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The office network had rules. Strict ones. No apt-get. No brew. No npm. No downloading binaries from the internet. If it wasn't on PyPI, it didn't exist. The IT policy was clear, the firewall was clearer, and the list of exceptions was empty. I had one job: automate the documentation pipeline. Diagrams, architecture charts, flow diagrams — all written in Mermaid, all living as .mmd files in the repo, all needing to be rendered to SVG on every build. Simple enough, in theory. The first thin