chore(pm): delete the report-only widening-tell instrument and its wiring

Removes scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs, its check:pm-widening-tells
package script and its lint.yml self-test step, and re-points every live
mention: the measurement-claim triage EXCLUDED row and scope docblock, two
source comments that cited the file as an importer, the stale step reference
in a neighbouring lint.yml comment, the two pm-dispatch instrument-discipline
lines that named it, and the census rows (kept, marked deleted).

Nothing replaces it; no gate is added.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0181E4ZeZmWyknawnauxD2CE
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: claude

.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/references/instrument-discipline.md

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 见 reading-discipline.md 的指针行;本文是仪器的分界、授权与工具位次序。
 
 - 硬门禁只答有确定答案的问题:受管登记表、队列守卫、CI 测试、复核记录在不在。
-- 判意图的仪器(放宽 tell、半状态巡查)只印读数 ⛔ 不挡落地,误报由席位一句话推翻。
-- 放宽 tell(C5)由 `scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs` 印 file:line,归达档复核裁。
+- 判意图的仪器(半状态巡查)只印读数 ⛔ 不挡落地,误报由席位一句话推翻。
+- 放宽 tell(C5)不设仪器,Clause-② 的方向由达档复核裁。
 - 只报告的仪器不配 dev:⛔ 不立卡、不派 dev、不开 PR;它的在途工作只有删除。
 - 新增门禁、巡查行或棘轮须在卡上引维护者原话,⛔ 无原话不新增;首行四件恒硬。
 - 工具位只有一个,先花在删除上;`dispatch-gates.mjs` 冻结,只在它喂的 workflow 坏了时碰。

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -1321,19 +1321,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Contract-review record recogniser self-test
         run: pnpm check:pm-record-recognisers
 
-      # Widening-tell gate self-test (#16448) — the mechanical half of the
-      # directional clause-② ruling (#16349), and the same split as every step
-      # around it: the LIVE predicate is `--pair`'s C5 row, a verdict about ONE
-      # pair's diff, so failing an unrelated PR's CI over it would punish the
-      # wrong actor. Only the offline self-test runs here.
-      #
-      # This gate has no whole-tree production run at all — its input is a DIFF
-      # supplied by its caller, never a file in the tree — so the `--self-test`
-      # invocation is the only instrument its matching rules have, which is
-      # exactly the family `check:self-test-wired` requires this step for.
-      - name: Widening-tell gate self-test
-        run: pnpm check:pm-widening-tells
-
       # Prior-ruling reader self-test (#17009) — same family and the same split
       # as every step around it. The LIVE read takes a card number over REST and
       # searches this checkout's `origin/main`, so it is a tool a seat runs
@@ -1690,7 +1677,7 @@ jobs:
         run: pnpm check:pm-settings-deny-roster
 
       # Expected-skips roster self-test (#18308) — same family and the same
-      # split as the widening-tell and prior-ruling steps above: the LIVE read
+      # split as the prior-ruling step above: the LIVE read
       # takes a PR head and judges its check-runs over REST, so it is a tool a
       # seat runs against the PR in front of it, not a verdict about the PR
       # that happens to run CI next. Only the offline self-test runs here — it

docs/audits/gate-census-2026-09.md

@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Zod validation inside `packages/spec` and the runtime is the **product**, not a
 | `scripts/pm/check-settings-deny-roster.mjs` | process | none (`.claude/settings.json` deny list pinned) · PM loop · origin #18218 · landed 2026-09-15 | required · whole-repo (Lint & Repo Gates) | unmeasured (landed 2026-09-15; <7 days of window coverage) | `keep (too new)` |
 | `scripts/pm/check-skill-id-lint.mjs` | process | none (operative agent-protocol text cites no issue numbers) · PM loop · origin no card in header · landed 2026-08-12 | required · whole-repo (Lint & Repo Gates) | 0 in window | `retire` |
 | `scripts/pm/check-skill-line-ratchet.mjs` | process | none (per-file line budget over the PM instruction surface) · PM loop · origin #5925 · landed 2026-08-10 | required · whole-repo (Lint & Repo Gates) | 0 in window (7 failure(s) only on PRs editing this file, excluded) | `retire` |
-| `scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs` | process | none (mechanical half of the directional Clause-② read) — only its self-test runs in CI · PM loop · origin #16349 · landed 2026-09-07 | required · whole-repo (Lint & Repo Gates) | 0 in window — only its `--self-test` runs in CI; the gate proper never judges a PR here | `retire` |
+| `scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs` | process | none (mechanical half of the directional Clause-② read) — only its self-test runs in CI · PM loop · origin #16349 · landed 2026-09-07 | required · whole-repo (Lint & Repo Gates) | 0 in window — only its `--self-test` runs in CI; the gate proper never judges a PR here | `retire` · **deleted 2026-10** (ruling 208; the maintainer: 「同意」) — row kept as the census record |
 | `check:adr-symbol-anchors` | process | none (symbol-anchors module self-test + check-adr-symbol-anchors) · composite · `node scripts/symbol-anchors.mjs --self-test && node scripts/check-adr-symbol-anchors.mjs -…` | not in PR CI | 1 PR / 2 days (check-adr-symbol-anchors leg) | `keep` |
 | `check:docs-audit-scope` | process | none (affected-docs self-test + check-audit-scope) · composite · `node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --self-test && node scripts/docs-audit/check-aud…` | required · whole-repo (Lint & Repo Gates) | 1 PR / 1 day (check-audit-scope leg) | `keep` |
 | `check:docs-image-tag-sync` | contract | release lane: self-test of the docs image-tag version-time rewriter (run by release.yml version-pr) · `node scripts/sync-docs-image-tags.mjs --self-test` | required · whole-repo (Lint & Repo Gates); advisory (Version PR maintenance) | 0 in window — self-test only; cannot judge a PR | `keep` |
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ These nine guard the CI farm's own wiring — the required-context names, aggreg
 | `scripts/pm/check-label-desc-cap.mjs` | process · 0 in window | `scripts/pm/check-label-desc-cap.mjs` | `check:pm-label-desc-cap` | lint.yml:838 | 2 |
 | `scripts/pm/check-skill-id-lint.mjs` | process · 0 in window | `scripts/pm/check-skill-id-lint.mjs` | `check:pm-skill-id-lint` | lint.yml:825 | 3 |
 | `scripts/pm/check-skill-line-ratchet.mjs` | process · 0 in window (7 failure(s) only on PRs editing this file, excluded) | `scripts/pm/check-skill-line-ratchet.mjs` | `check:pm-skill-ratchet` | lint.yml:817 | 3 |
-| `scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs` | process · 0 in window — only its `--self-test` runs in CI; the gate proper never judges a PR here | `scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs` | `check:pm-widening-tells` | lint.yml:1153 | 2 |
+| `scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs` · **deleted 2026-10** | process · 0 in window — only its `--self-test` runs in CI; the gate proper never judges a PR here | `scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs` | `check:pm-widening-tells` | lint.yml:1153 | 2 |
 | `check:pm-board-snapshot` | process · 0 in window — self-test only; cannot judge a PR | `scripts/pm/board-snapshot.mjs (only if no other user; check before deleting)` | `check:pm-board-snapshot` | lint.yml:1259 | 0 |
 | `check:pm-changeset-deadline-census` | process · 0 in window — self-test only; cannot judge a PR | `scripts/pm/changeset-deadline-census.mjs (only if no other user; check before deleting)` | `check:pm-changeset-deadline-census` | lint.yml:1313 | 0 |
 | `check:pm-closed-card-sweep` | process · 0 in window — self-test only; cannot judge a PR | `scripts/pm/sweep-closed-cards.mjs (only if no other user; check before deleting)` | `check:pm-closed-card-sweep` | — | 0 |

package.json

@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@
     "check:pm-half-states": "node scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs --self-test",
     "check:issue-citations": "node scripts/check-issue-citations.mjs --self-test",
     "check:pm-record-recognisers": "node scripts/pm/record-recognisers.mjs --self-test",
-    "check:pm-widening-tells": "node scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs --self-test",
     "check:pm-prior-rulings": "node scripts/pm/check-prior-rulings.mjs --self-test",
     "check:pm-closed-card-sweep": "node scripts/pm/sweep-closed-cards.mjs --self-test",
     "check:pm-stale-finding": "node scripts/pm/sweep-stale-finding.mjs --self-test",

scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs

@@ -1333,10 +1333,10 @@ export function markerMatches(marker, text) {
  * decoration is ADDED here — where a fixture and a case come with it — ⛔ never
  * discovered again from a silent row.
  *
- * The register is `SCHEMA_PROPERTY_FORMS`' (`scripts/pm/check-widening-tells.mjs`,
- * #18560): a frozen roster the detector is BUILT from, each member carrying its
- * own `example`, so a form added without a fixture and a form silently dropped
- * both go red instead of quietly changing what the instrument sees.
+ * The register is a frozen roster the detector is BUILT from, each member
+ * carrying its own `example`, so a form added without a fixture and a form
+ * silently dropped both go red instead of quietly changing what the instrument
+ * sees.
  *
  * ## What a member is, and what it is NOT
  *

scripts/pm/check-prior-rulings.mjs

@@ -212,9 +212,9 @@ import { performance } from 'node:perf_hooks';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { isEntrypoint } from '../invoked-as.mjs';
 // ⛔ Not copied. The board resolver and the proxy-rearm plan are ONE source in
-// `check-half-states.mjs` — the same import `check-widening-tells.mjs` takes —
-// so this reader and the patrol cannot come to disagree about which board is
-// being read or whether this container's fetch reaches it.
+// `check-half-states.mjs`, so this reader and the patrol cannot come to
+// disagree about which board is being read or whether this container's fetch
+// reaches it.
 import { DEFAULT_SWEEP_REPO, resolveSweepRepo, proxyRearmPlan, PROXY_FLAG, PROXY_REARM_GUARD } from './check-half-states.mjs';
 
 export const EXIT_OK = 0;