Boarded with 8 other PRs in one combined worktree: typecheck:core, check:file-size, check:changelog-integrity, check:complexity, check:cognitive-complexity, check:cycles, check-native-deps all green; 75/75 focused tests pass. Clean, well-scoped env-override with correct blank-value handling and a startup log naming the resolution source. Thanks.
v3.8.40 cycle integration → main. All test gates green (Unit/Integration/Coverage/Node-compat/Quality-Ratchet). The only red check, 'PR Test Policy', is the test-masking heuristic firing on the cumulative ~57-commit release diff (legitimate assert consolidations already reviewed per-PR — Gemini CLI removal #5246, retired GPT models #5280, provider catalog refreshes); overridden with --admin per the documented release-PR convention. CodeQL/SonarQube advisory scans non-blocking; #5278's code already passed CodeQL on main. Homologated on VPS 192.168.0.15 (v3.8.40 healthy).
