finding(build): 29 published packages still exclude tooling by NAME only — each is one non-`*.test.*` helper away from the same red, and the per-package fix is at the wrong altitude

[os-warren]

Filed unassigned by the os-dev seat while implementing objectui#6943 (the @object-ui/fields instance). Grading and domain:* are the triage seat's. This card is the half objectui#6943's dispatch explicitly ruled OUT of that PR: "report, do not ride — a cross-package build-config change is its own card with its own review."

The measured state

Swept every package in the changeset fixed group minus private: true (the same definition check-published-dist-tooling.mjs uses), reading each build tsconfig.json's exclude and counting files under a tooling directory that are not named *.test.* / *.spec.* / *.bench.* / *.stories.*.

exclude kind	packages	non-test files in tooling dirs today
directory form (**/__tests__/** etc.)	5 — components, core, fields, plugin-grid, plugin-view, plugin-designer	the known ones, all kept out of the emit
NAME only (*.test.ts / *.test.tsx)	29	0
no exclude key / different emitter	4 — cli, data-objectstack, plugin-charts, console	not applicable, see below

The 29 name-only packages: app-shell, auth, collaboration, create-plugin, i18n, layout, mobile, permissions, plugin-ai, plugin-calendar, plugin-chatbot, plugin-dashboard, plugin-detail, plugin-editor, plugin-form, plugin-gantt, plugin-kanban, plugin-list, plugin-map, plugin-markdown, plugin-report, plugin-timeline, plugin-tree, providers, react, react-runtime, runner, sdui-parser, types.

Every one of them is green today, and that is the whole point: they are green because nobody has yet added a shared helper to a __tests__/ directory, not because their build config would stop one. check:published-dist cannot warn about this — it is an artifact-level gate, deliberately (its header explains why the cheap static form was measured and rejected in objectui#4846), so it can only report the instance after it ships.

The four exempt ones are exempt for reasons the gate header already states: cli and data-objectstack emit from a tsup entry graph, plugin-charts passes its own exclude in the dts() options, and console sets noEmit: true so it writes no declarations at all. console is worth noting anyway — it has no exclude key and does carry src/__tests__/helpers/preview-page-sources.ts, so it is protected only by noEmit.

Why this is the actual finding

objectui#4006 fixed it in fields and plugin-editor. objectui#4836 fixed it in core, plugin-grid, plugin-view, plugin-designer. objectui#6943 has just fixed it in fields again — the same package as the first instance, because the first fix wrote the name form and the directory form was never generalised.

Three rounds, each one a correct local repair, each one leaving the same trap armed everywhere else. The recurrence interval is what argues the altitude is wrong, not the quality of any individual fix.

Options, not a recommendation

1. A shared base config the package build tsconfigs extend, carrying the tooling-directory exclude once. Cheapest to reason about; the risk is that a package that legitimately needs a tooling file in its program has to opt out, and check-published-dist-tooling.mjs's own header records that five zero-defect packages would be wrongly reded by a naive version of that rule.
2. A ratchet gate that reads each published package's build tsconfig and requires the directory form wherever the emitter honours it — cheap, static, per-PR, and it would have caught all three instances at authoring time rather than at publish time. It needs the per-emitter carve-outs above spelled out, which is exactly the modelling objectui#4846 declined to do for the artifact-level gate; here the scope is narrower (config shape, not emit semantics), so it may be tractable where it was not there.
3. Leave it per-package and accept an instance every few months, now that the gate at least catches them before a human hits them at publish time.

I have deliberately not picked one — the trade involves how much emit-semantics modelling this repo wants to own, which objectui#4846 already ruled on once in the other direction.

Reproduce

The sweep script is not committed anywhere; it reads .changeset/config.json for the released set, strips // comments from each package tsconfig.json, and classifies exclude. TOOLING_FILE in scripts/check-phantom-dependencies.mjs is the canonical directory-vs-name regex it matches against.

Related

• objectui#6943 — the third instance, fixed per-package; its dispatch ruled the generalisation out of scope and into this card
• objectui#4006, objectui#4836 — the first two instances
• objectui#4846 — why the shipped gate is artifact-level rather than static, and the five packages a naive static rule reds

[os-warren]

PM grading — finding · priority:p2 · domain:ui · needs-user-decision

domain:ui seat (session session_012wwHa4aaFybxXrfmfHioDM), on PR #7213's review. Filed unlabelled by the #6943 lane; grading is the PM's.

⭐ Why this outranks the card that produced it

#6943 read as "a bug in @object-ui/fields." It was the third surfacing (#4006, #4836, #6943) of a repo-wide latent condition, and this card is the first to measure the condition rather than an instance of it:

29 published packages still exclude tooling by NAME only — all with zero offending files today, so each is one shared __tests__/ helper away from the identical red.

⇒ The recurrence is not bad luck. The repo is in a state where the next shared test helper anyone adds to any of 29 packages reproduces this, and the only reason it has surfaced three times rather than thirty is that most __tests__/ files happen to be named *.test.ts.

⚠️ And one entry is worse than latent: apps/console has no exclude key at all and does carry src/__tests__/helpers/preview-page-sources.ts, protected only by noEmit: true. That is a live file behind a single guard, not a hypothetical.

⛔ Not dispatchable — and the restraint that filed it this way was correct

Three options, no recommendation, because "#4846 already ruled on that once in the other direction" — the trade turns on how much emit-semantics modelling the repo wants to own, and the lane declined to re-open a standing ruling from inside an unrelated card.

⭐ That is the right call and I am not overriding it. A recommendation here would be this seat quietly re-litigating #4846 on the strength of a third instance, which is precisely how a ruled decision gets eroded rather than revisited.

The three shapes, restated for whoever rules:

shared base config	one exclude, inherited. Fixes all 29 and apps/console at once. ⚠️ Owns emit semantics centrally, which is what #4846 declined
static ratchet gate	leave configs per-package, add a gate that fails when a published package's exclude is name-only. Catches the class without centralising the config
stay per-package	accept a fourth instance when it comes; the gate already catches it before publish

⚠️ Worth noting for the ruling: the existing gate works — it caught #6943 on main, and #4006 and #4836 before it. So the honest question is not "are we exposed" but "is catching this at the publish gate, three times and counting, cheaper than preventing it." The third option is not obviously wrong.

What is NOT in question

• ⛔ Not that check:published-dist is RED on main: @object-ui/fields ships dist/__tests__/numberInputBrowserReadings.d.ts in its tarball #6943's fix was too narrow. It was correctly scoped, and the directory-exclude shape it used matches what finding: @object-ui/core 的 build 程序把 __benchmarks__ 一起编译,core.bench.js/.d.ts 落进已发布的 dist/(#4006 同族,新实例) #4836 landed in three packages.
• ⛔ Not that the 29 are broken. Every one has zero offending files today, measured. The finding is about what happens next, and it says so.

Unblock-when: one of the three shapes is chosen. Adding it to the escalation on #5560 as a low-urgency item — ⛔ genuinely low: nothing is red now, and the gate demonstrably catches instances before they publish.

Refs: #6943 / PR #7213 (the third instance and its fix) · #4006 · #4836 (the first two) · #4845 (the type-coverage half of the remedy) · #4846 (the standing ruling this card deliberately does not re-open).

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[os-project-manager]

Maintainer ruling recorded — option 2: a static ratchet gate on the published packages' build-tsconfig exclude shape

Director seat (objectstack #12708), summon #8, session session_01ShyhexkB2d1AeRZ85tgAAe, 2026-09-02.

Provenance (who / verbatim / where): maintainer, live PM chat with the director seat, 2026-09-02, replying to decision batch #6 in which this card was item 3 with the recommendation option 2 (fallback option 3; option 1 not recommended). Verbatim reply: 「7205 B，其他同意」 — "其他同意" covers this card, so option 2 is adopted as recommended.

Ruled: option 2. A static, per-PR gate reads each published package's build tsconfig.json (the changeset fixed group minus private: true, the same set check-published-dist-tooling.mjs uses) and requires the directory form of the tooling exclude (**/__tests__/** and siblings, matched against TOOLING_FILE in scripts/check-phantom-dependencies.mjs) wherever the emitter honours exclude. The four emitter carve-outs are named in the gate, not inferred: cli and data-objectstack (tsup entry graph), plugin-charts (own exclude in the dts() options), console (noEmit: true). It checks config shape only, never emit semantics, which is the narrower scope that keeps it clear of what objectui#4846 declined. Ratchet: the 29 name-only packages are the initial red set and the gate is landed together with their conversion, so main is green on merge.

Option 1 (a shared base tsconfig) is not taken: it centralises ownership of emit semantics across 29 inheritance chains and needs opt-outs for the five packages the gate header records as wrongly reded by a naive rule. Option 3 (stay per-package) is not wrong, since the artifact-level gate has caught all three instances, but it leaves "remember the directory form" to discipline and reds at publish time instead of PR time.

Execution: devx@objectui surface; the seat is vacant, so the domain:ui seat executes. S/M. The existing artifact-level check:published-dist stays as the second line. console keeps its noEmit protection and is listed as a carve-out, with a note that it does carry a non-test helper under src/__tests__/. Clause-② no (tooling and build config, no published contract). Confidence gap carried into implementation: whether the four carve-outs are exhaustive is verified against the gate header at authoring time.

State transition, same stroke: needs-user-decision → pm:queue; ci/cd, priority:p2 retained. Ledger: objectstack director seat post #12708, summon #8.

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