“Because their exporter is legacy,” said the Atwood contact. “We didn’t want to risk disrupting your live service. We routed the correction through our maintenance mirror. We thought it was a temporary workaround.”

“Patchwork.”

“Only internal for now,” Tom said. “But the CI logs show odd requests originating from a service account tied to supplier reports. The patch is preventing new uploads. We need you to confirm the integrity of the latest files.”