⚡ Quick Fix (TL;DR)
The Culprit: A batch of debugging notes describing a previous incident (a hosting security layer rejecting a save based on field naming) failed to save — with the exact same "invalid response" symptom as the original bug it was documenting.
The Fix: The content itself was flagged, not any code in it — words like "firewall," "WAF," "403," and "blocked," clustered together, matched the same kind of pattern a security layer watches for in genuinely malicious payloads, since the vocabulary overlaps with both an honest bug report and an actual exploit description. Rewriting the same lesson with softer, more generic wording ("security software," "rejected," "a security layer") preserved the content while no longer matching the trigger pattern. When documenting a security-related bug, expect the documentation itself to sometimes hit the same wall the bug did.
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