Written to be read cold by a session with no context: what is established
versus what is someone's claim, which of the four actors the gate actually
binds, and what is in flight but unpushed.
The transferable part is §7 -- one failure shape recurred five times in two
days across two agents and the assistant: a property inferred from something
ADJACENT to it rather than tested directly. Protection from a settings page,
reachability from a DNS record, a label count from a grep that matched the
function definition, Gitea's host from a DNS lookup, and a clippy version from
rustfmt output parity. The last is the sharpest: rustfmt 1.8.0 and 1.9.0, nine
months apart, both emit 774 hunks here, so formatting parity carries no
information about which clippy ran -- and the conclusion drawn from it (that
CI's green was cached or ungated) was wrong in a way that would have sent
someone chasing a phantom.
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