From 5c5fd93d6a435df5e318beb64f650a98a5c8785f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Melon Claw <melon@melon-lab.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:38:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] docs: record branch protection enforcement in CHANGELOG

Canary PR for the live code-reviewer-gate on main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 261f3fe..70a01d2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Notable changes to `melon-monarch-ingest`. Format follows
 [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/); the
 project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Infrastructure
+
+- Branch protection on `main`: direct pushes rejected, `code-reviewer-gate`
+  required status check, `enforce_admins: true`. Sentinel:
+  `[code-reviewer] verdict: APPROVED` in a top-level PR comment.
+
 ## [0.1.0] — 2026-04-19
 
 ### Added