Close Wine stage as accepted with known limitations

Maintainer decision, 2026-11-02: the core implementation and basic live behavior are sufficient for this stage. The original exhaustive done checklist was not fully satisfied and the contract is not marked Final; unfinished verification and known failures remain visible as future work.

docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ At the start of every phase session:
 | 1 | Ready record, spawn evidence, mixed-prefix spawn semantics | `wine/ready-and-spawn-evidence` | `wine/ready-and-spawn-evidence` | Accepted and merged into `hunter` in both repositories; not pushed |
 | 2 | Live Wine settings | `wine/live-settings` | none | Accepted and merged into `hunter`; not pushed |
 | 3 | Wine preferences tab | `wine/preferences-tab` | none | Accepted and merged into `hunter`; not pushed |
-| 4 | Live verification and final results | `wine/verification` | Defect branch only for a proven helper cause | In progress; paused 2026-11-02 for further input; interim results fast-forwarded to `hunter`; not complete, not pushed |
+| 4 | Live verification and final results | `wine/verification` | Defect branch only for a proven helper cause | Closed by maintainer as accepted with known limitations, 2026-11-02; original checklist not fully satisfied; not pushed |
 
 ## Phase 0: native hook-exclusions foundation
 
@@ -430,11 +430,12 @@ regression in the same session.
 
 ## Phase 4: live verification and final results
 
-Status: in progress; paused by the maintainer on 2026-11-02 for
-input from other folks before proceeding further. This is an
-interim freeze only: Phase 4 is not accepted or complete, and the
-contract is not Final. Contract decisions: 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14,
-15, 24.
+Status: closed by the maintainer on 2026-11-02 as accepted with
+known limitations, following the interim pause recorded below.
+The original exhaustive done checklist was not fully satisfied,
+and the contract is not Final. Contract decisions: 7, 8, 10, 11,
+12, 14, 15, 24, subject to the maintainer closure amendment in
+the contract.
 
 Branch: `wine/verification` in Cthulhu, refreshed from `hunter`
 after Phase 3 has landed there. Open a narrow wine-access defect
@@ -487,11 +488,13 @@ through `d6a54fc` plus this freeze record):
   mixed-prefix, keyboard-only preferences round trip, preliminary
   Braille movement/edit navigation, and basic Notepad++
   navigation/editing/Braille tracking.
-- Open and blocking until resolved or the maintainer amends the
-  done criteria: the localized Wine window-title failure (no fix
-  session or defect branch started yet); Battle.net login not
-  reading, with investigation deferred by the maintainer; and
-  completion of the physical-Braille pass, including menus.
+- Open at the pause and then superseded as closure gates by the
+  maintainer's later accepted-with-limitations decision: the
+  localized Wine window-title failure (no fix session or defect
+  branch started); Battle.net login not reading, with
+  investigation deferred by the maintainer; and completion of
+  the physical-Braille pass, including menus. These remain real
+  unfinished items, not passes.
   Cut, undo, menu return, copious Unicode, read-only mode, and a
   very long line in Notepad++ were not separately reported and
   are not claimed.
@@ -539,6 +542,17 @@ Stop boundary: the stage is done only when every item in the
 contract's done checklist passes. Marking the contract Final is a
 separate maintainer act after those results are recorded.
 
+Closure record, 2026-11-02: the maintainer superseded that stop
+boundary for this stage and closed it as accepted with known
+limitations, judging the original planning more expansive and
+pessimistic than the core objective requires. The delivered
+implementation and basic live behavior are accepted as working
+well enough. Unfinished verification and known failures remain
+visible in the contract and ledger as future work; they were not
+converted into passes. The contract was not marked Final, Phase 4
+was not represented as conventionally complete, and nothing was
+pushed by the master session.
+
 ## Fresh-session startup template
 
 Adapt the phase number, branches, and decision list. Keep the rest