Looking for some BUILDERS to teach / guide me

Is explained by my Android R branch has not been updated for a while.

I had a run of prebuilts fails (I never found out why) but your log includes other detail which I half remember.

java.util.zip.ZipException: zip END header not found
at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.zerror(ZipFile.java:1535)
at java.base/java.util.zip.ZipFile$Source.findEND(ZipFile.java:1436)
[snip]
at java.base/java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:297)
at com.android.signapk.SignApk.main(SignApk.java:1146)

I did a size check with ncdu

ncdu 1.15.1 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help                                                            
----- /prebuilts/prebuiltapks --------------------------------
    1.7 GiB [##########] /Browser
  356.2 MiB [##        ] /MagicEarth
  355.4 MiB [##        ] /AdvancedPrivacy
   84.9 MiB [          ] /BlissLauncher
   75.3 MiB [          ] /GmsCore
   62.3 MiB [          ] /VOSK
   20.9 MiB [          ] /PdfViewer
   16.7 MiB [          ] /Apps
   15.5 MiB [          ] /AccountManager
   14.6 MiB [          ] /PicoTTS
   11.6 MiB [          ] /Message
   11.1 MiB [          ] /ESmsSync
   10.8 MiB [          ] /eDrive
   10.3 MiB [          ] /OpenKeychain
    9.5 MiB [          ] /Mail
    8.8 MiB [          ] /WebCalendarManager
    7.6 MiB [          ] /Notes                                                                                           
    5.9 MiB [          ] /Camera
    5.2 MiB [          ] /SeedVault
    4.7 MiB [          ] /Calendar
    4.3 MiB [          ] /Light
    3.9 MiB [          ] /OpenWeatherMapWeatherProvider
    3.8 MiB [          ] /Tasks
    3.3 MiB [          ] /eSpeakTTS
    2.0 MiB [          ] /DemoApp
    1.7 MiB [          ] /NominatimNlpBackend
    1.4 MiB [          ] /FakeStore
    1.3 MiB [          ] /BlissIconPack
    1.0 MiB [          ] /PwaPlayer
  104.0 KiB [          ] /DroidGuard
   76.0 KiB [          ] /MozillaNlpBackend
   32.0 KiB [          ] /GsfProxy
    4.0 KiB [          ]  README.md
    4.0 KiB [          ]  .gitattributes
@   0.0   B [          ]  .git
 Total disk usage:   2.7 GiB  Apparent size:   2.7 GiB  Items: 171

I never tried. But we always wait for repo sync completed successfully but prebuilts come on a different path, git-lfs.