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[finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

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Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

  • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
  • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
  • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
  • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
  • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

  • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
  • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
  • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

Suggested shape

Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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    [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name `| tail` and leave `| head` — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed · Issue #13429 · objectstack-ai/objectstack · GitHub
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    [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

    Description

    @zhuangjianguo

    Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

    Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

    Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

    • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
    • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
    • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
    • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
    • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

    Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

    Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

    • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
    • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
    • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

    Suggested shape

    Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

    Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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      [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

      Description

      @zhuangjianguo

      Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

      Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

      Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

      • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
      • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
      • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
      • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
      • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

      Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

      Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

      • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
      • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
      • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

      Suggested shape

      Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

      Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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        [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

        Description

        @zhuangjianguo

        Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

        Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

        Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

        • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
        • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
        • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
        • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
        • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

        Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

        Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

        • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
        • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
        • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

        Suggested shape

        Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

        Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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          [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

          Description

          @zhuangjianguo

          Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

          Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

          Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

          • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
          • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
          • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
          • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
          • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

          Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

          Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

          • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
          • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
          • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

          Suggested shape

          Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

          Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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            [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

            Description

            @zhuangjianguo

            Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

            Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

            Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

            • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
            • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
            • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
            • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
            • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

            Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

            Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

            • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
            • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
            • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

            Suggested shape

            Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

            Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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              [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

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              @zhuangjianguo

              Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

              Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

              Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

              • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
              • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
              • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
              • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
              • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

              Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

              Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

              • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
              • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
              • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

              Suggested shape

              Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

              Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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                [finding] Sibling copies of the wrong-pipe-shape exit-code advisory survive #12979: five more banners name | tail and leave | head — the shape that defeats PIPESTATUS/pipefail — unnamed #13429

                Description

                @zhuangjianguo

                Filed unassigned by the #12979 dev, session session_01EXxTW8mvPBhoHxmyPZ63de, while fixing that card (PR #13427). Out of scope there: the 2026-08-28 grading on #12979 permitted exactly one cross-domain half (scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs); these are the remaining copies of the same wrong fact. #12979 is not addressed here beyond that pointer, and PR #13427 does not touch these files.

                Census (git grep on 9f1652c, the #12979 fix branch head; line numbers from that tree)

                Exact copies of the corrected banner's old text, still claiming | tail -4 "reads green either way":

                • scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 — HIGH LEVERAGE: this is the shared prerequisite-banner module; every gate script that imports it inherits the wrong advisory line verbatim (the printed text interpolates the calling gate's name via scripts/${gate}.mjs).
                • scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:1137, :1192, :1221
                • scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:7597
                • scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:1540, :2424 (phrased "Piping reports the PIPE's status, so backticked dot-dot-dot pipe tail reads green either way")
                • scripts/check-test-completeness.mjs:481-483 — half-corrected variant: it already says capture the exit code BEFORE any pipe (good), but still names only | tail -4 as the lying shape and leaves | head unnamed.

                Not a copy, do not touch: docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:359 uses the phrase "reads green either way" about a fixture clause, unrelated to pipes.

                Why these mislead (measured, #12979 and re-measured on 94efa2a)

                • For a reader using bare $? after the pipe, the claim is literally true — $? is the pipe's status.
                • For a reader following the os-dev discipline (now: redirect-then-capture; formerly PIPESTATUS[0]), | tail -4 forwards the TRUE status (measured: 1 on a refusing gate) — so the advisory names the safe shape as the dangerous one.
                • The shape that actually lies to every reader, | head -N, is unnamed in all of these: head closes the read end early, the producer takes EPIPE/SIGPIPE and exits 0, so even PIPESTATUS[0] and set -o pipefail read green (measured: 0 on the same refusing gate). An agent steered away from tail toward head gets the only false green there is.

                Suggested shape

                Same fix the #12979 grading prescribed and PR #13427 applied to check-i18n-bundles.mjs: name the true hazard (| head -N, with the EPIPE mechanism), name the safe capture (redirect-then-capture, exit code taken before any pipe), and do not reduce it to "do not pipe". Fixing scripts/import-prerequisite.mjs:409 corrects every importer in one edit; the literal copies in the other four files need their own lines. Each of those gate scripts has a self-test (--self-test) that must stay green, and none of the edits may change exit codes.

                Severity not judged; the banners only mislead humans and agents reading refusal output — no gate verdict is computed from them.

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