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main is red and this one line fixes it. One-character change, no other file touched.

BACKLOG #320 was filed at 13:26 today with:

> 📋 **Filed 2026-08-01, not started.** Diagnosis only — …

scripts/docs/backlog_status_check.py accepts five glyphs — ✅ SHIPPED, ⛔ DECLINED, 🪦 RETIRED
(closed) and 🔢 prioritized, 🚧 in progress (open). 📋 is not among them, so the item parses as
declaring no status and the invariant fails.

Impact

tests/test_backlog_status_check.py::test_the_real_backlog_satisfies_the_invariant runs the checker
against the real docs/BACKLOG.md, so this fails in the ordinary pytest job:

The fix

📋 → 🚧. The item is open and not started, which is exactly what 🚧 means. Wording unchanged, and it
still carries exactly one banner — the other half of the invariant is that a CLOSED and an OPEN banner
must never coexist, so I checked the count rather than just the glyph.

Verification

pytest tests/test_backlog_status_check.py → 15 passed. The ledger gate passes against this tree (no
new ADR/BACKLOG number is introduced — #320 already exists on main).

Split out of #121 at the owner's request so that PR stays single-topic; #121 will be red on this one
test until this merges.

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BACKLOG #320 was filed with `> 📋 **Filed 2026-08-01, not started.**`. The
status gate accepts five glyphs — ✅ SHIPPED, ⛔ DECLINED, 🪦 RETIRED (closed),
🔢 prioritized, 🚧 in progress (open) — and 📋 is not among them, so the item
read as declaring no status at all.

That turned main red at 13:26 (run 30701716567, both the ubuntu and windows-2022
legs) and every PR opened since inherits it through the merge ref. The item is
open and not started, so 🚧 is the correct glyph; the wording is unchanged and it
still carries exactly one banner.
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Superseded by #123, which fixed the same defect with a fuller banner
(> 🚧 **Status: OPEN INVESTIGATION (filed 2026-08-01, not started).**) and has merged.

Verified before closing: the status invariant reports zero errors against origin/main's
docs/BACKLOG.md, so main is green on this and nothing here is still needed. This PR had also gone
CONFLICTING against the fixed file.

Two sessions independently fixed this within the hour — worth noting that a drive-by fix to another
item's entry is exactly the shape the claim protocol does not cover.

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wshallwshall deleted the backlog-320-banner-glyph branch August 1, 2026 15:05
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