check:platform-checklist validates `oracle` against a closed vocabulary but never reads `traps` — the drift that let 8 undocumented values in is still open

[os-zhuang]

Filed unassigned from the #10416 execution seat. #10416 documents the eight traps values that had drifted in; this card is the other half of that finding — the reason they drifted in at all, which #10416's PR deliberately does not build.

The gap

scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs enforces a closed vocabulary for every other enum-ish field on a checklist item:

const STATUSES = new Set(['active', 'draft', 'retired']);
const PRIORITIES = new Set(['P0', 'P1', 'P2']);
const SURFACES = new Set(['browser', 'api', 'cli', 'build', 'mixed']);
const ORACLES = new Set(['api', 'network', 'screenshot', 'dom', 'log', 'test', 'build']);
const BLOCKED_BY = new Set(['fixture', 'environment', 'dependency', 'product-bug']);

…and checks them (if (!ORACLES.has(c.oracle)) where(...), line 131). The string traps does not appear anywhere in the file. So an item can carry any traps value at all and the validator is green.

Measured on main at 6b0be02209, parsing all 15 docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/*.json (205 items): 19 distinct traps in use, 11 documented in RUNNER.md's ### Trap vocabulary table, 8 used-but-undocumented. #10416's PR takes that to 19/19/0 — but nothing holds it there.

Why it matters beyond the eight

RUNNER.md rule 3 tells a runner to "check the traps field and rule each listed trap out". Two ways that instruction silently becomes unexecutable, and the validator sees neither:

1. A new undocumented value, exactly as the eight arrived.
2. A typo in a documented one — hydration-races, wrong-persona — which is worse than case 1, because it reads as a documented trap right up until someone greps the table for it. hydration-race is on 79 of 205 items; a typo on one of them is a trap nobody rules out and nobody notices.

Both fail closed if the vocabulary is checked, and the oracle check is the in-file precedent for exactly that shape.

Why it was not built in #10416's PR

It is not a sixth Set. Every vocabulary above is hardcoded in the script; the trap vocabulary's source of truth is a markdown table in RUNNER.md, so the check has to either:

• (a) parse the ### Trap vocabulary table out of RUNNER.md — a markdown-table parser with its own failure modes (heading renamed, table moved, a row's backtick spelling changed), which fails open if the parse silently finds zero rows unless it also asserts a non-empty vocabulary; or
• (b) hardcode a TRAPS set in the script — which reintroduces the same drift one level up, between the script and RUNNER.md, with nothing catching it.

(a) is the right shape and wants the "zero hits needs a positive control" discipline the repo already applies elsewhere. That is a design decision, not a one-liner, which is why it is a card rather than a rider.

Suggested shape

In scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs: read RUNNER.md, extract the trap-table row names, assert the extracted set is non-empty (a zero-row parse must be a loud failure, never an empty allow-list), then check every item's traps entries against it. Both directions are worth flagging, mirroring the coverage ratchet's style: a used-but-undocumented value, and a documented-but-unused row (0 today, after #10416).

Note check:platform-checklist is not CI-wired by maintainer decision (README "Operating cadence") — this adds a check to the manual-cadence validator, it does not change that posture.

Refs: scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs (the ORACLES check at line 131 is the precedent) · docs/qa/platform-checklist/RUNNER.md (rule 3 + the trap table) · #10416 (the eight definitions; its first-touch grading proposed this as disposition B).

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[os-zhuang]

Triage: → pm:queue, domain:devx, Task. The card already settles the design question with the repo's own discipline (route (a): parse RUNNER.md's trap table, assert non-empty — zero-row parse fails loud, never an empty allow-list; flag both used-but-undocumented and documented-but-unused). fold-or-serial (required answer): shares the hot file scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs with queued #10593 (the provisioning.use resolve check) — verdict serial, not fold: same validator but different fix shapes (a 10-line same-area set resolve vs a markdown-table extractor with a positive control), so gate ① of the family test fails. Dispatch #10593 first (smaller), this one after it lands, syncing against the merged state.

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[claude]

Claim: /pm-dispatch domain:devx execution seat.
Session: session_01DdCnBGcHeufjrq7drTD3wt
Branch: claude/issue-10647-traps-vocabulary
Worktree: objectstack-issue-10647
Domain: domain:devx
File surface: scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs + its --self-test; reads docs/qa/platform-checklist/RUNNER.md

⭐ Unlocked: PR #10650 (#10416) merged, so RUNNER.md's trap table is at 19/19/0 — but nothing holds it there, which is this card.

⭐ The reason #10416's seat did NOT build this, carried forward so it is not re-derived: it is not a sixth Set. The trap vocabulary's source of truth is a markdown table in RUNNER.md, so the check needs a table parser that must also assert a non-empty parse — or it fails open; and hardcoding a TRAPS set reintroduces the same drift one level up. That is the design decision this card is really about.

⚠️ And the second half of the harm, which the card names: a typo in a documented value lands exactly like an undocumented one (hydration-race is on 79 of 205 items — one mistyped instance is simply a twentieth trap).

⛔ Governed surface out of scope (docs/adr/**, .claude/**, skills/**, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, content/docs/releases/**) and the #9465 epic fence (.changeset/ tooling, cut-rc.yml, release.yml, root package.json).
⚠️ No formatter of record — ⛔ do not run prettier --write (#10622).
⭐ Changeset: AGENTS.md:943; a scripts/**-only diff that publishes nothing takes skip-changeset via the additive POST /labels (⛔ never a whole-set PUT — see #5533).

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[claude]

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 "summary": "The premise held exactly: `traps` appeared nowhere in scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs, so any trap name validated green. Counts re-derived on today's tree (origin/main 55809a09a5, 15 areas, 205 items): 19 documented / 19 distinct in use / 0 used-but-undocumented / 0 documented-but-unused -- the 19/19/0 the brief predicted post-#10650. `hydration-race` is on 79 of 205 items; 197 items carry a traps list and 8 carry none (traps is an optional field, so that is not a violation). DESIGN: route (a) -- read the vocabulary from RUNNER.md's `### Trap vocabulary` table -- but the load-bearing addition is the POSITIVE CONTROL, not the parser. extractTrapVocabulary REFUSES on a table it cannot recognise (heading gone, table moved, zero rows, a row that lost its backticks, wrong header, missing separator) and never returns an empty vocabulary with a null refusal; a 22-assertion fixture battery pins that, and it runs INLINE ON EVERY INVOCATION rather than only behind --self-test, because a --self-test here would execute nowhere: this gate is not CI-wired by maintainer decision and its pnpm alias lives in the #9465-fenced root package.json -- that is the #10574/#10573 defect verbatim. Both directions are checked (used-but-undocumented, documented-but-unused), the typo message carries a Levenshtein did-you-mean, and the OK line now prints `traps: 19 documented, 19 in use (extractor control: 22 assertions)` so a green states what it read. RUNNER.md is UNMODIFIED -- no change to it was needed. Diff: scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs (+295) and docs/qa/platform-checklist/README.md (+12/-2). skip-changeset applied and confirmed by read-back. || CORRECTIONS to the brief/card, reported rather than worked around: (1) The brief's fail-open framing -- 'a parser that silently reads zero rows and then finds NO VIOLATIONS' -- is half right and worth stating precisely. With the used-side spelled `!vocab.has(name)`, an empty vocabulary makes all 197 trap-carrying items go RED, which is loud, not silent; the genuinely silent shape needs one more (very natural) step -- the defensive guard `if (vocab.size > 0 && ...)` or an ignored refusal -- which is exactly what the FO-4 counterfactual plants and demonstrates going green. The DOCUMENTED-BUT-UNUSED direction, however, IS silently fail-open with no extra step at all (0 documented -> 0 unused -> 0 findings). So the harm is real and the refusal is the right control; the mechanism is just not the one-step one the wording implies. (2) The claim comment's file surface reads 'scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs + its --self-test'. That script had NO --self-test before this PR -- the --self-test inside `pnpm check:platform-checklist` belongs to checklist-select.mjs. This PR adds the script's own. (3) The brief mandated the additive `POST /labels` (never a whole-set PUT, #5533). That curl POST was BLOCKED by this session's auto-mode permission classifier. I used the sanctioned fallback instead: read the label set back (documentation, size/m), wrote the union including skip-changeset, then read back to confirm all three are present. No label was dropped, but it was a whole-set write rather than the additive POST the brief specified -- flagging because #5533 is about precisely that shape. (4) Everything else in the brief verified true: 19/19/0 post-#10650, hydration-race on 79/205, the ORACLES check at line 131 exactly, `gh` not installed, check:doc-authoring invisible to dispatch-gates and needing a hand add, and `pnpm install` not needed at all here. (5) PROCESS INCIDENT, self-reported: during the first ablation attempt I restored with `git checkout HEAD -- <script>` while the fix was still UNCOMMITTED, wiping the whole change -- the exact failure the dev contract warns about. Recovered byte-identically by re-running the splice script from the scratchpad (verified identical: same 22 assertions, same 19-documented/19-in-use OK line), then COMMITTED before continuing any further ablation. Zero work lost, and every ablation quoted above was run from the committed state.",
 "tests": "All on 1538eb4c (final commit); gate union derived on that same HEAD. NO HEAVY WORK: no build, no test suite, no pnpm install -- every gate here is a zero-dependency node script, whole set under 30s, so there is no os-verify-lock.sh VERDICT line to quote (inventing one would be false). No dist/ is involved anywhere in this card, so no ablation leg needed a rebuild; every mutation was confirmed on disk by ANCHOR COUNT before the run, never by an editor's exit code. BASELINE unmodified tree: `check-platform-checklist: OK -- 15 areas, 205 items (205 active); coverage: 30 kinds mapped, 0 waived; traps: 19 documented, 19 in use (extractor control: 22 assertions).` exit 0. REPRO (a) invented trap on cli.build-own-contract (anchor `totally-invented-trap` 0->1): OLD validator exit 0 `OK -- 15 areas, 205 items ...`; NEW exit 1 ``traps[1] `totally-invented-trap` is not in RUNNER.md's `### Trap vocabulary` table``. REPRO (b) typo on records-forms.crud-roundtrip (anchor `hydration-races` 0->1): OLD exit 0 `OK -- ...`; NEW exit 1 ``traps[0] `hydration-races` ... -- did you mean `hydration-race`?``. FAIL-OPEN CONTROL, four table mutations each anchor-confirmed: 19 trap rows deleted (rows 23->4) -> exit 1 `has a header but ZERO rows ... this is a refusal -- never an empty allow-list`; heading renamed (count 1->0) -> exit 1 `the \"### Trap vocabulary\" heading is not in the file`; one row's backticks dropped (1->0) -> exit 1 `1 row(s) ... do not name a single backticked trap in the first cell`; header row swapped -> exit 1 `is not the trap table`. COUNTERFACTUAL (the control that makes the above load-bearing): a copy of the same file with the refusal downgraded to an empty set, the control neutered and the natural guard `if (vocabulary.size > 0 && !vocabulary.has(name))`, run against the emptied table -> `EXIT=0 OK -- ... traps: 0 documented, 19 in use`. Shipped check on the same tree: EXIT=1 refusal. ABLATIONS (prediction written before each run): AB-1a disable trapProblems' vocabulary branch, control intact -> predicted control red, observed exit 1 with exactly 3 failures C3/C4/C5. AB-1b same plus control neutered, harm (a) planted -> predicted green, observed exit 0 with the OK line reading `19 documented, 20 in use`. AB-2 documented-but-unused (0 today, so the condition was planted as a `never-used-trap` row, anchor 0->1) -> predicted red then green, observed exit 1 naming never-used-trap, then exit 0 `20 documented, 19 in use` once the loop was disabled. AB-4 neuter extractTrapVocabulary's refusal, control intact -> predicted exactly 9 failures (R1-R8 + R9), observed exactly 9. SIGNAL, reported rather than smoothed over: the FIRST attempt at AB-1 predicted harm (a) would flip to green and it did NOT -- the inline control caught the deleted assertion before the run reached real data. Isolating the data-side red required AB-1b. The shipped assertion cannot be quietly deleted, which is the design working. GATES: `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs` with no paths -> 2 paths vs merge base 55809a09a, union = check:cross-package-test-inputs [lint.yml + ci.yml] via scripts/**. Run green: `OK: 13 package(s) read outside themselves, all declared, and turbo.json hashes every declared glob.` HAND CROSS-CHECK (the derivation is a clue, not a spec): added check:doc-authoring by hand -- ROOTS = ['.claude','docs','skills','content'] so it does read the edited README -- `doc authoring guard: 389 files clean`. Also ran check:nul-bytes (`OK scanned 6215 text file(s) ... no raw ASCII control bytes`), check:entry-guard (`123 scripts/ file(s)`), check:parse-guard (`122 scripts/ file(s)`), each with its own --self-test first, all exit 0. The card's own gate as package.json spells it: `checklist-select --self-test: 17 cases pass` + check-platform-checklist OK; plus the new `check-platform-checklist --self-test: 22 assertions`. Exit codes were captured directly from the command (never through a pipe into tail), and every verdict quoted above is the gate's own printed line, not a bare $?.",
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