✅ Done! Review complete — I went through PR 6335 ("ci: remove review artifacts in the release PR") and approved it ✅ What it does: Moves

.pr/

evidence cleanup from a post-merge cleanup PR into the release-prep PR itself (implements #6334). The cleanup script is staged before the version commit in

prepare-release.yml

, the

cleanup-after-merge

job and its stale exemptions are removed, and the release-tree guard stays with updated remediation messaging. What I verified: • Ran the 5 new regression tests locally against real Git fixtures — all pass (they exercise the actual workflow steps, including symlink safety, nested binaries, and the modify/delete-conflict refresh path — nice coverage) •

ruff check

,

ruff format --check

, and

pyright

all clean on the new/changed Python files • All 39 CI checks green on head

afca1172

, and the docs/skills/AGENTS.md updates are consistent with the new lifecycle • No unrelated path can be deleted — the script only stages tracked root

.pr/

entries and never executes or traverses evidence Two non-blocking rollout notes (already flagged in the PR description): open cleanup PR #6304 needs manual reconciliation, and existing release branches need the documented refresh runbook.