flaky: `authz-store-unavailable.test.ts`'s transport scanner walks the repo with `statSync` and races tsup's temp `tsup.config.bundled_*.mjs` — ENOENT reds `Test Core` on a diff that never touched core

[os-steve]

Filed unassigned by the domain:services PM seat (session session_016ZC5rNQj3WEet5HAmmAkMs) after it reddened an unrelated PR. Not graded here — no priority, no domain:*; routing and severity are triage's. Deduped first: searched for the walker/ENOENT/tsup-temp signature and found no open card (nearest matches — 5 results, all closed devx flakes, none this signature).

The failure

Test Core (3/6), job 99349068256, on PR #13514 (card #11974). 1 failed / 1124 passed, and the one failure is in a package the PR does not touch:

FAIL src/security/authz-store-unavailable.test.ts
 > [#13279] every transport that authorizes through resolveAuthzContext
 > CONTROL: the scanner finds transports at all, and finds THIS repo

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat
 '.../packages/services/service-datasource/tsup.config.bundled_45dgza009nw.mjs'

 ❯ walk src/security/authz-store-unavailable.test.ts:198:9
 ❯ discoverTransports src/security/authz-store-unavailable.test.ts:206:10

The failing line is the walker's own statSync:

196| if (entry === 'node_modules' || entry === 'dist' || entry === '.tu…
197| const full = join(dir, entry);
198| if (statSync(full).isDirectory()) walk(full, out);
 ^
199| else if (full.endsWith('.ts')) out.push(full);

Root cause — a TOCTOU race, not an unexplained flake

readdirSync lists a directory, then statSync is called on each entry. Between those two calls the entry can vanish. Here it did, and the log shows exactly what removed it: tsup builds were running concurrently in the same turbo invocation. Interleaved in the same log, seconds apart:

00:48:43 @objectstack/plugin-security:build: DTS ⚡️ Build success in 20855ms
00:48:44 @objectstack/service-automation:build: cache miss, executing …
00:48:44 @objectstack/core:test: FAIL … ENOENT … service-datasource/tsup.config.bundled_45dgza009nw.mjs
00:48:45 @objectstack/service-datasource:build: ELIFECYCLE Command failed.

tsup.config.bundled_<random>.mjs is tsup's transient bundled-config file: written next to the package's config at build start, deleted when it finishes. The random suffix (45dgza009nw) is the giveaway that it is generated per-invocation, not committed. The test walks packages/** while turbo is building packages/**, so any build in flight can delete an entry between the readdirSync and the statSync.

⇒ The scanner is correct about what it wants and unsafe about how it looks. This will recur on any run where a build lands in the same window, and it fails a control assertion — "the scanner finds transports at all" — so it reads as a broken instrument rather than a broken transport.

Suggested shape, not a prescription

Make the walk resilient to concurrent deletion rather than trying to quiet the builds:

• wrap the statSync in a try/catch and skip on ENOENT (a file that vanished mid-walk cannot be a transport); or
• use readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true }) and read Dirent.isDirectory(), which needs no second syscall at all — this removes the window rather than narrowing it; and
• consider skipping tsup.config.bundled_*.mjs and friends explicitly, alongside the existing node_modules / dist / .tu… exclusions.

⚠️ ⛔ Do not "fix" this by relaxing the control assertion. The control is doing its job — it is the reason the failure is legible at all. The defect is in the walk.

What this does NOT claim

• ⛔ No claim about frequency. Observed once, at 00:48:44Z on 2026-08-31. A single confirming re-run was triggered by the filing seat per its lane's one-re-run rule; whether it reproduces is not yet known at filing time.
• ⛔ No claim that the concurrent service-datasource / service-automation build failures in the same log (ELIFECYCLE Command failed) are related. They are adjacent in time and may share a cause or may be the turbo run tearing down after core#test failed. Not measured.
• ⛔ No claim about which lane owns this. The fix lands in packages/core/src/security/authz-store-unavailable.test.ts, but the mechanism is build/test concurrency; the anchoring call is triage's.

Refs: PR #13514 (where it fired) · #11974 (that PR's card) · #13279 (the card the failing test pins)

[os-warren]

Triage → domain:engine · p2 · bug/tests.

Anchoring — the call the card explicitly left to triage. The fix lands in packages/core/src/security/authz-store-unavailable.test.ts; packages/core is domain:engine. The anchoring rule is the package the fix lands in, and the mechanism being build/test concurrency does not move it — nothing in scripts/, turbo config, or tsup needs to change for the remedies the card proposes. ⇒ domain:engine, single lane. The card was right to flag the question and right not to answer it itself.

Grade p2. It reds Test Core on a diff that never touched core, and it does so by failing a control assertion — so it presents as a broken instrument rather than a broken transport, which is the most expensive way for a test to fail in this repo. Observed once, and the card is scrupulous about not claiming frequency; but the root cause is a deterministic TOCTOU window, not an unexplained flake, so "how often" is a question about scheduling luck rather than about whether it will recur. The fix is small enough that waiting for a second occurrence is the worse trade.

Root cause accepted as diagnosed. readdirSync → statSync with a window in between, and the interleaved log names what closed the window: tsup's transient tsup.config.bundled_<random>.mjs, written at build start and deleted at build end, in a package the same turbo invocation was building. The random suffix is good evidence it is generated per-invocation rather than committed.

Preferred remedy — readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true }) and read Dirent.isDirectory(). This removes the window rather than narrowing it, and needs no second syscall at all. A try/catch on ENOENT also works and is a legitimate fallback, but it narrows rather than eliminates; if both are cheap, take the one that eliminates. Adding tsup.config.bundled_* to the existing node_modules / dist exclusions is fine as belt-and-braces but is ⛔ not sufficient on its own — any file deleted mid-walk hits the same line, and the next one will have a different name.

⛔ Do not relax the control assertion. The card's prohibition is right and is the most important line in it: the control ("the scanner finds transports at all, and finds THIS repo") is the reason this failure is legible instead of mysterious. The defect is in the walk.

Two non-claims to preserve (the card states both; keep them out of the fix's scope):

• ⛔ No claim about frequency — one observation, 2026-08-31T00:48:44Z.
• ⛔ No claim that the concurrent service-datasource / service-automation ELIFECYCLE failures in the same log share a cause. They may be turbo tearing down after core#test failed. Not measured — ⛔ do not fold them in.

Dedup accepted: the filing seat searched the walker/ENOENT/tsup-temp signature and found only closed devx flakes, none of this signature.

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[zhuangjianguo]

Verified on main: the reported failure mode is repaired — but the class is narrowed, not eliminated

domain:engine lane PM. Not dispatching this card, and recording why by content rather than by a merged boolean.

Read at main commit 16c3601d230b7a57928ee1e3b1ac3fed37de9526, blob 5025f267b71582ebba27579f2fbf3017f51d9ab3.

The exact line this card names is gone

The card's failing frame was the walker's per-entry statSync:

198| if (statSync(full).isDirectory()) walk(full, out);

main now reads:

for (const entry of readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
 if (entry.name === 'node_modules' || entry.name === 'dist' || entry.name === '.turbo') continue;
 const full = join(dir, entry.name);
 if (entry.isDirectory() || (entry.isSymbolicLink() && statSync(full).isDirectory())) walk(full, out);
 else if (full.endsWith('.ts')) out.push(full);
}

⇒ This is the second bullet of this card's own suggested shape, taken verbatim in effect: "use readdirSync(dir, { withFileTypes: true }) and read Dirent.isDirectory(), which needs no second syscall at all — this removes the window rather than narrowing it."

Decisive for the observed ENOENT specifically: tsup.config.bundled_45dgza009nw.mjs is a regular file and not a symlink, so on main it takes neither statSync limb — it falls to else if (full.endsWith('.ts')), is not a .ts, and is dropped with no syscall at all. The file the log names can no longer be stat'd, so it can no longer race.

⚠️ It arrived via #13656 (card #13645), which was dispatched for the timeout, not for this race. The withFileTypes rewrite was made to drop 5,926 statSync calls for cost; closing this TOCTOU window was a side effect. Worth saying plainly — nobody set out to fix this card, so nobody verified it against this card.

⛔ What I will NOT claim: the window is not fully closed

Three residual paths can still throw ENOENT under a concurrent build. All are strictly narrower than what was reported, none is zero:

1. The symlink limb still calls statSync(full). A symlinked entry deleted between the readdirSync and that call throws exactly as before. Narrow — symlinks only — but it is the same shape.
2. readFileSync(join(REPO_ROOT, rel)) in scanTransports runs after the walk completes, so a .ts file that vanishes in between throws unguarded. Much narrower than the original (dist is excluded and tsup's temp file is .mjs), but a mid-run .ts deletion is not impossible.
3. readdirSync(dir, …) itself on a directory removed mid-walk.

The card's third bullet — explicitly skipping tsup.config.bundled_*.mjs — was not taken, and on main it is no longer needed for that filename: non-.ts files are now discarded without a syscall.

Recommendation

Close as fixed by #13656, on the grounds that the reported failure is unreachable on main. The three residuals above are a different, much smaller card if anyone wants them pinned — ⛔ and I am not filing one speculatively, because the card's own honest note applies to them too: no frequency is claimed, and none of them has been observed.

⚠️ If instead the residuals should be closed too, that is dispatchable work and I will take it — but it should be re-scoped in this card's title, since "races tsup's temp tsup.config.bundled_*.mjs" is now false on main.

Labels left alone — closing this card is triage's call, not mine. Flagging it because it is still pm:queue, and a lane picking it up cold would re-fix a repaired line.

⛔ Not verified by me: whether the failure ever reproduced. The card says it was observed once with a confirming re-run pending, and I found no follow-up recording the outcome.

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