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The `review-verdict/h10` exemption path decided from mutable or unattributed PR state, and a machine-written `success` was never revalidated. Three routes, one root cause, so one change. Route 1 (reproduced live as probe PR #703, closed unmerged): `/pulls/{n}/files` diffs against the PR's LIVE base, so retargeting moves the answer without moving the head sha. A PR opened into `main` and retargeted mid-run enumerated docs-only and was granted `h10=success` while its diff against `main` carried a C# file; retargeting back reclassified nothing. `scripts/pr-changed-files.sh` now takes the expected base branch as a REQUIRED 5th argument (optional would be a silent opt-out) and checks it before and after paging; the workflow passes it from the `pull_request_target` payload, which a retarget cannot rewrite, and `edited` is in `types:` so a retarget reclassifies. A pinned two-sha diff would close route 1 outright but Gitea 1.25.4 cannot serve one: `compare/{base}...{head}` returns no `files`, and a `--depth=1` fetch of the two shas has no merge base. Measured, not assumed. The residual window is stated in the code and the record rather than papered over. Route 2: `pull_request.user.login` is the PR's immutable CREATOR while its head is not, so pushing code onto an open Renovate branch kept the exemption. The bot exemption now also requires EVERY path to be a dependency manifest — a set measured across all 11 Renovate PRs this repo has had, not guessed. Route 3: the never-overwrite short-circuit exited on ANY `success`, so a forgery obtained once was inherited forever. It now fires only for a status positively identified as a human verdict (non-null `.creator.login` AND a `Review-verdict:` description — measured: user-posted statuses carry a creator, Actions-posted ones carry null). Written in the positive direction so an unrecognised shape is re-derived rather than trusted. The two exemptions are composed, not chained: as an `elif` chain a Renovate docs-only PR lost the docs-only exemption. Caught before commit and pinned by a test. Tests: 17 new cases in scripts/tests/test_pr_changed_files.py, each verified by mutating the clause it covers (8 mutations, 8 kills). Both records trimmed under the 60-line prose ceiling so the corpus tail-boundary check stays calibrated. Does NOT close the class: anyone who can POST a status directly can still impersonate a verdict — that is #697, deliberately left open. Refs: #698 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>