Retire GITVS-UNCAPPED-PR-DEBT-0715 — machine-stamped operator-paused, predicate green, receipt written

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GITVS-UNCAPPED-PR-DEBT-0715 is the single task in the estate carrying the operator-paused
label, and it is the reason "autonomy paused" keeps appearing in the morning brief. Everything
needed to retire it exists; the only missing step is an authenticated keeper transition.

State

fact	value
task status	open (keeper board, origin/tabularius/board-projection)
label	operator-paused — the only such task of 3,299
stamped by	keeper commit c34b016d "tabularius: preserve board projection", 2026-07-15
its own predicate	python3 scripts/gitvs.py pr-debt --check → exit 0 (repos=314 untyped=0)
its PR	#2131 — MERGED
surfaced as	logs/handoff.json → "reason_counts": {..., "operator_paused": 1}, every brief, ~3 weeks

No human ever paused it. The audit behind scripts/check-operator-gates.py established that the
board projection has no human writer at all: 0 of 126 needs_human tasks were set by a human, and
git cannot answer provenance here because the keeper commits under the operator's identity (all
300 recent tasks.yaml commits are authored "Anthony James Padavano"; only the subject prefix
discriminates — 217 tabularius:, 80 limen:, 3 human).

The action

Transition GITVS-UNCAPPED-PR-DEBT-0715 open → done and drop the operator-paused label.

The receipt is already written and carries live evidence:
docs/receipts/heal-stale-reconcile-limen-20260809.json

{"task_id": "GITVS-UNCAPPED-PR-DEBT-0715", "pr": "organvm/limen#2131", "pr_state": "MERGED",
 "evidence": "gitvs pr-debt: repos=314 open_prs=1306 exhaustive=true untyped=0",
 "proposed": "done"}

cli/src/limen/tabularius.py::_lifecycle_repair_authorized already accepts this shape under the
pr-closed-reconcile marker (added in #2144): prior_status ∈ {open, ...}, next_status = done,
pr_observed_state = merged, pr_observed_ref = organvm/limen#2131, repo matching.

Why it is not already done

An agent session has no broker token (LIMEN_OWNER_TOKEN / LIMEN_API_TOKEN absent), so
apply_limen_file_sync would fall back to local owner-scoped dev mode and write the read-only
projection — which AGENTS.md → Peer Conductor Contract forbids. The keeper is the only lifecycle
writer, and it runs authenticated on the beat.

Meanwhile

scripts/check-operator-gates.py keeps this id in institutio/governance/operator-gate-baseline.txt
rather than failing on it, because that gate implicates tasks.yaml — the board fast lane — so a red
verdict would stall the keeper's own publication PRs. Since #2148 it is named on every run instead
of silently counted:

[!] STILL LABELLED operator-paused: GITVS-UNCAPPED-PR-DEBT-0715 (status=open)
    — baselined as known debt, NOT resolved; awaiting a keeper transition.

Closing this issue means the line leaves the baseline (the ratchet is shrink-only) and the brief
stops reporting operator_paused: 1.

Possible durable shape

Nothing in the beat retires a non-HEAL task whose predicate has gone green — self-heal.py's new
reconcile pass (#2144) only covers HEAL-cifix-* / HEAL-rebase-*. A repair in heal-board.py that
strips a machine-stamped operator-paused label once the task's own predicate exits 0 would close
the class, not just this instance.