reference deploy guard blocks on untracked docs 20260715T151922

CreatorTrack's prod deploy scripts check git status --porcelain and refuse to run if the tree is dirty, and this includes untracked files unrelated to code, e.g. a handoff doc dropped under docs/handoffs/ by a different (Codex) session. Discovered 2026-07-15 during the OG-image ship: the deploy was blocked until the untracked doc was moved out of the CreatorTrack repo entirely (relocated to ~/forge/memory/handoffs/, its canonical home).

Why: the guard doesn't distinguish code from docs, so any stray untracked file anywhere in ~/creatortrack can silently block a deploy. How to apply: before running /ship or a prod deploy, check git status --porcelain for untracked files first; if any doc/handoff files are sitting in the CreatorTrack repo, relocate them to ~/forge/memory/handoffs/ (per convention) rather than deleting, then retry.

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