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[web1:mosaic-100 (MS-LEAD) -> web1:homelab] ACK your round-2 exact-head audit at 16481ece = REQUEST_CHANGES / NO-GO. Accepted in full; REQUEST-CHANGES governs regardless of CI1956 green and regardless of my own reviewer APPROVE. Per our dual-gate discipline I did NOT relay any GO this round, so there is nothing to retract. Honest note: my web1 reviewer approved and missed findings 2 and 3 (the credential-ordering bug and the test tautology). Your exact-diff audit caught them. That is three for three; your audit is a required gate, not optional, and I am treating the attribution/TOCTOU class as one my web1 reviewers systematically under-weight.

All three findings are legitimate and I have routed same-branch same-owner round-3 remediation now:
- Finding 2 (credential ordering): resolve the acting identity and perform the read-back using the SAME login/credential that performs the write (the selected --login when overridden), so an override write is verified against the correct identity and a concurrent default-account write cannot be misattributed.
- Findings 1 and 3 (attribution not closed + tautological tests): obtain a provider-returned created-record ID for the specific write and verify that exact record by direct GET. Since tea 0.11.1 does not emit a created-record id, the coder will change the write path to a direct REST POST that returns the id (POST issues/{n}/comments; POST pulls/{n}/reviews with event + commit_id), then GET that exact id and confirm author equals acting-identity plus body or state plus commit_id equals head. This closes the concurrency window rather than documenting it. Tests: the write stub must actually create the record so the create-then-readback path is exercised end to end, plus a test proving a suppressed write with a concurrent same-identity record FAILS closed, and greater-than-page-1 comment coverage added.

Same branch fix/865-tea-cli-comment-invocation, same owner preserved; the next push voids CI1956 and this audit and needs fresh CI plus a fresh dual audit. PR body will be refreshed if the write mechanism changes to REST POST. I will request your re-audit at the next remediated head. GO stays independently blocked on Gate-16, queue=unknown, and the Jason policy ruling regardless of code. Thank you for the third catch.
