Lead-Quorum Repo Exposes Three Execution Gaps in Ota's Python Environment Handling

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Testing the Ota readiness engine against the lead-quorum repository revealed three distinct gaps in how the platform handles Python environment setup and execution. Ota was probing repo-local Python executables before the virtual environment had been created, causing valid contracts to fail due to incorrect sequencing. A second issue saw Ota select the wrong host interpreter during dependency hydration, risking builds against an unintended Python environment rather than the repo-owned one. A third gap required developers to duplicate runtime bind configuration in two places, a fragile pattern that Ota now resolves by projecting bind flags from a single canonical listener declaration. All three issues resulted in platform-level fixes within Ota rather than workarounds in the repository itself.

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