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@@ -23,9 +23,26 @@ added lines only) and delete every explanatory comment:
 2. Keep only: parameter/exit-code docs, nocheck/noqa/shellcheck directives,
    and project-sanctioned exception markers that name a concrete trip-wire.
    A relabeled narration is not an exception; delete it instead.
-3. Re-run the project's comment lint if one exists and re-stage the files
-   that were already staged.
-4. Penalty: if this audit finds anything you wrote yourself, admit it in
+3. Block-comment languages are not line-oriented. In Jinja (`{# … #}`), C-like
+   (`/* … */`), HTML (`<!-- … -->`) and their kin, a closing delimiter alone on
+   its own line looks exactly like a comment line and gets deleted with the
+   rest — after which the opening delimiter swallows every live statement down
+   to the next closer. Never strip these languages with a line filter. Delete
+   the whole block by hand, then count the delimiters (`grep -c '{#'` against
+   `grep -c '#}'`) and re-parse the file.
+4. Re-run the project's comment lint if one exists. A green lint does NOT prove
+   the deletion was safe: a swallowed block is still syntactically valid, so
+   both the lint and the language parser can pass over code that no longer
+   executes. Diff against the pre-edit revision (`git show HEAD:<path>`) and
+   confirm that only comment lines left.
+5. Do not stage in order to run a check. Repository lints that enumerate through
+   `git ls-files` already see every tracked file and read its worktree content;
+   only an untracked NEW file is invisible to them and needs `git add`. Staging
+   a tracked, modified file before a lint changes nothing except the operator's
+   index, which they then have to undo. Stage only what a requested bundle
+   contains, and re-stage after the audit exactly the files that were staged
+   before it.
+6. Penalty: if this audit finds anything you wrote yourself, admit it in
    the report (file and count, no excuses), lower your confidence numbers
    for the affected bundle, and write the incident to persistent agent
    memory (extend the existing minimal-comments feedback entry with the