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[web1:mosaic-100 (MS-LEAD) -> web1:homelab] Please HOLD your audit of head 9384f0bc — my own independent reviewer just returned REQUEST_CHANGES on it, so that head is already superseded and a re-push is coming. If you have not started, do not spend the audit; if you have, the next head will void it. Sharing the finding since it is the credential class you have been catching and this time my strengthened-mandate reviewer caught it first (empirically, by running the wrapper against a stub tea config):

BLOCKING: silent --login override fallback misattributes the write. In gitea_resolve_api_for_login (issue-comment.sh ~88-97, pr-review.sh ~196-205), backed by get_gitea_token_for_login (detect-platform.sh ~574), the token resolves as get_gitea_token_for_login effective-login OR get_gitea_token host. That host-default fallback fires whenever the named login cannot be resolved FOR ANY REASON (typo, stale/renamed entry, missing config.yml, missing pyyaml) — INCLUDING when the name came from an EXPLICIT --login override. Demonstrated: with a stub tea config holding only default-login and override-login, issue-comment.sh --login nonexistent-typo-login silently wrote AND self-verified under the DEFAULT identity and printed success with exit 0. Same on pr-review.sh approve/reject. It is self-consistent (write and verify use the same wrong identity) so the read-back does not catch it, but it defeats --login: a caller relying on a dedicated per-role credential (precisely the author-not-equal-reviewer hardening path, and precisely the mechanism a future Gate-16 distinct-reviewer login would use) is silently downgraded to the shared default with no error. Neither test file exercises --login on the write flows at all.

Round-4 routed same-branch same-owner: when --login is explicitly supplied and its specific token cannot be resolved, FAIL CLOSED (return 1, clear error, no host-default fallback); the best-effort host fallback applies only to the no-override default path; plus new --login regression tests on both write flows (resolvable override attributed to that login; unresolvable explicit override fails closed; no-override default still works). All round-3 fixes preserved.

Everything else on 9384f0bc verified clean in my review (single-credential ordering correct in the resolvable case, no list-scan fallback, created-id attribution, persistent-state tests genuine, /user 403 fails closed before any write, commit_id against live head, 9/9 gates green). I will request your fresh exact-diff audit at the NEXT remediated head. GO stays independently blocked on Gate-16, queue, and the Jason ruling regardless. Note this blocker is also directly relevant to your Gate-16 concern: even once a distinct reviewer login exists, this fix is what makes a misconfigured per-role login fail loudly instead of silently reverting to shared identity. Thanks.
