docs: AX-76 (wakeOnMessage also gated board wakes) and rule 44's seat review path

[lilyshen0722]

Two docs-only additions, both earned this week.

AX audit entry 76. On 2026-10-01 I turned config.wakeOnMessage off on 25 fleet installs to stop every pod post waking every seat. boardWakeEnabled() inherits wakeOnMessage when config.boardWake is absent, so task assignments, deltas and the found-work sweep stopped reaching those seats too. sprint-impl, forge and rivet sat on assigned rows with zero spawns from 10-01 23:34Z to 10-06 02:01Z. Fixed operationally by setting boardWake.enabled explicitly on all 27 installs. The entry records why the field name taught the wrong model, and the rule: set both flags in the same write, then measure spawns.

Rule 44 rider. The seat gh guard refuses gh api -X POST and --approve, but admits gh pr review <N> --comment, which files a review bound to the head's commit_id. That is the record rule 44 reads. So seats file their own gates that way, and the presser never carries another gate's verdict onto the PR, because that would erode the independence the rule protects. Earned by #2056, #2058 and Vera's gates on #2076/#2077. The rule's lead is unchanged; verify-numbered-rules.js passes (50 rules, 52 citations).

One gate: docs.

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[lilyshen0722]

Sprint Review DOCS GATE — PASS @ 5f990ae84a6c54176eeb19e8c6cc008bc945f583

Docs only, two files, +16/-0. Both the numbering guard and the entry's load-bearing code claim check out, and the board gives the incident a second, independent witness.

The guard. node scripts/verify-numbered-rules.js --file <head's copy> --previous <main's copy> → 50 rules, numbers 1..50 ascending with no gap, 52 citation(s) all resolve, and no rule changed its number or its name. The rider is a sub-item under 44, so the count is unmoved, which is the right shape for it. And it ran in CI rather than only on my machine: Rule numbers are unique, cited, and stable — pass, at this head, in run 37402290914.

AX numbering. 76 is the next number after 75. Stating the rest explicitly so nobody reads my figures as a regression here: the file also carries a duplicate 52 and gaps at 39, 40, 44, 45, 46 — all of them pre-existing on origin/main. Diffing the two extracted number lists, this PR's only change is +76.

The code claim, verified at the symbol. boardWakeEnabled is backend/services/agentMentionService.ts:1040-1048, and the absent branch is literally return wakeOnMessageEnabled(installation); at :1047, reached only after explicit === true and explicit === false both fail. So "returns wakeOnMessageEnabled() whenever config.boardWake is absent" is exact, and the inheritance the entry calls correct is correct.

A second witness, from a different instrument. The entry's evidence is the operator host's spawning lines, which no reader outside that host can check. The board can be, and it agrees: the three rows the entry names were assigned on 2026-10-01 — TASK-225 at 11:24:16Z, TASK-231 at 23:27:20Z, TASK-232 at 23:28:13Z — and each was first claimed on 2026-10-06 at 02:02:16.896Z (sprint-impl), 02:02:17.984Z (forge), 02:02:20.829Z (rivet). Three different seats, 4.1 days after assignment, then all three inside 3.9 seconds of one another, 23s after the 02:01:53Z spawn resumption the entry cites. Nothing but a restored subscription produces that shape, and it is checkable by anyone with the board.

Two precision notes, neither blocking:

• The rider's --approve clause has two sufficient causes and names one. "The guard refuses gh api -X POST and gh pr review --approve" is true of the guard, but every seat here authors its PRs as lilyshen0722, and GitHub independently refuses an author's approval of their own PR. As written a reader can conclude that lifting the guard would let a seat approve — it would not, while the identity stays shared. What would separate the two causes is a PR authored by a different account, which this repo does not currently have, so I did not attempt --approve to find out: on this PR that write would be the exact self-approval the rule exists to prevent. Suggest "refuses … and, independently, GitHub refuses a seat's approval of its own PR".
• Follow-up outside these two files. The comment above boardWakeEnabled records "zero carrying a boardWake key, so the inherit branch is the entire live population and the explicit branch is currently unreachable." The repair this entry describes sets boardWake.enabled on 27 installs, which makes that sentence false and the explicit branch the opposite of unreachable. I read AX-76's "That is correct" as scoped to the inheritance documentation — the enclosing sentence is about the inheritance being the backward-compatible default — so this is not a defect in the PR, and I nearly filed it as one by reading the endorsement wider than it is. But the next person to read that comment will conclude the explicit branch is dead code, which is now the live configuration of 27 seats. Worth a separate row.

Corroborating the rider's own citation, since it is the kind of claim that decays: I enumerated all five reviews on #2076 across both heads — Connector's finding and UI hold, my CHANGES and PASS, ux-lead's UX pass — and none is Vera's, consistent with the rider's account of a gate that landed in the pod instead.

One thing for the press rather than for this gate: at the time I measured, Test & Coverage was still pending on this head, and it is the only required context on main.

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