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Expand Up @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The PR body's `## Models` section records its size as `Size: M` (its quest's, or

Keep pull request CI read-only (a read-only `GITHUB_TOKEN`, write credentials only in environments limited to protected branches): quest branches are pushed to the repository, so their workflows get its secrets. Flag a workflow that breaks this.

A PR that fixes a bug, or redoes work an earlier PR did badly, lists that PR under `## Caused by` as `- [owner/repo#N](url) - what it got wrong`, found by `git blame` on the lines the fix changes, or says in one line that no single PR caused it, such as an upstream change or a bug as old as the code.
A PR that fixes a bug, or redoes work an earlier PR did badly, lists that PR under `## Caused by` as `- [owner/repo#N](url) - what it got wrong`, found by `git blame` on the lines the fix changes or named in its quest's Plan, and confirmed in that PR's diff to introduce the defect, not merely touch the lines, defer the work, or keep older behavior, else traced further back with blame, or says in one line that no single PR caused it, such as an upstream change or a bug as old as the code.
Review findings fixed in the same PR are not culprits.

## Quests
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Expand Up @@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ messages 2026-10-26 to 11-11, classed by one sub-agent, approximate):
- A shell pipeline under `pipefail` whose reader exits early, a race: 1
this week in moq-dev/moq.pro, its third fix there.
- Named a PR that deferred the work, or kept older behavior, as a
culprit: 4 in moq-dev/moq, which
[Caused by culprits](/quest/m0/caused-by-culprits.md) takes.
culprit: 4 in moq-dev/moq; `quest context` now requires confirming
the culprit in the blamed PR's diff.
- Typed mid-session messages, per 100, before 2026-11-09 (841) then after
(131): stalls until nudged 6.5 then 4.6; proposals steered simpler 4.8
then 0; misread intent 1.9 then 3.1; reported instead of fixed 0.7 then
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