Merge Plan Lifecycle

The Lifecycle

Transitions Explained

The planner derives the three working standings on read, edit or validation. Accepted execution creates an attempt and marks the plan executing; successful business commit settles it. Failure reopens eligible executing plans with decisions retained.

What Cannot Happen

Working edits are refused for executing, executed or expired plans. Blockers have no override, and expiry prevents further execution.

Concurrency and Timing

The five-minute sweep processes at most one hundred plans per workspace under a shared time budget. It does not extend lifetime on edits or exclude executing plans, so it can expire active work contrary to the approved last-change rule. Settled working copies are not cleaned up.