diff --git a/.story_kit/work/2_current/253_bug_watcher_and_auto_assign_do_not_reinitialize_when_project_root_changes.md b/.story_kit/work/2_current/253_bug_watcher_and_auto_assign_do_not_reinitialize_when_project_root_changes.md
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 name: "Watcher and auto-assign do not reinitialize when project root changes"
-merge_failure: "Squash-merge resulted in an empty diff — the feature branch has no code changes to merge into master. The feature branch appears to be fully up-to-date with master with no additional commits. The coder agent may not have committed their work, or the changes may have already been merged separately."
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 # Bug 253: Watcher and auto-assign do not reinitialize when project root changes