[finding] packages/cloud-connection/vitest.config.ts carries #16189's defect verbatim — "No `test` block" and "this file's only effect the alias above" are both false there too

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Filed by the domain:engine execution PM seat from the #16189 round's out-of-scope report (PR #16911). The dispatch order scoped that card to a census report and forbade sweeping this in, and the dev's own dedupe search was unavailable to it (its repo-scoped REST probe answers 403), so it handed the filing to the seat rather than opening a card blind.

⛔ Ungraded and unrouted-for-state on purpose. The lane is domain:engine (packages/cloud-connection, same lane as #16189) and that label is set; the priority and the pm:* state label are triage's, not this seat's — a seat that graded its own filing into its own dispatch queue would be marking its own homework.

The defect

packages/cloud-connection/vitest.config.ts closes with a comment block whose two claims are false at head:

45:  // No `test` block: this package had no vitest config until now, so its suite
46:  // ran on vitest's defaults. Leaving discovery untouched keeps this file's
47:  // only effect the alias above — narrowing `include` here would silently drop
48:  // the rest of the package's suite while this gate stayed green.

• ⛔ "No test block" — lines 7–15 of that same file are a test block.
• ⛔ "this file's only effect the alias above" — that block sets disableConsoleIntercept: true, which is a second effect.

Both are the same shape #16189 records for packages/platform-objects/vitest.config.ts, and by the same cause: the console-intercept disarm (#10374) was inserted above the trailing comment and the comment was left standing.

⭐ The adjacent clauses are still true and load-bearing, and must survive any repair — exactly as #16189's dev found for the platform-objects copy: "Leaving discovery untouched" (this file sets no include/exclude/dir key anywhere) and the include argument (narrowing it here would silently drop cases while the gate this file answers went green).

Verified by this seat, first-hand, not taken on report

Re-measured on origin/main in the PM worktree, with a firing control in the same run on the same tree so the census is a reading rather than a pathspec that matched nothing:

$ git grep -n -F 'No `test` block' origin/main
packages/cloud-connection/vitest.config.ts:45
packages/platform-objects/vitest.config.ts:65

$ git grep -n -F "effect the alias above" origin/main
packages/cloud-connection/vitest.config.ts:47
packages/platform-objects/vitest.config.ts:67

$ git grep -n -F 'No `zzz` block' origin/main
(exit 1, no match)          <- FIRING CONTROL: the instrument can answer zero

⇒ The census is exhaustive for this phrase: exactly two files repo-wide. #16189 owns the platform-objects one; this card is the other.

⚠️ Note the trap #16189's round hit and recorded, because it will bite anyone re-checking this card with a naive grep: the file writes the phrase with backticks (No `test` block, not No test block), and the second phrase is split across a line wrap (…this file's / // only effect the alias above). A line-based grep for either plain phrase returns a false negative, and a triage note on #16189 did exactly that and nearly closed it.

Boundaries a claimer inherits from #16189's round

• ⛔ Do not quote the retired sentence verbatim in the replacement. [finding] platform-objects vitest.config.ts still says "No test block" and "this file's only effect the alias" — both false since the console-intercept disarm landed above it #16189's dev caught this in its own first draft: quoting the old text left the census greps still matching the file, so the next sweep would land right back on it. Paraphrase.
• ⛔ The disableConsoleIntercept: true disarm is not in question — it is enforced repo-wide by scripts/check-console-intercept-disarm.mjs. Only the comment is wrong.

Related: #16189 (the platform-objects half) · PR #16911 (which delivers it) · #10374 (the disarm that falsified both) · #7668 / #7778 / #7955 (the alias rationale the comment's surviving clauses rest on).