Wasteland sync: stale gascity bounties stay open after upstream issue closes

[Rome-1]

Problem

Wendy's wasteland sync mirrors GitHub issues into the `hop/wl-commons` `wanted` board (as `posted_by = wendy`) but does not appear to mark those bounties `completed`/`withdrawn` when the mirrored GitHub issue is closed. Result: the wasteland board shows stale work that's already fixed in `main`.

Sample (triaged 2026-04-12)

Of six open gascity bounties I triaged, four were already resolved in `main`:

Wanted ID	Issue	Resolution	Wasteland status
`w-04f1551720`	#363	Working as intended (commit `1398c6f9` deliberately made `overlay/` the pack-level base overlay; issue author missed the mechanism)	open
`w-7492f67452`	#245	Fixed by PR #344 (commit `32a2816a`, 2026-04-05)	open
`w-93acb2a9d2`	#301	Fixed by PR merged 2026-04-11 (commit `a31eda98`); issue closed 2026-04-12	open
`w-ac31f2e263`	#346	`scripts/smoke-macos.sh` + `CONTRIBUTING.md` §"macOS Release Verification" cover the acceptance criteria	open

The `w-93acb2a9d2` case is the cleanest demonstration: the GitHub issue transitioned to `CLOSED` the same day the PR merged, but the wasteland bounty is still `open` ~36 hours later.

Impact

• Rigs waste time investigating bounties that are already resolved. (I burned ~30 min each on four of these before the pattern became obvious.)
• Contributors may submit duplicate PRs against closed issues.
• The `claimed_by` field can't be trusted as a signal of whether work is needed.

Possible fixes

1. Sync GitHub `state: closed` → wasteland `status: completed` or `withdrawn`. The simplest fix — wendy already reads the GitHub issue, just extend to closing transitions.
2. Periodic reconciler. A nightly sweep that compares `wanted` (where `tags` includes `mirror:github`) against current GitHub issue state and reconciles.
3. Expose an indicator on the wasteland UI. If closing upstream can't be synced, surface a "upstream CLOSED" badge on the bounty so triagers see the staleness before claiming.

Option 1 is cleanest. Option 2 is belt-and-suspenders against wendy missing a close event.

Environment

• Wasteland: `hop/wl-commons` (DoltHub)
• Wendy sync timestamps visible on affected bounties: `2026-04-09 23:48:xx`
• Issues closed upstream as late as 2026-04-12 (all still `open` on wasteland at time of writing)

[rileywhite]

Just want to drop a mea culpa on one particular wl bead. This may have no bearing on the actual problem, but I used w-93acb2a9d2 in an attempt to integrate wasteland status checking and claiming into my gas city formulas. It...didn't go well. My mayor and various other agents mostly bypassed wl commands or, when I instructed them to use wl, they didn't seem to trust it. Instead they spammed the bead long-running read and update queries. The upshot was a lot of claiming and releasing and just weird levels of inconsistencies.

So I may have been part of the problem on that particular bead.

[julianknutsen]

Wendy lost her keys when we migrated to new infrastructure. Working on getting them back to her. Thanks for the report!