# Backlog Cleanup — 26 October 2025

This note captures the Sprint backlog hygiene pass applied on 26 October 2025. The goal was to eliminate legacy tasks that violated the aggregation-only contract (AOC), duplicated scope, or conflicted with the current module ownership map.

## Summary
- **Console replaces legacy Angular UI.** Sprint 13 UI tasks (`UI-SCANS-13-002`, `UI-VEX-13-003`, `UI-ADMIN-13-004`, `UI-SCHED-13-005`) are retired. Console Sprint 23 (`CONSOLE-CORE-23-001..005`, `CONSOLE-FEAT-23-101..109`, `CONSOLE-REL-23-301..303`) owns the experience.
- **Policy CLI runtime verbs consolidated.** `CLI-RUNTIME-13-005` is superseded by `CLI-POLICY-20-002` and Policy Studio flows (`CLI-POLICY-27-00x`).
- **Notifier supersedes legacy Notify.* modules.** All Sprint 15 `StellaOps.Notify.*` tasks are archived. Replacement work lives in Notifications Studio / Notifier Sprints 38–40 (`NOTIFY-SVC-38-00x`, `NOTIFY-SVC-39-00x`, `NOTIFY-SVC-40-00x`, plus `WEB/CLI-NOTIFY-3x-00x`).
- **Cartographer owns graph construction.** `SBOM-GRAPH-24-00{1..4}` tasks are deleted from SBOM Service; Cartographer backlog (`CARTO-GRAPH-21-001..009`) covers graph storage, overlays, and tiling.
- **Dedicated Vuln Explorer service.** Gateway/UI/CLI entries that attempted to inline Vuln Explorer logic (`WEB-GRAPH-24-003`, `UI-GRAPH-24-005`, `CLI-VULN-24-003`) now defer to Sprint 29 Vuln Explorer (`VULN-API-29-00x`, `CONSOLE-VULN-29-00x`, `CLI-VULN-29-00x`).
- **AOC enforcement.** Ingestion-layer tasks attempting to compute derived severity/safe-fix metadata (`CONCELIER-VULN-29-003`, `EXCITITOR-VULN-29-003`) were removed; the Policy Engine overlay backlog (`POLICY-ENGINE-29-001..003`) is the canonical home.
- **CI/Offline adjustments.** `DEVOPS-UI-13-006` and `DEVOPS-OFFLINE-18-003` moved under Console release tasks (`CONSOLE-QA-23-401`, `DEVOPS-CONSOLE-23-001`, `CONSOLE-REL-23-302`).

## Follow-up
- Update module task boards only under their active backlogs (`src/Notifier/StellaOps.Notifier`, Cartographer, Vuln Explorer).
- Ensure future ingestion tasks reference AOC guardrails and avoid derived semantics.
- Cross-check `../implplan/SPRINTS.md` after adding new tasks to keep tables consistent with module `TASKS.md` files.