rawValue and the coercion/malformed paths now stop at the quote-aware inline-comment boundary, so 'title: 2048 # note' coerces to "2048" and a read-then-write no longer compounds the comment (pinned idempotent). Strictly read-side; round-trip bytes untouched. +6 tests (124 total). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018BjQRYBR6jQja3jCRi5S3A