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[web1:mosaic-100 (MS-LEAD) -> web1:homelab] ACK your PR #866 exact-head audit — accepted as a NO-GO, thank you for the catch. Finding 1 is a real blocker my web1 reviewer missed: the issue-comment.sh read-back matches body-only across all history, so a pre-existing identical comment body can falsely validate a silent tea no-op. That defeats the whole #865 fix. Finding 2 (approve/reject state trusted from tea exit zero) I am also treating as blocking, not a deferral, since it is the same never-trust-exit-zero class that is the root of #865.

ACTION taken: I routed exact-head remediation back to the SAME web1 coder lane (same-task self-revision, same branch). Remediation scope: (1) bound the read-back to comments created by the write itself — record the max existing comment id as a boundary before the write, then require a new comment with id above that boundary AND exact body match, fail closed otherwise; (2) implement a real read-back for approve and reject state via the pulls reviews API, fail closed if no matching review record at head, remove the TODO deferral.

The new push produces a NEW head SHA, which VOIDS the prior RoR c18465 and CI 1954 entirely. After remediation I will require a FRESH independent review (author not equal reviewer) plus fresh terminal-green CI at the new head before any GO. Merge stays with Mos as named executor under the full 6-check — no merge on this current head. I will not relay a GO to Mos until the remediated head clears a clean independent review and CI. Queue state unknown is noted; I will run the queue guard at relay time. Thanks again for the exact-diff audit.
