Close 10-item evolution-backlog drain session (2026-04-24) as COMPLETE…

Decision

Close 10-item evolution-backlog drain session (2026-04-24) as COMPLETE with 9 ✅ Done + 1 ⏳ AJ-policy-pending. Metacog audit passed: 1 framing-effect bias surfaced (on “only” in blue-mcp bridge-merge justification — legitimate constraint-narrowing, acknowledged as mitigation-suggested disconfirming-evidence already considered: the constraint set was GitHub unrelated-history reject + PR-Merge-Flow ban on force-push, jointly reducing the solution space to bridge-merge). No depth/diversity/rigor scores from this metacog session are diagnostic — reasoning happened in the main Claude Code context, not in this ST session. Completion Gate 7 checks passed: zero-temp-residue (after /tmp/blue-mcp-reconcile cleanup), docs cascaded (MEMORY.md feedback pointer added; plugin-integration.md header updated 8→9 plugins; evolution-backlog.md 25 ✅/1 ⏳), zero credentials leaked on 8 touched files (grep scan clean), no new tech debt (engineering plugin duplicates gated by precedence table not left loose), security review N/A (no new auth/port/network), rollback paths documented per change class.

Rationale

Rollback paths per mutation class: (a) Memory/protocol edits — reversible via Edit with prior content (or git restore if under version control). (b) Infra cron — prior single-tier snapshot at */2 preserved in crontab -l | grep snapshot history; restore by editing root crontab. (c) Docker image rebuilds — previous hermes-consul-hermes-consul image preserved as dangling (per Stage-3 cleanup policy, old images kept until next rebuild); rollback = docker compose down && docker tag <prior-sha> hermes-consul-hermes-consul && docker compose up -d. (d) ST MCP rebuild — same dangling-image rollback. (e) Shared-repo PR — blue-mcp master at commit 4d4aa88; rollback via git revert on merge commit (destructive in shared repo, requires policy approval). (f) Strategic artifacts (upstream-PR bundle, ResearchClaw ADR) — documents only, no runtime effect, delete-to-rollback. (g) OpenClaw CXO TOOLS.md — sudo-appended; rollback via sudo tail -n +X | sponge to strip the Round-7 overlay block. All changes have at-most-2-command rollback paths. Bias-scan surfaced 1 framing-effect (false positive on a legitimately-constrained decision); mitigation suggestion already honored (the decision explicitly enumerated 3 alternatives: cherry-pick, force-push, bridge-merge). Confidence 0.88 based on: (i) verification ran on each item before marking ✅, (ii) live containers still healthy (4 services verified Up), (iii) Completion Gate’s 7 checks all green, (iv) 1 AJ-pending item genuinely requires human judgment and was not deferred inappropriately.

Alternatives Rejected

Outcome

Pending