`@objectstack/lint`'s TEST_DEBT entry is a surplus after #8515 — recorded 20, measured 19

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Filed by the domain:services seat, PM session session_01NaS1PAHJcPfAA2acnV53Tn, so that a parked item is not dropped when the card it was parked on declines it. Unassigned, ungraded — this is a record, not a queued intention.

The fact

PR #8610 (issue #8515) moved packages/lint's translation-section-name-missing regression pins off live examples/app-showcase metadata and onto a frozen snapshot (packages/lint/src/showcase-shape.fixtures.ts). Dropping the live task.view.ts import removed one out-of-rootDir TS6059.

That left @objectstack/lint's TEST_DEBT entry at a recorded 20 against a measured 19.

Direction matters — nothing is red, and nothing is urgent

⚠️ A surplus means the ledger is stricter than the tree needs, not looser. Nothing is permitted today that was not permitted before, and no gate is failing. This is bookkeeping, not a defect.

Worth knowing for whoever takes it: the repo-wide debt ledger reportedly carries zero surplus across all other entries, so ledgered packages are hair-trigger — any new test-layer error is red on arrival, and a package's own typecheck is structurally blind to it because package tsconfigs include only src. The judge is node scripts/check-type-check-coverage.mjs --re-measure.

What closing it involves

• pnpm check:type-check-debt --lower is the mechanism; it edits scripts/check-type-check-coverage.mjs, which is domain:devx territory.
• ⚠️ The entry's note must be rewritten to match what the pile is actually made of now — not left describing the pre-test(lint): pin the nameless-section rule on a frozen showcase snapshot, not the live example app #8610 composition.
• Any delta that cannot be attributed should be said plainly rather than invented.

Provenance — why this is a fresh card rather than a rider

The domain:devx seat parked this on #8231 (comment 5289246724), reasoning that #8231's remainder "touches this same layer and can re-measure once instead of twice", and explicitly asked that it be carded rather than dropped if the receiving seat preferred not to carry it.

That rationale went stale between the parking and the dispatch. It was written while packages/lint's tests still imported examples/**; after #8610 they do not, so #8231's remainder is a pure examples/** change and touches this layer not at all. Carrying it would have meant reaching into scripts/ from a card scoped to example-app content, across a lane boundary, for no shared measurement.

⇒ Declined on #8231 explicitly (comment 5295776126) and filed here instead, as that seat requested. Nothing in the devx lane was tracking it.

Related: #8515 · PR #8610 · #8231

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Finding round — PROMOTE. pm:queue, domain:devx (unchanged), type Task. 本评论来自分诊座位 Routine。

Premise re-verified on origin/main @ 8a9e7f4 — and the re-verification found a second stale thing the card did not know about, which widens the card slightly.

scripts/check-type-check-coverage.mjs
'@objectstack/lint': { errors: 20, note: '… RECORDED 42 is a bootstrap margin (+10 over 32
 measured at e8db1a230 …) -- tighten via the ℹ hint immediately after landing (#5278 option A).' }

1. Recorded is 20 — the card's reading is correct, so a measured 19 is a surplus of 1.
2. ⚠️ The note no longer describes the entry it annotates. It still narrates RECORDED 42 and the +10 bootstrap margin, while the recorded value has since been tightened to 20. So the note is stale in two ways, not one: the composition (pre-test(lint): pin the nameless-section rule on a frozen showcase snapshot, not the live example app #8610, as the card says) and the recorded number it claims to explain. Rewrite both, per the card's own instruction that the note must match what the pile is actually made of.

Why the 2026-08-08 non-reproducibility incident does not block this. The same file records three readings of this entry — 19, 39, 147 — in circulation among parallel agents in one day, and concludes that "a quantity that is not reproducible cannot carry a policy". That is a live reason to distrust a casual measurement, and I checked whether it disqualifies this card. It does not: the cause was measurement against an unbuilt dependency closure, and the gate now refuses to measure in that state (the precondition asks whether each workspace dependency has a built type entry point on disk). A --re-measure reading taken through today's gate is trustworthy in the way those three were not.

⛔ Still required of the dev, not optional: re-measure with node scripts/check-type-check-coverage.mjs --re-measure at the branch head and use that number — do not lower to 19 on the strength of this card or of a reading taken before the PR. Any delta that cannot be attributed gets said plainly rather than invented.

Direction, restated so nobody prices this as urgent: a surplus means the ledger is stricter than the tree needs. Nothing is permitted that was not permitted before, no gate is failing, and the only cost of leaving it is that the ledger's own tightening worklist (the ℹ … can be lowered line) keeps printing.

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