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+# `ccam ci status` — unblock Stage 13's CI-wait half
+
+**Status:** approved 2026-08-25.
+
+## Problem
+
+`ship-feature-lane`'s Stage 13 (post-merge verification) is hardcoded
+skipped. Two integrations gate it: dev-CI-wait (watch CI on `development`
+after a PR merges, before QCing the deployed site) and dev-QC (QC the
+deployed site). Neither exists yet.
+
+This spec covers only the CI-wait half. `ccam lanes integration ci_wait`
+already exists (`server/lib/lane-profile.js:isIntegrationEnabled`,
+`bin/ccam.js:cmdLanesIntegration`) and reports whether a profile *wants* the
+integration on — but nothing acts on it. `ccam ci` doesn't exist
+(`skills/ship-feature-lane/SKILL.md:167` notes this explicitly at Stage 10,
+where the skill falls back to raw `gh pr checks`/`gh run view`).
+
+Dev-QC (QCing the deployed site) is a separate, later task — out of scope
+here. Stage 13's dev-QC half stays noted as unavailable until that lands.
+
+## Approach
+
+**A read-only status snapshot, not a wait loop.** Per the project's
+orchestration doctrine (`docs/LANES.md` § "Orchestration: what CCAM does NOT
+do" — no chaining, no queue, no retry logic), `ccam ci status` reports a
+fact once; it does not poll, block, or retry. The driving skill owns the
+poll loop and the fix/escalate decision, the same shape Stage 12 already
+uses for watching a PR (`sleep 300` backgrounded, re-invoked per iteration).
+
+This also means `ccam ci status` needs no flake classification. Stage 10
+already does that triage (infra/flake signature vs. real failure) reading
+`gh` output directly — Stage 13 reuses the same triage, now reading this
+command's structured JSON instead of raw `gh`.
+
+**Server-backed, following the `sync-base` pattern**, not a CLI-local `gh`
+spawn. Every existing `ccam` command is a thin HTTP client — no command in
+`bin/ccam.js` spawns a child process directly (`worktree.js`'s `git()`
+helper is the only child-process boundary CCAM has today, always
+server-side). A new `server/lib/gh.js` mirrors that helper:
+
+```js
+async function gh(cwd, args) { /* execFile("gh", args, { cwd }) */ }
+```
+
+New route: `GET /api/lanes/:id/ci/status?ref=<branch-or-sha>`
+
+- Resolves the lane's `cwd` (same lookup every other lane route uses).
+- Runs `gh run list --branch <ref> --json databaseId,conclusion,status,url --limit 1`
+  to find the latest run for that ref, then `gh run view <id> --json jobs`
+  for per-job conclusions. (A `sha` ref: `gh run list` accepts a commit SHA
+  via `--commit`, not `--branch` — the route tries `--branch` first and
+  falls back to `--commit` if the ref doesn't look like a branch name a
+  lane would use, i.e. it's a 7-40 char hex string.)
+- No run found for the ref at all → `state: "pending"` (CI hasn't started
+  yet, not an error).
+- `gh` missing or not authenticated → `{ error: { message } }`, HTTP 500.
+
+New CLI: `ccam lanes ci status <branch-or-sha> [<lane-id>]`
+
+- GETs the route above, prints the JSON, sets `process.exitCode`.
+- Resolves the lane the same way every other `ccam lanes <verb>` command
+  does (`resolveLaneArg`), so it works with an implicit lane-from-cwd or an
+  explicit id, matching `ccam lanes integration`.
+
+## Response shape
+
+```json
+{
+  "state": "success",
+  "ref": "a1b2c3d",
+  "checks": [
+    { "name": "server-tests", "conclusion": "failure", "url": "https://github.com/.../runs/123" }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+`state` is derived, never taken from a single field: any job still
+`in_progress`/`queued` → `pending`; else any `failure`/`cancelled`/
+`timed_out` → `failure`; else (`success`/`skipped` only) → `success`.
+
+## Exit codes
+
+CLI mirrors the response into a process exit code, same convention as
+`sync-base`'s distinct exit codes per outcome:
+
+- `0` — `state: "success"`
+- `1` — `state: "failure"`, OR any execution error (`gh` missing, lane not
+  found, route error) — printed as `✖ ci status → <message>` on stderr
+- `3` — `state: "pending"` (covers both "checks running" and "no run found
+  yet for this ref")
+
+## Skill changes
+
+`skills/ship-feature-lane/SKILL.md` Stage 13: replace the hardcoded-skip
+note with a poll loop mirroring Stage 12's:
+
+- Get the merge SHA: `gh pr view <pr_url> --json mergeCommit -q .mergeCommit.oid`.
+- Loop (`sleep 300`, `run_in_background: true`, bump heartbeat each
+  iteration): `ccam lanes ci status <sha>`.
+  - `pending` → keep waiting.
+  - `failure` → triage like Stage 10 (`gh run view` for job logs on the
+    same run id returned in `checks[].url`), fix + re-enter from Stage 2,
+    or escalate.
+  - `success` → dev-QC half is still unavailable (separate task) — note
+    that explicitly and proceed to Stage 14, same as today but now honest
+    that CI-wait specifically passed.
+- Update `docs/LANES.md`: the "Stages currently hardcoded skipped" list
+  (Stage 13 becomes "CI-wait works; dev-QC still off"), the
+  `ccam lanes integration` section's claim that `ci_wait`'s consumer isn't
+  built, and add `ccam ci status` to the command reference.
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No flake auto-classification or auto-rerun inside `ccam ci status` —
+  stays a dumb fact-reporter; the skill keeps owning that judgment, per
+  CCAM's no-retry-logic rule.
+- No change to Stage 10 (PR CI watch) — it keeps using raw `gh` directly.
+  Reusing this command there is a plausible future cleanup, not required
+  now.
+- No dev-QC implementation — separate task, tracked independently.
+
+## Testing
+
+- `server/tests` — new test for the `/api/lanes/:id/ci/status` route,
+  mocking `execFile`/`gh` output for: pending (no run yet), pending
+  (in-progress run), success, failure, and `gh`-not-found — pattern after
+  the existing `sync-base` route tests.
+- `npm run test:server` before considering this done.