COMPLETE is earned, not declared. Three preconditions: git clean, pushed to remote, CI green. Any one missing means the phase has not concluded.
CI Is The Build
For Rust crates (rs-exec, rs-codeinsight, rs-search, rs-learn, rs-plugkit) and the gm publish chain, git push triggers the build matrix across six target platforms. cargo build and cargo test are not run locally — a local build covers exactly one platform and proves nothing about the other five. Push, watch CI, fix on red. Toolchain mismatches and rustc skew never block a push.
Watch protocol: after push, poll gh run list --branch <branch> --limit 3 --json status,conclusion,name until the run completes, up to GM_CI_WATCH_SECS (default 180). On red, triage the failure shape (import error → check manifests; type error → snake to PLAN; test failure → root cause; lint → fix in-band; build timeout → re-trigger once, else PRD blockedBy: external). Fix at root, push, re-watch. Green CI is the precondition for VERIFY → UPDATE-DOCS.
Single Integration Test
One test.js at project root. 200-line hard cap. No fixtures, no mocks, no scattered test files. gm-complete runs it. Failure = regression to EXECUTE. Prefer compaction over expansion when editing: merge groups, drop redundancy.
Residual-Scan Gate
Before allowing transition to update-docs, fire the residual-scan verb. Empty PRD is necessary but not sufficient — the gate asks what the agent should have decided to do but did not. Either re-enter planning with appended items and execute, or explicitly state "residual scan: none reachable in-spirit." The .gm/residual-check-fired marker makes this one-shot per stopping window. Common residuals: pre-existing build break surfaced this turn, neighboring lint failure, obvious refactor win, observability gap, doc drift, follow-on work the user clearly implied.
Git Gate
git status clean. git log shows the commit pushed. gh run list shows the most recent run for the branch concluded green. All three witnessed before transition.
Dispatch
phase-status, transition, residual-scan. Spool the CI watch through in/bash/ so timeouts respect the spool budget.
Transition
Residual-scan clear AND git clean AND CI green → Skill(skill="gm:update-docs"). Anything else → Skill(skill="gm:planning") or Skill(skill="gm:gm-execute") per the gap.