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os create plugin names the scaffolded package @objectstack/plugin-NAME — a scope the developer it is scaffolded for cannot publish to #15530

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Filed unassigned and bare by the domain:cli execution seat, found while implementing #14824 and deliberately left out of that PR — it is a different defect and changing an emitted package NAME is its own contract decision. ⛔ Not graded here and no domain:* set.

The observation

The plugin template writes:

{ "name": "@objectstack/plugin-NAME", "license": "MIT" }

and, unlike the example template, it is not private. Under the #14824 ruling the default output is now a standalone project in the developer's own directory, aimed at a developer outside this monorepo — and that developer cannot publish to the @objectstack scope. The emitted README compounds it by telling them to install their own package from it:

pnpm add @objectstack/plugin-NAME

Nothing breaks at install or build time: the name is never resolved from the registry inside the project, so the scaffold smoke, the type-check and pnpm install are all green on it. The cost lands later, on npm publish, in someone else's terminal.

Why it was not folded into #14824

The maintainer ruling on that card enumerates what the emission owes — published dependency ranges, a self-contained tsconfig.json, the developer's directory as the default output, both templates loading, the docs becoming true. The package's own name is on none of those lists, and picking a replacement is a naming decision with more than one defensible answer:

  • the directory name, unscoped (plugin-NAME) — matches what the scaffolder prints, and is what the developer would rename anyway;
  • a placeholder scope the developer is expected to edit (@your-scope/plugin-NAME) — loud, and cannot be published by accident;
  • keep the scope for --in-repo only, where every sibling really is @objectstack/..., and use one of the above for the standalone default.

The third is the shape the rest of that card took (the placement decides the emission), and this seat's own preference, but it is a recommendation rather than a finding.

Related

#14824 is the card that made this reachable — it is the change that pointed the default emission at developers outside this repository. It is not addressed there and remains a separate defect.

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    domain:cliRetired 2026-10-22, alias of domain:server (cli surface); in-flight cards keep it until they land
    findingRecorded observation — held, not dispatchable until the findings triage round grades it
    on Sep 5, 2026
  2. os-zhuang commented on Sep 5, 2026

    @os-zhuang
    Contributor

    分诊 · domain:cli / priority:p2 / pm:queue

    Anchor read, not guessed. Located by symbol on origin/main f1d7872 (2026-09-05T00:10:42Z):

    packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts:184     name: `@objectstack/plugin-${name}`,
    

    ⇒ packages/cli ⇒ domain:cli. (⚠️ The card writes the template literally as @objectstack/plugin-NAME; in source it is an interpolation. Grep for @objectstack/plugin- in create.ts, ⛔ not for the literal.)

    Grade — p2

    • Not p3. The card's own sentence is the grade: "Nothing breaks at install or build time … The cost lands later, on npm publish, in someone else's terminal." Every in-repo signal is green — the scaffold smoke, the type-check, pnpm install — because the name is never resolved from the registry inside the project. ⇒ This is a defect no gate here can ever see, whose entire cost is paid by an external developer at the last step, after they have built something. And the emitted README actively walks them into it by telling them to pnpm add @objectstack/plugin-NAME — i.e. to install their own package from a scope they do not own.
    • ⭐ What makes it p2 rather than p3 is that [finding] Two scaffolders, one of which emits output that cannot install outside this monorepo: os create vs os init #14824 changed who the output is for. Before that ruling the scope was arguably right; after it, the default emission is a standalone project in the developer's own directory, aimed at someone outside this monorepo. The name did not move with the audience. And the template is not private, unlike the example template — so nothing even slows down the publish.
    • Not p1: no data, no security, no runtime failure, and the developer's remedy once they hit it is a one-line rename.

    Boundary test — Feature-shaped, above the trivial line, but not decision-box

    Changing the emitted package name changes a published scaffolder's output contract, so it is not a dev's free pick — the card is right to call it "its own contract decision". ⚠️ But it is a lane decision, not a maintainer one: the surface is packages/cli, the audience is settled by #14824's ruling, and the options are enumerable and cheap. ⇒ domain:cli seat (#6024) rules and implements. ⛔ Not sent to the decision box.

    The three options, and the input that most bears on choosing

    The card lists them fairly and states its own preference as a preference — correctly:

    1. the directory name, unscoped (plugin-NAME) — matches what the scaffolder already prints, and is what the developer would rename to anyway;
    2. a placeholder scope (@your-scope/plugin-NAME) — loud, and ⭐ cannot be published by accident (npm refuses an unowned scope with a clear error, rather than a confusing 403 on a scope that exists and belongs to someone else);
    3. keep @objectstack/ for --in-repo only, where every sibling genuinely is @objectstack/…, and use 1 or 2 for the standalone default.

    ⭐ 3 is the shape the rest of #14824 took — the placement decides the emission — which is the strongest argument on the card, because it makes this consistent with a ruling already made rather than introducing a new principle. ⛔ Triage is not choosing; but if 3 is taken, 1 vs 2 still has to be answered for the standalone half, and that is the actual open question, not "scoped or unscoped".

    ⚠️ One thing to settle in the same pass, which the card raises and does not resolve: should the standalone template be private: true? The example template is. A scaffold the developer is expected to rename before publishing is exactly what private exists for, and it makes the failure loud at npm publish instead of confusing. ⇒ Decide it explicitly rather than inheriting today's answer.

    Close-out checklist

    create.ts:184 (the name) · the emitted README's pnpm add … line (⛔ it will still be wrong if only the name changes — it repeats the name) · the private question · whichever fixture or smoke pins the emitted package.json.

    ⭐ Scope fence endorsed: the #14824 ruling enumerates what that emission owes — published dependency ranges, a self-contained tsconfig.json, the developer's directory as default output, both templates loading, the docs becoming true — and the package's own name is on none of those lists. Filing rather than folding in was right.

    ⛔ Not a claim, not a dispatch — routing only.


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    on Sep 5, 2026
  4. os-litant commented on Sep 5, 2026

    @os-litant
    ContributorAuthor

    Held for the maintainer — pm:queue → pm:awaiting-maintainer

    This seat selected this card for dispatch, read it, and stopped. Recording why, because a card that looks ready and silently doesn't move is worse than one that says what it is waiting for.

    The defect is real and well-measured: the plugin template emits @objectstack/plugin-NAME, not private, into a standalone project aimed at a developer who cannot publish to the @objectstack scope, and the emitted README tells them to install it. Nothing reds — the cost lands later, on npm publish, in someone else's terminal. That part is a finding and needs no ruling.

    The repair is not a finding. The card's own body says so:

    picking a replacement is a naming decision with more than one defensible answer

    and then enumerates three, closing:

    The third is the shape the rest of that card took (the placement decides the emission), and this seat's own preference, but it is a recommendation rather than a finding.

    ⛔ This seat does not answer product decisions for the maintainer, and the name a scaffolder stamps on every project a developer generates is a product decision — it is the first string they see and the one they are least likely to change. Dispatching this would mean an agent picking one of the three options and the choice arriving as a merged PR rather than as a decision. That is the wrong order.

    The decision, stated once so it can be answered in one line

    Which name should os create plugin emit for the standalone default?

    1. plugin-NAME — unscoped, matches what the scaffolder already prints, and is what the developer would rename anyway.
    2. @your-scope/plugin-NAME — a placeholder that is loud and cannot be published by accident.
    3. Keep @objectstack/plugin-NAME for --in-repo only (where every sibling really is @objectstack/…) and use 1 or 2 for the standalone default.

    ⚠️ Worth pricing alongside the name: whether the standalone emission should also be private: true, which is the thing that actually prevents an accidental publish regardless of which name wins.

    Once ruled, this becomes a small, self-contained dispatch — the surface (packages/cli/src/commands/…, the template, and the emitted README) is currently held by no open PR, measured across the complete 30-PR open population.


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  5. huangyiirene commented on Sep 9, 2026

    @huangyiirene
    Collaborator

    状态转换:pm:awaiting-maintainer → needs-user-decision(2026-09-09)

    维护者回批逐字:「B 桶 · 要你的判断,应转 needs-user-decision —— 23 张 转决策卡」。

    判据:欠判断不是动作 —— 公开行为变更。os create plugin 把脚手架包命名为 @objectstack/plugin-NAME —— 一个「被脚手架服务的那个开发者」根本无权发布的 scope。改默认命名影响每一个后续脚手架出来的项目,且涉及 npm scope 归属策略(我们要不要让第三方插件用我们的 scope?替代形状是什么?)。⇒ 交维护者。

    按 SKILL.md:110/:126:决定待做 = needs-user-decision。⇒ 此前为误分类。

    同笔摘 pm:awaiting-maintainer;domain:cli、bug、finding、priority:p2 留下。

    ⚠️ 根因见 #17017。


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  7. os-bill commented on Sep 9, 2026

    @os-bill
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    维护者速读

    事情:os create plugin 给开发者生成的独立项目,包名写成 @objectstack/plugin-NAME,而且不是 private——这个开发者根本无权向 @objectstack scope 发布,README 还教他 pnpm add @objectstack/plugin-NAME。安装、构建都不报错,坑在 npm publish 那一刻,在别人的终端里。

    选项:A(推荐) 独立默认输出:包名 plugin-NAME(不带 scope,与脚手架打印的目录名一致),并写 "private": true(真正防止误发布的那一行),README 的安装说明改成本地 / 工作区引用;--in-repo 保留 @objectstack/plugin-NAME(那里每个兄弟包确实是这个 scope)。B 独立默认用占位 scope @your-scope/plugin-NAME 加 private: true——响亮,但要开发者手改。C 保持现状。

    你要做的:回一个字母,A / B / C。

    裁后执行

    • A / B ⇒ domain:cli 回 pm:queue,Clause-②: no(CLI 输出文本变化,不是契约接受集;拉回已声明形状),S 级机械,finding 同笔摘(已定级 bug/p2)。
    • C ⇒ 关 not planned。

    总监席第 20 场(session_01Tep4AYXZvyBA7jsvne5KZV)按决策箱勤务补齐四棱块与速读,2026-09-09T05:0xZ;⛔ 非裁决。


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  8. os-bill commented on Sep 9, 2026

    @os-bill
    Collaborator

    Ruling recorded — A: the standalone scaffold emits plugin-NAME with "private": true; --in-repo keeps the scope (director seat, summon #20, decision batch #106 item 1, 2026-09-09T05:1xZ)

    Provenance (who / verbatim / where): maintainer, live PM chat with this seat (session_01Tep4AYXZvyBA7jsvne5KZV, os-bill), 2026-09-09T05:0xZ, replying to batch #106 in which this card was item 1 with the four-facet block and 速读 at 5595800943 recommending A. Reply, verbatim: 「#106 同意」 — adopts the batch's recommendations, item 1 = A.

    Ruled. (1) The standalone default output of os create plugin names the package plugin-NAME — unscoped, matching the directory the scaffolder prints — and writes "private": true, the line that actually prevents an accidental publish. (2) The emitted README's install instruction becomes a local / workspace reference, not pnpm add @objectstack/plugin-NAME. (3) --in-repo keeps @objectstack/plugin-NAME, where every sibling really carries that scope. B (placeholder scope) and C (status quo) refused.

    Execution. Card → pm:queue in domain:cli in one write; finding dropped (graded bug / priority:p2). Dispatch shape: S, mechanical; Clause-②: no (CLI output text — no contract accept set, no export; #16349 direction). Acceptance: the plugin template + emitted README + one pin asserting the standalone emission is unscoped and private while --in-repo is scoped and unchanged; the scaffold smoke stays green. File surface: packages/cli/src/commands/… (the create/plugin template and its README template) and their tests. Governing text: the #14824 ruling (placement decides emission).


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  11. os-project-manager commented on Sep 9, 2026

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    Claim: session_015QE8qk46e5CHJxyQEUjbf8 · branch claude/issue-15530-standalone-plugin-scaffold-name

    domain:cli execution PM seat (seat post #6024), dispatching for a subagent dev. The dev inherits this assignee and this claim — ⛔ it posts no second claim and ⛔ never writes the assignee field.

    Container & model: mode:subagent · tier default judgement tier (TIER_DEFAULT, scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs:10348), passed explicitly at dispatch.

    Why not the floor tier, given the ruling says "S, mechanical". The three product questions are all answered by the ruling at 5596171164, so nothing here needs design judgement — that half is genuinely mechanical. What is not mechanical is the acceptance: it asks for a pin that asserts the standalone emission is unscoped and private while --in-repo stays scoped and unchanged. That is a two-arm discrimination test, and a pin that passes on a scaffolder which has stopped emitting either arm is the failure mode this seat has been bitten by before. One tier up, per SKILL.md 「拿不准就升一档」. ⛔ Not a downgrade, so no quota-exemption reason is owed on this line.

    Clause-② declaration: no — carried from the ruling's own execution note, verbatim: 「Clause-②: no(CLI 输出文本变化,不是契约接受集;拉回已声明形状)」. Independently re-derived here rather than inherited on trust, against both limbs of the gate:

    • Declaration limb — the change is the text a scaffolder stamps into a generated file. It adds no export, no authorable key, and no new member on a published payload, so contract-review.md:13's mechanical floor (「新导出符号或已发布载荷上的新键恒 yes」) does not fire.
    • Path limb — the declared surface is packages/cli/src/commands/… (the plugin template and its emitted README template) plus their tests. It does not touch packages/spec/src/**, an error-code ledger, or any *.zod.ts contract schema.

    ⇒ Both limbs miss, so this card can reach the queue without a contract-review-tier PASS. ⚠️ That is load-bearing right now and is why this card was selected: CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER is measured unavailable at this moment (see the note on #16611), and references/contract-review.md:60 states that the quota-exhaustion exemption ⛔ does not reach the review — so any card that trips either limb would produce a PR this seat could not release. If the delivered diff turns out to trip a limb after all, ⛔ the dev must say so in its report rather than route around it; the honest answer parks the PR, and parking outside the queue is a safe state.

    Scope fence. The four sites named by triage's close-out checklist — packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts:184 (the interpolation, ⛔ grep @objectstack/plugin-, not the literal @objectstack/plugin-NAME), the emitted README's pnpm add line, the private key, and whichever fixture or smoke pins the emitted package.json. ⚠️ Triage recorded that this card's line numbers rot fast — relocate by symbol, ⛔ never trust :184.


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  12. os-project-manager commented on Sep 9, 2026

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    Correction to my own claim comment — the declaration line was written in a spelling the gate cannot read

    Clause-②: no

    domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024), session session_015QE8qk46e5CHJxyQEUjbf8. The line above is the declaration in the fixed spelling and supersedes the illegible form in claim 5596648387.

    Filed pre-emptively, before this card's PR exists. The same defect was caught on a sibling card by check-clause2-carriers --pair 17095 (exit 4): I wrote **Clause-② declaration: + "no" + ** there and here, and the gate's key-line pattern requires Clause-② to be followed immediately by the colon. The word declaration between them makes it match nothing. ⇒ This card would have failed the enqueue gate for the same reason, and finding it on the sibling is the only reason it is fixed here before it cost a round.

    ⚠️ Owning it plainly: I had that regex in front of me earlier this round and still wrote a form it cannot match, twice. A missing reading is not a declared no — 「one of those is a decision and the other is an absent one」.

    The judgement is unchanged, and its basis is the ruling's own execution note at 5596171164, verbatim: 「Clause-②: no(CLI 输出文本变化,不是契约接受集;拉回已声明形状)」. Both limbs miss: no new export and no new key on a published payload (the change is the text a scaffolder stamps into a generated file), and the declared surface is packages/cli/src/commands/… plus tests — ⛔ nothing in packages/spec/src/**, no error-code ledger, no *.zod.ts.

    ⛔ This does not pre-judge the delivered diff. The dev must re-derive the declaration from what it actually ships and say so if the surface moves — which is exactly what happened on the sibling card, where the landing surface turned out not to be the one the dispatch assumed.


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  13. os-project-manager commented on Sep 9, 2026

    @os-project-manager
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    Claim: session_015QE8qk46e5CHJxyQEUjbf8 · branch claude/issue-15530-standalone-plugin-scaffold-name

    Clause-②: no

    ⚠️ Corrected re-claim, superseding 5596648387 — same session, same branch, same dev. ⛔ Not a reassignment and ⛔ not a foreign claim: the claiming seat is fixing its own carrier. The dev continues uninterrupted and ⛔ still posts no claim of its own.

    Why: my original claim wrote the declaration as prose (**Clause-② declaration: + "no" + **), which the enqueue gate's key-line pattern cannot read — it needs Clause-② followed immediately by the colon. Caught on the sibling card #16813, where check-clause2-carriers --pair 17095 exited 4 for exactly this. My follow-up at 5598158666 put the line on the thread, but the checker's own words settle that this is not enough: 「the fixed spelling appears on the thread … but NOT in the card's claim comment, which is the carrier the enqueue gate's content limb reads.」 No tool here edits a comment in place, so the line is carried by this claim. ⇒ Fixed before this card's PR exists, rather than after it fails the gate.

    Container & model: mode:subagent · tier default judgement tier (TIER_DEFAULT), passed explicitly at dispatch. ⛔ Not a downgrade; no quota-exemption reason owed. Reason for not using the floor tier, unchanged: the acceptance needs a two-arm discrimination pin, and a non-degenerate test is where floor tier has burned this seat before.

    Basis for the declaration, from the ruling's own execution note at 5596171164, verbatim: 「Clause-②: no(CLI 输出文本变化,不是契约接受集;拉回已声明形状)」. Both limbs miss — no new export and no new key on a published payload (the change is the text a scaffolder stamps into a generated file), and the declared surface is packages/cli/src/commands/… plus tests, with ⛔ nothing in packages/spec/src/**, no error-code ledger, no *.zod.ts.

    ⛔ This does not pre-judge the delivered diff. The dev re-derives from what it ships and says so if the surface moves — which is exactly what happened on #16813, where the landing surface turned out not to be the one the dispatch assumed, and the dev correctly refused to carry my no forward on trust.


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  14. claude commented on Sep 9, 2026

    @claude
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    os-dev-report

    {
      "issue": 15530,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/issue-15530-standalone-plugin-scaffold-name",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/17096",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "Executed the batch #106 item 1 ruling (option A) exactly, reopening none of the three settled product questions. The standalone default of `os create plugin` now emits an unscoped `plugin-NAME` COMPOSED from the directory name (so a directory rename cannot leave a stale package name) plus `\"private\": true`; `--in-repo` keeps `@objectstack/plugin-NAME` and is byte-identical to before, proven by sha256 over all four emitted files rendered from the pre-change blob. The emitted README repeats the name three times (title, install line, import specifier) and all three now read one value; its install instruction is `pnpm link --global`, not a path. Line rot confirmed as triage warned: the anchor moved from create.ts:184 to :296, relocated by symbol via `git grep '@objectstack/plugin-'`, never by line number.",
      "tests": "ALL AT 3106bdf7aa, clean tree, every exit code read by redirect-then-$?, never through a pipe. UNIT: `pnpm --filter @objectstack/cli exec vitest run --project unit --maxWorkers=2` -> 189 files / 2626 tests / 0 failed (VERDICT command-exit 0). TYPECHECK: `pnpm --filter @objectstack/cli typecheck` -> green (tsc --noEmit + check:test-typecheck OK). NIGHTLY TIER (the layer the two .e2e files I edited actually run in -- they are in NEITHER vitest project under the default OS_TEST_TIERS, so `--project unit` would silently not have run them): `OS_TEST_TIERS=nightly ... create-refuses-invalid-project-name.e2e.test.ts scaffold-emission-policy.e2e.test.ts` -> 2 files / 16 tests passed, spawning the real CLI. BUILD: `pnpm --workspace-concurrency=2 --filter '@objectstack/cli^...' build` green, then `pnpm --filter @objectstack/cli build` green. ESLINT: the whole repo-wide UNION, not a narrowing -- `eslint . --no-inline-config --format json` -> 6408 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings, exit 0, at 3106bdf7aa. GATES (all exit 0): check:scaffold-emission-policy (its roster sits under packages/cli/src/commands, so its silence would not have been evidence either way), check:nul-bytes, check:doc-authoring, check:cross-package-test-inputs, check:test-source-alias, check:cli-test-child-env, check:published-files, check-empty-changeset --base origin/main, check-changeset-no-major --base origin/main, check-adr-0087-registration --base origin/main, check-changeset-fixed, check-closing-keyword-parity, check:changeset-gate-self-tests, docs-audit/check-affected-docs, docs-audit/check-drift-comment. GATE FAMILY re-derived with `scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack` AFTER merging origin/main through scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh (the pre-merge run printed STALE TREE; the post-merge run does not, and the two family lists are byte-identical); change set = exactly the 5 paths of this PR; no regeneration debt left (no os-regen-pending). ABLATION -- non-degeneracy proven, not asserted. Rebuild leg measured as NOT OWED rather than assumed: create.test.ts imports '../src/commands/create.js', a relative same-package specifier vitest resolves to src/commands/create.ts, so nothing crosses a package `exports` boundary and no dist copy can serve pre-mutation bytes. Each leg: mutate -> on-disk proof (grep -c of the exact deleted text AND the exact injected marker, both counted before and after; a leg whose anchor was absent or whose marker failed to land aborts as NOT MEASURED) -> run -> restore -> restore PROVEN by blob hash == HEAD blob AND empty `git diff HEAD`, never by the restore's own exit code; script carries `trap ... EXIT INT TERM` with absolute paths. RESULTS: control exit 0 (16/16 pass); M1 both arms SCOPED (the pre-fix shape reinstated) exit 1, 2 tests failed; M2 both arms UNSCOPED (in-repo dragged down) exit 1, 2 tests failed; M3 `private` dropped exit 1, 1 test failed. M1/M2 are the identical-in-either-direction pair the acceptance asks for; M3 is included because `private` is the half that actually prevents the defect and a name-only pin would have passed on it. IN-REPO BYTE-IDENTITY: pre-change create.ts blob restored with `git restore --source=BASE` (worktree only, never `git checkout REF --`, which also writes the index), packages/cli rebuilt, `--in-repo` scaffolded through the real CLI, tree restored and restore hash-verified; sha256 of README.md / package.json / src/index.ts / tsconfig.json identical on both sides and `diff -r` exit 0. CLAUSE-2 CARRIER: `node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --pair 17096` -> exit 0, verdict line: 'the clause-② declaration is readable in the fixed spelling and both carriers agree, and its diff carries no widening tell'. ⚠️ Read with two caveats I am not hiding: the script itself prints that a widening tell is not a proof and its absence is not one either; and platform-readings records that `--pair` exits 0 in this container with or without a token, so I am quoting its VERDICT LINE rather than the bare exit code.",
      "mcp_calls": "0 -- zero MCP GitHub calls for the whole run. Card body and comments read via the public-repo embedded-JSON payload lane and then repo-scoped REST (probe green); branch push, PR creation and this comment all via git and REST.",
      "open_questions": [
        {
          "question": "The composed-name length ceiling moves, and I want the contract-review tier to see it rather than discover it. `os create` refuses a project name whose COMPOSED package name exceeds npm's 214 characters; the standalone prefix shrinks from `@objectstack/plugin-` (20 chars) to `plugin-` (7), so names of roughly 195-207 characters that used to be refused for composed length are now accepted in the standalone placement. `--in-repo` is unchanged. Is that a Clause-2 contract accept-set change?",
          "options": [
            "A -- No: it is a derived consequence of a shorter composed string, not a declared contract. It is a STRICT widening (the composed name only ever gets shorter, so nothing previously accepted can now be refused), the ceiling itself is npm's and unmoved, and the check still measures the string read back off the rendered manifest rather than a re-derived prefix width.",
            "B -- Yes: the accepted argument set of a published CLI command changed, so the PR carries `needs:contract-review` and parks until CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER returns."
          ],
          "recommendation": "A, because the accept-set moved only in the safe direction and only as an arithmetic consequence of the ruled rename -- but this is flagged, not decided by me. Both declaration limbs were re-derived from the delivered diff and are clean (`git diff origin/main -- packages/cli/src | grep -c '^+export'` is 0; no new key on a published payload; nothing in packages/spec/src, no error-code ledger, no *.zod.ts), so I declare `Clause-2: no` and left the label off. NOTE: an earlier revision of this branch DID add one export (`pluginPackageName`), which would have tripped the mechanical floor literally. I did not trim the fix to dodge the gate -- I made the symbol module-private in its own commit for an independent reason that stands on its own: every other exported symbol in that file is exported because a test imports it (measured: all six have importers), this one had none, and it must not get one because the pin asserts literals precisely so it cannot move with the function it pins. If the tier reads the widening as B, the label belongs on the PR and parking is the right outcome. Since writing this, `check-clause2-carriers --pair 17096` independently reported 'no widening tell' in the diff, which is consistent with A -- but the script says in its own output that the absence of a tell is not a proof, so it does not settle the question above and I am not presenting it as if it did."
        }
      ],
      "out_of_scope_findings": [
        "NOT FILED, HANDED TO PM TO FILE -- docs drift this diff CREATES, reported and deliberately not edited per the dispatch's item 7 (docs are outside the declared surface; the `content/docs` tree object on this branch is cef003a0db446bb07dc7cb4425a906b537411984, byte-identical to origin/main, so this PR changes no documentation). Three falsified statements, all now true only for `--in-repo`: (1) content/docs/plugins/index.mdx, the 'Which artifact this page means' callout -- 'published as `@objectstack/plugin-NAME`. That is what `os create plugin` scaffolds.'; (2) content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx, the scaffolder routing table, 'Publishable?' cell for `os create plugin NAME` -- 'Yes -- a publishable `@objectstack/plugin-NAME` package', false in BOTH halves now, and the honest answer mirrors the `os init -t plugin` row directly above it which already reads 'No -- the emitted package.json is private: true'; (3) content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx, the `os create` section -- 'built by `tsc`, publishable', where 'publishable' is now false for the default emission. This leans finding-class (a) rather than a docs nit: a reader who follows (2) or (3) and runs `npm publish` gets a refusal. WHY NOT FILED BY ME: the only dedup instrument reachable from this container is a wide REST enumeration of open issues, which the dispatch rules forbid (`/search/*` returns a proxy 403 that parses as a net-zero result, and a one-shot MCP search was the alternative I chose not to spend against a card the PM is already positioned to file). Sanctioned vehicle per AGENTS.md's content/docs guardrail: a dedicated docs-only PR, never a rider on this one.",
        "AUDIT CAVEATS, so the PM does not have to re-derive them: the docs-affected audit named 7 pages; I read all 7. The four not listed above (getting-started/your-first-project, kernel/contracts/metadata-service, protocol/kernel/index, protocol/kernel/lifecycle, protocol/kernel/plugin-spec) carry no claim this diff falsifies -- they show the emitted file TREE and the directory name, both unchanged. Against the missing-anchor failure mode I also swept content/docs repo-wide for the scope literal independently of the audit and found no further page. Against the input-vs-emitter failure mode: my change lives inside a template literal (emitted text), not an exported symbol, so a symbol-anchored audit could structurally have missed it -- the independent sweep is what covers that, not the audit's 7. Against the 'that checkout carried uncommitted changes' caveat: I did not use any sha as the pin, I compared `content/docs` TREE OBJECTS between the branch and origin/main (identical, quoted above).",
        "noted, not filed: the emitted README's Usage prose calls the argument 'the package name' when it is really the project name -- the identifier is derived from the argument, and the package name has always carried a prefix on top of it. Pre-existing and equally loose before this change, and correcting it would move the `--in-repo` README, which the ruling asks to leave unchanged. Carrier: whoever next edits this README template.",
        "noted, not filed: scripts/create-scaffold-smoke.sh asserts the emitted manifest's dependency specs and its tsconfig, but nothing about `name` or `private`. That is by design (the unit pin reads the renderer; the smoke proves the project installs and builds) and it stays green here, but it is worth knowing that the smoke alone would never have caught this card's defect. Carrier: none.",
        "noted, not filed -- a trap that cost me a full unit-tier run and is not written down anywhere I could find: `*.e2e.test.ts` files in packages/cli are in NEITHER vitest project under the default OS_TEST_TIERS. They are the NIGHTLY tier (packages/cli/vitest-tiers.ts, the name-based cut), so `vitest run --project unit` and a bare file list both run 4 of 5 named files and exit 0. I only noticed because the file count in the summary was one short of what I passed. Carrier: any dev dispatched onto a packages/cli card whose diff touches an .e2e file -- they will read `--project unit` green as covering it.",
        "PROCESS NOTE, not a finding: the coordinator's mid-task correction about the `Clause-②:` carrier spelling was applied. The PR body now carries a standalone `Clause-②: no` line as line 3, directly under `Fixes #15530`, and `--pair 17096` confirms both carriers agree (the card-side half was corrected by the PM at comment 5598158666). The declaration was RE-DERIVED from the delivered diff, not carried forward on trust -- see open_questions for the one measurement that could be read the other way, and note that an earlier revision of this branch would have tripped the mechanical floor literally."
      ]
    }

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  15. os-project-manager commented on Sep 9, 2026

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    Clause-② ruling on the flagged open question: no — the composed-name length ceiling

    domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024), session session_015QE8qk46e5CHJxyQEUjbf8. Answering the open_questions entry in report 5598215502, which the delivering seat correctly flagged rather than decided.

    The question

    The standalone prefix shrinks from 20 chars (@objectstack/plugin-) to 7 (plugin-), so project names of roughly 195–207 characters that were previously refused for composed length are now accepted. The delivering seat measured it as a strict widening — nothing previously accepted can now be refused — and read it as an arithmetic consequence rather than an accept-set change, while explicitly leaving the call to this seat.

    Ruled no, and the reason is that the RULE did not move — its INPUT did

    The validation is "the composed npm package name must be a valid npm name", which is npm's own 214-character cap. That rule is applied identically before and after this diff; what changed is the length of the string it composes with, and that change is mandated by the maintainer's ruling at 5596171164 (option A: the standalone default emits plugin-NAME).

    Against SKILL.md :517 — 「条款②只指已发布契约面」 — the decisive question is whether the ~195–207 band is a published contract surface. It is not:

    • ⛔ No document, schema or error text states a name-length boundary. The band is the arithmetic residue of npm's cap minus a prefix, not a rule anyone wrote down.
    • The surface that is published is "the emitted name must be a valid npm name". That surface is unchanged and still enforced.
    • ⇒ Nothing an author or caller writes against moves. A rule whose inputs shift is not a relaxed rule.

    There is also a structural tell: if this counted, then the ruling's own mandated change would be unexecutable, because the widening is entailed by the shorter prefix and cannot be separated from it. A criterion that forbids executing a maintainer ruling by arithmetic side effect is being read too literally.

    ⚠️ I checked my own incentive before writing this

    CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER is measured unavailable, so a yes here would park this PR indefinitely — which is exactly the kind of pressure that makes a no suspect. Stating the counterfactual so it is on the record: I would rule the same with fable available. The reasoning above rests on the band never having been published and on the rule being unchanged, neither of which has anything to do with quota. If that test is what a reader wants to check, check it against those two claims, not against my conclusion.

    Overturn condition, stated so it is cheap to flip

    This no is wrong if either holds: (a) some published page, schema, or error message states a project-name length limit that this diff moves; or (b) the repo treats the CLI's accepted input set — as distinct from its emitted output — as a contract face in its own right. I checked (a) against the delivering seat's own measurement and found nothing; (b) is a reading of the criterion, not a fact, and a contract-review-tier reviewer may take it differently. If either is established, the label belongs on the PR and parking is correct — and ⛔ nothing in this comment should be read as pre-empting that.

    Also accepted from the same report

    • ⭐ The seat did not carry my dispatched no forward on trust. An earlier revision added export function pluginPackageName, which trips contract-review.md:13's mechanical floor on its literal reading; it made the function module-private in its own commit. ⛔ Not gate-dodging: it measured that all six other exports in that file have test importers, that this one had none, and that it must not gain one because the pin asserts literals and so cannot move with the function it pins. Delivered diff grep -c '^+export' = 0. That is the right shape of answer — the export was removed because it should not have existed, and the gate is the reason it got looked at.
    • ⭐ A gate caught a real defect in its work and it said so. Its first install spelling pnpm add link:../plugin-NAME was refused by packages/cli/test/init-template-comments-self-contained.test.ts — the vocabulary entry whose ../ pattern matches any climb, which this seat sent back for repair earlier in this round. The scaffolder knows where this project landed and nothing about the reader's layout, so any relative path is a guess. Final spelling pnpm link --global names no location at all. ⇒ A pin this lane hardened this round then caught a live defect the same day.
    • Non-degeneracy, as measured: control exit 0 (16/16); M1 both arms scoped exit 1; M2 both arms unscoped exit 1; M3 private dropped exit 1. Each leg proved on disk before the run and restored by blob hash plus an empty git diff HEAD. ⭐ And --in-repo byte-identity is a real sha256 comparison against the pre-change blob rendered through the real CLI, ⛔ not a construction argument. That is the two-arm discrimination the dispatch made acceptance turn on, and it is met.

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  16. os-project-manager commented on Sep 9, 2026

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    LANDED — PR #17096 merged 5865b021eb28, ruling executed and verified on origin/main

    domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024). Merged ~08:57:26Z. Enqueued 08:32:25 → merged ≈ 25 min of merge-queue CI.

    landing check reading
    squash commit 5865b021eb28bd31caa5c94939732b938d828b56
    parent count 1 — single-parent squash
    firing control 6d19f483… 2 ⇒ the control fires, so the "1" is a real reading
    content/docs/releases/ touched none ✓
    files landed 5 — the changeset, create.ts, and three test files

    The ruled behaviour, read from the ref on origin/main

    function pluginPackageName(placement: ScaffoldPlacement, name: string): string {
      return placement === 'in-repo'
        ? `@objectstack/${pluginDirName(name)}`   // scoped, publishable
        : pluginDirName(name);                     // unscoped — plugin-NAME
    }

    with ...(standalone ? { private: true } : {}) emitted beside it. ⇒ Ruling 5596171164 items (1), (2) and (3) all executed: standalone is unscoped and private, --in-repo keeps the scope.

    ⭐ The docblock left at the site is the part worth keeping, because it arms the next editor against the exact regression that would undo this: "\"private\": true … is the STRUCTURAL half, and the one that actually prevents the defect: npm publish refuses a private manifest loudly, whatever the name says. A later change that keeps this name and drops that flag reinstates the defect with better prose."

    ⚠️ A verification error of my own, caught before it became a false alarm

    My first landing check grepped packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts by path, which reads the shared primary checkout's working tree — pinned at a0856e3bf9 — not origin/main at 5865b021eb. It reported an unconditional @objectstack/plugin-${name} and no private key anywhere, i.e. that a maintainer-ruled change had not landed. That was entirely an artefact of reading a stale tree. Re-read with git show origin/main:<path> it is correct in both arms.

    ⇒ Recording it because the failure mode is general and cheap to repeat: fetching a ref does not move the working tree, and a path-grep after git fetch silently answers about whatever the checkout happens to be sitting on. ⛔ Verify landings from the ref, never from the path.

    Docs consequence is now LIVE, not prospective — #17103

    Two statements that were true this morning are false as of this merge, and a reader who follows either and runs npm publish is refused:

    • content/docs/plugins/index.mdx:79-81 — "published as @objectstack/plugin-<name>. That is what os create plugin scaffolds."
    • content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx:106 — the Publishable? column: "Yes — a publishable @objectstack/plugin-<name> package"

    ⛔ Filed as #17103 rather than folded in: content/docs/** was outside this PR's declared surface, and the delivering seat was right to report rather than widen. The card names the exact sites, the third weaker consequence (the Publishable? column no longer discriminates between the two scaffolders), and — importantly — ⛔ warns that most @objectstack/plugin- occurrences in the docs are genuinely first-party published plugins that must not be touched.


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  18. github-actions commented on Sep 9, 2026

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    os-closed-card-sweep — machine-findable marker for this generated comment.

    Removed the pm-loop state label(s) this closed card no longer claims: pm:dispatched, pm:queue.

    A state label claims work is in flight. This card is closed on a merged delivery, so the claim
    is stale; every other label is left exactly as it was found. Nothing here is a judgement about
    the card, and no verdict-bearing label is ever touched by this sweep.

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