flow-next-land

# /flow-next:land — cadence-tick autonomous PR babysitter A tick is one invocation of `/flow-next:land`: discover the open PRs the build loop authored, walk each through the gate tree (CI tri-state → patience window → review-thread resolution → review signal → merge gates), take at most ONE action class per PR, and end with one terminal `LAND_VERDICT` line. It is intentionally not a runner; `/loop` in Claude Code owns the cadence (babysitting waits on external events — CI, reviewers — over hours). Land is the ship loop to pilot's build loop: pilot (`/goal`-shaped) drains ready specs into draft PRs; land (`/loop`-shaped) wakes on a cadence, acts on those PRs, sleeps. Land never authors PRs and never touches in-flight specs — it only babysits PRs whose authoring spec has ALL tasks done (the pilot-concurrency interlock). Land and Ralph are alternative autonomous drivers. Never nest them, and never reuse Ralph harness state inside land. **Auto-merge override (confined).** Land intentionally overrides the standing "no `gh pr merge` from skills" rule — confined to this one opt-in skill. Land itself is the gate: it merges explicitly (`--squash --delete-branch --match-head-commit`) only after every gate passes in-tick, and NEVER uses `gh pr merge --auto` (on a repo with no branch protection `--auto` merges instantly; server-side gating adds nothing). Every other skill keeps the no-auto-merge rule. ## Preamble **CRITICAL: flowctl is BUNDLED — NOT installed globally.** `which flo...