VentureRaven produced 47 commits since the fork. Thirty-three carry no salvage value, nine were fixes that originated in CodeRaven and were ported into VentureRaven, and thirteen are venture content the merge plan already schedules into Phases 4–6. That leaves five genuine VentureRaven-forward changes, four of which were bugs CodeRaven still had.
The plan's earlier reading — that the salvage list was "trending toward empty" — was wrong. It was right about the tooling commits and wrong about the ideation fixes, which nothing had checked until this audit.
Method
The fork baseline is 0bd4fc4 (2026-06-25, "chore: fork Code Raven as
VentureRaven"). Any VentureRaven file whose history begins at that commit and stops
there is a fork-time copy of a CodeRaven file, so CodeRaven's version wins by
definition. Only commits in 0bd4fc4..HEAD are audit surface.
That rule discards 44 VentureRaven-only files — 15,473 lines covering ToDos, MenuBar, QuickChecks and the pre-Wave-2 FeatureLab — without inspection, because CodeRaven deleted or rewrote all of them after the fork.
Port — VentureRaven-forward, absent from CodeRaven
| Change | Source | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deep-dive session-leak guard.
precomputeForUpcomingWaits passed a previous session's
deepDiveData into the next session's wait content. CodeRaven had
the sibling guards at lines 331, 382, 1896 and 2090 but not this one. |
IdeationStudioContainerView.swift:399 |
Ported |
| 2 | Retired phase in the full-route stepper. CodeRaven's own
comment says "Wave 2: Interview phase retired from the new-session flow," yet
trackerPhases(for: .full) still advertised it, so stepping back
rendered the vestigial IdeationInterviewView — card questions the
user was never asked. |
faa37b2 |
Ported |
| 3 | Duplicate route picker. The welcome screen's route cards navigated to the Route Selection screen, which is the same chooser again. Full Exploration collects nothing there, so it now starts discovery directly. Topic and App still use the picker, where they gather their input. | d93f75f |
Ported |
| 4 | Route-selection layout. Centering with
Spacer() top and bottom inside a
maxHeight: .infinity frame mis-centered the stack and pinned the
Begin button below the fold on shorter windows, where it clipped rather than
scrolling. Now top-anchored inside a ScrollView. |
d93f75f |
Ported |
| 5 | RegenerateButton. A small always-available
control to kill an in-flight generation and retry a step without restarting
the phase and discarding answers. CodeRaven has no regenerate affordance in
any Beat view. |
50593bc |
Decision |
Items 1–4 are in CodeRaven now and the project builds
(** BUILD SUCCEEDED **, Debug, Code Raven scheme).
Decision needed
Port RegenerateButton, or drop it?
It is a feature rather than a bug fix, and it is not venture-specific — its own
docstring describes recovering from "a hung, empty, or unsatisfying generation."
Porting it means wiring the control into the Beat views and adding cancel-and-retry
paths to PulseCheckService, ReflectionAIService,
StudioWaitOverlay and WaitContentModifier.
That is real scope the merge plan does not currently carry, so it is flagged rather than done. If it is worth porting, it belongs as its own task in Phase 5.
Already present in CodeRaven — discard
Nine commits. Several say so in their own commit bodies.
| Commit | Subject | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
c309f2e | true file lines and real plan paths | Body: "Two silent-failure bugs, both fixed in CodeRaven and never ported." This resolves the plan's Silent Task-Classification question — the bugs originated in CodeRaven. |
1806723 | pressure-test survives navigation | Body: "Ports CodeRaven's pressure-test survive-navigation refactor." |
7833639 | cross-session state-scoping fixes | Named as a port from CodeRaven in its subject. |
4836fea | root session signals at the project | CodeRaven bcea24c1, identical subject. |
90c70a0 | retire /vr-checkin |
CodeRaven 83315bf8, /cr-checkin equivalent. |
707e4d6 | surface review-copy HTML plans | CodeRaven 43f9b7ad, Plans segment. |
dd58acd | document every bundled command | CodeRaven 8a66b986, identical subject. |
1e22ca8 | flow-map gallery review artifacts | FlowMapScanner.swift:40 scans reviews/. |
8693469, e4d6229 | Spark Inbox and dispositions | CodeRaven has every file, including
SparkIdeaDispositionStore.swift. |
No content — discard
565e8e4(1,099 files) and946e169(78 files): the brand and command-prefix renames.- Eleven window-sizing commits from 2026-06-26 ending in
6cf4077 revert: remove all window-sizing hacks; match CodeRaven baseline. Net zero. f45ceee,39f23b8,9a31ac9,72d2fb3,f87c94a,d869109,4f033d0: command copy and docs for the retiredvr-*prefix.
Venture content — already scheduled
These are not salvage. They are the payload the merge exists to move, and the plan already places them.
| Commits | Content | Phase |
|---|---|---|
0da1109 | 14-layer business Foundation cascade (34 files) | Phase 4 |
f166e11, 9262069, 449a31e | Ideation copy reframe, Threads → Offerings, Spark Inbox label | Phase 5 |
b8b2828, 33ec306, 3a52110, a4af319 | 135 reframed interview questions, question generator, conversational prompts, front door | Phase 5 |
dc5032d, c43002a | Capability/constraints step and business-form tagging | Phase 5 |
50593bc (part) | Diversified business forms | Phase 5 |
962ad10, fb0522a | Studio unlocked by default, sidebar Projects → Ventures | Phase 3 |
Unverified
fc85606 — self-routing commands
No subject-matching commit in CodeRaven. Given that /cr-checkin was
retired by 83315bf8, the self-routing behavior may have been folded
into /cr-entry rather than landing as its own commit. Low risk either
way, since command content is regenerated from Resources/Commands/
rather than carried in app state.
What this means for the plan
Phase 7 does not move earlier
The plan's contingency said that if the audit came back nearly empty, Phase 7's data migration could jump ahead of Phases 5 and 6 to get the 18 ideation sessions somewhere safe sooner. That contingency does not apply. The audit came back with four real bugs, which is a different signal: the fork accumulated fixes nobody was tracking, and that argues for finishing the port before archiving anything.
The ordering in the plan stands as written. Phase 2 may begin.