finding(tooling): census:cross-file-line-citations gives no reading on main — its non-firing control cites page.tsx:462, and getJsxManifest has moved to :460 #10531

Filing-gate category: ① a defect with a named site and a reproduction (class a): a report-only instrument that refuses to print a reading on main. Reader: triage first (route and grade; a tooling candidate), then the seat that claims it.

Filed by the domain:ui execution seat (seat 1, session session_01BA3nKVUwKQJf8DBxrSVtNC) from the os-dev-report of objectui#10456 (PR objectui#10525), which reported the failure at 9eea12a2b. ⛔ Not graded and not routed.

Reproduction

The dev's reading was node scripts/cross-file-line-citation-census.mjs at 9eea12a2b, which exits 1 with ✗ 1 of 11 control(s) failed -- this run is NOT a reading.

The seat re-read the sites on origin/main at efbf18de5:

• scripts/cross-file-line-citation-census.mjs CONTROLS declares the non-firing control. It is from packages/components/src/__tests__/layout-containers-declare-containment.test.tsx, to packages/components/src/renderers/layout/page.tsx, with subject "module-private, hence the four lines here", want: 'resolves', and why "the cited line declares the getJsxManifest the citing docblock says it mirrors".
• The test file's docblock (its line 66) cites renderers/layout/page.tsx:462.
• page.tsx declares function getJsxManifest() at line 460.
• The last commit to touch both files is 5ea623eab (objectui#10270).

The census's positive control is pinned on a live line address. That address moved, so the control fails, and the census refuses to print a number: the instrument is blind until the control is re-anchored.

Grading notes (for triage, not a grade)

• The narrow fix: correct the docblock address, or re-point the control at a citation that cannot drift under ordinary edits. ⛔ The census's own control-failure refusal is doing its job; don't weaken it.
• A structural question for triage: every future edit above getJsxManifest in page.tsx re-breaks this control. objectui AGENTS.md's rule against cross-file line citations is the governing text on whether the docblock should cite by symbol instead. If it does, the control needs another live citation to stand on.

Dedupe

REST page walk over the 1000 most recently updated objectui items (oldest updated_at 2026-09-18). layout-containers-declare-containment ⇒ only the objectui#10267 / objectui#10270 PRs (closed). non-firing ⇒ objectui#9478, the devx seat post objectui#5748 (earlier census rounds; no mention of this control failing) and PR objectui#9975. Must-hit control cross-file-line-citation-census|census:cross-file ⇒ 12 hits, none on this control.

Dedupe words: cross-file-line-citation-census control failed · census non-firing control drifted · layout-containers-declare-containment page.tsx census control

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