operations.md:15 + command-modes.md described an autonomy surface that does
not exist in code. Truth-pass against lib/util/autonomy-gate.mjs (the source
of truth) closes three false claims found while auditing the autonomy surface
in S21 (devils-advocate-results.md S21b forward-pointer):
F1 (MAJOR) — fabricated state machine. operations.md claimed
`idle → approved → executing → merge-pending → main-merged`; only `idle`
exists. Real states: idle → gates_on|auto_running → paused_for_gate →
completed (events: start/phase_boundary/resume/finish).
F2 (MINOR) — event-emit.mjs does NOT "record each transition"; it emits 3
named lifecycle events (brief-approved, main-merge-gate, user_input) and
is decoupled from the pure, no-I/O autonomy-gate.
F3 — `--gates {open|closed|adaptive}` is false: the CLI shim + all 4 command
docs take a BOOLEAN `--gates {true|false}`. open/closed/adaptive is a
DERIVED gates_mode policy, /trekexecute-only, mapped from the brief effort
signal (low→open, standard→adaptive, high→closed; trekexecute.md:1562/74/75).
Operator-chosen fix (S24): boolean-true representation + a gates_mode policy
note, applied to BOTH operations.md and command-modes.md (4 rows) — same
false-claim class, fixed in one pass (fix-errors-found-in-scope).
TDD: doc-pin in doc-consistency.test.mjs imports STATES from autonomy-gate.mjs,
forbids the fabricated names + the flag-enum, requires the real states. Red
first (failed on "merge-pending"), green after the truth-pass.
Tests: 725 (723 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail). plugin validate passes (1 accepted
CLAUDE.md-at-root warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
Kjell Tore Guttormsen
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