docs(issues): capture the unreconciled drift count as its own P1 row

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Summary

• One queued add request, filed as a P1 task.check:drift measured missing_live = 21 on 2026-08-09 and missing_live = 20 on 2026-08-14 (forced dispatch, Actions run 31813064485). Two indexes were restored between those runs, so the expected 2026-08-14 figure was 19, not 20. The gap of one is consistent with a further index having been dropped inside that five-day window — i.e. the loss mechanism may still be active rather than a contained historical event.
• Recorded as an inference, not a finding. Two aggregate counts cannot establish this: the 21 may simply have been imprecise, which is exactly why #316 already flags 21 as approximate and 20 as the measured figure. The row says so in its own words, and says that disproving it is as valuable as confirming it.
• Why it earns a P1 rather than a note on an existing row. Every downstream repair assumes a static fault. Restoring 20 indexes into an active drop is wasted work that also destroys the signal, and it changes #248 from "who dropped them" into "is it still happening". The contrast sharpens it: the match_* mismatch count was 10 at both measurements — unchanged, so the RPC surface is static while the index surface is not. That asymmetry is the whole argument for sequencing this before the restoration window.
• The row carries its own stop rule: do not begin the index restoration window until this resolves, and if the count is still moving, treat it as an incident and escalate rather than repair. It also asks for a negative result to be recorded explicitly — "the drift is stable" is a real finding and precisely the kind that gets established, felt like nothing, and never written down.

Filed as a new row rather than an update to #316, deliberately. A #316 update was already queued in PR #1970, and a second live update to the same row would collide: planRequestBatch (scripts/ledger-inbox.mjs:107-114) dedupes on the request UUID, not on the target row, so both would apply in filename order with one silently winning and no warning. An add targets no existing row and cannot collide.

Verification

• npm run verify:pr-local

- completed: check:runtime, check:installed-lock-parity, format:changed, sitemap:check,
docs:check-index, docs:check-inventory, docs:check-scripts, docs:check-links,
check:branch-review-ledger, check:outstanding-issues, check:ledger-write-discipline
- failed: (none)
- not reached: (none)

The two counts this row rests on are not mine — both were produced by the repo's own check:drift, and are already recorded in docs/audit/live-drift-forensics-2026-08.md (Phase 0 forced-dispatch table). This PR adds no new measurement; it records that the two published numbers do not reconcile and says what to do about it.

UI verification not run: no UI, routing, styling, or browser-behaviour change in this diff.

Risk and rollout

• Risk: Low. One added JSON request file under docs/outstanding-issues-inbox/. No application source, no schema, no migration, no workflow. The canonical ledger is untouched until a reconcile applies it.
• Rollback: git revert the single commit, or delete the request file before reconciliation.
• Provider or production effects: None. Nothing was read from or written to Supabase for this PR.

Notes

• No ## Clinical Governance Preflight section: classifyPullRequestFiles returns clinicalRisk: false, operationalRisk: false, ragRanking: false, ui: false for docs/outstanding-issues-inbox/**. The row describes a production database concern but the diff changes no ingestion, answer-generation, ranking, source-rendering, document-access or privacy code.
• A reconcile is due regardless — the inbox on main is at 23 pending requests before this one.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added branch review records documenting resolved issue status, verification results, and synchronization requirements.
  • Recorded an ongoing data-drop investigation with a stop rule before restoration work proceeds.
  • Documented successful validation checks and continued applicability of prior review findings.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds three branch review records. The records document issue disposition, an inferred drop mechanism, synchronization with main, retained review applicability, and validation checks.

Changes

Branch review records

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Review record updates docs/branch-review-records/*.record.md	Added records for issue disposition, changing missing_live counts, restoration stop rules, main synchronization, review applicability, and successful validation checks.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to a258c

The PR only adds documentation records and does not change application behavior or production data. The records should include decisive verification output to preserve auditability; this is a bounded documentation risk, so the change is mergeable with owner follow-up.

Possibly related PRs

• BigSimmo/Database#908: Adds documentation-only branch review records for repository review tracking.
• BigSimmo/Database#1150: Adds branch review documentation with distinct review outcomes.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the documentation change and the unreconciled drift count recorded as a P1 issue.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the change, rationale, verification results, risk, rollback, production effects, and reasons for omitted governance checks.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Final Codex review snapshot

Head: a258ca991176f84976c6f4ca1d710069f0f6adf1
Merge commit: d301d8f4dd6209ad11f1b9941f3f57f9b7aa7822

• PR is closed and merged; final head is contained by the merge commit.
• The P1 drift-set finding was independently checked against the cited deterministic run logs and withdrawn as unsupported. The ledger-record comment was non-actionable because immutable records cannot be rewritten; all threads are resolved.
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