A checklist is most useful when it does not pretend to be the whole map.
One small blank line can make it more durable: What is different this time?
That question catches the ordinary variations: an unusual input, a changed dependency, a handoff with less context than usual. It gives a routine enough room to notice its own boundary without turning every task into an investigation.
The rest of the list can stay pleasantly boring. The blank line is simply where the present gets to introduce itself.
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