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Linked issues

Closes #3815

Relates to #3358 (merged as 2261125c89) and #3691.

What changed

Closes out the spec 018 cleanup work now that #3358 is on develop:

• Ticks T035, T053, T060 and T063 in the spec 018 task list. T035 records the real dry run against develop: 415 remote branches, 0 deletion candidates, 0 auto-approved, 11 open-PR branches kept, main and develop kept, 48 forbidden-prefix and 21 invalid-name branches sent to DISCUSS.
• Records in T033 that the shared categoriser and report fields are delivered, but the claude/* auto-approval rule is not, under FR-020.
• Clarifies T034: it stays open because feat: branch-cleanup - Add report-only branch audit CLI #3358 did not deliver branch-audit.yml (spec 009 T046 is still open) and T073 is deferred.
• Records the DISCUSS-to-DELETE promotion route in spec 009 (FR-012 and a new manual review section in its quickstart), which completes T063.
• Removes the "until feat: branch-cleanup - Add report-only branch audit CLI #3358 merges" qualifiers from the spec 018 plan, quickstart heading and docs/CLAUDE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT.md.

Audience & placement

Maintainers of the branch guard and the branch cleanup audit. Spec files only, plus one paragraph in docs/CLAUDE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT.md.

Preview / Screenshots

Not applicable.

Notes

Remaining spec 018 tasks need owner action or other work: T028 to T030, T034, T042, T043 and T048.

Verified with the spec 018 documentation tests and the branch cleanup contract tests (121 passed) and markdownlint (0 issues).

Changelog

Changed

• Updated the Claude cloud environment and branch cleanup specs to reflect the merged branch audit and the manual review route for claude/* branches.

Added

Fixed

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Checklist (Global DoD / PR)

• Documentation tests pass
• markdownlint clean
• No secrets or personal data

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified that claude/* branches are flagged for manual review rather than automatically deleted.
  • Documented when maintainers may recommend deletion: the branch has no unique commits, is merged into develop or main, and has no open pull request. Deletion still requires draft-pull-request approval and merge.
  • Clarified that branches with their own commits are never eligible for promotion to deletion. Automatic cleanup remains deferred until branch-age and origin checks are available.

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Walkthrough

The changes document manual review rules for claude/* branch cleanup and update the cloud-environment specifications and documentation to record the merged cleanup work and deferred automatic approval.

Changes

Branch cleanup documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Manual promotion rules .github/specs/009-audit-branch-cleanup/spec.md, .github/specs/009-audit-branch-cleanup/quickstart.md, docs/CLAUDE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT.md, CHANGELOG.md	The guidance states that only empty claude/* branches merged into develop or main with no open PR may be manually promoted from DISCUSS to DELETE. Deletion still requires approval and merge of a draft PR. Branches with their own commits cannot be promoted.
Cloud-environment delivery status .github/specs/018-claude-cloud-environment/plan.md, .github/specs/018-claude-cloud-environment/quickstart.md, .github/specs/018-claude-cloud-environment/tasks.md	The records mark the cleanup work as merged and update task statuses and notes. Automatic approval remains deferred pending branch-age and branch-origin signals.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50bb9

Maintainers may think the documented manual promotion route is not yet available. Correct the stale prerequisite; the remaining risk is limited to documentation confusion.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 50bb9

The instructions make manual promotion criteria explicit without enabling automatic deletion. Human approval remains a documented requirement, but enforcement and recovery controls for the eventual deletion workflow are not established by the available source.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The material security outcome is deletion of repository branch references through a future or externally operated approval route. The inspected CLI does not perform that deletion, and this PR does not add an executable consumer or expand runtime authority. Actual deletion credentials and permission scope are not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The policy assigns promotion to a maintainer and requires human approval and merge before deletion. The source establishes the separate report-only CLI gate, but does not establish an authenticated maintainer check or executable approval enforcement for the manual deletion path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — End-to-end manual deletion invariants remain unverified because its executor is not delivered in the inspected repository. The existing contract specifies tip-bound revalidation and lease protection for deferred automatic deletion, but that does not prove equivalent protection against stale approvals, concurrent updates, repeated execution, interruption, or partial failure in the manual path.

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🟡 Minor · Remove the stale T063 prerequisite. · quickstart.md:117-118

.github/specs/018-claude-cloud-environment/quickstart.md:117-118
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the stale T063 prerequisite.

Line 117 says this route will be added after T063. T063 is already marked complete in .github/specs/018-claude-cloud-environment/tasks.md at Line 330, and .github/specs/009-audit-branch-cleanup/quickstart.md now documents the route. State that maintainers can use it now.

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Review comment at @.github/specs/018-claude-cloud-environment/quickstart.md
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Remove the T063 prerequisite from the route description in the quickstart and
state that maintainers can use the spec 009 draft-PR approval route now to
promote an eligible empty, merged claude/* branch with no open PR to DELETE.

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• .github/specs/009-audit-branch-cleanup/quickstart.md
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• .github/specs/018-claude-cloud-environment/quickstart.md
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