[SPRINT-006-BATCH-1] Veritas trust remediation (orphan tags + WBS metadata gates)

[MarcoPolo483]

Objective

Raise Veritas trust above deploy threshold by removing structural orphan-tag noise and populating required WBS metadata fields.

Current Baseline (2026-03-11)

• Trust score: 57
• Consistency score: 0.00
• Gaps: 22
• WBS quality gate violations: 28 done stories missing sprint/assignee/ado_id

Blocking Findings

1. orphan_story_tag IDs still detected:
   • ACA-16-
   • ACA-
   • ACA-16-001..ACA-16-007
2. WBS done stories missing required metadata in data model API:
   • sprint (0%)
   • assignee (0%)
   • ado_id (14%)

Scope

Story 1: Orphan tag cleanup for ACA-16 references

• Identify tracked files producing ACA-16 orphan IDs in discovery.json
• Either map these stories into canonical PLAN/WBS OR remove invalid story-tag patterns from non-story docs/templates
• Acceptance: no orphan_story_tag for ACA-16* in reconciliation

Story 2: Remove malformed partial IDs

• Eliminate patterns that parse to ACA-16- and ACA- in repository docs/templates
• Acceptance: no orphan_story_tag for ACA-16- or ACA-

Story 3: WBS metadata backfill via API

• Update done stories missing sprint/assignee/ado_id via model API
• Acceptance: field population rates significantly improved and quality gate passes

Story 4: Verify trust recovery

• Run: node 48-eva-veritas/src/cli.js audit --repo 51-ACA
• Acceptance:
  • trust score >= 70
  • actions does not include no-deploy

Notes

Safe preparatory cleanup already done in this session:

• Replaced template placeholders in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/agent-task.yml and .github/scripts/sprint_agent.py to avoid ACA-pattern placeholder IDs.

[github-actions]

Sprint agent failed to start:

[FAIL] Could not parse sprint manifest: [FAIL] No SPRINT_MANIFEST block found in issue body.

[github-actions]

Sprint agent failed to start:

[FAIL] Could not parse sprint manifest: [FAIL] No SPRINT_MANIFEST block found in issue body.