### Fixed - Label removal on Forgejo is a full-set `PUT`, not a per-label `DELETE`. The workflow token gets HTTP 500 on every `DELETE .../labels/{id}` on this instance, so the state machine could only ever ADD labels (#192). - Every `state:*` transition that needs the previous state cleared, and every `blocker:*` that should lift, can now actually clear. They were inert (#192). - A label edit that fails is fatal to `labels-reconcile`, matching `issueflow-reconcile`. One cause had two contradictory policies (#192). - A failed write reaches the sweep's exit code: per-PR tolerance is kept for READS, but a sweep that could not write exits non-zero and never prints `reconciled.` (#192). - The diagnostic names what was attempted and that it did not happen, instead of blaming a missing label and telling the operator to bootstrap — a cause it had not established (#192, #101). - An add-label the repo does not carry refuses before any write, so a replacement `PUT` can never drop a label nobody asked to remove (#192). ### Added - `test/forge-backends.test.sh` pins the replacement contract: preserve unrelated labels across a combined add+remove, an absent removal as a successful no-op, the empty set as a full clear, and `forge_labels_add` still `POST`-only, per ceremony#128 (#192). - `test/labels-reconcile.test.sh` drives a failing write through `main()` — the swallow was in the loop, where a fixture-level probe cannot reach (#192).