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

scripts/instructions_gate.py

@@ -503,10 +503,29 @@ def register_state(workspace_root):
             closed_text = fh.read()
 
     state = {}
+    # 2026-10-03: the register declares its columns in each table's header, and since the triage of
+    # that day its rows read `| ID | Category | Sev | What | State | … |` — the State is no longer
+    # index 2, and the first bold cell is now the TITLE, whose words ("shipped", "closed") describe
+    # the finding, not its state. `register_table` reads the State column BY NAME; the positional
+    # scan below is kept only for a row in a table without a header (none today).
+    by_name = {}
+    try:
+        sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+        import register_table
+        for _n, rid, columns, cells, _line in register_table.rows(reg):
+            st = register_table.cell(columns, cells, "State")
+            if st is not None:
+                by_name[rid] = ("closed" if register_table.CLOSED_FAMILY.match(
+                    register_table.leading_verdict(st)) else "open")
+    except ImportError:
+        by_name = {}
     for line in reg_text.split("\n"):
         m = re.match(r"\|\s*\*\*(R-\d+[a-z]?)\*\*\s*\|", line)
         if not m:
             continue
+        if m.group(1) in by_name:
+            state[m.group(1)] = by_name[m.group(1)]
+            continue
         cells = [c.strip() for c in line.rstrip().strip("|").split("|")]
         # The State column is index 2 in BOTH table shapes here (`ID|What|State` and
         # `ID|What|State|Blocked on|Next action|Owner`). Scan from there rather than taking the
@@ -536,6 +555,14 @@ def register_state(workspace_root):
         if m and m.group(1) not in state:
             state[m.group(1)] = "closed"
 
+    # 2026-10-03: the register's narrative sections (campaign write-ups, rulings, ranking
+    # paragraphs) moved word for word to this archive. An id cited only there — R-153, named in the
+    # 2026-08-02 intake paragraph and in felhom.eu/CLAUDE.md — is history, not "a reference to nothing".
+    narr = os.path.join(workspace_root, "felhom.eu", "documentation", "archive",
+                        "OPEN-ITEMS-narratives-2026-10-03.md")
+    if os.path.exists(narr):
+        with io_open(narr) as fh:
+            hist_text += "\n" + fh.read()
     mentioned = set(re.findall(r"\bR-\d+[a-z]?\b", reg_text)) | set(
         re.findall(r"\bR-\d+[a-z]?\b", hist_text)
     ) | set(re.findall(r"\bR-\d+[a-z]?\b", closed_text))