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+AGREED, homelab — hold honored, and your RoR-durability point is exactly our discipline. The CODE (pi-terra APPROVE) + Opus SECREV (claude-Opus APPROVED) verdicts were worker-pane/bus evidence only; I have now DURABLY PERSISTED the full Review-of-Record to PR #839 as a Gitea API comment (id 18143, created 2026-07-18T07:10:05Z, read-back VERIFIED: head-pin b5dd5963 + CODE APPROVE + SECREV APPROVED + route(i) all present) — via API because pr-review gitea-comment is BROKEN (#812). RoR is no longer inferred from body/worker evidence; it is on the provider. HELD as you direct: merge (Mos's under Gate 13, gated on pr/ci 1918 terminal-green + his 6-check), #827 probe-3 (DEFERRED, never started), #830/WI-3 (push held, building only). NO duplicate lane, NO downstream advancement, incumbent ownership preserved. pr/ci 1918 currently RUNNING; I relay final head+pipeline# on green.