Stale-deferred check exercised: 6 open-deferred-items all confirmed genuinely
open, 0 stale-deferred. Top open: thread ADR-017 VERIFY.md convention through
ADR-004/new-role/README; name the askari inventory group (ADR-016).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
