External dependencies (external:<project>:<capability>) reference issues in other projects and are expected to not exist in the local issues table. The orphan check now excludes these with: AND d.depends_on_id NOT LIKE 'external:%' 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>