stack-close: wait for CI via the authenticated Gitea connection, with timings and a give-up point

Files changed:
- CHANGES.md
- VERSION
- instructions/dev/stack-close/SKILL.md

CHANGES.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ concern - readable here, never shipped as something to parse.
 
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-## 7.1.0-beta.2 - 2026-09-25 - version bump no longer points at version release in its output
+## 7.1.0-beta.3 - 2026-09-25 - stack-close: wait for CI through the authenticated Gitea connection, with timings and a give-up point
 
 **Author:** Torben Nehmer
 
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ concern - readable here, never shipped as something to parse.
 
 **Low impact**
 - version bump no longer points at version release in its output
+- stack-close: wait for CI through the authenticated Gitea connection, with timings and a give-up point
 <!-- /wikitool:bumps -->
 
 ### CalDAV task-tracker provider (Nextcloud Tasks, iOS Reminders); review reports unknown-value findings instead of skipping them
@@ -100,6 +101,16 @@ an agent read that as its own next step and fixed a candidate into a release una
 is gone: whether a candidate ships is the user's decision, as `DEVELOPMENT.md` already says for
 humans, and `instructions/dev/version-parts.md` step 7 now says so for agents.
 
+### stack-close: wait for CI through the authenticated Gitea connection, with timings and a give-up point
+
+Sessions kept improvising how to wait for CI before closing an issue, and one of those
+improvisations - an anonymous `curl` loop against the Actions API, which answers `401` even for
+this public repo - treated every error as "not finished yet" and never ended. `stack-close` step 2
+now names the one way to do it: read the runs through the authenticated Gitea connection, first
+check after about 4 minutes (5 with a release job), then once a minute, and hand back to the user
+after 15. Any shell loop that polls instead must end on the first unexpected response. Dev-only;
+nothing here ships to an instance.
+
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 ## 7.0.0 - 2026-09-22 - Task-Tracker-Anbindung: Vorhaben als Seitenart, Verpflichtungsschicht, Weekly Review als Read-Time-Join