A group member's own check runs its repository's check alone, a cycle fails the composed check, and mark-ready leaves the delivery seat (issue 977, part D, ADR 0403)

internal/link/build.go

@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ type CheckRequest struct {
 	Trunk string `json:"trunk,omitempty"`
 	// Ready says the pull request is marked ready (ADR 0406 §3): its check is queued before every other check.
 	Ready bool `json:"ready,omitempty"`
+	// Composed says the pull request is a member of a delivery group whose gate is the composed check's (novox/hq ADR
+	// 0403 clause 1): this check runs the repository's own merge-check.sh alone, and its gate layer is not run.
+	Composed bool `json:"composed,omitempty"`
 	// Paths are the files the pull request changes, for the width of its rebuild.
 	Paths []string `json:"paths,omitempty"`
 	// Beside are the repositories the check reads next to this one, each cloned at the ref given — the

internal/link/events.go

@@ -294,8 +294,9 @@ type Checked struct {
 	// and send, posted with the verdict.
 	Plan *ChangePlan `json:"plan,omitempty"`
 	// Group is set on a delivery group's composed check (novox/hq ADR 0239): every member's head composed
-	// together as one future state. Members are the heads judged. A forge's holder sets no merge-gate
-	// status from it — the group's verdict is its owner's, mesh-delivery, to say on each member's head.
+	// together as one future state. Members are the heads judged, each with the trunk commit it was merged into. **The
+	// forge's holder sets every member's mesh/merge-gate from it** (novox/hq ADR 0403 clauses 1 and 5): the group's
+	// verdict is each member's gate, and a member's own verdict, whose gate layer is "composed", sets none.
 	Group   string          `json:"group,omitempty"`
 	Members []CheckedMember `json:"members,omitempty"`
 	// Trunk is the trunk commit the head was merged into and judged as, twelve characters (novox/hq ADR 0323