Task: Health review 2 — sprint 21 close analysis

Before collecting data, three concerns stood out:

1. Review #1 (day 17) rated the sprint RED on goal alignment, sprint load, and focus. Have any of those improved, or has the sprint simply accumulated more drift?
2. The user's question about "three stories for FX rates" is a signal that story ownership is unclear — work landed in PR #1386 that was not claimed by any story's task list.
3. The sprint has 0 open PRs right now, which is unusual for a sprint still marked STARTED — is that a healthy quiet period, or is the sprint effectively over?

Sprint mission: "Commission the ores.refdata entity library: finish currency and country, and start the twelve entities not touched in sprint 20."

Since review #1 the constraint violation has deepened: PR #1386 landed the full market data feed binding + chart polish work, all on a branch tagged bright_faraday (the marketdata_feed_binding_and_ingestion task). The user correctly identified that this PR also delivered source_agnostic_control_panel (FxSpotGridWindow + MarketSimulatorWindow) and most of synthetic_generation_configuration — neither of which was ever linked to a task on those stories. That work is real and valuable, but it was untracked against the stories it delivered.

Goal alignment verdict: RED — mission goals 1 and 3 still not met; hard constraint still violated; story ownership of market data work confused.

923 commits is 3× the sprint budget. The pace since review #1 has been extraordinary (345 commits, 32 PRs in 3 days), confirming this sprint has been significantly extended. The rate is not unsustainable per se — it reflects focused burst work — but the accumulated total means the sprint's scope signal is noise.

Sprint load verdict: RED (923 vs 300; 20 days vs 7).

Since review #1 the PR velocity has been the highest of the sprint. 0 open PRs is the first clean reading of the sprint — previous reviews showed 2+ open PRs. This is a genuine improvement.

PR velocity verdict: GREEN — clean queue, high throughput.

Critical accounting gap: source_agnostic_control_panel has two tasks (qt_fx_spot_grid, qt_system_feed_mapping_ui) both BACKLOG, yet the FxSpotGridWindow and MarketSimulatorWindow were fully implemented and merged in PR #1386. The story is effectively done but its tasks were never opened or closed.

Similarly, synthetic_generation_configuration has 2 of 3 tasks DONE (config entities, Qt UI) but the story state is STARTED and it appears BACKLOG in sprint.org.

Story/task balance verdict: AMBER — all STARTED stories have tasks (good), but sprint.org has at least 4 stale entries, and one story's delivered work is entirely unrecorded in its task list.

The count has not improved since review #1 (was 9, now 10). The market data work that was "in progress" at review #1 has now landed, but the stories it inhabited are still marked STARTED because they weren't properly closed.

Focus signal verdict: RED — 10 STARTED stories; off-mission work still in-flight in the tracker even though the code has shipped.

The sprint has run 20 days against a 7-day plan, accumulated 923 commits and 126 PRs, and still has 10 STARTED stories. PR velocity is the only green signal — the queue is clean and throughput was excellent in the final push. The single most damaging problem is accounting debt: the market data workstream delivered real, valuable work (FX spot grid, chart polish, feed binding, chart improvements) but the stories that owned that work were never properly opened, tracked, or closed. The source_agnostic_control_panel story is the clearest example — both tasks are BACKLOG yet the features are in production. The highest-value action before closing this sprint is to reconcile those story states so the next sprint starts with an honest baseline.