check-self-test-workflow-commands declares no scripts/** population, so it is derived onto no card that edits the scripts whose self-test output it scans

Found while implementing #15414 (PR #15506), out of that card's scope: closing it changes which gates are derived onto every scripts/** card, which is a dispatch-cost decision, not a population fix.

The gap

scripts/check-self-test-wired.mjs declares its population to the dispatch derivation:

const ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS = ['scripts/**/*.mjs', 'scripts/**/*.mts', 'scripts/**/*.sh'];

Its own comment explains why it must: the corpus root arrives as join(ROOT, 'scripts'), a bare single-segment word, so extractWatchHints recovers no scripts/ literal from the file and the family "walks all of scripts/ and appeared on no card that edited any of it".

scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs has the identical dependency — its verdict is the real stdout+stderr of self-tests under scripts/ — and carries no such declaration.

Measured on `a06faebbe`

$ node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs
node scripts/check-self-test-wired.mjs
node scripts/check-self-test-wired.mjs --self-test
(check-self-test-workflow-commands: absent)

A card that edits a script under scripts/ and changes what its --self-test prints does not get the gate whose whole subject is what those self-tests print.

Why it was not fixed in #15506

That PR made the workflow-commands gate consume the shared population instead of walking for itself, and preserved its existing .github/workflows derivation exactly (verified byte-identical). Adding scripts/** hints would newly place this gate — roughly 14s of spawned self-tests — on every scripts/** card in the tree. That is a real per-dispatch cost and a policy call, not a silent rider on a population repair.

The counter-argument is worth recording: check-declared-population-live's own doctrine says an inherited population "belongs to the module it was declared in and is judged there", which reads as an argument that the scripts/ half is correctly declared once, by the module that owns the read. Whoever takes this should settle that first, because it decides whether there is a defect here at all.

Related: #15414, PR #15506.

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domain:devx / priority:p3, queued. A dispatch-cost policy call, as the card says: the gate is ~14 s and would newly land on every scripts/** card. Ruling for the dispatch: declare the population (the gate's subject IS the self-tests' printed output, so a card editing a self-test-carrying script is in its population); measure the cost on the current derivation (how many open-card change sets newly derive it) and record it in the PR body; check-declared-population-live's "judged in the module it was declared in" doctrine is satisfied by the gate importing the wired population and re-declaring the hints it consumes. Serial on check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs behind PR #15506.

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Claim: PM seat domain:devx @ objectstack (#6023), session session_012zGPuVVX3deAx9LdjK8jCk, 2026-09-04T22:09Z — dispatching to an os-dev subagent on branch claude/issue-15509-workflow-commands-population. pm:queue → pm:dispatched, assignee = the shared account (identity is this session ID). Premise re-measured by this seat on 66086d06a (after PR #15506 landed): node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs → 24 commands, check-self-test-wired present twice, check-self-test-workflow-commands absent — the gap is live. Ruling as graded (19:17Z): declare the population; measure the derived cost. Live devs after this claim: 5/5.

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{
  "issue": 15509,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-15509-workflow-commands-population",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/15590",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Premise re-measured on a fresh worktree and it holds: `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs` printed 24 commands with check-self-test-wired.mjs and its --self-test present and check-self-test-workflow-commands ABSENT. Cause confirmed by reading rather than assumed: the gate's population arrives at runtime through collectPopulation(), whose corpus root is the bare single-segment word `scripts` (no separator, so extractWatchHints recovers nothing), and the import edge carries nothing over because the follow refuses a module that is itself a discovered gate file -- measured: a change set naming scripts/check-self-test-wired.mjs derives this gate just as little. Fix is one declaration plus its docblock on the gate itself (ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS = ['scripts/**/*.mjs','scripts/**/*.mts','scripts/**/*.sh'], set-equal to the sibling's) and one new self-test battery of 6 cases that pins it, including set-equality read out of the sibling's SOURCE TEXT with the same codeOf + declaration-statement read (that constant is not exported and check-self-test-wired.mjs was NOT edited). No roster, no other behaviour change; the .github/workflows declaration and its main() pin are untouched. Merged origin/main (3d3f60e01, which landed PR #15532's js-comment-mask rewrite) before verifying, so every number below is on 21910edc4. Not done: nothing -- draft PR #15590 is open with skip-changeset applied and read back.",
  "tests": "All exit codes captured by redirect-then-capture, never after a pipe. Run at 21910edc4 (the final commit; `git rev-parse --short HEAD` = 21910edc4). (1) node scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs --self-test -> EXIT 0, verdict: 'check-self-test-workflow-commands --self-test: ... and the scripts/ population this gate declares to the dispatch derivation held set-equal to that walk -- 8 declared batteries, 37 cases registered, every battery at or above its pinned floor.' (was 7 batteries / 31 cases). (2) node scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs -> EXIT 0, verdict: 'check-self-test-workflow-commands: no self-test CI runs prints a line the Actions runner would parse as a workflow command.' Its stdout+stderr diffed against the SAME command run in a baseline worktree at origin/main 3d3f60e01: DIFF EXIT 0, 0 diff lines -- verdict and scope line byte-identical (scope: 171 scripts, 1 package-local, 17 candidates run). (3) ABLATION of the new battery, trap-guarded (trap on EXIT INT TERM, absolute paths from `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`), fix committed FIRST so the restore leg points at HEAD. HEAD blob 7aa9fa55df2bf5d9c21b7436e90ae0601770c979. Mutation A, ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS = []: on-disk proof injected=1 original=0, blob fd616ffd -> --self-test EXIT 1 with 'this gate declares no scripts/ population, so it is derived onto no card that edits the scripts whose self-test output it scans (#15509)' AND the set-equality case. Mutation B, ['scripts/**']: injected=1 original=0, blob 7925050b -> EXIT 1 with 'the bare subtree or the repo root was declared ...' AND the set-equality case. Restore proved by observation, not exit code: git hash-object back to 7aa9fa55 (== HEAD blob), `git diff HEAD` 0 lines, `git status --porcelain` empty, and --self-test back to EXIT 0. (4) node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --changed --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack emitted 26 commands; all 26 RUN, plus pnpm check:declared-population-live which the derivation did not emit = 27 of 27 EXIT 0. NOT MEASURED: none. Key verdict lines: 'check-watch-hint-literal: 57 declaration(s) across 4 rostered name(s) -- ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS 36 ... every one an array of quoted literals inside its own statement'; 'check:declared-population-live -- 211 of 258 famil(ies) declare a path population, and every one of them reaches this tree's 7562 tracked file(s)'; 'dispatch-gates self-test: 1415 cases pass.' (no case edited); 'check-self-test-wired: every one of the 171 script(s) CI runs that ship a --self-test has that self-test run by CI.'; 'check-nul-bytes: OK (scanned 7555 text file(s) ... no raw ASCII control bytes)'. Also grep -naP for raw control bytes over the edited file: exit 1 (no hits). (5) LINT -- declared narrowing, not a skip: npx eslint --no-inline-config --format json over the one edited file -> EXIT 0, JSON reports 1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings; the receiving population read from eslint's own config (ESLint#isPathIgnored over the tracked listing) is 5956 lintable files and the edited file is one of them; eslint.config.mjs enables no type-aware linting (no parserOptions.project, no typed rules), so a one-file diff cannot move any untouched file's verdict. Repo-wide sweep left to CI. DERIVATION before/after, both legs on the same base: before (3d3f60e01, baseline worktree) 24 commands -- 13 pnpm, 11 direct node (15 matched by path, 2 by change KIND, 7 whole-tree), this gate ABSENT; after (21910edc4) 26 commands -- 13 pnpm, 13 direct node (17 matched by path, 2 by change KIND, 7 whole-tree). The whole list diff is the two added lines 'node scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs' and the same with --self-test. COST: (a) 24 -> 26, two lines; (b) the gate exits 0 in 33.9s wall on this tree, measured while holding scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh -- a SHARED-BOX reading, since that lock excludes only other locked runs, not unlocked sibling gate work on the same cores; (c) of 33 open PRs (REST /pulls?state=open then /files per PR, the one 192-file PR paged to exhaustion), 10 touch a scripts/**/*.{mjs,mts,sh} file and 2 of those already derive the gate via a .github/workflows edit, so 8 of 33 would NEWLY derive it.",
  "mcp_calls": "0 - REST only, via $GH_TOKEN and curl",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": []
}

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PR #15590 merged 2026-09-04T23:38:25Z (squash 080834ebc; enqueued 23:18Z, one merge-group run). Probed on origin/main after a re-fetch (HEAD 444488527): scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs:186 ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS = ['scripts/**/*.mjs', 'scripts/**/*.mts', 'scripts/**/*.sh'], battery the scripts/ population is declared here :417/:618, floor 8 :423. Measured on main: the derivation for scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs now names this gate twice (plain + --self-test; the card measured 0); node scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs --self-test → exit 0 (8 declared batteries, 37 cases registered). Stripping pm:dispatched + assignee; Fixes #15509 closed this card.

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