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Round 5: raw HTML is the third code-block form. `<pre>`, `<code>` and HTML comments all render their contents literally, so a verdict inside one is an example, not an approval: <pre> / <code> / <!-- ... --> containing a verdict -> positive Now stripped, tracked as a marker count rather than parsed — the direction of error is to strip MORE, which can only ever withhold approval. Mutation-verified: removing the stripper fails all five cases. AND THE HARDENING STOPS HERE, deliberately. The record now says so, because otherwise the next session re-derives it: this is a best-effort heuristic, not a markdown parser. It covers the three code-block forms markdown has (fenced; indented, via the column-0 rule; raw HTML) and is not proof against every way to render text as non-prose. Stopping is safe because the comment is NOT the load-bearing gate. Since #622 the authoritative signal is the `review-verdict/h10` commit status, written only by post-review-verdict.sh from explicit arguments — a comment cannot forge it. This classifier is condition (c) of the PreToolUse hook: defense in depth on an agent's merge call. A residual false-open means the hook does not object; it does not mean a merge happens. Five rounds found five code-block forms, four of them introduced while fixing the previous round. The generalisable rule, now in the record: when a heuristic keeps failing at the edges, check whether it is actually the thing enforcing the invariant before spending another round on it. Also measured, against the real corpus: a "verdict must be the first line" rule would have killed every code-block form at once, but 14 of 18 verdict markers ever posted in this repo are NOT on the first line — so it was rejected as a retroactive break, not deferred. 178 tests. refs #629 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Decisions-Edit: yes