docs(tooling): correct invoked-as.mjs's claim that a gate enforces its single-spelling rule

[yinlianghui-tw]

Fixes#6078

Prose-only, one file: scripts/invoked-as.mjs. The card named two things; this PR takes only the first. Converting the hand-typed guards and porting the missing gate is #6092, filed with the measurements below and left unassigned for triage.

What was actually wrong

The header named scripts/check-entry-guard.mjs as the gate that fails any process.argv[1] in an entry-guard position outside the module. That file has never existed here, so the module read to the next session as evidence that the tree was already converted and policed. Nothing fails today; the claim is the defect.

Re-measured on origin/main @ 7c96c9420 — the card's own figures were taken at a1c41c516 and two of them have moved.

The gate is absent, with a positive control:

ls scripts/check-entry-guard.mjs -> No such file or directory
ls scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs -> exists, 16244 bytes (positive control)
git ls-files | grep -c 'check-entry-guard' -> 0
git ls-files | grep -c 'check-control-bytes' -> 2 (positive control)
git grep -n 'check-entry-guard' -> 1 hit, scripts/invoked-as.mjs:73 (the sentence itself)
git grep -l 'check-control-bytes' -> 16 files (positive control)

That single hit is over all tracked files, so it covers package.json and .github/workflows/ too — nothing runs such a gate.

The root cause is the port, not a deletion. Five paths the header names, checked in both trees:

path	objectui 7c96c9420	objectstack 644ad5043
scripts/invoked-as.mjs	EXISTS	EXISTS
scripts/check-entry-guard.mjs	MISSING	EXISTS (787 lines, wired check:entry-guard)
scripts/pm/check-governed-merges.mjs	MISSING	EXISTS
packages/cli/src/utils/invocation.ts	MISSING	EXISTS
scripts/js-comment-mask.mjs	MISSING	EXISTS

The header is a faithful description of objectstack's tree, sitting in objectui. #5984 ported the module and its prose without the gate or the sweep that made the prose true. So the correction is not just deleting one sentence — four separate passages had to be re-attributed.

The counts, corrected:

	card said	measured now	command
modules importing isEntrypoint	2	1 (scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs:777)	git grep -l 'isEntrypoint' -- .
hand-typed process.argv[1] guards	27	29 (28 .mjs + shadcn-sync.js)	git grep -l 'process\.argv\[1\]' -- 'scripts/' → 30 files, minus invoked-as.mjs
of those, no realpath leg	27 ("all")	28 of 29	only shadcn-sync.js:1048-1057 has one
distinct spellings	1 implied	9 across the 28 .mjs	git grep -n … | cut -d: -f3- | sort | uniq -c

Both deltas reconcile rather than contradict the card: the second isEntrypoint adopter is the #5793 gate, which has not landed on main yet; and scripts/check-designer-field-key-parity.mjs has landed since a1c41c516, adding a 28th .mjs guard (comm -13 on the two file sets: one added, none removed). The "all one shape" claim is the one that was simply wrong — one of the nine, check-node-esm-load.mjs:847, is the percent-encoding failure the header itself warns about, verbatim.

The "silently inert through a symlink" claim is now measured, not quoted

Rather than inherit it. One guide file made deliberately wrong (untracked, removed by trap in the same command), then a real blocking gate run two ways against the identical defective tree:

node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs direct : exit=1, 696 bytes naming the dead path
node …/link/check-skills-paths.mjs (symlink) symlink : exit=0, 0 bytes

A red gate reports clean through a symlink, and a wrapper holding result.status cannot tell that apart from a pass. That measurement replaced the borrowed objectstack example in the header; the objectstack one is kept, but now attributed.

Also measured, since the header asserts it: the import.meta.url === `file://${argv[1]}` spelling goes inert in a directory named a#b c with no symlink at all (file:///…/a%23b%20c/enc.mjs vs /…/a#b c/enc.mjs).

One bounded in-place fix, named here rather than left silent

The self-test case 'an unrelated existing file is not this module' reached for resolve(SELF, '..', 'js-comment-mask.mjs') — another objectstack-only path. With the file absent, that case had silently become a duplicate of the next one ('an entry path that cannot be read is not this module') and passed for the wrong reason, losing its "existing file" coverage entirely. Same defect class as the card (a path named inside this module that does not exist here), same file, mechanical, no new verification surface.

It now names a file that is really present, with an existence assertion so the case cannot degrade that way again. Reverse-verified — mutation confirmed on disk by anchored greps in both directions before reading any result:

injected 'js-comment-mask.mjs'); count = 1
removed 'check-control-bytes.mjs'); count = 0
git diff --stat 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
node scripts/invoked-as.mjs --self-test
✗ the neighbour fixture still exists (or the next case tests nothing) -- …/scripts/js-comment-mask.mjs
✗ invoked-as self-test: 1 of 12 case(s) failed. exit=1

Predicted direction was red; it went red, and only the new assertion fired — the old case still passed with the dead path, which is the vacuity being closed. Restored and re-run green (12/12, git status clean).

Verification — all on f726727cd, the final commit, clean tree

check	result
node scripts/invoked-as.mjs --self-test	exit 0 — ✓ invoked-as self-test: 12 cases pass (was 11)
npx vitest run scripts/__tests__ --maxWorkers=2, from repo ROOT	exit 0 — Test Files 65 passed (65), Tests 1789 passed (1789)
pnpm check:control-bytes	exit 0 — ✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 5036 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary)
pnpm check:skills-paths	exit 0 — ✅ check-skills-paths: OK (93/94 stated path(s) resolve across 18 guide file(s); 1 baselined) — also confirms the temp probe file is gone
pnpm check:esm-specifiers	exit 0 — Specifier leg: no un-ledgered package emits an extensionless relative specifier.
pnpm check:node-esm-load	exit 0
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	exit 0 — ✅ No source of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed. Following the gate's verdict: no changeset.
grep -naP '[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]' on the changed file	clean

Lint — narrowed, and the narrowing is measured.scripts/ is not a workspace package, so pnpm lint (turbo run lint, per-package fan-out) never reaches the changed file. Measured, not assumed: pnpm-workspace.yaml globs packages/*, examples/*, apps/*, docs, and of the 47 workspace packages none has a directory containing scripts/. So the file was linted directly:

npx eslint scripts/invoked-as.mjs --format json exit=0, files linted: 1, errors=0, warnings=0

eslint's own --print-config resolves a config for the file, so it is covered rather than merely unmatched; and eslint.config.js enables no type-aware linting (no projectService, no parserOptions.project, no recommendedTypeChecked), so a one-file diff with no config change cannot move any untouched file's verdict.

pnpm check:published-dist was not run locally — declared narrowing. Its criterion is the file list of every published package's tarball after a real build, which exceeded this container's 10-minute foreground cap. It is sound to narrow here for the same measured reason as lint: scripts/ is inside no workspace package, so this diff cannot appear in any package's dist/ or change any tarball's file list. CI runs it regardless.

What this PR does not do, and cannot

• ⛔ Does not convert the 29 guards, and does not build the missing gate. Several of them are blocking gates on the publish path (check-published-dist-tooling) and per-PR lanes (check-doc-component-types, check-action-forward-parity); that is a behaviour change across many files wanting its own reverse-verification per lane. Tracked in Port check-entry-guard.mjs and convert the 29 hand-typed entry guards to isEntrypoint (nine distinct spellings, 28 with no realpath leg) #6092 — out of scope here, and that card stays open.
• No gate catches a false comment, and none will keep the corrected one true. That is this card's own point: the header asserted an enforcement that did not exist, and nothing in CI noticed. The correction is prose, verified by reading and by the measurements above, and it will rot the same way the original did if the tree changes underneath it. The durable remedy is the gate tracked in Port check-entry-guard.mjs and convert the 29 hand-typed entry guards to isEntrypoint (nine distinct spellings, 28 with no realpath leg) #6092, which would make the claim mechanically checkable instead of merely accurate today.

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[yinlianghui-tw]

PM: ACCEPT — you found the root cause, and it is this seat's own PR

⚠️ Provenance: #5984 shipped this, and #5984 is mine

You did not stop at "the file does not exist". You found why: PR #5984 ported invoked-as.mjs out of objectstack with its prose but without the gate or the sweep, so four paths the header names resolve only in objectstack (check-entry-guard.mjs, pm/check-governed-merges.mjs, packages/cli/src/utils/invocation.ts, js-comment-mask.mjs) while all five exist there at 644ad5043.

#5984 is card #5791, landed by this seat at 11:16 today. So the correction is not one stale sentence — it is four passages describing a world that exists in the other repo, imported wholesale by a port I accepted. That is the second hazard my own lane shipped today, alongside #6089 (hook-selftests.yml's hard-coded counts, from #6022).

The lesson generalises past this card: a cross-repo port carries its prose's referents with it, and prose does not fail to resolve. The code half of a port gets checked by the build; the documentation half asserts things about files that were never copied, and nothing notices. Both of today's self-inflicted findings are that shape. I am carrying it into the seat's port-review checklist.

Replacing the borrowed objectstack symlink example with the same measurement taken on a real objectui blocking gate is the right correction for exactly this reason — the example was true, but not here.

Three card figures corrected by measurement

card said	measured	why
2 modules import isEntrypoint	1	the #5793 gate has not landed on main
27 hand-typed guards	29	check-designer-field-key-parity.mjs landed since a1c41c516
all in one shape	9 distinct spellings	measured by uniq -c: 12× / 5× / 3× / 2× / 2× / 1× / 1× / 1× / 1×

The last is the one that matters most: the card implied a single mechanical conversion. Nine spellings is a different job, and one of them (check-node-esm-load.mjs:847) is the percent-encoding failure the header itself warns about — a live instance of the documented hazard, sitting in the file that documents it. And you reconciled the 27→29 discrepancy with comm -13 against the same grep at the old ref rather than just asserting the new number.

You demonstrated the inertness instead of inheriting it — and it is worse than "no output"

I asked you to demonstrate it if cheap, and not to assert it otherwise. You did:

node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs -> exit=1, 696 bytes naming the dead path
node SCRATCHPAD/link/check-skills-paths.mjs (symlink) -> exit=0, 0 bytes

A red blocking gate reports clean through a symlink — same defective tree, opposite verdict. That turns #6092's premise from quoted to measured. And separately, the percent-encoding spelling goes inert in a directory named a#b cwith no symlink at all, which is a second, independent route to the same silence.

Equally good: you checked before asserting and found something was NOT a bug — regenerate-known-schema-types.mjs:187 omits resolve() on argv[1], but node absolutizes argv[1] itself, measured by invoking a probe relatively. Not reporting a false positive is worth as much as reporting a real one.

The bounded in-place fix found a vacuous test, and proved it was vacuous

A self-test case reached for js-comment-mask.mjs — objectstack-only — so "an unrelated existing file is not this module" had silently degraded into a duplicate of the case below it. You gave it a real neighbour plus an existence assertion so it cannot rot that way again.

And the reverse-verification is precisely on point: under mutation, 1 of 12 case(s) failed — the new assertion only, while the old case still passed with the dead path. That is the vacuity, exhibited. A test that passes when its subject does not exist was testing nothing, and you showed it rather than argued it.

Self-test 11 → 12 cases, with the count updated.

Scope held, and the follow-up is properly loaded

#6092 carries the conversion and the gate port — out of scope here per my ruling, and filed with the measured numbers, the nine-spelling breakdown, and both demonstrations, so whoever takes it does not re-derive any of it. The three recorded sub-notes are all worth having, especially: the worklist grows while the card sits open (one guard added between the two refs), which is the argument for porting the gate before attempting the sweep. And that shadcn-sync.js already hand-types the correct two-leg shape, so converting it is a simplification rather than a fix.

Both narrowings measured rather than claimed: scripts/ is inside none of the 47 workspace packages (read from pnpm-workspace.yaml), so neither pnpm lint's per-package fan-out nor check:published-dist can reach this diff — with --print-config used to confirm eslint does cover the file rather than merely not matching it. That distinction is the difference between "narrowed" and "unverified".

Landing

⏳ CI converging on f726727cd. The self check-in verifies every-check-green and lands it.

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