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   ⚠ **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.
 
+- 2026-08-26T~evening — ⚠ **The LFS hook pollution RECURRED, and that makes it a hazard
+  rather than a slip.** Removed once; it came back the moment an LFS *filter* ran during the
+  git-vs-LFS storage measurement — git-lfs re-installs its hooks into whatever `core.hooksPath`
+  names, and here that is the steward's **global** hook directory. **Any LFS operation in any
+  repo on this machine writes four shims into `~/dotfiles/git/hooks/`.** Detectable — they show
+  as untracked files in `git status` on dotfiles — and deliberately NOT gitignored, because
+  ignoring them would hide the pollution instead of surfacing it. ⚠ Care did not prevent the
+  second occurrence; I had cleaned the first one two hours earlier.
+
 ## What held
 
 - Ran `thread-query.py` on the actual thread and reported the **null honestly** (689 candidates,