Keep approved fix-later items in every status update

[EdbertChan]

Summary

The agent follows a set of house rules for how it works with you. One rule now covers work you agreed to put off.

Say you tell the agent to fix a thing later. Its next update lists only what got done, so the put-off thing drops out of sight.

Now the agent keeps it on the list. Every update and wrap-up shows it, marked still open. It stays until the work is done or you drop it.

Review Claim

The learned working-style rules keep approved deferred items visible until closed.

Review Lane

behavior

Review Unit

corpus-lesson

Safety Invariant

Adds one rule; nothing else changes.

Slice Rationale

One rule and its test. No known prior art is cited.

Non-goals

• The test pins the rule text only.

Test Plan

Test Plan

• python3 -m unittest tests.test_deferred_items_rule: fails before, passes after
• Every step in .github/workflows/ci.yml ran locally on the full stack with rc=0: run_all_tests.sh, check_no_tracked_local_artifacts, check_hook_test_coverage, check_no_silent_hook_except, check_rules_are_wired, check_skills_three_harnesses, check_ecosystem_boundaries, check_skill_file_refs, check_skill_test_coverage, check_skill_test_debt_no_growth, check_skill_trigger_mechanism, check_dora_baseline, check_no_dated_provenance, check_no_new_comments, ruff check . --select E9,F, shellcheck install.sh

Revert Plan

Revert Plan

• Safe to revert? Yes
• Revert command: git revert <sha>
• Post-revert steps: rerun ./install.sh so installed copies match
• Data migration? No

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[EdbertChan]

This pull request is part of a Mergify stack:

#	Pull Request	Link
1	Keep approved fix-later items in every status update	#739	👈
2	Search saved memory both ways before a deep dive	#740

[EdbertChan]

Revision history

#	Type	Changes	Reason	Date
1	initial	6616ba2		2026-09-17 00:49 UTC
2	content	6616ba2 → 6de7950		2026-09-17 00:49 UTC
3	rebase	6de7950 → cf6cf76 (rebase only)		2026-09-17 04:23 UTC
4	rebase	cf6cf76 → edebaff (rebase only)		2026-09-17 04:37 UTC
5	rebase	edebaff → 07a35ef (rebase only)		2026-09-17 04:55 UTC
6	rebase	07a35ef → a956a8a (rebase only)		2026-09-17 05:11 UTC
7	rebase	a956a8a → d4318fe (rebase only)		2026-09-17 05:26 UTC
8	rebase	d4318fe → 627512e (rebase only)		2026-09-17 05:40 UTC

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Queued — the merge queue status continues in this comment ↓.

[EdbertChan]

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Merge Queue Status

• ✅ Entered queue — 2026-09-17 05:48 UTC · Rule: admin-bypass · triggered by @EdbertChan with the @mergifyio queue command
• ✅ Checks passed · on draft merge queue: checking #739 on main (e6a61b2) #762
• ✅ Merged — 2026-09-17 05:55 UTC · at d4e6307a697e1b5ae489f4e8959c471535384e9d · squash

This pull request spent 7 minutes 9 seconds in the queue, including 6 minutes 44 seconds running CI.

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