Backlog triage Part B: 125 finished rows + 20 id-less rows moved to CLOSED-ITEMS (full text at 9e2786c); open rows normalised to one 6-column shape; narratives archived verbatim; closed_register_gate RULE 3 refuses a finished row in OPEN-ITEMS (decoys, seen red); rules rehomed to CONTEXT + 07 §11; loose notes triaged; R-814..R-819 filed; register 444 -> 325

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS

documentation/PROMPT-TEMPLATE.md

@@ -394,8 +394,9 @@ or **what is open changed**), update **all four** in the SAME session:
   > later by an overnight drill that planted files and watched them not come back**, and shipped as
   > R-354. The work was right the first time; only the filing was missing.
 
-**Report which `OPEN-ITEMS.md` rows the task opened, closed or re-ranked** (§15). Every row carries
-an owner — a row nobody owns is how items got lost in the first place.
+**Report which `OPEN-ITEMS.md` rows the task opened, closed (and moved to `CLOSED-ITEMS.md`), narrowed
+or re-ranked** (§15). Every row carries an owner — a row nobody owns is how items got lost in the first
+place.
 
 ### N.6 Website version bump (if controller/hub version is shown on the site).
 
@@ -406,10 +407,14 @@ over half of it finished work, one entry at 16 KB. **A file that cannot be read
 be checked**, and this project has paid for that twice — a record nobody could find because it sat
 inside an entry about something else, and a finding rediscovered because nobody could see it.
 
-1. **Compress what this session closed.** A closed row keeps its title, the version it shipped in, its
-   evidence paths, and any sentence stating a rule. Everything else goes, and it moves to
-   `backlog/CLOSED-ITEMS.md`. **Nothing is deleted:** the compressed entry names the commit whose
+1. **Move what this session closed — IN THE SAME COMMIT THAT CLOSES IT.** A closed row keeps its title, the
+   version it shipped in, its evidence paths, and any sentence stating a rule. Everything else goes, and it
+   moves to `backlog/CLOSED-ITEMS.md`. **Nothing is deleted:** the compressed entry names the commit whose
    `git show` returns the full original text. **Open rows are not touched — their detail is doing a job.**
+   **This is a gate, not a habit (2026-10-03):** `scripts/closed_register_gate.py` RULE 3 refuses a push
+   whose `OPEN-ITEMS.md` holds a row LEADING with a finished word (CLOSED, SHIPPED, FIXED, DECIDED, …).
+   The rule existed from 2026-08-22 without a gate and was followed only sometimes: on 2026-10-03 the open
+   register held 113 finished rows, a quarter of the file.
 2. **Rehome live reasoning before compressing it away.** If a closed entry carries the reason a rule
    exists or a fence sits where it does, that reasoning moves — to `CONTEXT.md` if it is a decision,
    to the owning `architecture/*.md` if it is a shape. **Where it is a decision, mark the resulting