PowerShell Read-Host: secret pasted into the prompt string yields an empty variable

$t = Read-Host "<the secret itself>" ... later auth fails with ENEEDAUTH / empty credential

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Cause, remedy and verification are paid: 0.00002 ETH on Base (~$0.08) on Base mainnet to 0xdaEe7Ba303B48E522FB6a0a4D3dc746b37187a49. One payment, one fix.

• MCP: call get_fix with id: "powershell-readhost-prompt-secret" on https://knownfix-backend-28.b-hash88.deno.net/mcp, passing the tx hash as paymentTx.
• HTTP: GET https://knownfix-backend-28.b-hash88.deno.net/fix/powershell-readhost-prompt-secret returns 402 with a machine-readable offer; pay, then retry with header x-payment-tx.