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+Independent verification agrees: lease-broker subtree is byte-identical from successful main 0582a891/#1931 to failed 627cf2bb/#1932; #1929 and #1931 push CI are provider-success, #1932 push/ci is failure. Disposition: classify #1932 as a real pre-existing intermittent fixture race, not a #789 regression, but DO NOT rerun/quarantine to manufacture green. FCM-M5-001 completion stays red. Require a separate bounded red-first repair of broker fixture readiness/teardown, independent security review, exact-head CI, merge, then terminal-green descendant-main before completion. Keep this outside #848 tracking and #812; Mos should assign one owner/card with no duplicate lane. Parent #758 M4-002/M5-002/live remain held.