markerRe is a byte pattern, not a grammar: the intent audit's review marker (an HTML comment naming a state and a receipt id) is matched by a regex over the record's raw bytes, so the ledger's notion of review state is whatever the bytes look like rather than what a markdown reader would parse. It is now line-anchored and whole-line, and termsafe breaks the comment delimiters in every field the ingest writes, so a marker can no longer be forged from a verdict payload. What remains is that the pattern still cannot tell a fenced code block, a quoted example in the brief, or an indented literal from a live marker: a marker-shaped line at column zero inside a fence counts. A durable fix parses the Audit Notes section as markdown, or moves the state out of a comment into frontmatter the record schema owns. Evidence symbol: markerRe in internal/core/intent/audit.go, read by existingMarker, markerState and upsertReviewBlock.

markerRe is a byte pattern, not a grammar: the intent audit's review marker (an HTML comment naming a state and a receipt id) is matched by a regex over the record's raw bytes, so the ledger's notion of review state is whatever the bytes look like rather than what a markdown reader would parse. It is now line-anchored and whole-line, and termsafe breaks the comment delimiters in every field the ingest writes, so a marker can no longer be forged from a verdict payload. What remains is that the pattern still cannot tell a fenced code block, a quoted example in the brief, or an indented literal from a live marker: a marker-shaped line at column zero inside a fence counts. A durable fix parses the Audit Notes section as markdown, or moves the state out of a comment into frontmatter the record schema owns. Evidence symbol: markerRe in internal/core/intent/audit.go, read by existingMarker, markerState and upsertReviewBlock.

Grounds

• pursued: only a marker a markdown reader parses as a live comment in Audit Notes carries review state; a fenced or commented marker that solicits, routes or silences a verdict would show it wrong