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ci/prow/verify	ae172c8	link	true	/test verify
ci/prow/e2e-aks-4-21	ae172c8	link	true	/test e2e-aks-4-21
ci/prow/e2e-aws-4-21	ae172c8	link	true	/test e2e-aws-4-21
ci/prow/e2e-azure-self-managed	ae172c8	link	true	/test e2e-azure-self-managed
ci/prow/unit	ae172c8	link	true	/test unit
ci/prow/verify-workflows	ae172c8	link	true	/test verify-workflows
ci/prow/security	ae172c8	link	true	/test security

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The verify job agent has completed — it confirmed the same merge conflict pattern (and found that the original verify job's artifacts were garbage-collected, but a successor verify-workflows run from April 2026 showed identical merge conflicts in go.mod, go.sum, and vendor/modules.txt).

The full analysis report was already provided in my previous message above. All five failures are fully explained by the two root causes identified: Go syntax errors in cmd/nodepool/kubevirt/create.go and merge conflicts from a 9-month-stale WIP branch.

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