Why is this P2WSH spend triggering a verification failure when broadcasting?

I’m experiment with building SegWit transactions manually, and I’ve written a non-standard simple script just for testing. No signing or anything, just your usual "add two numbers, check equality" script. However, when attempting to broadcast it, I get an error.

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I already sent the coins to the script, now I’m just trying to spend from it.

Here is my input:

{
  "txid": "174692a9b447d62043b90059c83237b0526bc09551aa39839a1d4fafc29252b7",
  "hash": "27afb30315f82dd64815ef259b7f4075359d42390f549b9a05132d11cf0d5670",
  "version": 2,
  "size": 205,
  "vsize": 154,
  "weight": 616,
  "locktime": 206,
  "vin": [
    {
      "txid": "1e025a8b1af84f4b7f0724b89ed0fc3b0ee6f2e8d1c0b635827edf6f60a0ff9e",
      "vout": 0,
      "scriptSig": {
        "asm": "",
        "hex": ""
      },
      "txinwitness": [
        "2b8aac44cbfe12c56ddfd1ff2a0021c6f9b4e76b0325b44a647365ae9e695044029f6f7eb409baee56803e80e47a643711703795c955a8bdc5a0abc5761902fe"
      ],
      "sequence": 4294967293
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": 1.00000000,
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "0 8b88aeecc8810057147ae75bb5fef0b88e74cdd69877a0b0d9119cbc0a13bd18",
        "desc": "addr(bcrt1q3wy2amxgsyq9w9r6uadmtlhshz88fnwknpm6pvxezxwtczsnh5vq8ynwca)#88xz032h",
        "hex": "00208b88aeecc8810057147ae75bb5fef0b88e74cdd69877a0b0d9119cbc0a13bd18",
        "address": "bcrt1q3wy2amxgsyq9w9r6uadmtlhshz88fnwknpm6pvxezxwtczsnh5vq8ynwca",
        "type": "witness_v0_scripthash"
      }
    },
    {
      "value": 46.99952700,
      "n": 1,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "1 ab0af65a053979dfd08b9673405900f185b6d45edea4dddd5dec9b7ec2eba5fc",
        "desc": "rawtr(ab0af65a053979dfd08b9673405900f185b6d45edea4dddd5dec9b7ec2eba5fc)#utsgce08",
        "hex": "5120ab0af65a053979dfd08b9673405900f185b6d45edea4dddd5dec9b7ec2eba5fc",
        "address": "bcrt1p4v90vks989ual5ytjee5qkgq7xzmd4z7m6jdmh2aajdhasht5h7qx008qn",
        "type": "witness_v1_taproot"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Vout 0 is the output of interest here.

Here is my decoded transaction when I attempt to spend it:

{
  "txid": "0110d9fd63ec46c2b47bc589d2f032d10f288912e4d82c88c8aaa1dfed251909",
  "hash": "08881deca20dc914f14a03d5caf97bd4b7c717ef9047b1a6f70f5deb44eb8545",
  "version": 1,
  "size": 96,
  "vsize": 86,
  "weight": 342,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": [
    {
      "txid": "174692a9b447d62043b90059c83237b0526bc09551aa39839a1d4fafc29252b7",
      "vout": 0,
      "scriptSig": {
        "asm": "",
        "hex": ""
      },
      "txinwitness": [
        "63000000",
        "5193016487"
      ],
      "sequence": 0
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": 0.50000000,
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "0 43620bf89a7acd30cc09914e023cdce377e70828",
        "desc": "addr(bcrt1qgd3qh7y60txnpnqfj98qy0xuudm7wzpgz5c02y)#thrxqf0c",
        "hex": "001443620bf89a7acd30cc09914e023cdce377e70828",
        "address": "bcrt1qgd3qh7y60txnpnqfj98qy0xuudm7wzpgz5c02y",
        "type": "witness_v0_keyhash"
      }
    }
  ]
}

The witness script (5193016487) is 1 OP_ADD 100 OP_EQUAL. The witness stack also has 99 (63000000).

Why do I get this verify error when I attempt to broadcast it?

error code: -26
error message:
non-mandatory-script-verify-flag (unknown error)

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