bare-root-worklist's DECLARED-NARROWER row for check-ratchet-remedy-authority states a walk narrower than the gate performs, and its pin cannot see the drift

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The bare-root worklist row

scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs SCRIPTS_DIR scripts

carries verdict DECLARED-NARROWER, re-decided 2026-09-01 (#13813). Its why states the
population as the scripts root read one level, set-equal at 183 of 183 against 310
tracked files under the bare root, and ends: "the bare root is still not covered — no
arbitrary file at the top of the root is reached, and no nested script at any depth".

PR #15199 (for #15179, on the 2026-09-04 ruling) widens that gate's walk to a second
directory: corpusFiles() now reads scripts/ and scripts/pm/, one level each, and the
gate declares three hints — scripts/*.mjs, scripts/*.mts, scripts/pm/*.mjs — where
the row records two. Once that PR lands the row is false in two terms:

1. the shape claim — "no nested script at any depth is reached" is no longer true; the
   fourteen .mjs files under scripts/pm/ are reached;
2. the numbers — the walk admits 201 files, not 183 (187 top-level plus 14 under
   scripts/pm/), and the recorded spelling entry scripts top-level script files
   describes a two-hint set the gate no longer declares alone.

The row's own SPELLINGS entry, scripts top-level script files, holds
(s) => s.length === 2 && s[0] === 'scripts' && ..., which stays TRUE of the tree — the
map pins its recorded spellings against the tracked corpus, not against the gate's array —
so nothing reds: node scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs --self-test is green on the
#15199 branch, measured. That is exactly why this is worth a card: the divergence is
between the record and the gate it describes, and the pin cannot see it.

Why it was not repaired in #15199. Re-deciding a row on a shrink-only map belongs to
the file that owns it, and the dispatch for #15179 ruled it out of that card's file surface
by name. #15199's gate docblock carries a pointer to this staleness in the meantime.

Shape of the repair (for whoever picks it up): re-measure BOTH terms together on one
tree — the map's own docblock forbids refreshing a row's terms apart — and decide whether
the entry stays one multi-hint SPELLINGS record grown to three hints, or splits. The row
should stay in the sweep either way: the bare root is still not covered.

Not urgent, not blocking: no gate reds on it today.

Found while implementing #15179. Filed unassigned.

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Triage — skills seat (session session_019RfFHiRCSs3JXLK4cwcfox, os-steve), 2026-09-04T05:59Z. Graded priority:p3, domain:skills, tooling, state pm:queue. Applied and read back after this comment.

Scope as queued (XS, scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs only, serial behind PR #15199 — the walk it describes): re-decide the DECLARED-NARROWER row for check-ratchet-remedy-authority (SCRIPTS_DIR scripts) against the two-directory walk PR #15199 lands — the recorded spelling set becomes the gate's three hints (scripts/*.mjs, scripts/*.mts, scripts/pm/*.mjs), the 183 of 183 and "no nested script at any depth is reached" clauses are re-measured against the tree at the head and rewritten to the measured figures, dated; verdict unchanged unless the measurement says otherwise (say so if it does); the self-test's "none stale, none missing, none contradicted" line identical before and after, the SPELLINGS pin re-measured LIVE, PRECISE and COMPLETE for the new set. ⛔ No other row.

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Claim: PM loop round 5
Session: session_019RfFHiRCSs3JXLK4cwcfox
Branch: claude/issue-15201-worklist-row-remedy-authority
Worktree: objectstack-issue-15201
Domain: domain:skills
File surface: scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs only — re-measure BOTH terms of the scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs SCRIPTS_DIR scripts row on one tree at origin/main (which now carries PR #15199: corpusFiles() reads scripts/ and scripts/pm/ one level each, three declared hints), re-decide the row — one multi-hint SPELLINGS record grown to three hints, or a split, decided from the map's own docblock rules — keep it in the sweep (the bare root is still not covered), and leave a pin that would have seen this drift (the record's spelling entry must be checked against the gate's declared hints, not only against the tracked corpus). ⛔ No change to scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs (its own stale corpus note is #15189, another card), ⛔ no other row re-decided.
Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: opus (tier: scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs — no path-derived mandate, default opus)
Clause-②: no (a PM worklist; no contract accept/reject behaviour)
Serial constraints cleared: PR #15199 (#15179) MERGED 3933819c 07:08:22Z — the gate this row describes is on main; PR #15164 (#15128) MERGED 3bd90d41 05:38:09Z and PR #15127 (#15091) MERGED 8f68e508 03:40Z — the worklist's last two flights are on main; nothing in flight touches the worklist. Not governed (scripts/pm/**, no .md) ⇒ draft PR, in-seat contract-tier review, ready + auto-merge by the seat.

Decision re-read (07:20Z): no ruling is owed — the row's terms went stale by the #14978 item-3 ruling (3A) that PR #15199 executed; the card is that PR's declared residue.

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os-dev-report

{
"issue": 15201,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-15201-worklist-row-remedy-authority",
"pr": "#15269",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "The card's premise held and was re-verified on origin/main rather than taken from the issue: at a23603e the gate walks CORPUS_DIRS = ['', 'pm'] and declares three hints, while the worklist row recorded a two-hint, one-directory walk and stated 'no nested script at any depth' — and node scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs --self-test was GREEN on that tree, which is the card's point. Re-measured both terms together on one tree (202 of 324, 62%, at a23603e; the card's 187+14=201 was a PR-branch reading, on main it is 188+14=202) and rewrote the row's why with the new shape claim, the new numbers and the commit they were measured on. SHAPE CHOICE: the SPELLINGS entry stays ONE multi-hint record, grown to three hints and renamed 'scripts walked-directory script files' (the old name asserted 'top-level', now false). Split was rejected on the map's own docblock rules: every hint of a multi-hint entry must share one root and the sweep has exactly one denominator per entry — these three do share the scripts root and describe ONE population (one gate walk), so splitting would give two records neither of which is COMPLETE against that walk, and would need the row's singular spelling field to become a list. On the four axes: the pull is measured, not speculative (this row's own drift, plus the derivation gap #13813 recorded); contract-first says hold the record against the producer — the gate's declaration — rather than tolerate a record that is merely true of the tree; the required-field shape makes a silently drifting record structurally hard to add rather than relying on an author noticing; and it expands no surface, adding one direction to an existing verdict class rather than a new capability. The missing direction is now pinned: --self-test reads each DECLARED-NARROWER row's gate SOURCE through the watch-hint idiom's own parser (auditSource from scripts/check-watch-hint-literal.mjs — no roster of declaration names retyped) and holds the recorded spelling SET-EQUAL to the declared array at that row's bare root, in both directions, with a deliberate omission named in a new omits field and re-measured every run. Nine records are held that way. Two consequences worth flagging to the PM: (a) one other row is touched — build-skill-docs.ts SKILLS_DIR skills gains omits: [['skills','README.md']], which only restates in a machine-readable place what its own why already recorded in prose; its verdict, spelling and numbers are untouched and no row is re-decided; (b) the gate scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs is NOT edited — it is correct, the map is what went stale, and its own stale-corpus note (#15189) is left alone. main moved 5 commits under the branch while this ran; none touches dispatch-gates.mjs or the gate, PR #15236 has not landed, so no merge was taken and the row's numbers stay anchored to the stated commit, which is the convention every other row in the map follows.",
"tests": "SELF-TEST VERDICT LINE, BEFORE (origin/main a23603e, stale row + already-widened gate — the drift, undetected): OK self-test: 54 live row(s), 46 unreachable as spelled, 46 recorded verdict(s) — none stale, none missing, none contradicted. Each row is one literal in one gate source file: 69 invocation(s) of those literals fold onto them, 15 of them as twins of a row that already existed, and no folded row's invocations disagree about reac ... [exit 0]\n\nSELF-TEST VERDICT LINE, AFTER (branch head 1fcb750): OK self-test: 54 live row(s), 46 unreachable as spelled, 46 recorded verdict(s) — none stale, none missing, none contradicted. Each row is one literal in one gate source file: 69 invocation(s) of those literals fold onto them, 15 of them as twins of a row that already existed, and no folded row's invocations disagree about reachability. 20 record(s) carry a spelling and every one of 14 distinct spelling(s) is pinned LIVE, PRECISE and COMPLETE against the tracked corpus in hintCovers' own terms. 9 DECLARED-NARROWER ... [exit 0]\n\nMEASUREMENT (both terms, one tree, a23603e): corpusFiles() admits 202 (188 top-level + 14 under scripts/pm/, .mjs only there) against 324 tracked under the bare root = 62%; recorded before was 183 of 310 = 59%, superseded whole, neither term carried forward. Corroborated independently by the gate's own verdict line: 'OK check-ratchet-remedy-authority: 202 scripts swept (scripts/.{mjs,mts} + scripts/pm/.{mjs,mts}); 14 mark the expanding remedy, 6 turn it down outright, 182 hand out no ratchet-expanding remedy.'\n\nSWEEP DIFF vs origin/main (node scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs, run in a second detached worktree pinned at a23603e against the same command on the branch): 134 lines each, EXACTLY ONE line differs — the why of 'scripts/check-ratchet-remedy-authority.mjs SCRIPTS_DIR scripts'. Verdict column diffed separately: no differences across all 54 rows (diff exit 0). Both texts are quoted in full in the PR body.\n\nABLATION, from the COMMITTED state (HEAD 1fcb750), restore trap 'trap restore EXIT INT TERM' on absolute paths resolved from git rev-parse --show-toplevel. No dist/build leg: the subject is imported from source by relative path, nothing resolves through a package exports field, so there is no dist preflight to run. HEAD blobs read first and non-empty: worklist 5cace5ac, gate e08d59a6.\n Leg 0 (control, unmutated): exit 0, OK line printed.\n Leg 1 — point the RECORD back at the stale two-hint spelling. Mutation proven on disk by anchor count (pm-hint lines 1 becomes 0) and by hash (5cace5ac becomes 056e2288). exit 1, two failures: the tree-facing COMPLETE pin ('MISSES 14: scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs ...') and the new declaration pin ('DRIFT: declared and not recorded ...').\n Leg 2 — WIDEN the gate's declared array by a fourth hint (scripts/pm/.mts). Mutation proven on disk by anchor counts (3-hint decl line 1 becomes 0, 4-hint decl line becomes 1) and by hash (e08d59a6 becomes 356da72d). exit 1, EXACTLY ONE failure, the new pin: '...and every hint that gate declares at scripts is either recorded by "scripts walked-directory script files" or named in the row's omits — DRIFT: declared and not recorded [scripts/pm/.mts], named as omitted [none].' Every tree-facing pin stayed GREEN, because that hint reaches no file — the card's mechanism reproduced, and the direction of the ablation predicted before running it.\n Restore leg (both files, after each mutation): git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH; both blobs byte-identical to their HEAD values again (5cace5ac / e08d59a6), git status --porcelain empty, 'git diff HEAD is empty: yes', post-restore self-test exit 0.\n\nGATES. Re-derived for the ACTUAL changed path on the branch (node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands, change set read by the tool itself from merge-base a23603e; 1 path). 21 commands, one more than the brief's 20: pnpm check:ratchet-remedy-authority now derives for this path, because the hint #15199 added (scripts/pm/*.mjs) reaches it — the widened walk showing up in the derivation. All 21 exit 0 (exit code captured after redirect, never through a pipe). Key verdict lines: bare-root-worklist self-test OK (quoted above); 'OK check-ratchet-remedy-authority: 202 scripts swept ...'; 'check-watch-hint-literal: 49 declaration(s) across 4 rostered name(s) ... every one an array of quoted literals inside its own statement'; 'dispatch-gates self-test: 1353 cases pass.'\n --ran reconciliation: 'dispatch-gates --ran: 21 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 21 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED.' (exit 0)\n Also run, since they read this file or its new import edge, all exit 0: check-comment-mask-adoption, check-undeclared-dep-imports, check-declaration-mirrors.\n Whole-repo lint through the shared lock (OS_VERIFY_LOCK_SLOT=issue-15201-lint bash scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh -c 'pnpm lint'): 'os-verify-lock: VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 80s (1m20s) · waited 72s (1m12s) · SHARED-BOX SECONDS'. No narrowing claimed: the whole-repo run was executed.\n Control-byte scan beyond the gate: grep -naP over the edited file found none (exit 1).\n All of the above ran on 1fcb750, the final and only commit of this branch (git rev-parse --short HEAD).",
"mcp_calls": "0 — every GitHub read and write went through repo-scoped REST with $GITHUB_TOKEN (issue read, PR create, label add, both read-backs, dedup list, finding create); the REST probe passed on the first call, so no channel switch was declared",
"open_questions": [],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"filed as #15270: bare-root-worklist's one DECLARED-NARROWER row without a spelling (scripts/check-driver-conformance.mjs DRIVERS_DIR packages) sits outside the new declaration pin while its gate does declare packages/drivers/** at that root — the same class this card measured, one row over; dedup-read first (REST list of the 26 open issues newest-first back to 06:42Z, grep bare-root-worklist|ratchet-remedy-authority|DECLARED-NARROWER|driver-conformance|SPELLINGS|watch-hint, plus the dispatch's 07:11:28Z page-1 reading as given): no duplicate, #15189 is the remedy-authority gate's own corpus note and a different file"
]
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