# Changelog 2026-08-05 (skill close-convention DOCFIX) -- SKILL.md close bookend corrected

Session changelog (GA-R2/D1: ONE per session; distinct session from the
2026-08-05 vault-init close, whose body is
`docs/changelog-20260805-vault-init-ovn-resolved.md`). Branch
`dc-dc-stage5-preconditions`. Session open reconciled at HEAD `e252b31`:
repo-lint 0 fail / 1 legacy warn, `ledger-scan` 4 open decisions / 29 open SEC /
next-free D-143, DOCFIX-209, BUNDLEFIX-053. Status claims live in
`docs/CURRENT-STATE.md` ONLY; nothing here is a status claim.

Scope: a single skill/repo divergence in the session-CLOSE bookend text, surfaced
2026-08-05. No live-cloud mutation; no state-bearing surface touched (a skill routing
line is not a status claim, so no GA-R1 L10 coupling). Stage 5 dc0 remains OPEN and
untouched by this session.

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## Item 1 -- DOCFIX-209: SKILL.md close-bookend text conflated GA-R4 ledger rotation with the GA-R2 changelog body

**WHAT WAS WRONG.** `.claude/skills/openstack-cloud-ops/SKILL.md` (the always-loaded
routing layer -- F12: a wrong line here misleads every fresh session before any runbook
loads) described session CLOSE as: "a bounded ledger summary (15-line hard cap, GA-R4
rule 1); **the full session body goes to `docs/archive/` in the same close commit**."
That last clause is a paraphrase of ratified GA-R4 rule 2's literal words -- but it
CONFLATES two distinct ratified mechanisms and describes neither correctly:

- **GA-R4 rule 2 + amendment F1** (`docs/audit/ga-rulings.md:328-338`) is the LEDGER
  ROTATION mechanism: bounded summaries rotate out to a dated
  `docs/archive/session-ledger-rotated-*.md` file when the 300-line live-ledger cap
  binds at a close -- NOT a "full body" and NOT "in the same close commit" of every
  session. Practice follows this: `docs/archive/` holds 11 such rotated ledgers
  (latest `session-ledger-rotated-20260804.md`).
- **GA-R2 amendment D1** (`docs/audit/ga-rulings.md:228-234`) makes the CHANGELOG the
  session body-of-record ("one changelog per session"). The session's full body is
  `docs/changelog-<date>-<label>.md`, cited by a `Body:` line in the
  `## SESSION CLOSE <date>` block appended to `docs/session-ledger.md`. That changelog
  is consolidated per-stage into `docs/archive/changelogs/` at STAGE close (GA-R2 rule
  2), not moved at session close.

So the skill line was wrong on both counts: the per-session body is the changelog (it
stays in `docs/changelog-*` until stage-close consolidation), and what reaches
`docs/archive/` at a session close is a ledger rotation, and only at cap.

**EVIDENCE (measured, not asserted).**
- Ratified text: `docs/audit/ga-rulings.md:328-332` (GA-R4 rules 1-2),
  `:333-338` (F1 cap-at-close), `:209-234` (GA-R2 rules 2/5 + D1).
- `ls docs/archive/` -> `session-ledger-rotated-*.md` (x11) PLUS `changelogs/`
  (consolidated per-stage bodies) PLUS `stage-records/` PLUS one-off historical docs.
  Archive is NOT "rotated ledgers only".
- Close blocks in `docs/session-ledger.md` carry `Body:` changelog citations: 08-05 ->
  `docs/changelog-20260805-vault-init-ovn-resolved.md`; 08-04 ->
  `docs/changelog-20260804-ovn-central-cert-fix.md`; 08-02 ->
  `docs/changelog-20260802-queued-items.md`.
- `references/operating-discipline.md` "Session continuity" (`:100-112`) is already
  correct (ledger = what is open; changelog = what changed) and needs NO edit.

**DISPOSITION.** Operator-ruled 2026-08-05: "Proceed as DOCFIX-209". Because both
same-day rulings, read correctly, BACK the practice and CONTRADICT the skill line's
conflation, no ratified text changes -- this is a skill-text correction, not a GA-R5
amendment. (The alternative -- amend GA-R4 rule 2 first -- was offered and declined.)

**THE FIX.** In `.claude/skills/openstack-cloud-ops/SKILL.md`, the CLOSE sentence now
reads: bounded <=15-line summary (GA-R4 rule 1) appended to `docs/session-ledger.md`
as a `## SESSION CLOSE <date>` block; the session's full body is its changelog
(`docs/changelog-<date>-<label>.md`, GA-R2 one-per-session) cited by that block's
`Body:` line; and `docs/archive/` is explicitly NOT the per-session body store -- it
holds periodically-rotated full ledgers (`session-ledger-rotated-*.md`, GA-R4 rule 3)
and per-stage consolidated records (`archive/changelogs/`, `archive/stage-records/`,
GA-R2 rule 2 at STAGE close). ASCII-only (`<=` not the glyph; `--` dashes).

**SECOND COPY FIXED.** The derived Chat-upload snapshot
`.claude/skills/openstack-cloud-ops-consolidated-20260727.md:54-57` carried the
byte-identical sentence and was patched identically, so the Chat mount does not stay
stale in the interim (a stale mount is the known failure mode that caused a bad clone
2026-07-25, `docs/audit/skill-divergence-20260725.md`). The snapshot is a DERIVED
artifact; it is properly regenerated from SKILL.md + references at stage close -- this
hand-patch is an interim-consistency measure, not a substitute for that regeneration.
(A third copy exists in the git-ignored worktree
`.claude/worktrees/skill-repackage-20260727/`; left untouched -- it is a separate
working tree, not part of the tracked surface.)

**REVERT.** `git revert` this commit (skill edits ship uncommitted for operator diff
review, so pre-commit this is `git checkout -- <the two skill files>`). Restores a
routing line that conflates GA-R4 ledger rotation with the GA-R2 changelog body and
mis-describes `docs/archive/`. Do not revert without re-opening the finding -- the line
misleads every fresh session's close bookend.