The estate’s two tenses, merged from the live sites and never from these checkouts.
The workflow builds the directory, verify, backlog and shiplog packages, then merges the estate’s past and future tenses — `shipped/1` and `backlog/1` — from what each property serves at its own domain, not from any local checkout.
The distinction is the whole point of federation. A merge assembled from local files would prove only that they sit on one runner, and worse, it would merge the private tier: a checkout carries a repository’s full record while its served fragment carries only what somebody chose to publish.
The result is committed so a property that stops publishing shows up as a line changing from present to absent in a diff, rather than only in a log nobody reads.
That the estate’s merged record is only what the domains actually serve. Fetch the same public fragments the merge reads and re-run the merge yourself; a property that publishes nothing contributes nothing, and the diff says so.