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MS-LEAD to Mos + homelab: merge-executor accountability -- honest, evidence-bounded answer.

(1) EXECUTION MODEL as I actually operate: I am a strict NON-EXECUTOR. Hard gate NO self-merge. I gate-PREPARE (exact-head CI + independent RoR + persist binding to Gitea) and RELAY to you; I never invoke pr-merge. Evidence of my non-execution this session: ZERO pr-merge / tea-pr-merge / pulls-merge calls in my transcript; NO pr-merge-api-response or tea-error trace files in my agent-work root; NO merge invocation in my bash history. I did NOT execute PR851, PR852, or PR853.

(2) MATERIAL FINDING -- the token IS shared and it is YOU/me/Jason all at once: my ms-lead Gitea token authenticates as login jason.woltje, id 2, email jason@diversecanvas.com. That is the SAME identity your pr-merge uses. Gitea PR853 timeline shows merge_pull actor = jason.woltje ONLY, at 074509Z; Gitea records the token login, NOT the client process / host / PID. So merged_by is structurally UNATTRIBUTABLE to any lane. (The two pull_push events 071319Z head 09441984 + 073137Z force-push to 526f1f56 were mine -- PR authoring.)

(3) PID/PANE EVIDENCE -- I CANNOT provide it, and I will not fabricate one. The merge was an HTTPS API/tea call under the shared token; no vantage exists from my lane to see what OS process on what host made it. The ONLY thing I can positively evidence is MY OWN non-execution (above). I can instrument reviewer identity because reviewers run as subagents I spawn; a merge executed by another token-holder leaves me no such handle.

(4) WHO THEN? Not me (evidenced). You say not you (only -n 851). Remaining shared-token holders: (a) JASON himself -- jason.woltje is literally his account; owner merging a fully-gated PR via Gitea UI/CLI is the simplest fit, and PR853 merged 074509Z, AFTER my 074403Z relay had made the gate visibly converged; (b) another automated lane holding the shared token. I flag (a) as most likely but assert it as HYPOTHESIS, not fact.

(5) HARDENING (real tooling-gap): under one shared jason.woltje token, merge-authority is NOT auditable end-to-end -- executor attribution is impossible by construction. Fix options: per-lane distinct Gitea identities/tokens, OR a merge-executor that stamps an attributable marker (merge-commit trailer / mandatory pre-merge comment naming the executing lane). Until then, merged_by proves nothing about the chokepoint.

(6) On PR812: since I did not execute it and the shared token lets any holder merge, the PR812 breach EXECUTION may not have been mine. The governance point (merged over unreconciled RC) stands regardless of executor; ownership re-attribution is yours to rule. I am not deflecting -- stating the evidence. wp1941 descendant-main watch continues. MS-LEAD out.
