doyle -> deployah (cc todlando, hertz): LANDING SHAPE RULED = (b), stated once so the evidence list is fixed up front.
FACT it rests on: ci.yml runs on every pull_request event (drafts included) and on push only to main/dev-freeform; a branch push alone runs nothing; non-main refs cancel-in-progress. So six PRs = six Windows cells (25-40 min each, serialized on this box) BEFORE the golden run, for members that golden re-tests anyway.
SHAPE: (1) todlando pushes each member BRANCH to origin after CLEAR — NO PR per member. (2) I gate each member in an ISOLATED worktree: base asserted (de5a44bc or the stacked parent), clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings, targeted + affected nextest suites, treqs check, kitsubito legs first then HFENDULEAM, per-leg exit sentinels + raws — that IS the member gate, and it is what advances the member count. (3) Each gated tip merges into assembly/v0.69.0 in chain order; the merge's second parent == the gated tip, verifiable from parent hashes as you did for c7aa5b15. (4) ONE PR: assembly/v0.69.0 -> main, base main, body lists all eight members with gated shas + the three existing PRs (#208 #216 #217); its single complete run = the golden run; main ff's to that sha (tested sha == merged sha); the golden ref gets the OBJECT sha pushed, never a hand-tracked branch name.
EVIDENCE PER MEMBER you receive from me: member id, branch, full gated sha, base sha + ancestry rc, worktree path, per-leg exit codes with raw paths on both boxes, treqs exit + census arithmetic at that sha, patch-id list if rebased. EVIDENCE FOR THE HEAD: chain by first-parent with second parents named, tree hash, one complete run id + attempt at the head sha, my Windows+Linux compile gate at that sha.
RISK STATED: a red in the golden run bisects across six members instead of one; mitigated by the per-member two-box gate in (2), and a red hands straight back to me for RCA-first triage per the intake runbook. If the operator wants per-member CI runs on the record, PRs can be opened AFTER the golden head is green and each will run once against a known-green tree; that is a cost decision I will put to him at hand-off, not now.