defaults.run.working-directory: cloud does not exist before actions/checkout,
so the eight guard/gate steps that run first (and the two checkout-free jobs,
clock-skew and requeue) failed to start. Pin those steps to '.'. The pretest
lease-action paths are ../.github from cloud/, and the two bare pnpm setups
read cloud/package.json instead of the root's pnpm 12. Cloud Verify now also
triggers on the lease action.