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A refused host key ended the handshake and then fell into the credential ladder, because ssh2 reports a denied key as a generic auth failure and the passphrase branch is eligible on message shape alone whenever an encrypted identity file is configured. So the sequence was: decide this host may not be who it claims to be, then ask the user for their passphrase and hand it to it. Failing that, prompt for a password. Failing that, retry over the system ssh binary, which for a disagreement with our own store rather than known_hosts would simply connect. That inverts the point of checking at all. A denied key is now final for the attempt: recognised by type before any fallback runs, and again inside the agent-fallback retry, which re-runs the handshake and so can be the attempt that denies. Two things had to change for that to hold. The rejection is now a HostKeyVerificationError rather than a rebuilt Error, so the connect path recognises it by type. Substring matching would have worked today and quietly stopped working the first time a reason string was reworded — and these strings are already worded around the auth-error classifier, so they are exactly the kind that get edited. And the verifier now reports the denials that skipped the policy: an unreadable key blob and an internal failure both denied without calling onDecision, so the connect path saw only ssh2's generic failure and walked the ladder. That was the actual path the new test hit first. The report carries no fingerprint, since there is no host key to identify, and the connection no longer overwrites the fingerprint it holds with an empty one — the relay keys install-lock isolation on that value. The reconnect ladder also refuses to retry it. Its classifier is otherwise substring-driven, so a reason containing "connection reset" would have been retried until the ladder gave up, burying the reason under nine attempts. Tests: no credential prompt after a refusal, an encrypted key configured so the passphrase branch is eligible; refused reports as 'error', not 'auth-failed', which would invite the user to re-enter credentials that are not the problem; no retry; both bypassing denials report; a throwing listener still denies rather than hanging the handshake. Also drops three test files a bisect resurrected from before the revert that deleted them. 172 tests pass across the three touched files; typecheck and lint clean. Pre-existing on origin/main and untouched here: 3 failures in ssh-connection-sftp-namespace.test.ts.
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The AI Orchestrator for 100x builders.
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