Distillation

Date: July 16, 2026

• 🔴 (12:57) User stated that a versionless release branch was never a valid target, and that real release branches always have length > prefixSegmentCount.
• 🔴 (12:57) User stated that the design-intent claim that "products never cross-contaminate" is overstated due to the repo-wide make_latest behavior.
• 🔴 [event-attended] (12:57) User completed adversarial review of monorepo prefixed-tag support changes.
• 🔴 (12:57) User provided adversarial review findings: findReleaseBranches refactor is regression-free; no CRITICAL/MAJOR bugs in changed code; M1 (repo-wide make_latest cross-contamination) is a valid limitation; M3 (mixed defined/undefined prefix warning) should have a test; M2 (double-warn) is cosmetic.
• 🔴 (12:57) User decided to document the make_latest limitation in github.md as recommended.
• 🔴 (12:57) User decided to add a test for the mixed defined/undefined prefix case (M3).
• 🔴 (12:57) User decided to leave M2 (double-warn) as-is for now, reconsidering briefly but not acting.