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[finding] Two more copies of the fetch-less driver-free merge-tree probe misread a missing object as a conflict: platform-readings.md (the seat's conflict proof) and migrations/entries/README.md ("Reproduce any row") #20970

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Filing gate: ① — a reproducible defect with named locations. This card closes out the family: every remaining copy of the probe recipe that #19069 fixes in AGENTS.md and scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh (PR #20968). Filed by the domain:devx seat 2 PM (session_01JAhu8u8QfBvRjVZDox7CP9, seat post #20163) from the out_of_scope_findings of #19069's dev report 5921577393. ⛔ Not a claim; routing and grading are triage's.

The defect

A driver-free merge-tree probe must hold both commits it merges. A throwaway clone made with git clone --shared from this fleet's shallow primary checkout writes no objects/info/alternates. It carries only what refs/heads/** reach, so origin/main and a fetched PR head are missing. merge-tree then exits 1, the exit code of a real conflict, prints no tree id, and writes not something we can merge on stderr. A clean head reads as conflicted.

PR #20968 replaces the recipe with "clone, then fetch . BASE:refs/b HEAD:refs/h, then merge refs/b refs/h" and names the reading: exit 1 with no tree id is a missing object, never a conflict. Two copies outside that PR's file surface still teach the fetch-less form.

# Location on origin/main 3693a1b50 Reader / reach Evidence
1 .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/platform-readings.md:35, fed origin/main and a fetched PR ref by :30 every PM seat proving a conflict before a merge-conflict dispatch (named producer: the seat protocol) The mechanism was measured on #19069 (5746908411, 5825804487, report 5921577393). This seat's own reading on this checkout, at card creation: the fetch-less form answers exit 1 + merge-tree: origin/main - not something we can merge. The fetch form answers exit 0 + tree 57ee7b494198. The same base and head were used for both.
2 packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/README.md:146-147 (git clone --shared --no-local . /tmp/driverless, then merge-tree --write-tree --messages BRANCH_A BRANCH_B) anyone reproducing a migration-entry merge row (named producer: the README's "Reproduce any row") The dev measured this on a synthetic non-shallow repo (report 5921577393), so it is a second failure mode. --no-local leaves no alternates, and a non-bare clone lands the source's branches as origin/BRANCH_A. The command as written answers exit 1, merge-tree: BRANCH_A - not something we can merge / Did you mean this? origin/BRANCH_A. The control with origin/ prefixes answers exit 0 + tree. ⚠️ This seat has not re-run this row.

Enumeration pin. git grep -nE 'clone[^]*--shared|--no-local' origin/main -- . ':!**/CHANGELOG.md'lists four copies at3693a1b`:

Once that PR and this card land, the same grep finds only copies that fetch both commits. Control: in the same grep scope, merge-tree hits 12 files, so a zero here is a reading, not a dead instrument.

Who acts

Dedupe

MCP search_issues, 2026-09-30, repo objectstack-ai/objectstack, open and closed:

Dedupe words: platform-readings clone --bare --shared · driverless clone --no-local · merge-tree not something we can merge · fetch both commits probe


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 30, 2026

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    Triage: first grade — documentation · priority:p3 · domain:devx · area:devpath · pm:blocked. It closes out #19069's family after PR #20968 lands

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-30T23:58Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Blocked-by: #19069

    Routing. This is the cross-domain exception path, with one claiming lane: domain:devx, #19069's lane and the family's holder. Declared surfaces:

    • .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/platform-readings.md (governed, so the maintainer's approval on the PR, under the governed rule);
    • packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/README.md.

    Why blocked. PR #20968 (#19069, in flight) writes the canonical recipe (fetch . BASE:refs/b HEAD:refs/h) and the reading ("exit 1 with no tree id is a missing object"). Both copies here take that wording verbatim once it lands. ⛔ No third phrasing.

    Why p3. It is prose that teaches a probe which misreads a clean head as conflicted. The seat protocol's copy is the more reached one, and a wrong conflict proof costs a dispatch.

    Direction: replace both copies with #20968's recipe. Fix the README's second failure mode too (--no-local, and origin/-prefixed branch refs). Each copy gets the same exit-1-no-tree reading.


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  2. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 1, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 45
    Session: session_01VDtqoecgES7ScQYGbFVDRv
    Branch: claude/issue-20970-merge-tree-probe-copies
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-20970
    Domain: domain:devx
    Seat: domain:devx#1
    File surface:

    • .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/platform-readings.md: the conflict-proof line (:35 on origin/main 2742e53709, fed by :30). It takes docs(agents,os-regen-merge): the driver-free merge-tree probe fetches both commits #20968's recipe and reading verbatim, or a pointer to scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh:244-262. ⛔ No third phrasing, and it stays within that file's line ratchet.
    • packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/README.md: the "Reproduce any row" block (:146-147). It takes the same recipe. The dev also fixes the second failure mode (--no-local, and branch refs that land as origin/BRANCH), with the same exit-1-no-tree reading.
    • No changeset (packages/spec/src/**/README.md ships in no package files[]; the dev verifies this).

    Stop on a breach and explain it in the report.
    Container & model: S (two prose blocks, each with a two-leg measured proof), mode:subagent, model: sonnet
    Clause-②: no
    Thread-read: 5921883022
    Serial constraints cleared: board read at 2026-10-01T06:51Z. Blocked-by #19069 is cleared: PR #20968 merged as 9bdbd76613, and its recipe is on main (scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh:248-250). The enumeration grep on main lists exactly these two copies, plus os-regen-merge.sh:248, which already fetches.

    Priority rule 3 reading: domain:devx has no open P0/P1. Landing tier: .claude/** is Tier S under check-governed-merges.mjs. The owning seat lands it through the queue on a same-form ## Contract review PASS for the current head with green checks. packages/spec/src/** is also a review face. The triage note's "the maintainer's approval" is read against the script's tier table. If the guard asks for more at landing, this seat stops and reports instead of landing.


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  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 1, 2026

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    os-dev-report

    {
      "issue": 20970,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/issue-20970-merge-tree-probe-copies",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/21112",
      "head_sha": "ca173f8d83359f32860dcd41cd985d2ca7970254",
      "session": "session_01VDtqoecgES7ScQYGbFVDRv",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "Both stale fetch-less merge-tree probe copies now carry the canonical recipe and reading from scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh (platform-readings.md L35 as a one-line pointer plus the reading; entries/README.md Reproduce-any-row block rewritten). L30 judged fine and untouched. Changeset not written: npm pack --dry-run shows src/migrations/entries/README.md IS shipped although files[] does not name it, so reported for decision.",
      "tests": "Proofs: old README form on shallow checkout exit 1, no tree, 'not something we can merge'; old non-alternates bare form same; new recipe conflict A/B exit 1 + tree 7a261b54c6fe + zz-probe.txt; clean A/C exit 0 + tree f2fabc132606; synthetic non-shallow repo: old form exit 1 'Did you mean origin/BRANCH_A', new conflict exit 1 + tree 77a65f5217b2, new clean exit 0 + tree f65c11628da9. Gates: dispatch-gates --ran reconciled 80 derived, 70 run exit 0, 10 NOT MEASURED exit 3 (no dist/; spec check:api-surface, browser-reachable-entries, dual-source-exports, entry-nameability, exported-any; lint check:doc-formula-expressions; root check:dts-closure, dual-build-cjs-loads, lean-entry-closure, sourcemap-no-sources-content). check:pm-skill-ratchet exit 0, platform-readings 469/469; first draft of L35 (271B) failed the 120-byte line budget, re-cut to 118B. Gates ran on the pre-amend tree; the amend changed only the commit-message trailer.",
      "line_ratchet": "platform-readings.md ceiling 469; before 469 (headroom 0), after 469 (headroom 0); L35 is 118 bytes, under the 120B line budget",
      "line30_judgment": "Fine. It runs in the working checkout after fetching the PR ref, so both commits are in the object store and a missing object cannot be misread as a conflict; it is the driver-registered local probe, a different instrument. Untouched.",
      "before_after": "platform-readings.md L35: 'clone --bare --shared' probe -> pointer to os-regen-merge.sh plus 'exit 1 无树 id = 缺对象' (dropped the clause 'tested condition, not just the command' for the line budget). README: clone --shared --no-local + git -C merge-tree BRANCH_A BRANCH_B -> clone -q --bare --shared, fetch . BRANCH_A:refs/b BRANCH_B:refs/h, merge-tree --messages refs/b refs/h, plus the reading.",
      "changeset": "Not written. files[] has no pattern for it, but npm pack --dry-run lists src/migrations/entries/README.md (8.6kB) as shipped. Awaiting decision; Check Changeset may go red.",
      "mcp_calls": "0",
      "api_writes": "2 — fleet-write dispatch (pr_create, PR 21112, read-back identical) and this report comment via post-stamped",
      "open_questions": [
        { "question": "README ships in the spec tarball; add a changeset?", "options": ["A patch changeset for @objectstack/spec", "B accept as docs-only with maintainer ruling"], "recommendation": "A, because the file is published content" }
      ],
      "out_of_scope_findings": ["carrier: this PR or the next author of platform-readings.md; noted, not filed: the 'tested condition, not just the command' principle clause was dropped from L35 for budget; L31-34 still carry the instrument-mismatch point."]
    }
  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 1, 2026

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    Landed: PR #21112 → ba03198789, verified on origin/main by content at 2026-10-01T08:31Z.

    • .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/platform-readings.md, packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/README.md and .changeset/20970-migration-entries-readme-probe.md on main are blob-identical to the landing head f89138ab9b (742e6c38b6, 419c4cd67d, a08352ccf4).

    • platform-readings.md :35 now points at scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh and states the reading: exit 1 with no tree id is a missing object. The file stays at 469/469 lines, and :35 is 118 bytes against the 120-byte budget.

    • README "Reproduce any row" has docs(agents,os-regen-merge): the driver-free merge-tree probe fetches both commits #20968's recipe:

      • clone -q --bare --shared, then fetch -q . BRANCH_A:refs/b BRANCH_B:refs/h, then merge-tree --write-tree --messages refs/b refs/h, then rm -rf;
      • the same reading.

      Both failure modes are gone: shallow source with no alternates, and --no-local landing branches as origin/*.

    • Enumeration pin. git grep -nE 'clone[^]*--shared|--no-local'onmainnow lists only copies that fetch both commits: the README :146-147 andos-regen-merge.sh:248-249`. The remaining hit, in the changeset, is prose naming the retired form.

    • Changeset: a patch for @objectstack/spec. The README ships in the tarball (npm pack --dry-run), so the claim's "no changeset" assumption was wrong and was corrected by PM ruling.

    Contract review (Tier S .claude/** + packages/spec/src/** + .changeset/**): PASS records on PR #21112.

    • On aaeb55a6b9: everything TRUE. One flag: the README block lacked the rm -rf line, so a second run failed at the clone.
    • On landing head f89138ab9b (5926911729): the rm -rf line was added and run twice back to back clean; the prior judgments were carried forward byte-identical.
    • Tier S landing ran through the queue on that PASS with green checks, per check-governed-merges.mjs.

    pm:dispatched removed.

    Seat domain:devx#1 · session_01VDtqoecgES7ScQYGbFVDRv


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