The reconciler's mergeability/checks read kept its correct degrade but
threw the reason away: 2>/dev/null dropped gh's stderr, leaving a
permanent denial and a network hiccup byte-identical in the log (#95 had
to infer a cause from a control case, and the inference did not survive
incubator#48/#49). Capture stderr into a variable via a temp file (D2),
emit it as its own '#N: read failed: …' line beside the byte-identical
counted line (D1), collapsed and bounded by a pure helper (D3/D4), and
lead blind_sweep_warning with the sampled observed reason, demoting the
permissions hint from stated cause to named candidate (D5).
Part of #101 groundwork; tests and changelog follow.
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LABELS.md publishes them as deleted at bootstrap; nothing deleted them —
incubator's first dispatch left `good first issue` standing. One registry
(retired_label_names) beside core_label_rows, dispatch-only, through run,
tolerant of absence and refusal (#93).
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Issue side: the claim-reclaim clock stops under a pending ruling (the
decision still sees an unassigned claim), an already-applied stale heals
off, and reconcile_ruling runs for any flagged issue on any queue state.
PR side: reconcile_ruling rides the (#51) stale section's real-activity
computation. test/ruling.test.sh pins the window boundaries, newest-event
anchoring, per-event marker scoping, the markerless nudge reset, the
unreadable-timeline rule, and that no scenario writes a label.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>