diff --git a/.beads/sync-state.json b/.beads/sync-state.json
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-{
-  "last_failure": "2025-12-28T09:31:08.179079-08:00",
-  "failure_count": 1,
-  "backoff_until": "2025-12-28T09:31:38.179079-08:00",
-  "needs_manual_sync": false,
-  "failure_reason": "git pull failed in worktree: exit status 128\nFrom github.com:steveyegge/beads\n * branch              beads-sync -\u003e FETCH_HEAD\nfatal: Cannot rebase onto multiple branches.\n"
-}
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