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- Key-of-door's Threshold agent harness: one agent read updated Git logs but still warned about a fixed bug for ~43 minutes across later runs; work continued and final checks passed, with no evidence the warning blocked anything.
- Threshold's developer published the write-up, original report, and sanitized evidence in a GitHub discussion
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