fix(ci): remove orphaned conflict marker in AUDIT.md that fails the guards job on main

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Summary

Root-cause fix for why the merge queue is jammed. main's ci.yml guards job greps the whole tree for committed <<<<<<< / >>>>>>> merge-conflict markers (excluding only ci.yml itself). .github/workflows/AUDIT.md:24 carried a single orphaned <<<<<<< HEAD line — no matching =======/>>>>>>>, just leftover text inside a documentation table.

That one line makes the guards job fail on main itself, and every open PR inherits the red check. With branch protection requiring green checks, this blocks the entire backlog of open PRs from merging.

Why prior fixes missed it

The several "resolve committed conflict markers" PRs (#734/#737/#787/#788/#789/#790) scanned code files. This marker lives in a workflow documentation file (.github/workflows/AUDIT.md), so it survived every prior pass. It is the sole remaining offender:

$ git grep -nE '^(<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>) ' -- . ':(exclude).github/workflows/ci.yml'
.github/workflows/AUDIT.md:24:<<<<<<< HEAD   # ← the only match on main

Change

• Delete the orphaned <<<<<<< HEAD line (1 line, 1 file). The table rows above and below are already continuous, so removal restores a clean, valid table.

Verification

• Reproduced the exact guards-job command on this branch — returns clean (no markers), so the job goes green:

  git grep -nE '^(<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>) ' -- . ':(exclude).github/workflows/ci.yml'  →  (no output)
  

• Diff is 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) — documentation only, no code or workflow-logic change.

Not auto-merged

Draft, targeting protected main. Merging needs human sign-off. Once merged, main's guards job turns green and the inherited red check clears from the rest of the open PRs.

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CI status — safe to merge. The one check that matters for this PR is green:

• ✅ guards — passing. This PR's entire purpose (removing the orphaned <<<<<<< HEAD from AUDIT.md:24) is confirmed: the repo-wide conflict-marker scan is now clean.
• ❌ test — failing on 2 pre-existing, unrelated tests, not caused by this PR:
  • tests/unit/test_looker_security.py::test_looker_embedded_service_no_secret — DID NOT RAISE RuntimeError
  • tests/unit/test_looker_security.py::test_looker_embedded_service_with_secret — LookerEmbeddedService() resolves to a MagicMock (mock/test-pollution issue)
  • 7162 passed, 2 failed. This diff is a single-line Markdown deletion — it cannot affect Python test mocking, so this red is inherited from main, not introduced here.

The Looker test failure is a separate, out-of-scope issue (mock leakage in test_looker_security.py) and should be fixed in its own PR rather than bundled into this minimal root-cause fix. If test is a required status check, this PR needs an admin merge; the guards fix itself is complete and verified.

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Pull request overview

Removes the orphaned conflict marker that caused the CI guards job to fail.

Changes:

• Deletes the stray <<<<<<< HEAD line without altering documentation content.