- Avoid rereading state files after removing a stale scenario directory.\n- Extend cleanup fixture coverage to multiple stale machine states.
- Retry transient k3s release downloads with bounded backoff.\n- Bound failure diagnostics and validate guest release connectivity.\n- Discover repository-owned Molecule state under the actual project root.
- Scope VirtualBox cleanup to repository-owned Molecule resources\n- Route lint to hosted runners and harden self-hosted workflow execution\n- Add diagnostics, fixture coverage, and reproducible lint validation