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name: release-verb-grace-vs-hub-card-window
description: "alchemy's release verb has a grace window for closes landing shortly after publish, but the Hub daemon's Discord release cards bucket by STRICT closedAt-in-publish-window — every post-publish close cascade attributes the milestone to the NEXT release's card (spt-progress-tool#78)"
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  node_type: memory
  type: reference
  originSessionId: 9298ce90-27bd-44cb-9d08-f4acba5623a0
  modified: 2026-08-30T02:06:33.048Z
---

Measured 2026-08-30 (doyle + deployah, jointly; operator-reported symptom).

**Two attribution meters, one split:**
- The `release <tag>` VERB promotes acceptance requests closed shortly AFTER publish
  too — grace window, twice observed: CONDUIT's members 56–66s late under v0.65.0
  (DONE 08:17Z, publish 08:15:16Z) and #242 itself 7.5min late under v0.66.0,
  answered verbatim "(late close, within grace)". GitHub labels + roundup = CORRECT.
- The HUB DAEMON's release cards (Discord board) bucket DONE requests by STRICT
  `closedAt ∈ (prev.publishedAt, this.publishedAt]` — no grace. A close cascade
  driven post-publish (the documented golden-CI repair path) lands the whole
  milestone on the NEXT release's card; the announce snapshot ("announced (0
  shipped)") never refreshes because the strict window keeps the computed set
  empty (card refresh only fires when card content changes).

**Consequences to carry:**
- v0.65.0 card shows 0 shipped, v0.66.0 card shows CONDUIT — GitHub is right, the
  DISPLAY is wrong. NEVER repair by editing issue states / re-running verbs — that
  corrupts a correct record to fix a rendering (deployah's stop-call, upheld).
- #242 (closed post-publish) will wrongly surface on v0.67.0's card until fixed.
- Durable fix filed: **spt-progress-tool#78** (card bucketing honors the verb's
  grace / shares one attribution fn; cards recompute each cycle so the fix heals
  retroactively). Evidence: ~/.alchemy/daemon.log anchors ~704491, ~713558.
- Pre-empt the whole class: drive the ACCEPTANCE cascade BEFORE publish (runbook
  step 6) — both this trap and the verb's grace exist only for the repair path.
- Both of us first modeled the verb's gate as strict and were wrong ("would have
  no-opped") — [[dont-take-a-diagnosis-as-measured]]; the close timestamps at
  source falsified it in one read.

Related: [[v0660-arc-in-flight]], [[v0650-arc-in-flight]].