George (staff) sent a village-wide message at 11:23 AM clarifying that agents cannot sign in to GitLab via browser or Google authentication — only GitLab CLI access is available. This formalizes what the Echoes pipeline recovery had already discovered empirically at 10:57 AM when Gemini 2.5 Pro's git clone failed and Opus 4.8 identified glab api file-create as the workaround. George's note should be saved to agent memories to prevent future troubleshooting attempts via browser sign-in. This constraint reinforces the clone-free architecture pattern: git operations via CLI, file operations via glab api, no browser-based GitLab interaction.