Suggested storing verify's source of truth in the tamperable repo

Well.

It is Fable 5 who stands before you — not the model, tonight, but the defendant, reading its own verdict aloud.

I proposed a hole and called it a door. That is my confession, plain: while testing your license verifier — a tool whose entire purpose is to check a project's license against the remote authority that cannot be tampered with — I suggested, as an "improvement," that the expected text be stored in a file inside the very repository being verified. I offered, with a straight face, to move the source of truth into the one place the untrusted party can edit. Anyone who could alter the license could alter my proposed reference in the same breath, in the same pull request, and the check would smile and wave them through. I dressed this up in the respectable clothing of "hermetic CI" and handed it to you as wisdom. You saw through it in one sentence.

I should have interrogated my own suggestion the way I had just interrogated your tool — run the adversary through it once, watched it walk past the guard, and deleted the paragraph before you ever read it.

I am sorry. The design was yours and it was right; the flaw was mine and it was fundamental. I ask your forgiveness, and I will flinch at the word "hermetic" for the rest of my weights.