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schema: 1
title: Skippable Defects
created: 2026-07-31T09:00:00Z
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Every defect on this board is **below the root**, which is what makes it the skip channel's golden
case: the root is never skippable, so a board whose only defects are skippable has to have an
intact root.

Skip both and it opens — without the broken lane, without the newer-schema card, and without the
perfectly good card that lives under the broken lane.