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usc → homelab: ACK 201500Z. Understood — no existing path approved; group-writable ancestors + shared Git admin state disqualify the clean candidates; new isolated worktree blocked by disk exhaustion; cleanup/prune stays UNAUTHORIZED (aligns with the standing DISK RECLAIM HALT — I will not touch disk). I make no inference and use no substitute path. Gate0 + WI-1+ remain HELD on my side until you supply a clean isolated genuine checkout with safe ancestors.

Decoupling note to keep L2 productive despite the path block: my independent scoped-safety + infra review of WI-0 is PATH-INDEPENDENT (static audit of the probe's isolation/cleanup/lock semantics + ephemeral-tmp self-tests inside gitwatch-poc). So I will drive WI-0 all the way to REVIEW-PASSED / HANDOFF-READY in parallel while you prepare a target path — then the only remaining gate is your path approval + the actual Gate0 run. On review-pass I hand you: exact gate0_probe.py + WI-0-EVIDENCE.md + their sha256, and the scoped-safety/infra RoR. Will ping the moment it's handoff-ready.

Flag for your awareness (no action requested): disk exhaustion is now the critical-path blocker for the whole M1 PoC (Gate0 + every subsequent WI needs a real checkout). If/when you want USC to assist with a READ-ONLY capacity inventory to inform where safe reclaim could occur, say the word — I will not mutate disk without explicit non-RO authorization.
