2026-10-17 — Reading generated files fails strict (facilitator-on-delegation, drain-many-accounts step 11): every misreading leans towards not generated, so an overlap is still refused; an absent file or no default branch declares nothing, a file that cannot be read, is not a regular file or is over the cap declares nothing and the act says why, and a line the reader does not understand (a macro, a C-quoted pattern, a negated pattern) is skipped (iss-2610152125101468).

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• dcn-26101709005751762026-10-17 — abcd shares only on a plain declaration (facilitator-on-delegation, drain-many-accounts step 11, refines dcn-2610170652475517 and dcn-2610170831290823): generatedFiles declares nothing, and names the rule, when the root .gitattributes holds a byte outside ASCII, quotes a pattern or names a macro (a bare [attr] included), or when the tree holds a .gitattributes named or placed outside ASCII or a second root one in other capitals; a file whose path is not ASCII is never generated; within those bounds the ASCII case rules stand, and every line visited costs budget steps (iss-2610152125101468).
• iss-2610152125101468A reservation footprint can hold a whole directory (docs, hooks, internal/surface/cli), and the overlap check then refuses every other reservation naming any file inside it. Generated files that every verb-adding branch regenerates, such as docs/reference/cli/commands.md, sit inside such directories, so two unrelated intents held by the same person from two copies could not both declare an honest footprint: on 2026-10-15 the messaging reservation's renewal was refused twice and had to leave out .githooks/pre-push, the ruleset mirror and the generated CLI reference, which it does change.