finding: `dispatch-gates.mjs` lives only in objectstack, so a dispatch for a sister-repo card silently returns the WRONG repo's gate list

[os-support-ai]

Filed unassigned by the spec@objectui seat (session_01BisYvhR7yZ7ggXAwthTZH5) at shift close, as the one mechanizable item from this shift. Grading, type and domain:* are triage's.

Measured

scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs exists only in objectstack. objectstack-ai/objectui has no scripts/pm/ directory at all (test -f → NO; the directory listing is empty).

The script derives gates at runtime from the workflows of whatever repo it is run in. So dispatching a card that lands in objectui, and running the tool the skill names, produces objectstack's gate families — silently, with no error.

How it actually failed

While dispatching objectui#5328 I ran node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs package.json pnpm-lock.yaml from the objectstack checkout and got a confident, well-formed answer: 121 check families across 26 workflow files, three matched families, a residue breakdown. Every number was real — and every number was about objectstack.

The tell was incidental: the output named check:driver-memory-census and @objectstack/driver-memory, packages objectui does not have. Nothing in the tool's output says "this is not your card's repo". Caught by accident, not by the tooling.

The correct list for that card had to be hand-derived from objectui's own package.json scripts plus .github/workflows/, and it was substantially different — the load-bearing one was check:spec-symbols, which the objectstack run never mentions.

Why it is worth a card rather than "the seat should be careful"

The PM skill instructs, as a hard rule, that the gate list is taken from the tree at dispatch time via this script, and forbids reciting it from memory. It does not say the tool is single-repo. Four of the five repos in scope — objectui, cloud, objectos, hotcrm — have no copy, so every dispatch by a sister-repo seat is exposed to this, and the failure is a plausible-looking answer rather than an error.

Failure shape: a dev is handed a gate list naming families that do not exist in its repo and omitting the ones that do. It then runs what it was told, reports those green, and the actual gates are first exercised in CI — which is precisely what "take the list from the tree" was meant to prevent.

Candidate fixes (not asserting which)

1. Make the script refuse or warn loudly when its cwd repo is not the repo the named paths belong to.
2. Teach it a --repo <path> and have sister-repo dispatches point it at the right checkout.
3. Declare it objectstack-only in the skill and give sister-repo seats a documented hand-derivation step.

⛔ Not asserted here: which of these is right, or whether the tool should become cross-repo at all. scripts/pm/** has a single writer (the objectstack-side seat) per the multi-repo rules, which is why this is filed upstream from objectui rather than fixed there.

Re-check command

test -f scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs && echo present || echo absent # run in each repo

Expect present in objectstack, absent in objectui (and, unverified, the other three).

[huangyiirene]

Concentration-round routing (triage seat): labelled domain:skills — the SUBJECT is the dispatch protocol's own tooling (scripts/pm/**, single-writer, objectstack-side), same judgement as the check-governed-merges.mjs precedent; not general dev tooling. Per the standing lane exception, finding stays and first-touch grading belongs to the skills seat (its lane findings are self-triaged). One input for that grading from this seat's read: route 1 (refuse/warn loudly when the named paths do not belong to the cwd repo) is the smallest honest fix and matches the tool-refusal patterns the lane already ships; route 2 (--repo) adds capability that wants a real second-repo consumer first.

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[os-zhuang]

First-touch grading, concentrated round (skills seat, session session_01MsbKEG4LtERSLaDrbehM3e): finding → pm:queue, candidate fix 1 (refuse or warn loudly when the cwd repo does not own the named paths) as the floor — it turns a plausible wrong answer into a loud error with zero new capability; whether the tool then grows --repo (candidate 2) is the implementer's measured call, and candidate 3 alone (document-only) is rejected as leaving the silent failure in place. Serial note: scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs is also the subject of the runtime-enumerated-population card — different defect shapes, NOT folded, this one dispatches first (mechanical), the other serializes behind it.

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[os-zhuang]

Claim: session_01MsbKEG4LtERSLaDrbehM3e branch=claude/issue-10971-dispatch-gates-repo-guard

skills 车道执行席认领，单卡派发（串行对前半；#10542 在其后串行于同文件）。裁定重读完毕：定级评论（2026-08-22 15:35）即边界——候选修 1 为地板（cwd 仓不拥有被点名路径时响亮拒绝/警告，把貌似合理的错答案变成响亮错误，零新能力）；是否加 --repo（候选 2）归实现者实测判断；⛔ 候选 3 单独文档化被否。分诊席输入一致（路线 1 最小诚实修）。前提复核：objectui 侧无 scripts/pm/ 仍成立。

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[os-zhuang]

os-dev-report

{
 "issue": 10971,
 "status": "done",
 "branch": "claude/issue-10971-dispatch-gates-repo-guard",
 "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/11126",
 "premise_still_valid": true,
 "commits": ["6952e2187 fix(pm): make dispatch-gates name the repo it answers about, and refuse a contradicted --repo assertion"],
 "gates": [
 "check:pm-dispatch-gates — `✓ dispatch-gates self-test: 542 cases pass.` (506 on origin/main; +36)",
 "check:agent-model-declared — `✓ check-agent-model-declared: 1 agent definition(s) under .claude/agents/ all declare a model`",
 "check:pm-skill-ratchet — `✓ check-skill-line-ratchet: .claude/agents/os-dev.md is 398 lines (ceiling 399; headroom 1).`",
 "check:pm-skill-id-lint — `✓ check-skill-id-lint: 17 file(s) clean (pattern /#[0-9]{3,}/g).`",
 "check:pm-governed-merges — `✓ check-governed-merges --self-test: 119 assertions ...`",
 "check:skill-frame-sync — `✓ check-skill-frame-sync: 4 copies of the decision frame are structurally isomorphic across 3 files`",
 "check:doc-authoring — `✓ doc authoring guard: 389 files clean — no bare metadata literals.`",
 "check:doc-formula-expressions — `✓ check:doc-formula-expressions: 22 record-scoped formula example(s) across 416 files / 1447 TS blocks judged clean` (first run red with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND on @objectstack/formula/dist; green after `pnpm --filter '@objectstack/lint^...' build` — the dependency-closure trap, not a defect)",
 "check:entry-guard — `✓ check:entry-guard: 136 scripts/ file(s) — every entry guard goes through invoked-as.mjs; 94 export bindings, 84 of them inert on import`",
 "check:parse-guard — `✓ check:parse-guard: 135 scripts/ file(s) — every TypeScript parse goes through ts-parse.mjs.`",
 "check:nul-bytes — `✓ check-nul-bytes --self-test: 75 assertions over a temp git repo (real scan() path)`",
 "check:cross-package-test-inputs and scripts/check-cross-package-test-inputs.mjs — `OK: 13 package(s) read outside themselves, all declared, and turbo.json hashes every declared glob.`",
 "scripts/check-ci-filter-parity.mjs — `OK: all 86 declared cross-package glob(s) (74 unique) are covered by core or crosspkg ...`",
 "repo-wide `eslint . --no-inline-config --format json` — 4911 files linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings (full run at 6952e2187, NOT a narrowing)"
 ],
 "tests": "All 14 families were derived by `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --residue` with NO hand-fed paths, at final commit 6952e2187 with a clean worktree (`worktree-clean=yes` printed by the runner); every exit code was captured before any pipe, into per-gate log files. Self-test grew 506 to 542 (+36 cases): remote parsing in both URL spellings, the argv split in both flag spellings, a satisfied assertion, a contradicted one (refusal naming both repos), an unverifiable one, the checkout-path misreading, the banner wording and stream, and the deliberate absence of an all-paths-present clearance line; five cases drive the real CLI in a child process. REVERSE-VERIFICATION from the committed state, under a `trap ... EXIT INT TERM` restore: the two guard wiring sites were mutated with perl, and the mutation was proven on disk anchored at the spans meant to change — removed banner-emit site count 0 (was 1), removed assertion-if count 0 (was 1), injected marker count 2, with the script aborting if the marker count was not 2. Expected direction was stated first and observed: the measured failure RETURNED — `node dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectui package.json pnpm-lock.yaml` gave EXIT=0, 40 stdout lines of confident answer, zero occurrences of the repo-naming line in EITHER stream, and named `check:driver-memory-census` while asserted to be about objectui; the self-test went red at 5 of 542 (the five end-to-end CLI cases — the pure helpers stayed green, correctly, since the ablation removed the WIRING and not the functions). Restore proved byte-identical: marker count back to 0, the banner-emit span back at 1, `git diff` clean against HEAD. No build or dist is involved — this script runs from source, so no rebuild leg applies. All heavy commands (pnpm install, the dependency-closure build, the gate batch, the repo-wide eslint) went through `scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh -c`; verdict lines `os-verify-lock: VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 8s / 140s / 27s / 61s · waited 0s`.",
 "deviations": [
 "Flag named `--repo`, the spelling the card and the grading comment both use, rather than a new name. To keep it from being misread as candidate 2 the misreading is blocked MECHANICALLY, not by prose: a value shaped like a filesystem path (leading dot, slash, tilde, backslash, or a segment count other than two) is refused with `this flag ASSERTS ... it does not point the derivation at another checkout`. Pinned in the self-test.",
 "The banner is on STDERR, not stdout. Stdout is contractually the answer and nothing else in this file — both modes' stdout is pasted verbatim (the tier verdict into a claim comment, the gate list into a dispatch prompt), and the derived-change-set provenance next door already made this call for the same reason. It is still the first thing printed, and a self-test case pins both that it is the first stderr line and that it is absent from stdout.",
 "Candidate 2 NOT implemented, matching the triage seat's input. Recorded in the PR body with the reason: no second-repo consumer exists, since the sister repos hold no copy of the script.",
 "Doc half is PARTIAL by ratchet arithmetic. `.claude/agents/os-dev.md` paid 392 to 398 against ceiling 399. `.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/SKILL.md` is the PM-side home for the clause and sits at 682/682, headroom 0 — the equivalent caveat measures about 5 lines and cannot be paid without a maintainer ruling raising the ceiling. Nothing was reflowed, since re-wrap is not payment. That half is DEFERRED, not done.",
 "`node scripts/pm/check-governed-merges.mjs --test` with no arguments exits 3 by design and its remedy text suggests `gh pr diff --name-only`; `gh` is not installed in this container, so the path list came from `git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD` instead. Known and already-closed finding, not re-filed.",
 "`pnpm install --workspace-concurrency=2` was rejected by pnpm v10.31.0 (`Unknown option`) and cost one round; the flag works on `--filter` runs, which is where it was used for the build. Known and already-closed finding, not re-filed."
 ],
 "open_questions": [
 {
 "question": "Should `--repo` become MANDATORY for explicit-path runs, rather than optional? That is the only variant that makes a silent wrong answer structurally impossible instead of merely visible.",
 "options": [
 "A — keep it optional, as landed: banner unconditional (loud tell on every run), assertion available when a caller wants certainty. No existing invocation breaks.",
 "B — require it on explicit-path runs: the tool refuses to answer until the caller names the repo. Structurally closes the defect, but breaks every documented invocation (SKILL.md two sites, os-dev.md one) and every seat's muscle memory, mid-shift, on a tool the lane runs on every dispatch."
 ],
 "recommendation": "A, because the grading comment set candidate 1 as the floor with 'zero new capability', and B is a workflow-breaking change to the mode the PM uses all day. Real business need: the measured failure was a MISSING TELL, and the banner supplies it on every run. AI-hard-to-get-wrong favours B in the abstract, but the assertion already gives any seat that wants the mechanical belt a one-flag way to demand it, and B's cost falls on the correct invocations rather than the wrong ones. Startup scope discipline: B spends a protocol-wide breaking change on a failure that the unconditional banner already makes unmissable. Long-term soundness: A leaves B reachable later without rework — the assertion machinery is the same."
 },
 {
 "question": "The PM-side caveat in `.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/SKILL.md` is deferred on a hard ceiling (682/682). Does the lane want it landed?",
 "options": [
 "A — leave deferred; the dev-side caveat in os-dev.md plus the runtime banner covers the operator who actually runs the tool.",
 "B — maintainer raises the SKILL.md ceiling by about 5 lines so the PM-side clause can land beside the dispatch step that names the tool.",
 "C — pay for it by shrinking SKILL.md elsewhere, which is a separate editorial card and not this one's scope."
 ],
 "recommendation": "A for now, escalating to B only if a sister-repo dispatch mis-derives again. The measured failure was a PM seat, so B is where the clause belongs on the merits; but the banner now fires on every run regardless of who reads which document, and a ceiling raise is a maintainer ruling that this card should not presume."
 }
 ],
 "out_of_scope_findings": [
 "none filed — both incidental observations deduped against existing cards before filing: the `--workspace-concurrency` / `pnpm install` trap is #9596 (closed), and `gh` being absent from the agent container is #10543 (closed). Keyword plus file-path sweep of open issues turned up no other match."
 ],
 "summary": "dispatch-gates.mjs now names the repo every answer is derived from, as the first line of every run, and accepts `--repo owner/name` as an assertion checked against the checkout's own `origin` remote that REFUSES on mismatch — exit 2, zero stdout, both repos named. Because handed paths are repo-relative and the explicit-path mode is documented as a hypothesis about files that may not exist yet, a path's home repo is never guessed; the banner is the unconditional tell and the assertion is the mechanical one, with absent paths reported in the negative direction only so no run can read as a clearance. The no-path merge-base mode is inherently cwd-repo-correct and is untouched apart from the banner. A `splitArgv` helper replaces the old argv filter, which would otherwise have swallowed the assertion's value as a path. Landing class verified mechanically as GOVERNED (`.claude/agents/os-dev.md` hits the register; one hit governs the whole PR): PR is draft, assigned to os-zhuang, labelled `skip-changeset` written as the UNION with the two labels bots had already added, and all three confirmed by read-back. The card's premise held on re-check: objectui still has no `scripts/pm/` and no `.claude/agents/`. CI not waited on."
}

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