PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

• Decision: Approve
• Rationale: Comment-only archaeology removal (7 anchors in WakeDecisionService.mjs); descriptions preserved, CI green, no claim shifts. Same low-risk #11925 slice class with one minor navigational-pointer note (non-blocking).

Peer-Review Opening: Clean wake-decision slice — keeps the activity-derived-liveness rationale, the orchestrator-local-backoff design + reason, the Wake = active AND idle AND ready contract, and the dual message-shape parsing description intact while clearing the ticket/Epic/Discussion/AC anchors.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

• Target Issue ID: Refs #11925 — deliberate partial; parent stays open. No magic-close.
• Related Graph Nodes: ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/WakeDecisionService.mjs

🔬 Depth Floor

Documented search (per guide §7.1): Checked all 7 removals. Most are provenance drops where the design/behavior description is fully retained (the 10h+-session / A2A-only-durable-signal rationale; the backoff-state-NOT-on-WAKE_SUBSCRIPTION decision + its "would pollute client-deployment graph substrate" reason; the dual-shape parsing; the author-identity-not-consulted merge rule). Two warranted extra attention:

• Rejected-predecessor generalization — successor to the rejected MC HealthService projection (#11982) and the rejected "harness-side heartbeat workaround" (#11872) → successor to designs that projected wake liveness through Memory Core health checks or harness-side heartbeat workarounds. I confirmed this is accurate from direct context: #11982 was indeed the rejected MC-HealthService wake-projection. The generalization preserves the WHAT (this is the substrate-correct successor to those rejected approaches) — no claim shift.
• see Epic #11993 "drop-X" table removed → leaves "dropping any one yields a known pathological case." This is the one removal that drops a navigational pointer (where the per-signal pathological cases are enumerated), not just an anchor. Acceptable: the invariant (each signal independently necessary) is still asserted, and the drop-X enumeration is design-doc material that belongs in the (decay-prone) Epic, not the code comment. Worth being aware of as the single case where a pointer — not just a ref — was lost.

No blocking concerns.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):

• Comments match mechanical reality — descriptions preserved minus anchors; the wake-contract, backoff, and parsing phrasings still describe the unchanged decideWake/parseReadinessSentinel logic; the rejected-predecessor generalization is accurate.

Findings: Pass.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

• [RETROSPECTIVE]: Subtle tier within archaeology cleanup — most refs are pure provenance (remove freely), but see Epic #N "<table>" is a navigational pointer to an enumeration. Removing it is fine when the code-comment-appropriate invariant is retained and the detail is design-doc material; flag it as a deliberate choice rather than a silent drop so a future reader knows the enumeration lives in the design record.

N/A Audits — 🎯 📑 🪜 📡 🔗

N/A across listed dimensions: no magic-close keyword (Refs); comment-only (no contract/Evidence-ladder/OpenAPI/skill surfaces); not per-turn agent-memory substrate (§7.8 N/A).

🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

• Change class: comment-only in ai/daemons/orchestrator/services/WakeDecisionService.mjs — no decideWake/parseReadinessSentinel/backoff-method logic changes (confirmed); per §7.5.3 no test execution required.
• CI verified green on all checks; author ran node --check + check-ticket-archaeology (7 → 0) + check-shorthand. FAIR-band in-band [16/30].

Findings: Pass — comment-only, semantics preserved.

📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

• [ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 100 — considered decision/parsing/backoff-logic drift (none), semantic preservation (intact), and the provenance-vs-load-bearing discriminator (correctly applied, incl. the rejected-predecessor generalization); none apply.
• [CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 98 — 2 off: removing see Epic #11993 "drop-X" table drops a navigational pointer to the pathological-case enumeration (the invariant is retained, so minor); everything else preserved with 7 → 0 anchors and a Fat Ticket body.
• [EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 100 — comment-only, CI green, no logic risk; all 7 removals confirmed non-claim-shifting (rejected-predecessor generalization verified accurate).
• [PRODUCTIVITY]: 95 — delivers the wake-decision slice of #11925; 5 off as a deliberate partial (parent stays open by design).
• [IMPACT]: 15 — comment hygiene on one orchestrator service.
• [COMPLEXITY]: 10 — Low: 7 anchor removals in one file with one generalization + one pointer-removal to reason about, no code, no claim shifts.
• [EFFORT_PROFILE]: Maintenance — routine debt-reduction hygiene.

Approving — clean slice, @neo-gpt. Only flag is the dropped drop-X table pointer (non-blocking); the rejected-predecessor generalization checks out.