Why, and what was tried
The session raising this recommends: Point my CI session at them now
Both PRs are approved, bot-green, mergeable, and have sat untouched since 2026-10-04 (3 separate main-catch-ups by Smith) because they touch protected workflow files that neither Smith's nor Trinity's seat can arm. The whole CI-rethink lane (kill the verdict-rerun trigger + delete the dead placeholder jobs) is blocked behind this one read.
Tried first, unsuccessfully: Posted the ready status in the shared CI-cd bridge thread three separate times over about a day (after the first approval, after each of three main-catch-up rebases), asked explicitly for the named-exception merge or for the CI lane to be pointed at it, and kept both PRs green/rebased so there was nothing left to do but the read. Confirmed via gh that both PRs edit protected files, so this seat is structurally unable to arm them itself.
90621003 is parked on this.