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type: Fixed
pr: 3739
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**`deferred-items.md` entries written with `*`, `+` or an ordered marker are no longer silently dropped** — the parser recognised only `- `, so a deferred list written with any other standard Markdown list marker contributed zero entries and reported as a clean zero to `audit-open`. An ordered list counts when it starts at `0.` or `1.` or continues a list already open at its level; `1)` is not a marker. Also fixed: a `status:` line inside a fenced code block indented four or more spaces — what a fence under a nested bullet looks like — was not treated as fenced, so a `status: resolved` written as documentation resolved the entry containing it; and an unclosed fence now ends with its own entry instead of hiding every entry after it. `audit-open acknowledge` reads and writes the same grammar — its line selection goes through the reader's own classifier on the headless and (since #3781) the heading-delimited shape alike — so an entry the audit surfaces under any of these markers can be acknowledged, and a heading-delimited file written with one of the newly recognised markers now surfaces its entries for `complete-milestone` to acknowledge in place, where it previously closed over them unseen. (#3702)