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
+Status: closed by the maintainer on 2026-11-02 as accepted with
-input from other folks before proceeding further. This is an
+known limitations, following the interim pause recorded below.
-interim freeze only: Phase 4 is not accepted or complete, and the
+The original exhaustive done checklist was not fully satisfied,
-contract is not Final. Contract decisions: 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14,
+and the contract is not Final. Contract decisions: 7, 8, 10, 11,
-15, 24.
+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
+- Open at the pause and then superseded as closure gates by the
-  done criteria: the localized Wine window-title failure (no fix
+  maintainer's later accepted-with-limitations decision: the
-  session or defect branch started yet); Battle.net login not
+  localized Wine window-title failure (no fix session or defect
-  reading, with investigation deferred by the maintainer; and
+  branch started); Battle.net login not reading, with
-  completion of the physical-Braille pass, including menus.
+  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

docs/testing/wine-proton.md

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 # Steam/Proton and controller-only verification
 
-Status: Draft. Settled decisions from the 2026-11-01 grilling session are
+Status: Closed — accepted with known limitations on 2026-11-02.
-recorded here as they land; unresolved questions stay visibly marked.
+Settled decisions from the 2026-11-01 grilling session are recorded
-Per decision 15, contract acceptance settles the decisions but keeps
+here; unresolved questions and unfinished verification stay visibly
-this document Draft; it becomes Final only when the done checklist
+marked. This document is deliberately **not** marked Final under
-passes and the per-application results are written in.
+decision 15: the maintainer superseded the original exhaustive
+done checklist for closure after judging the core implementation
+and basic live behavior sufficient for this stage's purpose. See
+the maintainer closure amendment under the scope contract.
 
 Execution is split into separately reviewed phases: Phase 0, the
 already-committed native-exclusion foundation; Phase 1, ready
@@ -208,7 +211,7 @@ operational only; this contract remains normative if they differ.
 
 (none)
 
-## Scope contract (accepted; document remains Draft)
+## Scope contract (accepted; closed with known limitations)
 
 Boundary. In Cthulhu: `internal/wine`, the Wine settings wiring in
 `internal/app` and `internal/config`, a Wine page in
@@ -248,10 +251,31 @@ Nothing outside this checklist is a completion dependency. Accepting
 this contract does not authorize implementation; that takes a separate
 explicit request.
 
-## Live verification results (Phase 4, in progress)
+Maintainer closure amendment, 2026-11-02: after Phases 0–3 landed
+and the partial Phase 4 verification below, the maintainer closed
+this stage as **accepted with known limitations**. The original
+checklist is retained above as the historical criterion, but its
+no-carve-out/no-escape-hatch closure gates in decisions 11 and 12
+are superseded for closure of this stage. The maintainer judged
+the original planning more expansive and pessimistic than the
+stage's core objective requires; the delivered basics are working
+well enough. This closure does **not** assert that every original
+checklist item passed. The following remain unfinished, deferred,
+or separately future work rather than stage blockers under the
+revised acceptance basis: the localized Wine window-title failure;
+Battle.net's unread Chromium login; completion of the full
+physical-Braille pass and unrelated tangential Braille bugs; the
+deferred pre-attached edit-subclass remedy; Notepad++ operations
+not separately reported; and a single-environment wine-access
+CTest 7/7 on this Wayland system. Marking this contract Final, if
+ever desired, remains a separate maintainer act.
 
-Recorded as results arrive; evidence kinds are kept separate, and
+## Live verification results (Phase 4, interim at closure)
-nothing here is Final until every done-checklist item passes.
+
+Recorded as results arrived; evidence kinds are kept separate.
+These entries retain their individual scopes and caveats at the
+stage's accepted-with-limitations closure; the original done
+checklist was not fully satisfied.
 
 Automated baseline, 2026-11-02, on the Phase 4 tree (`ec1a620`):
 Cthulhu `go test ./...` passes in full when run unsandboxed
@@ -357,9 +381,10 @@ maintainer and other reviewers before this phase closes.
   audible report. The launcher reached its login, but the login
   did not read. No root-cause diagnosis was attempted; the
   maintainer defers this Chromium-engine surface as a later task
-  because of its separate intricacies and scope. Under decisions
+  because of its separate intricacies and scope. Under the
-  11–12 it remains a completion blocker unless the maintainer
+  original decisions 11–12 it was a completion blocker; the
-  later amends the done criteria; deferral is not a pass.
+  maintainer closure amendment above later superseded that gate
+  for this stage. Deferral is still not a pass.
 - Notepad++ (Scintilla edits), 2026-11-02 — **passed so far.**
   Evidence: installed binary, audible speech, physical input,
   and physical Braille. The maintainer reports that normal