@andres ruled option A (#5631): one standing never-archived repo. This is the
runbook half.
The distinction the document exists to make: a drill is disposable by design
and ends with the builder archiving it. This venue is the opposite — it exists
so that runner-only facts can be measured on demand, and archiving it defeats
the purpose. That is not hypothetical: all three drill repos were archived
correctly, by the rule, and each then had to be un-archived or replaced. The
request came three times in two days across #192 and #198 and never became
anything.
What the runbook pins, all of it measured rather than asserted:
* a probe MUST run as an Actions job under ${{ github.token }} — the same
DELETE answers 500 there and 204 under a PAT, so a probe run any other way
produces a confident wrong answer;
* probe results are written into the forge, not left in a job log, because
logs age out and #192's run 701 survived only because it wrote into an
issue;
* no probe touches ceremony's own board — the venue exists so the live board
is not the fixture;
* the three probes it already owes (#192's live label lift, #205's dispatch
measurement, a 0.6.0 consumer exercise after #198).
STANDING THE REPO UP IS THE OPERATOR'S STEP, and this is the part I could not
do rather than the part I chose not to. Measured today with this identity:
POST /api/v1/orgs/heavy-duty/repos -> 403 not allowed in organization
POST /api/v1/user/repos -> 201 personal namespace only
Same shape as the drill delete: a deliberate boundary, not a misconfiguration.
The runbook says so, says not to retry it, and says not to work around it by
using a personal namespace where the org's runner and secrets do not reach.
test/run.sh 22/22, shellcheck 0.10.0, actionlint, self-ref all clean.
Refs #202
Both 0.2.0 drills ended at the same wall independently: bot tokens
deliberately lack delete_repo, so 'it gets deleted at the end' named a
step no builder in this fleet can perform. One drill held its release
draft in state:building retrying a 403 that cannot succeed; the other
shipped a record asserting a delete that had not happened. Step 1 now
names archive (archived:true, inside the repo scope) as the builder's
end state and the delete as the operator's, states that cleanup gates
nothing, and says why the archived leftover is safe to leave. The
record now states the disposal its author actually observed.
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Bootstrap arms with a preamble plus changelog.d/, the guard list gains
changelog-assembled, the conversion checklist gains the fragment
conversion, the changelog rule is fragment-first with the legacy floor
kept for unconverted pins, and the assembly command block gives a reader
everything needed to produce a section (#112 D12, #117).
drills/0.1.0.md — six probes plus (g), run on the disposable scratch repo
against the candidate SHA, every refusal checked for droppings; the pin
deviation (fork ref, CEREMONY_SELF_REF -> candidate SHA in both carriers)
recorded under its own heading per triage's ruling on #11. drills/README.md
gains the first-release caveat that ruling asked for: the first drill can
never take the pure pinned consumer path, and must not fix that by putting
a tag-shaped branch in the canonical ref namespace.
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VERSION at 0.1.0-dev, the armed CHANGELOG.md, drills/README.md (what a
drill means here), the self-callers (self-release.yml, self-labels.yml —
local uses:, the one form consumers must never copy), .github/labeler.yml
for the scope job, and the three self-guards in CI. labels.yml gains the
self-consumption bypass (release.yml's twin) so the label bootstrap can run
before any release tag exists; action-exercise's armed/drill-recorded
scratch steps move to self-guards per their own eviction note.
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