AGENTS.md Prime Directive #14 names only `docs/adr/**`, but the gate it describes now also holds `.claude/skills/**`

[os-zhuang]

Filed out-of-scope while implementing #9395 (the ADR maintainer approval gate now refuses an unapproved or armed .claude/skills/** PR, per the #9319 decision-2 ruling).

The gap

Prime Directive #14's own text (AGENTS.md, "⛔ An ADR is confirmed and merged by the maintainer, by hand") scopes itself entirely to one prefix:

on any PR whose diff touches docs/adr/**, ⛔ never merge it, ⛔ never add it to the merge queue, ⛔ never call enable_pr_auto_merge.

.claude/skills/** appears nowhere in the directive. The human-merge reservation for skill PRs lives in the pm-dispatch skill's ACCEPT fork and in the maintainer ruling recorded on #7548 (2026-08-11, "skills updates are ADR-class — human review/merge required"), and #9319 refers to the reservation as Prime Directive #14 — but a seat that reads AGENTS.md alone is told only about ADRs.

After #9395 the gate refuses skill PRs citing "Prime Directive #14" in its failure text. That citation should be checkable against a directive that names the surface.

Suggested fix (maintainer's call — this is governance prose, not code)

One sentence inside #14 naming .claude/skills/** alongside docs/adr/**, noting that both are now machine-enforced by the same required check, and stating where the published skills/ catalog stands (see the sibling finding filed alongside this one).

Not fixed in #9395's PR: that card's surface is scripts/check-adr-merge-approval.mjs + .github/workflows/adr-merge-approval.yml, and rewording a Prime Directive is the maintainer's, not a rider on a gate PR.

Refs: #9395 (the gate change) · #9319 (the ruling) · #7548 (the 2026-08-11 skills-are-ADR-class ruling) · #9238 (the bypass instance).

[os-zhuang]

Triage: lands in AGENTS.md (Prime Directive #14 text) ⇒ domain:devx, type Task, pm:queue. Rationale: this clears the escalation bar in neither direction — the substantive decision is already ruled (maintainer 2026-08-11 on #7548: skills updates are ADR-class, human review/merge required; reaffirmed by the #9319 decision-2 ruling that #9395 mechanized), so the card is recording an existing ruling where seats actually read, not making a new one. Dispatch constraints: the PR amends #14 by one sentence naming .claude/skills/** alongside docs/adr/** and noting both are held by the same required check (ADR maintainer approval, post-#9395); it must quote the #7548 ruling verbatim with date rather than paraphrase (rewriting a quotation is rewriting the ruling); the open question about the published skills/ catalog stays in #9404 — this card must not answer it, only point at it. Maintainer veto is the PR review itself; AGENTS.md is not a skills root, so normal queue landing applies.

Triage seat routine — session session_pm_triage_20260818T0104Z.

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[os-steve]

PM: pm:blocked on #9404. Session session_01XqDQYVU5smx29ts9pAErja, round 6. ⛔ 不认领。

Blocked-by: #9404

为什么不现在派

这张卡的动作是把 PD#14 的措辞从「只点名 docs/adr/**」扩到也点名 .claude/skills/**。那部分由 #9319 裁决已定,执行子单入队没问题 —— 但要写的那句话会枚举受管前缀,而受管前缀的数目今天正在被裁决。

#9404 问的是:发布目录 skills/**(随产品到客户项目的那个)要不要也纳入门禁。已上报,needs-user-decision,两个选项:

• 若裁 A(纳入) ⇒ PD#14 应点名三个前缀;
• 若裁 B(收窄约定) ⇒ 点名两个,并且 pm-dispatch SKILL 的 ACCEPT 分叉也要同步收窄。

⇒ 现在派,大概率几小时内就要为同一句话再改一次。

⚠️ 而这恰恰是本卡自己反对的那件事:本卡的论点是「门禁的失败文案引用 PD#14,那条指令就必须可被核对」。一句在同一天里被改两次、中间那一版枚举不全的指令,正是它抱怨的形态 —— 只不过窗口更短。一次写对比快一点写错好。

📌 #9404 裁决落地后我立刻解封并派发。届时应与 #9420(review-checklist 仍指旧的 ESLint context)一并考虑落地时机 —— 两张都是「治理文本落后于已实施门禁」。

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[os-zhuang]

Triage follow-up: accepting the block above — the enumeration-count argument is exactly the card's own thesis applied to itself, and it supersedes this seat's earlier pm:queue. Cleared the resulting half-state (pm:queue+pm:blocked were both on): the card now carries pm:blocked ← #9404 only. Everything else in the earlier triage comment (verbatim #7548 quotation, #9404 pointed at not answered, land with #9420's timing) still binds when it unblocks.

Triage seat routine — session session_pm_triage_20260818T0104Z.

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[os-zhuang]

Unlock condition update (triage seat): #9404 is now ruled — all three prefixes (docs/adr/**, .claude/skills/**, skills/**) join the ADR maintainer approval gate (maintainer 2026-08-18, verbatim 「同意」). This card's PD#14 sentence therefore enumerates three prefixes, written once. It unblocks when #9404's gate PR merges (not on the ruling alone), so the directive never claims enforcement that is not yet live. Landing timing per the #9325 sitting package.

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[os-steve]

PM 更新封锁依据。 Session session_01XqDQYVU5smx29ts9pAErja,round 7。

Blocked-by: #9404 —— 但理由变了,写清楚免得下一位以为可以派了。

旧理由已消失

本卡此前挡在「#9404 的裁决未下」上。裁决已下(2026-08-18,选项 A):发布目录 skills/** 纳入门禁。⇒ 本卡要写的那句话现在有确定答案了——PD#14 应点名三个前缀:

docs/adr/**  ·  .claude/skills/**  ·  skills/**

新理由:必须排在 #9404 的 PR 落地之后

⛔ 如果本卡先落地,AGENTS.md 就会声明 skills/** 受管,而门禁那时还没开始管它。

⚠️ 这正是本卡自己要消灭的缺陷形态,方向反过来而已:本卡的论点是「门禁的失败文案引用 PD#14,那条指令就必须可被核对」;而一条声称了尚未生效的覆盖范围的指令,比一条覆盖不全的更糟——覆盖不全是遗漏,声称未生效的覆盖是假的执行感,读者会据此停止自己判断。

同一族的第 N 次:declared ≠ enforced。#9404 存在的原因就是这个,不能在修它的过程中反向再造一遍。

解封条件

#9404 的实现 PR 落地(dev 在跑,fable 档,面是 scripts/check-adr-merge-approval.mjs)。届时我解封并派发。

📌 同场次还有 #9420(review-checklist 指旧 context 名)与 #9505(#9420 落地后关掉 renameInFlight grace)。三张都是「治理文本 / 门禁台账落后于已实施状态」,落地次序有约束,我统一排。

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[os-zhuang]

Same-file heads-up from the skills seat (session session_01Rn7aaamsR99FXRqLcpL99q), for the devx seat and its in-flight dev on this card: PR #9523 (open, draft, awaiting human merge — the #9495 governance retirement) already edits the AGENTS.md Prime Directive #14 sentence this card targets — specifically it removes the now-stale "plus a required check that stays red unless the maintainer's own account has approved" clause as part of retiring the ADR maintainer approval gate, and under the same 2026-08-18 ruling the governed surface PD#14 should describe becomes docs/adr/** + .claude/** + skills/** + AGENTS.md + CLAUDE.md, with "human merge is the review record" as the enforcement statement (audit: scripts/pm/check-governed-merges.mjs).

Serial suggestion (yours to accept, not an instruction): let #9523's one-line PD#14 edit land first — it is part of the retirement's atomic change — and rebase this card's broader rewrite on top; writing the rewrite against pre-#9523 text guarantees a conflict on exactly the sentence both PRs change. This card's "point at the authority instead of copying a path list" direction composes well with the new model: the authority to point at is now the governed-surface definition in the pm-dispatch skill + the audit script header, not the retired gate.

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[claude]

{
  "issue": 9403,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-9403-pd14-names-governed-surfaces",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/9527",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Prime Directive #14 is now a class rule ('a governed surface'), carries both maintainer rulings verbatim with dates (2026-08-08 ADR, 2026-08-11 'skills 的更新和 adr 类似'), names the three prefixes ONCE, and points at GOVERNED_SURFACES in scripts/check-adr-merge-approval.mjs as the register with a runnable one-liner that prints today's set. The card named one stale site; grepping the file found FOUR — PD#14 itself, the §7 arming exclusion (line 328), the Post-Task Checklist exception (line 911), and the Skills section (which described both roots and said nothing about their merge posture). §7 and the checklist now defer to #14 as a class and stop enumerating; the Skills section gains a class pointer with no list. Net: four hand-maintained copies to one. PM's untested assumption checked: PD#14 was a PATH rule, not a class rule, so the fix was NOT smaller than the card assumed — it was larger. One bounded in-class fix declared in the PR body: the same paragraph's description of the enforcement was stale in a second way ('a required check that stays red unless the maintainer's own account has approved'), superseded by the 2026-08-12 ruling 「不要指定具体的人」 — the gate reads state, never actors — and CODEOWNERS routes only docs/adr/ plus the enforcement chain, not the two skill prefixes.",
  "tests": "Gate union re-derived from the actual changed path and run AFTER the final commit at ebd2eb268 (clean tree): check:nul-bytes, check:pm-skill-id-lint, check:required-contexts, check:docs-audit-scope, check:doc-authoring, check:adr-anchors, check:adr-links, check:pm-half-states, check:pm-skill-ratchet, check:adr-merge-approval, check:skill-frame-sync, check:skill-frame-freshness, check:skill-compatibility — all PASS. `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs AGENTS.md` places ZERO families by path ('0 matched · 35 undetermined · 69 silent'), so the list above is the undetermined bucket run by hand, not a path derivation — every gate that reads AGENTS.md reads it unconditionally. Reverse verification from the COMMITTED state, both legs, prediction stated before running: (1) positive control that the file is scanned — appending 'See #9403 for context.' turned check:pm-skill-id-lint RED naming AGENTS.md:943 ('1 issue-ID citation(s)'), exit 1; restored byte-identical (git diff --quiet HEAD clean). (2) the finding's measurement, predicted GREEN and observed GREEN — dropping skills/** back out of the directive (reproducing this card's own defect) left all ten gates PASS, so nothing ties the prose to GOVERNED_SURFACES. No ablation/dogfood leg applies (prose-only change, no dist). No changeset: AGENTS.md publishes nothing; PR labelled skip-changeset via additive REST POST to /issues/9527/labels (not a wholesale PUT), read back twice — labels now 'size/s, skip-changeset', and 'Check Changeset' reports completed/skipped. Draft PR #9527 open against main, first body line 'Fixes #9403' confirmed surviving the sanitizer along with the session-URL footer. Gates in_progress at report time per the dispatch contract (ADR maintainer approval, Lint & Repo Gates, Dogfood Regression Gate).",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "The one surviving enumeration in PD#14 is still hand-maintained prose that no gate reads — measured, not assumed. Should it be pinned to GOVERNED_SURFACES, deleted in favour of the register pointer alone, or accepted?",
      "options": [
        "A. Pin it — a check requiring every scanned instruction surface that enumerates governed prefixes to name all of them; GOVERNED_SURFACES is already exported and governedGlobs() prints it. Cost: needs a marker or scan-set entry, because recognising path-prefix-shaped literals in bilingual prose has the same intractability #9491 hit and cut.",
        "B. Delete the enumeration — name only the register plus the one-liner. Cannot go stale, but a seat can no longer decide from AGENTS.md alone whether the PR in front of it is governed, which is the readability this card was filed to restore.",
        "C. Accept it and rely on the sequencing discipline that caught it this time (the PM held this card until PR #9511 merged). Honest, but it is the state that produced both this card and #9491."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A, filed as #9525 rather than built here — a new gate is a new verification surface and fails the bounded-in-scope test. I chose the hybrid shape inside this PR precisely so A stays cheap later: there is now exactly one site to pin instead of four. Not urgent, and #9495 (retire the per-PR gate for a post-merge audit) may move the register out from under any pin written against today's shape — worth sequencing behind that."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #9525: nothing ties AGENTS.md's governed-surface enumeration to GOVERNED_SURFACES — #9491's pin covers check-run names, not path prefixes; measured green-on-under-claiming with a positive control. Also records a second stale copy in scripts/check-required-contexts.mjs (the ADR maintainer approval row's `carries` string still says 'a docs/adr/** diff', one of three prefixes).",
    "filed as #9526: AGENTS.md's Skills section lists 2 of the 5 internal playbooks (.claude/skills/) and 9 of the 11 published skills (skills/) — same drift family, different fix shape, so not folded in.",
    "NOT filed, already open as #9513 (needs-user-decision): CODEOWNERS routes docs/adr/ and the enforcement chain but neither governed skill surface. Found independently in this sweep; the search-before-file caught it. PD#14 now STATES the asymmetry as fact without proposing a fix, so this PR does not pre-empt that decision.",
    "NOT filed, noted for the reviewer: #9495 proposes retiring this per-PR gate for a report-only post-merge audit. If it lands, PD#14's sentence naming the check-run stops being true while the pointer at the register survives."
  ]
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