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24th December 2025

Research debug-failed-fix — Debugging investigation into why commit 0dcfad4's fix for cog code rendering didn't work. The fix correctly used string concatenation to avoid `-->` in Python strings, but the explanatory comment itself contained the literal `-->` sequence, which closed the HTML comment early. Solution: rewrote the comment to avoid the problematic character sequence.

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