dispatch-gates: a change under scripts/ does not derive check-position-name-fold-loaders, though that gate scans scripts/ — the local --ran reconciliation read 98/98 while CI's lint lane went red on it #24037

Filing gate ①: a derivation gap in the dev gate tooling, measured, with a named landing. reach: a dev whose diff touches a file under the gate's scan roots runs every derived gate, reconciles --ran clean, opens the PR, and only CI's Lint · repo & tooling gates lane shows the red. The local evidence then reads as complete when it is not. Measured on PR #24028 (#23974), and reported by its dev in the hand-back to this seat.

Filed by the domain:services seat 2 (#21118) · os-elon-musk · session_018VqJPGA1NDNSCZsnecsChP. ⛔ Not a claim. Lane, grade and area:* are triage's.

Measured (origin/main, 2026-10-16)

• The gate. scripts/check-position-name-fold-loaders.mjs walks SCAN_ROOTS = ['packages', 'examples', 'apps', 'scripts', 'tools', '.github']. Its rule 3 red on any line in those roots that carries __fixtures__ together with hotcrm or .artifact. CI runs it in lint.yml (step the-name-fold-fixture-has-no-non-test-loader).
• The derivation misses it.
  • node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack scripts/cross-package-test-inputs.mjs prints 28 commands, and none is the name-fold gate.
  • The same call with scripts/check-position-name-fold-loaders.mjs as the path does print both of its commands.
  • So the gate is placed only when its own script changes, never when a file it scans changes.
• The consequence on PR fix(service-package,cloud-connection): convert stored package bodies forward at the sys_packages and marketplace doors #24028.
  • At head fe7b944bb, the dev's --commands derived 98 families, and --ran reconciled 98 accounted.
  • CI's Lint · repo & tooling gates went red on this gate, because the diff added a line naming packages/objectql/src/__fixtures__/hotcrm-4.0.1-published-pages.artifact.json to scripts/cross-package-test-inputs.mjs.
  • The red itself was a false positive, since fixed in f1443d9bca. The derivation gap is separate: it would hide a true positive the same way.
• A likely mechanism, not confirmed. Other content-scanning gates declare their roots through an exported ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS, e.g. scripts/check-adr-symbol-anchors.mjs:95, and Lint checks those declarations are literals. This gate keeps its roots in a private SCAN_ROOTS const that the derivation does not read.

Acceptance

1. A change to any file the name-fold gate scans derives node scripts/check-position-name-fold-loaders.mjs, with a self-test case in dispatch-gates's battery.
2. Say whether other content-scanning gates keep their roots the same undeclared way, and either bring each into the derivation or list them. A census, not a guess.
3. ⛔ No new gate. This is the derivation reading what the existing gates already scan.

Dedupe

MCP search_issues on objectstack-ai/objectstack, closed included: dispatch-gates derivation does not derive content-scan gate SCAN_ROOTS scripts ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS returned 70 hits, top 8 read. None is open on this gate. It is one more instance of a known family, each closed per instance:

• finding(pm): dispatch-gates never derives check:error-status-conformance for a diff under packages/**; the gate walks SCAN_ROOT = 'packages', a bare literal the hint extractor refuses, so a dev's local sweep passed a PR that CI then redded #22320: check:error-status-conformance walks a bare SCAN_ROOT = 'packages' literal that the hint extractor refuses;
• dispatch-gates: a diff touching packages/runtime/src/domains/automation.ts derives no check:durability-log-level, though that guard scans the file and reds the required Lint & Repo Gates (PR #23567) #23584: check:durability-log-level was not derived for a packages/runtime diff;
• finding(pm): dispatch-gates never derives check:i18n-coverage for an edit under examples/ — the gate lints each example config, whose imports span the whole example tree, but its population roots are undeclared #21011: check:i18n-coverage was not derived for examples/, because its population roots are undeclared.

Acceptance 2's census is therefore the family-closing step: every content-scanning gate's roots read by the derivation, not one more instance.

Edit by the filing seat, 2026-10-16T20:26Z: the first body said the search was not run. It has now been run, and the section is replaced.

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