Task: Health review 2 — sprint 24 close analysis

Pre-existing concerns noted before gathering data: the mid-sprint review (day 9) was already RED; today is day 13 – the sprint has now run nearly twice its 7-day target duration with no formal close yet. The "improve IR generation" half of the mission looked, from memory, like it had produced mostly design work rather than shipped generation improvements – worth checking hard rather than crediting design-only stories as goal coverage.

Following the review, went through every STARTED sprint-24 story and either closed it or split it, so the sprint carries no story whose delivered work is left implicitly incomplete:

• Hotfix: wire codec default flip to msgpack – closed DONE (PR #1807 merged, CI green).
• Calendar entity follow-ups – closed DONE (all acceptance items met); 3 forward-looking tasks split into a new sprint-backlog story.
• Compass quality-of-life improvements – closed DONE (shipped tasks independently satisfy the story's own acceptance); 3 not-yet-started tasks split into a new sprint-backlog story.
• Offload service and DB runtime to a WSL host over SSH – renamed/renarrowed to Containerize the ORE Studio service runtime and verify it on a remote WSL host and closed DONE, reflecting what actually shipped (containerization, networking model, Newton verification). The real remaining work – first-class compass deploy tooling and the actual day-to-day cutover – was split into a fresh, correctly-named Offload service and DB runtime to a WSL host over SSH story, kept in the sprint backlog (not the product backlog – initially misfiled there, corrected after review).
• Classify and roll out badge/image/plain-text rendering – split into a closed Audit and classify FK-like/lookup entities story (DONE) and a renamed, narrower Roll out badge/image/ plain-text rendering across classified domain entities story, left STARTED since its implementation task is genuinely still in progress (active in another environment).

Sprint 24 now has exactly one STARTED story – badge/image/plain-text rollout, correctly still open since its remaining task is its own unmet acceptance, not scope creep. Every other story is DONE, ABANDONED, or BACKLOG (carried, not blocking).

User flagged Systemd resource management and per-environment isolation (BACKLOG, single BACKLOG task) as absent from this review's analysis. Confirmed: the story file existed in this branch's history (committed 2026-07-31 as part of d103ea38a) but was never wired into sprint.org's * Stories table, so it was invisible to both the regex-based story count in this review and to compass search. Audited every other story.org under sprint_24 for the same gap – none found (the only other unwired story is this health-review meta-story itself, which is deliberately tracked via the * Health Review section instead of the Stories table). Wired the systemd story into sprint.org as BACKLOG; does not change this review's dimension verdicts or overall RAG (still BACKLOG, never started, no completed work to record), but does mean the sprint-load and goal-alignment analysis above under- counted by one BACKLOG story. Worth a process note: a story file existing without a * Stories table row is a silent gap – neither compass search nor a review relying on that table will surface it.

Three more corrections/actions before closing the sprint:

• The branch was found to be 31 commits behind origin/main (grew from 8 at session start as other environments kept merging), and at least one story (Entity classification and drift baseline) was shown BACKLOG locally while actually STARTED with a DONE pilot task on main. Ran compass pr sync (clean rebase, no conflicts) before doing anything further, per user direction, rather than risk carrying/abandoning stories that were further along than our stale view showed.
• After sync, Entity classification and drift baseline across all components itself needed the same audit-vs-rollout split as the WSL and badge stories: dimensions settled and the tool built + verified on the ores.refdata pilot (2/3 tasks DONE). Renamed to Entity classification and drift baseline: ores.refdata pilot and closed DONE; the rollout-to-remaining-components task split into a new sprint-backlog story, Entity classification and drift baseline across all components.
• User confirmed the sprint's active work has stopped entirely (including the one remaining STARTED badge-rollout story) and asked to move every unfinished story to the product backlog per Sprint closure's documented procedure. Carried all 35 BACKLOG/ STARTED stories to doc/agile/product_backlog/inbox/: 18 undecomposed stories moved flat (story.org only), 17 with task files moved as whole folders so task history/Results/PRs travel with them. Every moved file's :ID: was preserved (git mv, never copied); filetags and the intro sentence were updated to reference the inbox instead of Sprint 24, and each Status table's "Parent sprint" row was relabelled "Carried from" with the close date. Sprint 24's own Stories table rows were marked ABANDONED (not deleted) with the 2026-08-03 close date, so the sprint record still shows what didn't make it and where it went. Regenerated the backlog indexes ( regenerate_backlog_indexes.py ) and the compass search index afterward.

Sprint 24's Stories table now has zero BACKLOG and zero STARTED rows: 34 DONE, 36 ABANDONED (carried). The sprint is ready for the remaining closure steps (Achievements, release notes, retrospective, State -> DONE).