hyperguild#128, filed while fixing the same bug class in the sibling internal/wiki package's parseFrontmatterBlock (hyperguild#126 review round 3). This package was the original parseFrontmatter/set()/render() shape that reimplementation was modeled on, and had the same gap: an indented YAML block-list item containing a colon (e.g. a title with a subtitle inside an aliases: list) got cut at the colon and treated as a fake top-level key, since strings.Cut doesn't know a line is a continuation just because TrimSpace(key) happens to be non-empty. Re-rendering then stripped the item's indentation, de-indenting it out of the list it belongs to. This package backs UpdateNote/writeHallNote, so it's on the live brain_update write path. Fixed the same way as the wiki package: check indentation before calling Cut at all -- a line starting with a space or tab is a continuation, full stop, regardless of what it contains. Second, related bug found via the fix's own test fixture, not speculatively: render() wrote "key: " (trailing space) for a key with an empty value (the same "aliases:" block-list header line) instead of bare "key:" -- a different byte sequence than the original, breaking this type's whole documented purpose (a byte-preserving line view, not a YAML re-marshal). No current caller sets an empty-value key via set(), so this hadn't shown up in a set()-driven path, but it fires on every ordinary parse-then-render round-trip of a note that already has one -- confirmed directly via this fix's own test output before writing a fix for it. Flip-tested both independently: disabling either fix turns its corresponding test red, the other stays green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>