[dmccoystephenson]

Summary

• Stage A documentation accuracy sweep (per CLAUDE.md's "Grounding work in research" section and Phase 2 of example-h-dev-loop) — the open-issue backlog on this repo is empty, so this cycle swept the four documentation sources of truth for drift against actual source rather than implementing a tracked issue.
• Found: PR Apply consolidated template-rule backlog (#36, #39–#51) #54's own description states that Phase 4 self-review: use a plain PR comment, backfill on carried-over PRs, fold out-of-hunk notes into the body #40, External anchor unavailable in sandbox: define UNVERIFIED handling and scope-gated merge #44, Phase 4/8: green CI is not verification when CI scope excludes the changed files #46, and Phase 4: make Tests-fix empirical (stash-and-run), not judged #47 "operationalize RESEARCH.md §1/§5" and that Phase 3: scope ceiling should count non-test LOC and allow dependency-coupled batches #49 "refines the RESEARCH.md §2 ... finding", but no Implementations entries were added under Findings 1, 2, or 5 — CLAUDE.md requires "If your PR implements a finding from RESEARCH.md, also add ... an Implementations entry ... with the PR number, the date shipped, and an observed-effect placeholder."
• Fix: added the three missing Implementations entries (Findings 1, 2, 5), each summarizing which sub-issue from PR Apply consolidated template-rule backlog (#36, #39–#51) #54 grounds that finding and why, per PR Apply consolidated template-rule backlog (#36, #39–#51) #54's own grounding rationale.

No other drift found in this sweep: README's "What it does" Steps stay 1:1 with create-dev-loop.md's numbered Steps (7/7), every {{PLACEHOLDER}} in the embedded template has a Step 4 substitution-table row, the embedded template's fenced code blocks are all correctly escaped and balanced (18 open/close pairs), and the template-version/generated-at header placement matches the documented (post-#36) convention.

Test plan

• grep -oE '\{\{[A-Za-z_]+\}\}' create-dev-loop.md | sort -u cross-checked against the Step 4 substitution table — no unresolved placeholders.
• Verified fence-escaping balance (18 open/close ````` pairs) in the embedded template.
• Verified README "What it does" enumerates all 7 Steps 1:1 with create-dev-loop.md.
• Cross-referenced PR Apply consolidated template-rule backlog (#36, #39–#51) #54's own description against RESEARCH.md's Finding 1/2/5 Implementations lists to confirm the entries were in fact missing before this fix.
• External anchor (manual /create-dev-loop validation, per CLAUDE.md): UNVERIFIED-not-applicable — this PR is docs-only and touches only RESEARCH.md, not the embedded template, Step 4 substitution table, or Step 1/5–7 logic.

No tracking issue — gap found during this cycle's documentation sweep.

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drafted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Stephenson

[dmccoystephenson]

Self-review rubric:

• Scope: PASS — diff touches only RESEARCH.md, adding exactly the three missing Implementations entries; no unrelated churn.
• Tests-new: N/A — no new public method/function; this repo has no automated test suite and this change adds no testable behavior.
• Tests-fix: N/A — this is a documentation-drift correction (a required record was missing), not a behavioral bug fix, so there is no code path to stash-and-run. Verified instead by cross-referencing each of Phase 4 self-review: use a plain PR comment, backfill on carried-over PRs, fold out-of-hunk notes into the body #40, External anchor unavailable in sandbox: define UNVERIFIED handling and scope-gated merge #44, Phase 4/8: green CI is not verification when CI scope excludes the changed files #46, Phase 4: make Tests-fix empirical (stash-and-run), not judged #47, Phase 3: scope ceiling should count non-test LOC and allow dependency-coupled batches #49 (gh issue view <N>) against the claims made in the new entries — all five titles match.
• Sibling structure: PASS — each new bullet follows the exact PR #N (...): shipped YYYY-MM-DD. Observed effect: pending — needs N cycles of data. <description> format used by every existing Implementations entry in the file.
• Sibling renames: N/A — no renames in this diff.
• Docs: PASS — this PR is the doc-accuracy fix; the other three sources of truth (create-dev-loop.md, README.md, CLAUDE.md) were checked during this cycle's Stage A sweep and found already consistent (7/7 README Steps, all placeholders have Step 4 rows, fence escaping balanced) — no other row needed a change.
• Issue resolution: N/A — no Closes #N; this is an untracked gap found during this cycle's documentation sweep, as stated in the PR body.
• External anchor (manual /create-dev-loop validation): UNVERIFIED-not-applicable — docs-only, touches none of the embedded template, Step 4 substitution table, or Step 1/5–7 logic.

Repo-specific:

• RESEARCH.md citation: PASS — each new entry names the specific PR Apply consolidated template-rule backlog (#36, #39–#51) #54 sub-issue(s) it maps to, verified against the actual issue title/content rather than PR Apply consolidated template-rule backlog (#36, #39–#51) #54's summary alone.
• Placeholder table / fence escaping / README-Step 1:1: N/A — none of create-dev-loop.md's placeholders, fences, or Steps are touched by this diff.

Summary: small, verified fix closing a real gap between CLAUDE.md's Implementations-entry requirement and the merged state of PR #54; no judgment-call items to flag for Phase 6.

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drafted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Stephenson