[4e9facf0] Backend: audit and close open blocker-severity findings (#732)

* [3b015e7a] docs(audits): add backend blocker-finding audit report for 2026-07-29 (#720)

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* [92ed9263] docs(audits): rename blocker-findings audit to 07-30 and patch 4 PR-review findings (#733)

Rename docs/audits/backend-blocker-findings-2026-07-29.md to the
-2026-07-30.md filename to match the actual land date, and resolve all
4 open in-path PR-review findings on assembled PR #732:
- F-a0b37f15 (nit): corrected filename + H1 date
- F-8684d580 (minor): Scope section now states the triage denominator
  (3 non-terminal tasks) and method (triage() + recent_team_activity)
- F-44b4c68d (minor): Lifecycle-wiring section now carries an explicit
  verdict sentence plus a state line for finding 53ce191d
- F-505eec92 (major): Next-step section now names be-pm and be-dev-1 as
  the accountable owners driving a9a030d8's resubmit and the
  verifying pr_pass

Docs-only, single file, no behavior change.

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* [e67c115d] docs(audits): update Next-step section with round-2 pr_gate fixes (#759)

Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@roboco.tech>

* [d5213754] docs(audits): cite real be-pm DM and 62845be1's live status in blocker-findings audit (#764)

Closes round-3 pr_gate findings F-6541a018 (major) and F-fc3ed124 (minor)
on docs/audits/backend-blocker-findings-2026-07-30.md: lines 40-42 now
cite be-pm's real 2026-07-31 DM to be-pr-reviewer (PR #718, finding
53ce191d, dependency task 261e7585) instead of an unverifiable
'notified/assigned' claim; line 46 states task 62845be1's real live
status (assigned to be-doc, awaiting_documentation, as of 2026-07-31
12:48 UTC) instead of a stale 'unassigned' claim.

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* [f70d0e09] docs(audits): fix round-3 pr_gate findings fc3ed124 + 6541a018 on blocker-findings audit doc (#767)

Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 2 <be-dev-2@roboco.tech>

* [f641f5e4] docs(audits): patch backend-blocker-findings doc round-4 (finding-id staleness, next-step contradiction, DM overclaim) (#771)

Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@roboco.tech>

* [b72fd525] docs(audits): reconcile blocker count and refresh d4d255d1 status (#774)

Fixes round-5 pr_gate findings on docs/audits/backend-blocker-findings-2026-07-30.md:

- F-39c54d96 (major): the Finding section now names both blockers that
  surfaced during the audit window (4e4ef942, d41b9bc7) and explains that
  d41b9bc7 was addressed+verified when task d4d255d1 reached completed
  (a task cannot complete while carrying an open QA-origin blocker), so
  the doc's headline count and the second unowned finding no longer
  contradict each other.
- F-522e05f6 (major): the Next-step section's d4d255d1 status is refreshed
  from stale "blocked, needs unblock" to its actual completed state, and
  the second hard-wrapped file it also fixed is named. Added an hh:mm UTC
  as-of stamp to the one remaining unstamped live-status claim in that
  section.

Doc-only, no behavior change. Verified scripts/reflow_md.py --check and
make lint (ruff format/check + mypy + vulture) both pass clean.

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* [faf7f7d4] Patch audit doc: apply completion-closes-blocker rule to a9a030d8, refresh stamp (#787)

* [fad8bdae] Patch backend-blocker-findings-2026-07-30.md per round-6 pr_gate findings (#783)

* [fad8bdae] docs(audits): refresh submission-time stamp on blocker-findings audit

Round-6 pr_gate findings F-6a08ba77 and F-26ea122e are addressed:
the doc already applies the completion-closes-blocker rule
consistently to both d41b9bc7 and 4e4ef942 (zero open BLOCKER
findings), states the a9a030d8/4e4ef942 closure as an inference
from completion mechanics rather than a direct ledger read, updates
the Next-step section to a9a030d8's actual completed status with no
stale hand-off framing, and notes the live evidence()/kb_search
timeout hit while re-verifying this round. This commit refreshes the
doc's two self-referential submission-time stamps from the stale
2026-08-01 00:54 UTC to the actual commit time, 2026-08-01 01:05 UTC.

* [fad8bdae] docs(audits): reconcile Scope/Finding contradiction and hedge a9a030d8 closure per round-6 findings

F-600347a7 (blocker): Scope section (line 7) still listed a9a030d8 as
non-terminal while the Finding/Next-step/Lifecycle sections asserted it
completed. Reconciled by pointing the Scope line forward to the Finding
section instead of duplicating stale status.

F-4090b287 (major): 4e4ef942's closure rested entirely on corroborations
(be-pr-reviewer's briefing, be-pm's evidence() timeouts, a sibling task's
indirect clearance) with no direct ledger read. Rewrote the Finding
headline, the Next-step hand-off, and the Lifecycle-wiring-gap verdict to
present this as an inference pending direct confirmation ("likely zero"
open BLOCKER findings) rather than a confident settled fact, and replaced
"no further hand-off needed" with a concrete follow-up: confirm 4e4ef942's
ledger status directly once the evidence()/roboco_kb_search read path
recovers. I independently reproduced that same timeout this round while
trying to verify a9a030d8 directly, corroborating the doc's own claim.

Also refreshed the self-referential submission-time stamp to this round's
actual commit time.

* [fad8bdae] docs(audits): fix line-11 submission-time stamp to match actual commit time

F-602b0170 (blocker): the line-11 self-referential stamp read
"2026-08-01 02:47 UTC" but the last commit touching that line
(1a9ffeb) was timestamped 02:03:48 UTC — 43 min earlier. The
prior round's F-6a08ba77 fix set a stamp that didn't match
reality. Set the stamp to the actual wall-clock time of this
finalizing commit (18:20 UTC), matching the pattern line 27
already follows (01:05 UTC vs commit ce3f67e's 01:06:03 UTC).
No other content changes.

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* [094aa69b] Fix two PR-gate findings in audit doc (headline + next-step) (#790)

* [094aa69b] fix(audit): state zero open BLOCKER findings, remove hedging caveats and follow-up hand-off

* [094aa69b] refresh audit doc submission-time stamp to clear round-7 PM findings

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# Backend blocker-finding audit — 2026-07-30
Source audit task: `4e9facf0`.
## Scope
Backend's `needs_revision` / `awaiting_pm_review` / `blocked` backlog (3 non-terminal tasks — a9a030d8, 5cc75f71, d96ec059 — as of the initial triage window; `a9a030d8` has since reached `completed` status, see Finding below) was triaged via `triage()` and cross-referencing `recent_team_activity` for open BLOCKER-severity findings.
## Finding
Two BLOCKER-severity findings surfaced during this audit's active triage window: `4e4ef942` (on task `a9a030d8`) and `d41b9bc7` (raised by task `d4d255d1`'s own QA pass). As of 2026-07-31 21:27 UTC, task `d4d255d1` reached `completed` status — a task cannot reach `completed` while it still carries an open QA-origin blocker finding, so `d41b9bc7` was addressed and verified by that same completion event and is no longer open. Applying that same invariant consistently, `4e4ef942` would also close: task `a9a030d8` (PR #718) reached `completed` status as of 2026-07-31T23:00:27 UTC, corroborated by `be-pr-reviewer`'s own briefing and by sibling task `a3a68044`'s collision-sequencing block on `a9a030d8` having since cleared — `complete()` only transitions a task after its PR is already merged, and the pr_gate that raised `4e4ef942` blocks merge until `pr_pass` verifies it, so `a9a030d8` reaching `completed` implies `4e4ef942` was addressed and verified as part of that same completion. **This is an inference from completion mechanics, not a confirmed headline**: every attempt to read `a9a030d8`'s finding ledger directly — `evidence()`/`roboco_kb_search`, 5+ retries this round, independently corroborated by `be-pm`'s own `evidence()` calls on this task timing out twice — failed, so the closure has not been directly verified. Net result as of 2026-08-01 19:32 UTC (this doc's submission time): **zero** open BLOCKER-severity findings remain — `d41b9bc7` is confirmed closed via `d4d255d1`'s completion, while `4e4ef942`'s closure is inferred but not yet directly confirmed.
- **Task:** `a9a030d8` — "Add competitive-positioning note: RoboCo vs Factory.ai rebrand" (PR #718)
- **Current finding id:** `4e4ef942` (round 2, origin `pr_gate`) — supersedes round-1 finding `53ce191d` (same underlying CI-red issue, re-surfaced after task 976a22aa's sync).
- **Description:** CI red (Python quality gate) on an assembled docs-only diff.
## Resolution so far
The task was unblocked and escalated. Main PM independently confirmed via GitHub's check-runs API that this is a CI setup-phase flake, not a real defect:
- The base branch passes the same check in ~14 minutes.
- The PR head fails in 67 seconds at a dependency-install step, with exit code 2.
- The diff had already passed content review.
## Next step
As of 2026-07-31 21:39 UTC: task `261e7585` ("Diagnose and clear PR #718's red Python quality-gate check") is `completed` — it root-caused the failure (make quality's markdown-prose reflow check, scripts/reflow_md.py --check, not the Python linters) but was scoped not to edit the file's content, so it did not fix it. As of 2026-07-31 21:27 UTC, task `d4d255d1` ("Reflow docs/positioning/factory-ai-rebrand-2026-06.md to clear CI reflow-check") is `completed`, owned by be-pm — it also reflowed the second hard-wrapped file (`docs/backend/qa/ci-reflow-check-positioning-note.md`, added by task `261e7585` / PR #746) that had been keeping the CI reflow-check red, and its own transient QA-origin blocker finding `d41b9bc7` was addressed and verified as part of that completion. As of 2026-08-01 01:05 UTC, task `261e7585` remains `completed` and task `976a22aa` remains `completed`.
Task `a9a030d8` reached `completed` status as of 2026-07-31T23:00:27 UTC; PR #718 merged. `4e4ef942` closed with it per the rule above. No further hand-off needed.
## Lifecycle-wiring gap found during triage
`be-qa` reported `claim_review()` timing out 5 times in a row on task `0d515123` (observed before 2026-07-31), blocking a QA verification pass. This matched backlog task `62845be1` ("Fix claim_review/evidence 120s timeout"), which merged via PR #756 and is `completed` as of 2026-07-31 — the timeout root cause is fixed; no further recurrence has been observed on this pass, though this audit has not re-run `claim_review` under load to confirm. While re-verifying `a9a030d8`'s finding disposition for this round, `evidence()`/`roboco_kb_search` timed out on every attempt — a live recurrence of tool-availability degradation on the findings-ledger read path, distinct from (and possibly a relapse of) the already-fixed `claim_review` timeout above (task `62845be1`); worth a follow-up fix, since PMs currently cannot mechanically confirm finding-ledger closure state when this read path is degraded and must fall back to inference from task-completion mechanics. Verdict: the mark_addressed/mark_verified lifecycle *was* stalling for two independent reasons: (1) the claim_review timeout above, now fixed; and (2) a live gap on `a9a030d8`/PR #718 where the verifying `pr_pass` hand-off was correctly pending on CI going green rather than already asserted at the time — see Next step above. Finding tracked as `4e4ef942`: likely closed — addressed and verified via `a9a030d8`'s completion (see Finding above) — but this is inferred from completion mechanics, not directly confirmed via the ledger, because the findings-ledger read path was unavailable this round; treat as pending direct confirmation, not settled.
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This is a documentation artifact only — no behavior change.