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@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ Return to Phase 1.
 **A concurrent session holds the tree or an open PR:** adopt its PR (bring current with `{{DEFAULT_BRANCH}}`, re-run the anchor, review, merge if green) rather than doing nothing; work in a `git worktree` to avoid colliding, and treat a harmless local `--delete-branch` failure as success once `gh pr view --json state` confirms the merge.
 **A test fails intermittently (suspected flake):** re-run the test command once. If the same test fails again, treat it as a real failure and investigate. If it passes on the second run, note the flake in the PR body and proceed — do not suppress or `@Ignore` a test without understanding why it is flaky.
 **A review comment is a false positive:** reply with evidence, do not apply the change.
+**`gh pr create` fails with "you must first push the current branch to a remote" despite a successful `git push -u`:** the clone's fetch refspec may be restricted to the default branch only (common in gardener-managed or otherwise restricted dedicated checkouts) — confirm with `git config --get-all remote.origin.fetch`. A restricted refspec means `git fetch` never populates a remote-tracking ref for feature branches, so `gh pr create`'s and `git branch --set-upstream-to`'s auto-detection both fail even though the push and upstream config succeeded. Pass `--head <branch>` explicitly to `gh pr create` to bypass the remote-tracking-ref lookup rather than retrying the push.
 {{#if REVIEWER}}**Reviewer addition fails:** proceed to the self-review step in Phase 4. Do not skip to Phase 5 without posting self-review comments — Phase 6 addresses those comments like any other review.{{/if}}
 **Branch is behind main or has a merge conflict at Phase 8:** rebase onto main, re-run tests, and force-push before retrying the merge:
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