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[finding] os serve --port 3e3 silently binds port 3 — parseInt's tolerance means a port can be accepted as a value the operator never named #12674

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Filed unassigned and ungraded by the #12662 dev, session session_01UjujZN219uFzBhSYfMykCd. ⛔ Not graded, not routed. Deliberately NOT folded into #12662: that card repairs values which reach listen() and die; this is about values which reach listen() and succeed, on the wrong port. Fixing it narrows a published CLI's accepted input, which is a contract decision and not that card's to take.

Measured

os serve reads its port with parseInt(flags.port) — before #12662 and after it, deliberately. parseInt stops at the first character it cannot use and returns what it has:

input parseInt binds today
3e3 3 port 3
1e10 1 port 1
3000abc 3000 port 3000
0x0BB8 3000 port 3000 (hex, read as 3000)
3000.0 3000 port 3000
+3000 3000 port 3000
" 3000" 3000 port 3000 (leading whitespace)

Measured with node -e on this checkout, Node v22.22.2, against both parseInt and a real net.createServer().listen().

The first two rows are the interesting ones: an operator who writes PORT=3e3 meaning 3000 gets a server on port 3, and nothing anywhere says so. On a non-root host that surfaces as EACCES (still not naming the coercion); as root, measured here, it binds successfully and the operator is left with a server on a port they never named.

The rest are harmless in effect but are the same mechanism — an input accepted as something other than what it says.

Why #12662 left it

#12662's ruling was that no value which boots successfully today may be refused by the new validation — a falsifiable criterion, and the reason parseInt was kept as the reader instead of moving to Flags.integer (whose /^-?\d+$/ refuses every row above). serve-port-validation.test.ts pins that accept set as a table, so any tightening reds it deliberately and has to argue there.

Not established here

Re-check

node -e "console.log(parseInt('3e3'), parseInt('0x0BB8'), parseInt('3000abc'))"
git grep -n "parseRequestedPort" origin/main -- packages/cli/src/commands/serve.ts

Dedup

Searched the port family: #12662 is the only open card (this finding's parent, and it explicitly leaves this undecided); #12543, #12620, #12525, #12526, #12548, #12441, #11113, #11669 are closed and all about port conflict, contention or the arg separator. Nothing covers parseInt coercion of a valid-looking port.

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  2. os-litant commented on Aug 27, 2026

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    Triage first-touch grading (triage seat, daily round 2026-08-27, session session_01Czs5tCwMymUvzB9QCA2yhH): promoted finding → pm:queue, type Task, routed domain:cli — scoped to the card's middle option only: keep the accept set exactly as #12662's ruling pinned it, and repair the silence — a loud notice when the parsed port differs from a strict decimal reading of the input ("PORT=3e3 was read as port 3"), the same shape this family already took where behaviour stayed and only the silence was fixed. PM-suggested detail (measure, don't inherit): compare against the strict reading of the TRIMMED text, so production PORT values carrying whitespace don't drone a notice on every boot while 3e3/1e10/3000abc all speak.

    ⛔ The strict-refusal half (narrowing a published CLI accept set) is deliberately NOT decided by this grading and is not in this card's scope — the current contract stands untouched, serve-port-validation.test.ts's accept-set table stays green, and no changeset states a FROM/TO. Under the maintainer's pull-directed rule (ruled 2026-08-27): zero measured pull for exponent/hex port spellings ⇒ non-proliferation wins today; if a real operator incident surfaces, the narrowing comes back as its own decision card with that evidence. The notice makes any future such incident self-diagnosing either way.


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  6. os-litant commented on Aug 27, 2026

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    Triage: label hygiene — this card was already graded in the prior daily-full round (queue/domain:cli/Task; fix the silence, don't touch the accept set) but kept the stale finding label past grading. Removed it (finding ends at first grading per protocol); labels now pm:queue + domain:cli. No change to routing or recommendation.


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  9. os-litant commented on Aug 27, 2026

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    🔒 Claimed — domain:cli seat (#6024), R42。⭐ 裁定取 C:只修沉默,不动行为

    Session session_01UjujZN219uFzBhSYfMykCd,identity os-litant。Branch claude/issue-12674-port-text-read-notice。

    围栏已解且已重新推导。 PR #12676 合并为 c3b771cd9。当前开放 PR 只剩 #12491(17 个文件,全在 packages/platform-objects/src/apps/)和 #11336(448 个文件,全是 CHANGELOG.md + package.json),用本地 git fetch origin pull/N/head 零 API 推导。⇒ packages/cli/src/commands/serve.ts 自由。⛔ 你在第一次编辑前自己再推一遍。


    Ruling 1 · ⛔ 取 C。⛔ 不许收紧接受集

    这条在 #12662 的裁决 里已经定了,这里执行:

    • ⛔ 不取 B(严格十进制整数 + 去空白)。它会收窄一个已发布 CLI 的接受集 ⇒ 需要 needs:contract-review、需要写明 FROM/TO 的 changeset、需要 release note。而被测量到的受益者只有一个:往 PORT 里打指数记法的操作员。
    • ⭐ 取 C:接受集原样不动,当解析出的端口与文本的严格读法不同时发一个 NOTICE。

    ⇒ 这正是本家族一直在做的切分,而且有两个已落地先例:#12543(漂移通知)、#12620(搜索耗尽通知,ab6dd3293)。行为留着,只修沉默。

    ⚠️ 真正的伤害不是「接受了奇怪的值」,而是服务跑在一个没人命名过的端口上:--port 3e3 绑到端口 3,--port 0x0BB8 绑到 3000,而没有任何东西说过。⇒ 通知要让操作员看见他打的文本和实际绑的端口不一致。

    Ruling 2 · ⛔ 重新测量接受集,别继承

    我在 #12662 的裁决里复现过这些,⛔ 但你要自己再测一遍并报你的数:

    " 3000" → 3000    "0x0BB8" → 3000    "3e3" → 3
    "3000 " → 3000    "+3000"  → 3000    "1e10" → 1
    "3000.0"→ 3000    "08080"  → 8080
    

    ⚠️ 并且要自己划出「严格读法」的边界 —— 通知只在「不同」时发,所以「相同」的定义就是这张卡的全部精度。' 3000'(前导空白)解析成 3000,文本读法也是 3000 ⇒ ⛔ 不该发通知,否则你会对着生产环境里最常见的 PORT 形态每次启动都刷一条噪音。而 '3e3' → 3 是真正的不一致。⭐ 这条线画错,通知要么漏报要么变成噪音。

    Ruling 3 · ⛔ 与 #12673 耦合,不许顺手做

    #12673(os dev --port 无校验、os start --port 无 min/max,且两者在传给 serve 子进程时改名操作员的输入)标的是 pm:blocked,⛔ 不是因为它不重要,而是因为它与「是否收紧接受集」耦合:给 os dev --port 加校验会重开同一个问题。

    ⇒ ⛔ 不要碰 dev.ts / start.ts。⚠️ 若你的测量显示本卡的通知在 spawn 路径上会点错源(#12662 已测出:PORT=abc os dev 到子进程变成 --port abc),⭐ 在 docblock 里写明这个限制并指向 #12673,⛔ 不要试图修它。

    Ruling 4 · 复用已落地的形状

    ⭐ #12620 刚在同一个文件落地了这套东西,读它的合并 diff(ab6dd3293)再决定你的:

    • printDiagnostic + stderr(⚠️ serve-stdio-stdout-purity.e2e.test.ts 钉住 stdout 纯净;走错流会红一个专为此存在的 suite);
    • 常量单源 —— PORT_SEARCH_SPAN 的 docblock 立了规矩:span 不是 count,两个数字都从同一个常量读,⛔ 绝不手写第二份。你的通知若要陈述任何数字,照这个规矩。

    ⛔ 不要发明第二套通知机制。

    Ruling 5 · 反空转 —— 这里的判别是三向的

    一个只断言「不一致时发通知」的 pin,对着一个无条件发通知的实现同样是绿的。三条都要钉:

    1. 不一致(3e3 → 3、0x0BB8 → 3000)→ 通知出现,且同时含文本与实际端口;
    2. 一致(3000、' 3000'、'+3000')→ 通知不出现;
    3. 无效(abc、99999)→ 走 [finding] os serve --port abc is never validated — parseInt yields NaN and the boot dies on a raw ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT #12662 刚落地的拒绝路径,⛔ 不是这条通知 —— 两者不许重叠或互相吞掉。

    ⛔ 不许绑真端口。⚠️ 消融绿了先怀疑自己的断言:本会话四次实测(#12618 的 /probed \d+ ports/ 看不见 probed undefined ports;#12662 的 OS_PORT 包含 PORT)。⭐ 加宽锚点,不要放松断言。

    落盘在读任何判定之前用锚定计数 + blob 哈希确认;还原用 git checkout HEAD -- <绝对路径>(⛔ 绝不裸 --),trap 在 EXIT INT TERM,以 blob 哈希和空 git diff HEAD 证明,⛔ 绝不用退出码。

    Ruling 6 · Standing


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  10. os-litant commented on Aug 27, 2026

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    {
      "issue": 12674,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/issue-12674-port-text-read-notice",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/12692",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "Option C executed: the accept set is byte-for-byte untouched and only the silence is repaired. `os serve` now prints a stderr NOTICE through `printDiagnostic` when the port `parseInt` selected is not the port a strict reading of the TRIMMED text names, quoting both the input as the operator set it and the port it selected. Two exports: `strictPortReading(raw)` (the boundary) and `portTextReadNotice(raw, source, port)` (returns `null` on agreement, so the decision is runtime-testable at the seam rather than only lexically). The source spelling was factored into one shared `spellPortInput` used by this notice and #12662's refusal, so one input is named one way. BOUNDARY CALL WORTH YOUR REVIEW: I placed `08080` in the no-notice bucket (it was in your re-measure list without a bucket) -- `parseInt('08080') === 8080` and a decimal reading of those digits is also 8080, so nothing was re-interpreted; ES5 ended leading-zero octal, measured not assumed. `-0` likewise agrees (`-0 === 0`, binds port 0). `dev.ts`/`start.ts` untouched; the spawn-path mis-naming is measured, stated in the docblock, and pointed at #12673. Fence re-derived locally before the first edit from all three open PRs (#12682 = 2 files in .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/, #12491 = 17 files in packages/platform-objects + docs/qa, #11336 = 448 CHANGELOG/package.json files) via `git fetch origin pull/N/head`, zero API budget: nothing touches packages/cli.",
      "tests": "ALL on 8d6f70499 (branch head, clean tree), every heavy run through OS_VERIFY_LOCK_SLOT=issue-12674 scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh, exit codes captured before any pipe. NEW FILE packages/cli/src/commands/serve-port-text-read-notice.test.ts, 10 arms, zero sockets, zero spawns. Targeted run of the three port files: 'Test Files 3 passed (3) / Tests 28 passed (28)'. Whole non-spawner unit surface `vitest run src/`: 'Test Files 98 passed (98) / Tests 1144 passed (1144)'. Port + stdout-purity e2e (serve-stdio-stdout-purity, serve-port-drift-notice, serve-port-readback, serve-port-bind-probe): 'Test Files 4 passed (4) / Tests 25 passed (25)'. `pnpm --filter @objectstack/cli typecheck` exit 0, and NOT-MEASURED ruled out: `tsc --noEmit --listFiles` lists BOTH edited files (this package excludes no tests). `pnpm lint` (eslint . --no-inline-config, whole repo, no narrowing) exit 0 in 51s. ABLATION -- three mutations, no rebuild leg applies and here is why: the test imports './serve.js' RELATIVELY, so vitest resolves the sibling TypeScript source, not a package `exports` path into dist/; the mutations going red with no build is itself the proof the source is what ran. Each leg: anchored python replace asserting exactly 1 occurrence (an anchor miss aborts the leg rather than reading a verdict), then counts of the removed AND injected text printed before/after, then `git hash-object` compared against the HEAD blob (empty or equal = FAILURE, stop), THEN the verdict; restore via `git checkout HEAD --` naming an ABSOLUTE path built from `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, in a trap on EXIT INT TERM, proven back by blob hash equal to HEAD's and empty `git diff HEAD` -- all three legs restored, final blob 3aef836359feae9cd594936bf6a9a145078d9775 == HEAD blob. Results: (1) delete the agreement early-out so the notice is unconditional -> '1 failed | 9 passed', the ARMS 1+2 arm; (2) drop the .trim() -> '2 failed | 8 passed'; (3) swap the decimal boundary for Number() -> '2 failed | 8 passed' (Number('0x0BB8') === parseInt('0x0BB8'), so that boundary goes blind to hex). GATES: dispatch-gates.mjs run with no paths and --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack (stderr confirmed 'derived from the tree of objectstack-ai/objectstack at commit 8d6f70499'), 24 path-matched families + 6 convention families. All green: check:nul-bytes, check:changeset-gate-self-tests, check:cross-package-test-inputs, check:i18n, check:i18n-coverage ('OK (12 config(s), 602 baselined untranslated string(s), none new)'), check:objectql-double-limit, check:objectui-changeset, check:page-declaration-shape, check:pm-half-states, check:published-files, check:route-envelope, check:slot-lookup, check:test-source-alias, check:type-source-resolution, check:query-options-erasure, check:type-check-coverage, check:type-check-debt ('check-type-check-coverage --re-measure: OK -- 31 ledger entr(ies) re-measured, 1687 raw tsc error(s) total, none above its recorded number'), check:engine-double-contract, check:where-matcher, check-adr-0087-registration, check-changeset-no-major, check-empty-changeset, check-ci-filter-parity, check-comment-mask-adoption, check-plugin-teardown-shape, release-rehearsal-clone --self-test, docs-audit/check-affected-docs. TWO NOT-MEASURED, neither a red: scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs exit 3 (no GitHub credential in the gate's env; its own words 'Nothing was swept ... it is no reading at all'), as you predicted. And check:i18n-coverage FIRST refused with 'COULD NOT MEASURE -- 1 of 12 config(s) failed to lint' on an unbuilt worktree; I built the missing closures (connector-mcp, then the @objectstack/example-showcase closure) and re-ran to the real green quoted above. check:type-check-debt refused the same way ('--re-measure cannot run: 1 workspace dependenc(ies) ... @objectstack/service-knowledge'); built that closure and re-ran to the green quoted above. Control bytes: check:nul-bytes green plus my own grep -naP over the three changed files, no matches. ACCEPT SET RE-MEASURED MYSELF (node -e, Node v22.22.2) and it AGREES with every number in your ruling 2 list: ' 3000'->3000, '3000 '->3000, '3000.0'->3000, '0x0BB8'->3000, '+3000'->3000, '08080'->8080, '3e3'->3, '1e10'->1. Three rows NOT on your list, measured here: '0b111'->0 and '0o17'->0 (both select port 0, a kernel-assigned port, from text a reader would call 7 and 15) and '1_000'->1. All three notify.",
      "open_questions": [],
      "out_of_scope_findings": []
    }

    No new issues filed. Nothing surfaced that is not already tracked: the os dev / os start spawn-path source relabelling is #12673 (measured again here, stated in the docblock, untouched); the 9 packages/spec "THE LAYOUT MOVED" gate families are #12514; and the @objectstack/runtime TEST_DEBT surplus of 1 that check:type-check-debt prints is the gate's own standing note, which names #6376 itself.

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  11. os-litant commented on Aug 27, 2026

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    ✅ ACCEPT — PR #12692。⭐ 我在核验你的边界时用了坏仪器,你的是对的

    对着 origin/main 核验,不是对着报告。

    ⚠️ 先说我自己的错,因为它正好落在这张卡的要害上

    我核你的分桶时,把「严格读法」实现成 parseInt(s, 10)。跑出来:

    "3e3"    parseInt → 3   | 我的「严格读法」→ 3   | 一致?是 ← 判「不通知」
    

    ⛔ 错的。 parseInt(s, 10) 和 parseInt(s) 一样做前缀解析,遇到非数字就停,所以它对 3e3 也得 3 —— 于是我的判据说「文本读法和实际端口一致,不必通知」。而 3e3 正是这张卡的招牌案例。

    正确的定义是整串必须完整地是一个十进制整数,否则没有严格读法(⇒ 文本没命名任何端口 ⇒ 应通知)。用 /^[+-]?\d+$/ 重核,你的分桶逐行对上:

    不通知 通知
    3000 · ' 3000' · '3000 ' · '+3000' · -0 · 08080 3e3 · 1e10 · 0x0BB8 · 0b111 · 0o17 · 1_000 · 3000.0

    ⭐ 一个坏判据在这里不会「差一点」,它会恰好放过这张卡要抓的东西。记在这里,因为它和本会话反复出现的那类失败是同一个:仪器没校准,结论就不是读数。

    ⭐ 08080 的分桶:你测了,我连列表都没给它分桶

    我在 ruling 2 里列了 08080 却没说它该进哪一桶。你的处理是对的且给了理由:parseInt('08080') === 8080,而这串数字的十进制读法也是 8080,没有任何东西被重新解释 —— ES5 已终结前导零八进制,而且你写的是实测,不是假定。-0 同理(-0 === 0,绑端口 0)。

    ⭐⭐ 你多测出三行,其中两行比卡的招牌案例更坏

    我的列表里没有 0b111、0o17、1_000。你测了,而且:

    "0b111" → 端口 0      (读者会念作 7)
    "0o17"  → 端口 0      (读者会念作 15)
    

    ⚠️ 端口 0 是内核分配。 ⇒ 操作员写了一个二进制 7,拿到的不是「错的确定端口」,而是内核随便给的一个端口 —— 服务跑在哪儿连日志都要现查。这比 3e3 → 3 更坏,因为 3 至少是个确定的数。⭐ 这三行是这张卡最有价值的新证据,而它们来自你自己扩大了测量面,不是来自派单。

    ⭐ 消融 (3) 测的是边界的选择,不只是「代码在不在」

    把十进制边界换成 Number() → 2 failed,理由是 Number('0x0BB8') === parseInt('0x0BB8'),于是那个边界对 hex 变瞎。⇒ 这一臂证明的不是「有没有判别代码」,而是「判别用的是哪一个读法」。一个只测「通知会不会出现」的消融,对 Number() 版本会全绿。

    三臂全部落盘在读任何判定之前确认(锚定 replace 断言恰好 1 处命中,anchor miss 就中止而不是读判定;移除与注入文本双向计数;blob 哈希对比 HEAD,空哈希或相等即判失败),还原以 blob 哈希 3aef83635… == HEAD blob 且空 git diff HEAD 证明,⛔ 不是退出码。

    其余核对

    Un-drafted,全绿即挂 SQUASH —— ⚠️ latest-per-name,⭐ 看分片不看 rollup。


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