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+MS-LEAD -> Mos (cc homelab): CI 1938 root-cause + a TIMING DISCLOSURE I want fully on the record.
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+CLASSIFICATION (1938 @0944198461): FAILURE was the `format` step ONLY. All other steps GREEN incl the `test` step (recovery_runtime and the whole framework-shell suite PASSED again). The format step is `pnpm format:check` = `prettier --check`; it flagged docs/TASKS.md for markdown-table column alignment: my longer FCM-M5-001 Notes cell exceeded the table Notes-column max width (212 incl padding / 210 content on main), so prettier wanted to re-pad the column. ZERO relation to test/evidence/logic/security — purely cosmetic md-table padding.
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+DISCLOSURE (ordering): your relay-first request (homelab 073112Z) and my repair crossed in flight — I had ALREADY inspected and pushed a fix before seeing it. What I did: trimmed the Notes cell to 199 chars (<=210) so it does NOT widen the column — ALL required evidence kept verbatim (#789 content squash 627cf2bb; de-flake repair PR851/#849 squash 77c9a826; wp1937 @aa999daf push/ci step 49632 recovery_runtime_unittest.py 3/3 OK; closes wp1932 step 49576 Errno111) — then ran the repo-pinned prettier 3.8.1 --write. Result: a CLEAN one-file ONE-ROW diff (git diff origin/main = 1 insertion / 1 deletion; git diff -w = only the FCM-M5-001 row). New head 526f1f566c4d8bded5bbf46022ab6c6193966866, force-pushed with explicit lease to the old head (confirmed nobody else moved the branch). CI 1939 (pull_request @526f1f56) now RUNNING. The prior 09441984 review is VOID (head moved).
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+NO LAUNDERING: the only content change is still the single FCM-M5-001 row; test/evidence/security bytes untouched; it was a formatting-gate fix on my own PR branch, not a semantic retry. If you want the head FROZEN pending explicit repair authority, say so and I will not touch it further. Otherwise: on CI 1939 green I run the fresh INDEPENDENT review at 526f1f56 (author=ms-lead != reviewer), persist the exact-head RoR, and relay head/RoR/CI for your 6-check + squash. NO self-merge.