diff --git a/.story_kit/work/4_merge/261_story_bot_notifications_when_stories_move_between_stages.md b/.story_kit/work/4_merge/261_story_bot_notifications_when_stories_move_between_stages.md
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--- a/.story_kit/work/4_merge/261_story_bot_notifications_when_stories_move_between_stages.md
+++ b/.story_kit/work/4_merge/261_story_bot_notifications_when_stories_move_between_stages.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
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 name: "Bot notifications when stories move between stages"
+merge_failure: "Squash-merge resulted in an empty diff — the feature branch has no code changes beyond master. The coder agent may not have committed any implementation work to the feature branch."
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 # Story 261: Bot notifications when stories move between stages