sd close <id> [<id2> …] --reason <text> — close one or more issues, stamping closedAt and storing closeReason.
The --reason is the interesting field. It is free text, unvalidated, and the repo’s own convention is to make it evidential rather than declarative — “Fixed; covered by store.test.ts”, “Implemented with exponential backoff” — so the closed seed carries a pointer to what makes the claim checkable. That is a weak, convention-only instance of pattern-evidence-before-claims: nothing enforces it, unlike bernstein’s janitor, which “does not trust agent claims—verifies them”. It is recorded here because the field exists and the framework’s docs consistently fill it that way, not because seeds gates on it.
Closing is also what unblocks: every seed listing this id in blockedBy becomes eligible for seeds-ready the moment this command returns.
Maps to no canonical SDLC stage — it records the end of work rather than performing any.
See Also
- seeds-ready — the queue this command feeds by unblocking downstream seeds.
- seeds-sync — commits the close to git.
- seeds-plan-outcome — the plan-level counterpart, recorded once all children are closed.
- pattern-evidence-before-claims — the pattern
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