Across 247 vault files (207 Cards/ + 40 Inbox/), every malformed entry collapsed into exactly five recurring bug shapes: missing callout blocks (bare up:: instead of inside > [!Ontology]-), empty ontology fields, broken wikilink syntax (!Link with an exclamation), empty dataview FROM targets, and the worst — generic parent stubs like up:: Concepts masquerading as a real conceptual parent. The diagnosis: the agent's generation loop emits skeleton cards faster than the research step populates them, and skeletons default to the lazy fallback for each field. Caught at write-time instead of cleanup-time, all five are mechanically repairable; emitted at speed, all five compound.
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