Task: Health review 2 — sprint 18 backlog audit and shape check

Goal 1 (ORE imports) has improved marginally since review 1: one story (ore_samples_support) is now STARTED and one task (portfolio/book visibility fix, PR #850) has merged. Three stories remain BACKLOG. With two days left only incremental progress is realistic.

Goal 2 (more ORE types) is fully unstarted — ore_types_example_1 is still BACKLOG with no tasks. This goal will not be achieved this sprint.

Goal 3 (compass) is GREEN: nine stories DONE, two still BACKLOG (compass_product_backlog and compass_pr_review) but the core tool is shipped and functional.

Goal 4 (backlog refinement tooling) is complete.

Scope not serving goals: runbook_support, site_pdf_and_manual_book, sprint_health_review, system_model_readability, user_manual_pdf_build, ores_studio_emacs_dashboard, tufte_skill_port, port_domain_concept_notes are enabler/housekeeping stories with no direct mapping to the four goals. These are legitimate; they should not close the sprint if the primary goals remain unachieved.

At 306 commits over 5 days the sprint has already exceeded the 300-commit target. Projected close is ~428, well into the RED band. This is a characteristic pattern of an enabling sprint: many small PRs for tooling, docs, and agile scaffolding rather than large feature branches.

Recommendation: Accept the overrun — the nature of this sprint (compass, runbooks, dashboard, site, agile tooling) inherently produces many small commits. Revisit the 300-commit threshold; it may be too tight for sprints with a heavy tooling/doc component.

PR #865 (workspace list and detail improvements) and PR #866 (manual screenshots + tufte polish) were both raised today and are not WIP accumulation. Merge cadence is healthy.

Recommendation: No action required.

This review's primary focus. The following items have incorrect state or missing required fields.

Tasks with merged PR but wrong state:

Stories with stale state (all tasks done, story still open):

Tasks with empty #+pr: despite a known PR:

compass_product_backlog story is BACKLOG but task_implement_product_backlog_listing has PR #824 (merged). The story should be at least DONE for that task. task_compass_remember_command is DISCOVERED — either start it or park it.

DONE/total ratio: 17/31 = 55% (sprint.org table); with above fixes applied → 19/31 = 61%. Two days remaining.

Seven stories are nominally STARTED but four of them will be DONE once the shape fixes above are applied (site_pdf_and_manual_book, system_model_readability, ores_studio_emacs_dashboard tasks, runbook_support). Real in-flight count is 3: ore_samples_support, user_manual_pdf_build, sprint_health_review. That is GREEN.

Sprint 18 is on day 5 of 7. The two primary goals (ORE imports, ORE types) remain substantially unachieved; the sprint will close with them BACKLOG or minimally started. The sprint has instead delivered strong compass, tooling, and agile infrastructure output. The record is in reasonable shape but has a cluster of tasks and stories with stale STARTED or BACKLOG states where the code has in fact shipped — these should be corrected before sprint close so the retrospective reads accurately. Sprint load is RED at 306 commits but this is a structural feature of tooling sprints rather than a signal of dysfunction. The most important action before close: fix the five stale tasks and two stale stories flagged above, and make a binary decision on whether to start ore_types_example_1 in the remaining two days or formally defer it.