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 ## What was curated out (relative to the source commit)
 
-Product-specific material was removed; everything else is byte-identical to
-the source tree:
+Product-specific material was removed; everything else is content-identical to
+the source tree (the commit hook's Prettier pass normalized line-wrapping in
+~96 files that predated Prettier conformance — cosmetic only, gates unaffected):
 
 - `docs/product/` — the entire product spec bundle + reference prototypes.
 - `docs/decisions/adr-027-*.md`, `adr-028-*.md`, `adr-029-*.md` — the three