Cut three surfaces that nagged Community users without explicit feature
engagement: the Dashboard RelayOnboardingCard paywall, the app-wide
ActiveUseTrialNudge (already dead code with no render sites), and the
SetupCompletionPanel "Monitor from Anywhere" Relay trial block.
Feature-gated discovery that fires only when a user clicks a locked
feature (alert investigate, history ranges, Patrol AI modes, Settings
panels) is intentionally left alone — those are user-initiated, not
blanket funnels.
Governance cascade: cloud-paid.md extends the Settings no-funnel rule
to Dashboard and setup completion; registry.json, status.json readiness
assertions RA5/RA18, frontend-primitives/storage-recovery/
performance-and-scalability contracts, the high-risk verification
matrix, the relay registration proof script, the subsystem lookup
tests, and the obsolete integration spec are all scrubbed of
references to the removed files. Blocked-record regenerated against
current VERSION=6.0.0-rc.2 so the promotion-policy test no longer
diffs on a stale rc.1 artifact.
Introduce PULSE_ALLOW_CONTRACT_NEUTRAL_COMMIT as a narrow escape
hatch for the canonical-shape block in staged_commit_shape_guard
and canonical_completion_guard. A non-empty reason logs to stderr
for audit and suppresses only the canonical-shape requirements;
lane-progress, promotion-proof, sensitivity, gitleaks,
governance-stage, control-plane, status, registry, and contract
audits still run. Previously a behavioral bug fix on a canonical
runtime path demanded full contract + verification ceremony even
when no public-contract delta existed, forcing --no-verify.
