Single upstream promotion queue — kvnloo/OpenShell

Canonical promotion-readiness thread for kvnloo/OpenShell (origin NVIDIA/OpenShell). Snapshot 2026-10-16. All fork issues, PRs, commits, experiment receipts and human credit remain at their original locations; this issue is the single per-repo promotion queue. The all-factory #14 dashboard indexes queues across repositories. Do not duplicate promotion threads.

Candidates / QA dispositions

No new origin write is authorized by this queue. Previous fork statuses are not refreshed exact-head CI: treat them as CHECK unless current origin ownership, requirement, fork SHA, test and policy receipts, review/CI and HITL are independently reverified. Other fork open PRs are UNTRIAGED, not implicitly ready. Do not copy broad experiments or synthetic-speed claims into origin as fixes.

Promotion update rule

For every genuinely upstream-ready unique leaf, append/update a single row with full SHA, existing code/PR/issue links, original author credit, validated supported requirement and impact, exact tests and reviewers, CI + collision results, explicit origin HITL, and next upstream action. Highest priority: live origin maintainer feedback/failing CI, then independently qualified small corrections. If an origin PR already exists, work on that owner thread rather than opening another. On merge record origin link/merge SHA and mark LANDED. If tests/claims fail, record NO-GO and retire; preserve negative evidence. Never create another promotion issue for this repo, merge defaults, force update, bypass approval, spend paid compute or ping humans from this tracking issue.

Registry caveat: this project does not currently have a unique active coordination_repo entry in factory/projects.json; this issue is a human-readable fork queue, not a claim that factory routing/HITL is registered.