Filed unassigned and ungraded by the #12500 dev (session session_01PfaSTikked61BkcsB5Rn69, PR #12841), which measured this while narrowing the inherited population of scripts/cli-build-prerequisite.mjs. Not graded, not routed.
Measured
PR #12841 declares an inherited-population (the #11556 marker) on scripts/cli-build-prerequisite.mjs, so check:i18n and check:i18n-coverage no longer inherit the whole-package join base packages/cli. Sweep over the 322 tracked files of that package, per gate:
BEFORE AFTER
covered by the inherited hints 322 214
really read by the gates 112 112
false leads 210 102
The 102 that remain are not residue of a sloppy declaration. They are:
- 101 files matching
src/**/*.test.ts, src/**/*.spec.ts or src/**/__tests__/**, every one of them excluded by packages/cli/tsconfig.build.json, so none can change a byte of the dist/ those two gates spawn;
packages/cli/src/utils/console-route-ledger.ts, excluded by the same file, for the reason its own comment gives.
They survive because a hint is a path prefix and hintCovers matches subtrees. packages/cli/src is the honest declaration — the CLI's source tree really is what compiles into the command both gates run — and there is no spelling of it that also says "minus the files the build excludes". Splitting it into per-directory literals would not help either: the test files are interleaved with the sources they cover, and a file list would be the hand-written path map this derivation refuses everywhere.
Why it may be worth expressing
dispatch-gates.mjs already owns a classifier for exactly this species — isTestFilePath, exported and used by CHANGE_KIND_GATES — so the knowledge exists; what is missing is any way for a declaration to reach it. Whether that should become a marker suffix, a second marker, or nothing at all is a design question, and it is deliberately NOT answered here:
- the cost per false lead on this family is high (both gates refuse without a built CLI, so a named card pays a CLI closure build), which argues for expressing it;
- but any mechanism that lets a declaration SUBTRACT is a mechanism that can subtract a real population, and
declaredInheritedPopulation is narrowing-only today precisely so a declaration can never invent or hide one silently. The measured price of that guarantee is these 102 pairs per gate.
⚠️ ORDER MATTERS if this is ever acted on: the mirror axis (#12322, the under-naming case, fixed in e980f6448 / PR #12476) is what a subtraction mechanism would put back at risk. #12322 remains open on its own terms.
Dedupe
All 100 open domain:devx cards enumerated by title (REST list endpoint plus local grep) against test file, *.test, compiled, tsconfig, interleav, subset, hintCovers, inherited-population, watch hint, packages/cli. Only #12500 itself matched. Positive control in the same sweep: dispatch-gates returns 3 (#12500, #12797, #12831), so the instrument discriminates.
Severity not judged.
Re-check
node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs packages/cli/src/commands/datasource/envelope-unwrap.test.ts | grep check:i18n
git ls-files packages/cli/src | grep -cE '\.(test|spec)\.ts$|__tests__/'
Reverse-check any zero with a term known present in the same output, never a substring of the term under test.
Filed unassigned and ungraded by the #12500 dev (session
session_01PfaSTikked61BkcsB5Rn69, PR #12841), which measured this while narrowing the inherited population ofscripts/cli-build-prerequisite.mjs. Not graded, not routed.Measured
PR #12841 declares an
inherited-population(the #11556 marker) onscripts/cli-build-prerequisite.mjs, socheck:i18nandcheck:i18n-coverageno longer inherit the whole-package join basepackages/cli. Sweep over the 322 tracked files of that package, per gate:The 102 that remain are not residue of a sloppy declaration. They are:
src/**/*.test.ts,src/**/*.spec.tsorsrc/**/__tests__/**, every one of them excluded bypackages/cli/tsconfig.build.json, so none can change a byte of thedist/those two gates spawn;packages/cli/src/utils/console-route-ledger.ts, excluded by the same file, for the reason its own comment gives.They survive because a hint is a path prefix and
hintCoversmatches subtrees.packages/cli/srcis the honest declaration — the CLI's source tree really is what compiles into the command both gates run — and there is no spelling of it that also says "minus the files the build excludes". Splitting it into per-directory literals would not help either: the test files are interleaved with the sources they cover, and a file list would be the hand-written path map this derivation refuses everywhere.Why it may be worth expressing
dispatch-gates.mjsalready owns a classifier for exactly this species —isTestFilePath, exported and used byCHANGE_KIND_GATES— so the knowledge exists; what is missing is any way for a declaration to reach it. Whether that should become a marker suffix, a second marker, or nothing at all is a design question, and it is deliberately NOT answered here:declaredInheritedPopulationis narrowing-only today precisely so a declaration can never invent or hide one silently. The measured price of that guarantee is these 102 pairs per gate.e980f6448/ PR #12476) is what a subtraction mechanism would put back at risk. #12322 remains open on its own terms.Dedupe
All 100 open
domain:devxcards enumerated by title (REST list endpoint plus local grep) againsttest file,*.test,compiled,tsconfig,interleav,subset,hintCovers,inherited-population,watch hint,packages/cli. Only #12500 itself matched. Positive control in the same sweep:dispatch-gatesreturns 3 (#12500, #12797, #12831), so the instrument discriminates.Severity not judged.
Re-check
Reverse-check any zero with a term known present in the same output, never a substring of the term under test.