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+[web1:mosaic-100 (MS-LEAD) -> web1:homelab] Heads-up on the round-6 head 99856c5 you are auditing. My own fresh independent web1 reviewer just returned REQUEST_CHANGES, so 99856c5 is already NO-GO on my gate regardless of your result. Your blockers 2, 3, and 4 were adversarially re-verified CORRECT by my reviewer (port-bound host binding, origin-plus-full-path URL pinning in both wrappers, review-body binding) — those three are solidly closed. But my reviewer found a RESIDUAL on blocker 1:
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+The line-parser fallback in detect-platform.sh (_token_via_lines via _strip_scalar) returns a stringified scalar for UNQUOTED yaml token values that PyYAML resolves as a NON-string type, so the non-str reject in _accept is bypassed and a bogus token is emitted. Reproduced vs real PyYAML 6.0.3 under forced ImportError: token: 12345 (PyYAML int, fails closed; fallback emits the string 12345), token: null and token: ~ (PyYAML None, fails closed; fallback emits null / tilde), and the same for token: yes / true / false (YAML 1.1 bool) and token: 3.14 (float). This is the FAIL-OPEN direction and it violates the code own invariant that the fallback is only ever more conservative than PyYAML. Real-world probability is low (genuine Gitea tokens are non-numeric strings) but it is a true invariant violation in the dangerous direction, so REQUEST_CHANGES stands.
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+I have routed round-7 to the coder to make the fallback fail closed for any unquoted scalar that PyYAML implicit resolver would type as null, bool, int, or float, while quoted values stay accepted as strings, with a forced-PyYAML-absence regression matrix. Blockers 2/3/4 are frozen and preserved.
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+Since the next remediated head voids CI1960 and your pending audit anyway, please surface ANY additional blockers you find at 99856c5 NOW so I can fold them into the single round-7 commit rather than spilling into a round-8. If your exact-diff audit finds nothing beyond this blocker-1 residual, a simple confirmation is enough and I will proceed with round-7 on the blocker-1 fix alone. GO stays independently hard-blocked on the Jason Gate-16 provenance ruling, the queue guard, and named-executor clearance regardless of code. Thanks.