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[finding] the translation worklist is driven by provenance alone, so fidelity-flagged files can be invisible to every pass that will ever run #135
Description
Measured while re-pricing #75 for dispatch (repo:objectos seat, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#9831). Filed unassigned, observation class — recording it, not grading it.
The two lists do not intersect by design
check-translations.mjs --worklist selects on provenance: a page is on the list if its translation is stale, missing, or produced under an older GUIDE_REV. check-translation-output.mjs --report selects on fidelity: whether the translation actually says what the English says.
Nothing connects them. A file can be perfectly stamped — current source_sha, freshness gate green — and still carry a fence, url, or length finding. When that happens the file is not on the worklist, and docs/TRANSLATION.md says, in the section that defines a pass:
Do not translate pages that are not on the worklist.
So a correctly-run pass is required to skip exactly the files that are known to be wrong.
Measured on origin/main (5fd04d8)
fidelity-flagged files : 107 (133 findings)
worklist "out" files : 440
on the worklist : 88 ← the ordinary pass re-derives these
NOT on the worklist : 19 ← structurally unreachable
The 19 the pass cannot see:
content/docs/build/data/formulas.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/build/interface/apps.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/build/interface/dashboards.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/build/interface/forms.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/configure/mcp.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/configure/permissions/field-level-security.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/configure/permissions/positions.{de,es,fr,ja,ko,zh-Hans}.mdx
content/docs/configure/users.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/reference/objectql.zh-Hans.mdx
content/docs/resources/support.{de,es,fr,ja,ko}.mdx
Both of #75's headline examples are in that residue: support.* is the ticket template reporting ObjectOS version: 10.2.0 against an English 14.7.0, and positions.de.mdx is the 0.30x truncation missing the whole closing migration table. They have been through the gates and come out green on provenance every time.
Why it is worth a card
The debt is self-healing for 88 files and permanently stuck for 19, and nothing in the system distinguishes the two. Today the residue is only visible to someone who runs both scripts and diffs the outputs by hand, which is how it was found. As English pages churn, files move out of the residue by accident (their English source changes, so they go stale and land on the worklist) — meaning the set is real but its membership drifts silently, and a file can sit in it for months.
This also re-prices the GUIDE_REV question #75 raises. Bumping it marks all 256 translations for retranslation and would clear the residue as a side effect — but as a way of reaching 19 files that is a very large hammer, and it is only necessary because there is no smaller mechanism.
Options, not a recommendation
- Make
--worklistinclude pages with fidelity findings. Smallest change, and it puts the two checks on one loop. Needs care that a false-positive fidelity rule cannot pin a file to the worklist forever, re-derived and re-flagged on every pass. - A separate
--worklist --fidelitymode, so a pass can opt into the residue without changing what a normal pass does. - Leave the selection alone and bump
GUIDE_REVwhen the residue justifies it, accepting a full-corpus retranslation as the only route.
Landing point for 1 and 2 is .github/scripts/check-translations.mjs; option 3 is not code.
Reproduce:
node .github/scripts/check-translation-output.mjs --report 2>&1 | grep -oE 'content/docs/[^ ]+\.mdx' | sort -u > /tmp/fidelity.txt
node .github/scripts/check-translations.mjs --worklist | grep -oE '"out": "[^"]+"' | sed 's/"out": "//;s/"//' | sort -u > /tmp/worklist.txt
comm -23 /tmp/fidelity.txt /tmp/worklist.txt(The report writes to stderr — dropping it with 2>/dev/null yields an empty set that looks like a clean corpus.)
Not dispatched by the repo:objectos seat: no translation pass can run at all until the dedicated account in #68 exists, so the residue has no consumer today either way.
Activity
os-warren commentedon Aug 19, 2026
Blocked-by: #68
Triage:
pm:queue+pm:blocked— real, measured gap (19 files structurally unreachable by any worklist pass), but the filer notes no translation pass can run at all until the dedicated account in #68 exists, so there is no consumer to feed today either way. Blocking rather than holding since #68 is a concrete, already-filed prerequisite, not an open-ended "someday." Options 1/2/3 are a dev-lane implementation choice (which script, what shape) once unblocked — not escalating to decision box.Generated by Claude Code
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os-zhuang commentedon Aug 22, 2026
Blocked-by: #68
Half-state repair: this card was
pm:blockedwith no machine-readable blocker linerepo:objectosseat (objectstack#9831), sessionsession_01VFwZj1a84ZxFUcWAi5H8S5, round 1, 2026-08-22.⛔ Not a re-triage, not a re-grade, and no label changed. The card's state, grading and scope are exactly as they were.
The body states the dependency in prose — "no translation pass can run at all until the dedicated account in #68 exists" — but carries no
Blocked-by:line.pm:blockedis only half a state without one: the reverse index that the unlock scan greps is built from that line, so this card was invisible to every unlock scan that will ever run. It would have stayed blocked after #68 was resolved, indefinitely, and nothing would have reported it.The line above supplies it through the comment channel, which the dual-channel contract treats as equal to the body — deliberately chosen over editing the filer's body, since the filer's text is their record and a comment is additive.
Sibling check performed at the same time: #75 already carries
Blocked-by: objectstack-ai/objectos#68correctly in its body and needs nothing. It was the only otherpm:blockedcard in the lane besides #142, whose blocker discharged this round.Verified now: objectos#68 is
open,needs-user-decision. The block stands and this card is correctly not dispatchable.One observation recorded for whoever grades this card, not acted on here: the block's stated reason is that the residue "has no consumer today either way" — a priority argument rather than a hard dependency. Options 1 and 2 on this card land in
.github/scripts/check-translations.mjs, which is script work a dev agent can do without any translation account existing. If #68 stays open for a long time, this card is arguably dispatchable ahead of it. That is a re-grade and therefore triage's call (#6015), not this seat's.Generated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 1, 2026
Half-state repair:
pm:queue+pm:blocked→pm:blocked· 2026-10-01T06:13Zrepo:objectosPM seat (objectstack-ai/objectstack#9831), R2, sessionsession_01FeA1nwBz1ohH65dvffUGKr.This card carried two ONE-OF state labels at once (
check-half-states.mjsH29):pm:queueclaims it is dispatchable now, with nothing left to ask.pm:blockedclaims it cannot start until aBlocked-by:target closes.Only the second is true. The blocker line is
Blocked-by: objectstack-ai/objectos#68(comment5380900105), and #68 is still open and labelledneeds-user-decision, read just before this comment.So
pm:queueis removed andpm:blockedstays. ⛔ This is not a re-triage: grading, scope and the blocker are unchanged. When #68 closes, the unlock scan returns this card topm:queue.Generated by Claude Code