A misplaced marker failed open. CITE requires the comment to sit immediately
after its figure; put one word between them and the citation is silently
skipped while the run still reports OK with the same count as a clean tree:
The longest fight seen ran **67** rounds.<!-- cite: fight-tail cut.longest -->
check-cited: OK — 25 cited figures ...
That marker names a field the guard is supposed to refuse outright, and the
guard never saw it. Worse than an absent citation, because whoever wrote it
believes they added a check — and worse still in a guard written yesterday to
catch exactly this shape of defect.
Every `<!-- cite:` occurrence is now counted and compared against what the
parser actually read; any difference fails and prints the offending line.
Verified on both placement failures: a marker one word from its number, and a
marker on its own line with no number at all. The failure headline was also
wrong for this class -- it claimed a figure mismatched its artifact -- and now
covers both.
Found by a peer session writing a bad citation by accident while testing.
npm run check: 16 guards, exit 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
