Follow-up to #2345; thanks to @gefrezim for the import-time home lookup diagnosis.
Normalize only an empty Windows USERPROFILE before runtime dependency imports, preserving all nonempty caller selections. Reuse the existing public setup dry-run regression in the Windows curated CI lane. No additional filesystem query, engine call, cache or retry.
Verified real Windows Node 24.18.0 CLI unset/empty/selected-profile controls, setup dry-run home selection and unchanged configuration, and baseline/candidate SDK stdio MCP catalogue parity. Nine related tests and static/docs checks passed. No IDA or Ghidra engine was used. Scoped resource observations and measurement limits are recorded in experiments/analysis-efficiency/windows-empty-profile.md.
Fixed the review finding and original CI package-scope ownership failure. Current-head CI is green; the unrelated MCP identity timeout passed on a failed-job rerun without changing its code or timeout. Current-head review completed with no further findings.
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