/close-out

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Sweep before you change anything. A close-out that opens with a merge has already skipped the question it exists to ask. Outside a repository steps 3 and 5 do not apply; say so.

1. Name what is still open. Uncommitted and untracked files in every checkout this session touched, citizen worktree audit, the pull requests this session opened and the state of their checks, background work still running, and the decisions you parked for the user. Report that list first; an empty sweep is a result, so say it and move on.
2. Batch the follow-ups, then ask once. One line each, title and why, for what this session found and did not do; never quietly fix one here instead. Ask for one explicit go-ahead naming them, the pull requests step 3 would merge, and any step 4 would open and then merge. Act only on what it approves.
3. Land what is ready with the land workflow, never by inlining its steps: the merge proof and its refusals are the point of it. Step 2’s go-ahead is the one it asks for. Anything not green, not approved, or not yours to merge stays open and goes in the report.
4. File the approved follow-ups; step 2’s go-ahead covers filing them and landing what they write. When filing writes tracked files, such as an issue map or a story file, run it in a new worktree off the updated default branch, put what it wrote in its own pull request under the repository’s pull request rules, and land that with the land workflow once checks pass.
5. Hand off with the handoff workflow, and only when work in this repository continues past this session. A finished piece of work needs no progress file.
6. Tell the sessions that depend on this one, where the client can list and message them: a branch one was waiting on, a file one holds open, a conclusion that reverses its premise. Sharing a group or a repository is not a dependency; where the client cannot, use the handoff.
7. Archive, or stop. Archive when the invocation already asked for it, provided every pull request step 4 opened has merged; otherwise end on the checklist and wait. Never clear or compact first: archiving ends the session, so both only burn the context you still need. Clearing belongs to carrying on in the same session, the opposite of this workflow.

Log the close-out before the archive call, which ends the turn, and report what landed, what you filed, whom you told, and what you are leaving open.