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the pilot note's second-operator fold-in landed without a self-consistency sweep: the '### Merge landed as (fill in at cut)' stub for the PR #526 merge is unfilled with its two-parent check unticked, F-N/F-O/F-D sit at '##' as peers of the umbrella heading that enumerates them as subordinate, and both enumeration captions (the umbrella and the final verdict's acceptance-criteria cite) still cap at F-V although F-W exists