A rejected submitKey dispatched the same ERROR action as a failed boot
load, so the CWE-703 retry backoff armed on it and the auto refresh
(LOAD_START) cleared the "invalid key" message ~1s after submit —
LicenseCard has no local error state, the context is the only source.
Split the state: load lifecycle (status/error, retried) vs validation
(validating/validationError, never retried). VALIDATE_ERROR leaves
status untouched, so a ready license stays ready on a typo'd key (no
`ready` regression for gating consumers) and a boot-error retry loop
keeps running through a failed validation. Reducer + initial state
exported for tests, covered by LicenseContext.test.ts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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