with
neither `triage` nor `todo` gets a nonexistent target.
## Census
**Unchanged: 781 total, triage 5.** This PR adds no guards and converts
none — `workflowHasColumn(ir, "triage")` is a call argument, not a
comparison, so it is outside what the census counts either way.
## Verification
41/41 engine replan-target suites (including the existing
`replan-target-merged-planning-column` suite that covers the corrected
behavior) · engine typecheck clean · the reverted IR restores the tree
to main's content for those three files, verified by `git checkout --`.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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