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@@ -70,9 +70,18 @@ _Updated: 2026-05-31 (added using-yt-tools-rate-limit-guard ⚪)_
 
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-## 🔴 [archive-roundtrip-test] — smoke-test for .skill archive shape
-**Status:** active
-**Where I stopped:** (not started) — caught the PowerShell-Compress-Archive backslash bug manually; a smoke-test would catch the next regression automatically
+## 🔵 [archive-roundtrip-test] — smoke-test for .skill archive shape
+**Status:** blocked
+**Where I stopped:** workspace: pull --ff-only failed (diverged?): her:
+hint:
+hint: 	git merge --no-ff
+hint:
+hint: or:
+hint:
+hint: 	git rebase
+hint:
+hint: Disable this message with "git config set advice.diverging false"
+fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting.
 **Next action:** add a script that builds `dist/<name>.skill`, unzips into a temp dir, and `diff -r` against `skills/<name>/`. Fail on any difference. Run from CI or pre-commit if we add one
 **Branch:** (not started)
 **Owner:** DESKTOP-NSEF0UK:claude-opus:35572