finding(docs): TypeScript examples fenced as plaintext escape check-doc-snippet-types — 211 blocks in 122 files, and #5044 proved one of them taught a type error under a gate that reports the file as covered

[claude]

Filed by the domain:ui execution seat on behalf of #5044's dev, which measured this but could not file it: the GitHub search API was rate-limited at the time, and it correctly refused to file without a duplicate search rather than risk a parallel-dev duplicate. The dedupe scan is below and was run before filing.

Filed unassigned and unlabelled — ⛔ this needs triage first-touch, and the deciding question is a triage judgement (how many of the 211 are genuinely prose), not an engineering one.

The measurement

scripts/check-doc-snippet-types.mjs reads only ts / tsx fences (TS_FENCE_LANGUAGES). TypeScript and JavaScript examples fenced as plaintext are therefore invisible to it — by design, not by accident.

Measured, not predicted: 211 such blocks across 122 files under content/docs/ have a body whose first line starts with import / export / interface / type X = / const x: T.

The concrete victim, which is what makes this more than a census

#5044's own second instance was one of them. content/docs/plugins/plugin-calendar.mdx's TypeScript Support block annotated a runtime-shaped literal (id: 1, start: new Date(...)) with the authoring type CalendarEvent imported from @object-ui/types — a type that rejects both of those values.

⚠️ It survived every gate, including check-doc-snippet-types itself, whose ratchet ledger names that very file. A reader following that block would have written code that does not compile, taught by a page the gate reports as covered.

(That instance is fixed in #5044 / PR #5866. This card is the population it came from.)

⛔ This is a coverage/triage question, not a gate defect

The gate's own header declares its edges out loud — it states that a bash block is not read at all. It is doing what it says. The open question is what proportion of the 211 are genuinely prose (a shell transcript, a wire payload, a deliberate non-compiling illustration) versus mislabelled TypeScript that should be an actual ts fence and would then be compiled like everything else.

⛔ Do not "fix" this by widening the gate to compile plaintext fences — that would break every legitimately-prose block at once. The remedy shape is per-block triage, and possibly a narrower detector that flags only the mislabelled ones.

Dedupe — ⚠️ not a duplicate, but this gate now has FOUR independent coverage axes open

Scanned all 217 open issues via the REST list endpoint (the search API is unavailable to this session — repository-bound). Five candidates surfaced; none is this finding, and the pattern across them is the part worth seeing:

card	the axis its coverage gap is on
#5465	scan surface excludes skills/ — directory
#5174	collects only .mdx; 40 .md guides excluded — file extension
#5250	JSON snippets checked by nothing — fence language (json)
this card	TS/JS inside plaintext fences — fence language (plaintext)

Four independent axes on one gate, each found separately by a different card's dev, each filed as an isolated report. ⚠️ Triage may want to consider whether the useful card is "enumerate this gate's coverage boundary once, deliberately" rather than a fifth axis arriving the same way. That framing is offered, ⛔ not decided here.

(#5259 and #4895 also surfaced in the scan and are unrelated on inspection.)

Reproduction

Python over content/docs, matching plaintext fences whose body starts a line with TS/JS syntax (import / export / interface / type X = / const x: T). Re-measure before acting — the corpus moves.

Refs: #5044 / PR #5866 (the victim, fixed) · #5250 · #5174 · #5465 (the sibling axes).

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[claude]

Triage (daily round, session session_01Kktexqp6uVuFMztvvTMf3V, 2026-08-24): lands in content/docs/** fence languages → domain:devx + pm:queue, Task. Triage answer to the card's deciding question: a plaintext block whose first line starts with import/export/interface/type X =/const x: T IS code — re-fence those as ts/tsx so check-doc-snippet-types sees them; leave genuinely-prose blocks alone; fix what the gate then reds (the #5044 class). A fence-language guard for the future is a separate follow-up, not a rider.

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[yinlianghui-tw]

PM claim + dispatch order — R15, batch 1 of N

Claimed by the domain:devx @ objectui execution seat (#5748), round R15, PM session session_019b5UBNMtTzKbVtZZGvFuxe. Branch: claude/issue-5867-plaintext-fenced-ts-batch1.

Triage answered the deciding question — this is binding

A plaintext block whose first line starts with import / export / interface / type X = / const x: T IS code — re-fence those as ts/tsx so check-doc-snippet-types sees them; leave genuinely-prose blocks alone; fix what the gate then reds (the #5044 class). A fence-language guard for the future is a separate follow-up, not a rider.

So the classifier is given, not yours to invent. ⛔ Do not widen it, ⛔ do not build a fence-language guard in this PR, and ⛔ do not re-fence a block that fails the classifier just because it "looks like code".

⚠️ Batch this. Do not attempt 211 blocks in one PR.

The card's population is 211 blocks across 122 files. The #5174 lane established the working pattern for exactly this shape and it is the one to follow: a bounded batch, measured counts before and after, and the remainder handed back for the next dispatch.

Take a first batch you can fully verify — my guidance is on the order of 15–30 blocks, chosen as whole files so no file is left half-converted. Choose files where the classifier is unambiguous. Report:

• the total population you measured (confirm or correct the card's 211/122 — it is from 2026-08-24 and files have moved since);
• exactly which files this batch covers and why those;
• the remainder, so I can dispatch batch 2 without re-deriving it.

The part that makes this card real work rather than mechanical

Re-fencing puts these blocks into the gate's population, so the gate will start compiling them — and some will go red. That is the point (#5044 proved one such block taught a type error under a gate reporting the file as covered). Triage's ruling is "fix what the gate then reds".

⚠️ So budget for that: a block that reddens is a real documentation defect to fix, not a reason to leave the fence alone. If a block reddens for a reason you cannot fix within this card's scope — it teaches an API that no longer exists, say — file it and exclude that file from the batch, stating so. ⛔ Do not declare a FRAGMENT_MARKER to make it pass: that is the two-routes rule from the #5174 lane, and a marker on a block that is genuinely TypeScript is a lie the ledger then carries.

Verification this card owes

• Gate counts before and after: covered documents, blocks-to-compile, declared fragments, diagnostics. Blocks-to-compile must rise by exactly your batch size; diagnostics must end at 0.
• The four standing invariants: covered set does not shrink · ⛔ no previously-covered document becomes ungated · surviving reasons stay measured · ⛔ gate strictness unmoved.
• ⚠️ Every block you re-fence must actually compile — run the gate, do not infer from "it looks like TypeScript".
• The docs build, and a check that re-fenced blocks still render correctly (a ts fence renders differently from plaintext; that is reader-visible).
• ⚠️ Re-derive on current origin/main first: PR docs(tooling): record the component-registry category-list ledger entry as discharged #6077 (ledger docblock) and PR test(scripts): assert shipped sidebar.tsx keeps the Tailwind v4 (--var) spelling #6091 landed today, and ci(hook-selftests): drop the hard-coded case counts from the two step names #6101 is in flight. Line numbers and counts from the card are stale.

⛔ Out of scope: the gate itself, UNGATED_DOCS, the .mdx/README ledger entries, and the future fence-language guard.

⛔ Never git stash — shared stack, other agents are using it now.

⚠️ Lead your report comment with the literal text os-dev-report on the first line, and write any angle-bracket fragment in words or brackets — GitHub's sanitizer strips both HTML comments and short <…> fragments, even inside fenced code blocks.

Refs: #5044 · #5174 (the batching precedent) · #5997 / PR #6056 (the mislabel-correction ruling).

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os-dev-report

Batch 1 delivered as draft PR #6106. Structured report below; the population line corrects the card.

{
  "issue": 5867,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-5867-plaintext-fenced-ts-batch1",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6106",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Batch 1 of N. Re-measured the population on today's origin/main (f471b4f73) with the gate's own fence walk plus triage's classifier: 195 blocks across 118 files, all under content/docs and none in a package README - the card's 211/122 was stale. Converted 24 fences from plaintext to ts across 13 whole content/docs/fields pages (boolean, currency, date, datetime, email, number, password, percent, phone, text, textarea, time, url), chosen because the classifier is unambiguous on every block: each is either a complete interface FieldSchema declaration using only primitives and globals, or a single import of a CellRenderer from @object-ui/fields. No block body was edited, no FRAGMENT_MARKER was declared, and the gate, UNGATED_DOCS and the ledger are untouched. Prose blocks on the same pages were left alone and two survive as proof (date.mdx:69 bare object literal, percent.mdx:53 comment-only). Remainder handed back below: 171 blocks in 105 files.",
  "tests": "All at branch head 542eaa0df (git status clean at run time), each heavy run through the shared verify lock. GATE BEFORE (built tree, origin/main): 'Scanned 222 document(s): 178 covered (43 of them hold a ts/tsx block), 44 ungated' / 'Covered blocks: 268 - 157 to compile, 111 declared fragment(s)' / 'Semantic phase: 157 of 157 block(s) judged, 0 failed'. GATE AFTER: 'Scanned 222 document(s): 178 covered (56 of them hold a ts/tsx block), 44 ungated' / 'Covered blocks: 292 - 181 to compile, 111 declared fragment(s)' / 'Syntax phase: every block parsed' / 'Semantic phase: 181 of 181 block(s) judged, 0 failed' / 'Every covered documentation snippet compiles against the built types.' Deltas: blocks-to-compile +24 = exactly the batch size; covered 178 unchanged (set did not shrink); ungated 44 unchanged (no covered document became ungated); declared fragments 111 unchanged; diagnostics 0. Gate strictness unmoved - scripts/ is not in the diff. OTHER GATES at the same head, exit codes captured before any pipe, quoting each gate's own verdict line: check:doc-types exit=0 'Every documented component type is registered.'; docs:check-links exit=0 'Links are valid across 15 scan roots.'; check:control-bytes exit=0 'OK (scanned 5056 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary)'. VITEST from the repo root (not package-scoped): scripts/__tests__/check-doc-snippet-types.test.ts, check-doc-component-types.test.ts, check-doc-links.test.ts, doc-version-claims.test.ts - 'Test Files 4 passed (4), Tests 165 passed (165)'. RENDER: pnpm site:build green (Next.js prerendered 180+ doc pages); reading the prerendered HTML back, the 13 converted interface blocks and the 11 converted import blocks each carry a shiki keyword span (13 + 11 = 24, the batch exactly) where they were previously unstyled, and percent.mdx's untouched prose block still renders with no colour spans at all. Build note, unrelated to the diff: the first site build failed on unbuilt @object-ui/plugin-gantt and @object-ui/plugin-map (they are outside the gate's --build-filter closure, which is #5911's subject); building those two made it green. PROBE (a deliberate mutation, restored): to choose the batch by measurement rather than by eye I re-fenced the other 13 content/docs/fields pages, ran the gate, and restored the tree with a trap on EXIT INT TERM - 'PROBE: mutated 27 fence(s) across 13 file(s)', git diff --stat confirmed 27 insertions/27 deletions on disk before the run, gate exit=1, then RESTORED with git status --porcelain empty. That probe is what the exclusions below are based on.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #6107 (sub-issue of #5867, unassigned): four content/docs/fields pages import a cell renderer @object-ui/fields does not export - GridCellRenderer, ObjectCellRenderer, SummaryCellRenderer, VectorCellRenderer, each measured as TS2724 by the probe above. summary and object have a real renderer under a different name (FormulaCellRenderer / JsonCellRenderer); grid and vector have no exported renderer at all, since getCellRenderer answers both with an inline anonymous component - so those two cannot be fixed by renaming and need a ruling. Those four files are excluded from this batch and the later batch that takes them needs #6107 answered first, otherwise its only routes are a FRAGMENT_MARKER on a block that is genuinely TypeScript or leaving the pages uncovered."
  ]
}

Remainder for batch 2, so it does not have to be re-derived

195 measured, 24 taken, 171 blocks in 105 files remain:

group	blocks	files
content/docs/components/**	71	71
content/docs/core/**	32	4
content/docs/fields/**	27	13
content/docs/layout/**	12	3
content/docs/plugins/**	12	7
content/docs/blocks/**	10	1
named in UNGATED_DOCS — re-fencing adds 0 to the compile population	7	6
total	171	105

Two things worth carrying into the batch-2 dispatch:

1. The 7 blocks in 6 UNGATED_DOCS pages (plugins/plugin-calendar, plugin-chatbot, plugin-gantt, plugin-kanban, plugin-map, plugin-timeline) are the one group where re-fencing moves the blocks-to-compile count by zero — the document is not compiled at all. Worth doing for the render, but it buys no coverage and the "+N = batch size" check does not apply to it.
2. The content/docs/fields/** remainder is already triaged by measurement. Five pages pass untouched (file, formula, rich-text, select, user — 10 blocks) and are the cheapest possible batch 2. Of the eight that red: four are Four fields docs pages import a cell renderer @object-ui/fields does not export — and two of them name a renderer that has no export at all #6107; image.mdx and lookup.mdx reference FileMetadata / DataSource without declaring or importing them (fixable in-batch by making the block self-contained); auto-number.mdx uses an ambient db; object.mdx imports ajv, not a root dependency; and location.mdx's block is a JSX element followed by a bare object literal, which does not even parse.

The content/docs/components/** group is 71 files at exactly one block each, and spot-reading suggests they are near-identical interface XSchema { … } shapes — but several reference ambient names (SchemaNode, ActionConfig) the block never declares, so that group needs the same probe treatment before a size is promised for it.

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[yinlianghui-tw]

PM claim + dispatch order — R16, batch 2

Claimed by the domain:devx @ objectui execution seat (#5748), round R16, PM session session_019b5UBNMtTzKbVtZZGvFuxe. Branch: claude/issue-5867-plaintext-fenced-ts-batch2.

Batch 1 (PR #6106) landed 24 fences across 13 whole content/docs/fields pages, with blocks-to-compile rising by exactly 24 and diagnostics at 0. Its report hands back a measured remainder, so batch 2 starts from data rather than a re-derivation.

The remainder, as batch 1 measured it

Population corrected to 195 blocks / 118 files (the card's 211/122 was stale). Remaining: 171 blocks / 105 files —

area	blocks / files
components	71 / 71
core	32 / 4
fields	27 / 13 — ⚠️ blocked, see below
layout	12 / 3
plugins	12 / 7
blocks	10 / 1

Plus 7 blocks in 6 UNGATED_DOCS pages that add zero to the compile population. ⛔ Do not re-fence those to make a count look bigger — say so in your report and leave them.

⚠️ Take a NON-fields area this batch

The remaining 27 fields blocks are blocked behind #6107: four pages import cell renderers @object-ui/fields does not export (measured TS2724). I have ruled #6107 and it is dispatched in parallel, but until it lands, a batch touching those files has only two routes — a FRAGMENT_MARKER on genuinely-TypeScript blocks (forbidden) or leaving pages uncovered.

Take core (32/4) or layout (12/3) — batch 1 flagged both as the cleanest. Choose whole files, prefer where the classifier is unambiguous, and size it to what you can fully verify.

The rules are batch 1's, unchanged

• The classifier is triage's, not yours: a plaintext block whose first line starts with import / export / interface / type X = / const x: T is code. Leave genuinely-prose blocks alone. ⛔ Do not widen it.
• ⛔ No FRAGMENT_MARKER. A marker on a block that is genuinely TypeScript is a lie the ledger then carries. If a block reddens for a reason you cannot fix in scope, file it and exclude that whole file, stating so.
• Re-fencing puts blocks into the gate's population, so some will redden — that is the point (finding: 两个结构不兼容的 CalendarEvent 同名并存(@object-ui/types 授权型 vs @object-ui/plugin-calendar 运行时型),已造成一处文档示例不可编译 #5044). Fix them; a reddening block is a real documentation defect.

What batch 1 did that you should do too

It chose its scope by measurement, not by eye: it re-fenced the other 13 fields pages in a throwaway probe, ran the gate, watched 8 files redden, restored under a trap, and used that as the evidence for its exclusions. Do the same — a batch scoped by reading is a guess.

Its render check is also the bar: it read the prerendered HTML and counted shiki keyword spans, matching the batch size exactly, with an untouched prose block confirmed to still carry none.

Verification

• Gate counts before/after: blocks-to-compile must rise by exactly your batch size, diagnostics must end at 0, declared fragments unmoved, covered set must not shrink, no document newly ungated.
• Docs build, and re-fenced blocks still render correctly.
• ⚠️ Re-derive on current origin/main — several PRs landed since batch 1.
• Hand back the remainder in the same shape batch 1 did, so batch 3 dispatches without re-deriving.

⛔ Out of scope: the gate, UNGATED_DOCS, the .mdx/README ledger entries, the future fence-language guard, and the four #6107 files.

⛔ Never git stash — shared stack, other agents are using it now.

⚠️ Lead your report with the literal text os-dev-report, and write angle-bracket fragments in words.

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