[efraespada]

Promotion PRs created from a release or hotfix launcher’s linked branch can close that issue as soon as GitHub merges into the default branch, before publication or reconciliation. Verify the managed PR’s native identity, remove only its launcher closing reference, and require the reference to be absent before the configured merge handoff. Ordinary issue completion remains unchanged.

Pending deployment state now defers generic closure, completion labels and project retirement. Finalization persists verified functional completion before closing the issue, then verifies native metadata reconciliation. A failed issue projection remains actionable and can be retried through trusted publication completion without republishing or repeating successful cleanup.

Closes #792.

Validation:

• 53 new regression cases; 700 focused tests pass across 20 suites, with all changed-module coverage floors passing and pure completion policies at 100% for all metrics.
• Stateful provider fixtures reproduce native closure before the PR-closed handler, demonstrate the corrected release/hotfix sequence, retain the closing-keyword failure case, and preserve ordinary issue closure. These are deterministic fixtures, not a live release or private-consumer deployment.
• Node and extension type checks, lint, specification/catalog, documentation, workflow and generated-build validation pass; npm package validation and isolated CLI/API/web smoke pass; AST knowledge graph updated.
• Full normal commit hook passes: 806 suites, 15,116 tests passed and 35 existing skips, plus build and lint. Exact-head CI/native Linux, macOS, Windows, patch coverage and complete review remain merge gates.

Native API calls are bounded observations, not atomic compare-and-swap. Unsupported or retained closing relationships block merge handoff. Existing prematurely closed issues are not automatically reopened.

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Bugbot: review complete

Current status: No active findings on d2224b0.

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Technical evidence

Revision: d2224b020db1; base: 65ef79e230db; reason: protected-path.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 99.22481% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 95.10%. Comparing base (5b3664f) to head (d2224b0).
⚠️ Report is 95 commits behind head on develop.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
src/testing/deployment_operation_fixture.ts	75.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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Files with missing lines	Coverage Δ
src/actions/github_action_completion.ts	93.52% <100.00%> (+0.61%)	⬆️
...cies/closed_issue_reconciliation_outcome_policy.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...ication/policies/deployment_presentation_policy.ts	99.35% <100.00%> (+0.04%)	⬆️
...c/application/services/deployment_merge_effects.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...usecases/actions/deferred_deployment_completion.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...deployment_handlers/confirm_publication_handler.ts	94.33% <100.00%> (-0.11%)	⬇️
...ions/deployment_handlers/reconciliation_handler.ts	96.42% <100.00%> (+0.63%)	⬆️
...ctions/reconcile_closed_issue_metadata_use_case.ts	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
...on/usecases/actions/retire_branch_sync_use_case.ts	97.10% <100.00%> (+0.08%)	⬆️
...ation/usecases/actions/retire_progress_use_case.ts	94.02% <100.00%> (+0.18%)	⬆️
... and 10 more

... and 132 files with indirect coverage changes

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