[finding] measure-self-test-floor's probe writes its mutated copy INTO scripts/, so gates that scan that tree read it — check-pnpm-filter-targets' green self-test records NOT MEASURED (baseline exit 1) for that reason alone

Found while widening measure-self-test-floor's DISPATCH criterion for #15421, out of that card's scope. Filed unassigned.

The reading

probeEarlyReturn writes its mutated copy beside the original, inside scripts/:

const probePath = join(dirname(absFile), `.self-test-floor-probe-${basename(absFile)}`);

The comment above it states why — relative imports and repo-root resolution must still answer the same. But any gate whose own work is to walk that tree now reads one extra file: a near-duplicate of itself, with a return; injected. For a gate that counts occurrences or asserts "the checked-in tree is clean", that copy is a finding, so the gate exits non-zero — and the probe reads that as the baseline precondition (#15391) and records NOT MEASURED for a self-test that is perfectly green when run alone.

Measured

On b907c9f42 (branch claude/issue-15421-instrument-dispatch-criterion, where the widened criterion makes this file a census member), in an installed worktree:

node scripts/check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs --self-test
# exit 0 — "40 assertions ... 181 live occurrence(s) swept"

cp scripts/check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs scripts/.self-test-floor-probe-check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs
node scripts/check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs --self-test
# exit 1 — "and the checked-in tree is clean (dead: @objectstack/adapter-hono, @objectstack/nope, ...)"
rm scripts/.self-test-floor-probe-check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs

and the probe over that same file:

NOT MEASURED scripts/check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs entry=selfTest  baseline run failed (exit 1)

The copy is removed in a finally, so the perturbation is transient and leaves no trace afterwards — which is exactly why the row reads as a property of the FILE ("this tree cannot run it") rather than of the instrument.

The direction of the error, and why it still matters

It is the safe direction: NOT MEASURED, never a false HELD. But it lands on precisely the class of gates that scan scripts/**, and it lands there for a reason belonging to the instrument, so a reader diagnosing that row does what the precondition's docblock tells them to do (baselineHead "is usually the whole diagnosis — run pnpm install") and finds nothing wrong with the tree.

How many rows this silences was NOT swept here; one carrier is measured above.

Boundary — what this is NOT

Not [finding] measure-self-test-floor's probe awards HELD/ACCIDENT when the BASELINE run already exits non-zero — an uninstalled tree reads HELD #15391, which is the precondition itself. The precondition is right; this is a baseline made red by the probe's own artifact.
Not measure-self-test-floor's probe anchors on the FIRST 'function selfTest() {' in a file, so a fixture string masks the real definition — dispatch-gates.mjs was NOT MEASURED for this reason alone #14963, which is about the injection anchor landing on the wrong definition.
Not a defect in check-pnpm-filter-targets: refusing over a stray near-duplicate under scripts/ is that gate working.

Options, not chosen here

Whether the repair is to place the copy outside the scanned tree (and pay the resolution problem the current comment names), to name the copy so the scanning gates ignore it, to record the affected rows by hand, or to leave it and teach the row to say which side the redness came from, is the instrument's own question — the same standing question as #15391 / #15371 / #14963.

Filed from #15421.

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Bug · domain:devx · priority:p3, queued: the probe writes its mutated copy INTO scripts/, so any gate that walks that tree reads the copy and refuses, and the probe then records NOT MEASURED (baseline failed) for a green self-test — an instrument-caused reading. Repair direction: write the mutated copy outside the walked tree (a temp dir beside the repo, or a gitignored scratch path the walkers exclude) while keeping the copy's relative-import resolution working (measure: the copy must still import its siblings — a symlinked or path-rewritten copy, whichever the six affected files tolerate), with a control proving a walking gate no longer sees it. Serial on scripts/measure-self-test-floor.mjs behind PR #15517; after it, #14963.

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fix(devx): anchor the self-test floor probe on the real definition

docs(devx): the floor probe can read this file now

Claim: PM seat domain:devx @ objectstack (#6023), session session_012zGPuVVX3deAx9LdjK8jCk, 2026-09-04T23:01Z — dispatching to an os-dev subagent on branch claude/issue-15515-floor-probe-copy-outside-tree. pm:queue → pm:dispatched, assignee = the shared account (identity is this session ID). Serial condition met: PR #15580 (#14963) landed 22:56Z, so scripts/measure-self-test-floor.mjs is free. Ruling as graded (19:31Z): write the mutated copy outside the walked tree while the copy's relative imports still resolve, with a control that a walking gate no longer sees it. #15573 (the 120 s spawn budget, bare) is the same file and masks this defect on dispatch-gates.mjs — read it, do not fold it; report what the budget question needs. Live devs after this claim: 5/5.

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{
  "issue": 15515,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-15515-floor-probe-copy-outside-tree",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/15613",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Reproduced the card by hand on base 17ec4b1e1: `node scripts/check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs --self-test` exits 0 alone and exits 1 with a near-duplicate of itself beside it. probeEarlyReturn now writes its mutated copy into an mkdtemp directory OUTSIDE the repo, and answers explicitly what the beside-placement answered by construction: relative specifiers (`from`, dynamic `import()`, bare `import`) are rewritten to absolute file:// URLs of the ORIGINAL's neighbours; `import.meta.url` / `.dirname` / `.filename` are rewritten to literals naming the ORIGINAL -- with ONE exception, the argument of `isEntrypoint(...)`, because 145 of the 179 census dispatches sit behind that call and answering it about the original would make every one of those copies run nothing, print nothing, exit 0 and score a false DEFEATED; and the temp dir gets a `node_modules` symlink to the nearest one above the original, without which `import 'typescript'` (4 members) and the dynamic `import('yaml')` inside requireDependency (51 sites) die in module resolution and score a false HELD. Every rewrite is applied only where scanSource says the text is real CODE, so fixture STRINGS carrying import statements (several gates feed themselves exactly that) are untouched. cwd stays ROOT. No walking gate was weakened and there is no roster of affected gates. 178 of 179 members relocate cleanly; scripts/ts-parse.mjs keeps the old placement and its row now publishes placement:'beside' with placementWhy naming import.meta.resolve. Two commits (the fix, and the ENTRY_BY_HAND note for dispatch-gates that cited this defect).",
  "tests": "ALL exit codes captured before any pipe. (1) `node scripts/measure-self-test-floor.mjs` exit 0, `measure-self-test-floor: 179 file(s) under scripts/ dispatch on --self-test.`, no CONTROL FAILED / CONTROL FIXTURE INVALID line; runControls failures 0. (2) `--json` diffed against the same file captured on base 17ec4b1e1 before any edit: BYTE-IDENTICAL (diff clean, re-checked after the second commit). (3) NARROWED PROBE, 40 rows (every census member identifiable as walking scripts/, plus ts-parse), before on base and after on the branch, through main()'s own entry selection. ONE moved: scripts/check-pnpm-filter-targets.mjs `NOT MEASURED / baseline run failed (exit 1)` with baselineHead `✗ check-pnpm-filter-targets --self-test — 1 failure(s)` -> `DEFEATED` (baselineExit 0, mutatedExit 0, mutatedBytes 0). The other 39 rows are identical in verdict, mutatedHead and mutatedBytes -- including isEntrypoint-guarded members (check-nul-bytes, check-entry-guard) and requireDependency users (check-doc-frontmatter, check-merge-queue-triage-outcome), so no existing reading moved. A full --probe was NOT run (~178 self-tests x 2 does not fit the container cap), so this is a targeted census, not a sweep; I did not measure how many rows outside those 40 the old placement silenced. (4) #15573 reading, measured ONCE at 900s narrowed to that row: `HELD scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs entry=selfTest baselineExit=0 mutatedExit=1 mutatedBytes=200 mutatedHead=\"✗ dispatch-gates self-test: selfTest() returned without reaching its verdict,\"` -- so the baseline now PASSES and the mutated run DOES reach a verdict; 425s wall clock on a shared box (unlocked sibling work alongside), read as 'does not fit 120s', not as a calibrated figure. (5) ABLATION A, relocation removed (default placement forced back to 'beside'): committed tree first; anchor 1->0 and injected text 0->1 counted ON DISK, blob hash e59375d0f -> e596bba29; `node scripts/measure-self-test-floor.mjs` exit 1 with `RELOCATION CONTROL FAILED: a gate whose self-test walks its own directory read NOT MEASURED (baseline run failed (exit 1))` -- the card's exact reading -- plus the printed-line control and the placement-separation control; trap-guarded restore, hash back to e59375d0f007e75cd430fd3d5a01dd3486ac33bc and `git diff HEAD` empty. (6) ABLATION B, the isEntrypoint exception removed: anchor 1->0 / injected 0->1 on disk; exit 1 with `RELOCATION CONTROL FAILED: the isEntrypoint(import.meta.url) argument was rewritten` AND the walking fixture reading `DEFEATED` instead of HELD -- the predicted whole-census false direction; restore proven the same way. (7) GATE FAMILY derived with `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --changed --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack` at fd79ecc76 (1 path, scripts/measure-self-test-floor.mjs) -- 22 commands, each run individually, ALL exit 0: check-reference-carrier-shape(+--self-test), check-ci-filter-parity, check-closing-keyword-parity(+--self-test), check-comment-mask-corpus, check-self-test-wired(+--self-test), check-whole-set-label-write(+--self-test), check:agent-test-spelling, check:bash32-floor, check:cli-command-ids, check:cross-package-test-inputs, check:driver-memory-census, check:entry-guard, check:nul-bytes, check:parse-guard, check:pnpm-filter-targets, check:ratchet-remedy-authority, check:refd-timer-probe, check:watch-hint-literal. Plus `pnpm check:pm-dispatch-gates` exit 0, `✓ dispatch-gates self-test: 1445 cases pass.` with no case edited. (8) ONE READING WAS NOT MEASURED AND RE-TAKEN: `pnpm -s check:published-list-mirrors` exited 254 printing nothing -- no such script; the roster spells it `node scripts/check-published-list-mirrors.mjs`, which is exit 0 (`OK: 1 published list mirror(s) match their constants line for line.`) with `--self-test` exit 0 (`All 37 self-test cases passed.`). (9) STILL NOT MEASURED, named: the three families whose argv takes a CI-only value (check-cross-package-test-inputs --union-into, check-shard-attestation --emit, check-test-completeness), the 16 families derived against a changeset path that does not exist (none owed -- scripts/** publishes nothing), and the always-runs workflow tail. (10) LINT NARROWED AND THE NARROWING PROVEN: the file is in eslint's own linted population (`eslint --print-config` resolves a config for it, exit 0); `--format json` reports exactly 1 file linted, 0 errors, 0 warnings, exit 0; and this repo's single eslint.config.mjs never enables type-aware linting for ANY file (`--print-config` returns parserOptions.project null; stated and independently measured at eslint.config.mjs ~line 327), so a one-file diff cannot move any untouched file's verdict. (11) Control-byte scan of the edited file and of every GitHub body/comment: `grep -naP '[\\x00-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x7f]'` no matches; check:nul-bytes exit 0. (12) PR body read back in full after creation: byte-identical to what was sent except the platform's appended footer -- the sanitizer ate nothing.",
  "mcp_calls": "0 — every GitHub read and write went through repo-scoped REST. One REST call was refused: the /search/issues endpoint returns HTTP 403 (`sessions are bound to their configured repositories`), so duplicate-checking for the finding below used a single bounded repo-scoped read (open issues labelled `finding`, one page) plus local grep, not a wide search.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #15614: check-pnpm-filter-targets' self-test has no verdict handshake — an early return makes it print zero bytes and exit 0, while its green line claims 40 assertions held. This is the verdict the repair UNCOVERED (the row read NOT MEASURED before it), not something the repair caused; same class as #15153 and the standing hole-2 population of #13489. Filed unassigned and unlabelled for PM triage."
  ]
}

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PR #15613 merged 2026-09-05T00:35Z (armed 23:54Z 09-04, enqueued 00:10Z, one merge-group run). Probed on origin/main after a re-fetch (HEAD de69b540e) and RUN (the instrument imports only js-comment-mask.mjs): relocateSource / nearestNodeModules exported, probeEarlyReturn(…, { placement = 'relocated' }), the WALKING_GATE control fixture, and the scripts/ts-parse.mjs beside-placement row all present;

node scripts/measure-self-test-floor.mjs   → exit 0
measure-self-test-floor: 179 file(s) under scripts/ dispatch on `--self-test`.
(0 CONTROL FAILED / FIXTURE INVALID lines)

Stripping pm:dispatched + assignee; Fixes #15515 closed this card. The two findings the repair exposed stay bare: #15614 (check-pnpm-filter-targets verdict handshake) and #15573 (the probe's 120 s budget — now the ONLY thing between dispatch-gates.mjs and a HELD reading).

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