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PR #229 does not meet acceptance: bin/release prepare still does not record a visible Steffon QA intent in the standard reviewed -> merged -> prepare flow. Merged members already have an assembled transition, and Task#record_intent_event(to_stage: "assembled") no-ops after that transition exists, so the new prepare step records zero members and /deployments does not show Steffon live. Please fix the standard flow and add a regression test that starts with Release::Conductor.adopt! / bin/release merge semantics, then runs the prepare intent path and proves the deploy board shows Steffon QA live without a manual bin/task intent.

Heavy (Jasper): BLOCK — feature is functionally complete and idempotency/supersession/board-render are all correct and well-tested, BUT the two new intent writes are FATAL, not best-effort. bin/release prepare (step 1b ~line 803) and ship (step 2c ~line 1443) call conductor('...record_deploy_intents!...') with no rescue; conductor() (bin/release:304-317) abort!s on any non-zero heroku-run exit. So a transient prod-board failure (the documented essential-PG 'too many connections' incidents, 2026-06-25) on a COSMETIC crew-ticker write would abort a production deploy — exactly what the cited precedents avoid: bin/reviewer-select records its intent best-effort (rescue→warn, lines 325-326) and post_release_notes swallows failure. FIX (small): wrap each new conductor(...) call to warn-and-continue (local rescue SystemExit/StandardError), or add a best_effort: option to conductor(); in ship, rescue LOCALLY so it does not trip the outer partial-ship handler (bin/release:1495). Light (Shannon): APPROVE (board-render side). CI green at head 970daa5. Also the checks_run cites task_intent_test for the qa: marker but that behavior is actually covered by the conductor + helper tests — fix the tag. Re-stamp checks after rework.