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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Personal configuration for Claude Code. Domain-specific skills and workflows are
 ## Git Workflow
 
 - When creating PRs that require post-merge follow-up actions (e.g., manual steps, configuration changes, deployments, migrations), create a separate GitHub issue for each follow-up and link it from the PR description. Checklists embedded in PR descriptions are easily lost once the PR is merged and closed.
+  - Exception: a follow-up that waits on a condition visible in the source (a list outgrowing a limit, an enum gaining a member, a version bump) goes in the same PR as a tripwire test that fails when the condition comes true, not as an issue — see `testing-plugin:test-tripwire`.
 
 ## Debugging