docs(ci): re-measure two stale reason comments in lint.yml (#15537, #15569)

[claude]

Fixes #15537
Fixes #15569

Two reason comments in .github/workflows/lint.yml state measurements that no
longer describe the tree. Both are re-measured here and corrected to the reading
taken on this branch. Comments only — no command, no step name and no YAML
structure moves.

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1. PM half-state sweeper self-test — "exactly ONE hint" (#15537)

The step justified pointing straight at the script, with no gate file in between,
on this reading: "this script yields exactly ONE hint, the repo slug in its API
base, which is not a repo path and covers no input path […] So the pollution that
forced a separate file there does not exist here."

Measured on the branch base (worktree at 95bf71449), exit codes captured before
any pipe:

$ node -e "const m = await import('./scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs'); const fs = await import('node:fs'); console.log(JSON.stringify(m.extractWatchHints(fs.readFileSync('scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs','utf8'), 'scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs')))" --input-type=module
EXIT=0
["objectstack-ai/objectstack",".changeset","scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs","owner/name"]

$ node -e "const m = await import('./scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs'); console.log(m.hintCovers('.changeset', '.changeset/foo.md'))" --input-type=module
EXIT=0
true

$ node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands .changeset/foo.md --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack | grep -c 'check:pm-half-states'
1

Four hints, not one. And the routing is by PATH MATCH, not by a whole-tree
declaration — the reason line says so itself:

$ node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs .changeset/foo.md --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack
EXIT=0
  - pnpm check:pm-half-states   [lint.yml]   matched via .changeset/foo.md ⇢ gate source '.changeset'

Coverage of each hint counted over git ls-files, so the comment can say which
hints are inert rather than asserting it:

"objectstack-ai/objectstack"          => covers 0 tracked file(s)
".changeset"                          => covers 84 tracked file(s)
"scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs"    => covers 1 tracked file(s)   (itself)
"owner/name"                          => covers 0 tracked file(s)

Provenance of the two surviving slug-shaped hints, checked rather than assumed —
owner/name survives the module-body masking because it is not only prose:

scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:903    export const DEFAULT_SWEEP_REPO = 'objectstack-ai/objectstack';
scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:905    /** `owner/name`, GitHub's own character set for both halves. */
scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:6544   export const H36_SHARED_PREFIX_NOISE = Object.freeze(['.changeset/']);
scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:18383  '`owner/name` repository. Refusing to fall back to a different board — a report about '

What the comment now says. Four hints, named; three inert against this tree
with their measured coverage; the fourth (.changeset, from the noise-floor
constant H36_SHARED_PREFIX_NOISE, where the spelling exists to EXCLUDE a path
from pairing) DOES derive this step onto every changeset-adding card. Accepted
as-is, and the direct-entry argument is restated on that reading rather than
left resting on the withdrawn one: the "no pollution here" half is explicitly
WITHDRAWN, and what remains is that the routing costs a card one offline
self-test (no network, no token, ~0.05s, green) rather than the fan-out of
MATCHED leads across unrelated gates that forced a gate file next door.

Neither scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs nor scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs is
touched (the latter is a hot file of PR #15737).

2. Swallow-census control families — "four declared, three in gated" (#15569)

The block said measure-durability-swallow-family.mjs "declares four control
families" and that "--self-test=gated runs RESOLUTION + NEGATIVE +
REGRESSION", closing with "The three wired families cannot be destroyed by a
successful repair".

The card's recollection was six declared / five in gated. Verified rather
than copied, and the card is off by one in both halves — its own bullet list
enumerates seven. Read from the instrument, at 95bf71449:

$ sed -n '2102,2117p' scripts/measure-durability-swallow-family.mjs
  if (gated) {
    process.stdout.write(
      `${MEASUREMENT_BANNER}\n`
      + '✓ measure-durability-swallow-family self-test, gated families (#13919): '
      + `${NEGATIVE_CONTROLS.length} negative control(s) yield none, `
      + `${REGRESSION_CONTROLS.length} regression control(s) stay clear, `
      + `${RESOLUTION_CONTROLS.length} resolution control(s) resolve as declared, `
      + `${DETERMINED.size} DETERMINED register row(s) cross-check clean, `
      + `${copiedGateNames.length} copied gate-vocabulary name(s) match the gate's own declaration, `
      + `${WORKLIST_READING_CONTROLS.length} worklist reading(s) print as declared over a fixture population, `
      + `${members.length} member site(s) total\n`
      + `   ${POSITIVE_CONTROLS.length} positive control(s) are NOT asserted here, permanently: they pin `

gated names SIX families. The only one it drops is POSITIVE, and the drop is a
single expression:

$ grep -n 'gated ? \[\] : POSITIVE_CONTROLS' scripts/measure-durability-swallow-family.mjs
1922:  for (const control of gated ? [] : POSITIVE_CONTROLS) {

So: seven declared, six run in gated. Declaration sites:

367:  const POSITIVE_CONTROLS = [
432:  const NEGATIVE_CONTROLS = [
458:  const REGRESSION_CONTROLS = [
510:  const RESOLUTION_CONTROLS = [
640:  const WORKLIST_READING_CONTROLS = [
2025: the COPIED gate vocabulary (#15459), asserted in BOTH modes
1966: the DETERMINED register (#13886), asserted in BOTH modes

What the comment now says. The families are NAMED rather than counted, per the
ruling, so the next family added contradicts a list instead of an integer. The
asymmetry argument is kept in substance — gated, never a bare --self-test,
because POSITIVE_CONTROLS pin members of the #12981 worklist the repair
programme exists to REMOVE — and extended to cover the three newer families: the
control tables survive a repair because a repaired member moves from tier dark
to tier channelled and stays a member, and the three cross-checks never touch
membership at all. The census script itself is not touched.

⛔ NOT MEASURED by running it. pnpm check:swallow-census-controls cannot run
on this box:

$ pnpm check:swallow-census-controls
EXIT=1
Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'typescript' imported from
  /home/user/objectstack-15537/scripts/measure-durability-swallow-family.mjs

That is a missing prerequisite, not a red gate — so the verdict line above is
quoted from the source that BUILDS it, and the family count is a static reading
of the declarations, which does not depend on the run. CI runs the real thing.

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Comments-only proof

$ git diff --stat origin/main...HEAD
 .github/workflows/lint.yml | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

$ git diff -U0 | grep -E '^[-+]' | grep -vE '^(\+\+\+|---)' | grep -vE '^[-+]\s*#'
(prints nothing — every changed line is a `#` comment line)

Stronger than the grep, since PyYAML is present here: the workflow is parsed
before and after and the parsed structures compare EQUAL.

$ python3 -c "..."   # yaml.safe_load of HEAD's copy vs the working copy
EXIT=0
after parses OK, jobs: 6
parsed structure identical to HEAD: True
  step: 'PM half-state sweeper self-test' | run: 'pnpm check:pm-half-states'
  step: 'Swallow-census control families (gated families only, never POSITIVE)' | run: 'pnpm check:swallow-census-controls'

Verification

Gate family derived from the tool, not guessed — and re-derived after the merge
of origin/main, on the FINAL tree:

$ node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --changed --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack
EXIT=0
dispatch-gates: gate list derived from the tree of 'objectstack-ai/objectstack' at commit 95bf71449
dispatch-gates: change set derived from git — 1 path(s) vs merge base 5b0c77909 of 'origin/main' and HEAD
37 command(s)

All 37 were run. Reading, at 95bf71449:

result	count	commands
green (EXIT=0)	18	check-position-name-fold-loaders (+--self-test), check-self-test-wired (+--self-test), check-self-test-workflow-commands (+--self-test), check-whole-set-label-write (+--self-test), docs-audit/check-drift-comment, pm/ci-failure --self-test, check:agent-test-spelling, check:declared-population-live, check:node-version, check:nul-bytes, check:pnpm-filter-targets, check:refd-timer-probe, check:type-check-coverage, check:watch-hint-literal
green (EXIT=0), re-run	1	check:pm-dispatch-gates — 1445 cases pass
⊘ NOT MEASURED	18	see below

pnpm check:pm-dispatch-gates first came back EXIT=1 with git check-ignore exited 128: fatal: pathspec '...' is beyond a symbolic link. That is this
box's node_modules symlink, not the diff: with the symlink moved aside the
same command is ✓ dispatch-gates self-test: 1445 cases pass. at EXIT=0. The
same symlink is why the first derivation reported 2 changed paths and 38
families; the clean derivation above reports 1 path and 37, the extra family
having been check:llms-txt matched via node_modules.

⊘ NOT MEASURED — named, and none of these is a pass or a finding:

exit	commands	why
3	check-aggregator-roster (+--self-test), check-closing-keyword-parity (+--self-test), check-merged-branch-reaper-outcome (+--self-test), check-step-collectors (+--self-test), check:pnpm-acquisition, check:required-contexts, check:shard-attestation, check:stall-guard-budget, check:stall-guard-headroom, check:workflow-status-functions	PREREQUISITE NOT MET — the dependency 'yaml' is not installed
3	check:driver-memory-census	PREREQUISITE NOT MET — the dependency 'typescript' is not installed
3	check:type-check-debt	PREREQUISITE NOT MET — needs a built package closure, not built here
1	check-comment-mask-corpus	Cannot find package '@typescript-eslint/parser' — a missing module, not a red gate
2	check-required-contexts --verify-required-set	NOT VERIFIED — GET .../repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack answered HTTP 401; exit 2 classifies the ENVIRONMENT

The CI-parity family named in the dispatch, check-ci-filter-parity, is not in
the runnable list at all: the derivation scores it silent as an artifact
roster. check-closing-keyword-parity IS in the list and is yaml-blocked
above. Both run for real in CI.

Additional checks:

$ pnpm check:nul-bytes
EXIT=0
check-nul-bytes: OK (scanned 7610 text file(s) -- 7610 tracked, 0 untracked-not-ignored; ... no raw ASCII control bytes).

$ grep -naP '[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]' .github/workflows/lint.yml
EXIT=1   (no match — no raw control bytes in the edited file)

$ node scripts/pm/check-governed-merges.mjs --test .github/workflows/lint.yml
EXIT=0
governed-surface predicate: 0 of 1 path(s) hit the register (5 surfaces, repo-agnostic).
  ✅  NOT governed — ordinary queue landing applies to a PR with exactly this file list.

No heavy verify was needed, so the shared verify lock was read (state: holder pid 5455) but never taken.

Changeset

None, and the skip-changeset label is the correct one by AGENTS.md's own rule,
quoted: "A bug fix in a released package takes a patch changeset — never none,
and ⛔ never skip-changeset: that label is for a diff that publishes nothing
from any released package." A comments-only edit to a workflow publishes nothing
from any package.

Filed out of scope

Two observations that this card's rulings fence off, both filed bare (no labels,
no assignee) after a dedup sweep of 617 open items over the repo-scoped REST list
endpoint with a control word verified to hit:

• extractWatchHints reads a noise-floor EXCLUSION constant as a watch hint: .changeset derives check:pm-half-states onto every changeset-adding card #15753 — extractWatchHints reads the noise-floor EXCLUSION constant as a
  watch hint. The class, not the instance: an exclusion list read as an inclusion
  surface, whose blast radius is set by whatever spelling is in the constant. The
  sibling spelling in the same noise floor is already handled
  (hintCovers('pnpm-lock.yaml','pnpm-lock.yaml') is false and it is not
  extracted as a hint at all), so a precedent shape exists.
• measure-durability-swallow-family.mjs's own usage header still says 4 control families and 3 in gated; it declares 7 and gated runs 6 #15754 — the census script's own usage header carries the same stale
  arithmetic one level in: # all 4 control families / # the 3 families CI runs, against the seven-declared / six-gated reading measured above.

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ACCEPT — PR #15756 (head 95bf71449, .github/workflows/lint.yml +59/−16) reviewed against the GitHub three-dot diff, not the report.

Comments only: git diff -U0 … | grep -vE '^[-+]\s*#' prints nothing (PM seat re-ran it: empty). git merge-tree --write-tree clean against origin/main (a9b9c7dc9) and against the other seats' lint.yml PRs #15392 and #15331 (both EXIT=0).

Both readings re-measured by this seat on main:

• [finding] lint.yml says check-half-states.mjs yields "exactly ONE hint"; it yields four, and one of them routes every card that adds a changeset #15537: extractWatchHints(check-half-states.mjs) → ["objectstack-ai/objectstack",".changeset","scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs","owner/name"] — four, as the comment now states; the .changeset routing is accepted as-is and the old "no pollution here" half is withdrawn on the true reading. Correct.
• [finding] lint.yml's swallow-census step still says the instrument declares four control families, and that gated runs three #15569: measure-durability-swallow-family.mjs declares POSITIVE_CONTROLS :367, NEGATIVE_CONTROLS :432, REGRESSION_CONTROLS :458, RESOLUTION_CONTROLS :510, WORKLIST_READING_CONTROLS :640 plus the two cross-checks; gated ? [] : POSITIVE_CONTROLS at :1922 drops exactly one → seven declared / six in gated. The card's "six / five" was off by one; the PR carries the measured reading and names the six. Correct.

Dev-filed follow-ups #15753 (noise-floor constant read as a hint — the class) and #15754 (the census script's own usage header carries the same stale arithmetic) are graded separately. skip-changeset read back present. NOT MEASURED here: the 14 yaml-blocked CI-parity gates and check:swallow-census-controls (no deps in this checkout); CI runs them.

Flip + arm when both required jobs report success on 95bf71449.

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Flipped ready + auto-merge enabled (06:33Z, method: MERGE). Required jobs on 95bf71449: Lint & Repo Gates = success, TypeScript Type Check = success; git merge-tree --write-tree origin/main <branch> → EXIT=0 re-run against the current main. Watched; on landing #15537 and #15569 close.

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