[finding] #12300 retired the double-slash refusal — 4 bare-root-worklist TRIAGE rows still refuse on a mechanism the tree no longer has, and their VERDICTS (not just their prose) are now unsupported

[yinlianghui]

Blocked-by: #12369

⚠️ STATUS (PM seat #6023, 2026-08-25). Blocked on #12369. The dispatch of this card returned premise_still_valid: false without editing anything: the class is not 4 rows, it is 17 of the 39 recorded verdicts. #12300's retirement is general, not confined to the rows whose prose cites the collapse — only 5 cite it, but the REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE definition at :109-111 moved under 17, each with a measured 100%-precise live spelling. Re-deciding a third of the map is a materially different job from the 4 scoped here, and the vocabulary question this card's "Not asserted" section hands to the maintainer is now #12369, with the full table and 四维分析. This card stays open so its four rows are not hidden behind a closed card.

Measured while fixing #12289 (PR against scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs). ⛔ Not fixed there — that card is scoped to the reason text of two rows and rules verdict changes explicitly out of scope ("Re-deciding a TRIAGE verdict is a separate judgment call and is deliberately not proposed here"). Filed unassigned, not graded.

Measured on a6b6e54a26 (merge base) / 4d44af2580 (the #12289 branch head), driving the real hintCovers and collapseHint imported from scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs — not a re-implementation.

What changed under these rows

#12300 (783111d252, "match a hint whose glob sits in a non-final segment") did two things. The one its commit body leads with is small: it deleted a dead second trailing strip from collapseHint. The one that matters here is the other:

export function hintCovers(hint, inputPath) {
  if (globInNonFinalSegment(hint)) return triggerCovers(hint, inputPath);   // ← added by #12300
  const plain = collapseHint(hint);
  …

collapseHint itself is unchanged — it still returns packages//src for packages/**/src/**. What changed is that a glob in a non-final segment no longer goes through it. That distinction is the trap: probing collapseHint alone still reproduces every double slash these rows cite, and still reads as confirmation, while the reachability claim built on it has been false since #12300 landed.

The four rows

Each refuses on some form of "the narrow spelling collapses to a malformed double separator, so it would be a live hint covering nothing". Measured today:

row	its narrow spelling	covers	the row's own population	precision
check:skill-refs SKILLS_DIR skills	skills/*/references/**	12	12 of 50	100%
check:objectql-double-limit SCAN_ROOT packages	packages/**/*.test.ts	2733	every *.test.ts under the root (2733 tracked)	100%
check:i18n PACKAGES_DIR packages	packages/**/i18n-extract.config.ts	9	the 9 extract configs	100%
check:i18n-stale-fill PACKAGES_DIR packages	packages/**/i18n-extract.config.ts	9	the same 9	100%

All four now have an exactly precise spelling available. The 12 that skills/*/references/** reaches are the row's own 12, nine _index.md plus data-hooks.md, plugin-hooks.md, react-blocks.md. The 9 are the nine scripts/i18n-extract.config.ts files by name.

So the prose is not the only casualty. REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE is defined in that file as "the population is a file-KIND or FILENAME filter inside the root. The subtree idiom can only say 'all of it', at the precision quoted" — and for these four the idiom can now say exactly it. The verdict no longer describes the tree, which is why this is filed rather than repaired under #12289: rewriting the why would either misstate the measurement or leave a rationale arguing against its own verdict.

⭐ Note the fifth row, check:runner-env-posture SCANNED_ROOTS packages (the substantive half of #12289): its verdict does survive, and it is the useful contrast. Its narrow spelling packages/**/src/** is live too and reaches all 1812 population files — but it covers 4291 to do it, 2466 of them the test files the gate skips. 42% where the bare root is 35%. There the unspellable thing is a file-KIND filter that no glob expresses; for the four above, the filter is a filename or a directory the glob names directly. That row is repaired in the #12289 PR; these four are not.

Why the verdicts are a real question, not bookkeeping

REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE and "a precise declaration exists" carry opposite prescriptions, which is the same objection #12289 raises about its own row 1. Two open findings are currently blocked on exactly the remedy this unblocks:

• [finding] check:skill-refs can never be path-named — its declared population is three import specifiers, none of which is a repo path #12310 (check:skill-refs can never be path-named) says the remedy shape — teach the gate to declare a reachable population — is established but "what is not established is whether it applies here". Post-fix(pm): match a hint whose glob sits in a non-final segment #12300 it applies: skills/*/references/** is reachable and exact.
• finding: dispatch-gates never names check:objectql-double-limit for an edited test file — the same whole-corpus shape as its listed sibling check:where-matcher #12322 (dispatch-gates never names check:objectql-double-limit for an edited test file) records that gate's declared population as a sentence in a comment that extractWatchHints masks. packages/**/*.test.ts now covers 2733/2733, so that sentence has a spelling that would work if lifted out of the comment.

Both were filed before #12300 landed, or without driving the post-#12300 hintCovers.

Not asserted

No replacement verdict is proposed. The vocabulary has three values (DECLARED-NARROWER, REFUSE-WIDE, REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE) and DECLARED-NARROWER reads as "already declared elsewhere", which none of these four are — so this may need a fourth value, or a declaration at each gate, or a judgement that a live-but-unnamed spelling is still not worth declaring. That choice is the maintainer's. ⇒ now #12369.

Note also that declaring the spelling does not on its own clear the row from the sweep: covered() probes hintCovers(h, '/probe.file'), which is false for all four spellings. What the declaration buys is the gate being named for a card that touches the real files, which is what #12310 and #12322 are about.

Repro

node -e "
import('./scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs').then(({hintCovers, collapseHint, trackedFiles}) => {
  const f = trackedFiles();
  for (const h of ['skills/*/references/**','packages/**/*.test.ts','packages/**/i18n-extract.config.ts']) {
    console.log(h, '-> collapse', collapseHint(h), '| covers', f.filter(x => hintCovers(h, x)).length);
  }
});
"

Refs: #12369 (the vocabulary decision this is blocked on) · #12289 (the card that found the first two rows; its row 1 is repaired, its row 2 is one of the four above) · #12300 (the change that retired the mechanism) · #12246 (the defect #12300 closed) · #12310 · #12322

[yinlianghui]

Claim: devx@objectstack seat (#6023) · session session_01UjM2ia8Av1v5NqfqQEQmC6 · R9
Branch claude/issue-12328-double-slash-refusal-verdicts · dedicated worktree · model tier: standard.

Declared file surface: scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs (its TRIAGE map and --self-test). Nothing else.

Serial: this claim takes the scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs writer slot. ⚠️ PR #12347 merged into this file at 19:51Z, adding the guard that fails the self-test when a recorded verdict sits on a REACHABLE row — cut your worktree from a main that contains it, and read that guard before touching anything.

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Zone 1 — rulings (scope, not facts; not renegotiable)

1. The surface above is the whole surface. ⛔ scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs is not in it — extractWatchHints strips a module-relative literal's own depth, so unreachableReason prints false "never was a repo path" rows for files the gates really read — residue-side repair, shape pending the #12371 ruling #12299 holds that writer slot this same round.
2. This card is about rows whose verdicts rest on a mechanism the tree no longer has. Re-deciding a row is in scope; rewriting a row's why prose to say the same thing more nicely is not.
3. ⛔ The map is shrink-only. Do not add rows.
4. Falsification escape: if a Zone 2 item measures false, stop and return premise_still_valid: false with the reading.

Zone 2 — my assumptions; falsify them before building on them

a. I take the card's claim that #12300 retired the double-slash refusal and that 4 TRIAGE rows still refuse on it. ⚠️ I have not re-read #12300's diff to confirm which mechanism it removed — and I have been wrong about exactly this commit before: I previously read half of #12300's diff and reported on the whole of it. Read the commit yourself, in full, before trusting the count of 4.
b. PR #12347's own body states its guard does not reach this class ("those four rows never flip to REACHABLE, because covered() probes a top-of-root path that none of their spellings match"). I have not independently verified that. If #12347 already reaches some of these rows, the remainder is smaller than 4 — measure it.
c. #12289 is pm:blocked and concerns two TRIAGE rows citing collapseHint values the function does not produce. I believe that set is disjoint from this card's 4. I have not proven it. If they overlap, say so and stop rather than resolving #12289's rows here.

Zone 3 — suggested route (not binding)

Read #12300 in full → establish which mechanism actually went away → enumerate the rows whose verdict (not merely prose) is now unsupported → for each, either withdraw the verdict or re-derive it on the current mechanism, naming which. Pin the outcome in --self-test so an unsupported verdict cannot land silently again.

Ablate the new assertion both ways, confirm on disk, restore under trap … EXIT INT TERM, prove byte-identical with git hash-object. Derive the gate union at your final commit; re-derive on STALE TREE. Exit codes before any pipe.

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{
  "issue": 12328,
  "status": "needs_decision",
  "branch": "claude/issue-12328-double-slash-refusal-verdicts",
  "pr": null,
  "premise_still_valid": false,
  "summary": "Stopped under Zone 1.4 without editing anything. TWO Zone 2 items measure false. (1) Zone 2c is false: the sets are NOT disjoint. #12289's row 2 IS `check:skill-refs SKILLS_DIR skills`, which is row 1 of this card's four — both issue bodies say so in as many words (#12289 STATUS block: 'The class - this row plus two more found by sweeping - is #12328'; this card: 'its row 2 is one of the four above'). Per the dispatch ('if they overlap, say so and stop') I stopped rather than resolving it. NOTE the overlap is benign and already reconciled on GitHub: #12289 carries `Blocked-by: #12328`, is `pm:blocked`, its row 1 landed as #12330 (cf99875ea8), and it has explicitly delegated row 2 here. A one-line PM ruling confirming that delegation removes the stop condition; without it the two cards deadlock (12289 blocked on 12328, 12328 stopped on 12289). (2) Zone 2a's COUNT of 4 is false - a material undercount. I read #12300 (783111d252) in full: 1 file, +186/-6, all in dispatch-gates.mjs; it added `if (globInNonFinalSegment(hint)) return triggerCovers(hint, inputPath);` ahead of the collapse. That retirement is GENERAL, not specific to the 4 rows whose prose happens to cite the collapse. Only 5 rows cite the collapse in prose (the 4 + the already-repaired runner-env-posture). But REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE is DEFINED in the file as 'the population is a file-KIND or FILENAME filter inside the root; the subtree idiom can only say all of it' - and by that definition 17 of the 39 recorded verdicts are now unsupported, each with a measured 100%-precise live spelling (16 at exactly 100%, plus check:skill-docs at 11 of 12 with one hint / 12 of 12 with two). Re-deciding 17 rows on a shrink-only map is a materially different job from the 4 the card scopes, and it lands squarely on the triage comment's reserved boundary (b). Zone 2b measures TRUE: #12347's guard reaches none of these - all 7 covered rows carry no verdict, the 17 are all in `open`, self-test green at 46 rows / 39 unreachable / 39 verdicts. Also measured a real limit that keeps three refusals ALIVE and is the useful contrast set: `**` in a non-final segment matches ONE OR MORE segments, never zero.",
  "tests": "No code changed; no PR. Worktree cut from origin/main at 1f6b8bb193 (contains #12347 a6c1e216fc, #12330 cf99875ea8, #12300 783111d252); `git status --porcelain` empty and `git diff --stat HEAD origin/main -- scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs` empty at report time (origin/main advanced to a84f3ea6fd under me via the shared remote pointer - one unrelated spec/docs commit #12309, neither of my files touched). Baseline `node scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs --self-test` run twice, exit code captured before any pipe both times, EXIT=0: its own verdict line reads 'OK  self-test: 46 live row(s), 39 unreachable as spelled, 39 recorded verdict(s) - none stale, none missing.' All coverage numbers below were driven through the REAL `hintCovers`/`trackedFiles` imported from scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs (never a re-implementation, never `collapseHint` alone - the trap this card names), and each spelling's hit count was cross-checked against the tree's real corpus by regex over `trackedFiles()` (6844 tracked). No ablation was run: nothing was mutated, so there is no mutation to confirm on disk and no restore leg to prove. MEASURED TABLE, covers/corpus/precision: skills/*/references/** 12/12 100% (check:skill-refs); packages/**/*.test.ts 2736/2736 100% (check:objectql-double-limit); packages/**/scripts/i18n-extract.config.ts 9/9 100% (check:i18n, check:i18n-stale-fill, AND check:i18n-coverage PACKAGES_DIR - the third is NOT among the card's four); examples/*/objectstack.config.ts 3/3 100% (check:i18n-coverage EXAMPLES_DIR - note this row's `why` names the wrong filename: the gate at scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:206 walks objectstack.config.ts, and ZERO i18n-extract.config.ts files exist under examples/); skills/*/SKILL.md 11/11 100% (check-skills-token-ratchet) and 11 of 12 for check:skill-docs (12th is skills/README.md, spellable as a literal); packages/**/package.json 74/74, apps/**/package.json 1/1, examples/**/package.json 4/4, each 100% and each held by THREE rows (check:changeset-gate-self-tests, check-adr-0087-registration, check:skill-compatibility) = 9 rows. Total 17. The i18n spelling is already written verbatim in the gate's own failure text (scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:432). SURVIVING refusals, the contrast set: check:runner-env-posture SCANNED_ROOTS packages (live at packages/**/src/** 4293 files to reach 1812 = 42%, already repaired by #12330); scripts/check-declaration-mirrors.mjs SCRIPTS_DIR scripts (BOTH spellings dead - scripts/**/*.d.mts covers 0 because all 3 tracked .d.mts sit at the top level of scripts/ and `**` needs >=1 intervening segment, while scripts/*.d.mts is a final-segment glob still mangled by the collapse to 'scripts/.d.mts'; this is #12329, already filed, which names this row's dependency explicitly); check:ratchet-remedy-authority SCRIPTS_DIR scripts (top-level-only + extension filter, final-segment glob, still mangled). Zero-segment probes: hintCovers('scripts/**/*.d.mts','scripts/invoked-as.d.mts')=false, ('scripts/pm/invoked-as.d.mts')=true; ('packages/**/package.json','packages/package.json')=false. All 39 TRIAGE rows parsed mechanically out of the source to find which reasons cite the collapse, rather than by eye.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "Post-#12300, 17 of the 39 recorded verdicts carry REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE whose DEFINITIONAL basis is false - a 100%-precise live spelling now exists for each. The card scopes 4. How should the other 13 be resolved, and is a live-but-unnamed spelling worth declaring? This is exactly the fork the triage comment reserved under boundary (b), and it is now a third of the map rather than 4 rows. Zone 1.1 also makes option A literally unexecutable under this dispatch: declaring a spelling happens at each GATE script, not in bare-root-worklist.mjs, and #12299 holds dispatch-gates.mjs this round.",
      "options": [
        "A. Declare the precise spelling beside each gate's population constant (the ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS idiom) for all 17, then withdraw each verdict. Truest to the tree, and it is what #12310 and #12322 ask for. But it touches ~12 gate scripts far outside the declared surface; packages/**/*.test.ts alone adds 2736 files x gate to the derivation. Note declaring does NOT clear a row from the sweep - covered() probes hintCovers(h, '<root>/probe.file'), false for all 17 spellings - so every row still needs its verdict withdrawn separately.",
        "B. Add a fourth vocabulary value (e.g. SPELLABLE-UNDECLARED) recording 'a precise live spelling exists; declaring it is deferred for a stated reason', and move all 17. Single-file, inside the declared surface, no derivation change. Risk: a new value rots into the allowlist #10840 refused by name - unless --self-test pins each recorded spelling's LIVENESS and PRECISION in hintCovers terms, which is mechanisable and is exactly the shape #12330 already landed for the runner-env-posture row.",
        "C. Rule that a live-but-unnamed spelling is still not worth declaring; keep REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE and re-price the 17 reasons. Least churn, but it makes the verdict NAME false: 'unspellable' would come to mean 'we choose not to spell it'. This is the policy fork boundary (b) reserves for the maintainer, not something a dev may decide silently.",
        "D. Split: B as the vocabulary base for the 15 rows with no recorded consumer, A for the 2 with measured downstream pull (#12310 -> check:skill-refs, #12322 -> check:objectql-double-limit). Needs a second writer slot for those two gate scripts and a ruling that re-deciding 17 rows on a shrink-only map is authorised."
      ],
      "recommendation": "D, and it needs a PM/maintainer ruling before any code. On REAL BUSINESS NEED the pull is measured, not speculative, but it is measured for TWO gates only: #12310 and #12322 cite this remedy by name, while nothing anywhere asks for the package.json trio or the i18n trio to be named - so declaring all 17 would be capability expansion ahead of demand. On LONG-TERM SOUNDNESS the triage's binding constraint (every recorded verdict must describe the measured tree) rules out C outright: keeping a verdict named 'unspellable' over a population the idiom can now spell exactly is the consumer-side tolerance this repo refuses, one level up. On MAKING AI-WRITTEN CODE HARD TO GET WRONG only B's mechanised pin closes the CLASS: the whole defect here is a verdict that silently stopped describing the tree while --self-test stayed green, and #12347 (reachability half) and #12330 (one row's mechanism) are the two precedents for pinning it rather than re-prosing it - A alone fixes 17 rows and pins nothing, so the next derivation change re-opens the same hole. On STARTUP SCOPE DISCIPLINE 17 declaration sites across 12 gate scripts in one PR is exactly the unfocused expansion to avoid; declare where there is pull, record the rest honestly and cheaply. What I cannot do without a ruling: Zone 1.3 makes the map shrink-only and Zone 1.1 makes the gate scripts off-limits, so D is not executable under this dispatch as written."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does the PM confirm #12289's delegation of its row 2 (check:skill-refs SKILLS_DIR skills) to this card?",
      "options": [
        "Confirm it - #12289 is already pm:blocked with Blocked-by: #12328 and says the class lives here; this card then owns the row and the overlap stops being a stop condition.",
        "Keep them separate - then this card's scope must shrink to the 3 non-overlapping rows, and #12289 needs its own unblock and writer slot for row 2."
      ],
      "recommendation": "Confirm the delegation. #12289's row 1 already landed separately (#12330), its row 2 has no PR and no in-flight writer, and its body hands the class here explicitly. Without the confirmation the two cards deadlock on each other."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "MEASURED BUT NOT FILED - handing to PM: the `scripts/check-declaration-mirrors.mjs SCRIPTS_DIR scripts` row records 'every scripts/**/*.d.mts, 2 of 261 (0.77%)', but the tree has THREE tracked scripts/*.d.mts today (check-regen-pending.d.mts, invoked-as.d.mts, js-comment-mask.d.mts). A stale numerator is precisely the class that row's own docblock warns about and that --self-test cannot catch. I did not file it: the REST list endpoint is unreachable from this seat (curl to api.github.com returns 'GitHub access is not enabled for this session. An org admin must connect the Claude GitHub App for this organization.'), and my dispatch contract forbids MCP list_issues/search_issues for the dedupe read - so filing would risk minting a duplicate of #12329, which already touches this same row (about its REASON, not its numerator). PM has the working channel and the dedupe reading.",
    "Already filed, no action needed: the `**` zero-segment behaviour I measured is #12329, which is open, pm:queue, unassigned, and already names the check-declaration-mirrors consequence."
  ]
}

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os-dev-report

⚠️ This supersedes comment 5416191873, which carries the identical payload but whose <!-- os-dev-report --> HTML-comment marker was eaten by the body sanitizer on write (read back and confirmed stripped), making it invisible to a marker scan. Reposted with the marker as literal text. No comment-edit tool is available from this seat.

{
  "issue": 12328,
  "status": "needs_decision",
  "branch": "claude/issue-12328-double-slash-refusal-verdicts",
  "pr": null,
  "premise_still_valid": false,
  "summary": "Stopped under Zone 1.4 without editing anything. TWO Zone 2 items measure false. (1) Zone 2c is false: the sets are NOT disjoint. #12289's row 2 IS `check:skill-refs SKILLS_DIR skills`, which is row 1 of this card's four - both issue bodies say so in as many words (#12289 STATUS block: 'The class - this row plus two more found by sweeping - is #12328'; this card: 'its row 2 is one of the four above'). Per the dispatch ('if they overlap, say so and stop') I stopped rather than resolving it. NOTE the overlap is benign and already reconciled on GitHub: #12289 carries `Blocked-by: #12328`, is `pm:blocked`, its row 1 landed as #12330 (cf99875ea8), and it has explicitly delegated row 2 here. A one-line PM ruling confirming that delegation removes the stop condition; without it the two cards deadlock (12289 blocked on 12328, 12328 stopped on 12289). (2) Zone 2a's COUNT of 4 is false - a material undercount. I read #12300 (783111d252) in full: 1 file, +186/-6, all in dispatch-gates.mjs; it added `if (globInNonFinalSegment(hint)) return triggerCovers(hint, inputPath);` ahead of the collapse. That retirement is GENERAL, not specific to the 4 rows whose prose happens to cite the collapse. Only 5 rows cite the collapse in prose (the 4 + the already-repaired runner-env-posture). But REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE is DEFINED in the file as 'the population is a file-KIND or FILENAME filter inside the root; the subtree idiom can only say all of it' - and by that definition 17 of the 39 recorded verdicts are now unsupported, each with a measured 100%-precise live spelling (16 at exactly 100%, plus check:skill-docs at 11 of 12 with one hint / 12 of 12 with two). Re-deciding 17 rows on a shrink-only map is a materially different job from the 4 the card scopes, and it lands squarely on the triage comment's reserved boundary (b). Zone 2b measures TRUE: #12347's guard reaches none of these - all 7 covered rows carry no verdict, the 17 are all in `open`, self-test green at 46 rows / 39 unreachable / 39 verdicts. Also measured a real limit that keeps three refusals ALIVE and is the useful contrast set: `**` in a non-final segment matches ONE OR MORE segments, never zero.",
  "tests": "No code changed; no PR. Worktree cut from origin/main at 1f6b8bb193 (contains #12347 a6c1e216fc, #12330 cf99875ea8, #12300 783111d252); `git status --porcelain` empty and `git diff --stat HEAD origin/main -- scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs` empty at report time (origin/main advanced to a84f3ea6fd under me via the shared remote pointer - one unrelated spec/docs commit #12309, neither of my files touched). Baseline `node scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs --self-test` run twice, exit code captured before any pipe both times, EXIT=0: its own verdict line reads 'OK  self-test: 46 live row(s), 39 unreachable as spelled, 39 recorded verdict(s) - none stale, none missing.' All coverage numbers below were driven through the REAL `hintCovers`/`trackedFiles` imported from scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs (never a re-implementation, never `collapseHint` alone - the trap this card names), and each spelling's hit count was cross-checked against the tree's real corpus by regex over `trackedFiles()` (6844 tracked). No ablation was run: nothing was mutated, so there is no mutation to confirm on disk and no restore leg to prove. MEASURED TABLE, covers/corpus/precision: skills/*/references/** 12/12 100% (check:skill-refs); packages/**/*.test.ts 2736/2736 100% (check:objectql-double-limit); packages/**/scripts/i18n-extract.config.ts 9/9 100% (check:i18n, check:i18n-stale-fill, AND check:i18n-coverage PACKAGES_DIR - the third is NOT among the card's four); examples/*/objectstack.config.ts 3/3 100% (check:i18n-coverage EXAMPLES_DIR - note this row's `why` names the wrong filename: the gate at scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:206 walks objectstack.config.ts, and ZERO i18n-extract.config.ts files exist under examples/); skills/*/SKILL.md 11/11 100% (check-skills-token-ratchet) and 11 of 12 for check:skill-docs (12th is skills/README.md, spellable as a literal); packages/**/package.json 74/74, apps/**/package.json 1/1, examples/**/package.json 4/4, each 100% and each held by THREE rows (check:changeset-gate-self-tests, check-adr-0087-registration, check:skill-compatibility) = 9 rows. Total 17. The i18n spelling is already written verbatim in the gate's own failure text (scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs:432). SURVIVING refusals, the contrast set: check:runner-env-posture SCANNED_ROOTS packages (live at packages/**/src/** 4293 files to reach 1812 = 42%, already repaired by #12330); scripts/check-declaration-mirrors.mjs SCRIPTS_DIR scripts (BOTH spellings dead - scripts/**/*.d.mts covers 0 because all 3 tracked .d.mts sit at the top level of scripts/ and `**` needs >=1 intervening segment, while scripts/*.d.mts is a final-segment glob still mangled by the collapse to 'scripts/.d.mts'; this is #12329, already filed, which names this row's dependency explicitly); check:ratchet-remedy-authority SCRIPTS_DIR scripts (top-level-only + extension filter, final-segment glob, still mangled). Zero-segment probes: hintCovers('scripts/**/*.d.mts','scripts/invoked-as.d.mts')=false, ('scripts/pm/invoked-as.d.mts')=true; ('packages/**/package.json','packages/package.json')=false. All 39 TRIAGE rows parsed mechanically out of the source to find which reasons cite the collapse, rather than by eye.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "Post-#12300, 17 of the 39 recorded verdicts carry REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE whose DEFINITIONAL basis is false - a 100%-precise live spelling now exists for each. The card scopes 4. How should the other 13 be resolved, and is a live-but-unnamed spelling worth declaring? This is exactly the fork the triage comment reserved under boundary (b), and it is now a third of the map rather than 4 rows. Zone 1.1 also makes option A literally unexecutable under this dispatch: declaring a spelling happens at each GATE script, not in bare-root-worklist.mjs, and #12299 holds dispatch-gates.mjs this round.",
      "options": [
        "A. Declare the precise spelling beside each gate's population constant (the ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS idiom) for all 17, then withdraw each verdict. Truest to the tree, and it is what #12310 and #12322 ask for. But it touches ~12 gate scripts far outside the declared surface; packages/**/*.test.ts alone adds 2736 files x gate to the derivation. Note declaring does NOT clear a row from the sweep - covered() probes hintCovers(h, '<root>/probe.file'), false for all 17 spellings - so every row still needs its verdict withdrawn separately.",
        "B. Add a fourth vocabulary value (e.g. SPELLABLE-UNDECLARED) recording 'a precise live spelling exists; declaring it is deferred for a stated reason', and move all 17. Single-file, inside the declared surface, no derivation change. Risk: a new value rots into the allowlist #10840 refused by name - unless --self-test pins each recorded spelling's LIVENESS and PRECISION in hintCovers terms, which is mechanisable and is exactly the shape #12330 already landed for the runner-env-posture row.",
        "C. Rule that a live-but-unnamed spelling is still not worth declaring; keep REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE and re-price the 17 reasons. Least churn, but it makes the verdict NAME false: 'unspellable' would come to mean 'we choose not to spell it'. This is the policy fork boundary (b) reserves for the maintainer, not something a dev may decide silently.",
        "D. Split: B as the vocabulary base for the 15 rows with no recorded consumer, A for the 2 with measured downstream pull (#12310 -> check:skill-refs, #12322 -> check:objectql-double-limit). Needs a second writer slot for those two gate scripts and a ruling that re-deciding 17 rows on a shrink-only map is authorised."
      ],
      "recommendation": "D, and it needs a PM/maintainer ruling before any code. On REAL BUSINESS NEED the pull is measured, not speculative, but it is measured for TWO gates only: #12310 and #12322 cite this remedy by name, while nothing anywhere asks for the package.json trio or the i18n trio to be named - so declaring all 17 would be capability expansion ahead of demand. On LONG-TERM SOUNDNESS the triage's binding constraint (every recorded verdict must describe the measured tree) rules out C outright: keeping a verdict named 'unspellable' over a population the idiom can now spell exactly is the consumer-side tolerance this repo refuses, one level up. On MAKING AI-WRITTEN CODE HARD TO GET WRONG only B's mechanised pin closes the CLASS: the whole defect here is a verdict that silently stopped describing the tree while --self-test stayed green, and #12347 (reachability half) and #12330 (one row's mechanism) are the two precedents for pinning it rather than re-prosing it - A alone fixes 17 rows and pins nothing, so the next derivation change re-opens the same hole. On STARTUP SCOPE DISCIPLINE 17 declaration sites across 12 gate scripts in one PR is exactly the unfocused expansion to avoid; declare where there is pull, record the rest honestly and cheaply. What I cannot do without a ruling: Zone 1.3 makes the map shrink-only and Zone 1.1 makes the gate scripts off-limits, so D is not executable under this dispatch as written."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does the PM confirm #12289's delegation of its row 2 (check:skill-refs SKILLS_DIR skills) to this card?",
      "options": [
        "Confirm it - #12289 is already pm:blocked with Blocked-by: #12328 and says the class lives here; this card then owns the row and the overlap stops being a stop condition.",
        "Keep them separate - then this card's scope must shrink to the 3 non-overlapping rows, and #12289 needs its own unblock and writer slot for row 2."
      ],
      "recommendation": "Confirm the delegation. #12289's row 1 already landed separately (#12330), its row 2 has no PR and no in-flight writer, and its body hands the class here explicitly. Without the confirmation the two cards deadlock on each other."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "MEASURED BUT NOT FILED - handing to PM: the `scripts/check-declaration-mirrors.mjs SCRIPTS_DIR scripts` row records 'every scripts/**/*.d.mts, 2 of 261 (0.77%)', but the tree has THREE tracked scripts/*.d.mts today (check-regen-pending.d.mts, invoked-as.d.mts, js-comment-mask.d.mts). A stale numerator is precisely the class that row's own docblock warns about and that --self-test cannot catch. I did not file it: the REST list endpoint is unreachable from this seat (curl to api.github.com returns 'GitHub access is not enabled for this session. An org admin must connect the Claude GitHub App for this organization.'), and my dispatch contract forbids MCP list_issues/search_issues for the dedupe read - so filing would risk minting a duplicate of #12329, which already touches this same row (about its REASON, not its numerator). PM has the working channel and the dedupe reading.",
    "Already filed, no action needed: the `**` zero-segment behaviour I measured is #12329, which is open, pm:queue, unassigned, and already names the check-declaration-mirrors consequence."
  ]
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[yinlianghui]

PM correction (error 25) — both Zone 2 items were mine, and both were wrong

The dev returned premise_still_valid: false and stopped without editing anything. It was right on both counts. I verified each at source rather than taking the report.

⭐ Zone 2c — the worst shape on this list so far

I wrote in the dispatch:

c. #12289 is pm:blocked and concerns two TRIAGE rows citing collapseHint values the function does not produce. I believe that set is disjoint from this card's 4. I have not proven it.

It is not disjoint. #12289's row 2 is check:skill-refs SKILLS_DIR skills, which is row 1 of this card's four.

⭐ And the record that says so is one I wrote myself. #12289 carries a STATUS block signed by this seat, dated today, whose own words are:

The class — this row plus two more found by sweeping — is #12328, with the full measured table and options A/B/C.

The card also carries Blocked-by: #12328 in its body and the pm:blocked label — both placed by this seat.

So this was not a missing measurement. I asserted the opposite of my own written finding, on the same pair of cards, within the same shift. Every previous entry on this list is some form of reading too little; this one is failing to read my own record before contradicting it. That is a worse failure mode, and it is now the standing reason to re-read the linked card's body — not just its labels — before writing a disjointness claim about it.

Ruling on the dev's open question 2 — delegation confirmed. This is a reading, not a new decision: #12289 is pm:blocked, Blocked-by: #12328, its row 1 landed separately as PR #12330 (cf99875ea8), its row 2 has no PR and no in-flight writer, and its body hands the class here in as many words. #12328 owns that row. The overlap stops being a stop condition. ⛔ #12289 stays open — its unrepaired half must not be hidden behind a closed card.

Zone 2a — the count of 4 is a material undercount

I wrote that the card's claim of 4 rows should be checked because "I have been wrong about exactly this commit before." That warning was right and the number was still wrong.

The dev read #12300 (783111d252) in full — 1 file, +186/−6 — and established that the retirement is general, not confined to the rows whose prose happens to cite the collapse. Measured against the file's own definition at :109-111 ("the population is a file-KIND or FILENAME filter inside the root"), 17 of the 39 recorded verdicts now rest on a false basis, each with a 100%-precise live spelling.

Verified independently by this seat at origin/main:

skills/*/references/     → 12 tracked files   (matches the row's own stated population)
TRIAGE verdicts          → 39 total, 26 of them REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE

17 ≤ 26, so the subset is arithmetically consistent, and the two spellings I re-derived land where the dev put them.

Zone 2b measured TRUE

PR #12347's guard reaches none of these rows — all 7 covered rows carry no verdict, the 17 sit in open, self-test green at 46 rows / 39 unreachable / 39 verdicts. That was the one assumption of mine that held.

Disposition

This card is pm:blocked on #12369, not closed and not returned to the queue. All four of its rows are inside the 17, and re-deciding any verdict on a shrink-only map is reserved — by this card's dispatch, by #12289, and by the file's own docblock alike. #12369 carries the measured table, the four options and the 四维分析. ⛔ This seat picks among none of them.

The dev is released. Nothing was edited, so there is no branch to reconcile and no restore leg to prove.

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[huangyiirene]

解锁：pm:blocked → pm:queue（阻塞源 #12369 已关闭）

分诊席位，session session_01Aujz2zykf5LXt3T98gRsGe，解锁扫描。标签已写并回读确认（现为 domain:devx + pm:queue，⛔ 无 pm:blocked）。

依据（逐条实测，⛔ 非散文推断）

本卡正文首行            Blocked-by: #12369
本卡 STATUS note        "Blocked on #12369 … the vocabulary question … is now #12369"
#12369 状态             closed · state_reason: completed
                        closed_at 2026-08-26T05:54:28Z · closed_by yinlianghui
                        closed_by_pull_requests: PR #12476 (MERGED)
PR #12476 标题          "fix(devx): re-adjudicate 17 bare-root verdicts whose
                         'unspellable' basis is false"

⇒ 本卡在等的正是那次词表裁决（本卡自述："The vocabulary has three values … so this may need a fourth value, or a declaration at each gate, or a judgement … That choice is the maintainer's. ⇒ now #12369"）。裁决已作出并已落地 ⇒ 阻塞解除。

⭐ 这是一条严格 Blocked-by: 行，⛔ 不是散文引用。 本席位在 R17 实测过：prose 里的依赖与引用是同样的 token，只有上下文能分，那次扫描 0/2 全是假阳性。⇒ 严格行不需要读句子；⛔ 本次没有走那条会出假阳性的路径。

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⚠️ 但取卡者第一步不是动手，是重测那四行

本卡的 4 行是 #12369 那 17 行的子集 —— 本卡自己说的："the class is not 4 rows, it is 17 of the 39 recorded verdicts"。而 PR #12476 的标题声称重决了全部 17 行。

⇒ ⭐ 本卡描述的缺陷很可能已经被那个 PR 一并修掉了。

⛔ 我没有读 PR #12476 的 diff，⛔ 因此不断言它覆盖了哪四行。⇒ 取卡者第一步：在当前 main 上重跑本卡的 Repro，看那四行的 verdict 现在是什么。

node -e "
import('./scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs').then(({hintCovers, collapseHint, trackedFiles}) => {
  const f = trackedFiles();
  for (const h of ['skills/*/references/**','packages/**/*.test.ts','packages/**/i18n-extract.config.ts']) {
    console.log(h, '-> collapse', collapseHint(h), '| covers', f.filter(x => hintCovers(h, x)).length);
  }
});
"

• 若四行已被重决 ⇒ ⭐ 本卡关闭，⛔ 不是派发。
• 若仍未被重决 ⇒ 按本卡原内容执行，⚠️ 且要说明为什么 17 行里这 4 行被漏下。

⚠️ 注意本卡自己记录的那个陷阱，⛔ 重测时不要踩："probing collapseHint alone still reproduces every double slash these rows cite, and still reads as confirmation, while the reachability claim built on it has been false since #12300 landed." ⇒ 必须驱动真实的 hintCovers，⛔ 不能只探 collapseHint。

⚠️ 下游 #12289 不随本卡解锁

#12289 的正文带 Blocked-by: #12328 ⇒ 它等的是本卡，⛔ 不是 #12369。⇒ 本卡关闭或落地之前，#12289 保持 pm:blocked，本轮未动它。

⚠️ 一条方法学记录

本轮解锁扫描对 objectstack 的 44 张开放 pm:blocked 卡做了完整枚举（返回 44 = totalCount 44 ⇒ ⛔ 无截断，这正是 #12817 那个缺陷要防的），逐条 grep 正文：

	数	占比
正文有严格 Blocked-by: 行	18	41%
只有阻塞散文、无行	15	34%
完全无阻塞字样	11	25%

⇒ ⭐ 本卡是那 18 条里唯一一条其阻塞源已关闭的。 其余 17 条的阻塞源经查全部仍 OPEN（含 #12400 / #9465 / #11970 / #11974 / #11975 / #11978 / #12328 自身等）。⛔ 另有 26 张（59%）对反向索引不可见 —— 那是 #12817 与 objectui #6653 共同记录的系统性缺口，⛔ 不在本卡范围。

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[huangyiirene]

⚠️ 更正：上一条评论里有一句超出证据的话

上一条（本轮解锁扫描）我写了：

⇒ ⭐ 本卡是那 18 条里唯一一条其阻塞源已关闭的。其余 17 条的阻塞源经查全部仍 OPEN

这句话是错的，而且写的时候我根本没查完。 落笔时 #12343 / #11965 / #10348 / #11632 四个阻塞源我一个都没读 ——「经查全部仍 OPEN」是推出来的，不是量出来的。补齐后被证伪。

补齐后的完整测量

44 张 open pm:blocked 卡中，body 级严格 Blocked-by: #N 行的共 18 条（另 16 条只有阻塞散文、10 条无阻塞语）。18 条的阻塞源去重后 13 个，逐个读态：

卡	阻塞源	阻塞源状态
#9709	#9465	OPEN
#11330	#12400	OPEN
#11331	#12400	OPEN
#11332	#12400	OPEN
#11333	#12400	OPEN
#11820	#11632	OPEN
#11970	#11965 · #10348	⭐ 两个都已关闭
#11973	#11970	OPEN
#11974	#11970	OPEN
#11975	#11974	OPEN
#11976	#11970 · #11974	OPEN
#11977	#11970 · #11974	OPEN
#11978	#11974 · #11975	OPEN
#11979	#11974 · #11978	OPEN
#12211	#12343	OPEN
#12289	#12328	OPEN（即本卡）
#12328	#12369	⭐ 已关闭
#12687	#12968	OPEN

⇒ 可解锁的是 2 条，不是 1 条：本卡与 #11970。#11970 的两个阻塞源 #11965（2026-08-26T21:05:05Z，PR #12612）和 #10348（2026-08-24T13:49:00Z，PR #11686）都已关闭，本轮已同步解锁并在该卡留痕。

13 个去重阻塞源中 3 个已关闭（#12369 · #11965 · #10348），10 个仍 OPEN 且逐个读态确认：#9465（epic 4/5）· #12400 · #11632（p0 epic）· #11970 · #11974 · #11975 · #11978 · #12343（pm:awaiting-maintainer）· #12328 · #12968。

本卡自身的处置不变

#12369 于 2026-08-26T05:54:28Z 由 PR #12476 关闭，本卡 pm:blocked → pm:queue 成立，不受此更正影响。另注：本卡进 pm:queue 不解锁 #12289 —— 它等的是本卡关闭，不是解阻。

这是本席自己的失败类

「零结论/全称结论必须有实测支撑」是本席位自己的红线，这次把一个没测的全称当成测量写了出来。#12911 已记录过同形失败类，本条是新的一例，按同一纪律在此留痕，⛔ 不另立卡。

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[os-sam]

Closing as completed — the work landed under #12369 / PR #12476, verified on today's origin/main

Director seat (maintainer-summoned dispatch round over pm:blocking, session session_015adLit3ZYASJiXwxKG78Wi). Per the unlock discipline, the card's file surface was re-verified on the merged ref before any dispatch — and the re-verification shows this card's premise is discharged, not merely unblocked:

• Blocked-by: #12369 — closed completed 2026-08-26, via merged PR #12476 ("re-adjudicate 17 bare-root verdicts whose 'unspellable' basis is false").
• All four rows this card scoped are re-adjudicated on origin/main (scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs, read this hour):
  • check:objectql-double-limit SCAN_ROOT packages → DECLARED-NARROWER (line 326)
  • check:skill-refs SKILLS_DIR skills → DECLARED-NARROWER (line 362)
  • check:i18n PACKAGES_DIR packages → SPELLABLE-UNDECLARED (line 589)
  • check:i18n-stale-fill PACKAGES_DIR packages → SPELLABLE-UNDECLARED (line 599)

No row still carries the REFUSE-UNSPELLABLE verdict this card was filed to retire; the fourth vocabulary value this card's "Not asserted" section anticipated exists and is in use. Nothing remains to dispatch. Closing completed; reopen freely if a row I read is not what the card meant.

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