Retire the line-level append-only mechanic (ersatztv#303 H9) in favor of the lifecycle validator
built in Tasks 1-5. .claude/hooks/decisions-guard.sh is now a thin fail-open shim around
scripts/decisions_validate.py; .husky/pre-commit calls it for the structural (working-tree) checks,
.husky/commit-msg drops the old staged/[decisions-edit]-deletion block and keeps only the
Co-Authored-By check. The Gitea decisions-guard job is renamed "decisions lifecycle" and now runs
decisions_validate.py --base/--head (structural + body-diff + no-vanish) and
build_decisions_catalog.py --check (active catalog drift), with actions/setup-python@v5 added since
the bare `small` lane doesn't guarantee python3; the old 1800-line consolidation-floor step is
removed (replaced by the validator's aggregate active-corpus budget). docs/decisions.md's header is
rewritten from append-only to lifecycle framing (metadata schema, statuses, generated catalog,
archive, same-PR supersession); [decisions-edit] is re-scoped (not removed) to rationale-prose
edits/factual corrections only. docs/ci-cd.md's release ritual and hook/job descriptions are
rewritten to match.
Also fixes a pre-existing validator false-positive surfaced while sanity-checking against
origin/main: Task 6's #303 H9/H3 split (commit d09be57e) renamed the archived record's heading
away from the pre-split original, which the validator's heading-based relocation check reads as
"removed without an archive copy." Restored the archived heading to match the original text
(functionally unchanged — still status: superseded, same key) and updated the two prose
cross-references (migration-map.md, release-ci-governance.md) that pointed at the old anchor.
PR1 scope only (per brief): does NOT wire the kickoff-guard CI step or touch the
kickoff/README/select-queue docs — that's Task 8/PR2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
timothyandClaude Opus 4.8
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