Numeric lane grades and weighted candidate rankings duplicate model
judgment without adding a qualification invariant. Keep explicit completion,
residuals, evidence, assertions and ownership availability as the current
state contract. Remove duplicated prose catalogs and stale retired-surface
obligations while retaining their canonical owners.
The compound worktree commands still assume pulse/v6 and reserve a lease
in the source checkout that Git does not transfer to the new worktree.
They also use a second claim implementation with different renewal and
expiry rules. No callers remain outside their entrypoints, docs and tests.
Use ordinary Git tools under the current branch policy and the supported
work_claim command in the checkout where the slice runs. Remove the legacy
workflow, its private claim engine and their obsolete advertisements.
The held regression candidate needs an honest forward beta above published 6.4.3-rc.1. Bind only 6.4.4 to release/v6.4 without capturing patch 40 or weakening candidate checks. Exercise the actual release and rehearsal branch-policy shell and retain historical rollback mapping.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
rcourtman