Fleet phase. `packages/engine/src/auto-merge-finalization.ts` was the
last census file with no branch, worktree, or open PR against it. Claim
published by pushing the branch before starting.
## Census before / after
| | total | this file |
|---|---|---|
| before | **47** | 2 |
| after | **45** | 0 |
`--strict` exits 0, baseline re-recorded. **Reclassification, not
conversion** — both lines are unchanged.
## Both sites were already reasoned, in a note that calls them
non-defects
- **Line 30** is the resolver's **degraded fallback arm**, inside
`catch`. The live arm two lines up calls `columnHasFlag(ir, columnId,
"complete")`. The literal is reached only when IR resolution throws,
where the legacy id is the only answer left — removing it would make a
failed resolve return nothing.
- **Line 99** picks an **error string**. The note above it works through
threading `isCompleteColumn` in and concludes the signature widening
costs more than the sharper diagnostic buys.
I did not revisit either judgement. The gap was mechanical: prose the
census cannot read, so both stayed in `byFile` as apparent debt for the
next pass to re-derive.
## This is the fourth, and it closes the set
With #3056, #3060, and #3063, **every census file that was unclaimed
during this phase has now been examined, and not one needed a
conversion.** Each site was a three-state fallback arm, or a site a
prior pass had already reviewed and kept.
The corollary is the finding I would most want carried forward: the
remaining count is not a work queue. A worker told to "claim the largest
cluster" reads the number, finds most of it already reasoned, and
reaches for whatever moves it — which is how three PRs converted guards
to a synchronous resolver that is inert under PostgreSQL.
One exception worth preserving: **`taskRevert.ts` should stay counted.**
I claimed, inspected, and released it without marking. Converting it
would classify a *neighbour* row using the modal task's flags — wrong on
data, not merely stale on vocabulary — and its note correctly calls the
entry **accurate debt** blocked on a per-neighbour flag map. Fallback
arms and dead paths → mark. Placeholders awaiting a capability → leave
counted.
## Verification
- `census --strict` exit 0; `tsc --noEmit` (engine) **0 errors**
- No dedicated test file for this module (`vitest` reports none), so no
suite to run — comment-only diff, no behaviour change
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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