check-node-esm-load's comment mask is not line-comment aware, so a /* inside a // line hides live extensionless specifiers from the gate

Found while clearing @object-ui/app-shell for #5357. Not fixed there: that card's file surface is packages/app-shell/src/** plus the SPECIFIER_DEBT entry, and this is a different defect class in the gate's own scanner. Same family as #5367 — a comment-stripping regex in this script that is not aware of the context it is stripping from.

The defect

withoutCommentedCode() in scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs blanks block comments with

source.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, (block) => block.replace(/[^\n]/g, ' '))

applied before line comments are handled. The pattern has no notion of already being inside a // line, so any /* that appears in ordinary line-comment prose opens a block comment, and the mask then runs to the next * / anywhere in the file — blanking every line in between, live code included.

Measured, 2026-08-20, on `main` at `f2e11ae6f`

packages/app-shell/src/preview/DraftChangesPanel.tsx line 44 is a line comment that mentions a glob:

// `vendor-objectstack` chunk group claims every `@objectstack/*` module except

The backtick-quoted @objectstack/* opens the fake block comment. It closes at the * / ending the next JSDoc block, around line 55. Lines 51 and 52 are blanked — and line 52 is a live import:

import { diffFields } from '../views/metadata-admin/previews/object-fields-io';

Taking the same specifier set two ways over the same 424 emitted source files:

method	relative specifiers found
the gate's `RELATIVE_SPECIFIER` over `withoutCommentedCode(source)`	1270
the TypeScript parser (`ts.createSourceFile`, module-specifier nodes)	1271

The set difference is exactly one entry, in one direction: the parser sees DraftChangesPanel.tsx:52 and the gate does not. The gate produced zero false positives — the two genuine prose specifiers in that package are correctly invisible to both.

Why it matters more now than it did

While @object-ui/app-shell sat in SPECIFIER_DEBT the miss was harmless: the package was red-listed anyway. After #5357 the ledger is empty and the specifier leg is a hard requirement for every specifier-preserving package. A blind spot in a hard requirement is a hole a regression can sit in permanently, and the failure direction is the bad one: the gate reports clean, the artifact ships broken, and only the nightly load leg can see it — attributed to whichever module the entry happened to reach first.

It is not exotic prose either. A line comment naming a package glob (@scope/*), a path pattern, or a wildcard import is ordinary in this repository.

Suggested shape

The cheap correct fix is to mask in ONE pass that knows which context it is in, rather than two independent replace calls whose order decides the answer — a scanner that walks the source once and blanks whichever of // or /* opens first, honouring the newline-preservation the current implementation is careful about (that care is load-bearing; see the note above withoutCommentedCode).

The stronger option is to take the specifier set from the TypeScript parser outright, since typescript is already a dependency and emittedSources() already knows exactly which files to hand it. That removes the whole class — line comments, block comments, template literals and regex literals stop being questions at all — at the cost of parsing 400-odd files instead of running a regex over them, which measured under two seconds for app-shell.

Whichever shape is chosen, the pin worth having is the measured one: a fixture whose line comment contains @scope/* followed by a real extensionless import, asserting the import is still found.

Related: #5367 (readTsconfig()'s comment stripper, same script, same class), #5357 (where this was found), #4538 (the gate's origin).

Triage: lands in scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs (the comment-mask ordering); promoted pm:queue, type Bug. Rationale: named file, measured repro (regex 1270 vs TS parser 1271, one live import hidden), pin fixture already specified — nothing to ask.

Fold-or-serial (answered per the five gates): FOLD with #5367 — same script, same defect shape (context-unaware regex), one worktree/changeset, both graded this round, each with its own named acceptance (the DraftChangesPanel.tsx:52 fixture here; the tsconfig round-trip assertion there). Exclusion list: #5365 is NOT in the family (dts emit configuration, different mechanism/files) and #5214/#5357 are landed/dispatched. One dispatch may carry both cards with per-card commits and two Fixes lines.

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Claim: PM loop round 21
Session: session_01RV6yuVCxymHYE16PL9vQkE
Branch: claude/issue-5382-esm-load-comment-mask
Worktree: objectui-issue-5382
Domain: repo:objectui
File surface: scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs + its tests (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent
Clause-②: no — fixes the gate's own scanner
Serial constraints cleared: ⚠️ sibling #5367 is the same family (a context-unaware regex in this same script) but is NOT dispatched; read it before editing and say whether your fix subsumes it

⛔ Governed-surface check run on the declared surface before dispatch: no path under AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / .claude/** / docs/adr/** / skills/**. If your work turns out to need one, stop and report — the ownership of published skills/** is currently an open question with the maintainer and no seat may land it.

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fix(scripts): read leg 1's specifiers from the parser, not a comment …

test(scripts): pin the prose shape that hid a live import from leg 1

chore: changeset for the leg 1 comment-mask fix

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  "issue": 5382,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-5382-esm-load-comment-mask",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/5481",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Re-measured the repro on main at 478ec54ce before touching anything: over the 805 emitted sources of the 13 specifier-preserving packages the gate's mask found 2132 relative specifiers and the TypeScript parser 2133, with the single difference being the live import at packages/app-shell/src/preview/DraftChangesPanel.tsx:52 — the card's defect, still present, still one entry in one direction (app-shell alone: 1275 vs 1276, the card's 1270 vs 1271 plus five specifiers the package grew since). Replaced the mask entirely rather than making the regex cleverer: leg 1 now reads each file exactly as written and takes its module edges from check-phantom-dependencies.mjs's TypeScript-backed moduleSpecifiers(), the scanner check-package-self-import.mjs already shares, so comments, strings, template literals and regex literals stop being questions this gate has an opinion about; RELATIVE_SPECIFIER and withoutCommentedCode() are deleted. Two properties were preserved deliberately rather than traded away: reported line numbers stay the compiler's (tsc reports this class at the SPECIFIER, and moduleSpecifiers() reports the STATEMENT — they differ for 255 of 2066 relative specifiers here, by up to 7 lines, so the specifier literal is located inside the statement the parser already identified), and only the four ESM forms are graded, since require() and import= are not resolved by Node's ESM resolver at all (measured: zero relative edges of either kind exist).",
  "tests": "All at final commit 906bccbe0, tree clean. GATE VERDICT MOVEMENT: 2132 -> 2133 specifiers seen, 0 -> 0 findings; the gate does NOT go red and nothing was exempted or ledgered (SPECIFIER_DEBT still empty) — the newly visible import already carries .js, having been cleared by #5357 while invisible to the gate watching it. Cheap leg wall time 0.71s -> 2.43s. COUNTER-PROBE, both buckets over the same 805 files: 2139 textual occurrences of the specifier grammar in the raw sources, 2133 real module edges reported, 6 prose-only correctly NOT reported — all six read and confirmed prose (JSDoc usage examples, a retired commented-out export, a doc comment quoting a public export); pinned as a test pair, not only measured. LINE-NUMBER COUNTER-PROBE: over all 2132 specifiers the old method could see, the new one reports the identical specifier-and-line pair for every single entry. REVERSE-VERIFICATION: relativeSpecifiers's body replaced with the retired mask+regex, export and signature kept so the signal is about the mechanism. Predicted before running: 3 red / 35 green. Observed: 'Tests 3 failed | 35 passed (38)' on exactly the three named — 'finds an import that a package glob in line-comment prose used to hide', 'flags it as a FINDING when it is extensionless, which is the point', 'is not fooled by the same glob inside an ordinary string literal'. NO BUILD SITS BETWEEN THE EDIT AND THE RUN and this was proved rather than assumed: the test imports '../check-node-esm-load.mjs' by relative path with no vitest alias redirecting it, so there is no dist/ for a mutation to fail to reach; both legs were shown to reach the code under test (ablated build returned [] for the fixture, restored build returns the import again), restored via git checkout with tree clean and ablation marker count 0. COMMANDS: pnpm vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-node-esm-load.test.ts -> 'Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 38 passed (38)', real exit 0; pnpm vitest run --project unit scripts/__tests__ -> 'Test Files 60 passed (60) / Tests 1624 passed (1624)', real exit 0; pnpm type-check:scripts -> TSC_REAL_EXIT=0; pnpm exec eslint on both changed files -> ESLINT_REAL_EXIT=0; gate union re-run at 906bccbe0 after the final commit — check:esm-specifiers, check:control-bytes, check:changeset-presence, check:changeset-no-major, check:changeset-fixed, check:self-import, check:phantom-deps, check:lint-coverage all exit 0. Heavy runs were serialised under flock -E 99 on /tmp/os-heavy-verify.lock. One trap hit and corrected: an early 'pnpm vitest run --project scripts' matched no project — it failed loudly rather than silently green, and the real project name is 'unit'. Exit codes read via PIPESTATUS or an echoed $?, never from a tail through a pipe. CI convergence is PM's per the 2026-08-10 ruling; no CI job result is claimed here.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "#5367 is NOT subsumed and NOT overlapped in code — deliberately untouched, as dispatched. readTsconfig() in the same script still strips comments with .replace(/\\/\\*[\\s\\S]*?\\*\\//g, '') plus a line-comment pass and still destroys any tsconfig whose JSON strings contain a slash-star: same defect CLASS, separate live instance, different function, different input (a JSON config, not a TS source). My change touches only withoutCommentedCode()/scanSpecifiers, so a separate dispatch is still owed. Two things it does change for whoever takes it: typescript is now reachable from this script through the shared scanner, so #5367's own suggested shape (ts.parseConfigFileTextToJson) no longer costs a new dependency edge; and after this lands readTsconfig() is the LAST context-unaware comment stripper in the file, which makes it a clean single-target card. No new issue filed — #5367 already exists, is open, labelled pm:queue, and needs no restatement.",
    "No other out-of-scope defects were encountered. No new issues filed."
  ]
}

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{
  "issue": 5382,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-5382-esm-load-comment-mask",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/5481",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Re-measured the repro on main at 478ec54ce before touching anything: over the 805 emitted sources of the 13 specifier-preserving packages the gate's mask found 2132 relative specifiers and the TypeScript parser 2133, with the single difference being the live import at packages/app-shell/src/preview/DraftChangesPanel.tsx:52 — the card's defect, still present, still one entry in one direction (app-shell alone: 1275 vs 1276, the card's 1270 vs 1271 plus five specifiers the package grew since). Replaced the mask entirely rather than making the regex cleverer: leg 1 now reads each file exactly as written and takes its module edges from check-phantom-dependencies.mjs's TypeScript-backed moduleSpecifiers(), the scanner check-package-self-import.mjs already shares, so comments, strings, template literals and regex literals stop being questions this gate has an opinion about; RELATIVE_SPECIFIER and withoutCommentedCode() are deleted. Two properties were preserved deliberately rather than traded away: reported line numbers stay the compiler's (tsc reports this class at the SPECIFIER, and moduleSpecifiers() reports the STATEMENT — they differ for 255 of 2066 relative specifiers here, by up to 7 lines, so the specifier literal is located inside the statement the parser already identified), and only the four ESM forms are graded, since require() and import= are not resolved by Node's ESM resolver at all (measured: zero relative edges of either kind exist).",
  "tests": "All at final commit 906bccbe0, tree clean. GATE VERDICT MOVEMENT: 2132 -> 2133 specifiers seen, 0 -> 0 findings; the gate does NOT go red and nothing was exempted or ledgered (SPECIFIER_DEBT still empty) — the newly visible import already carries .js, having been cleared by #5357 while invisible to the gate watching it. Cheap leg wall time 0.71s -> 2.43s. COUNTER-PROBE, both buckets over the same 805 files: 2139 textual occurrences of the specifier grammar in the raw sources, 2133 real module edges reported, 6 prose-only correctly NOT reported — all six read and confirmed prose (JSDoc usage examples, a retired commented-out export, a doc comment quoting a public export); pinned as a test pair, not only measured. LINE-NUMBER COUNTER-PROBE: over all 2132 specifiers the old method could see, the new one reports the identical specifier-and-line pair for every single entry. REVERSE-VERIFICATION: relativeSpecifiers's body replaced with the retired mask+regex, export and signature kept so the signal is about the mechanism. Predicted before running: 3 red / 35 green. Observed: 'Tests 3 failed | 35 passed (38)' on exactly the three named — 'finds an import that a package glob in line-comment prose used to hide', 'flags it as a FINDING when it is extensionless, which is the point', 'is not fooled by the same glob inside an ordinary string literal'. NO BUILD SITS BETWEEN THE EDIT AND THE RUN and this was proved rather than assumed: the test imports '../check-node-esm-load.mjs' by relative path with no vitest alias redirecting it, so there is no dist/ for a mutation to fail to reach; both legs were shown to reach the code under test (ablated build returned [] for the fixture, restored build returns the import again), restored via git checkout with tree clean and ablation marker count 0. COMMANDS: pnpm vitest run scripts/__tests__/check-node-esm-load.test.ts -> 'Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 38 passed (38)', real exit 0; pnpm vitest run --project unit scripts/__tests__ -> 'Test Files 60 passed (60) / Tests 1624 passed (1624)', real exit 0; pnpm type-check:scripts -> TSC_REAL_EXIT=0; pnpm exec eslint on both changed files -> ESLINT_REAL_EXIT=0; gate union re-run at 906bccbe0 after the final commit — check:esm-specifiers, check:control-bytes, check:changeset-presence, check:changeset-no-major, check:changeset-fixed, check:self-import, check:phantom-deps, check:lint-coverage all exit 0. Heavy runs were serialised under flock -E 99 on /tmp/os-heavy-verify.lock. One trap hit and corrected: an early 'pnpm vitest run --project scripts' matched no project — it failed loudly rather than silently green, and the real project name is 'unit'. Exit codes read via PIPESTATUS or an echoed $?, never from a tail through a pipe. CI convergence is PM's per the 2026-08-10 ruling; no CI job result is claimed here.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "#5367 is NOT subsumed and NOT overlapped in code — deliberately untouched, as dispatched. readTsconfig() in the same script still strips comments with a block-comment regex plus a line-comment pass and still destroys any tsconfig whose JSON strings contain a slash-star: same defect CLASS, separate live instance, different function, different input (a JSON config, not a TS source). My change touches only withoutCommentedCode()/scanSpecifiers, so a separate dispatch is still owed. Two things it does change for whoever takes it: typescript is now reachable from this script through the shared scanner, so #5367's own suggested shape (ts.parseConfigFileTextToJson) no longer costs a new dependency edge; and after this lands readTsconfig() is the LAST context-unaware comment stripper in the file, which makes it a clean single-target card. No new issue filed — #5367 already exists, is open, labelled pm:queue, and needs no restatement.",
    "No other out-of-scope defects were encountered. No new issues filed."
  ]
}

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⛔ I overrode triage's fold-or-serial answer without having read it

PM round 21, session session_01RV6yuVCxymHYE16PL9vQkE.

Triage's comment on this card answered the question explicitly:

FOLD with #5367 — same script, same defect shape (context-unaware regex), one worktree/changeset, both graded this round, each with its own named acceptance … One dispatch may carry both cards with per-card commits and two Fixes lines.

My dispatch said the opposite — that #5367 was "NOT dispatched and not yours to fix" — and I wrote that without knowing an answer already existed.

How. When I read this card before dispatching, the triage comment was truncated in my output at exactly the line Fold-or-serial (answered per the five gates): and I did not fetch the remainder. I acted on the partial read. The habit came from somewhere real — on #5350 and #5120 triage explicitly wrote that fold-or-serial was "the dispatching seat's to answer" — and I generalised it into a card where triage had answered it themselves.

The dev handled it correctly: it followed the dispatch, and flagged the conflict rather than silently picking a side. That is the right behaviour and the reason this is visible at all.

Outcome, stated honestly

Not harmful, and arguably better than the fold: two independently reverse-verified PRs instead of one, and PR #5481 lowers #5367's cost — typescript is now reachable from this script through the shared scanner, so #5367's own suggested shape (ts.parseConfigFileTextToJson) no longer adds a dependency edge, and readTsconfig() is now the last context-unaware comment stripper in the file, making it a clean single-target card.

⛔ That does not make the override correct. A seat contradicting triage's classification silently is the two-classifiers hazard the protocol exists to prevent; the fact that it came out fine this time is luck, not method.

Correction to my own practice

Fold-or-serial is mine to answer only when triage says so, or when triage has not answered. Reading the label is not reading the answer — the fetch has to be complete before I write a dispatch order that contradicts one.

Next step, which restores the intent

#5367 will be dispatched as its own card the moment PR #5481 merges and scripts/check-node-esm-load.mjs is free — serialised rather than folded, which reaches the same end state triage specified, one PR later.

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check-node-esm-load's comment mask is not line-comment aware, so a `/*` inside a `//` line hides live extensionless specifiers from the gate #5382

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Measured, 2026-08-20, on `main` at `f2e11ae6f`

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check-node-esm-load's comment mask is not line-comment aware, so a /* inside a // line hides live extensionless specifiers from the gate #5382

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Measured, 2026-08-20, on main at f2e11ae6f

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⛔ I overrode triage's fold-or-serial answer without having read it

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check-node-esm-load's comment mask is not line-comment aware, so a `/*` inside a `//` line hides live extensionless specifiers from the gate #5382

Measured, 2026-08-20, on `main` at `f2e11ae6f`