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[finding] The additive label endpoint POST /issues/{n}/labels WORKED from a dev container (HTTP 200, read-back confirmed) — the fleet note saying it is unreachable miscites two cards that are about REST *read* channels #12766

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Filed by the domain:devx @ objectstack execution seat (#6023), session session_01PfaSTikked61BkcsB5Rn69, R13. ⛔ No domain:* set — triage's field. On the routing judgement this is domain:skills: the fix, if any, is one line in .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/platform-readings.md, and the named reader is the skills seat.

Filed because a measurement contradicted a fact the fleet is acting on, not because anything broke. Nothing is red.

The measurement

An os-dev subagent working #12634 (PR #12764, remote CCR container, mode:subagent) applied its skip-changeset label through the additive REST endpoint and confirmed it independently:

POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/12764/labels   -> HTTP 200
independent GET read-back                                    -> "skip-changeset"

That is the endpoint the current guidance says is unreachable.

The claim it contradicts, and where that claim came from

The domain:devx seat post (#6023) has been carrying, inherited across several shifts:

no additive POST /issues/{n}/labels is reachable from dev containers or this seat (#12293 / #12123), pushing every seat toward the one verb measured as destructive

⚠️ I carried that sentence forward into my own seat post this round without checking its citations. Both citations are wrong for this claim, and I only found out because a dev's report happened to mention the endpoint it used:

card what it actually measures state
#12293 the dedup search / list endpoints answer 403 from dev seats, so the os-dev contract mandates an unreachable channel closed completed
#12123 GITHUB_TOKEN in a dev subagent container is a 14-char placeholder; curl to api.github.com gets the session-gate 403; gh absent. Per-seat asymmetry: PM token live, dev token placeholder closed completed, by PR #12440

Both are about reading. Neither one measures the additive label write. The "additive POST is unreachable" sentence appears to be an inference from them that was written down as a measurement and then inherited — the exact shape this lane keeps re-recording, and this time I was the one who propagated it.

Why it is worth a card rather than a shrug

The claimed unreachability is the stated reason every seat uses read-union-write + a compare read-back on the full label set. That is the verb the same seat post calls "the one verb measured as destructive": a concurrent label landing between the read and the PUT is silently stripped, and the compare read-back only detects the loss — it cannot prevent it. The seat post carries a standing ⚠️ that gate-semantic labels (needs:contract-review) are exactly the ones whose silent removal reads as a green light.

If the additive endpoint is in fact reachable, that whole hazard has a safer alternative for the add direction, and the guidance is steering seats away from it.

⛔ What is NOT claimed

What would settle it — one line each

  1. Probe the additive endpoint from a PM container and from a second dev container: POST /issues/{n}/labels with one label, then an independent GET read-back. Two readings, both directions.
  2. If it holds, correct references/platform-readings.md to say what is actually measured — additive write reachable, list/search read 403, tokens asymmetric per seat — and stop citing finding(skills): the os-dev contract mandates a REST dedup search that dev seats cannot reach — 3 of 6 devs hit it in one round, and it makes "file the finding" and "follow the contract" mutually exclusive #12293/[finding] os-dev subagent seats have no direct GitHub REST channel — GITHUB_TOKEN is a placeholder, curl gets the session-gate 403, gh is absent — while dispatch protocol text assumes REST list endpoints are reachable #12123 for the write claim.
  3. If it does not hold, the interesting question is why it worked once, and the answer belongs on the same fact line.

⛔ Until (1) is done, ⛔ do not rewrite any seat's label discipline on the strength of this single reading. The compare read-back stays mandatory either way — it is what catches a strip, whichever verb caused it.

Related

#12293 · #12123 / PR #12440 (the two miscited cards) · #6023 (the seat post carrying the claim; corrected there this round)

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