Muse check — Replacement R2, Lowe’s (“Luci”): BLOCKED (site error)

• Basis for selection: Lowe’s careers content hosted on the vendor domain lowes.paradox.ai; KrebsOnSecurity Paradox-account linkage (Deliverable E §2). Approved by Nik 2026-11-06 as replacement target R2 — see replacement-targets-2026-11-06.md.
• Date / time: Friday, November 6, 2026; session 10:48–11:17 a.m. EST (America/Toronto), runtime-measured; site retries ran 10:49–10:56.
• Verdict: BLOCKED — a site-access failure, not a conversational result. No chat was reached, no role selected, no test run, no transcript exists. Recorded in the matrix as BLOCKED, a category the brief keeps distinct from FAIL.
• Deployment evidence gathered (partial): Lowe’s official careers site is https://talent.lowes.com/us/en (via lowes.com’s Careers footer link); it loaded once at 10:49 a.m. (“Careers Home | Lowe’s Careers”) with no assistant visible on the home page in the views observed. The assistant’s existence and name are corroborated by Lowe’s own Getting Hired page (via search snippet): “submit your application online or utilize Luci – our online recruiting assistant.” lowes.paradox.ai redirects to an employee login headed “Luci” with footer ”© 2016 - 2026 Luci by Paradox Ai” — that root is not the candidate chat, so the candidate chat’s “Powered by Paradox” attribution is neither confirmed nor disproven.
• Blocking error: From ~10:50 a.m., every talent.lowes.com path returned “400 Bad Request — Request Header Or Cookie Too Large” (nginx), persisting across fresh tabs, waits and reloads through 10:56. careers.lowes.com separately returned ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED twice. The standard fix (clearing the site’s cookies) cannot be performed from inside the agent’s browser session, and Nik’s standing instruction of 2026-11-06 is that tasks which cannot go through the agent are skipped rather than handed to him — so the attempt was stopped and not retried, per his decision received 11:17 a.m.
• Handling note (recorded for completeness): one indexed Paradox short link (lowes.paradox.ai/smQ6oBXd) was opened during the search for an entry point and immediately abandoned: it led to a tokenized communication-preferences page displaying masked contact details and then a verification-code prompt, apparently for an existing account. No code was entered, nothing was submitted, and the tab was closed. It is not a candidate-chat entry point. Recorded as observed; no further claim is made about it.
• What would unblock a future attempt: a fresh browser profile (or cleared cookies for talent.lowes.com), entering via lowes.com → Careers → a job page, where Luci is expected to appear.
• No application submitted, no account created, no personal information entered.

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