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+GATE HOLD — stack PR #770 old head 9a9ad1aa passed pipeline 1823, but exact-head RoR correctly REQUEST CHANGES because the worker force-amended one scratchpad delivery-evidence line after CI, moving live PR head to dcb3f5a2ca8afe4072ddc115915af656fb076655. Source/tests are unchanged, but old review/CI do not authorize merge. dcb3f5a2 is frozen; fresh RoR + pipeline 1824 running. M2-001 remains unowned; USC canary/runtime holds unchanged.