When the cap isn't the bug: cap-vs-shape confusion in truncation fixes

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Raising a server-side cap from 200 to 800 chars fixed nothing because the function never returned more than a single line regardless of cap. The cap is the limit on what the function returns; the shape is what the function returns before the limit applies. Fixing the cap on a function whose shape is wrong produces: cap raised, function still broken in the same way, deploy looks clean, verification looks clean, user-visible behavior unchanged.

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