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WeaklyTypedInput rewrote "" to 0, so FOO= — an empty secretKeyRef, an envsubst over an unset variable — decoded as a legal zero: KEYSTORE_SECRETMINLENGTH= produced *0 and disabled the secret-length floor. A decode hook now rejects an empty or whitespace-only string at a numeric target in all four decode seams. It also closes a fail-open it made reachable: app swallowed an observability.* decode failure and fell back to the no-op provider, costing every trace, metric and audit event.

Impact

Breaking (ADR-074, atom C60.15). FOO= no longer means 0; for most numeric keys 0 meant "use the default", so healthy deployments fail startup until the variable is unset or given a value. A present-but-undecodable observability section aborts startup; an absent one still yields the no-op provider. Same class, filed not fixed: #1109, #1110, #1111.

Verification

make mutate clean (7 mutants on changed lines, all killed). The secrets-seam test pins that the rejection never echoes payload material.

Closes #1038

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  • Breaking Changes

    • Empty or whitespace-only numeric configuration values now fail startup or migration decoding with the affected key identified.
    • This applies to environment variables, YAML, tenant configuration, and database secrets. Explicit zero, omitted values, YAML null, valid values, and duration settings retain their existing behavior.
    • Scheduler timeout defaults and validation are now normalized consistently.
    • Database configuration errors provide section-qualified field paths where applicable.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid observability configuration now safely stops initialization and cleans up previously created resources.
    • Secret-based numeric settings no longer silently become zero when delivered empty.

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The change rejects delivered empty or whitespace-only strings for numeric configuration fields across standard, public, migration, and secret decoders. Derived defaults now undergo normalization and validation. Invalid observability configuration now fails startup with cleanup. Documentation records the related ADRs and migration guidance.

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Configuration validation and startup handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Numeric decoder guard
internal/configdecode/*, config/config.go, migration/secrets.*, tools/migration/internal/commands/*
Decoder hooks reject delivered empty numeric values, including pointer targets. Duration, nonnumeric, explicit-zero, and YAML-null handling remains distinct. Tests cover field names and secret redaction.
Normalized default derivation
config/config.go, config/config_test.go
Default loading derives values from normalized zero configuration, validates key restrictions and merge rules, renders typed values, and removes duplicated handwritten defaults.
Observability startup errors
app/bootstrap.go, app/bootstrap_test.go
Invalid present observability configuration returns an error and no provider. Missing configuration and provider construction failures retain no-op behavior. Dependency initialization closes created managers on configuration failure.
Decision and migration documentation
CLAUDE.md, wiki/adr_074_delivered_empty_numeric_config.md, wiki/architecture_decisions.md, wiki/migrations.md
The documents describe rejected empty numeric values, preserved zero and null behavior, affected decoder seams, startup effects, and migration checks.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b9a83

The PR changes delivered-empty numeric settings from silently becoming zero to failing configuration resolution and makes malformed observability settings abort startup. The current failure path can still leave startup-created resources active when cleanup fails, and an environment-sensitive regression fixture can weaken protection against configuration regressions. Merge should wait for cleanup-error handling and test isolation, with rollout owners aware of the breaking configuration contract.

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I’m a rabbit guarding values in the night,
Empty numbers now stop before flight.
Zero stays zero, null stays clear,
Invalid signals reach the engineer.
Defaults align, and tests hop bright! 🐇

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Observability fail-closed startup behavior and related cleanup are not covered by linked issues #1038 or #1109. Move observability behavior and unrelated scheduler or database changes to a separate pull request, or link issues that define those requirements.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary breaking change: delivered-empty numeric configuration now fails startup.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR prevents empty numeric coercion for #1038 and adds mirror-drift tests for #1109.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/configdecode/configdecode.go`:
- Around line 63-105: Add an automated synchronization test/check comparing the
canonical EmptyStringToNumericGuardHookFunc and isNumericKind implementation in
internal/configdecode/configdecode.go (lines 63-105) with its mirror in
tools/migration/internal/commands/common.go (lines 273-314), and ensure the
check runs in CI to detect future drift. Preserve the existing CPD exclusion and
reciprocal synchronization comments at both sites.

In `@wiki/adr_074_delivered_empty_numeric_config.md`:
- Around line 64-72: Update the ADR’s decoder-seam count from three to four and
explicitly list the tools/migration CLI decoder alongside
migration.decodeSecretConfig and the two existing seams. Keep the existing
explanation that the CLI maintains a byte-identical local copy and must be
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Comment thread internal/configdecode/configdecode.go
Comment thread wiki/adr_074_delivered_empty_numeric_config.md Outdated
gaborage added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
CodeRabbit review on #1112, both findings valid.

The CLI's byte-identical copies of the decode hooks were kept in sync by
prose alone: the two test suites exercise each copy separately, so a
change on one side leaves the other green while the two behave
differently -- and a tenants.yaml would then decode under different
rules than a framework config. My own security pass reached the same
conclusion independently.

TestMirroredHooksHaveNotDrifted compares the implementations as source
text -- statements only, since the mirror renames the exported hooks and
carries its own doc comments -- across all three mirrored functions. It
runs in the framework suite, so CI executes it on every framework
change. Source comparison rather than a shared behavioural table on
purpose: it needs no import, so it does not prejudge #1109, the open
decision on whether the CLI keeps mirroring or starts importing. Proven
non-vacuous: changing one token in the mirror fails it, restoring passes.

ADR-074 also said three seams and then described a fourth two paragraphs
later; it now says four and names the CLI's tenantDecoderConfig with the
rest.
gaborage added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
CodeRabbit review on #1112, both findings valid.

The CLI's byte-identical copies of the decode hooks were kept in sync by
prose alone: the two test suites exercise each copy separately, so a
change on one side leaves the other green while the two behave
differently -- and a tenants.yaml would then decode under different
rules than a framework config. My own security pass reached the same
conclusion independently.

TestMirroredHooksHaveNotDrifted compares the implementations as source
text -- statements only, since the mirror renames the exported hooks and
carries its own doc comments -- across all three mirrored functions. It
runs in the framework suite, so CI executes it on every framework
change. Source comparison rather than a shared behavioural table on
purpose: it needs no import, so it does not prejudge #1109, the open
decision on whether the CLI keeps mirroring or starts importing. Proven
non-vacuous: changing one token in the mirror fails it, restoring passes.

ADR-074 also said three seams and then described a fourth two paragraphs
later; it now says four and names the CLI's tenantDecoderConfig with the
rest.
@gaborage
gaborage force-pushed the fix/config-empty-numeric-loud branch from d6280e1 to faf490e Compare August 21, 2026 02:17
gaborage added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
CodeRabbit review on #1112, both findings valid.

The CLI's byte-identical copies of the decode hooks were kept in sync by
prose alone: the two test suites exercise each copy separately, so a
change on one side leaves the other green while the two behave
differently -- and a tenants.yaml would then decode under different
rules than a framework config. My own security pass reached the same
conclusion independently.

TestMirroredHooksHaveNotDrifted compares the implementations as source
text -- statements only, since the mirror renames the exported hooks and
carries its own doc comments -- across all three mirrored functions. It
runs in the framework suite, so CI executes it on every framework
change. Source comparison rather than a shared behavioural table on
purpose: it needs no import, so it does not prejudge #1109, the open
decision on whether the CLI keeps mirroring or starts importing. Proven
non-vacuous: changing one token in the mirror fails it, restoring passes.

ADR-074 also said three seams and then described a fourth two paragraphs
later; it now says four and names the CLI's tenantDecoderConfig with the
rest.
@gaborage
gaborage force-pushed the fix/config-empty-numeric-loud branch from 9ac63cc to dd22958 Compare August 21, 2026 02:36
gaborage added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
CodeRabbit review on #1112, both findings valid.

The CLI's byte-identical copies of the decode hooks were kept in sync by
prose alone: the two test suites exercise each copy separately, so a
change on one side leaves the other green while the two behave
differently -- and a tenants.yaml would then decode under different
rules than a framework config. My own security pass reached the same
conclusion independently.

TestMirroredHooksHaveNotDrifted compares the implementations as source
text -- statements only, since the mirror renames the exported hooks and
carries its own doc comments -- across all three mirrored functions. It
runs in the framework suite, so CI executes it on every framework
change. Source comparison rather than a shared behavioural table on
purpose: it needs no import, so it does not prejudge #1109, the open
decision on whether the CLI keeps mirroring or starts importing. Proven
non-vacuous: changing one token in the mirror fails it, restoring passes.

ADR-074 also said three seams and then described a fourth two paragraphs
later; it now says four and names the CLI's tenantDecoderConfig with the
rest.
@gaborage
gaborage force-pushed the fix/config-empty-numeric-loud branch from dd22958 to 3acd968 Compare August 21, 2026 02:44
gaborage added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
CodeRabbit review on #1112, both findings valid.

The CLI's byte-identical copies of the decode hooks were kept in sync by
prose alone: the two test suites exercise each copy separately, so a
change on one side leaves the other green while the two behave
differently -- and a tenants.yaml would then decode under different
rules than a framework config. My own security pass reached the same
conclusion independently.

TestMirroredHooksHaveNotDrifted compares the implementations as source
text -- statements only, since the mirror renames the exported hooks and
carries its own doc comments -- across all three mirrored functions. It
runs in the framework suite, so CI executes it on every framework
change. Source comparison rather than a shared behavioural table on
purpose: it needs no import, so it does not prejudge #1109, the open
decision on whether the CLI keeps mirroring or starts importing. Proven
non-vacuous: changing one token in the mirror fails it, restoring passes.

ADR-074 also said three seams and then described a fourth two paragraphs
later; it now says four and names the CLI's tenantDecoderConfig with the
rest.
@gaborage
gaborage force-pushed the fix/config-empty-numeric-loud branch from 53a4030 to b9a83da Compare August 21, 2026 03:19

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Inline comments:
In `@app/bootstrap.go`:
- Around line 134-145: The observability initialization failure path in
dependencies must preserve cleanup errors instead of discarding them. Update
cacheManager.Close and the closeManagers callback contract to return errors,
collect cleanup failures from cache, database, and messaging managers, and
return them joined with the original initialization error while preserving the
injected closeManagers test seam.

In `@config/config_test.go`:
- Around line 234-254: Update clearEnvironmentVariables used by
loadDeliveredEmptyFixture to also unset KEYSTORE_SECRETMINLENGTH, ensuring the
YAML-only tests are not overridden by an ambient environment value.

In `@wiki/adr_074_delivered_empty_numeric_config.md`:
- Line 1: Update ADR-074’s title and mirrored references in the architecture
decision text and CLAUDE guidance to use “fails configuration resolution” for
the cross-seam summary. Reserve “fails startup” for config.Load and
Config.Unmarshal, while distinguishing migration.decodeSecretConfig and
tools/migration as migration or first-use failures. Correct the architecture
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Comment thread app/bootstrap.go
Comment on lines +134 to +145
obsProvider, err := b.initializeObservability(startupCtx)
if err != nil {
if cacheManager != nil {
_ = cacheManager.Close()
}
closeManagers := b.closeManagers
if closeManagers == nil {
closeManagers = closeManagersOnDependencyError
}
closeManagers(dbManager, messagingManager)
return nil, err
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve cleanup errors on this startup failure path.

Line 137 discards cacheManager.Close() errors. Lines 139-143 call a helper that also discards database and messaging close errors. If cleanup fails, dependencies returns only the observability decode error and can leave startup-created resources active.

Return the cleanup errors with the initialization error, for example through errors.Join. Change the cleanup callback to return an error so the injected test seam preserves the same contract.

As per coding guidelines: “Handle errors idiomatically, wrap once at boundaries. No silent failures.” <coding_guidelines>

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In `@app/bootstrap.go` around lines 134 - 145, The observability initialization
failure path in dependencies must preserve cleanup errors instead of discarding
them. Update cacheManager.Close and the closeManagers callback contract to
return errors, collect cleanup failures from cache, database, and messaging
managers, and return them joined with the original initialization error while
preserving the injected closeManagers test seam.

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Comment thread config/config_test.go
Comment on lines +234 to +254
// TestLoadEmptyNumericYAMLStringRejected covers the same rule arriving through YAML: an
// empty string takes the identical decode path an empty env var does.
func TestLoadEmptyNumericYAMLStringRejected(t *testing.T) {
_, err := loadDeliveredEmptyFixture(t, "keystore:\n secretminlength: \"\"\n", nil)

require.Error(t, err)
assert.ErrorContains(t, err, "secretminlength")
assert.ErrorContains(t, err, "delivered empty")
}

// TestLoadYAMLNullNumericKeepsTodaysDecode pins the boundary the guard deliberately does
// NOT cover: a YAML null is different plumbing — koanf delivers a nil value, not the ""
// the guard judges — so a null pointer key still decodes as absent and takes its default.
// Documented in ADR-074; this test exists so the boundary cannot drift unnoticed.
func TestLoadYAMLNullNumericKeepsTodaysDecode(t *testing.T) {
cfg, err := loadDeliveredEmptyFixture(t, "keystore:\n secretminlength:\n", nil)

require.NoError(t, err)
require.NotNil(t, cfg.KeyStore.SecretMinLength)
assert.Equal(t, 32, *cfg.KeyStore.SecretMinLength, "a null key is absence, so the floor still applies")
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear KEYSTORE_SECRETMINLENGTH before these YAML-only tests.

loadDeliveredEmptyFixture calls clearEnvironmentVariables, but that helper does not unset KEYSTORE_SECRETMINLENGTH. An ambient value overrides the YAML input because environment variables have higher priority. The empty-string test can then miss the expected error, and the null test can receive a value other than 32.

Add KEYSTORE_SECRETMINLENGTH to the helper's environment-variable list.

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Comment thread wiki/adr_074_delivered_empty_numeric_config.md
gaborage and others added 8 commits August 20, 2026 21:39
koanf keeps a set-but-empty key and mapstructure's WeaklyTypedInput
rewrites "" to 0 for numeric targets, so FOO= -- an empty secretKeyRef,
an envsubst over an unset variable -- decoded as a legal zero. Measured
on main: KEYSTORE_SECRETMINLENGTH= produced *0 and DISABLED the
secret-length floor, because ADR-065's tri-state fills a nil pointer and
the decoder handed it a non-nil pointer to zero.

A decode hook now rejects an empty or whitespace-only string bound to a
numeric target, ahead of the weak coercion, in every seam that decodes
config: buildDecoderConfig (Load), unmarshalDecoderConfig (the public
Config.Unmarshal), migration.decodeSecretConfig (dynamic
DBConfigProvider payloads -- a rotated secret rendering {"port":""}
dialled port 0), and the migration CLI's tenantDecoderConfig. Pruning
empty keys from the koanf tree was rejected: ADR-051's identity check
reads key presence, so dropping them boots the misconfiguration it
exists to catch. time.Duration is exempt; it already failed loudly.

The guard made one pre-existing fail-open reachable from a rendered
value, so this closes it too: observability.* decodes through
Config.Unmarshal, and app swallowed a failure there with one WARN and a
no-op provider -- one bad key for every trace, metric, OTLP log and
migration audit event. initializeObservability now returns an error, and
the section's presence separates the cases: absent keeps the no-op
posture, present-but-undecodable aborts startup. A construction failure
(unreachable collector) stays non-fatal.

Out of scope, filed rather than fixed: the same shape defeats a *bool
tri-state (#1110, CACHE_CRITICAL= turns the cache probe non-critical),
the typed getters still swallow a present-but-empty key (#1111), and the
CLI's decoder mirror is a choice rather than a necessity -- the import
compiles, verified three ways -- which #1109 asks to settle.

For most numeric keys 0 means "use the default", so an empty value was
benign and those deployments were healthy; this turns them into startup
failures deliberately, since the framework cannot tell an intended
default from a template that rendered nothing.

Decision recorded in ADR-074; migration atom C60.15.

Closes #1038
CodeRabbit review on #1112, both findings valid.

The CLI's byte-identical copies of the decode hooks were kept in sync by
prose alone: the two test suites exercise each copy separately, so a
change on one side leaves the other green while the two behave
differently -- and a tenants.yaml would then decode under different
rules than a framework config. My own security pass reached the same
conclusion independently.

TestMirroredHooksHaveNotDrifted compares the implementations as source
text -- statements only, since the mirror renames the exported hooks and
carries its own doc comments -- across all three mirrored functions. It
runs in the framework suite, so CI executes it on every framework
change. Source comparison rather than a shared behavioural table on
purpose: it needs no import, so it does not prejudge #1109, the open
decision on whether the CLI keeps mirroring or starts importing. Proven
non-vacuous: changing one token in the mirror fails it, restoring passes.

ADR-074 also said three seams and then described a fourth two paragraphs
later; it now says four and names the CLI's tenantDecoderConfig with the
rest.
CodeRabbit (mirror#5), both findings real.

The guard read its value with data.(string), which FAILS for a named
string type -- type Env string has Kind String but is not a string -- so
the guard passed it through and WeaklyTypedInput turned "" into 0. That
is the exact class this PR closes, reachable by any consumer whose
config field uses a domain type. Now read through reflect, with a
regression test that fails on the old assertion and passes on the new
read. The CLI's mirrored hook got the identical change, and the drift
test added earlier in this branch enforces that they stay identical.

Absence of the observability section was inferred from a decode error
that never fires: koanf returns nil for a missing key, so an absent
section decoded to a zero Config and fell through to construction,
leaving the documented no-op branch unreachable. Absence is now decided
before decoding, which also makes the decode error unambiguously mean
"present but undecodable" -- the case a delivered-empty numeric under
observability.* produces. Pinned by a test that overrides the
newProvider seam and asserts construction is never reached.
CodeRabbit (mirror#5), two corrections to C60.15's runbook.

The atom said an absent secretKeyRef key renders as empty. It does not:
with optional: true Kubernetes leaves the variable unset, and with
optional: false the container will not start, so only a PRESENT key with
an empty payload reaches this rule. The detect step says that now, and
the apply step says to fix the stored value rather than the reference.
ADR-074 carried the same loose phrasing and is tightened.

Both kubectl snippets used grep '=$', which finds only truly empty
values and would clear a pod carrying FOO='   ' -- rejected by the same
rule, since the guard trims. Both now use grep -E '=[[:space:]]*$'.
CodeRabbit (mirror#5), two findings.

The verify step only booted the service and scanned process env, while
the atom's scope claims four decode seams. A migration tenant or a
dynamic DBConfigProvider tenant resolves configuration later, so a green
startup says nothing about either. Verify now names both: go-bricks-
migrate info per tenant, and resolving every stored secret payload.

The E60 index row described C60.11 twice, the second copy truncated --
damage from my own column-wise conflict resolution, not from main. The
row's classification and preflight columns are rebuilt from main's
version plus this branch's single C60.15 clause, and the atom count is
recomputed from the atoms actually present rather than incremented.
The drift test reads both source files off disk and scans for "\n}\n"
to find each function's end. A Windows checkout hands those files back
CRLF-terminated, so the terminator never matched and all three subtests
failed with "is not terminated" -- the test was platform-dependent
rather than drift-dependent, and it passed Linux CI three times before
the Windows leg caught it.

Line endings are normalized at read time now, and
TestFuncBodyReadsCRLFSource feeds the parser CRLF input directly so a
regression fails on every platform rather than only on Windows.
Verified against genuinely CRLF-terminated file copies, not just a CRLF
string: the terminator is found with normalization and missed without.
CodeRabbit found the atom's gate under-covering its own scope. The gate read
"any go-bricks variable can reach the process set-but-empty", so a deployment
with a clean environment resolved to no-match and skipped the atom entirely —
while the same guard still fires on the CLI's tenants.yaml and on a stored
DBConfigProvider payload, neither of which an environment sweep can see. The
heading, the E60 type cell and the preflight sentence all said "fails startup",
which is true only of the two seams that resolve at boot.

The gate now names all four seams and states that a clean environment alone is
not no-match; the heading and E60 cells say "fails configuration resolution";
and the verify paragraph's arithmetic is fixed — booting exercises the two
startup seams, not one of four.

Also rewrites TestFuncBodyReadsCRLFSource, which normalized its own fixture
before calling funcBody and therefore never exercised readSource's guard: it
passed with the ReplaceAll deleted. It now writes a CRLF file, reads it back
through readSource, and asserts both the absence of CR and a parseable body.
Verified by deleting the guard: the test fails at its own two assertions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two follow-ups from CodeRabbit, both in the E60 prose rather than the atom body.

The preflight summary was a second copy of a sentence corrected in the atom one
commit earlier: it still said a delivered-empty numeric "fails startup" and
named "an empty secretKeyRef" as the trigger. Neither is right in general. The
CLI's tenants.yaml and a dynamic DBConfigProvider payload fail at first use, not
at startup, and the shape that actually bites is a referenced key whose STORED
value is empty — a missing key leaves the variable unset or blocks the pod, and
never reaches this rule. The same loose secretKeyRef phrase in the E60 table row
is corrected too, so the two copies do not drift again.

The detect step matched only unquoted FOO=. It missed FOO="" and FOO='' in .env
files, and structured empty values in Helm, Kustomize and Compose (value: "",
FOO: ''), where no = appears at all — so a deployment carrying exactly the shape
this atom is about could grep clean. Both patterns are now given and were run
against fixtures covering bare, quoted, whitespace-only and structured empties,
confirming they match those and not real values.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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gaborage force-pushed the fix/config-empty-numeric-loud branch from cb2d131 to 2686a94 Compare August 21, 2026 03:42
Third narrowing of C60.15's detection step, from CodeRabbit. The patterns
caught empty quoted strings but not quoted WHITESPACE — FOO="   ", FOO='   ',
value: "   " — which the guard rejects exactly like an empty one, because it
trims before deciding. A deployment carrying that shape grepped clean and
concluded no-match, which is the failure direction that matters for a gate.

Both patterns now accept whitespace inside the quotes, and both tolerate a
trailing comment, which is where a deliberately-blanked value tends to be
documented (value: "" # intentionally blank). Neither matches a bare key: with
nothing after it — that is YAML null, which is absence and still takes the
default, so matching it would send readers at configurations this atom does not
change.

Verified by extracting both commands from the rendered atom text and running
them verbatim, rather than running a retyped copy: bare, double-quoted,
single-quoted, quoted-whitespace, whitespace-only and trailing-comment shapes
all match, while QUX=5, NAME="hello", PORT: 5432, ZERO: "0" and a bare NULLISH:
do not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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