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+<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0 -->
+<!-- Copyright (c) 2026 Jonathan D.A. Jewell (hyperpolymath) <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk> -->
+
+# Session handover — estate hygiene continuation (2026-06-20)
+
+Snapshot at the end of a cross-repo hygiene session spanning `hypatia`,
+`gitbot-fleet`, and `.git-private-farm`. Its first purpose is to warn the next
+agent that **the container clones used in this session are stale relative to
+live `main`**, then to record what was closed, grounded, and deferred.
+
+## Clone-vs-live drift (read this first)
+
+| Repo | Live `main` HEAD | This session's clone base | Behind by |
+|------|------------------|---------------------------|-----------|
+| hypatia | `e9998fc` (#516) | ~`#460`/`#462` | #510, #511, #514, #515, #516 |
+| gitbot-fleet | `f39d3d5` (#298) | `c513fff` (#261) | #294–#298 |
+
+The local remotes are a frozen `local_proxy` snapshot, **not** a live
+pass-through — `git fetch` does not retrieve the newer commits (the proxy does
+not even have the live HEAD objects). Consequences:
+
+- **Do not push the local working branches.** gitbot-fleet's clone still
+  contains the 99 vendored sustainabot files that PR #297 deleted; pushing would
+  re-vendor them and trip the anti-vendoring deletion-guard added in #298.
+- **Safe write pattern:** cut a fresh branch from live `main` and push via the
+  GitHub API (`get_file_contents` → edit → `create_or_update_file` → draft PR),
+  exactly as hypatia #510–#516 were done. This document was added that way.
+- **Code changes that need `cargo`/`mix` verification need a genuinely fresh
+  clone outside this container** — the proxy snapshot cannot be refreshed.
+
+## Closed / grounded this session
+
+- **gitbot-fleet #246 — CLOSED (completed).** The build-breaking `panic-attacker`
+  path dependency was removed wholesale by the sustainabot→oikosbot extraction
+  (#297), which emptied the `bots/sustainabot/` slot. Resolved by deletion, not a
+  patch — patching would have re-vendored the removed tree.
+- **gitbot-fleet #255 — grounded (comment), still open.** Survived the
+  extraction; ≤29 `expect_in_hot_path` findings remain in `accessibilitybot` /
+  `cipherbot`. They are `.expect()` on compile-time-constant `Selector::parse` /
+  `Regex::new`; fix = hoist into `LazyLock` / `once_cell` statics (removes the
+  hot-path `.expect()` *and* the per-call re-parse). Do from a fresh clone; verify
+  with `cargo clippy --workspace -- -W clippy::expect_used`.
+- **hypatia #426 — re-scoped (comment), still open.** Not a clean false-positive
+  fix: it is blocked on the #485 canonical-layout decision. hypatia's own rules
+  (SD001 / SD007 / SD023 + its `.claude/CLAUDE.md`) encode
+  `.machine_readable/6a2/`-canonical; gitbot-fleet's `.claude/CLAUDE.md`
+  invariant #1 asserts flat-canonical. SD004 only false-positives on flat-layout
+  repos. **Do not flip SD004 until the owner rules layout in #485** — flipping
+  would desync SD004 from its sibling rules.
+
+## Blocked on the owner (do not action)
+
+- **hypatia #417** — license metadata (8 manifests AGPL → MPL). Owner-only by
+  policy (`feedback_no_automated_licence_edits`): manual, file-by-file.
+- **hypatia #485** — rsr-template ↔ standards divergence (the layout decision
+  #426 depends on).
+- **hypatia #486** — neural-convergence PageRank proofs (needs network).
+- **hypatia #463 / #464 / #470** — Actions billing wall, estate CI-health
+  backlog, 71-alert code-scanning backlog.
+- **gitbot-fleet #278** — triage 6 Dependabot alerts (1 high, 1 moderate, 4 low).
+  Needs the repo's Dependabot security tab or a `security_events`-scoped token; no
+  MCP tool exposes Dependabot vulnerability alerts in-session. 0 open Dependabot
+  PRs currently; action-group bumps (e.g. #294) have merged since the issue was
+  filed, so some lows may already be cleared.
+
+## Fresh-thread items
+
+- **wokelang** kickoff (prompt drafted earlier in the session).
+- **hypatia #482** — bring the GitHub wikis to bleeding-edge.
+
+---
+
+_Recorded by an automated session. See the linked session for full context._