chore(scripts): check-skills-paths scans .claude/skills too — 27 to 88 stated paths under the gate, the #7251 pins restored (#7358)

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Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

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Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

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Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

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Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

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Generated by Claude Code

[os-litant]

Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

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Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

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Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

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[os-litant]

Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

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Generated by Claude Code

[os-litant]

Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

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Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

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Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1

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[os-litant]

Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

---

Generated by Claude Code

[os-litant]

Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1

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Generated by Claude Code

[os-litant]

Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

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Fixes#7358

SCAN_ROOT was one string, skills. #7251 moved the two contributor-only guides into .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/ and 55 of 93 stated paths left the checked surface in one commit with nothing turning red — the gate simply stopped looking. This makes it a list, ['skills', '.claude/skills'], clears the red the wider surface brings, and restores the pins #7251 had to weaken.

Head: 471589f. Every number below was measured on that commit unless it names another.

The measurement the docblock asks for

The script's own header requires this: "Widen it on purpose, with the measurement re-run, not as a rider." Re-run, before and after, with node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and --list:

	before (0614b6df1)	after (471589f)
files scanned	16	20
stated paths checked	27	88
resolve	27	87 (+1 baselined)
pattern tokens excluded	1	4
console-development.md	— (unscanned)	49
no-touch-zones.md	— (unscanned)	6
objectui-contributor/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	5
verify/SKILL.md	— (unscanned)	1

Per root, which the gate now prints on every green run:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
skills/ — 27/27 resolve across 16 file(s)
.claude/skills/ — 60/61 resolve across 4 file(s)

The card's headline number is 93, and the honest re-measurement is 88. Both the card's own figures cannot hold at once: it records 18 to 16 files and 93 to 27 assertions, a loss of 66, while the two moved guides carry 55 between them. The missing 11 are assertions #7251 also removed when it rewrote the published guides it kept. So widening restores 61 assertions under the new root — the 55 that left, plus 6 in two files that were never under skills at all — for 88, not 93. The PR title carries the measured number rather than the card's.

The red the widened surface brought: exactly one, and it is not rot

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:381 — apps/console/src/context/

Coordinates corrected at source: zero. Not for want of looking — the other 60 in the two moved guides all resolved on arrival. They were maintained by hand through #3713 and #3730 and had not yet gone stale, which is the case for gating them, not against.

The one non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence in the Key contexts section, which exists to correct the recurring wrong guess that the five contexts live in the console app:

All five live in @object-ui/app-shell; there is no apps/console/src/context/ directory at all.

Evidence it is a true statement and not a stale coordinate:

$ ls -d apps/console/src/context/
ls: cannot access 'apps/console/src/context/': No such file or directory

This is the entry #7251 was forced to delete. The baseline is keyed by guide file, so the move retired it through the ratchet's second direction — the gate demanded it in its own words, "1 baseline entry the scan never met ... Delete the entry". Widening the root makes the scan meet the same sentence again, so the entry returns under the new key, granted against the gate's own prescription, quoted verbatim in the entry's reason:

If the path is deliberately named as NOT existing — a sentence whose whole point is "there is no such directory" — add it to scripts/skills-path-baseline.json with a reason, and expect the gate to go red again the day that path appears on disk.

Dated objectui#3735 (re-keyed under the moved guide path by objectui#7358, 2026-09-02). It is the only entry in the file, as it was before the move: one exemption for 88 assertions.

The lesson the miss itself taught: emptiness is judged per root

The empty-verdict trap in main() used to ask whether the whole surface read zero. That question could not have caught #7251: 16 files and 27 assertions still under skills is a healthy-looking total while a second tree of 55 sits unscanned. It now asks per root, and a root that judges nothing is named and red — either a move nobody threaded through, or a root that should be deleted from SCAN_ROOTS, and both are decisions rather than a pass. scan() returns a perRoot row per root to make that answerable at all.

The pins #7251 left to be reversed

All three were named in advance by the comments beside them.

1. The checked floor, 20 back to 50. With the arithmetic restored, as Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 left it: 88 checked today, of which the two moved guides carry 55 (49 + 6). If .claude/skills ever falls out of SCAN_ROOTS the reading drops to 33 and the floor is red — the assertion Skills optimization flight — skills/objectui: RESTRUCTURE (≈ −21,600 tok of 64,022, −34%) — ~19% of the package is addressed at a contributor to this repo (console-development.md, no-touch-zones.md, half of architecture.md), one rule stated up to four times, 11 vestigial guide frontmatters, and three evals that fail correct answers #7251 could not make.
2. A per-root floor beside it, because the one above is a total: 27 under skills alone clears a floor of 20, which is exactly how the 55 left unnoticed.
3. The docs(skills): console-development.md 指路的 7 个 console 页面里 5 个不存在,并整节教用已删除的 MetadataManagerPage #3713 / docs(skills): console-development.md 的 Key contexts / Key hooks / UnifiedSidebar 三处把 13 个真实符号指到 apps/console 下已不存在的目录 #3730 block asserts result.missing through scan(repoRoot) again, on the guide's current path, and carries its exemption pin again.
4. The "is NOT covered by the gate today" assertion is DELETED, as it was written to be. Its replacement is the inverse claim rather than nothing: inGuide(result.missing) is empty both when the guide is clean and when nothing scans it, so the guide's own stated-path density is now tied to its root's checked count and the two stop being confusable.

Five fixture cases cover the two-root surface: the declared roots, a dead path found under .claude/skills, the perRoot breakdown, a root that reads nothing showing as a zero row rather than an absence, and a baseline entry keyed under the second root. 31 to 37 cases.

Ablation — the widened root really is checked

One coordinate in the newly covered guide, mutated on the committed tree and restored, both legs proved on disk. No build or dist is involved: the gate is a node script reading markdown, so there is no artifact between the edit and the reading.

Mutation landed (packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebar.tsx to ...SidebarGONE.tsx, injected-token count 1, original-token count 0, on-disk hash 0cd9feb against HEAD blob 27e5f46), gate exit 1:

❌ check-skills-paths: 1 stated path does not exist
• .claude/skills/objectui-contributor/guides/console-development.md:268 — packages/app-shell/src/layout/UnifiedSidebarGONE.tsx

Restore proved, not assumed — git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH under a trap ... EXIT INT TERM, then on-disk hash 27e5f46 equal to the HEAD blob, git diff HEAD --name-only empty, injected-token count 0, original-token count 1. Gate exit 0:

✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).

Premises that did not hold

• premise_false: the gate has a --self-test mode — the dispatch expected node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs to run "self-test + live". It has no such flag; grep -n 'self-test\|selfTest' over the script returns nothing, and its only mode besides the live run is --list. The self-test is the vitest suite, and that is where the two-root cases were added.
• premise_false: 93 stated paths come back under the gate — 88, for the arithmetic given above.
• premise_false: the queue guard returns exit 3 GOVERNED — it does so when .claude/skills/** is in the diff, and nothing there needed correcting, so the diff is three files under scripts/. Its own verdict: ✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched. Draft and human-merged either way, as the dispatch asks.
• premise_false: the widened surface brings stale coordinates to correct at source — 60 of 61 resolve; the single non-resolver is the deliberate negative sentence.

Gates, at 471589f

Exit codes captured by redirecting first (cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?), never read across a pipe. Each row quotes the gate's own verdict line.

gate	exit	its own verdict
node scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs	0	✅ check-skills-paths: OK (87/88 stated path(s) resolve across 20 guide file(s); 1 baselined).
pnpm exec vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts	0	Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 37 passed (37)
pnpm type-check:scripts	0	tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json, silent
node scripts/check-doc-links.mjs	0	Links are valid across 17 scan roots.
node scripts/check-control-bytes.mjs	0	✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 6103 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).
node scripts/check-shell-escape-residue.mjs	0	✅ check-shell-escape-residue: OK (4/4 root(s) resolved ...)
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs	0	✅ No source or published contract of a released package changed in this range, so no changeset is owed.
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --self-test	0	OK check-governed-queue-guard self-test: 132 cases pass
node scripts/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test (3 changed paths)	0	✅ NOT GOVERNED — 3 path(s) checked against 5 governed surface(s); none matched.
pnpm exec eslint (changed files)	0	1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings

No changeset, on the gate's own verdict, not on judgement: 3 file(s) changed, 0 of them published source of a package the release covers. No skip-changeset label, which this repo does not use as a mechanism, and no empty-frontmatter changeset either — the gate says none is owed.

type-check:scripts genuinely covers the edited test file, rather than excluding it and reporting a clean run about other files: tsc -p tsconfig.scripts.json --listFiles lists both scripts/check-skills-paths.mjs and scripts/__tests__/check-skills-paths.test.ts, one occurrence each.

eslint was narrowed, and the narrowing is measured rather than assumed. Population, read from eslint.config.js and not guessed: every rule block is scoped files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}'], and no block declares an .mjs, .cjs or .json glob — so of the three changed files only the .ts test is inside the linted population at all. File count read from --format json: 1 result object, errorCount 0, warningCount 0. Invariance: the config declares neither parserOptions.project nor projectService, so linting is not type-aware and nothing in this diff can move the verdict on a file it did not touch. The full-repo pnpm lint is CI's run.

Scope

Three files, all under scripts/. Nothing under skills/objectui/**, nothing under packages/**, no other gate touched, and — because nothing needed correcting — nothing under .claude/skills/** either.

Two findings of the same class were filed unassigned rather than ridden in here; neither is addressed by this PR:

• check-shell-escape-residue lost the same two guides #7251 moved — its skills root does not reach .claude/skills #7403 — check-shell-escape-residue's skills directory root lost the same two files in the same move: 18 fenced blocks off its surface, invisible to its minFiles: 5 floor because 16 files still satisfy it.
• finding(ci): skills-paths.yml's header states the gate's scan surface as skills/** over 18 files — both halves are stale #7404 — this gate's own workflow header still states the surface as skills/** over 18 files. Prose only; the workflow has no path filter and still runs correctly.

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Landing provenance (skills lane seat, session session_01LraLgQVGq8egUwfYZpbYt1): flipped ready and auto-merge enabled at 18:5xZ under landing-operations B — in-seat ACCEPT on #7358 (comment 5514343000), every check on 471589f green, and the repo's own guard reads the change set as NOT GOVERNED (three scripts/ files, nothing under skills/** or .claude/**). The base has moved since the branch was cut; the merge carries it. No human merge is owed on this face.

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