[kixelated]

Finishes cut placement: the release cut's steps now re-create each later cut where no quest requires one in a later milestone, and re-create the gate that holds later work each cycle while m9's lab stays open.

Summary

• quest/m3/release/cut.md: each cut recurs as one of two quests.
  • The on-demand cut, /quest/m0/release/cut.md: the next additive or API cut, no Required, a ## Waiting item for the maintainer's instruction. Every cut's PR (the wire cut's too) releases what requires it and re-creates it.
  • The wire cut, /quest/m4/wire-cut.md: requires /quest/m2/README.md and /quest/m3/README.md (m3 holds the cut gate), so it becomes ready once the cycle's API breaks, wire changes, and gate merge. m5 and m6 require it, which is the per-cycle gate; its PR re-creates it at the same path and keeps those links. The hygiene audits and the vendor sync's children recur behind it in m4.
  • The 0.22.0 cut re-creates both, points m5's gate at the wire cut, and drops m4's. The re-split moves m5 to m6 with its Required and gives the new m5 the same one.
  • The open paragraph is replaced by the decision; the Required link to this quest is removed.
• quest/README.md, m2, m4, m5 READMEs: the cycle description matches. The m2 Goal and questline no longer say the cut gate lives in m2 (the cut's template has kept it in m3 since 2026-11-09).
• quest/m3/vendor-sync/README.md: step 2 re-creates the questline in m4 behind the wire cut, which moves it under /quest/m3/cut-gate/ (it named a stale quest/m2/cut-gate/).
• Deletes quest/m0/cut-placement.md.

Why m4: the wire cut waits on m3, so the 2026-11-13 rule puts it in m3 or later; m3 can't hold it, since a quest can't require the milestone holding it; and a milestone can't require a cut it holds, so m4 stays open and the gate covers m5 and m6. This mirrors today's layout, where m3 (higher-priority later work) holds the cut ungated and m4/m5 are gated.

Decisions

Taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review:

1. ✅ The wire cut lives in /quest/m4/wire-cut.md; additive and API cuts recur at /quest/m0/release/cut.md. Rejected:

   • One cut quest in m0 that requires m2 and m3 for a wire cut: breaks the 2026-11-13 rule.
   • The wire cut in m3 requiring each other m3 entry by hand: a list nobody keeps current, like the hand-kept m2 list rejected 2026-11-09.
   • One cut quest in m4 for every kind: additive and API cuts would rank last, no m0 to m3 quest could require one, and each additive cut would have to choose which links to release.

2. ✅ The gate covers m5 and m6 every cycle and never lifts between cycles; m5's quests start when the cycle-end shift brings them into m4. Rejected: lifting it between cycles (nothing marks a moment to lift it, and m5's work reaches m4 at each shift anyway); gating m5 only (the speculative m6 work would then rank ahead of m5 and m9). quest waiting still lists blocked quests' Waiting items, so condition quests in a gated m6 stay visible to triage.

3. ✅ The wire cut carries no ## Waiting: its Required on m2 and m3 holds it until the wire phase is done, and its Plan still confirms the maintainer's cut instruction first.

4. ✅ Each cut's shift also rewrites the current Plan rule of the milestones it moves, and m4 and m5 carry a "current rule" paragraph above their dated entries (CodeRabbit's finding on cut.md). Rejected: editing the dated decision entries (they are history), and leaving the Plans to drift from the Goals.

Validation

quest check and quest check --base origin/main: 510 documents ok. Walked each constraint from the quest's Plan against the new layout: the wire cut (m4) requires only m2, m3, and m0 reviews; it requires no milestone above it; m4 doesn't require it; m5 and m6 require an earlier milestone's quest; audits and vendor-sync children in m4 require a same-milestone quest; the on-demand cut in m0 requires only m0 reviews. No behavior to exercise beyond the quest tree.

Public API

None. Wire: none.

Caused by

No single PR: the steps predate the 2026-11-13 rule (moq-dev/moq#8637) that they now break.

Follow-ups

None.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, unknown effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-sonnet-5-5, unknown effort (iterate, XS)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: 9a5b850, named in full once no reviewer reports a finding

• Base: origin/main at 99d789e

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort

• Session: 01a1da3e-3845-78f3-90bf-877ac35d0f58, round 2

• Score: 9/10, The incremental changes clarify milestone shifts, but the new m5 rule reverses the intended dependency direction in its wording.

• Rounds: 2; findings 1 (low 1): fixed 0, refuted 0, open 1

• Findings, open until the next round settles them:

  • Low, quest/m5/README.md:22: Correct the wire-cut dependency direction

Round 2 head 09a36e4: finding 1 (low, m5 dependency wording) fixed; no further round.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

I read the full diff. It only changes quest documents, so there is no code or wire surface. I checked it against the constraints the deleted cut-placement.md listed.

• Cut recurrence split (quest/m3/release/cut.md): the on-demand cut recurs at /quest/m0/release/cut.md, and the wire cut recurs at /quest/m4/wire-cut.md. The wire cut requires m2 and m3 and is required by m5 and m6. It is not in a milestone below the ones it waits on, it doesn't require its own milestone, and no milestone that requires it holds it.
• Cycle description (quest/README.md, m2, m4 and m5 READMEs): these now match the new layout. The m2 text no longer says the cut gate lives there.
• Vendor sync (quest/m3/vendor-sync/README.md): the questline is re-created in m4 behind the wire cut, and the stale quest/m2/cut-gate/ path is replaced with /quest/m3/cut-gate/.
• Removed placeholder (quest/m0/cut-placement.md): the quest is deleted, and its Required link is dropped from the cut.

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Walkthrough

The quest documents now place recurring additive and API cuts in m0 and wire cuts in m4. They update the 0.22.0 release-cut steps, milestone gate descriptions, and vendor-sync recreation path. The m0 cut-placement planning document was removed.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 11af2

This PR changes release-cut planning documents only. The m4 and m5 Plan text still contains rules that conflict with the new cut split and could mislead a later milestone shift. Fixing those Plan rules or the cut procedure is a small follow-up, so merge risk is low.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: the wire cut moves to m4 so that no milestone waits on a later one. The raw summary, the description, and the objectives all describe this placement. The title is spec…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description is specific and related to the changeset. It states the PR finishes cut placement by making the release cut re-create the later cuts and the cycle gate. It lists the changed files (que…

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Explanation

The title names the main change: the wire cut moves to m4 so that no milestone waits on a later one. The raw summary, the description, and the objectives all describe this placement. The title is specific and concise. It is 77 characters, which is longer than ideal but still readable.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is specific and related to the changeset. It states the PR finishes cut placement by making the release cut re-create the later cuts and the cycle gate. It lists the changed files (quest/m3/release/cut.md, quest/m0/release/cut.md, quest/m4/wire-cut.md, the m2/m4/m5 READMEs, quest/m3/vendor-sync/README.md) and the deletion of quest/m0/cut-placement.md. It also gives the rationale for placing the wire cut in m4, the validation performed, and the decisions taken.

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Review comments at @quest/m3/release/cut.md:
- Line 69: Update the m4 and m5 Plan rules to reflect the new cut split: state
that m4 shifts quests by kind at the wire cut and that m6 is the deferred
bucket. Keep the dated decision entries, and update the cut procedure so it
rewrites the Plan rules as well as Goals for milestones it moves.

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Files selected for processing: 7

• quest/README.md
• quest/m0/cut-placement.md
• quest/m2/README.md
• quest/m3/release/cut.md
• quest/m3/vendor-sync/README.md
• quest/m4/README.md
• quest/m5/README.md

Files with no reviewable changes: 1

• quest/m0/cut-placement.md

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the two commits added since the prior review. They only touch quest documents.

• Plan rules in the cut procedure (quest/m3/release/cut.md): each cut's shift now rewrites the Goal and the current Plan rule of the milestones it moves (m4, m5, m6). Dated decision entries stay as history.
• m4 current rule (quest/m4/README.md): a paragraph above the dated entries states that m4 holds the wire cut and moves only at a wire cut.
• m5 current rule (quest/m5/README.md): a paragraph states that m5 requires the wire cut like m6, and that m6 stays the deferred bucket after the 0.22.0 cut. The dependency direction now reads correctly.

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