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+type: Fixed
+pr: 1504
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+`verify codebase-drift` now reads `workflow.drift_action` and `workflow.drift_threshold` from the correct nested config shape — previously both keys silently no-oped because `loadConfig()` returns a flattened object and `config?.workflow` was always `undefined`.