AGENTS.md: ship work as PRs, self-merge, operator reviews retrospectively

Operator policy (2026-08-11), matching cc-ci-orchestrator. Branch, PR, merge once
verified, operator reviews after. The PR is not a gate - it is how the work stays
legible - so the description carries what changed, why, and the evidence.

Recipe repos are explicitly excluded: created and verified, never agent-merged.

AGENTS.md

@@ -36,3 +36,19 @@ Two kinds of tests live here — run them on **different** cadences:
 
 A red test is information. Never skip, delete, or relax a test to make a run green — fix the root
 cause or record it in `machine-docs/DEFERRED.md`. (This is a standing build guardrail.)
+
+## Ship work as PRs, merge them yourself, operator reviews retrospectively
+
+Work on this repo goes: **branch → PR → merge it yourself once verified → operator reviews
+retrospectively.** Do not commit straight to `main`, and do not wait for review before merging — the
+invocation is the authorization, and blocking would stall the CI this repo runs.
+
+The PR is therefore not a gate; it is how the work stays legible after the fact. Write the
+description to be read later: what changed, why, and the evidence it works (harness output, a
+verified run, a before/after number). A PR that says "fix test" has failed at its only job.
+
+The same policy covers `recipe-maintainers/cc-ci-orchestrator`. It does **NOT** cover recipe repos —
+any `coop-cloud/<recipe>` or its mirror is created and verified but **never agent-merged**, because
+those change what deploys on other people's infrastructure.
+
+Before editing a test, read `tests/STYLE.md`.

tests/plausible/custom/test_event_tracking.py

@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ def _register_site(domain: str, site: str) -> None:
         .replace("__SITE__", site)
     )
     out = lifecycle.exec_in_app(domain, ["/app/bin/plausible", "rpc", exs], service="app")
-    assert f"CCCI_SITE_OK {site}" in out, f"could not provision site {site!r} via the app: {out.strip()[-400:]}"
+    assert f"CCCI_SITE_OK {site}" in out, (
+        f"could not provision site {site!r} via the app: {out.strip()[-400:]}"
+    )
 
 
 def _post_event(base_domain: str, site: str, name: str, pathname: str) -> int:
@@ -142,9 +144,9 @@ def _ingest_and_count(
     last_status = None
     while True:
         last_status = _post_event(base_domain, site, name, pathname)
-        assert (
-            last_status == 202
-        ), f"POST /api/event for {name!r} → HTTP {last_status} (expected 202)"
+        assert last_status == 202, (
+            f"POST /api/event for {name!r} → HTTP {last_status} (expected 202)"
+        )
         time.sleep(interval)
         raw = _ch(base_domain, count_sql)
         count = int(raw) if raw.isdigit() else 0
@@ -192,6 +194,6 @@ def test_custom_event_roundtrip(live_app):
         live_app,
         f"SELECT name FROM events_v2 WHERE pathname = '{pathname}' LIMIT 1",
     )
-    assert (
-        stored_name == event_name
-    ), f"custom event stored as {stored_name!r}, expected {event_name!r}"
+    assert stored_name == event_name, (
+        f"custom event stored as {stored_name!r}, expected {event_name!r}"
+    )