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   have made the archive *look* tracked). ⚠ The third is the one I nearly did by inertia; it is
   the same shape as the hook's own doctrine that *a disarmed hook must not look like an armed one*.
 
+- 2026-08-26T~afternoon — ⚠ **`git lfs install --local` was not local.** It printed
+  *"Updated Git hooks"* and wrote four LFS shims into `~/dotfiles/git/hooks/` — the steward's
+  **global** hook directory — because `core.hooksPath` redirects there. They would have run in
+  every repo. Caught by reading `git status` on dotfiles at the end rather than by expecting it;
+  reverted. `pre-commit` was untouched, and `filter.lfs.*` in `.gitconfig` was verified
+  **pre-existing** (the file is dotfiles-tracked and unmodified) rather than assumed to be mine.
+  ⚠ **Another PENDING-160 instance, made by the party that spent the morning writing it up:** a
+  flag named `--local` meant something else because of a setting one layer out.
+
 ## What held
 
 - Ran `thread-query.py` on the actual thread and reported the **null honestly** (689 candidates,