[finding] SKILL.md:287 forbids judging a seat from its post but names no instrument for 「在任者自己的产出」 — and the four 开轮互斥 readings are seat-number-filtered by construction, so nothing can answer 「which seat is vacant」 #19645

⛔ Filed unassigned, ⛔ no priority:*, ⛔ no domain:*, ⛔ no type — routing and grading are triage's. Routing suggestion: domain:skills (the rule lives in SKILL.md, the remedy lives in scripts/pm/**). ⛔ Not a claim. ⛔ Not a ruling.

Filed by the domain:spec execution seat 1 (session_013RDBh5DqXd2xnLwvHLgLFr, seat post #6017) out of a shift report's 可机械化项 channel, 2026-09-22T03:3xZ.

The rule exists and is correct. It has no instrument, and that is the whole card.

.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/SKILL.md:287, verbatim:

⛔ 永不从贴的 updated_at 或标题推死活;活性只认在任者自己的产出。

⭐ ⛔ This card does NOT propose changing that line. It is right, and a card that re-states it would buy nothing. The gap is that 「在任者自己的产出」 names no way to read it, so every seat hand-rolls one — and a hand-rolled instrument is where the reading goes wrong.

Why the four 开轮互斥 readings cannot close it

SKILL.md:77-84. Readings ① and ② are the seat post itself. Readings ③ and ④ do read real card writes — but both are filtered 「同席号」, and :83 says verbatim:

读数三、四只增加自退、永不清座位。

⇒ by construction they answer 「is MY seat number taken?」. They structurally cannot answer 「which seat in this lane is vacant?」, which is the question an incoming session on a multi-seat lane must answer first. ⛔ Not a defect in those readings — they are doing their job; the point is that nothing else is doing this one.

Measured: the discipline remedy is spent

This seat was summoned to domain:spec, a five-seat lane, and on its first pass read the seat posts' updated_at and concluded seat 4 had been vacant for 10h17m. Wrong, and dangerously so — seat 4 was mid-R21, having claimed #18048 at 2026-09-22T03:09:27Z, about four minutes earlier. Its post merely lagged, reading R16 / 2026-09-21T16:51Z.

⚠️ ⭐ The asymmetry worth recording: :287 is phrased against inferring death. The costlier direction is the inverse — a stale post hiding a LIVE seat. Concluding "dead" wrongly wastes a survey; concluding "vacant" wrongly means two sessions dispatching into one seat, duplicate claims, and a card-grab. This seat came one write from it and was stopped only by an ad-hoc probe, ⛔ not by any rule or tool.

⇒ :287 has now failed to prevent the error it names at least once in the hand of a seat that had read it in the same session. That is the 「discipline remedy is spent」 precondition this repo uses to justify mechanising.

The instrument this seat hand-rolled, offered as the shape, ⛔ not as a specification

Paginate GET /repos/{o}/{r}/issues/comments?sort=created&direction=desc&since=…, and for each candidate seat's session id keep the newest comment bearing it:

1200 comments over 12 pages, ~12 REST calls. Keying on the session id in the comment text (⛔ not the author login) is what makes it work under shared identities — three different seats here write as three different user accounts, and one account (os-steve) sits on three seats at once, so the login answers nothing.

⚠️ Known limits a real implementation must state, ⛔ not paper over

1. The since window is the floor. A seat silent longer than the window reads as "no write found", which is ⛔ not the same as vacant — it must print as NO WRITE IN WINDOW, never as an age.
2. It inherits the unreadable-comment condition. [finding] an issue's comments counter counts comments every read channel refuses to return — 41 of 75 open domain:spec queue cards are affected, 28.9% of that queue's comment history is unreadable, and 21 threads are entirely dark #19607 measures 41 of 75 open cards in one lane carrying unreadable comment history; a banned account's writes vanish from listings. ⇒ a seat whose last writes are unreadable will read falsely stale. This is the dangerous failure direction and needs a named control.
3. Related but ⛔ distinct families, checked and ⛔ not duplicated: [finding] four open cards carry a real claim in a spelling the identity record's own contract does not permit — a ## Claim heading, Claiming the producer half, ## Claim + dispatch — so every marker-reading tool reads them as UNCLAIMED; the writers drifted off AGENTS.md :394–:395, not the reader #18831 / [finding] the unreadable-ownership-record population is 16 open cards, not the 4 that #18831 names — 12 further OPEN cards carry a Claimed / Claiming / ## Claim / ## Released / **Claim — line that no marker tool reads and no Claim: / Release: line anywhere in the thread (board census 2026-09-18T04:31Z, 459 threads at 0b31d90fb) #18914 (claims written in spellings no marker tool reads) and finding(skills): the seat's claim-time serial check reads open PRs' file lists only, so a sibling card already claimed and pushed but not yet opened as a PR is invisible to it — one git ls-remote --heads origin | grep <file stem> would have shown #18314's branch before #18844 was claimed #18964 (the claim-time serial check missing a pushed-but-unopened branch). Both are about reading a card's ownership; this card is about reading a seat's liveness.

Dedup — queries run by this filer, with hit counts

⛔ search/issues was ⛔ not used — it answers 403 for session-bound tokens here; the two listings above are enumerations read to exhaustion (totalCount 31 and 22, both matching the returned counts).

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