docs(cr-dd-016): closeout — record completed lifecycle

[coreytshaffer]

Summary

• Bounded closeout-recording slice for CR-DD-016, based on current main (fa66c644c95dcdd68c879313225822d696568643). Touches exactly the two paths explicitly authorized by the closeout grant of 2026-08-29.
• CR-DD-016: Status marked Complete, recording that the CR's own completion condition — merge of the implementation PR into main — was satisfied by PR Implement CR-DD-016: capability-probe operator workflow discoverability #157 at merge commit 7c7fb72 on 2026-08-11. Implementation authority and the final acceptance gate are recorded as satisfied and spent. Adds a Closeout bullet to the Status metadata recording the two-path grant and its bounds, and appends a full ## Closeout section (merge record for PRs CR-DD-016: Document capability-probe operator workflow discoverability #155/Correct CR-DD-016 capability-observation semantics #156/Implement CR-DD-016: capability-probe operator workflow discoverability #157 with exact merge commits, allowlist verification in both directions, closeout re-verification, backlog non-applicability, release-not-applicable, spent-authority status, and explicit non-claims for Tracks B and C).
• docs/change/change_log.md: adds one bounded CR-DD-016 closeout entry under [Unreleased], matching the existing CR-131 / CR-DD-013 / CR-OC-001C closeout-entry pattern (dense single paragraph, exact merge commits and parents, explicit non-claims).
• What this grants: a durable closeout record for CR-DD-016 across its own document and the change log.
• What this does not grant: merge authority for this PR, any reopening of the four-path Authorized Implementation Allowlist, or any resolution of Tracks B and C.

Three things recorded deliberately rather than smoothed over

1. This closeout retires no false status language. The CR-131, CR-DD-013, and CR-OC-001C entries each state they retire pre-merge wording that became false at merge. That would be false here: commit b2d56e3 deliberately rephrased the Status, implementation-authority, and evidence wording before Implement CR-DD-016: capability-probe operator workflow discoverability #157 landed so the same text stayed true on both sides of it. The distinction is written into both the change-log entry and the ## Closeout section rather than the house sentence being copied.
2. The allowlist required explicit reconciliation, not silent extension. The Authorized Implementation Allowlist's closing sentence forbids touching any other file "before or after merge, without a separate, explicit approval" — and docs/change/change_log.md is not on that list. The closeout grant is that separate approval, so it is recorded as one in a closeout note placed at the allowlist itself, stating that it does not retroactively expand the implementation-stage scope or reopen any of the four paths. The original four-path list is preserved verbatim.
3. Tracks B and C are stated as not closed. The classifier terminal "refactor" fallback and the hardcoded privacy_level="local_ok" normalization remain independently scoped, read-only, and unresolved. Verified that no investigation record for either exists under docs/, and that CR-DD-017 independently records both as separately scoped.

Test plan

• Cumulative diff touches exactly two files: docs/change/requests/CR-DD-016-capability-probe-operator-workflow-discoverability.md and docs/change/change_log.md. No non-docs/ path touched.
• Allowlist verified in both directions for the original implementation: the union of files across all five CR-DD-016 commits (76713fb, afbd470, 65dca1e, 01e8b14, b2d56e3) is exactly the four authorized paths, and all five named exclusions (local_backend_probe.py, capability_evidence.py, config.py, client.py, routing/resilience_router.py) were untouched.
• CR-DD-016's Motivating Evidence, Determination, Invariants Preserved, In Scope, Explicitly Out of Scope, Acceptance Criteria, and Non-Goals sections are byte-identical to main — only additive closeout content and the Status/allowlist-note edits were made. (The Invariants Preserved check initially reported CHANGED; that was a false positive from the section name recurring in the new Closeout section, and was re-verified by exact section-body diff.)
• Re-verified the merged implementation against main at fa66c64: tests/test_tc_cli.py::test_tc_probe_help_names_capability_probe_record_path passes; tests/test_tc_cli.py + tests/test_capability_binding.py 55 passed, 0 failed.
• Confirmed CR-DD-016 appears in neither docs/backlog.md nor docs/current_backlog.md, so no backlog file is touched by this slice.
• git diff --check clean (exit 0).

Documentation only — no code, tests, workflow, schema, dependency, fixture, or configuration changed.

Note on branch name

The branch is claude/cr-dd-016-merge-readiness-50c1eb, created for a merge-readiness assessment. That assessment found CR-DD-016 already fully merged, which is what produced this closeout instead. The branch name reflects the investigation's origin, not its outcome.

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