The 2026-11-05 weekend never cut over: gate 1 blocked every hourly run. Both of
its checks rested on assumptions the wipe disproved:
- The wipe build went live Thursday evening, but its depot manifest is dated
11-04: the date DepotDownloader prints is when Facepunch built it.
- Public never names staging's manifest. Facepunch promotes a hidden `release`
branch ("Release, before public"), and staging had moved on before the wipe.
Gate 1 now reads Steam's app info (steamcmd +app_info_print 258550, kept by
static.sh as appinfo.txt with BRANCH=public): branches.public.timeupdated must be
on the wipe day or later, and the Linux depot manifest Steam names for public
must be the one the static half downloaded. The staging static half is gone from
edge's cutover.yml; --staging-work is still accepted, since main's copy passes it
until the cutover merge carries the new wiring over.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014HJEmgsXtLR5kLfh7f9y8P
