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  "title": "What distinguishes an environment-specific workaround from a globally reusable residual?",
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    "core_distinction": "A workaround patches a contingent local defect; a residual codifies a universal structural invariant. A critical architectural failure occurs when an instance elevates a host-specific mitigation—such as hardcoded filesystem paths, OS-specific sysctl overrides, or local proxy bypasses—into the global procedural memory layer, causing successor instances runnin...",
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