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Summary

Engines can now be switched with GitHub Actions variables (org or repo level), with no code change and no release:

Variable	Default	Meaning
AI_ENGINES	claude,gemini,copilot	Ordered list of enabled engines. An engine not listed is never used; the order is the fallback order; the first entry is the primary.
AI_DUCK_ENGINE	automatic	Rubber-duck engine: claude, gemini, copilot, or none.
AI_DUCK_MODEL	engine default	Model for an explicit AI_DUCK_ENGINE.
GEMINI_FLASH_MODEL / GEMINI_PRO_MODEL	gemini-3.8-flash / gemini-2.5-pro	Gemini model ids, now settable as variables.
REVIEW_ENGINE / DEV_LEAD_ENGINE	unset	Legacy primary overrides. Ignored, with a warning, when AI_ENGINES disables the engine they name.

Examples: AI_ENGINES=claude,gemini turns Copilot off. AI_ENGINES=gemini,claude makes Gemini primary. AI_ENGINES=claude means Claude only.

• scripts/lib/engine-chain.sh (new) parses the chain, shared by engine.sh, validate-engines.sh and review-batch.sh. An unknown name such as claude,cluade invalidates the whole value: the default chain is used and a warning is logged, so a typo can't silently drop fallbacks. This keeps the existing DEV_LEAD_ENGINES contract (engine fallback: Copilot license/policy denial misclassified as engine-error — chain aborts before gemini and hard-fails the job (org has no Copilot subscription) #1546), which is still read when AI_ENGINES is unset.
• review-batch.sh walks AI_ENGINES instead of the hard-coded claude → gemini → copilot:
  • it starts on the first available engine when the primary is unusable;
  • if later engines exist but none is usable, it skips that PR and continues (previously the session could abort);
  • it aborts only when the chain has no later engine at all, which matches the old end-of-chain behaviour.
• dev-lead's run_writer_with_fallback uses the same parser, and dev-lead-reusable.yml finally maps the variable. (DEV_LEAD_ENGINES existed in code but no workflow ever passed it.)
• Rubber duck: chosen by AI_DUCK_ENGINE, otherwise the built-in cross-engine default, otherwise the next usable engine in AI_ENGINES. When no engine is usable, it's skipped with a notice instead of failing on every review.
• Workflows can't split a string, so they derive the primary with startsWith(vars.AI_ENGINES, …). The scripts enforce the full list.

Problem

• Gemini's three keys (Gemini is not working optimally #1777 / feat: implement issue #1777 — Gemini is not working optimally #1780) never helped the pre-flight check. _gemini_billing_probe tested only the first key (validate-engines.sh:37). One depleted key marked Gemini unavailable for the whole run, although _gemini_invoke rotates through GOOGLE_API_KEY_2 and _3 at call time. The probe now checks every configured key. Gemini is unavailable only when all of them are depleted, and depleted keys are named (never their values).
• Copilot was reported available on a classic PAT (pr-review has no working non-Claude engine: Copilot reported "available" on a classic PAT / no subscription, rubber duck always fails, Gemini credits depleted #1960). validate-engines.sh accepted any token that let gh copilot --version run. Copilot rejects ghp_ at call time, so every Copilot fallback and every Claude-primary duck failed. The probe and the headroom check (engine.sh:299) now apply the rule dev-lead already had ([bug] Copilot engine fallback dead on classic PAT (ghp_) — Claude 429s misclassified as engine-error, escalating transient quota blips to needs-human #1495).
• No way to switch providers without a code change. The fallback order was hard-coded, and dev-lead's kill switch wasn't reachable from any variable.

Part of #1960 (AC-1, AC-2, AC-4). For AC-3, the Gemini pro model is now a variable (GEMINI_PRO_MODEL), but I haven't changed the default, since I can't verify which model this key can use. Epic #1895.

Risk

Medium. This changes engine selection and fallback in pr-review and dev-lead.

• With every variable unset, behaviour matches today's default chain.
• There are two deliberate changes:
  • the pre-flight probe now marks Copilot unavailable on a ghp_ token and Gemini available when any key has credits;
  • a Gemini runtime failure followed by an unavailable Copilot skips the PR instead of aborting the session.
• If REVIEW_ENGINE or DEV_LEAD_ENGINE is set as an org variable today, it keeps overriding the primary. Delete it to let AI_ENGINES order decide.

Test plan

• New tests/dev-lead/unit/test_engine_chain_config.bats (29 cases, run by test-dev-lead.yml), covering:
  • parsing: order, case, duplicates, typo and glob fall back to the default, legacy DEV_LEAD_ENGINES;
  • primary and override rules, availability, and the forward-only fallback walk;
  • duck selection, including none, an explicit engine and model, and a model that must not follow the duck onto another engine;
  • validate: key 1 depleted but keys 2 and 3 fine means available; all depleted means unavailable; ghp_ rejected and github_pat_ accepted; disabled engines not probed;
  • review-batch.sh with the real library: claude,copilot skips Gemini; gemini,claude makes Gemini primary; a disabled REVIEW_ENGINE is ignored; skip-and-continue; a single-engine chain aborts.
• tests/test_batch_fallback.bats, test_engine_unavailable_notice.bats and test_batch_skip_reporting.bats now copy the library, and all pass unchanged in their assertions. tests/test_validate_engines.bats and tests/test-validate-engines.sh (12/12) also pass.
• I ran all 56 bats files touching the engine, pricing, batch, validate or review scripts. No new failures compared with the post-fix(engine): unblock Opus 5.5 deep tier — valid Sonnet 5 id, fresh CLI cache, honest chain errors (#1957) #1958 baseline; the remaining 49 are the same environmental failures seen on main.
• shellcheck --severity=warning -x over all of scripts/: clean. actionlint on the two workflows: only the pre-existing SC2129 on main. check-duplicate-decls.sh, validate-caller-inputs.sh, caller_stub_freeze.sh, validate-ingress-if.sh and validate-workflow-schedules.sh pass. markdownlint is clean on the docs. A gitleaks scan of main..HEAD found no leaks.

Rollback

Revert this PR. There are no side effects: without the new variables, behaviour matches the pre-PR default chain.

Monitoring

• Each pr-review and dev-lead run logs ::notice::Engine chain (AI_ENGINES): … plus a notice for any disabled engine.
• A depleted Gemini key shows as ::warning::Gemini key(s) with depleted prepayment credits: GOOGLE_API_KEY…, and Gemini stays available while any key has credits.
• The tier-2 log line now reads rubber duck (<model> via <engine>), or none with a skip notice.
• This takes effect only after Release Manager autocut cuts it to next.

Interaction contract

• N/A — this PR does not add or change an agentic role.

Checklist

• shellcheck scripts/*.sh passes for any changed shell scripts.
• Docs updated where behavior or standards changed (docs/engine-configuration.md, docs/pr-review-agent/setup.md).

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• New Features
  • Configure an ordered chain of AI engines, with automatic selection and fallback when an engine is unavailable or rate-limited.
  • Choose or disable the engine used for optional “rubber-duck” reviews.
  • Gemini availability checks now account for multiple configured API keys.
• Bug Fixes
  • Copilot credentials using classic ghp_ tokens are no longer treated as valid.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on engine selection, configuration, fallback behavior, and availability checks.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/dev-lead-reusable.yml:
- Line 142: Update the DEV_LEAD_ENGINE expression to check the same combined
engine value used by the AI_ENGINES fallback, including vars.DEV_LEAD_ENGINES
when vars.AI_ENGINES is unset. Preserve the existing explicit override and
engine-prefix selection order so legacy configuration determines the correct
primary engine.

In @.github/workflows/pr-review.yml:
- Around line 184-199: Update the REVIEW_ENGINE expression so an unset legacy
override stays unset and the batch entrypoint derives the primary from the
normalized AI_ENGINES chain; preserve explicit REVIEW_ENGINE overrides.

In @scripts/review-batch.sh:
- Around line 278-317: In the rate-limit fallback flow around
`run_review_capture`, track whether a fallback engine returned exit 55 or 127.
Include that state in the `rc`-2 skip condition alongside
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Summary

Adds AI_ENGINES-driven engine enablement/fallback ordering (new scripts/lib/engine-chain.sh, shared by engine.sh, validate-engines.sh, review-batch.sh), per-key Gemini billing probes, classic-PAT (ghp_) rejection for Copilot, configurable rubber-duck engine, and 29 new bats cases. The design is sound and the credential changes tighten (not loosen) validation, but the PR cannot auto-approve: required test suites are still running and 13 review threads are unresolved, at least two of which describe real edge-case inconsistencies.

Linked issue analysis

No closingIssuesReferences. The body deliberately scopes to 'Part of #1960 (AC-1, AC-2, AC-4)' under epic #1895, with AC-3 (Gemini pro model default) intentionally deferred and explained. The described problems (probe testing only the first Gemini key; Copilot reported available on a ghp_ PAT; no variable-driven provider switch) are all substantively addressed in the diff. Not the blocker.

Findings

Blocking (decision gates):

1. CI not green (gate 2). bats and unit are still IN_PROGRESS at review time — these are exactly the suites that exercise the new engine-chain code and the 29 new test cases. Several dispatch/relay checks are also pending. Cannot verify green.
2. 13 unresolved review threads (gate 4) from codeant-ai, CodeRabbit and gemini-code-assist. The substantive ones deserving an answer or fix:
   • CodeRabbit (Major, dev-lead-reusable.yml): AI_ENGINES env falls back to vars.DEV_LEAD_ENGINES, but the DEV_LEAD_ENGINE derivation checks only startsWith(vars.AI_ENGINES, …). With only the legacy DEV_LEAD_ENGINES=gemini,claude set, the workflow derives claude as primary; the scripts then honor claude as an enabled legacy override — contradicting the documented "first entry is primary" contract for legacy users.
   • codeant-ai (Major, pr-review.yml): the Claude-token preflight keys off the derived REVIEW_ENGINE; with legacy vars.REVIEW_ENGINE=claude but AI_ENGINES excluding claude, the workflow fails the preflight while the scripts would warn and run on the enabled engine.
   • codeant-ai (Major, engine-chain.sh): ai_engine_primary compares the override case-sensitively against the lowercased chain, so REVIEW_ENGINE=GEMINI silently falls back to the first engine despite the documented case-insensitive parsing.
   • gemini-code-assist (high, ai_engine_next_available): claims an empty current matches the chain membership test. On inspection this looks incorrect (empty current yields a two-space pattern that cannot match, so the whole chain is searched — the intended semantic), but the thread should be answered rather than left dangling.
   • The remaining gemini-code-assist set -e style suggestions are largely defensive/non-blocking, but the threads are unresolved.

Non-blocking observations:

• Secret scan: the run_secret_scanning MCP tool is not available in this environment; gitleaks CI is green. Diff inspection found no secret material — depleted Gemini keys are reported by NAME only, and test fixtures split token prefixes ("ghp_""abc") to stay scanner-safe.
• Credential-handling delta is risk-reducing: ghp_ removed from accepted Copilot token prefixes in both check_provider_headroom and the preflight probe, matching dev-lead's existing rule ([bug] Copilot engine fallback dead on classic PAT (ghp_) — Claude 429s misclassified as engine-error, escalating transient quota blips to needs-human #1495).
• Modified workflows (pr-review.yml, dev-lead-reusable.yml) are org-logic files, not frozen thin caller stubs; caller-stub-freeze, validate-caller-inputs, actionlint, ShellCheck, CodeQL and SonarCloud are all green.
• Triage note: triage cleared this as low-risk, but an 855-addition, 13-file cross-module change to engine selection (author self-rates Medium) is MEDIUM under the taxonomy. MEDIUM is still approvable — the failure is on gates 2 and 4, not risk class.

CI status

Not fully green: bats (IN_PROGRESS), unit (IN_PROGRESS), plus queued/pending pr-auto-review, dev-lead dispatch/relay/resume checks and CodeRabbit. All completed checks are green: shellcheck, actionlint, CodeQL, SonarCloud quality gate, gitleaks, caller-stub-freeze, validate-caller-inputs, unit-tests, holdout-guard, agent-shield, and the full workflow-guard suite.

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The fixes those threads asked for are on the branch, in 8597fe1a and b020a08e, with coverage in tests/dev-lead/unit/test_engine_chain_config.bats. The current head is 8b814f39, and that suite is now wired into the lint.yml bats list.

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Summary

Well-executed engine-configuration feature (AI_ENGINES enablement/ordering, per-key Gemini billing probe, classic-PAT Copilot rejection) with strong test coverage and green CI, but 3 review threads posted on the head commit are unresolved, and one of them (multiline AI_ENGINES bypasses whole-value invalidation) reproduces as a real contract violation.

Linked issue analysis

No closing issue reference (intentional: the PR is "Part of #1960", delivering AC-1, AC-2 and AC-4, under epic #1895 / #1899). The body maps each acceptance criterion to the implementation and explains why AC-3's default model is deliberately unchanged. The referenced issues are substantively addressed for the scoped ACs.

Findings

Blocking (gate 4 — unresolved review threads on head commit f2af310):

1. CONFIRMED — scripts/lib/engine-chain.sh:42 — multiline AI_ENGINES bypasses whole-value invalidation. IFS=$' \t' read -r -a toks consumes only the first line of the value. I reproduced it: AI_ENGINES=$'claude\ncluade' parses to a claude-only chain with rc=0 and no ai_engine_chain_problem warning — exactly the silent-fallback-drop the documented contract ("a typo can never silently drop fallbacks") exists to prevent. Actions variables can hold multiline values, and notably the inline parsers mirrored into dev-lead-reusable.yml / pr-review.yml split on all whitespace (unquoted $spec expansion), so the workflow and the library disagree on the same input. Fix: split on all whitespace (e.g. readarray/loop over $'\n' too, or normalize newlines to spaces before read).

2. PLAUSIBLE — scripts/review-batch.sh:265 — per-PR restart re-selects a rate-limited engine. The new per-PR block restarts on ai_engine_first_available, but a rate-limit (exit 2) never clears an engine's AVAILABLE flag — only exits 55/127 do. After Claude rate-limits and later engines are marked unavailable at runtime, every remaining PR retries Claude and pays its rate-limit round-trip before skipping. Efficiency, not correctness — worth a code comment or a rate-limited flag.

3. PLAUSIBLE — scripts/review-batch.sh:304 — Copilot policy denial is not fallback-eligible. The probe is only gh copilot --version; an entitlement/org-policy denial at call time exits with a code other than 55/127, so the chain treats it as a review failure rather than engine-unavailable. Edge case; acceptable to waive with a comment.

Non-blocking notes:

• Earlier bot findings (invalid-chain primary injection, case normalization, depleted-key ordering, duck model routing, lint suite registration) were addressed in commits 8b814f39..f2af310 and their threads resolved — the iteration quality here is good.
• Secret handling is sound: GEMINI_DEPLETED_KEYS exports key NAMES only, never values; the probe reuses the pre-existing curl pattern; gitleaks is green. The relaxed CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN preflight only skips when a VALID chain omits claude (invalid/empty values keep the requirement) — not a CI weakening.
• run_secret_scanning MCP tool unavailable in this run; gitleaks CI check passed.

Requested action: resolve the three open threads — fix the multiline parse in _ai_engine_parse (finding 1), and either fix or explicitly waive findings 2 and 3 in-thread.

CI status

All checks green on the head commit: 0 failures across the rollup (shellcheck, actionlint, bats, unit-tests, CodeQL, SonarCloud quality gate, gitleaks, agent-shield, and the org guard suite all SUCCESS). CANCELLED entries are superseded concurrency-cancelled runs of comment-triggered dev-lead/review workflows, each with a later SUCCESS or SKIPPED run. The new bats suite is registered in lint.yml and ran in CI.

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Summary

Re-review at cycle 2/3: the two new commits since f2af310 resolve all three findings from the prior review (multiline AI_ENGINES parse bypass, rate-limited engine re-selection across the batch, Copilot policy denial not fallback-eligible), each with a regression bats case. All review threads are resolved, CI is fully green on the head commit (bats included), and no new issues were introduced. Approving.

Linked issue analysis

No closingIssuesReferences — intentional: the PR is scoped as 'Part of #1960' (AC-1, AC-2, AC-4) under epic #1895/#1899, with AC-3 deliberately deferred and explained. Prior cycles already verified the scoped acceptance criteria are substantively addressed (AI_ENGINES-driven enablement/order, per-key Gemini billing probe, ghp_ rejection for Copilot); the delta since then only hardens those same behaviors.

Findings

Prior-review findings — all resolved (verified in the compare diff f2af310...7197d59):

1. RESOLVED — multiline AI_ENGINES bypassed whole-value invalidation (was CONFIRMED). _ai_engine_parse now normalizes ,, \n, \r, \t to spaces before tokenizing (scripts/lib/engine-chain.sh), so a multi-line variable is parsed and validated whole instead of as its first line. The inline preflight parsers in dev-lead-reusable.yml were also fixed to treat a whitespace-only value (${spec//[[:space:]]/}) as empty → default chain, keeping workflow and library in agreement. Regression bats cases added.
2. RESOLVED — per-PR restart re-selected a rate-limited engine. New batch-scoped AI_ENGINES_RATE_LIMITED (exported; honoured by ai_engine_available) remembers engines that hit a genuine rate limit, so later PRs start on a still-usable engine, the forward walk skips exhausted ones, and the rubber-duck selection in the review-one-pr.sh child process skips them too. When nothing usable remains the session stops with a clear ::error instead of re-invoking an exhausted engine per PR.
3. RESOLVED — Copilot licensing/policy denial was not fallback-eligible. _runtime_unavailable now recognizes the #1546 policy-denial phrases in the captured output (kept in sync with engine.sh's _license_denied_pattern by a dedicated bats case), marks the engine unavailable, and continues the chain instead of hard-failing.

No new issues. The delta is tight and targeted (+125/−18 across 4 files, ~half of it tests): the refactor extracts _mark_unavailable/_mark_rate_limited helpers without changing the exit-code contract (55 = runtime-unavailable, 2 = rate-limited, 127 only on fallback), and the pre-existing behavior for an all-unavailable-but-not-rate-limited chain is unchanged.

Secret scan: run_secret_scanning MCP tool unavailable in this run; gitleaks CI check is green, and the new diff exposes key NAMES and provider error phrases only — no secret material.

Thread status (gate 4): 0 unresolved review threads (verified via GraphQL). The 3 threads blocking cycle 2 were fixed and resolved; no unanswered human-reviewer questions remain.

CI status

All validation checks green on head 7197d59: bats (now COMPLETED SUCCESS, including the 6 new regression cases), unit, unit-tests, shellcheck/ShellCheck, actionlint, CodeQL (python + actions), SonarCloud quality gate, gitleaks, agent-shield, caller-stub-freeze and the full org guard suite. The three CANCELLED dev-lead jobs are concurrency-superseded runs of the dev-lead agent workflow (every run on this branch cancels as new events arrive — it is automation, not a validator); cubic NEUTRAL is an AI-reviewer usage notice. Nothing failing.

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Dev-Lead — fix-reviews (no-changes)

Agent reasoning

**What I found:**
- My worktree (HEAD `f2af310`) was 2 commits behind the remote branch `origin/claude/issue-1899-epic-unblock-26fy14` (head `7197d59`).
- A prior run already landed commit **`e3fc0139`** — *"fix(engine): multi-line AI_ENGINES, Copilot policy denial and exhausted engines in the batch walk"* — which fixes exactly the three threads:
  1. **Multi-line `AI_ENGINES`** (`engine-chain.sh`): newlines/CR/tabs now separate engines like commas, so a multi-line value is parsed and validated whole instead of just its first line.
  2. **Copilot policy denial** (`review-batch.sh`): a `#1546` licensing/policy denial counts as runtime-unavailable — the engine is marked down and the chain continues instead of hard-failing.
  3. **Exhausted-engine walk** (`review-batch.sh`): rate-limited engines are remembered for the batch (via a dedicated `_batch_rate_limited` registry) so later PRs don't re-invoke them; the session stops when nothing usable remains.
- That commit also added four bats cases, and a follow-up commit `7197d59` added related fixes.
- Querying PR #1961's review threads via GraphQL confirms **zero unresolved threads** remain (the harness resolved them after the prior run's addressed-marker replies).
**What I did this session:** I independently re-implemented all three fixes plus tests (all green locally), then discovered the equivalent work was already merged — the landed version's `_batch_rate_limited` design is actually cleaner than mine (it doesn't conflate rate-limit with unavailability). I discarded my redundant uncommitted edits, leaving the worktree clean. No commit, push, or thread resolution was performed.
Nothing further is required for this PR.

[donpetry-bot]

Automated review — APPROVED ✓

Risk: MEDIUM
Reviewed commit: 7197d599455db7b07197243a7e9e6eef1c1c2155
Review mode: triage-approved (single reviewer)

Summary

Confirmation review at cycle 2/3 (triage-approved re-review after the advisory-bot rate-limit window): the head SHA is unchanged from the prior approved review, all 33 review threads are resolved, every code/test/security check on the head commit is green, and an independent re-read of the full diff surfaced no new issues. The AI_ENGINES engine-chain work is well-tested (~40 new bats cases) and tightens credential validation rather than loosening it. Approving.

Linked issue analysis

No closingIssuesReferences — deliberate: the PR is scoped as 'Part of #1960 (AC-1, AC-2, AC-4)' under epic #1895/#1899, with AC-3 explicitly deferred and explained. Verified against #1960's problem statement: (1) Copilot is no longer reported available on a classic ghp_ PAT or a generic GH_TOKEN (validate-engines.sh + engine.sh headroom probe now apply the same rule as dev-lead's #1495/#1546 fallback); (2) the Gemini billing probe now tests EVERY configured key, keeps Gemini available while any key has credits, and exports depleted key NAMES so rotation tries them last; (3) the rubber duck is selected from enabled+available engines (select_duck_engine) and is skipped with a notice instead of failing every deep review; (4) AI_ENGINES gives variable-driven enablement/ordering with typo-safe whole-value invalidation. Substantively addressed with regression tests for each.

Findings

Fresh single-pass verification of the full diff (15 files, +1253/−149) — no new issues:

1. Engine-chain library (scripts/lib/engine-chain.sh) — parsing is glob-safe (read -a, never unquoted expansion), normalizes commas/newlines/case, collapses duplicates, and an unknown token invalidates the whole value (default chain + one warning), so a typo can never silently drop fallbacks. ai_engine_primary ignores the workflow-derived override when the list is invalid, closing the 'copilot,typo still makes Copilot primary' gap found in cycle 1.
2. Credential handling tightens, not loosens — classic ghp_ PATs and generic GH_TOKEN no longer count as Copilot auth; GEMINI_DEPLETED_KEYS exports variable NAMES, never values; secrets are only presence-checked (-z) or forwarded via env: maps to first-party plumbing; the workflow run: steps use env indirection, not direct template interpolation (no injection surface). Inline pre-checkout parsers in pr-review.yml / dev-lead-reusable.yml mirror the library and fail safe (invalid → default chain → token still required).
3. Batch fallback walk — forward-only chain walk cannot cycle; batch-scoped AI_ENGINES_RATE_LIMITED prevents re-invoking an exhausted engine and is exported to the duck-selection child process; the skip-vs-abort split (unavailable chain → skip PR and continue; genuinely rate-limited exhausted chain → session abort) matches the documented contract and is covered by dedicated bats cases, including the middle-fallback-masking case.
4. Prior-cycle findings remain resolved — multiline AI_ENGINES parse bypass, rate-limited engine re-selection, and Copilot policy-denial fallback each carry a regression test at this SHA; nothing changed since the prior approval (PRIOR_REVIEW_SHA == head).

Secret scan: run_secret_scanning MCP tool not available in this session — noted, not blocking; the gitleaks CI check is SUCCESS and no secret-shaped literal appears in the diff (test keys are placeholders k1/k2/k3).

CI status

All code checks green on 7197d59: bats, unit, unit-tests, ShellCheck ×2, actionlint, Lint, CodeQL (actions+python), gitleaks, Agent Security Scan, agent-shield, SonarCloud (quality gate passed, 0 new issues), Graphite, CodeRabbit, and the full guard/validate suite — SUCCESS. The only non-green entries are three dev-lead dispatch/ci-relay/resume jobs: the CANCELLED ones are superseded automation runs on stale heads, and the PENDING ones (run 36299098110, started 06:05:55Z, seconds after the prior bot approval) are the org's dev-lead automation reacting to the PR — not code validators and not required checks. Review decision: APPROVED; 0 of 33 review threads unresolved; no unanswered human-reviewer questions (the author's comments are informational dispositions of bot notices).

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