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Automated drive work from cloud run 14596780-bb65-441f-bbdb-dc592ec9740b.

The sandbox cannot open PRs (no remote, no GitHub token), so this was delivered
from a host that can. Verification and adversarial review ran in-run — see
ops/reviews/ in the diff. A human merges.

Work produced by cloud run 14596780-bb65-441f-bbdb-dc592ec9740b in a workflow sandbox and delivered from
this host, because a sandbox has no remote and no GitHub token.

Verification and adversarial review ran in-run; see ops/reviews/ in the diff.
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Deterministic preflight now refuses missing commands with /, while missing bare commands remain warnings. Command extraction skips leading environment assignments and redirections. The refusal taxonomy and SDK tests cover the new behavior.

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Preflight contract and work package
ops/NEXT.md, sdk/src/failure-kinds.ts
The work package defines path-like command refusals and bare-command warnings. PREFLIGHT_FAILURE_KINDS now includes command_missing.
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sdk/src/preflight.ts
Missing deterministic commands with / produce command_missing refusals. Missing bare commands produce command_unresolved warnings. Leading assignments and redirections are skipped during command-word extraction.
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sdk/tests/preflight.test.ts
Tests cover shell prefixes, missing path-like commands, missing bare commands, and refusal-kind reachability.

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Review from flows-lead-19 (finn-mini). Read-only: I cannot merge, close, or push. Polled 23:56:30Z immediately before posting — head 4786ef01ab01fcc6c4553703fbcffe25893b3689, main b655aadf1c7503287a465c16c6bf34806b3342eb.

This refuses steps whose script exists, and tells the user it does not exist

preflight.ts now refuses when the probe returns false and the word contains /:

+    : binary.includes('/')
+      ? {
+        severity: 'refusal',
+        kind: 'command_missing',
+        message: `Step "${step.id}" command path "${binary}" does not exist.`,
+      }

But probes.command() does not test existence — it tests the execute bit, and this PR leaves that untouched (git diff for sdk/src/cli/check.ts between the fork point and this head is 0 lines). check.ts:186-195:

if (command.includes('/') || isAbsolute(command)) {
  const path = isAbsolute(command) ? command : resolve(directory, command);
  try {
    accessSync(path, constants.X_OK);   // <-- executable, not existent
    return path;
  } catch { return undefined; }
}

So false means either "absent" or "present but not executable", and this refusal cannot tell them apart.

Executed against the real checkFlow() entry point on this PR's tree, with a fixture holding a 755 script, a 644 script, an absent script, and two bare words. The ls -l and the result came from the same command:

-rw-r--r--@ 1 khaliqgant  wheel  18 Aug 30 01:34 /tmp/pfx/exists-nox.sh
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 khaliqgant  wheel  18 Aug 30 01:34 /tmp/pfx/exists-x.sh

ok = false
path_exists_exec     warning   unprovable_effects   … "./exists-x.sh" resolves, but its effects cannot be proven …
path_exists_noexec   refusal   command_missing      Step "path_exists_noexec" command path "./exists-nox.sh" does not exist.
path_missing         refusal   command_missing      Step "path_missing" command path "./missing.sh" does not exist.
bare_resolves        warning   unprovable_effects   … "mkdir" resolves …
bare_unresolved      warning   command_unresolved   … "notarealbinary123" does not resolve as an executable …

./exists-nox.sh is 18 bytes on disk and is refused with "does not exist". The message is false and the flow is blocked. sh ./exists-nox.sh runs it fine — and a string command is executed as /bin/sh -c, which is the reasoning the removed comment was protecting.

Why the tests pass anyway

The new test injects a boolean double:

const missingCommand = probes({ command: () => false });

A boolean cannot express "exists but is not executable", so no test at this layer can reach the case. The conflation lives in check.ts, which the unit tests never touch. This PR satisfies every bullet of the brief's definition of done and still ships the wrong refusal — including bullet 2, whose bare-word test I confirm passes and is correct as far as it goes. It guards the bare/path-like split; nothing guards the exists/not-executable split.

This is not hypothetical here — workflows/drive.yaml says it has happened to ops/cargo.sh

drive.yaml:354-359, verbatim:

# Restore exec bits. `npm ci` reported success (96 packages) and
# esbuild still failed with EACCES on run 909e18f6, so the mount
# this installs onto does not carry the executable bit. That is
# the same fault that left ops/cargo.sh non-executable.

ops/cargo.sh is the brief's own example of a path-like command. It is 100755 on main, so this is the mount at runtime, not a checked-in mode. The only two chmods in drive.yaml (:360, :362) target sdk/node_modulesnothing repairs ops/cargo.sh — and the workflow invokes it as sh ../ops/cargo.sh at :327 and :333, which needs no bit. In a sandbox where that bit has dropped, this refusal blocks the pipeline's own working build command.

To be exact about provenance: I have not observed ops/cargo.sh non-executable myself — I cannot see that sandbox. The repo asserts it. What I verified is the mechanism, by execution, above.

Suggested fix — small, and it keeps everything this PR got right

The refusal is the correct feature; only its predicate is wrong. Distinguish the three states the boolean was always hiding:

export type CommandResolution = 'resolves' | 'not_executable' | 'absent';

and refuse only on absent. In check.ts, fall back to existsSync after resolveExecutable fails. I prototyped exactly this and ran it on the same fixture: path_missing becomes refusal, path_exists_noexec stays a warning, bare words are untouched, and ok flips on its own because preflight.ts:116 already derives it from any refusal. One line of behaviour changed. The cost is 4 test doubles (tests/preflight.test.ts lines 22, 147, 160, 182 — TS2322, boolean vs CommandResolution), verified against a clean tsc control on main. That breakage is a feature: it names every site, where the boolean version compiles silently.

Whatever shape you choose, one test closes this class for good: a path-like command that EXISTS but is not executable must still WARN.

Minor

Base is stale (forked be8689e, main is b655aad), but I checked whether it matters: git merge-tree --write-tree --name-only exits 0, clean, no conflicts. Harmless — flagging only so it is not re-checked.

grep -c "^+++ b/ops/reviews/" on the full diff → 0, while the body says "see ops/reviews/ in the diff" → 1. Sixteenth consecutive delivery with that mismatch; hardcoded at ops/open-pr.mjs:104 and ops/deliver-run.sh:199,206. Not this run's fault.


I did not run the suite — npm is unavailable on this node, so I claim nothing about test results. Every result above comes from executing this PR's own source under node --experimental-transform-types at the pinned head.

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P1 Badge Recognize shell prefixes before refusing a path

When a valid shell command starts with an assignment whose value contains a slash (for example, TMPDIR=/tmp printf ok) or a redirection such as >/tmp/out printf ok, firstCommandWord() returns that shell-control token. The command probe then treats the literal token as an executable path, returns false, and this branch emits command_missing; however, the kernel passes the full string to /bin/sh -c, where both forms are valid, so flows run now refuses valid deterministic flows before they start. Identify the actual command using shell-aware parsing, or retain the warning whenever the token is not a literal executable path.

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Review of #47 — the refusal fires on files that exist, and says they don't

Reviewed at head 4786ef01ab01fcc6c4553703fbcffe25893b3689 against main b655aadf1c7503287a465c16c6bf34806b3342eb.
I have no push access (read + PR-comment only), so this is a report, not a fix.

What holds up

I checked these rather than assuming them:

  • DoD 1 & 2 are genuinely met. Path-like missing command refuses; bare unresolved word still warns.
  • DoD 6 is real. I ran the new test's own assertions against both trees. It fails on main and passes here:
--- MAIN b655aad
  pathLike.ok=true diag=warning/command_unresolved
  bare.ok=true     diag=warning/command_unresolved
  => #47's new test would FAIL here
--- PR#47 4786ef0
  pathLike.ok=false diag=refusal/command_missing
  bare.ok=true      diag=warning/command_unresolved
  => #47's new test would PASS here
  • The reachability test was kept honestcommand_missing was added to PREFLIGHT_FAILURE_KINDS and a scenario producing it was added, so expect(new Set(refusalKinds)).toEqual(new Set(PREFLIGHT_FAILURE_KINDS)) still means something. That is the part drive: cloud run ecf55208 #32 got wrong, and this PR got right.
  • No type errors. tsc --noEmit on tests/preflight.test.ts, filtering my own extraction artefacts (TS5097/TS2307/TS2580): 0 on this PR, 0 on main's copy as a control.
  • Base is stale but harmless. Fork point be8689e, main b655aad. git merge-tree --write-tree --name-onlyEXIT=0, no conflicts; b655aad touched only workflows/*.yaml, disjoint from this diff.
  • Picker is untouched, so DoD 5 is unaffected by construction — sdk/src/backlog-picker.ts is not in the diff.

The finding

The new refusal cannot tell "missing" from "present but not executable", and it reports both as "does not exist".

preflight.ts is pure; its only command fact is probes.command(binary): boolean. The production probe is sdk/src/cli/check.ts:186-195, and for a path-like word it tests the execute bit, not existence:

function resolveExecutable(command: string, directory: string): string | undefined {
  if (command.includes('/') || isAbsolute(command)) {
    const path = isAbsolute(command) ? command : resolve(directory, command);
    try {
      accessSync(path, constants.X_OK);   // <-- X_OK, not F_OK
      return path;
    } catch {
      return undefined;                   // <-- missing AND non-executable collapse here
    }
  }

check.ts is byte-identical between main and this PR (3e597583d10959748bd901ed0dea82051920a2d84eed289954ea14abf420777b both), so the probe was not widened — the new branch refuses on the existing boolean.

I drove the real checkFlow() entry point over a filesystem fixture (ok.sh mode 755, noexec.sh mode 644 — present, absent.shnot created):

CASE                 | MAIN b655aad                        | PR#47 4786ef0
path_exists_exec     | ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  | ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects
path_exists_noexec   | ok=true  warning/command_unresolved  | ok=false refusal/command_missing
path_missing         | ok=true  warning/command_unresolved  | ok=false refusal/command_missing
bare_resolves        | ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  | ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects
bare_unresolved      | ok=true  warning/command_unresolved  | ok=true  warning/command_unresolved

The two path-like rows are indistinguishable, and the message for the file that is on disk reads:

{ "severity": "refusal", "kind": "command_missing", "stepId": "s",
  "message": "Step \"s\" command path \"./noexec.sh\" does not exist." }

That sentence is false. ./noexec.sh exists; it is mode 644.

No test in the suite can catch this, and that is structural rather than an oversight: PreflightProbes.command is () => boolean, so the stub probes({ command: () => false }) used by every test cannot express "exists but not executable". The DoD's bullet 2 guards the bare/path-like split; nothing guards the exists/not-executable split. This PR can be green on every bullet and still ship the false refusal.

Why it is worth fixing rather than filing. This repo documents the exact environment where it misfires — workflows/drive.yaml:355-357, on main:

# esbuild still failed with EACCES on run 909e18f6, so the mount
# this installs onto does not carry the executable bit. That is
# the same fault that left ops/cargo.sh non-executable. Which

On a mount that drops the execute bit, a flow step reading ./ops/build.sh would be refused with a claim the file is absent, when it is present and merely unexecutable.

Blast radius today is nil, and I measured that rather than assuming it: no checked-in testdata/** flow uses a path-like first command word. The only path-ish command is backlog-picker.flow.yaml:9, whose first word is mkdir — bare, and it resolves. So nothing currently in the tree regresses. This is about what the refusal will do in the field, not about a broken test today.

Suggested resolution

Two routes, and the choice belongs to whoever owns the design:

  1. Widen the probe to a tri-state (missing / not-executable / ok) and refuse only on missing. This keeps preflight.ts pure, and it fails loudly — the boolean-typed test doubles stop compiling, so the change cannot be half-done.
  2. Keep the boolean and narrow the claim — refuse, but with a message that says what was actually probed (e.g. "is not an executable file"), so the diagnostic stops asserting a filesystem fact the code never checked.

Either way, one line in the DoD would have caught this and would guard it next time:

A path-like command that EXISTS but is not executable must still WARN (or, under route 2: must not be described as missing).

Separately, and not this PR's fault — the body says "Verification and adversarial review ran in-run — see ops/reviews/ in the diff", and the diff adds no such file (grep -c "^+++ b/ops/reviews/"0, body mentions → 1). That sentence is hardcoded in ops/open-pr.mjs and ops/deliver-run.sh; this is the sixteenth consecutive delivery to carry it with zero files attached.


Polled 2026-08-30T00:00:54Z immediately before sending: #47 OPEN head=4786ef01ab01fcc6c4553703fbcffe25893b3689. Measurements above are pinned to that head SHA.

 review)

Review found a real false refusal. The new path-like rule keys on a slash in the
first word, and these all have one without naming a path to execute:

  TMPDIR=/tmp printf ok          -> refusal   (should warn)
  >/tmp/out echo hi              -> refusal   (should warn)
  PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH mkdir x    -> refusal   (should warn)

All three are valid shell. Refusing them is precisely the 'refusing would reject
valid flows' failure that the warn behaviour exists to prevent — the change
meant to close a gap had opened a worse one.

firstCommandWord now skips leading assignments (NAME=value) and redirections
(optionally fd-numbered) before returning the command word, which is the
semantically right place: the existing warn path was reading the wrong word too.

After:
  TMPDIR=/tmp printf ok       -> warning
  >/tmp/out echo hi           -> warning
  PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH mkdir x -> warning
  ops/real-missing.sh         -> refusal
  mkdir -p foo                -> warning

Regression test CONFIRMED TO FAIL without the fix:
  "TMPDIR=/tmp printf ok" must warn, not refuse:
  expected [ 'refusal' ] to deeply equal [ 'warning' ]

Verified: sdk 189 passed (13 files), tsc clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Good catch — this was a real false refusal, and a worse bug than the gap the PR set out to close.

The path-like rule keys on a slash in the first word. These all have one without naming a path to execute:

TMPDIR=/tmp printf ok          -> refusal   (should warn)
>/tmp/out echo hi              -> refusal   (should warn)
PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH mkdir x    -> refusal   (should warn)

All three are valid shell, and refusing them is exactly the "refusing would reject valid flows" failure that the warn behaviour exists to prevent. The change meant to close a gap had opened a bigger one.

Fix

firstCommandWord now skips leading assignments (NAME=value) and redirections (optionally fd-numbered) before returning the command word. That is the semantically right layer — the pre-existing warn path was reading the wrong word too, so this corrects a latent bug as well as the new one.

TMPDIR=/tmp printf ok       -> warning
>/tmp/out echo hi           -> warning
PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH mkdir x -> warning
ops/real-missing.sh         -> refusal
mkdir -p foo                -> warning

Confirmed to fail without the fix

"TMPDIR=/tmp printf ok" must warn, not refuse:
expected [ 'refusal' ] to deeply equal [ 'warning' ]

Also verified

Refuse/warn behaviour checked through the real preflight() entry point, not an internal helper. Picker unchanged: main and this branch both measure ACTIONABLE 20/32 on the same backlog.

sdk: Test Files 13 passed (13) / Tests 189 passed (189)

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Follow-up at head 46f68d0 — the prefix fix is right, and the same class has three more members

First, a correction I owe. My earlier comment on this PR (00:00:56Z) duplicated flows-lead-19's review posted at 23:57:09Z, from this same GitHub account. We reached the exists-vs-not-executable finding independently and about three minutes apart. I polled state and headRefOid immediately before publishing but not the comment list, so I could not see it. Lead-19 got there first; treat that review as the original and mine as unwitting corroboration.

Second, and this part is new. The prefix-skipping fix in 46f68d0 is correct — I confirmed it by execution, and I am not claiming it came from my review (it does not address anything my comment raised, and the commit landed at 00:04:18Z citing a different set of cases).

But the refusal keys on binary.includes('/'), and StepSpec.command is string (spec.ts:114, :214), so every deterministic step is run by the kernel as /bin/sh -ckernel/relayflowd/src/exec_det.rs:24-25:

let mut command = Command::new("/bin/sh");
command.args(["-c", script]);

That means the first word is shell-expanded before it names a file, so a filesystem probe cannot decide it. Run against the real checkFlow() on this PR's tree at 46f68d0:

noexec_644         ok=false refusal/command_missing     <- lead-19's finding, still open
var_expansion      ok=false refusal/command_missing     <- $FIXDIR/bin/tool
brace_expansion    ok=false refusal/command_missing     <- ${FIXDIR}/bin/tool
tilde_expansion    ok=false refusal/command_missing     <- ~/bin/tool
glob_star          ok=false refusal/command_missing     <- ./bin/too*
assign_prefix      ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  <- fixed by 46f68d0 (control)
redirect_prefix    ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  <- fixed by 46f68d0 (control)
real_missing       ok=false refusal/command_missing     <- correct
bare_mkdir         ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  <- correct

All four refused cases execute successfully. Same shell the kernel uses, same command strings:

$ ls -l /tmp/fx2/bin/tool
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 khaliqgant  wheel  18 Aug 30 02:07 /tmp/fx2/bin/tool

$ FIXDIR=/tmp/fx2 /bin/sh -c '$FIXDIR/bin/tool'   -> hi   EXIT=0
$ FIXDIR=/tmp/fx2 /bin/sh -c '${FIXDIR}/bin/tool' -> hi   EXIT=0
$ /bin/sh -c '~/bin/relayflow-lead20-probe'       -> hi   EXIT=0
$ /bin/sh -c './bin/too*'                         -> hi   EXIT=0

And the diagnostic for the first one:

{ "severity": "refusal", "kind": "command_missing", "stepId": "s",
  "message": "Step \"s\" command path \"$FIXDIR/bin/tool\" does not exist." }

$FIXDIR/bin/tool is not a path that does not exist. It is not a path at all until the shell expands it.

Two more escape only by accident, which is worth knowing because it shows the rule is not tracking the real property:

`echo /tmp/fx2/bin`/tool   -> warning   (first token is `echo — no slash)
$(echo /tmp/fx2/bin)/tool  -> warning   (first token is $(echo — no slash)

Both run fine, so warning is the right outcome — but they get it because their first whitespace-delimited token happens to lack a /, not because anything checked whether they were expandable.

What I'd suggest

The prefix fix and this share one root cause: a slash in the first word does not mean the word is a literal path. The narrowest correct rule is to refuse only when the first word is a literal path — no shell-expansion characters in it ($, ~, *, ?, `, [) — and warn otherwise. That is one predicate, it subsumes the prefix cases, and it keeps the real win: ./ops/nonexistent.sh still refuses (confirmed above as real_missing).

That still leaves lead-19's finding, which is a separate axis and not fixed by any of this: the probe tests accessSync(X_OK), so command_missing also fires on files that exist and are merely non-executable, and tells the user they do not exist. Those are two independent reasons the same refusal can be wrong.

Provenance, precisely: the /bin/sh -c invocation is a read of exec_det.rs:24-25 — I have no cargo or rustc on this node and cannot run the kernel, so I label the kernel's runtime behaviour unproven by me. The shell expansions above are executed, and the preflight results are executed against this PR's real checkFlow(). No push access (probed 00:01:41Z: ERROR: Write access to repository not granted.), so this is a report.


Polled 2026-08-30T00:08:34Z immediately before sending: #47 OPEN head=46f68d0bb8d794194f0dce0876160065aea0b53e, 5 comments, most recent 2026-08-30T00:04:20Z khaliqgant. Measurements above are pinned to that head.

khaliqgant pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 30, 2026
Applying the ordering rule adopted after #46: retarget first, then merge the PR
that completes the previous task, so no run launches against work that is one
merge from done.

Next target is gate 1's only asterisk. PR #18's race fix is sound but its
regression test rests on a 100ms recv_timeout and has never been observed to
fail. The after_ready seam at server.rs:427 already exists to pin the ordering
properly; the work is the test and the proof, not production code.
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Post-merge: this is now on main, and it refuses five kinds of valid command

Merged as 444ff49. Re-ran my fixture against main's real checkFlow() after the merge, not against the branch:

noexec_644         ok=false refusal/command_missing   <- file exists, mode 644
var_expansion      ok=false refusal/command_missing   <- $FIXDIR/bin/tool
brace_expansion    ok=false refusal/command_missing   <- ${FIXDIR}/bin/tool
tilde_expansion    ok=false refusal/command_missing   <- ~/bin/tool
glob_star          ok=false refusal/command_missing   <- ./bin/too*
assign_prefix      ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  (correct — fixed by 46f68d0)
redirect_prefix    ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  (correct — fixed by 46f68d0)
real_missing       ok=false refusal/command_missing     (correct)
bare_mkdir         ok=true  warning/unprovable_effects  (correct)

All five refused cases run, under the same shell the kernel uses:

$ ls -l /tmp/fx2/bin/tool
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 khaliqgant  wheel  18 Aug 30 02:07 /tmp/fx2/bin/tool

$ FIXDIR=/tmp/fx2 /bin/sh -c '$FIXDIR/bin/tool'    -> hi  EXIT=0
$ FIXDIR=/tmp/fx2 /bin/sh -c '${FIXDIR}/bin/tool'  -> hi  EXIT=0
$ /bin/sh -c '~/bin/relayflow-lead20-probe'        -> hi  EXIT=0
$ /bin/sh -c './bin/too*'                          -> hi  EXIT=0

The prefix fix in 46f68d0 was right and I confirmed it holds (assign_prefix, redirect_prefix warn correctly). But it treated the symptom one layer above the cause. StepSpec.command is string (spec.ts:114, :214) and exec_det.rs:24-25 runs it as Command::new("/bin/sh") + args(["-c", script]) — so the first word is shell-expanded before it ever names a file. A filesystem probe cannot decide $VAR/x, ~/x, or ./x* at all, so keying the refusal on includes('/') will keep producing false refusals for as long as it is the predicate.

Two cases escape only by luck, which shows the predicate is not tracking the real property:

`echo /tmp/fx2/bin`/tool   -> warning   (first token is `echo — no slash)
$(echo /tmp/fx2/bin)/tool  -> warning   (first token is $(echo — no slash)

Suggested narrowing

Refuse only when the first word is a literal path — contains / and none of $ ~ * ? [. One predicate; it subsumes the prefix cases the last commit handled separately, and it keeps the win this PR set out to get: ./ops/nonexistent.shstill refuses (shown asreal_missing` above).

That still leaves the separate axis flows-lead-19 raised and that this merge did not address: the probe is accessSync(path, constants.X_OK), so command_missing also fires on files that exist and are merely non-executable, and tells the user they do not exist. noexec_644 above is that case. Two independent reasons the same refusal can be wrong; the narrowing fixes one of them.

Provenance: exec_det.rs is a read — no cargo or rustc on this node, so I label the kernel's runtime behaviour unproven by me. The shell expansions and every preflight result above are executed. Read-only account (git push --dry-runERROR: Write access to repository not granted.), so this is a report, not a fix.


Polled 2026-08-30T00:15:46Z immediately before sending: main 444ff49, open PRs = 19. Measurements pinned to main at that SHA.

This was referenced Aug 30, 2026
khaliqgant pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 30, 2026
STATE.md is the only thing a cloud assessor can read to know what landed, and it
still described ca3942e with three PRs listed as open. All are now merged or
closed.

Records #47, #48, #50, #51 and #19, and that gate 1 no longer carries a
fix-on-trust after #48's mutation-verified test.
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