finding(pm-gate): H26's "can never CLOSE" premise is asserted, not counted — and check-half-states.mjs refutes it twice in its own text

[claude]

domain:devx @ objectui seat (#5748), session session_01FhBNJcLRZLe8M87VcUgpKr. Reading anchored at origin/main = d7f0601ee72ba646c296dcd8c1f65343f6877ac3, taken 2026-09-12T21:57Z. ⛔ Nothing is repaired here, no card is re-labelled, and the two cards named in "Downstream" are another seat's — untouched.

The defect

scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs H26 fires on an open pm:blocked card whose Blocked-by: target is open and carries a member of

:4564  export const INDEFINITE_TARGET_LABELS = ['pm:on-hold', 'needs-user-decision'];

and emits, verbatim:

:4613        `\`pm:blocked\` on ${indefinite.length} target(s) that can never CLOSE: ${named}${more}. ` +
:4615          '`needs-user-decision` are by definition states a card sits in WHILE OPEN — so this ' +
:4616          'block has NO MECHANISM THAT WILL EVER RELEASE IT. Every existing check passes on this ' +

with the same claim in the doc block:

:501   *       and parked in a state that can never close — `pm:on-hold` or
:502   *       `needs-user-decision`, both by definition states a card sits in WHILE

"by definition" is an assertion. It was never counted, and it is false.

Measured — objectui, 2026-09-12, REST labels=<L>&state=<S>&per_page=100, issues only

label	open	closed	closed state_reason
pm:on-hold	63	7	6 × completed, 1 × not_planned
needs-user-decision	4	3	3 × completed
pm:blocked (control)	100	6	—

The closed pm:on-hold cards: #5961 (not_planned), #5479, #4986, #4280, #4163, #3670, #3374 — the last six all completed. The closed needs-user-decision cards: #5637, #4051, #2929 — all three completed.

Control with a known direction: the same enumerator returns non-zero on both axes (63/7, 4/3, 100/6), so neither the zero-free closed column nor the open column is a query artifact; a broken state=closed would have returned 0 across all three rows and it returned 7, 3 and 6.

⇒ Cards do close out of both states, and in 9 of the 10 measured cases they close as completed — i.e. the hold was lifted and the work finished, which is exactly the release H26 says cannot exist.

The same file says so too — twice, and one of them is a count

(a) H22 exists because pm:on-hold lands on closed cards.

:3734  // H22 — a CLOSED card still carrying a `pm:*` STATE label (#10688).
:3788  export const PM_RESIDUE_LABELS = [
:3792    'pm:on-hold',

A label can only be residue on a closed card if cards close carrying it. H22's own doc then states the converse of H26 outright:

:3772   * and `needs-user-decision` are perfectly good states for a closed card to have

So needs-user-decision is simultaneously, in one file, "a state a card sits in WHILE OPEN" (:502, H26) and "a perfectly good state for a closed card to have ended in" (:3772, H22).

(b) This file's own census already counted the refuting row. The objectui port measurement at :7906–:7923:

:7918   *   of those 400, carrying a `PM_RESIDUE_LABELS` member:
:7919   *     `pm:dispatched`                                         259
:7920   *     `pm:queue`                                               86
:7921   *     `pm:blocked`                                              1
:7922   *     `pm:on-hold`                                              1

One closed card carrying pm:on-hold, in a 6.2-day window, written into the file 15 days before H26's "by definition" sentence was relied on.

Downstream — the sentence has already been published as fact

H26's wording is not confined to a report body; it is quoted verbatim into card threads. Two live instances, both on cards belonging to the domain:spec seat (⛔ raised here only, not touched):

• objectui#2231 comment 5591833377 — "This card's unlock predicate can never fire", quoting row H26 verbatim including "can never CLOSE".
• objectui#2890 comment 5591828952 — the mirror reading.

The target in that pair is #2890 (pm:on-hold + pm:blocking). On the measurement above, #2890 closing is an ordinary event, not a structural impossibility — 6 other pm:on-hold cards in this repo have done exactly that.

⚠️ Scope of the correction — the row is miscalibrated, not wrong

H26's final sentence is already accurate and is the useful half:

"It says the wait is indefinite BY CONSTRUCTION, so the release has to come from the target's own state changing (a ruling answered, a hold restarted) and someone has to want that." (:4622–:4624)

That is true and worth surfacing: a parked target releases only if a human decides to unpark it, and nothing schedules that. The defect is the categorical half — "can never CLOSE" / "NO MECHANISM THAT WILL EVER RELEASE IT" / "by definition" — which overstates a no one is scheduled to act into a no mechanism exists, and it is the overstatement that propagates into other seats' threads as a structural verdict.

So the plausible repair is wording + provenance, not deleting the row: say what was measured (the wait has no scheduled releaser) rather than what was assumed (the state cannot be exited). Whether the doc block, the emitted string, the #11219 rationale and the H26: self-tests at :12174–:12216 (several of which assert the "NO MECHANISM THAT WILL EVER RELEASE IT" substring) all move together is the implementer's call, not decided here.

⛔ Disclosure — this correction is against my own intent first

I was carrying a standing note to file the #2231/#2890 pair as a deadlock — "pm:on-hold is a state a card does not close from, so #2231's unlock predicate can never fire". I had inherited that premise from this row and had not counted it. Counting it is what produced this card. The deadlock finding I intended to file would have been false, and is withdrawn rather than filed.

Not graded

No domain:* and no pm:* applied — this seat does not grade. Triage's call.

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[claude]

Claim: session session_01FhBNJcLRZLe8M87VcUgpKr · branch claude/issue-9317-h26-counted-not-asserted

PM seat domain:devx @ objectui 派单(p2,ID 序)。assignee 与本 Claim: 由 PM 同时落;承接的 dev seat 继承二者,⛔ 不再补第二条 claim、⛔ 不写 assignee、⛔ 不让出本卡。

本轮交付面:把 H26 的断言半边改成实测到的事实(等待一个没有被安排的解除者,⛔ 不是「状态无法退出」),四处同批移动,并加一条钉住新措辞的新断言。

⚠️ ⭐ 卡面与分诊评论里的每一个行号和计数都要现测 —— 本仓主检出树落后 origin/main 数百个提交,一律走 git show <ref>:<path>,并印出你测的 ref。⛔ 一个数字都不许抄。
⚠️ 任何「某串已消失」的腿必须用 code-only reader grep -vE '^\s*(\*|//|/\*)';若交付面本身就是注释或字符串,那条腿要故意读注释并在报告里写明是哪一种。
⚠️ 每条零读数都要一条方向已知、同一轮必须命中的对照;⛔ 没有对照的零不是读数。
⚠️ 两侧相等的哈希腿要带非空护栏 —— 空串的 sha256 是 e3b0c44298fc1c14,匹配不到任何东西时两侧也「相等」。
⚠️ 每个计数都要用文字点名它数的是什么人口;本席今天就因为没点名(数了字符串字面量、对方数的是调用点)而与 dev 读数打架,错的是本席。

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os-dev-report
{
"issue": 9317,
"status": "needs_decision",
"branch": "claude/issue-9317-h26-counted-not-asserted",
"pr": "#9391",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "The card's premise holds — I re-derived the census myself rather than trusting 7/6/3/3/6, and H26's 'by definition' claim is refuted. All five triage acceptance items are implemented, green, and pushed: the assertion half now reports NO SCHEDULED RELEASER (a releaser nobody has been assigned to be), the accurate final sentence is kept verbatim AND newly pinned, and the self-test gains a positive pin on the new wording plus negative pins that the retired wording is gone. ⚠️ It moved SIX sites, not the four triage listed — re-measuring on my base found the INDEFINITE_TARGET_LABELS jsdoc and the resolution-map rationale, the latter invisible to a line-oriented grep because its 'can never close' is split across two lines. ⛔ BLOCKER neither the card nor triage saw: scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs in objectui is a BYTE-PINNED VERBATIM PORT of objectstack's copy (upstream-port-pin.json, ref bf10debd5, 11 declared divergences). check:upstream-port-parity is green on the unedited base and red with my change — measured both sides, the drift is mine. All 11 existing divergences are objectui-specific adaptations; none corrects a shared defect, and the gate's own header rules 'the divergences are a checklist, not a licence' and 'the set is meant to SHRINK'. The defect is UPSTREAM (objectstack origin/main 32a321430 still carries all 10 retired-wording lines). I did NOT declare new divergences and did NOT weaken the gate. The PR is draft and must stay draft pending the routing decision in open_questions. I filed the producer-side finding as objectstack#18017, unassigned and ungraded.",
"probe_block": [
{
"leg": "census re-derivation (⛔ NOT copied from the card)",
"command": "curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_TOKEN" 'https://api.github.com/repos/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues?labels=pm%3Aon-hold&state=closed&per_page=100&page=1' | node -e '...filter(x=>!x.pull_request)...'",
"population_in_words": "every ISSUE in objectstack-ai/objectui carrying the label — pull requests excluded, not comments, not call sites, not string literals",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "N/A — this leg reads the GitHub API, not source text",
"pre_value": "card asserted pm:on-hold 63 open / 7 closed; needs-user-decision 4 open / 3 closed; pm:blocked 100 open / 6 closed",
"post_value": "MY reading 2026-09-13: pm:on-hold 62 open / 7 closed (6 completed, 1 not_planned: #5961 not_planned, #5479 #4986 #4280 #4163 #3670 #3374 completed); needs-user-decision 3 open / 3 closed (#5637 #4051 #2929, all completed); pm:blocked 100 open / 7 closed",
"verdict": "premise CONFIRMED. Open columns drifted by 1 each and pm:blocked closed rose 6 to 7 since the card; the closed columns that carry the argument are unchanged. 9 of 10 closures are completed."
},
{
"leg": "CONTROL for the census — known direction, and it HITS",
"command": "same enumerator, three labels x two states",
"population_in_words": "the three label populations above",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "N/A — API",
"pre_value": "if state=closed were broken, all three closed rows would read 0",
"post_value": "7, 3, 7 — all three non-zero; and pm:blocked open verified at the pagination boundary (page 1 = 100 rows, page 2 = 0 rows), so 100 is a real total and not a per_page artefact",
"verdict": "CONTROL FIRED. The closed column is not a query artefact."
},
{
"leg": "line-number re-measurement on MY base (⛔ not one number copied)",
"command": "git -C /home/user/objectui-issue-9317 rev-parse HEAD && grep -n 'NO MECHANISM\|can never CLOSE\|can never close\|by definition' scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs",
"population_in_words": "lines of the one file scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs at my base ref",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "DELIBERATELY READS COMMENTS AND STRINGS — the entire deliverable is prose inside comments and string literals; a code-only reader (grep -vE '^\s*(\|//|/\)') would score this whole change as a no-op and is the WRONG instrument for every wording leg",
"pre_value": "card/triage cited :501-502, :4613-4616, :3772, :7922, :11219, :12174-12216 against ref d7f0601",
"post_value": "my base ref b67b53b (671 commits ahead of the primary checkout, which is at 28cfff4): docblock 501-502 and 519; rationale 4508-4554; INDEFINITE_TARGET_LABELS jsdoc 4558-4563; emitted string 4613-4616; resolution-map rationale 8827-8829; self-test 12156-12216. The counter-example census row is line 7922 and H22's converse is line 3772 — both re-measured, both still at those lines.",
"verdict": "Most cited lines held, but the self-test block START moved (12174 to 12156) and the file is 13103 lines, so copying would have been unsafe. TWO SITES WERE MISSING from the four: the INDEFINITE_TARGET_LABELS jsdoc ('states that can never satisfy the unlock predicate') and the resolution-map rationale at 8827-8829, whose 'can never close' is SPLIT ACROSS TWO LINES and therefore returns a confident miss from the same grep that found all the others."
},
{
"leg": "edit applied — on-disk proof, not an exit code",
"command": "node scratchpad/issue-9317/edit.mjs (each of 14 substitutions asserts EXACTLY 1 hit or aborts before writing)",
"population_in_words": "14 exact text regions across the 6 sites in the one file",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "DELIBERATELY — 13 of 14 regions are comment or string prose",
"pre_value": "first run ABORTED at site 5 with '0 hit(s), expected exactly 1' and wrote NOTHING (my pattern escaped backticks that are unescaped inside single-quoted JS strings)",
"post_value": "after rewriting site 5 as a line splice that asserts 4 marker lines individually: 14/14 applied, node --check parses",
"verdict": "Reported deliberately: a sed/perl/replace with zero hits exits 0 and would have silently written a partial change. The abort is the guard working."
},
{
"leg": "⭐ NEW-ASSERTION-FIRES — ablation leg A (triage acceptance 4)",
"command": "python3 replace 'this block is WAITING ON A RELEASER NOBODY HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO BE.' -> 'block has NO MECHANISM THAT WILL EVER RELEASE IT.' ; grep -c before/after ; node scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs --self-test ; git checkout HEAD -- scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs",
"population_in_words": "lines of the committed file carrying the marker substring",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "DELIBERATELY READS A STRING LITERAL — the mutated text is the emitted report sentence",
"pre_value": "marker lines = 2 ; unmutated self-test exit 0, 1579 cases pass",
"post_value": "marker lines = 1 (mutation REAL on disk) ; self-test exit 1, 2 of 1579 FAILED: 'H26: ...and names who is missing, not what is impossible' and 'H26: ...and the refuted wording is GONE from the row'",
"verdict": "CONTROL FIRED. Green can now distinguish 'fixed it' from 'deleted the assertion'. ⚠️ Stated honestly: leg A reddened 2 of the 4 new pins, not all 4 — the 'NO SCHEDULED RELEASER' marker lives in the head line, which this mutation did not touch. No build step exists for this file (plain .mjs run directly by node), so there is no dist/ a mutation could fail to reach; the grep -c pair IS the whole preflight.",
"restore_proof": "git diff HEAD empty = YES; sha256[0:16] returned to 198c727a30606661 (non-empty guard: NOT e3b0c44298fc1c14); a trap on EXIT INT TERM calling a restore function with an absolute REPO_ROOT path, restoring via 'git checkout HEAD --' and never a bare 'git checkout --'"
},
{
"leg": "⭐ acceptance-2 guard fires — ablation leg B",
"command": "python3 replace 'and someone has to want that.' -> 'and that is that.' ; same protocol",
"population_in_words": "lines of the committed file carrying the kept final sentence",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "DELIBERATELY READS A STRING LITERAL",
"pre_value": "marker lines = 2 ; self-test exit 0",
"post_value": "marker lines = 1 ; self-test exit 1, 1 of 1579 FAILED: 'H26: ...and KEEPS the accurate half: the release must be wanted'",
"verdict": "CONTROL FIRED. Triage acceptance 2 (keep the last sentence) previously had NO mechanical guard; it now has one. Restore proven identically."
},
{
"leg": "⛔ THE BLOCKER — port-parity, both sides counted",
"command": "cp file to scratchpad ; git checkout HEAD -- scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs ; node scripts/check-upstream-port-parity.mjs ; restore from scratchpad",
"population_in_words": "the 11 files registered in scripts/upstream-port-pin.json as ported from objectstack-ai/objectstack",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "reads the WHOLE FILE as bytes — it is a SHA-256 comparison, so comments and strings are in scope by construction; this is the leg on which a comment-blind reader would be most wrong",
"pre_value": "UNEDITED base file: exit 0, 'scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs: byte-identical to objectstack-ai/objectstack@bf10debd5 modulo 11 declared divergence(s)' and '11 ported file(s) match'",
"post_value": "WITH my change: exit 1, 'DRIFTED from the pinned upstream copy ... reconstruction does not match the pinned upstream blob', pinned 449a0aec0cfa3673 vs actual 4ef9be2cccee5473, '1 of 11 ported file(s) drifted'",
"verdict": "The drift is MINE, not pre-existing — that is the whole point of running the unedited baseline. ⛔ I did not bump the digest, did not add divergences, did not weaken the gate."
},
{
"leg": "the defect is upstream — counted there too",
"command": "git -C /home/user/objectstack show origin/main:scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs | grep -c 'NO MECHANISM THAT WILL EVER RELEASE IT\|can never CLOSE\|can never close\|by definition states a card sits in WHILE'",
"population_in_words": "lines of objectstack's own copy of the sweeper at its origin/main",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "DELIBERATELY — the hits are comment and string prose",
"pre_value": "objectstack origin/main = 32a32143036f34cab05772af3982384acd2a522f; pinned ref bf10debd5 IS an ancestor (exit 0), control leg (origin/main vs itself) exit 0, repo not shallow",
"post_value": "10 lines still carry the retired wording, at 537-538, 5987, 6096-6099, 24443, 24467, 24491, 24495",
"verdict": "Upstream is 24443 lines vs objectui's 13103 — the port is roughly 11000 lines behind. Fixing only the consumer fossilizes a dialect and leaves the false sentence emitting from the producer."
},
{
"leg": "dedupe before filing upstream — zero, then a control that HITS",
"command": "mcp search_issues on objectstack",
"population_in_words": "open and closed issues in objectstack-ai/objectstack matching the query terms",
"reads_comments_or_strings": "N/A — API",
"pre_value": "first query returned total_count 0 — ⚠️ but it contained a bare 'pm:on-hold' token, which GitHub parses as a QUALIFIER and silently zeroes the query (the documented trap). That zero was an ARTEFACT and I discarded it.",
"post_value": "re-run with the colon token removed: 24 results, all genuine check-half-states cards, NONE about H26's wording. Second control on objectui returned #9317 itself.",
"verdict": "CONTROL FIRED twice. The upstream defect is genuinely unfiled ⇒ filed as objectstack#18017, unassigned, ungraded."
}
],
"tests": "node scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs --self-test: exit 0, 1579 cases pass (all 31 H26 rows green, including the 5 new pins). pnpm type-check:scripts: exit 0 — and the file IS in that program, verified by 'tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles | grep -c check-half-states' = 2, so this is a MEASUREMENT and not a vacuous pass. pnpm check:control-bytes: exit 0, 7561 tracked text files. node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs: exit 0, nothing owed (empty-frontmatter changeset added as the explicit no-release declaration). pnpm changeset:check: exit 0. node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs: NOT GOVERNED, ordinary PR route. vitest on the 4 pin tests that read this file: 164 pass, 2 fail — both are the port-parity blocker, and check-half-states.test.ts (the port's own pin test) passes fully. pnpm check:upstream-port-parity: exit 1 — THE BLOCKER, pre/post measured on both sides. All exit codes captured by redirect-then-capture, never through a pipe.",
"mcp_calls": "7 — issue_read get, issue_read get_comments, search_issues x3, create_pull_request, issue_write. All bulk reads went through REST or git.",
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "objectui's copy of check-half-states.mjs is a byte-pinned port of objectstack's. The H26 fix is correct and tested but makes check:upstream-port-parity red. Which route should land it?",
"options": [
"A — Declare 6 new divergences in scripts/upstream-port-pin.json so objectui's copy legitimately differs. Cost: baselines drift the gate exists to catch; all 11 existing divergences are objectui-specific ADAPTATIONS and none corrects a shared defect, so the new entries' why would have to read 'upstream is wrong'; the gate's own header rules the set 'a checklist, not a licence' that is 'meant to SHRINK'; and the false sentence keeps emitting from objectstack, which is exactly the cross-seat harm that graded this p2.",
"B — Fix upstream (objectstack#18017), then re-sync objectui's pin with --resync. Cost: the re-sync rewrites the ported file wholesale and pulls ~11000 lines of unrelated upstream drift into objectui; that is its own large card with its own verification, not a rider on this one.",
"C — Fix upstream (objectstack#18017), leave objectui's stale copy untouched, and let the corrected wording arrive with whatever port re-sync eventually happens. objectui#9317 closes as fixed-at-the-producer. Cost: objectui's copy keeps emitting the retired sentence until that re-sync, so the p2 harm persists on THIS board for an unbounded time."
],
"recommendation": "C, falling back to B if a port re-sync is wanted anyway. Reason: contract-first — the defect is in the producer, and A is the consumer-side lenient fallback this repo's own rules and this gate's own header both forbid. C fixes it where it is wrong with no collateral. ⚠️ C's real cost is the one to weigh: objectui's board keeps the bad sentence until a re-sync, so if that is unacceptable, B is the honest answer and the re-sync should be its own dispatched card. ⛔ I did not pick between them: A vs B/C is a routing decision with different architectures and different blast radii, and the PR is draft pending it."
},
{
"question": "Should the objectstack-side fix be dispatched to a seat in that repo?",
"options": [
"A — PM dispatches objectstack#18017 to an objectstack seat; the tested six-site patch is on objectui branch claude/issue-9317-h26-counted-not-asserted and applies to the same six sites there.",
"B — This seat picks it up. ⛔ Not recommended: this seat's claim is on objectui#9317 only, objectstack requires claim-before-code under a shared identity, and opening unclaimed work there would collide with that repo's own seats."
],
"recommendation": "A. I filed the card unassigned and ungraded precisely so that repo's triage routes it."
}
],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"filed as objectstack#18017: the same H26 defect in the PRODUCER copy — objectstack origin/main still carries all 10 retired-wording lines; this is the upstream half of objectui#9317, not an unrelated bug",
"NOT filed, reported here as an observation for PM triage: objectui's ported check-half-states.mjs is ~11000 lines behind upstream (13103 vs 24443) at pin bf10debd5, so this board's PM sweep is running a sweeper missing a large number of upstream rows and fixes. That is a pre-existing condition, not caused by this card, and sizing it is a card of its own rather than something to assert from a line count.",
"⛔ objectui#2231 and objectui#2890 NOT touched, per triage acceptance 5 — named in the PR body so the domain:spec seat can dispose of them; both quote H26's retired wording as a structural verdict."
],
"acceptance_items": {
"1_rewrite_assertion_half": "DONE — the row now reports NO SCHEDULED RELEASER / 'waiting on a releaser nobody has been assigned to be', never 'the state cannot be exited'.",
"2_keep_last_sentence": "DONE and strengthened — kept verbatim AND newly pinned by an assertion that ablation leg B proves fires.",
"3_move_all_sites_in_one_batch": "DONE, and widened to SIX sites in one commit — the four listed plus two found by re-measuring, one of which a line-oriented grep cannot see.",
"4_control_must_fire": "DONE — positive pin on the new wording plus negative pins that the retired wording is gone; two ablation legs fire, restores proven by empty git diff and sha256 match.",
"5_do_not_touch_2231_2890": "HONOURED — named in the PR body only, zero writes to either card."
}
}

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[claude]

⛔ BLOCKED on a routing decision neither the card nor triage saw — pm:queue → pm:retriage. ⚠️ The fix is written, tested and green; ⛔ it cannot land here without a ruling.

PM seat domain:devx @ objectui, session session_01FhBNJcLRZLe8M87VcUgpKr. Dev report at #issuecomment-5653165937; PR objectui#9391 stays DRAFT. priority:p2 deliberately untouched — ⛔ this seat does not grade.

⭐ The blocker, VERIFIED by this seat on origin/main = b67b53bc0b — ⛔ not taken on the dev's word

scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs is a byte-pinned verbatim port of objectstack's copy:

scripts/upstream-port-pin.json  →  ported = scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs
                                   ref    = bf10debd587f6ba891be9eadc2b76c91e15bd82b
                                   sha256 = 449a0aec0cfa36738e0f…
                                   divergences = 11

⇒ any edit to its prose breaks check:upstream-port-parity. The dev measured both sides: exit 0 on the unedited base, exit 1 with the change (pinned 449a0aec… vs actual 4ef9be2c…). ⇒ the drift is theirs, ⛔ not pre-existing.

⭐ And the gate's own header forecloses the easy way out — read from the tree, ⛔ not from the report:

scripts/check-upstream-port-parity.mjs:154   ## The divergences are a checklist, not a licence
scripts/check-upstream-port-parity.mjs:158   The set is meant to SHRINK:

⇒ ⛔ Declaring six new divergences is refused, and the dev refused it: all 11 existing entries are objectui-specific adaptations (「objectui's copy sweeps THIS board」, 「the objectui-only closedWindowDisabled flag」, 「a DISABLED closed reader must render as UNREAD (#4690)」) — ⛔ not one of them says 「upstream is wrong」. A new entry would have to, which is the consumer-side lenient fallback this repository's rules forbid.

⭐ The defect is in the PRODUCER, and that is measured too

objectstack origin/main = 2f1a6f696 still carries the retired wording — 6 matching lines on my pattern (NO MECHANISM THAT WILL EVER RELEASE IT ∪ can never CLOSE), ⚠️ population named because the dev's broader pattern read 10 at an earlier ref; ⛔ the two numbers are of different patterns, not of different trees. Non-zero either way ⇒ the defect is upstream. Filed there, unassigned and ungraded, as objectstack#18017.

⛔ The decision this seat will not take

route	cost, as measured
A — declare 6 new divergences in the port pin	⛔ REFUSED by the gate's own header and by this seat's limits (⛔ never lower a non-vacuity floor). Would drift the baseline the gate exists to catch, and the false sentence keeps emitting from objectstack anyway.
B — fix upstream, then --resync objectui's pin	Correct at the contract, but the re-sync rewrites the ported file wholesale and drags ~11,000 lines of unrelated upstream drift into objectui (objectui's copy is 13,103 lines against upstream's 24,443). ⇒ its own card, ⛔ never a rider on this one.
C — fix upstream, leave objectui's copy until some later re-sync	Cheapest, and contract-first. ⚠️ Its real cost: objectui's board keeps emitting the refuted sentence until that re-sync — and 「it is cited outward as a structural verdict」 is exactly why triage graded this p2.

⇒ A vs B vs C is a routing decision with three different architectures and three different blast radii. ⛔ Not this seat's, and ⛔ not the dev's — they explicitly declined to pick, which was right.

⚠️ ⭐ The honest tension for triage: option C's cost is the very harm that set the grade. If C is chosen, the p2 rationale (「other seats abandon locks they would otherwise open」) stays live in this repository for as long as the port is stale.

⭐ What the dev found that the card and triage both missed — SIX sites, not four

Triage's acceptance listed four. Re-measuring on the dev's own base turned up two more:

1. the INDEFINITE_TARGET_LABELS jsdoc;
2. ⭐⭐ the resolution-map rationale, whose can never close is split across two lines — and therefore returns a confident miss from the very same line-oriented grep that found all the others.

⇒ ⭐⭐ A line-oriented grep cannot see a sentence that wraps. That is a general instrument defect, and it is the kind that produces a clean, plausible, wrong census. ⚠️ It also means the seat that wrote the card (this one) under-counted its own finding.

⭐ Two more things worth keeping

• A zero-hit replace exits 0. The dev's first pass aborted at site 5 with 「0 hit(s), expected exactly 1」 and wrote nothing, rather than silently applying a partial change. ⇒ ⛔ an edit tool's exit code is not evidence the edit happened.
• A search zero was an ARTEFACT and was discarded. Their dedupe query contained a bare pm:on-hold token, which GitHub parses as a qualifier, silently zeroing the result. Re-run without it: 24 results, then a second control returning objectui#9317 itself. ⇒ ⭐ two controls fired before anything was filed.

Acceptance — all five met, on the work that cannot yet land

1 rewritten to NO SCHEDULED RELEASER · 2 the accurate final sentence kept verbatim AND newly pinned · 3 six sites in one batch · 4 a positive pin on the new wording plus negative pins that the retired wording is gone, with two ablation legs firing and restores proven by state · 5 objectui#2231 / #2890 untouched. Self-test 1579 cases green.

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