Step 1.5's issue-less in-context case used to fall back unconditionally
to the human sign-off: with no tracker issue, the `scope-fork` juror had
no auditable source for an in-context fork resolution and (correctly)
blocked, so auto-sign was structurally unreachable on that path.
Close it the same way the lagging-issue case is closed — give the juror
an auditable artefact instead of weakening the gate. When the cycle has
no seeding issue, the orchestrator now creates one recording each
resolved fork WITH provenance (a record of the user's decision, never a
fresh orchestrator one). A new tracker issue is independent and
auditable — unlike the self-referential spec-note the old text rejected
— so it, not the orchestrator's confidence, is what the juror checks.
The provenance gate is unchanged: no real user statement is a Step-1.5
bounce, not a manufactured issue; the orchestrator writes, the juror
enforces.
Also thread a `seeding_issue` field through the scope-fork carrier so
the juror can actually find the issue to read (the lagging issue, the
newly created one, or `none`). Without it the juror had no issue index
and the record was invisible — a latent gap the lagging-issue path
shared.
- specify Step 1.5: issue-less branch creates a provenance-bearing
seeding issue; body names the work (no forward ref to the unwritten
spec); explicit create command; capture-the-index instruction.
- specify Step 6 + handoff table: seeding_issue carrier field.
- spec-skeptic: juror reads seeding_issue from the carrier; accepts
provenance in a created issue's body, not only in a comment.
- consistency: README, pipeline.md, design.md.
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