docs: 2026-09-06 unmerged branch triage

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Summary

• Records triage of 21 unmerged remote branches (0 open PRs at start).
• 3 land PRs, 18 museum tags archive/<branch>-<short7>-20260906. Original remotes are not deleted.

Test plan

• Docs-only. No runtime change.
• Table in docs/branch-triage-20260906.md.

Risk

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a read-only branch triage report covering 21 unmerged remote branches.
  • Documented recommended merge candidates, archival decisions, verification requirements, and merge order.
  • Added follow-up comparisons with local-only branches and guidance for preserving potentially recoverable work.
  • Included a status refresh with completed, superseded, and still-open change reviews, plus updated recovery notes.

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📥 Commits

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• docs/branch-triage-20260906.md

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• docs/branch-triage-20260906.md

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds a dated documentation record for triaging 21 unmerged remote branches and 16 local-only branches. It defines land and archive decisions, records candidate and archive outcomes, documents verification results, and specifies merge order and verification requirements.

Changes

Branch triage documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Triage decision model and land candidates docs/branch-triage-20260906.md	Defines Land and Archive decisions and documents the three land candidates: the sanitized operations runbook, dashboard profile recovery, and browser loading feedback.
Archived branch rationale docs/branch-triage-20260906.md	Groups 18 preserved branches by rationale and records exact-tip archive preservation without private details.
Verification and merge requirements docs/branch-triage-20260906.md	Records follow-up verification, the remaining restore-safety fix, merge order, and requirements for exact-head CI, leak checks, independent review, and clean rebase history.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5237d

This change records branch-triage decisions and outcomes in documentation only. No current merge-blocking product or runtime risk is established.

Suggested reviewers: onlinechef

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the documentation change and the unmerged branch triage dated September 6, 2026.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch docs/branch-triage-20260906

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[OnlineChef (ChefGroep)]

Reviewed exact head 5237de4. Docs-only triage record is internally consistent as a dated historical snapshot, preserves archive-vs-land boundaries, explicitly keeps branch deletion separate, and exact-head CI/no-org-leak/design checks are green.