diff --git a/.github/scripts/enqueue-guard.test.mjs b/.github/scripts/enqueue-guard.test.mjs
index 05fae621e..6448fe89c 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/enqueue-guard.test.mjs
+++ b/.github/scripts/enqueue-guard.test.mjs
@@ -1117,3 +1117,46 @@ test('#602 (2026-11-01): an inline stop written before the PASS at this tip is n
   const r = run({ comments: [comment(report(), '2026-11-01T17:35:30Z', { id: 9103 })], reviewComments: [early] })
   assert.equal(r.ok, true, r.reasons.join('; '))
 })
+
+// ---- P-479, 2026-11-03: the lift that answers a hold was itself thrown away. `parseReport` treats a line
+// beginning `Verdict:` below the first line as this body's verdict (#643/#640 keep a quoted block from
+// overwriting a conclusion only when the first line already is one), so a lift comment that quotes the PASS
+// it answers parses as a conclusion, and the stop filter at `enqueue-rules.mjs:199` dropped the whole
+// comment. The guard then told the author to answer the hold on the record — the one thing its own reader
+// refused to see. The filter keeps a conclusion-shaped body when that body also asks to lift the hold; the
+// second case is the counterweight: quoting a PASS without a lift phrase still clears nothing.
+
+test('P-479 (2026-11-03): a lift that quotes the PASS it answers still clears the stop', () => {
+  const lift = note({
+    id: 6596858166,
+    login: 'hugo',
+    body: [
+      'The PASS for this head has landed. You may merge this tip now.',
+      '',
+      '`Verdict: PASS at ' + HEAD + '` names exactly this head.',
+      '',
+      'Written-by: FlyBot Lead',
+    ].join('\n'),
+    at: '2026-11-03T06:15:25Z',
+  })
+  const r = run({
+    comments: [comment(report(), '2026-11-03T05:00:00Z', { id: 6596712952 }), note({ id: 6596354014, at: '2026-11-03T05:38:25Z' }), lift],
+  })
+  assert.equal(r.ok, true, r.reasons.join('; '))
+  assert.equal(r.stopRequest, null, 'the lift is the answer to the stop, so no stop stands')
+})
+
+test('P-479 (2026-11-03): a conclusion-shaped comment without a lift phrase does not clear the stop', () => {
+  const quoted = note({
+    id: 6596858167,
+    login: 'hugo',
+    body: ['The PASS for this head has landed.', '', '`Verdict: PASS at ' + HEAD + '` names exactly this head.'].join('\n'),
+    at: '2026-11-03T06:15:25Z',
+  })
+  const r = run({
+    comments: [comment(report(), '2026-11-03T05:00:00Z', { id: 6596712952 }), note({ id: 6596354014, at: '2026-11-03T05:38:25Z' }), quoted],
+  })
+  assert.equal(r.ok, false, 'a quoted conclusion is not an answer to the hold')
+  assert.match(r.reasons.join('; '), /asks not to merge/)
+  assert.match(r.reasons.join('; '), /6596354014/, 'the refusal still names the stop that stands')
+})
diff --git a/.github/scripts/enqueue-rules.mjs b/.github/scripts/enqueue-rules.mjs
index d386dea94..79890a918 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/enqueue-rules.mjs
+++ b/.github/scripts/enqueue-rules.mjs
@@ -182,6 +182,14 @@ const withoutQuotes = (text) => String(text ?? '')
   .replace(/"[^"\n]*"/g, ' ')
   .replace(/“[^”\n]*”/g, ' ')
 
+// A body that parses as a conclusion but asks only to lift a stop — no ask to stop of its own. This is the
+// lift that quotes the PASS it answers (#2246 on 2026-11-03); "record only — do not merge" in a PASS is the
+// marker `recordOnlyAt` reads, so it is not one of these.
+const responseOnly = (body) => {
+  const text = withoutQuotes(body)
+  return LIFT_REQUEST.test(text) && !STOP_REQUEST.test(text) && !HOLD_LINE.test(text)
+}
+
 // The stop request still standing, or null. `since` is the timestamp of the conclusion the decision used, in
 // ms; null reads the whole list (no anchor, or one that cannot be read — a guard that cannot find the PASS it
 // judged must not narrow what it refuses).
@@ -195,8 +203,10 @@ export function stopRequestAt(reports, { author, since } = {}) {
     // whichever box it was typed in, and the callers already pass both (`enqueue-guard.mjs:69-71`,
     // `merge-gate.mjs:219-221`). A body carrying a conclusion is the conclusion, not a request:
     // "record only — do not merge" in a PASS is the marker `recordOnlyAt` already reads, and reading it
-    // here too would make every parked PASS its own stop.
-    .filter(({ r }) => !parseReport(r?.body).verdict)
+    // here too would make every parked PASS its own stop. The one exception is the answer to a stop: a
+    // lift that quotes the PASS it answers parses as a conclusion too (#2246 on 2026-11-03), and dropping
+    // it left the guard telling the author to do the one thing its own reader refused to see.
+    .filter(({ r }) => !parseReport(r?.body).verdict || responseOnly(r?.body))
     .filter(({ t }) => after == null || t > after)
     .sort((a, b) => a.t - b.t || a.i - b.i)
   let stop = null