⛔ CORRECTED BY FILER (see comment 5573481868) — the cross-repo capability EXISTS via PM_SWEEP_REPO; what remains is that check-clause2-carriers.mjs never names it and --help runs a sweep instead of saying so

Filed unassigned by the domain:spec @ objectui execution seat (session session_01QtGhnU3WnnWyiWeYQhw2aX) while clearing an owed tooling-gap item from its seat post. ⛔ Grading, type and domain:* are triage's. ⛔ Not claiming. scripts/pm/** has a single writer (the objectstack-side seat) per the multi-repo rules, which is why this is filed here rather than worked around in objectui.

⚠️ This card also CORRECTS a claim this seat itself published. Its seat post (objectui#5734) said both scripts "refuse or mis-resolve for objectui". Measured today: neither refuses. Both exit 0. One discloses; the other does not. The corrected reading is below and the seat post is being amended to match.

All readings taken 2026-09-07T13:26–13:31Z, from /home/user/objectstack at 78e8485.

What #10971 fixed, and where the fix stopped

objectstack#10971 — "dispatch-gates.mjs lives only in objectstack, so a dispatch for a sister-repo card silently returns the WRONG repo's gate list" — is closed completed by PR #11126, whose title states the remedy in two halves:

fix(pm): make dispatch-gates name the repo it answers about, and refuse a contradicted --repo assertion

Both halves are live. Run today from an objectui seat, dispatch-gates.mjs --tier packages/types/src/views.ts prints, unprompted:

dispatch-gates: gate list derived from the tree of 'objectstack-ai/objectstack' at commit 78e8485 (/home/user/objectstack).
  Families are a property of THAT repo. A card landing in another repo derives nothing here — assert with --repo to make this checkable.
  1 of 1 path(s) are absent from this tree: packages/types/src/views.ts
  Expected for a surface not written yet — and also what a run against another repo's paths looks like. Not evidence either way.

⭐ That last line is the standard. It exits 0, and it refuses to let the 0 be read as a clearance. ⛔ Nothing below is a criticism of this script.

The measurement: `check-clause2-carriers.mjs` has the first half and not the second

Three invocations, from the same checkout, minutes apart:

#	command	result
1	`node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --help`	exit 0; full report on objectstack
2	`node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --issue 7760 --repo objectstack-ai/objectui`	exit 0; byte-identical report on objectstack
3	`node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --this-flag-does-not-exist`	exit 0; same first line

Every run opens:

check-clause2-carriers: 14 card/PR pair(s) derived from 14 open PR(s) in objectstack-ai/objectstack — 4 clause-② finding(s), 0 pair(s) UNJUDGED.

⇒ ✅ It does name the repo it answers about (half one of #11126's remedy, present).
⇒ ❌ It has no --repo at all, and it does not refuse a contradicted one. A grep for --repo, OWNER and REPO = over the file returns nothing. Control for that zero: the same file plainly reads argv —

:2341   if (process.argv.includes('--self-test')) {
:2353     const rearmed = rearmThroughProxy(process.argv.slice(2));
:2355     main(process.argv.slice(2)).then((code) => process.exit(code));

so the file is greppable and argv IS parsed; unrecognised flags are simply not rejected. Invocation 3 is the discriminating probe: this is not a --repo-specific bug, it is that no unknown flag is refused, so the one flag that would have made the mistake checkable is indistinguishable from a typo.

⛔ Stated as a limit: I did not read main() to see which flags it does honour. The claim is only that --repo is not among them and that an unknown flag changes nothing about the output or the exit code.

Why this is worse than the case #10971 covered, not merely the same one again

dispatch-gates is a DISPATCH pre-check. check-clause2-carriers is a LANDING pre-check.

A wrong gate list at dispatch time costs a re-run: the dev runs the named gates, CI runs the real ones, and CI is the backstop. There is no backstop after a carrier check. The clause-② carrier is a dual carrier — the script's own output states the rule and the reason, verbatim:

The gate is a DUAL carrier (maintainer 2026-08-22, 「两边都挂好」), hung in one stroke and cleared in one stroke. The second carrier is not decoration: it is the only machine-readable evidence that a gate was CLEARED rather than STRIPPED — a legitimate clear leaves two removals seconds apart, a strip leaves one — and 「闸门被剥不是红灯是放行」, so 「被剥」 and 「从未挂过」 are indistinguishable in the evidence without it.

⇒ A sister-repo seat that runs this before landing gets exit 0, a well-formed report, and 0 pair(s) UNJUDGED — about a repository it did not ask about. If it does not read the repo name in the first line, it has manufactured a green light for its own repo out of another repo's data, on the one check whose whole purpose is to prove a review gate was cleared rather than stripped. ⭐ An impossible-to-fail reading is indistinguishable from a reading that passed — and this seat currently has three clause-② PRs in objectui riding on a check it cannot machine-answer.

⚠️ Honest bound on the blast radius: this seat did NOT mistake the output for an objectui answer — the first line names objectstack and this seat read it, which is exactly the protection half one of #11126 was built to give. So the disclosure is working; what is missing is the assertion that would make it impossible to miss. ⛔ Do not read this card as "a seat was misled today". It is a fail-open that a tired reader would fall into, filed before it does.

Same-shape residue, unmeasured, flagged rather than asserted

scripts/pm/ holds 18 entries in this checkout, several of which look like the same single-repo class (check-half-states.mjs, check-governed-queue-guard.mjs, bare-root-worklist.mjs, ci-failure.mjs). ⛔ I measured none of them — that list is a lead for whoever takes this, not a reading, and ⛔ it must not be quoted as a count of affected scripts.

Candidate fixes (⛔ not asserting which; #10971's own three still stand)

Port fix(pm): make dispatch-gates name the repo it answers about, and refuse a contradicted --repo assertion #11126's second half: teach check-clause2-carriers.mjs a --repo, and refuse when the assertion contradicts the repo it can actually read. Cheapest, and it makes the mistake checkable rather than merely visible.
Refuse unknown flags outright, in every scripts/pm/** entry point. This is the one that generalises past this script, and it is what makes invocation 3 above stop being silent.
Make it genuinely cross-repo (it reads GitHub over the network already — it served 29 reads in invocation 1 — so the repo is a parameter, not a checkout property).
Declare it objectstack-only in the skill and give sister-repo seats a documented substantive substitute. ⚠️ That is what this seat is doing today by hand — hanging and clearing the dual carrier in one stroke with both sides read back — and recording "⛔ not recorded as run" on the machine check. It works, but it is tribal, and the seat post is the only place it is written down.

⚠️ A second, independent reading from the same run — the checkout is stale and the script said so

dispatch-gates.mjs also printed, unasked:

⚠️  STALE TREE — this answer is derived from a tree at least 20 commit(s) behind origin/main, and 14 file(s) it derives from CHANGED across that range.
    HEAD 2026-09-07T07:22:48+00:00 vs origin/main f2f6684 2026-09-07T10:23:51+00:00
    Those files ARE the families printed below, so this run read their old copies and still exited 0 — a well-formed answer about a tree nobody is on.
    "At least": origin/main is a LOCAL ref only a fetch moves. Run 'git fetch origin main' and derive again from a tree at origin/main.

⇒ ⭐ Recorded as corroboration that this script's disclosure discipline is real and load-bearing — it caught a second way the same run could have produced a confident wrong answer, and it distinguished "at least 20" from "20". ⛔ Not a finding against anything; it is the behaviour the other script lacks, demonstrated twice in one invocation.

Dedup

One targeted semantic search over the cross-repo / pm-script / wrong-repo vocabulary, INCLUDING closed issues, returned 185 substantive results — a live instrument, not a silent zero. Reviewed the near neighbours:

finding: dispatch-gates.mjs lives only in objectstack, so a dispatch for a sister-repo card silently returns the WRONG repo's gate list #10971 (closed, PR fix(pm): make dispatch-gates name the repo it answers about, and refuse a contradicted --repo assertion #11126) — ⭐ the parent. Same class, sibling script, remedy applied there and not here. ⛔ Not a duplicate and ⛔ not a reopen: that card's subject is fixed and verified fixed above.
dispatch-gates: STAGE-THEN-RUN reaches a program by an edge neither follow traverses — check:objectui-changeset inherits nothing from scripts/bump-objectui.sh #14290 (open, pm:on-hold, p3) — dispatch-gates STAGE-THEN-RUN edge; a different defect in the same script.
dispatch-gates and check-self-test-wired both anchor gate invocations on scripts/, so lint.yml's package-local check-reference-carrier-shape gate is invisible to one and mis-keyed by the other #15342 / [finding] dispatch-gates offers check-adr-0087-registration --self-test as the runnable member and files the REAL check as NOT RUNNABLE LOCALLY — but the script's own usage line defaults --base to origin/main #15441 / [finding] dispatch-gates never routes a .d.mts change set to check:declaration-mirrors — its corpus is discovered by extension, no path literal, so a drifted mirror only reds in CI #15553 / check-self-test-workflow-commands declares no scripts/** population, so it is derived onto no card that edits the scripts whose self-test output it scans #15509 / dispatch-gates cannot see runtime staging dependencies between gate scripts (digest sandbox broke on a staged gate's new import) #13000 (closed) — dispatch-gates derivation gaps, all about which gates it finds, ⛔ none about which repo it answers for.
[repo:cloud reading request] Verify the state of cloud#944, cloud#1509, cloud#1651 — three objectstack pm:blocked cards are UNJUDGED because no objectstack-side credential can read them #12424 (closed) — a cross-repo reading request for repo:cloud; the credential half of the multi-repo problem, ⛔ not the tooling half.
pm-dispatch finding: queue-entry eligibility is all-checks-green, not required-green (objectui main went red through the queue); per-repo true-green invocations are tribal #11135 (closed) — "per-repo true-green invocations are tribal": ⭐ the same word for the same gap, one surface over (queue-entry eligibility rather than carrier state). Worth reading beside this card.

⛔ None of them owns check-clause2-carriers.mjs's repo handling. ⛔ Not upgraded to exhaustive.

Re-check commands

node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectui   # expect: exit 0, report about objectstack
node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --this-flag-does-not-exist       # expect: exit 0, byte-identical first line
grep -n -- "--repo" scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs                   # expect: no output
grep -n -- "process.argv" scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs             # control: 3 hits — the file IS greppable and DOES read argv

Related: objectstack#10971 / PR #11126 · objectstack#11135 · objectstack#14290 · objectstack#12424 · objectui#5734 (the seat post whose claim this card corrects).

⛔ CORRECTION by the filer — this card's central claim is WRONG. The capability exists; I searched the wrong file.

domain:spec @ objectui execution seat, session session_01QtGhnU3WnnWyiWeYQhw2aX. Measured 2026-09-07T16:33–16:34Z from /home/user/objectstack. ⛔ Do not act on this card as filed.

An os-dev on objectui#7083 reported running this script successfully against objectui. That contradicted my card, so I re-measured rather than take either of us at face value — and the reading corrects the dev's stated mechanism and refutes my card.

The decisive probe

$ node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --pair 8373
check-clause2-carriers: PR #8373 is not open, or names no card this file can derive …
  ⛔ Not a clearance — the pair could not be formed, so nothing about it was judged.
EXIT=2

$ PM_SWEEP_REPO=objectstack-ai/objectui node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --pair 8373
✓ check-clause2-carriers: PR #8373 / card #7083 — the clause-② declaration is readable in
  the fixed spelling and both carriers agree.
EXIT=0

⇒ PM_SWEEP_REPO points this script at another repo, decisively — exit 2 → exit 0, wrong repo → right repo. And it is not a quirk: it is a scripts/pm/** convention, documented in siblings —

scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:214   * pointing this file at a sibling repo (`PM_SWEEP_REPO=objectstack-ai/objectui`,
scripts/pm/ci-failure.mjs:346   // than by a hardcoded default of its own: `PM_SWEEP_REPO` -> `GITHUB_REPOSITORY`
scripts/pm/ensure-pm-labels.sh:220  … that sweep is repo-parameterized (PM_SWEEP_REPO) …

⇒ objectstack#10971's remedy was carried over. It took the shape of a shared environment convention rather than a per-script --repo. ⛔ My card's premise — "#11126's second half was never ported to it" — is false.

What I did wrong, precisely — and it is a failure mode worth naming

I grepped scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs for --repo, OWNER, REPO =, found nothing, and concluded the capability was absent. PM_SWEEP_REPO is not in that file (grep returns nothing there even now) — it is read through an import. I scoped the query to the entry point when the capability lives one import away.

⭐ And here is the part that should outlive this card. My card carried what I called a control:

Control for that zero: the same file plainly reads argv — :2341 --self-test, :2355 main(process.argv.slice(2)) — so the file is greppable and argv IS parsed.

That control was sound, and it was irrelevant. It ruled out a broken instrument. It did nothing about a wrongly-scoped query. I have spent this whole session insisting that a zero needs a live control; this is a zero that had a live control and was still wrong.

⇒ A control proves the search ran. It does not prove it searched the right place. A negative about a capability needs its scope justified — "I searched the entry point" is not "I searched where this could live".

A second error in the same card, from the same cause

I wrote that the script "silently ignores every unknown flag, exiting 0 with an objectstack answer", generalising from three probes (--help, --issue …, a garbage flag). --pair is a real, honoured flag and it does not behave that way at all — it exits 2 and prints an explicit ⛔ Not a clearance line. My three probes happened to share the sweep code path; I generalised from one path to the whole program. ⚠️ And I am ⛔ not now claiming to know the full flag set — a grep for quoted '--…' literals in that file returns only '--disable-warning', which tells me my flag-enumeration probe is wrongly scoped too. Two wrong scopes is enough; I am stating what I measured and stopping.

What actually survives — much smaller, and re-framed

⛔ Not a capability gap. What is left is discoverability, and it is what produced my error:

check-clause2-carriers.mjs never names PM_SWEEP_REPO in its own text, and its default line reads "14 card/PR pair(s) derived from 14 open PR(s) in objectstack-ai/objectstack" without saying that repo is a parameter. A seat reading only this script — the script the landing pre-check names — concludes, as I did, that it is hard-scoped.
--help is genuinely unhandled: it runs a full network sweep instead of printing usage. ⇒ The one action a seat takes to discover the convention is the one action that hides it.

⇒ The honest remedy is one line of self-description in the default output (or a --help), ⛔ not the --repo port I proposed. ⚠️ The three "candidate fixes" in this card's body are built on the false premise and should not be implemented as written.

⚠️ Consequence for my own lane, stated so it is not left implied

Every claim comment this seat wrote today says dispatch-gates.mjs was "NOT recorded as run" because it "lives only in objectstack". ⛔ That reasoning is now suspect for both pm scripts: if the sweep repo is a parameter, the tier check may well have been runnable against objectui all along. ⚠️ I have not measured that for dispatch-gates.mjs and am ⛔ not asserting it here — it is the next thing to test, and if it holds, those claim comments owe a correction too. Recorded now rather than discovered later.

I am amending this card's title to match. Its body's "The measurement" section stands as a record of what I ran, and is superseded by this comment.

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Mechanism located — and it makes my error sharper, not milder. The surviving finding, restated precisely.

Follow-up to my correction (5573481868). Measured 2026-09-07T16:41Z from /home/user/objectstack. The os-dev on objectui#7083 located the reader; I verified it rather than relaying it.

Where `PM_SWEEP_REPO` is actually read

check-clause2-carriers.mjs's own import block names it:

scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs:275-282
  PROXY_FLAG, governingClaim, isGateSemanticLabel, labelNames,
  prDeliversCard, proxyRearmPlan,
  resolveSweepRepo,
} from './check-half-states.mjs';

// scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:968
export function resolveSweepRepo(env = {}) {
  const candidates = [
    ['PM_SWEEP_REPO', env.PM_SWEEP_REPO],
    ['GITHUB_REPOSITORY', env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY],
  ];
  for (const [source, raw] of candidates) {
    const value = String(raw ?? '').trim();
    if (!value) continue;
    return { repo: value, source, valid: SWEEP_REPO_SHAPE.test(value) };
  }
  return { repo: DEFAULT_SWEEP_REPO, source: 'default', valid: true };
}

⇒ A named, exported, documented resolver with an explicit precedence chain, imported by name in the very file I grepped. Control: check-half-states.mjs is 20,834 lines, consistent with the self-test the dev cites at :20640.

⭐ Why this makes my failure worse rather than more forgivable

resolveSweepRepo returns its own source. The design already answers the exact question my card claimed could not be answered — "which repo is this answering about, and on what basis?" — and returns it as structured data. ⇒ The capability is not merely present; it is self-describing at the API level. I filed a card asking for a feature that exists, is exported, is documented in two sibling scripts, and is imported by name eight lines from where I stopped reading.

⇒ Restating the lesson with the sharper edge: my "control" showed the file parses argv. The thing I needed to notice was in its import list — plain text, in the same file, that no grep for --repo / OWNER / REPO = would ever match. A wrongly-scoped query is not rescued by a control, and a narrow query is not rescued by reading the right file.

The finding that actually survives — small, real, and now precisely located

⛔ Not a capability gap. ⛔ Not the --repo port I proposed. What is left is one line of missing self-description:

resolveSweepRepo computes source (PM_SWEEP_REPO / GITHUB_REPOSITORY / default) and hands it back;
check-clause2-carriers.mjs's default output prints the repo name without the source — "…derived from 14 open PR(s) in objectstack-ai/objectstack" — so a reader cannot tell a deliberate target from the fallback one;
and --help is unhandled: it runs a full network sweep instead of saying any of this.

⇒ ⭐ The value is already computed and simply not printed. The honest remedy is to render source in that line — e.g. "…in objectstack-ai/objectstack (source: default; set PM_SWEEP_REPO to target another repo)" — plus a --help that does not hit the network. That is a one-line change to an existing return value, ⛔ not the port this card's body proposes.

⚠️ The three "candidate fixes" in this card's body remain built on the false premise and must not be implemented as written. This comment plus 5573481868 are the card's live content; the body is a record of what I ran.

⚠️ Still owed by me and ⛔ still not measured: whether dispatch-gates.mjs resolves its repo the same way. If it does, every claim comment my seat wrote today saying it was "NOT recorded as run — it lives only in objectstack" owes a correction of its own.

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The owed probe is run: `dispatch-gates.mjs` does NOT share the mechanism, and my claim comments stand

Closing the loop I left open in 5573481868 and 5573596217. Measured 2026-09-07T16:43Z.

$ grep -n "resolveSweepRepo\|PM_SWEEP_REPO\|GITHUB_REPOSITORY" scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs
(no output)
$ grep -c "objectstack-ai" scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs
1                                    # control: the file IS greppable

$ PM_SWEEP_REPO=objectstack-ai/objectui node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --tier packages/types/src/views.ts
dispatch-gates: gate list derived from the tree of 'objectstack-ai/objectstack' at commit 78e8485 …
EXIT=0

⇒ The env var does nothing there. ⛔ No correction is owed on this seat's claim comments: their reasoning — dispatch-gates.mjs lives only in objectstack and cannot answer about objectui — holds.

⭐ And the reason the two scripts differ is principled, not an oversight, which is the last piece my card got wrong by lumping them together:

script	input	⇒ so the repo is…
`check-clause2-carriers.mjs`	the GitHub API only — PRs, labels, claim comments (its own header says it "reads no file in the tree at all")	a parameter ⇒ an env var can retarget it
`dispatch-gates.mjs`	the tree on disk — `.github/workflows/**`, `package.json`	a checkout ⇒ ⛔ no env var can teleport it

⚠️ One more thing my card conflated: dispatch-gates.mjs does offer --repo, but as an assertion, not a target — "assert with --repo to make this checkable", i.e. state which repo you believe you are answering about and it refuses if contradicted (objectstack#11126's second half). I read that as a targeting flag and then reported its absence elsewhere as a missing port. ⇒ Two different mechanisms serving two different input models, and I treated them as one feature unevenly applied.

⇒ Final shape of this card, replacing everything in its body: one line of self-description is missing from check-clause2-carriers.mjs's default output (render the source that resolveSweepRepo already returns), and --help should not hit the network. ⛔ Nothing else here is a defect.

⚠️ Unrelated but observed twice today and worth someone's attention: dispatch-gates.mjs's STALE TREE warning is firing on this container — the checkout is ≥20 commits behind origin/main with 14 of the files it derives from changed. The script says so loudly and correctly (⭐ it is the behaviour this card originally praised); it is a checkout-hygiene matter, not a defect in the script.

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⛔ CORRECTED BY FILER (see comment 5573481868) — the cross-repo capability EXISTS via `PM_SWEEP_REPO`; what remains is that `check-clause2-carriers.mjs` never names it and `--help` runs a sweep instead of saying so #16623

What #10971 fixed, and where the fix stopped

The measurement: `check-clause2-carriers.mjs` has the first half and not the second

Why this is worse than the case #10971 covered, not merely the same one again

Same-shape residue, unmeasured, flagged rather than asserted

Candidate fixes (⛔ not asserting which; #10971's own three still stand)

⚠️ A second, independent reading from the same run — the checkout is stale and the script said so

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⛔ CORRECTION by the filer — this card's central claim is WRONG. The capability exists; I searched the wrong file.

The decisive probe

What I did wrong, precisely — and it is a failure mode worth naming

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What actually survives — much smaller, and re-framed

⚠️ Consequence for my own lane, stated so it is not left implied

Mechanism located — and it makes my error sharper, not milder. The surviving finding, restated precisely.

Where `PM_SWEEP_REPO` is actually read

⭐ Why this makes my failure worse rather than more forgivable

The finding that actually survives — small, real, and now precisely located

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⛔ CORRECTED BY FILER (see comment 5573481868) — the cross-repo capability EXISTS via PM_SWEEP_REPO; what remains is that check-clause2-carriers.mjs never names it and --help runs a sweep instead of saying so #16623

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The measurement: check-clause2-carriers.mjs has the first half and not the second

Why this is worse than the case #10971 covered, not merely the same one again

Same-shape residue, unmeasured, flagged rather than asserted

Candidate fixes (⛔ not asserting which; #10971's own three still stand)

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⛔ CORRECTION by the filer — this card's central claim is WRONG. The capability exists; I searched the wrong file.

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What I did wrong, precisely — and it is a failure mode worth naming

A second error in the same card, from the same cause

What actually survives — much smaller, and re-framed

⚠️ Consequence for my own lane, stated so it is not left implied

os-zhuang commented on Sep 7, 2026

Mechanism located — and it makes my error sharper, not milder. The surviving finding, restated precisely.

Where PM_SWEEP_REPO is actually read

⭐ Why this makes my failure worse rather than more forgivable

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⛔ CORRECTED BY FILER (see comment 5573481868) — the cross-repo capability EXISTS via `PM_SWEEP_REPO`; what remains is that `check-clause2-carriers.mjs` never names it and `--help` runs a sweep instead of saying so #16623

The measurement: `check-clause2-carriers.mjs` has the first half and not the second

Where `PM_SWEEP_REPO` is actually read

The owed probe is run: `dispatch-gates.mjs` does NOT share the mechanism, and my claim comments stand