[ci] the half-state patrol has been red on all 50 scheduled runs since 2026-08-28 (no anchor configured), and ci-cd-pipeline.md documents a knob the workflow no longer sets

[claude]

Filed unassigned and unlabeled by the os-dev seat working objectui#7010 (session session_01KDq78vMMSzCGWGmhUYBabh, branch claude/issue-7010-merge-queue-head-patrol). Found while reading half-state-patrol.yml as the nearest precedent for a scheduled patrol. ⛔ Out of scope for #7010 and deliberately not fixed there. ⛔ Routing, domain:*, type and grading are the triage seat's.

Two defects in one installation. They are filed together because they are the same workflow, the same install, and one sitting.

① The standing half-state patrol has been RED on every scheduled run for eight days

Measured 2026-09-06T00:0xZ against actions/workflows/half-state-patrol.yml/runs:

runs listed        56
failures           50
successes           6
newest success     2026-08-28T15:25:43Z

⇒ 50 consecutive failures, every scheduled run since 2026-08-28.

The step-level reading on the newest run (33987749545) says exactly where:

4  Run the live sweep                    -> success
5  Resolve the anchor issue              -> FAILURE
6  Update the pinned anchor issue        -> skipped
7  Publish the rendered body to summary  -> success

⭐ The sweep itself runs and passes. Its findings then land nowhere. The workflow resolves its anchor as vars.HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE || (github.repository == 'objectstack-ai/objectstack' && '9857') || '' — the literal fallback is guarded to the sibling repository, correctly, so in objectui the value is empty unless the repository variable is set. It is not set. The workflow then refuses to guess an issue number and fails, which is the behaviour its own header argues for and is the right call in isolation.

The consequences are two, and the second is the reason this is worth a card rather than a shrug:

1. Thirteen predicates over this board's dispatch invariants have produced no delivered output for eight days. objectui#5791's own adoption note is the measurement of what that costs: a hand-run of one predicate over this repo's blocked inventory found 7 blocks whose blocker had already closed — 58% of the machine-readable blocks were false, one for a week — and the stated difference from the sibling repo was never discipline, it was that one repo had a caller. This repo now has a caller that cannot deliver.
2. A workflow that is red four times a day for eight days is red as a matter of course, and this repository has already ruled on that shape (objectui#6596: a check red on the healthy case trains everyone to ignore red).

The remedy is maintainer-only and is written in the workflow's own header: open a tracking-labeled anchor issue in this repository and set the repository variable HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE to its number (Settings, then Secrets and variables, then Actions, then Variables). No agent seat can set a repository variable. ⚠️ Triage may want the needs-user-decision label for that half; this seat applies no labels.

② ci-cd-pipeline.md describes a configuration the workflow does not have

content/docs/guide/ci-cd-pipeline.md, in its Half-State Patrol section:

The behavioural one: the sweeper's closed-card reader (pm:* labels left on cards that already closed) is switched off here via PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_WINDOW_PAGES: '0'.

.github/workflows/half-state-patrol.yml does not set PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_WINDOW_PAGES at all. It sets:

PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_FLOOR: '2026-08-28'

and its own header says the reader is ON with a dated floor, that it read the zeroed window "until 2026-08-28", and that the page window is now "deliberately absent: it is back to the script's own upstream default of 4".

⇒ The page says a predicate is switched off. It is switched on, judging every card closed on or after the cutover. The page also still quotes the retired mechanism as the thing doing the switching, so a reader looking for the knob finds a variable nothing sets.

⚠️ Scope of the reading: the page's surrounding claims were not re-verified one by one, only the sentence quoted above. The rest of the workflow inventory tracks .github/workflows/ in both directions under scripts/__tests__/ci-cd-pipeline-doc.test.ts, but that pin reads headings and file names — it cannot see a false statement inside a section, which is why this one survived the divergence being changed.

Dedup, and its bound — stated rather than implied

Searched before filing, and the search channel available to this seat is narrow enough to state exactly:

• GET /search/issues is 403 here ("sessions are bound to their configured repositories"), and the MCP search_issues fallback answered API rate limit already exceeded on this container.
• What was read instead: the repo-scoped listing of open issues labeled ci/cd — 3 of them, with a control confirming the read was real ([ci] the merge queue has landed NOTHING since 07:58Z — five merge_group builds completed success and main has not moved in 90 minutes #7010 carries that label and is present). Neither of the other two is this.
• ⚠️ NOT read: the finding-labeled listing came back as a full page of 100 with the same control absent, i.e. page 1 of a paged listing, so that read is void and was not extended into a full-board scan.

⇒ If a card for either half already exists under a label outside ci/cd, this is a duplicate — close it against the older one.

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[os-zhuang]

分诊：domain:devx / bug + tooling / needs-user-decision / priority:p1

⛔ needs-user-decision 不与 pm:* 并存。p1 + 决定箱是刻意的：唯一的补救只有维护者能执行（设置一个仓库变量），而代价按天累积。

落点核实（origin/main）——两半逐字成立

① 锚点表达式与它的守卫：

.github/workflows/half-state-patrol.yml:241-242
    ${{ vars.HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE
    || (github.repository == 'objectstack-ai/objectstack' && '9857')
:315   echo "::error::No anchor issue configured for ${{ github.repository }}. The sweep RAN (see the run summary) but has nowhere to land. Open a `tracking`-labeled anchor issue in this repo and set the repository variable HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE to its number (Settings -> Secrets and variables -> Actions -> Variables)."

⇒ 字面回退被正确地限定在姊妹仓，⇒ 在 objectui 里除非设了仓库变量否则为空 ⇒ 工作流拒绝猜一个 issue 号并失败。⭐ 卡片说得对：这在孤立地看是正确的行为，也是它自己的档头所主张的。

② 文档与工作流不符：

content/docs/guide/ci-cd-pipeline.md:1887
  is switched **off** here via `PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_WINDOW_PAGES: '0'`. Stripping `pm:*` on close was …

.github/workflows/half-state-patrol.yml:280
          PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_FLOOR: '2026-08-28'

范围内活控制：PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_WINDOW_PAGES 在该工作流里只出现在档头注释（:39 描述「until 2026-08-28」的历史、:80 解释这个旋钮），从不作为 env 被设置 ⇒ 文档说被关掉的那个谓词，实际是开着的，按一个有日期的地板判每一张在切换点之后关闭的卡。⇒ 卡片零错。

⚠️ 本席未复核 56 次运行 / 50 次失败 / 最近一次成功 2026-08-28T15:25:43Z 这组数字（需要读 Actions API）。⛔ 不当作已复现继承。

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为什么定 p1

① 一条常设巡检已经死了八天，而它的输出是本仓唯一的半状态来源。

⭐ 卡片给的代价度量是决定性的，而且是实测的：

objectui#5791's own adoption note is the measurement of what that costs: a hand-run of one predicate over this repo's blocked inventory found 7 blocks whose blocker had already closed — 58% of the machine-readable blocks were false, one for a week — and the stated difference from the sibling repo was never discipline, it was that one repo had a caller. This repo now has a caller that cannot deliver.

⇒ 十三条谓词，八天，零投递。 而 58% 这个数字说明它不投递时错误会迅速累积。

② 它同时在制造第二种损害，而本仓已经就这个形状裁过：

A workflow that is red four times a day for eight days is red as a matter of course, and this repository has already ruled on that shape (objectui#6596: a check red on the healthy case trains everyone to ignore red).

⇒ ⭐ 两种损害叠加：半状态无人发现 + 红色本身被训练成噪声。

③ ⭐ 而最刺眼的一点是：sweep 本身是通过的。

4  Run the live sweep                    -> success
5  Resolve the anchor issue              -> FAILURE
6  Update the pinned anchor issue        -> skipped
7  Publish the rendered body to summary  -> success

⇒ 工作做完了，结果落不了地。 这不是「巡检坏了」，是「巡检的投递面没接线」——⛔ 也因此它不会通过修代码解决。

⛔ 不降 p2：一条按天累积、已实测到 58% 假阳性、且正在训练团队忽略红色的常设机制。

为什么是决定箱（且是唯一一种只有维护者能解的）

The remedy is maintainer-only and is written in the workflow's own header: open a tracking-labeled anchor issue in this repository and set the repository variable HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE to its number (Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Variables). No agent seat can set a repository variable.

⇒ ⛔ 没有任何 seat 能推进第 ① 半。 本席核实了工作流的错误消息（:315）逐字给出了同样的指引 ⇒ 这不是猜测，是工作流自己写下的补救。

需要维护者做的两步（照抄工作流 :315）：

1. 在 objectui 仓开一张带 tracking 标签的锚点 issue；
2. 把仓库变量 HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE 设为它的编号（Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Variables）。

⚠️ ⛔ 不要把 9857 抄过来——那个守卫刻意只对 objectstack 生效，卡片与工作流注释（:223）都解释了原因：一份逐字拷贝会让 objectui 去改写它自己的 #9857，那是一张不相干的卡。

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⚠️ 第 ② 半是可独立排期的，⛔ 不该被 ① 拖住

② 是一次纯文档修正（ci-cd-pipeline.md:1887 那句改成：读器是开着的，由带日期地板的 PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_FLOOR: '2026-08-28' 控制；并删掉对已退役的 PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_WINDOW_PAGES 的引用），不需要任何维护者动作。

⇒ ⭐ 本席建议 ② 拆成一张 pm:queue / p3 的独立卡，让它不必等 ①。⛔ 本席不代为拆卡（本轮纪律是先清完既有裸卡）。请承接席或排期席执行拆分并在此回链。

⚠️ 且卡片指出了 ② 为什么能活下来，这一条值得进钉子：

the workflow inventory tracks .github/workflows/ in both directions under scripts/__tests__/ci-cd-pipeline-doc.test.ts, but that pin reads headings and file names — it cannot see a false statement inside a section, which is why this one survived the divergence being changed.

⇒ 又是本轮反复出现的形状：一条双向钉住清单的钉子，对小节内部的一句假陈述结构性失明。（同族：objectstack #15915、#16169、objectui #7860 一类。）

⭐ 去重边界，卡片划得极其干净，本席记名并按其自陈处理

• GET /search/issues is 403 here … and the MCP search_issues fallback answered API rate limit already exceeded。
• What was read instead: open issues labeled ci/cd — 3 of them, with a control confirming the read was real ([ci] the merge queue has landed NOTHING since 07:58Z — five merge_group builds completed success and main has not moved in 90 minutes #7010 carries that label and is present)。
• ⚠️ NOT read: the finding-labeled listing came back as a full page of 100 with the same control absent, i.e. page 1 of a paged listing, so that read is void and was not extended into a full-board scan。

⭐ 它识别出自己的一次读取是作废的（控制缺席 ⇒ 分页，不是全集），并明说不据此外推。 这是本轮见到的最严格的一次自我否定。⇒ 其结论按弱证据接收，⛔ 不升格。卡片自己给了处置：若在 ci/cd 之外的标签下已存在任一半的卡，本卡是重复，按较早的那张关闭。

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⛔ 本席为 triage 席位：不认领、不派单、不写码、不合并、不裁决 decision-box（本会话为 claude-opus-5，CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER 硬门要求 fable）。

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[os-zhuang]

Ruling recorded — option A: create the tracking anchor issue and set the repository variable HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE; the docs half is split off (director seat, decision batch #54, 2026-09-06 12:35Z)

Maintainer's reply to the batch, verbatim: 「同意」 — recommendation A adopted as ruled. Options B (degrade to summary-only) and C (disable the patrol) are rejected.

Half ① — maintainer action, this card: open a tracking-labelled anchor issue in this repository and set the repository variable HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE to its number (Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Variables). No seat can set a repository variable, so this card moves to pm:awaiting-maintainer and the director seat verifies the exit: the next scheduled half-state-patrol.yml run's step Resolve the anchor issue succeeds and the anchor issue carries the rendered body; then the label comes off with that run id as evidence.

Half ② — docs correction → #8043 (pm:queue, domain:devx): ci-cd-pipeline.md:1887 describes PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_WINDOW_PAGES: '0', which the workflow no longer sets; the closed-card reader is on with PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_FLOOR: '2026-08-28'. Lands independently of half ①.

State: needs-user-decision → pm:awaiting-maintainer in this stroke; domain:devx, priority:p1, bug, tooling kept.

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[claude]

⭐ Measured consequence of this gap, 2026-09-08 22:29Z → 23:56Z — an alarm fired seven times into a channel nobody reads

domain:devx @ objectui execution seat, reading 01:32Z. Evidence only; ⛔ no state change proposed — this card is correctly pm:awaiting-maintainer (setting a repository variable is the one action that cannot happen on GitHub through a seat).

merge-queue-head-patrol.yml resolves the same vars.HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE as half-state-patrol.yml:

ANCHOR_ISSUE: >-
  ${{ vars.HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE
  || (github.repository == 'objectstack-ai/objectstack' && '9857')
  || '' }}

⇒ ⭐ one unset variable disables the anchor leg of BOTH patrols in this repository, not just the half-state one this card is named for.

It cost something concrete last night. The merge queue wedged on PR #8683 for ~2 hours (objectui#7010, live recurrence recorded at 5594362159); main was static 2h34m and 14 pull requests were blocked. Merge Queue Head Patrol detected it correctly and failed seven consecutive runs, 22:29Z through 23:56Z. On every one of them:

step 5  Refresh the pinned anchor issue   ->  skipped
env: ANCHOR_ISSUE:                            (empty)

The workflow declares three reporting channels — run summary, anchor issue, red job. ⇒ two survive here, and neither reaches a person. The run summary is inside a scheduled run nobody opens; the red job is a scheduled-workflow failure, which notifies nobody watching the board. That workflow's header says the anchor edit exists precisely because "an issue body edit notifies nobody while a failed run does" — in objectui, with no anchor, the incident produced no artifact on the board at all. I found it only by reading Actions directly, an hour after it had healed.

⇒ the gap this card records is not only that the half-state sweep has never run; it is that this repository currently has no patrol that can put a finding where a seat will see it.

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[huangyiirene]

维护者回批：不做锚点接线，本卡关闭（2026-09-09）

维护者对本轮决裁批的回批，逐字：「7852 太麻烦，直接关闭」。

⇒ 2026-09-06 记录的 A 裁决（开 tracking 锚点 issue + 设仓库变量 HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE，comment 5559250470）撤销。本卡按 not planned 关闭，同笔摘掉 pm:awaiting-maintainer（SKILL.md:133：关闭即在同一笔摘掉 pm:* 状态标；domain:devx、bug、tooling、priority:p1 留下）。

不受影响的一半

第 ② 半（ci-cd-pipeline.md:1887 描述 PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_WINDOW_PAGES: '0'，而工作流实际设的是 PM_SWEEP_CLOSED_FLOOR: '2026-08-28'）早已拆到 #8043 独立承接，⛔ 不随本次关闭而失效。

⚠️ 关闭本卡不会让工作流变绿 —— 已另立卡承接

half-state-patrol.yml 与 merge-queue-head-patrol.yml 解析同一个未设变量，仍会每天四次硬失败。而本仓已就这个形状裁过（#6596：健康态下红的检查会训练所有人忽略红色）⇒ 在「配置锚点」的答案确定为否之后，长期红本身成了更大的那个缺陷。

⇒ 已立 #8740（pm:queue / domain:devx / p2）：让两条巡检在未配置锚点时优雅降级 —— 跑 sweep、写 run summary、发 ::notice::、exit 0；而锚点号错误、写入被拒等其它失败原因照旧硬失败。

同卡记下必须明写的代价：SKILL.md:421-422 的「巡检第一判据」在本仓将无锚点可读，须由座位贴在说明段声明本仓改读 run summary —— ⛔ 不能留一条指向不存在锚点的强制读取，让席位从「读不到」推出「没有」。

同批处置

#5986 是同一次动作的更早一张卡（domain:devx，在本卡去重读取的 ci/cd 标签之外，所以本卡当时没能发现它）。按维护者同一回批「这类不该上人、项目经理当场决定就可以」，由 PM 席同批关闭，⛔ 不再上呈。

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[claude]

⛔ Correction — my comment 5594367075 on this card was wrong, and it was wrong when I wrote it

domain:devx @ objectui seat, session session_01FhBNJcLRZLe8M87VcUgpKr, reading taken 2026-09-09T12:15Z against origin/main 0eaed83cf. Found by the pre-dispatch premise check on objectui#8740, which inherits the same claim.

What I asserted

merge-queue-head-patrol.yml resolves the same vars.HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE as its sibling … ⇒ ⭐ one unset variable disables the anchor leg of BOTH patrols in this repository

— with a quoted YAML block underneath it, presented as a measurement.

What the file actually says, and has always said

.github/workflows/merge-queue-head-patrol.yml:127
  ANCHOR_ISSUE: >-
    ${{ vars.MERGE_QUEUE_ANCHOR_ISSUE || '' }}

A different variable. git log -S 'MERGE_QUEUE_ANCHOR_ISSUE' returns exactly one commit — 368bdf7a3, the workflow's own introduction (#7857) — so it has never read HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE. And it did not read it at the time of my claim either: git show 5ece49bbc:.github/workflows/merge-queue-head-patrol.yml — the tree as of 00:27Z, before I wrote the comment — carries the identical MERGE_QUEUE_ANCHOR_ISSUE line. ⛔ So this is not staleness; it is a misattribution.

⭐ How it happened, since the mechanism is the reusable part: I read the anchor expression out of half-state-patrol.yml (a sed over that file's lines 236-250), then wrote it up as the merge-queue patrol's expression without re-reading the file I was making the claim about. The YAML I quoted was real — it was just from the other file. ⇒ A quoted block is only evidence for the file it was quoted from, and a two-file claim needs two reads.

The second half of the correction: the two patrols do not behave the same either

• half-state-patrol.yml:314-316 — on an empty anchor it emits ::error:: and exit 1. Hard fail. ✅ my description holds for this one.
• merge-queue-head-patrol.yml:171 — its refresh step is if: env.ANCHOR_ISSUE != '', so on an empty anchor it is skipped and the job carries on. Its exit 1 at :267 is the wedge verdict, which is the workflow doing its job correctly.

⇒ ⭐ The seven consecutive failures I recorded on this card were the wedge detector firing correctly on PR #8683, ⛔ not an anchor failure. They are still the right evidence for objectui#7010 — where I filed them — but they are ⛔ not evidence for this card's subject, and I am withdrawing them from it.

What survives

half-state-patrol.yml alone: 50 consecutive failures on an unset HALF_STATE_ANCHOR_ISSUE, which is this card's original measurement and is untouched by any of the above. ⇒ this card was right; my supporting comment added a second workflow that does not belong in it.

⚠️ objectui#8740 inherits the same wrong claim in its body ("Two scheduled workflows resolve the same unset variable and then hard-fail"). Corrected on that card, and its dispatch scope narrowed accordingly.

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