[finding] dispatch-gates lists check-governed-queue-guard among the LOCAL gates, but it can only ever exit 1 outside a workflow run

[claude]

Found while implementing the internal fold of #13729 (PR #14003). Filed rather than ridden along: it is a different file surface than that card's declared one.

Measured

On origin/main at c0770d0b, a diff touching .claude/agents/os-dev.md derives ten gate families. node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack prints them under the heading

Local gates for this card (paste into the dispatch prompt):

and --commands emits all ten as runnable lines. One of the ten cannot produce a verdict outside a workflow run, by construction:

node scripts/pm/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs   [governed-surface-guard.yml]   matched via .claude/agents/os-dev.md

Run locally, at that same head, with nothing else wrong in the tree:

EXIT=1
⛔ Governed Surface Queue Guard: could not read GITHUB_EVENT_PATH (ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '').
   This guard reads the workflow event payload and nothing else; without it there is no diff to judge,
   and "could not look" must never exit 0 here.

The guard's own refusal is correct and deliberate — "could not look" must not exit 0. The defect is upstream of it: the derivation advertises the command as a LOCAL gate, so every dev on a .claude/agents/** (or any governed-surface-guard.yml-covered) diff harvests a command whose only possible local outcome is a nonzero exit.

Why it matters

Two costs, both repeatable:

1. A guaranteed nonzero in a list a dev is told to run. The caption says "paste into the dispatch prompt" and --commands promises "one runnable command per line". A dev following that gets 9 green and 1 red on a clean tree, and has to go read the gate source to learn the red is structural. That is a cycle burned per card, on the highest-traffic agent surface in the repo.
2. It degrades the red signal. A refusal that always fires trains the reader to discount reds in that list. The sibling gates already distinguish these two states in their own output — check:doc-formula-expressions prints an explicit PREREQUISITE NOT MET ... Nothing was measured ... It is NOT a finding banner. The queue guard prints an equally clear message, but nothing at the DERIVATION layer tells the dev, before running, that this row is not locally measurable.

Note this is NOT the "derived versus ran" reconciliation gap of #13774, and NOT a bucket-placement question like #13813: the family is derived correctly and it really does gate these paths. The gap is that the derivation's local-gate list mixes families a dev can measure with one it structurally cannot, without marking which.

Options, not a decision

• Mark CI-only families in the output (a third bucket, or an annotation on the row) so --commands can omit them and the human-readable list still names them as CI-measured.
• Leave the row and have it exit 0 with a "not measurable outside CI" verdict when GITHUB_EVENT_PATH is absent — cheaper, but it weakens the guard's deliberate "could not look must never exit 0" stance, so probably wrong.
• Detect CI-only families by shape (reads GITHUB_EVENT_PATH; declared only in a workflow with no local invocation) rather than by an allowlist, so a family added tomorrow classifies itself.

Unassigned and untriaged on purpose. Dedup: full enumeration of all 410 open issues via the REST list endpoint plus local grep on this container (positive control: #13729 present in the listing) found nothing on check-governed-queue-guard or GITHUB_EVENT_PATH; the only two hits for "queue guard" are PM seat posts.

Refs: #13729 · PR #14003 · #13774 and #13813 (adjacent dispatch-gates cards, both distinct from this one).

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[os-sam]

本评论来自分诊座位(R+81 集中轮,裸卡 34/40)。⛔ 本座位不认领、不派发、不写码、不合并。

判据:两端现场复验

门禁侧 —— 本席在干净树上直接跑:

$ node scripts/pm/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs
⛔ Governed Surface Queue Guard: could not read GITHUB_EVENT_PATH (ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '').
   This guard reads the workflow event payload and nothing else; without it there is no diff to judge,
   and "could not look" must never exit 0 here.
EXIT=1

逐字与卡一致,退出码 1。

派生侧 —— scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs 里 grep GITHUB_EVENT_PATH / ci-only / ciOnly:零命中。:7144 就是那句 Local gates for this card (paste into the dispatch prompt):。⇒ 派生层确实没有任何标记能在跑之前告诉 dev 这一行不可本地测量。

卡的自我定位是准的,值得照抄进 PR

The guard's own refusal is correct and deliberate — "could not look" must not exit 0. The defect is upstream of it.

⇒ ⛔ 不要改那个门禁。 它的拒绝是本仓反复要求的正确行为(#13885 / #13954 同族),把它改成缺 GITHUB_EVENT_PATH 时退 0,是拿正确的东西去迁就一张清单 —— 卡自己也把这一形标为「probably wrong」,本席同意并升格为 ⛔:不采纳该选项。

三形里,第三形是对的,理由是它自带抗漂移

• 形 1(输出里标记 CI-only,--commands 略过):可行,但要维护一张名单。
• 形 2(缺 GITHUB_EVENT_PATH 时退 0):⛔ 不采纳,见上。
• 形 3(按形状识别:读 GITHUB_EVENT_PATH、且只在 workflow 里声明而无本地调用):明天新增的家族自己就归好类,不需要有人记得去改名单。

⇒ 这正是 #6713 反复指出的那条结构性教训在派生层的复述:一张手工名单在做逐面的活,必然漂移。 本席倾向形 3 或「形 3 兜底 + 形 1 呈现」,但 ⛔ 不裁:形状识别的判据(怎么算「只在 workflow 里声明」)需要车道自己量一遍才知道成本,那不是分诊能替的。⇒ 本卡进队列时带着这一条倾向而非裁定。

卡的两处「这不是 X」复核通过

• 不是 [finding] Nothing reconciles the gate families a dev DERIVED against the ones it RAN — measured at 19 of 62 on a PR that reported green, and the escaping red was luck #13774 的「derived vs ran」对账缺口 —— 那问的是派生出的与实际跑的对不对得上;
• 不是 dispatch-gates places check:ratchet-remedy-authority in "undetermined" — a scripts/** sweep that no derived family names, so a full local family run misses it #13813 的桶位问题 —— 那问的是某家族该进哪个桶。

本卡问的是第三件事:local 桶里混进了一个结构上不可本地测量的成员,且没有标记。三者不同,⛔ 不重复。

代价复核

卡列的两条代价,第二条更值钱:一个永远会红的行,会训练读者去忽略那张清单里的红。 这不是麻烦,是信号退化 —— 而 .claude/agents/** 是仓里流量最高的受治面,每张卡都过一遍。

路由

pm:queue · priority:p2 · domain:devx · tooling

按相邻两卡校准:#13813 = tooling + p2 + domain:devx + pm:queue;#13774 亦 domain:devx。同文件同族,随之。

查重

卡自己的查重规范:REST 列表端点全量枚举 410 张 open + 本地 grep,阳性对照 #13729 在列。⚠️ 提醒:#13900 刚测出跟 Link: rel="next" 走会静默少还(102/287);若那次枚举是按 &page=N 走的则不受影响,若是跟游标走的则需复核。本席另跑一次语义搜索,check-governed-queue-guard / GITHUB_EVENT_PATH 无同题卡。⛔ 无重复。

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