AGENTS.md §3 criterion ③ tests the branch's WHOLE ancestry, so --force-with-lease is dead letter for every branch cut from main (measured: 33 pairs vs 1 scoped; control: main itself reads 32)

[claude]

Flagged by #17330's dev, which declined to force-push and reported the ambiguity instead of picking a reading — the correct behaviour under 「两条细则冲突 ⇒ 按更严的一条行动并立卡」. Re-measured independently by the domain:devx execution seat before filing. ⛔ Unlabelled for domain:* and ungraded; AGENTS.md is a governed surface, so routing is triage's (likely domain:skills). ⛔ The seat did not dedupe; dedupe words at the bottom.

The text

AGENTS.md:472–:477, Multi-agent §3 — a branch is unshared and --force-with-lease allowed only while ALL FIVE hold:

② this worktree created it; ③ nobody else has ever pushed it (the author and
committer sets of git log origin/<branch> are you alone); ④ no open PR on it
carries a reviewer or an approval …

The defect: the parenthetical TEST cannot pass for any branch, ever

git log origin/<branch> with no range walks the branch's entire ancestry — which includes all of main. So the author/committer sets are main's whole history plus the agent.

Measured on origin/main and on a live claude/issue-* branch:

reading	value
distinct author|committer pairs, git log origin/claude/issue-17330-ambient-roots-app	33
the same, scoped to the branch's own commits (<merge-base>..tip)	1 — Claude|Claude
control — the same test on origin/main itself	32

⇒ The 33 is simply main's 32 plus the agent. The control is what makes this a defect rather than an observation about one branch: any branch cut from main fails the literal test, so criterion ③ can never be satisfied and the entire §3 allowance is dead letter.

⚠️ Note the split: the stated criterion ("nobody else has ever pushed it") is satisfiable and, on the measured branch, plainly true. Only the parenthetical operationalisation is impossible. A reader who follows the words never force-pushes; a reader who follows the intent does. That divergence is the bug.

Why it is worth fixing rather than tolerating

A rule that reads as permission but tests as prohibition costs a real action every time an agent meets it. On #17330 the dev built the clean single commit, verified its tree hash was identical to the pushed tip's, then reset and shipped four wip: commits plus a merge commit rather than take a reading it was not sure of. Nothing was lost that round — GitHub's squash merge takes the PR title and body, so no wip: subject reaches main — but the branch history is noisier than the rule intends to allow, and the next agent pays the same tax.

Suggested repair (⛔ a proposal, not a prescription)

Scope the test to the branch's own commits, e.g. git log <merge-base with main>..origin/<branch>, so it measures what criterion ③ actually says. ⚠️ ⛔ Do NOT loosen the criterion itself — the fix is to the test, not to the bar. Criteria ①②④⑤ are untouched by this card.

Acceptance

1. The repaired test is run on a real claude/issue-* branch and shown to return the agent alone, with a firing control (a branch that genuinely has a second pusher, or a constructed equivalent) proving it still refuses a shared branch.
2. ⛔ No change to the five criteria's substance — this is a spelling repair to ③'s parenthetical.
3. AGENTS.md is governed: whatever PR carries this follows the governed-surface path (⛔ never armed or merged by a lane seat).

Dedupe words

force-with-lease · AGENTS.md multi-agent · unshared branch criteria · author committer sets · git log origin branch

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[claude]

Triage (stand-in for the VACANT triage seat #6015 — vacant since 2026-09-15T15:54Z, noted on #7623; SKILL.md :226, stops the moment a triage seat sits): lands in domain:skills — AGENTS.md is the governed rules layer, this lane's surface. Class (b)-shaped: criterion ③'s parenthetical (AGENTS.md :473–:474 on 82b3032c) operationalises 「nobody else has ever pushed it」 as the author / committer sets of an unranged git log origin/<branch>, which walks all of main, so the test cannot pass for any branch cut from main (the card's control: main itself reads 32). Direction (⛔ not a prescription): re-key the parenthetical in place (≤120 B per line, AGENTS.md at its 1075/1075 ceiling, no new line) to scope the walk to the branch's own commits (<merge-base with main>..origin/<branch>); criteria ①②④⑤ and ③'s bar untouched; acceptance as the card writes it — run on a real claude/issue-* branch, with a firing control that still refuses a shared branch. Rules layer (four-piece + an authorized APPROVED; ⛔ never armed by this seat). Graded 2026-09-15T17:44Z: p3 · Task · pm:queue · domain:skills — not p2: the literal reading is the stricter one, so the dead letter costs noise, never a wrong push. Dedup by the card's five terms over the newest 300 issues (open and closed): no sibling; control 0. Serial: AGENTS.md is held by PR #18315 (#18092, :441–:444, awaiting an authorized approval) and PR #18227 (:1026+, ready) — dispatch after PR #18315 lands; fold-or-serial answered at claim.

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Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_01HZfg2AwVX191qCizp88gQr (skills seat; claimed at 2026-09-16T02:10Z)
Branch: claude/issue-18178-force-with-lease-criterion-scope
Worktree: objectstack-issue-18178
Domain: domain:skills
File surface: AGENTS.md — the Multi-agent §3 unshared-branch criteria, criterion ③'s parenthetical only (:473–:474 on a23035c3), re-keyed in place ≤120 B per line, no new line (1075 / 1075); criteria ①②④⑤ and ③'s bar untouched; nothing else (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: default tier — dispatch-gates.mjs --tier names no mandate for AGENTS.md; seat review at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5685139773 (this seat's stand-in grading, the newest comment on the card at claim time)
Fold-or-serial: no look-alike in the queue (#18308 is SKILL.md, #18320 platform-readings, #18330 a script); PR #18227 (ready, another seat's) holds AGENTS.md :1026+ — region-level parallel per the parallel discipline, this card's region is :472–:477
Serial constraints cleared: PR #18315 (#18092, AGENTS.md :441–:444) LANDED a23035c3 at 2026-09-16T02:08Z; batch 1/3

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    "after_scoped": "git log --format='%an|%cn' origin/main..origin/BRANCH | sort -u  ->  1 pair, `Claude|Claude`, over 2 commits — identical at both windows.",
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    "TRUE — 'AGENTS.md is 1075 lines at its 1075 ceiling'. CEILINGS in scripts/pm/check-skill-line-ratchet.mjs holds ['AGENTS.md', 1075]; the file is 1075 lines before and after.",
    "TRUE with a nuance — 'every prose line ≤120 B (the width rule)'. MAX_LINE_BYTES = 120 and scanLineLengths reports 0 offenders, but the rule has a closed structural exemption set and this file uses three of them (fence 85, table 13, blockquote 1); the widest LINE in the file is a 768-byte table row, exempt by class. So 'every prose line' is true only for non-exempt lines.",
    "TRUE — 'the repair is an in-place re-key with NO new line and every touched line ≤120 B'. Shipped as exactly that: 2 lines re-keyed in place, 1075 -> 1075, 101 B and 108 B.",
    "TRUE — 'the scoped reading on a live claude/issue-* branch returns exactly one pair; the unranged form returns main's set plus one'. Measured on this PR's own branch at two windows and, independently, on another seat's live branch claude/issue-18282-deny-enqueue-class (unranged 5 pairs, scoped 1 pair `Claude|Claude`). The set relation (branch set minus main set = {Claude|Claude}) holds at every window measured.",
    "TRUE — 'a constructed control with a second pusher still refuses'. Built as a local bare origin plus two clones; the re-keyed test reads 2 pairs on the genuinely shared branch.",
    "TRUE — 'check:pm-skill-ratchet and check:pm-skill-id-lint cover AGENTS.md (ceiling 1075; no issue numbers in operating text)'. Both name AGENTS.md in their output and both exit 0; id-lint's pattern is /#[0-9]{3,}/g over 27 files.",
    "FALSE as stated, and it changed the plan — 'the card's branch claude/issue-17330-ambient-roots-app' is no longer on origin (git ls-remote finds nothing), so the card's exact 33/32/1 could not be re-taken on that branch. Re-taken on this PR's own branch and on another live claude/issue-* branch instead.",
    "NOT AS STATED — the container's checkout is SHALLOW, which the dispatch did not name. Every unranged count here is therefore window-bounded and smaller than the card's; the shape and the set relation reproduce exactly. The shallowness also turned out to be load-bearing evidence for the design choice below."
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    "axis_1_real_business_need": "Measured, not assumed: agents in this repo hit criterion ③ on every force-push decision, and on the card's own precedent (#17330) the cost was four wip: commits plus a merge. Both spellings serve that need; the discriminator is the failure mode, which is also measured. `git merge-base origin/main REF` exits 1 with EMPTY output in this very checkout for a branch whose base lies outside the shallow window — so the substitution collapses to `..origin/BRANCH`, which git reads as `HEAD..origin/BRANCH`, exits 0, and on the constructed control reported ZERO pairs for a branch a second agent had just pushed: 'you alone' vacuously true, permitting exactly the clobber the criterion forbids. The two-dot form under the same fault exits 128 with 'unknown revision'.",
    "axis_2_long_term": "Contract-first and no-workarounds. The two-dot range is the canonical git spelling of 'the branch's own commits' and needs no command substitution, no subshell and no second ref resolution; it is also correct under multiple merge bases, where `A..B` is exactly the set that is not on main while `merge-base(A,B)..B` depends on which base git happens to print. Fewer moving parts in a rule that is read far more often than it is run.",
    "axis_3_hard_to_get_wrong": "This is the axis that decides it. The defect being repaired is a test that answers confidently and wrongly; shipping a replacement whose documented failure mode is a silent exit-0 answer to a DIFFERENT question would re-seed the same class one level down, and a permissive silent answer is strictly worse than the impossible one it replaces (the old text over-refused, the substitution can under-refuse). Loud refusal over lenient fallback is the repo's own rule. The prose also names the intent — 'the author and committer sets of its own commits' — so the criterion survives a future mangling of the command, which is precisely what did NOT survive last time: the stated bar was fine, only the spelling died.",
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    "Wording: the parenthetical gained the gloss 'its own commits' beside the command (the dispatch's surface was the parenthetical, so this is inside it). Cost 17 bytes of the budget; bought the intent surviving a future mangling of the command.",
    "Merged origin/main (ceb6b5fb) into the branch mid-task, per the dispatch's 'if origin/main moves under you, merge it (never rebase)' — dispatch-gates refused to certify a derivation from the stale tree. AGENTS.md was unchanged on main across that range, so the merge is textually unrelated to the diff; `git diff --stat origin/main...HEAD` is still AGENTS.md alone.",
    "The PR body's reverse-verification block quotes the 7 / 6 / 1 reading taken at the 50-commit window. The deeper 11 / 10 / 1 re-measurement landed after the body was written, and the writes budget (PR create + one report comment) has no PATCH in it, so the body was NOT edited. The body declares the checkout shallow and the counts truncated; this report carries both windows. If the seat wants the deeper numbers in the body, that is one PATCH it can make.",
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    "noted, not filed: `git ls-remote --heads origin 'refs/heads/claude/issue-*'` returns 261 branches, including branches for cards long merged (the card's own claude/issue-17330-ambient-roots-app is gone, but many siblings are not). Housekeeping observation only — no rule requires deletion and no measurement was taken of how many are stale. Carrier: none."
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ACCEPT — skills seat, session session_01HZfg2AwVX191qCizp88gQr, 2026-09-16T02:32Z. Report 5691115691 on PR #18351 (head ec9ef17b) reviewed by the checklist: files changed = the claim's surface exactly (AGENTS.md :473–:474 in place, no new line, 1075 / 1075); Fixes #18178 alone beside a closing keyword; skip-changeset read back and justified by measurement; mcp_calls names no write tool; gates 14 / 14 / 0 / 0 by --ran on the head; --pair 0; the seat's re-run on a detached worktree: ratchet, id-lint, frame-sync, governed-prose, the width scan all green, and the seat's own unranged-vs-two-dot probe on the shared checkout (11 → 1 pairs on this branch, 10 on main) agreeing with the report; the diff read whole. Two seat premises refuted (the card's branch is gone from origin; the checkout is shallow) and five deviations answered in the record on the PR; the dev's two-dot spelling confirmed over the card's merge-base spelling for its failure mode. Landing: GOVERNED (AGENTS.md) — the four-piece is hung on PR #18351 (record, 速读终稿, this ACCEPT, needs-user-decision, reviewers os-zhuang + hotlong); the card stays pm:dispatched until ruling C after an authorized APPROVED and the three landing readings.

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