Read-back compared inventories only to the narrower hole-cache subset, not every exported region; this adds rule parity checks and binds the DRC gate to the SHA-256 of the exact KiCad bytes read back.
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 28-29 2026 (Oct 28 8:41 AM ET through Oct 29 early-morning Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-29: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.