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+- **A reviewer's "I found nothing CRITICAL" no longer counts as a CRITICAL finding.** /ship's review collect step used to turn a reader's own closing sentence into a blocking finding when the sentence only denied a severity ("I found nothing CRITICAL.", "I found no defect that is CRITICAL.", "Neither finding is CRITICAL."), so the review loop counted blockers that named no defect and a Captain had to grant an exception. A sentence that is wholly a denial, a count of findings or "nothing blocks", with no file, line, exception clause or field on its line, now collects nothing at the label it denies. Every real blocker still collects: a file:line, an exception clause ("except the token leak in log.ts:3"), "nothing else" or "no other", a named defect, a list item or a Severity or Blocks field keeps the line at its label. (GST-435)