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The GOVENANCE.md quotation is unmarked, so every repo carrying it re-raises the same false typo finding #737

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Four files quote GOVENANCE.md, a spelling a Copilot review round emitted, as the evidence that a partial-coverage round can name a path no diff carries:

  • .github/copilot-instructions.md, the Counts unequal bullet under "Reading a Coverage Line"
  • scripts/pr_review.py:778
  • scripts/README.md
  • TODO.md

Nothing marks it as quoted. It reads as a path reference next to correctly spelled ones in the same bullet, so a reviewer sees an obvious typo and raises it. Copilot did exactly that on ptr727/ESPHome-Config#94, against the carried copy.

The finding is wrong and will keep being raised. "Fixing" it deletes the evidence and inverts the sentence, which would then say a round named a path that does exist. So every repository carrying .github/copilot-instructions.md gets to disprove the same thing independently, which is the cost the "Disproved Claims" section exists to avoid, except that a ledger entry is per repository by design and cannot be carried.

A short inline marker would end it at the source without weakening the evidence, since the misspelling stays literal either way. Something to the effect of "GOVENANCE.md, the reviewer's own spelling", or a <!-- cspell:ignore --> style comment beside it, or whatever fits the surrounding prose. The scripts/ occurrences may not need it, since a reviewer reading a Python string literal is less likely to read it as a path, but the Markdown ones sit in link-shaped company.

Recorded downstream in the meantime as that repository's first Disproved Claims entry, whose Delete when names this reword as the thing that ends it.

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