/ci-status

The first stop before any pipeline change (contributing/ci.md). It joins the ledger on this checkout (ci/ledger/) with what the daily collector computed on the ci-steward-data branch.

Steps

1. Bring the data branch up to date. This is the only network step, and a failure is fine (the branch may not exist yet):

   git fetch --quiet origin ci-steward-data || true

2. Show the screen:

   pnpm ci:status

   It reads origin/ci-steward-data through git objects only. When the branch does not exist yet, it says so plainly and points at pnpm ci:pulse.

3. Relay it briefly: health first (anything FAILED or a snapshot over 2 days old is the headline), then the constraint, then any red trigger, then any verdict that is failed, partial or inconclusive. Do not restate the whole table.

4. If the person wants the picture rather than the numbers, build the day's page and open it:

   pnpm ci:report --open

   It writes to a temp path, never to the data branch, and never pushes.

Reading it

• Health FAILED means the collector's own numbers cannot be trusted (a truncated fetch, a drifted ruleset, a missing data-branch safeguard, no clone exporting local timings for 3 days). Each failure line names its fix. It is the constraint until it is fixed.
• insufficient is a thin sample, not a breach or a win. unmeasured means the SLO has no data source yet.
• Verdicts are computed by code, never written by hand: verified (reached the target), partial (at least halfway from the baseline, short of the target), failed, inconclusive (a confounding change on the same gate, or too little data), pending (the after-window is still open).
• Triggers are computed from the data, not written by a model: what fired, with its numbers, and a suggested next step. red means act; amber means decide. Each says how long it has been open and whether a proposed ledger entry already covers it. A trigger opens no pull request and changes nothing by itself.
• The day's report is git show origin/ci-steward-data:reports/<YYYY-MM-DD>.html (or pnpm ci:report); the Monday deep summary is :reports/<YYYY-Www>.md.