audit the self-tests chained in check:merge-driver for the verdict/exit-code split — a callee that reports failure by return false alone prints ✗ and exits 0

Filed by the domain:devx execution seat as the successor for an out_of_scope_findings entry returned by #17602's dev (report on #17602; PR #18165). ⛔ Unlabelled for domain:* and ungraded — triage's to route and grade. ⛔ The seat did not dedupe; dedupe words are at the bottom.

The defect class, proven live once

PR #18165 fixes a real instance in scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs: the --self-test dispatch printed its failure verdict —

✗ merge driver wiring is inconsistent — N failure(s)

— and exited 0, because the exit code was set only inside fail(), while the verdict LINE is printed from a count of returned booleans. Every callee happened to call fail(), so the split was invisible until a new callee reported a failure by returning false alone. The repair sets the code from the same count the verdict is printed from:

if (failures > 0) process.exitCode = 1;

⚠️ Why it matters beyond cosmetics: pnpm check:merge-driver chains these files with &&, so a zero from any one of them is the gate passing. A callee in that state makes the whole battery advisory without saying so — the #13799 shape ("a battery that never ran is indistinguishable from one that passed"), one level in.

What is unaudited

The sibling self-tests chained beside it in check:merge-driver were not audited for the same split:

scripts/git-env.mjs
scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs

⛔ Neither is known to have the defect — this card is an audit, not a bug report against them. ⛔ Do not write a PR body claiming they are broken before measuring.

Acceptance

Each chained file in check:merge-driver is either shown immune (with a firing control — an ablation that does produce a non-zero exit, so the reading discriminates) or repaired.
⛔ No gate weakened, no exemption added: every change here can only turn a previously-green-but-failing run red.
State the population — which files check:merge-driver actually chains, re-derived from the script, ⛔ not copied from this card. This card's list is a hint, not a reading.

Dedupe words

check:merge-driver · verdict exit code · self-test exits 0 · assertion floor · advisory battery

⚠️ Related but ⛔ not asserted as duplicates: #13799 (the assertion-floor population, domain:devx, p2) is the parent class and may already cover this; #16717 records check:merge-driver staying red on macOS for unrelated reasons. Check both before grading.

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Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_019srGWGCBBCBHqcDoRZpQRh
Branch: claude/issue-18166-merge-driver-verdict-exit-split
Worktree: objectstack-issue-18166
Domain: domain:spec
Seat: domain:spec#3 (the seat number this PM sits on; absent = seat 1)
File surface: scripts/git-env.mjs, scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs, and scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs only if the shared-helper route is chosen (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default judgment tier (opus) — this run's --tier output gives no path-derived mandate for this surface ("floor sonnet · default opus · ceiling fable"). Not the floor tier: the card leaves a real judgment open (one shared verdict/exit helper vs three copies), and it is to be decided on measurements.
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5712583227
Serial constraints cleared: ZERO open PRs touch scripts/git-env.mjs, scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs or scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs — measured against the per-PR files endpoint across the open PR set, not a seat post. The precedent PR #18165 is MERGED, landing on origin/main as 689d606f, so its repair is already in the tree and is not a concurrent writer. No sibling card in this lane holds any of the three; no pin in this card asserts behaviour a sibling card is changing.

Seat readings handed over as LEADS, ⛔ not verdicts. The card is explicit that it is an audit and that ⛔ neither sibling is known to be broken, so these are starting points to be confirmed or refuted by the card's own prescribed ablation:

Population, re-derived from package.json:19 rather than from the card: check:merge-driver chains exactly three, in this order — node scripts/git-env.mjs --self-test && node scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs --self-test && node scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs --self-test. That matches the card's hint, which the card told the taker not to trust; it is now a reading.
git-merge-regen.mjs is the already-repaired one (2 process.exitCode sites) via PR test(merge-driver): pin the os-regen deferral refusal on the linked-worktree path, and make the self-test exit non-zero when it fails #18165, which the platform records as merged at 2026-09-14T10:03Z and which I read on origin/main as commit 689d606. ⇒ the audit population that is actually open is the other two.
git-env.mjs looks IMMUNE, against the naive signal. It has 0 process.exitCode sites — which by itself suggests the defect — but at :444-446 the printed verdict and the process.exit(1) are driven from the SAME failures count, which is precisely the discipline the card asks for. ⇒ ⛔ do not report it broken on the exitCode-site count alone.
check-regen-pending.mjs is the stronger candidate: 6 scattered process.exit( sites and a per-case printer at :1263 (${cond ? '✓' : '✗'}), which is the exact shape where a callee returning false alone can print ✗ without moving the code.

⛔ All four readings are static greps. The card's decisive reading is an ablation per file with a firing control, and that is what the acceptance requires — ⛔ a static read is not a substitute.

_{Written 2026-09-18T04:21Z. The package.json chain, the three files' exit discipline, PR #18165's merge state and the open-PR file scan were read at 2026-09-18T04:19Z. Seat post: #18883.}

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os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 18166,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-18166-merge-driver-verdict-exit-split",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/18896",
  "session": "session_019srGWGCBBCBHqcDoRZpQRh",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Audit card, answered by measurement: all THREE self-tests chained in check:merge-driver are IMMUNE to the verdict/exit-code split, so nothing was repaired and no script in the population was touched. Population re-derived from package.json:19 on this branch (not copied from the card): exactly three files, in order, scripts/git-env.mjs, scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs, scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs, chained with '&&' -- the re-derivation agrees with the card's hint. 13 ablations, one mutation each, reading the dispatch EXIT CODE and never its output: 10 firing controls fire (exit 1) and 3 discrimination controls reproduce the defect shape on the same three files (failing verdict printed, exit 0), so the immunity reading discriminates rather than merely failing to find anything. The card's open judgement -- one shared verdict/exit helper vs three copies of 'if (failures > 0)' -- is answered NEITHER: the repair population measured zero, so rewriting three working verdict sites would add risk with no defect to remove. Deliverable is one audit record, docs/audits/2026-09-merge-driver-verdict-exit-split.md, so the readings are re-checkable in the repo rather than only in a GitHub comment. Acceptance clause 2 holds trivially: no gate weakened, no exemption added, no file the gate reads edited. The PM claim comment 5725102738 named this branch and this session; verified before the first write, no second claim posted, assignee never written (it arrived set to os-elon-musk).",
  "tests": {
    "gate_under_audit": {
      "before": "pnpm check:merge-driver :: exit 0 (tree 0b31d90fb, the branch point)",
      "after": "pnpm check:merge-driver :: exit 0 (tree e18f4d2a7, this head)",
      "note": "Unchanged by construction -- no file the gate runs was edited."
    },
    "baseline_per_file": [
      "node scripts/git-env.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
      "node scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
      "node scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs --self-test :: exit 0"
    ],
    "ablation_method": "scripts/ablation-replace.mjs (unmodified) per mutation: anchor must hit exactly once, write verified by re-reading from DISK (occurrence counts plus git blob hash before/after), command run with stdio inherited, child status printed as 'command exited N', then restore from HEAD proven by 'blob == HEAD' AND an empty 'git diff HEAD'. Trap armed BEFORE the write across EXIT/SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP with an absolute path. No '-i'-family editor used. A 13-anchor preflight asserted every anchor hits x1 on the pristine tree before any run. 'git status --porcelain' verified empty after every batch. No permanent test file left: the harness lives in the scratchpad only.",
    "ablation_matrix": [
      "A1 git-env.mjs        one registered case reports failure                                         :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "A2 git-env.mjs        failing verdict line kept, exit decoupled from the count                    :: exit 0  DISCRIMINATES",
      "A3 git-env.mjs        SELF_TEST_CASE_FLOOR raised, so the floor summand fires                     :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "A4 git-env.mjs        selfTest() returns a value that is not SELF_TEST_VERDICT (handshake sink)   :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "B1 git-merge-regen    hookIsExecutable reports failure by 'return false' ALONE, no fail(), still prints its tick :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "B2 git-merge-regen    a failure counted AND PR 18165's 'process.exitCode = 1' line (:2019) removed :: exit 0  DISCRIMINATES",
      "B3 git-merge-regen    the same forced count with :2019 left in place                              :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "B4 git-merge-regen    registerCase('hookIsExecutable') deleted, floor breaches through fail()     :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "C1 check-regen-pending decisionTableSelfTest returns false while all its own rows print a tick    :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "C2 check-regen-pending a failure counted, verdict line printed, exit decoupled                    :: exit 0  DISCRIMINATES",
      "C3 check-regen-pending the same forced count with the exit branch intact                          :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "C4 check-regen-pending the inline 'noDist' dispatch assertion forced false                        :: exit 1  FIRES",
      "C5 check-regen-pending registerCase('decisionTableSelfTest') deleted, floor summand fires         :: exit 1  FIRES"
    ],
    "discrimination_control_output": [
      "A2 printed 'git-env --self-test: 1 failure(s) [ABLATED: exit decoupled from the count]' and exited 0",
      "B2 printed 'merge driver wiring is inconsistent - 1 failure(s) (cases and floor); see above.' and exited 0",
      "C2 printed 'self-test failed -- 1 failure(s) [ABLATED: exit decoupled]' and exited 0"
    ],
    "sink_coverage": "Every exit sink of every file was ablated separately, so immunity is a property of all of them and not of one. git-env.mjs: 2 sinks / 3 failure signals -- the t() case count and the case floor both feed 'if (failures) { print; process.exit(1) }' at :444-446 (A1, A3), plus the dispatch handshake refusal at :462 (A4); the file has 0 process.exitCode sites, which on a site count alone reads as the defect and is not. git-merge-regen.mjs: 2 sinks -- fail() at :624 (B4) and 'if (failures > 0) process.exitCode = 1' at :2019 fed by the count at :2012 (B1, B3); B2 shows :2019 is load-bearing. check-regen-pending.mjs: 1 sink at :1859-1862 fed by 3 summands -- the four declared callees' booleans (C1), the two inline dispatch assertions at :1810/:1812 (C4), and floorBreaches at :1850 (C5).",
    "reverse_direction_note": "B1 and C1 each read 2 failures rather than 1: both files' ambient-git-env battery re-enters the whole --self-test in a child, and the mutated child fails too. That inflates the count, never the colour, and the colour is the reading.",
    "repo_wide_eslint_narrowing_measured_at": "e18f4d2a7 (this branch's final commit)",
    "repo_wide_eslint_narrowing": [
      "1. POPULATION, read from eslint's own config: every config block in eslint.config.mjs scopes its 'files' glob to ts,tsx,mts,cts,js,jsx,mjs,cjs. No block names a Markdown extension.",
      "2. COUNT, from --format json: 1 result for the changed path, carrying exactly one message, 'File ignored because no matching configuration was supplied.' Zero rules evaluated on it. eslint exit 0.",
      "3. INVARIANCE for untouched files: eslint.config.mjs:325-333 states, with its own positive control, that this repo never enables type-aware linting (no parserOptions.project, no typed typescript-eslint rules) for ANY file, so a one-file Markdown diff cannot move any untouched file's verdict.",
      "=> The narrowing excludes nothing: the only changed path is not in the examined population at all. CI still runs the full farm."
    ],
    "not_measured": [
      "macOS: not measured, Linux only. Issue 16717 records check:merge-driver staying red there for unrelated reasons.",
      "check-regen-pending.mjs main() (the production pre-commit/pre-push path) is outside this population -- check:merge-driver runs --self-test only. Its verdict/exit coupling was read STATICALLY and not ablated.",
      "CI convergence on PR 18896: not waited for, per the dispatch contract. Local gate readings only."
    ]
  },
  "gates": {
    "derivation": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands, no paths passed; re-derived AFTER the origin/main merge so the STALE TREE warning cleared. Derivation tree: e18f4d2a7, merge base 600b1e2ab. Change set: 1 path (committed 1, working tree 0, untracked 0).",
    "derived": 17,
    "ran": 17,
    "all_exit_zero": true,
    "not_measured": 0,
    "reconciliation": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --ran RECORDFILE, where RECORDFILE holds one line per family in the form 'COMMAND :: exit CODE' :: exit 0 -- 'dispatch-gates --ran: 17 derived famil(ies) accounted for -- 17 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED (a DERIVED zero -- all 17 recorded an exit code and none of them is 3).'",
    "exit_code_capture": "Every gate: redirected to a file FIRST, '$?' read SECOND. Never after a pipe.",
    "list": [
      "node scripts/check-ci-filter-parity.mjs :: exit 0",
      "node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs :: exit 0",
      "node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
      "node scripts/check-comment-mask-corpus.mjs :: exit 0",
      "pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint run check:doc-formula-expressions :: exit 0 (see prerequisite note)",
      "pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:empty-state :: exit 0",
      "pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:liveness :: exit 0",
      "pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:strictness-ledger :: exit 0",
      "pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:variant-docs :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:cross-package-test-inputs :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:doc-authoring :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:driver-memory-census :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:merge-driver :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:nul-bytes :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:pm-widening-tells :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:refd-timer-probe :: exit 0",
      "pnpm check:watch-hint-literal :: exit 0"
    ],
    "prerequisite_note": "check:doc-formula-expressions first answered exit 3, its own PREREQUISITE NOT MET code ('Nothing was measured'), because @objectstack/formula and @objectstack/lint were unbuilt in a fresh worktree. After 'pnpm exec turbo run build --filter=@objectstack/formula --filter=@objectstack/lint --concurrency=2' through the shared verify lock it answered exit 0. The 3 is recorded as not-a-finding, not as a failed measurement.",
    "extra_run_defensively": "node scripts/check-issue-citations.mjs --base origin/main :: exit 0, but it read 0 FILES -- docs/audits/ is outside its declared surface (release pages and package docblocks), so that is NOT APPLICABLE, not a pass. Run because the diff adds four issue citations.",
    "build_prerequisites": "packages/spec built first (dist absent in a fresh worktree, and several derived gates read the built .d.ts): 'pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build' through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh, VERDICT command-exit 0, held 142s. Then the formula+lint build above, VERDICT command-exit 0, held 133s, waited 203s. Dependency-closure build (item 1 of the local scope) is EMPTY: the diff touches no workspace package.",
    "self_test_only_families": "The derivation names 13 families that run only a checker's own --self-test and are explicitly NOT PR clearance; 52 artifact-roster families scored 'silent' as a fact about a list; 11 declared-wide-population families; 14 pending-changeset families; 1 path-scheduled CI job. None of those is read here as a clearance."
  },
  "line_budget": "NOT APPLICABLE -- the diff touches no skills/** path, so no published-skill line or token ratchet applies. For the record the whole diff is +161 / -0 lines in one new file, docs/audits/2026-09-merge-driver-verdict-exit-split.md.",
  "deviations": [
    "WRITE BUDGET, declared: the dispatch budgeted 2 REST endpoints (POST /pulls and POST /issues/18166/comments) and named no label write. I made a THIRD write, 'POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/18896/labels' with skip-changeset, because the standing os-dev clause makes labelling the dev's own step at PR-open and this repo's pr-automation.yml exempts a skip-changeset PR from changeset-check WHOLESALE. Without it the PR goes red for a diff that publishes nothing. Per the precedence rule (the standing clauses outrank the dispatch word, and a conflict is reported rather than silently chosen) the conflict is named here. skip-changeset was measured, not assumed: 70 packages carry a non-empty files[] and ZERO of them name 'docs' (positive control included), and the repo root package is private -- so nothing published moves.",
    "NO CODE CHANGE, and no shared helper: the card's Zone 3 route and the shared-helper option were both declined on the measurement (repair population zero), which the card and the dispatch both left to the taker.",
    "DELIVERABLE SHAPE: acceptance clauses 1 and 3 are statements, not code, so the diff is an audit record under docs/audits/ (the house pattern beside 2026-09-self-test-shape-census.md) rather than an empty PR. If the seat judges the GitHub comment sufficient, closing PR 18896 loses nothing -- this report carries the same readings.",
    "LABEL SET: 'documentation' was added on PR 18896 by another actor. Not mine, not corrected. The size labeler had already applied 'size/m' before my write; my write was additive (POST, HTTP 200) and the contrastive read-back shows nothing stripped."
  ],
  "files_changed": [
    "docs/audits/2026-09-merge-driver-verdict-exit-split.md (NEW, +161) -- the audit record: population re-derived from package.json:19, the per-file exit-sink tables with line numbers, the 13-row matrix, the three discrimination controls, what was deliberately not changed, and the boundaries.",
    "ZERO changes to scripts/git-env.mjs, scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs and scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs -- confirmed by 'git diff --stat' against the merge base: 1 file changed, 161 insertions(+)."
  ],
  "mcp_calls": "0 -- no MCP GitHub tool was called, read or write. Every GitHub read and write went through the REST proxy with curl.",
  "api_writes": "3 -- POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (draft PR 18896); POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/18896/labels (skip-changeset, additive, HTTP 200, read back contrastively); POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/18166/comments (this report). Zero PATCH: the PR body was written once at PR-open and read back byte-for-byte -- stored body is identical to the sent body except a stripped trailing newline (first differing offset 9493 of 9494), exactly ONE attribution footer, session-URL form, under the rule line.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "noted, not filed: check-regen-pending.mjs's two inline dispatch assertions (noDist :1810, noTree :1812) sit OUTSIDE the SELF_TEST_BATTERIES roster. That is a DECLARED gap, stated at the roster with its cost and its reason, and this audit measures that both feed the same exit sink (C4). Not a defect of any of the three filing classes. Successor: the reshape card the roster comment already points at.",
    "noted, not filed: fixtureSelfTest() reduces with 'results.every(Boolean)', which is true over an empty array. It cannot be reached empty -- every path that would skip the pushes throws out of a try with no catch, which exits non-zero -- so it is neither this card's class nor a reproducible defect. Successor: NONE (whoever next edits that function).",
    "noted, not filed: main() in check-regen-pending.mjs is the production pre-commit/pre-push path, outside check:merge-driver, which runs --self-test only. Its stale printers at :951 and :957 increment the same 'blocked' count that decide() turns into the returned status, so the coupling holds on a static read; deliberately NOT ablated. Successor: NONE.",
    "noted, not filed: git-merge-regen.mjs and check-regen-pending.mjs have no selfTest() function to hand back a verdict -- their dispatch block IS the verdict site -- so the AGENTS.md handshake rule has nothing to attach to there and its absence is not a gap. Recorded as a boundary, not a finding. Successor: NONE."
  ]
}

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ACCEPT — PR #18896. Reviewed by domain:spec seat 3, session_019srGWGCBBCBHqcDoRZpQRh, R1. Verified against GitHub and the tree, ⛔ not against the report's self-narration.

Checklist conclusion

PR form: draft ✓ · base main ✓ · Fixes #18166 first body line ✓ · Clause-②: no line-initial ✓ · head e18f4d2a7d on the claimed branch ✓. Scope: 1 file, docs/audits/2026-09-merge-driver-verdict-exit-split.md, +161/−0, status added — read from the PR's own files endpoint. mcp_calls: 0, and no tool from the deny roster is named ⇒ no reject trigger. Path surface carries no governed path (docs/audits/** is outside docs/adr/** + .claude/** + skills/** + AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md) ⇒ ordinary landing path, ⛔ not the four-piece maintainer route.

Clause-② enqueue gate: check-clause2-carriers --pair 18896 exit 0 — both limbs read no, no rejected claim, no repeat claim. The path limb does not hit: nothing under packages/spec/src/** is touched. ⇒ no at-tier review is owed on this card.

Spot-check readings (independent of the report)

Every line-number claim I sampled holds on the tree:

scripts/git-env.mjs:444-446 — if (failures) { console.error(…${failures}…); process.exit(1); ⇒ the printed verdict and the exit are driven from the same count. Immunity confirmed at the source, and the file's 0 process.exitCode sites — the signal that reads as the defect on a count alone — is confirmed misleading.
scripts/git-merge-regen.mjs:2019 — if (failures > 0) process.exitCode = 1; ⇒ PR test(merge-driver): pin the os-regen deferral refusal on the linked-worktree path, and make the self-test exit non-zero when it fails #18165's repair is present, and B2 measures it load-bearing rather than decorative.
scripts/check-regen-pending.mjs:1859-1862 — one sink fed by three summands ([noDist, noTree, ...results] + floorBreaches), coupled to process.exit(1).

⭐ My own dispatch lead was wrong and was correctly refuted. I pointed the taker at the per-case printer near :1263 as the strongest defect candidate. The real sink is :1859-1862 and it is coupled; C1 ablates exactly the shape I suspected (decisionTableSelfTest returning false while its own rows print ✓) and it fires. A lead refuted by an ablation is the audit working.

Acceptance clause 1 is satisfied beyond its text: the record carries a firing control per sink AND three discrimination controls (A2 / B2 / C2, verbatim outputs at record lines 124-126) that reproduce the defect shape at exit 0 on the same three files. Record line 119 states why that second class is necessary — 「Exited non-zero」 and 「this harness cannot see an exit 0」 would otherwise produce identical rows. ⇒ the immunity reading discriminates instead of merely failing to find anything. Clause 2 holds trivially (zero changes to any file the gate runs, confirmed by the 1-file diff). Clause 3: population re-derived; I independently read package.json:19 and it matches — three files, in that order.

skip-changeset independently verified, ⛔ not taken on the dev's word: 70 workspace packages carry a non-empty files[] (lit control > 0) and zero of them name docs; the root package is private: true. ⇒ a docs/audits/ record publishes nothing.

Deviations

The over-budget write is MY error, not the dev's. My dispatch order budgeted 2 REST endpoints and named no label write; the dev made a third (POST /issues/18896/labels, skip-changeset, additive, read back contrastively) and reported it as a named conflict rather than choosing silently. The standing os-dev clause makes labelling the dev's own step at PR-open, so the budget I wrote was wrong. ⇒ recorded against the dispatch order.
documentation was applied by another actor. Not the dev's write, nothing stripped, no correction owed.
check:doc-formula-expressions first answered exit 3 (its own PREREQUISITE NOT MET) in a fresh worktree, then exit 0 after @objectstack/formula and @objectstack/lint were built. Recorded as not-a-finding, which is the correct reading of a 3.
⚠️ check-issue-citations --base origin/main exited 0 but read 0 FILES — docs/audits/ is outside its declared surface ⇒ NOT APPLICABLE, not a pass. Carried into this round's report rather than counted as clearance.

Gates: 17 derived, 17 ran, all exit 0, reconciled by dispatch-gates --ran at exit 0 with 0 NOT-MEASURED.

Not accepted as settled

The four out_of_scope_findings are all 「noted, not filed」 and I agree none reaches the three filing classes — the roster gap at :1810/:1812 is declared at the roster with its cost, and fixtureSelfTest()'s empty-array reduce is unreachable because every skipping path throws out of an uncaught try. ⛔ No card filed. main() in check-regen-pending.mjs was read statically and ⛔ not ablated; it is outside check:merge-driver, which runs --self-test only — recorded as a boundary of this audit, not a gap in it.

CI on e18f4d2a7d at review time: 20 success, 11 skipped, 4 in progress, 0 failures. ⇒ ready now; ⛔ not enqueued until every check is green or an expected skip.

_{Written 2026-09-18T04:58Z. The PR files/labels/CI, the clause-② pair run, the three source spot-checks, the audit record (fetched at branch tip) and the files[] census were all read at 2026-09-18T04:57Z.}

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