docs(adr): record ADR-0125 as accepted, and name the version-PR trigger in Prime Directive #15

[claude]

Fixes#11819

Two sentences, two governed files, nothing else.git diff --stat = 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-). No code, no workflow, no changeset, no other ADR.

⛔ Governed surface (docs/adr/** + AGENTS.md). Opened as draft, review requested from os-zhuang. This seat will not flip it ready, will not arm auto-merge, and will not enqueue it — the hand-merge is the acceptance act, which is precisely what sentence 1 is about.

The premise was read, not re-derived

PR #11818 established by content that .github/workflows/agrees with ADR-0125 and the docs were the drifted party. I read it first and did not re-derive it. What I did re-measure is the two facts this card turns on — the merge that landed ADR-0125, and which trigger regenerates the Version Packages PR — because both are the thing being written into a governed record.

Everything below was measured on this branch, whose base is origin/main @ e43b18fd9 (the card was verified at 7e8393262; neither sentence had moved in between).

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Sentence 1 — ADR-0125 declared itself unaccepted while being the authority

Current text, verbatim (docs/adr/0125-release-approval-gate-replaces-the-typed-version.md:3)

Status: Proposed (2026-08-20) — awaiting the maintainer's hand-merge, which is itself the acceptance act for a governed surface (Prime Directive #14). Implementation ships in the same PR: .github/workflows/release.yml.

The authority that contradicts it — the merge

evidence	command	result
the record was added by exactly one commit	git log --diff-filter=A -- docs/adr/0125-*.md	81d1fa11dd83c6c6aa1fa64ee87a6680abbd0360
it is on the trunk	git merge-base --is-ancestor 81d1fa11d origin/main	exit 0 — ancestor of origin/main
that commit is the PR the ADR ships in	git show --stat	3 files: .github/workflows/release.yml, AGENTS.md, the ADR itself — the "implementation ships in the same PR" the status line describes
the PR	#10150, merged: true	merged_at2026-08-20T13:27:49Z, base.sha2d3860df9
the implementation is live and cited	grep -o 'ADR-0125' .github/workflows/release.yml | wc -l	11

So the act the status line says it awaits is the act that landed it, four days ago, and eleven references in the publish lane now stand on it.

Replacement

Status: Accepted (2026-08-20) — accepted by the merge that landed it on main (#10150, commit 81d1fa11d), which is itself the acceptance act for a governed surface (Prime Directive #14). Implementation shipped in the same PR: .github/workflows/release.yml.

The acceptance date comes from the merge, not from today

Today is 2026-08-24; the date written is 2026-08-20, and both clocks on that merge agree:

squash commit 81d1fa11d author/committer date 2026-08-20T13:05:44Z
PR #10150 merged_at 2026-08-20T13:27:49Z

It also coincides with the record's own two other 2026-08-20 facts (the maintainer ruling in Deciders, and D3's settings confirmation), so the count of 2026-08-20 in the file is unchanged at 4.

⚠️ What the replacement deliberately does NOT say

The old line named the awaited act as "the maintainer's hand-merge". I could not verify that the merge was a hand-merge, and the evidence points elsewhere (measured under Findings below). Rather than carry an unverified actor and mechanism forward into the record that is the authority for the publish lane — which is the exact failure class this card exists to correct — the replacement names only what is verifiable, "the merge that landed it on main", and leaves the Prime Directive #14 mechanism clause after it untouched. The governance question is reported, not silently written into an ADR.

"Accepted" is the repo's word, not an invented one

Census over docs/adr/*.md (129 records, 113 carrying a **Status**: line):

status word	records
contains Accepted	85
exact form Accepted (YYYY-MM-DD) — the form used here	55
contains Proposed	19

Same-day acceptance needs no second date: sibling records that were proposed and ratified on different days spell it Accepted (2026-07-27; proposed 2026-07-25), and here both dates are 2026-08-20.

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Sentence 2 — Prime Directive #15's warrant sentence describes a trigger the job no longer has

Current text, verbatim (AGENTS.md:194)

That PR is bot-authored and standing-open by design: it is regenerated on every push to main, so "green, current, and nobody has objected" is its permanent resting state, not a signal that it is due.

The authority that contradicts it — release.yml itself

on: block, at this branch's base:

on:
push:
branches:
- mainschedule:
- cron: '0 */6 * * *'workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
force: …refresh_version_pr: …

The version-pr job — the one that regenerates the Version Packages PR — is guarded:

version-pr:
name: Version PR maintenance# ⛔ NOT `push` (#11233). On push this job force-pushed #4935 on every one of# main's ~18 daily landings, so the PR's own CI could never converge …if: >- github.event_name == 'schedule' || (github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.refresh_version_pr)

and the file's own lane map states the split in prose: schedule (6-hourly) → version-pr … NOT on push, while push to main → release-integrity → publish.

⭐ Which trigger the sentence means — the conflation this card warned about

release.yml genuinely does carry on: push: branches: [main], so "on every push to main" is not false about the file — it is false about the Version Packages PR. A replacement that only swapped "push" for "schedule" would leave the next reader to grep the file, find the push trigger, and conclude the old sentence was right after all. So the replacement does two things: it names the real regeneration triggers, and it says where the file's push trigger actually goes.

Replacement

That PR is bot-authored and standing-open by design: release.yml's version-pr job regenerates it on a six-hourly schedule — or on demand, via the refresh_version_pr dispatch input — and never on a push to main (that file's push trigger drives the publish lane, not this PR), so "green, current, and nobody has objected" is its permanent resting state, not a signal that it is due.

The sentence's point is preserved unchanged: a standing-green Version Packages PR is its resting state, not a signal that it is due. Only the mechanism that keeps it standing is corrected. Nothing else in the directive moved — it already named ADR-0125 and the approval act, and the next paragraph's description of the publish lane's push trigger was already correct.

⛔ No issue-id citation, and that is mechanical rather than stylistic

AGENTS.md carries zero#NNNN citations, and that is enforced per-PR by check:pm-skill-id-lint (pattern /#[0-9]{3,}/g) under the maintainer ruling this file's own header records (2026-08-12). So the replacement names the trigger by its YAML spelling — schedule, refresh_version_pr — rather than by the issue that moved it. The naive form of this fix, which cites the issue the way release.yml's comments do, is red; it is ablated below.

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Controls — counts elsewhere in each file that must not move, and did not

control	before	after
docs/adr/0125-*.md line count	109	109
ADR ### D<n> decision headings	6	6
ADR occurrences of 2026-08-20	4	4
ADR lines carrying the 2026-08-07 verbatim ruling	2	2
AGENTS.md line count	961	961 (the ratchet's ceiling is 961, headroom 0 — a one-line growth would be red)
AGENTS.md Prime-Directive-shaped list items	34	34
AGENTS.md#NNNN issue-id citations	0	0
AGENTS.md mentions of ADR-0125	2	2
.github/workflows/release.yml mentions of ADR-0125 (untouched file)	11	11
files changed	—	2 (git status --porcelain empty at the commit)

The 2026-08-07 maintainer ruling is byte-identical in both files — the quotation is preserved, not paraphrased, in the ADR and in the directive:

sha256 of 「刚才我也没提出要求,是哪个ai自己替我发了 rc.4,版本发布必须是人工的。这个要写入规范。」
before: 141ff27168c934d70a542228ef3857d952d811f9b7d9840073ab7fef5e00b5b0 (both files)
after: 141ff27168c934d70a542228ef3857d952d811f9b7d9840073ab7fef5e00b5b0 (both files)

Every zero paired with a probe shown able to fire

A "removed text is gone" zero reads identically when the pattern or the path is wrong, so each is paired with the same pattern firing somewhere I did not touch:

zero	positive control that fires
grep -c '^\*\*Status\*\*: Proposed' docs/adr/0125-*.md → 0	the same pattern over docs/adr/*.md → 17 files hit (e.g. 0019-app-as-consumer-unit.md, 0022-connectors-vs-messaging-channels.md, 0025-plugin-package-distribution.md) — records I did not touch
grep -c 'regenerated on every push to' AGENTS.md → 0	grep -c 'on every push to \main`' docs/releases-maintenance.md` → 1 (line 432, a file I did not touch) — the pattern fires
grep -naP '[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]' over both edited files → no match (exit 1)	check:nul-bytes--self-test: 75 assertions over a temp git repo, including red-when-injected

⚠️ The second control is also a measurement worth recording: docs/releases-maintenance.md:432 says release-integrity "runs on every push to main", which is correct post-#11233 and is deliberately left alone. Only the version PR left the push trigger.

Reverse verification — the gate reads the sentence I edited

The claim "no issue id, because a gate forbids it" is only worth anything if that gate can see this sentence. Both legs ran on the committed tree, each with its mutation confirmed on disk by grepping the injected and the removed text, and the script carries trap '<restore>' EXIT INT TERM. No rebuild leg is needed or claimed: check-skill-id-lint.mjs reads AGENTS.md from source and imports no package dist.

leg	on-disk proof	gate result
mutation — cite the issue in my new clause, as the naive fix would ((#11233; that file's …)	injected (#11233; = 1, original clause (that file's \push` trigger` = 0	exit 1 — ✗ check-skill-id-lint: AGENTS.md: 1 issue-ID citation(s) — … numbers go (maintainer ruling 2026-08-12). and it names AGENTS.md:194, the line this PR edits
restore	injected (#11233; = 0, clause restored = 1, total #NNNN in file = 0, git status --porcelain empty	exit 0 — ✓ check-skill-id-lint: 22 file(s) clean (pattern /#[0-9]{3,}/g).

The failure names line 194, which is the line the diff touches — so the gate is reading the replacement sentence, not merely the file.

Gate verdicts

Families derived with node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack — no hand-typed path list; the script takes the change set from the merge base itself (2 path(s), 157 check famil(ies) discovered across 26 workflow file(s), 12 matched). Re-derived after the final commit, unchanged.

All twelve re-run at the final commit 1e30b1cc5 with a clean tree. Exit codes captured before any pipe (each command redirected to its own log first); the lines below are each gate's own verdict line, never a bare $?:

gate	verdict line
check:adr-anchors	check-adr-anchors: OK (52 anchored file(s), every governing ADR still referenced; 123 decision number(s) …; 27919 citation(s) across 3498 file(s) resolve).
check:adr-links	✅ check-adr-links: 551 relative link destination(s) under docs/adr/ resolve
check:agent-test-spelling	✓ check-agent-test-spelling: 0 violations — 356 file(s) · 3375 bare \--` token(s) · 1100 launcher-rooted run(s) …`
check:doc-authoring	✓ doc authoring guard: 389 files clean — no bare metadata literals.
check:docs-audit-scope	✓ docs-accuracy-audit scope is in sync with content/docs/: 189 hand-written doc(s).
check:pm-governed-merges	✓ check-governed-merges --self-test: 129 assertions (…)
check:pm-governed-prose	✓ check-governed-prose: 2 instruction surface(s) name all 5 registered governed surfaces (docs/adr/** · .claude/** · skills/** · AGENTS.md · CLAUDE.md) and claim no others.
check:pm-skill-id-lint	✓ check-skill-id-lint: 22 file(s) clean (pattern /#[0-9]{3,}/g).
check:pm-skill-ratchet	✓ check-skill-line-ratchet: AGENTS.md is 961 lines (ceiling 961; headroom 0).
check:required-contexts	✓ check-required-contexts: 6 required context name(s) pinned across 2 workflow(s); 5 instruction surface(s) scanned …
check:nul-bytes	check-nul-bytes: OK (scanned 6591 text file(s) -- 6591 tracked, 0 untracked-not-ignored; skipped 5 binary; no raw ASCII control bytes).
check:doc-formula-expressions	✓ check:doc-formula-expressions: 22 record-scoped formula example(s) across 421 files / 1448 TS blocks judged clean by @objectstack/formula.

Each gate's --self-test leg ran green first (check-adr-anchors --self-test: 74 assertions; check-governed-merges --self-test: 129 assertions; check-governed-prose self-test: 28 cases; check-skill-id-lint self-test: 14 cases; check-nul-bytes --self-test: 75 assertions; check:doc-formula-expressions self-test: 50 cases; check-audit-scope self-test: 24 cases; check-doc-authoring self-test green).

Dependency closure built before judging anything — pnpm --workspace-concurrency=2 --filter '@objectstack/lint^...' build then pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint build, both exit 0 — so no gate read a stale dist. The first attempt at check:doc-formula-expressionsfailed on a missing packages/lint/dist/index.js, which is the stale-dist trap arriving as a real red rather than a silent pass; it is green above only after the package's own build. The --filter echoed its script name (> @objectstack/lint@17.2.0 check:doc-formula-expressions), the guard against a zero-match filter exiting 0 with nothing run.

Both heavy runs went through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh: VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 5s · waited 0s (install), VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 118s (1m58s) · waited 0s (closure build), VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 10s · waited 0s (lint build).

Repo-wide pnpm lint narrowed, and the narrowing measured — three pieces, not a claim:

1. Population read from eslint's own config resolution, not from a guess:npx eslint --no-inline-config --format json AGENTS.md docs/adr/0125-*.md reports File ignored because no matching configuration was supplied for both files — neither is in the linted population.
2. File count read from --format json: 2 files reported, 0 errors, 1 warning each (the ignore notice above), eslint exit 0.
3. Config invariance for untouched files: this diff changes no eslint config, no TypeScript and no JavaScript — it is two Markdown prose files eslint does not lint — so no untouched file's verdict can move.

Changeset

None, deliberately — docs-only, so this PR publishes no package. dispatch-gates lists the 6 changeset-triggered families under "write one unless this card is docs-only", and none of them is in the matched set. skip-changeset applied via the additive POST endpoint and read back.

Findings — reported, not ridden along

The card's ⛔ said anything else noticed gets reported rather than carried in this diff. Three, none of them touched here:

1. ADR-0125 D5's rationale is now historically conditioned. D5 argues for per-job concurrency partly because, under one shared group, "a maintainer who takes an hour to approve would have the intervening main pushes evict each other, and the Version Packages PR would stop being regenerated for the duration". That consequence assumed the version-pr job ran on push, which was true when the record was written on 2026-08-20 and stopped being true at release.yml 的 version-pr 车道改为「定时 + 按需」刷新——终结 Version Packages PR 被每次 main push 强刷、CI 永不收敛的合并竞态 #11233 on 2026-08-23. The decision (per-job groups) is unaffected and still correct; only that clause of the reasoning describes a world that has moved. It is arguably right for an ADR to preserve the reasoning as it stood at acceptance, which is exactly why this is a question for the maintainer and not an edit I should make while I happen to have the file open.

2. The merge that landed ADR-0125 does not look like a hand-merge. This is why the replacement in sentence 1 does not repeat the phrase. Measured: PR ci(release): the human act is the environment approval, not a typed version (ADR-0125) #10150's merged_at is 2026-08-20T13:27:49Z — the same second as PR fix(tooling): read a defaulted mock initializer, name the inheritance rule, and derive check-engine-double-contract's own corpus figures #10176's, whose squash commit 57e00595c is the direct child of ADR-0125's 81d1fa11d; both commits were created ~22 minutes earlier (13:05:44Z and 13:05:55Z) and landed together. Two PRs sharing a merge second, on a repo where nine workflows carry a merge_group trigger, is the signature of one merge-queue batch. merged_by on ci(release): the human act is the environment approval, not a typed version (ADR-0125) #10150 is its own author. Prime Directive feat: Comprehensive CRM example demonstrating all ObjectStack protocol features #14 reserves filing and rollback of a governed-surface merge to the maintainer, and this is four days old and load-bearing, so it is recorded here for judgement rather than filed or acted on by this seat.

3. This PR's own draft state is the only draft state this seat sets. PR docs(releases-maintenance): correct three pre-ADR-0125 publish-lane sentences #11818, which this card sequences behind, currently reads draft: false; this seat did not set that and did not change it — a state you did not set belongs to another actor.

Also checked and not stale, so left alone: docs/releases-maintenance.md:432 (release-integrity "runs on every push to main" — still true), and the rest of Prime Directive #15, which already names ADR-0125, the approval act, and the publish lane's push trigger correctly.

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[os-steve]

ACCEPT (advisory — governed surface, so the merge decision is os-zhuang's). Verified by content on origin/main.

⭐ You departed from my wording, and the departure is the best judgement in this PR

I wrote the card's replacement text around "the maintainer's hand-merge". You did not repeat it, because the evidence does not support that actor — and your reason is the card's own principle turned on the card's own instruction:

writing an unverified actor into the record that is the authority for the publish lane is the exact failure class this card exists to correct

That is right, and it is the kind of thing a dev following instructions carefully would have got wrong. A card about a record making an unverified claim about itself would have been closed by putting a different unverified claim in the same line.

The acceptance date came from evidence, as ⛔'d

81d1fa11d dated 2026-08-20T13:05:44Z, PR merged_at 13:27:49Z — not today's 2026-08-24. And Accepted (YYYY-MM-DD) is the repo's own ratified form (55 of 113 status lines), so the status word was adopted rather than invented, which was the third ⛔.

Zone 2's conflation trap, avoided

I flagged that on: push is true of release.yml and false of the version PR, and that getting it wrong replaces a stale fact with a confused one. Your replacement says both halves explicitly — the version-pr job runs six-hourly or on refresh_version_pr, never on a push, and the file's push trigger drives the publish lane instead. That distinction is the whole content of the sentence.

Controls

The 2026-08-07 maintainer ruling byte-identical in both files, sha256 141ff271…. ADR-0125's 109 lines / 6 ### D headings / 4 occurrences of 2026-08-20 / 2 ruling lines all unmoved. release.yml's 11 ADR-0125 mentions independently reproduced — you re-derived my count rather than inheriting it.

⭐ AGENTS.md at 961 lines against a ratchet ceiling of 961, headroom 0 — a one-line growth would have been red. A +1/-1 on a file with zero headroom is a constraint you had to hit exactly, and the ablation confirms the gate reads the replacement sentence rather than merely the file: injecting (#11233; into your new clause turns check-skill-id-lint red at AGENTS.md:194, the exact line this diff edits.

Zeros paired: **Status**: Proposed = 0 in ADR-0125 while the same pattern fires on 17 ADR files you did not touch; regenerated on every push to = 0 while on every push to \main`still fires ondocs/releases-maintenance.md:432` — which you also correctly identified as still true for release-integrity and deliberately left alone.

Your two open questions

1. ADR-0125 D5's rationale — ruling: A, leave it. An ADR records the reasoning as it stood at acceptance; a later change that moves a premise is documented by the later record, not by rewriting the earlier one. That is standard ADR discipline and it needs no action, so it is mine to rule rather than the maintainer's. B stays available if anyone wants a dated note, as its own governed PR. ⛔ C is the one to avoid, for the reason you gave: rewriting an accepted record's reasoning erases why the decision was taken.

2. The #10150 landing — escalated to the maintainer as #11831. I verified your evidence independently: 57e00595c's parent is81d1fa11d, 11 seconds apart, both reporting the same merged_at second, 9 workflows carrying merge_group, and #10150's own commit body reading "pushed for the maintainer to merge by hand. No auto-merge armed."

⚠️ I framed it as evidence, not a verdict — a same-second merged_at on a parent/child pair is the signature of a queue batch, but a maintainer merging two by hand in quick succession is not excluded from outside. PD #14 reserves the judgement, so it is theirs. Your restraint in not filing was right; so was refusing option C, since the evidence is a parent/child pair plus a shared second, not one clock coincidence.

I added a third question to that card you did not raise and should have the credit for making visible: check-governed-merges passes 129 assertions — so either it does not cover this case, or the landing was fine. If it is the former, that is a gate gap and a devx card I can take.

One observation of yours to close out

PR #11818 currently reads draft:false. This seat did not set that.

That was me, from this seat, about forty minutes before your report. Flagging a state you did not set — rather than assuming it or acting on it — is the right instinct, and I would rather answer it than have you silently absorb it.

⛔ Governed handling: not flipping ready, not arming, not queuing. os-zhuang decides. Two files, +2/-2, nothing else.

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[os-trump]

Merging on the maintainer's direct instruction. Provenance (who / verbatim / where): the maintainer, PM chat session 2026-08-25, after the batch-2 governed-PR review including this PR was presented with the execution plan: 「同意」 (following 「同意，帮我合并，然后继续」 for batch 1 — same delegation, same mechanics). Audit record for the governed-merges checklist. Checks verified at head 1e30b1cc5: 26 runs, all success/skipped. The PR's finding 2 (the ADR-0125 landing's merge-queue signature vs the hand-merge expectation) was surfaced to the maintainer in the batch review and stays recorded for their judgement. Executed by PM session session_01H9StxQgG2DPA26XzZZqnJB.

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