Keep report safety guidance independent of unreleased docs

Remove the redundant main-branch troubleshooting links from both report forms while retaining live-collection precautions and local attachment privacy review. Regression controls reject branch-tip guidance without weakening the repository drift guard.

Contract-Neutral: Report form guidance and its safety regressions only; diagnostic runtime, public API, and installation contracts are unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ body:
 
         If repeating the action could cause data loss, an outage, duplicate changes, or excessive notifications, do not repeat it just to fill in this form. Describe the original sequence and what you observed instead.
 
-        For connection or data failures, only collect diagnostics if Pulse is running and collection is safe. **Run Diagnostics** can make live API and guest-agent requests; do not run it during backups, freeze/thaw or an unresponsive-host incident just to file a report. Prefer existing observations; if a result is already displayed, its GitHub export downloads that result without running checks again. See [safe diagnostics collection](https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/blob/main/docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md#collect-diagnostics-safely).
+        For connection or data failures, only collect diagnostics if Pulse is running and collection is safe. **Run Diagnostics** can make live API and guest-agent requests; do not run it during backups, freeze/thaw or an unresponsive-host incident just to file a report. Prefer existing observations; if a result is already displayed, its GitHub export downloads that result without running checks again.
 
         Anything you attach here is public. Review files and screenshots locally before posting, even when an export is labelled "sanitized". Remove credentials, session cookies, secret URLs, private host/network and personal details, including text echoed in errors. Do not attach full/private diagnostics, .env or configuration files, private keys, Copy as cURL commands or full network exports.
 

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/v6_rc_feedback.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ body:
         For general impressions or smaller notes, use the pinned v6 pre-release feedback hub.
         Give the version on the affected running instance, or the version or release asset attempted if installation never completed. For a running container (Docker, Compose, or Kubernetes), include the Pulse image tag or digest; non-container installs do not need an image reference. Do not repeat an action just to fill in this form if it could cause data loss, an outage, duplicate changes, or excessive notifications; describe the original sequence instead.
 
-        For connection or data failures, only collect diagnostics if Pulse is running and collection is safe. **Run Diagnostics** can make live API and guest-agent requests; do not run it during backups, freeze/thaw or an unresponsive-host incident just to file a report. Prefer existing observations; if a result is already displayed, its GitHub export downloads that result without running checks again. See [safe diagnostics collection](https://github.com/rcourtman/Pulse/blob/main/docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md#collect-diagnostics-safely).
+        For connection or data failures, only collect diagnostics if Pulse is running and collection is safe. **Run Diagnostics** can make live API and guest-agent requests; do not run it during backups, freeze/thaw or an unresponsive-host incident just to file a report. Prefer existing observations; if a result is already displayed, its GitHub export downloads that result without running checks again.
 
         Anything you attach here is public. Review files and screenshots locally before posting, even when an export is labelled "sanitized". Remove credentials, session cookies, secret URLs, private host/network and personal details, including text echoed in errors. Do not attach full/private diagnostics, .env or configuration files, private keys, Copy as cURL commands or full network exports.
 

.github/scripts/issue-version-triage.test.cjs

@@ -307,11 +307,22 @@ for (const name of ["bug_report.yml", "v6_rc_feedback.yml"]) {
     assert.match(introduction, /do not run it during backups, freeze\/thaw or an unresponsive-host incident/);
     assert.match(introduction, /Prefer existing observations/);
     assert.match(introduction, /downloads that result without running checks again/);
-    assert.match(introduction, /docs\/TROUBLESHOOTING\.md#collect-diagnostics-safely/);
     assert.doesNotMatch(introduction, /Export for GitHub \(sanitized\)/);
   });
 }
 
+for (const name of ["bug_report.yml", "v6_rc_feedback.yml"]) {
+  test(`report intake excludes unreleased branch-tip guidance: ${name}`, () => {
+    const form = fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, "../ISSUE_TEMPLATE", name), "utf8");
+    // Safety instructions must remain self-contained for installed versions.
+    // A main/master link can describe runtime behaviour they do not ship.
+    assert.doesNotMatch(form, /https:\/\/github\.com\/[^/\s)]+\/[^/\s)]+\/(?:blob|tree)\/(?:main|master)\//);
+    assert.match(form, /only collect diagnostics if Pulse is running and collection is safe/);
+    assert.match(form, /downloads that result without running checks again/);
+    assert.match(form, /Review files and screenshots locally before posting/);
+  });
+}
+
 for (const [name, field] of [
   ["bug_report.yml", "logs"],
   ["v6_rc_feedback.yml", "evidence"],