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- System failed to validate if citations pointed to correct location
- Issue arose due to line numbers drifting with file edits
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I was halfway through a keyboard-only pass on a streaming chat when the local path died. A skeleton overlay covered the composer, my focus jumped, and tokens started arriving from somewhere else.
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