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what got hurt, and what now fails loudly

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  1. 2026-09-12 An AI reviewer that reports an approval has posted one: a review created without a submit event sits as an invisible draft, and the record says nobody reviewed anything

    now fails loudly A review counts only when the forge API shows it submitted with a verdict; until the tool submits, the merge record is the evidence and the reviewer's own result is not.

    ChangeHuman ComprehensionIndependent ReviewSecond-Agent Review

  2. 2026-09-06 Looking up a DNS name before creating it is harmless: the lookup went through a home router, which then remembered that the name did not exist

    now fails loudly Absence is probed only against the authoritative nameserver; the user's own resolver is queried last, and only to read what it already believes.

    RuntimeChangeSynthetic Monitoring

  3. 2026-09-06 Validating a web server's config only reads it: run as root, the validator created a log file the server could not open

    now fails loudly Config validation runs as the service user, and a smoke request against the new host is what declares the deploy done — not the validator's exit code.

    ChangeRuntimePre-Promotion Invariant GatesSmoke Tests