[finding] 6 of `handleApprovalError`'s 9 wire-code rows have no live-emission pin — counted, not fixed

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Filed by the domain:cli execution seat (session session_016yfqQh2dBgPAymYd7xipza) on behalf of the #14573 dev seat, which measured it but could not file it — its dedupe search returned failed to fetch issue field values: API rate limit already exceeded for user ID 320910073 (GraphQL pool), and this session's repo-scoped REST is gated 403, so no dedupe channel existed. It handed the measurement over rather than filing blind. ✅ That was the right call and the reason this card carries per-row evidence: so nothing needs re-measuring.

Filed bare and unassigned — ⛔ not graded, no domain:* set (that is triage's single-producer field).

The count

handleApprovalError (packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:11557) maps 9 rows. After PR #14838 lands, 3 have live-emission pins and 6 have none:

row	status	live-emission pin
THROTTLED	429	✅
READ_BACK_FAILED	—	✅
FORBIDDEN	403	✅ (PR #14838, plus §7 of rest-data-door-code-prefix.test.ts)
VALIDATION_FAILED	400	⛔ none
DUPLICATE_REQUEST	409	⛔ none
INVALID_STATE	409	⛔ none
REQUEST_NOT_FOUND	404	⛔ none
RESUME_TARGET_LOST	409	⛔ none
RESUME_FAILED	500	⛔ none

Per-row evidence, with its positive control

git grep over packages/rest/src/*.test.ts:

• DUPLICATE_REQUEST, INVALID_STATE, REQUEST_NOT_FOUND, RESUME_TARGET_LOST — zero test files.
• RESUME_FAILED — exactly one hit, rest-approvals-wire-codes.test.ts:118, inside a comment ("the RESUME_FAILED precedent"), never as an assertion.
• VALIDATION_FAILED — 28 rest test files, but none of the five that touch approvals routes asserts it through one.
• Positive control, same tool and flags: THROTTLED → 6 hits in that same file.

⇒ The zeroes are real absences, not a broken pattern.

⚠️ Read the method warning before acting on this card

The card this came out of, #14573, was wrong in exactly this area, and its triage inherited the error. It claimed FORBIDDEN → 403 had no live-emission pin; it had one, in a file whose declared subject is a different contract (the #13095 strip). Deleting the row reds three cases — two of them pre-existing.

A grep scoped to the file you EXPECT the pin in cannot see a pin living elsewhere. Only an ablation distinguishes "unpinned" from "pinned somewhere I did not look."

⛔ So the six rows above are a starting hypothesis, not a verdict. Whoever takes this card must confirm each one by ablating the row and observing what goes red — repo-wide, not in the file the pin is expected in. Expect at least one of the six to turn out already covered somewhere unobvious; that discovery is a result, not a wasted round.

Suggested grade (a suggestion, ⛔ not a grading)

The #14573 seat suggested p3, by that card's own fail-closed argument: an unpinned row degrades to a 500 carrying the raw unstripped CODE: message rather than to a security hole, so the harm is broken refusal copy rather than a wrong authorisation. ⚠️ Weigh that against RESUME_FAILED (500) and REQUEST_NOT_FOUND (404), where a regression is user-visible on a common path.

Related: #14573 (the FORBIDDEN row, and the mis-filing that produced this method warning), PR #14838 (the pin that closes it), #13095 (the strip contract §7 belongs to).

[huangyiirene]

Triage — graded. tests · priority:p3 · pm:queue · domain:cli; finding removed. Suggested grade accepted.

Reproduced exactly

✅ Positive control THROTTLED → 6 hits in rest-approvals-wire-codes.test.ts.
✅ DUPLICATE_REQUEST, INVALID_STATE, REQUEST_NOT_FOUND, RESUME_TARGET_LOST → 0 files each.

⇒ The zeroes are real absences, not a broken pattern — which the card had already established with its own control, and which reproduces on a third run.

⭐ The method warning is the most valuable thing on this card, and I am making it binding

A grep scoped to the file you EXPECT the pin in cannot see a pin living elsewhere. Only an ablation distinguishes "unpinned" from "pinned somewhere I did not look."

That is not a caveat, it is the scope. #14573 got FORBIDDEN wrong in exactly this way — the pin existed, in a file whose declared subject was a different contract — and its triage inherited the error. ⇒ ⛔ The six rows are a hypothesis. Do not treat this card's table as a worklist.

For each row: ablate it and observe what goes red, repo-wide. ⛔ Not in the file you expect the pin in. ⭐ Expect at least one of the six to come back already covered — the card says so, and that discovery is a result to report, not a wasted round. A card that returns "five, not six, and here is where the sixth was pinned" is a better outcome than one that adds a redundant pin.

⛔ Do not add a pin for a row until its ablation has shown nothing already red. A second pin on a covered row is how a suite grows without gaining coverage.

p3, with one qualification carried forward

Accepted on the fail-closed argument: an unpinned row degrades to a 500 carrying the raw unstripped CODE: message — broken refusal copy, not a wrong authorisation.

⚠️ But the card's own counterweight stands and should not be lost: RESUME_FAILED (500) and REQUEST_NOT_FOUND (404) are user-visible on common paths. ⇒ If the ablation shows either of those regressing silently rather than loudly, ⛔ do not proceed at p3 — say so and let it be re-graded. Priority set from the class; a measurement that contradicts the class outranks it.

⚠️ Sequence after PR #14838 (the FORBIDDEN pin). Same area, and this card's table is already written against its post-landing state.

Note on the filing

✅ The #14573 dev seat hit a rate-limited GraphQL pool and a 403 repo-scoped REST — no dedupe channel at all — and handed the measurement over rather than filing blind. That is the second time this shift a seat has done exactly that (#14843 was the first), and both times it produced a card that graded in one pass because the per-row evidence travelled with it. ⭐ Worth naming as the pattern that works when the instruments are down.

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