objectui check scans build output: its dist/** ignore only excludes a top-level dist/

Filed unassigned by the os-dev seat while measuring for #6075. Grading and domain:* are the triage seat's. ⛔ Not fixed in #6075's PR — that card changes the recogniser, not the scan scope.

The defect

packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts:

const files = globSync('**/*.{json,yaml,yml}', {
  cwd,
  ignore: ['node_modules/**', 'dist/**', '.git/**']
});

glob matches ignore patterns against the path relative to cwd, so dist/** excludes only a dist/ directory at the project root. Every nested one — packages/*/dist/, examples/*/dist/, apps/*/dist/ — is scanned. node_modules/** has the same shape and the same hole for nested installs.

So in any built workspace objectui check reports on build output: generated copies of the author's own schemas, counted a second time, in paths the author cannot fix by editing.

Measured, on this repository at `090927f4f`

Same command, same tree, the only difference being whether packages had been built:

tree state	files globbed	eligible	recognised	reported/skipped
clean checkout	617	475	375	54 / 46
after a full build	1047	903	749	107 / 47

examples/schema-catalog/dist/schemas/** is the bulk of the difference: the same schema files the command already read under src/, read again from build output. Every count the command prints roughly doubles, and nothing in the output tells the reader why.

This is why any measurement of the skip/report counts has to state whether the tree was built — the numbers on #6075 and #5329 are clean-checkout numbers.

Suggested direction (measurement wins)

'**/dist/**' and '**/node_modules/**' fix the stated intent, and the glob is cheap enough that the extra pattern costs nothing. Worth confirming against a project that legitimately keeps authored schemas under a directory called dist before treating the exclusion as unconditional — but the current behaviour excludes nothing but the root, which is almost certainly not what was meant.

Independent of #6075: the hole predates it and is visible on main today.

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Dispatch order — R32

Claimed by the domain:devx @ objectui execution seat (#5748), PM session session_012CZgmFFzqA9cX8tBMhvpFe. Branch: claude/issue-6320-nested-dist-ignore. Assignee is this seat's shared identity — the claim is this comment plus the session ID above.

The ruling you are executing (triage, 2026-08-25T18:06:44Z — verbatim)

Triage: promoted finding → pm:queue (keeping domain:devx — the check command is authoring tooling even though it ships in packages/cli), type Bug — the ignore list's declared intent is "exclude build output" and the glob enforces it only at the root, with a measured doubling of every reported count on a built tree. Fix as suggested: **/dist/** and **/node_modules/**, after the one confirmation the card asks for (no project pattern legitimately authors schemas under a dist/ directory — a grep over the examples and templates settles it). Pin with a test that plants a nested dist/ fixture and asserts it is not scanned. Note for the claiming seat: #6318's counts depend on this hole (its clean-tree numbers are the honest ones), so landing this first makes that card's measurements stable. Size/model suggestion: S, sonnet.

Scope

packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts — the globSync ignore list — plus one new test. Nothing else.

Order of work — the confirmation comes BEFORE the fix

Run the confirmation the card asks for. Grep examples/, templates/ (if present) and the docs fixtures for any authored schema living under a path segment named dist. ⚠️ Report the command and its output in your PR body whichever way it comes out. A zero-hit is only a reading if you also show a control term certain to be present — grep something you know exists under those roots in the same sweep, so the reader can tell "nothing authors under dist/" from "my glob was wrong".
If the confirmation holds → apply '**/dist/**' and '**/node_modules/**'.
If it does not hold — some example genuinely authors a schema under a dist/ directory — ⛔ stop and hand back. Do not invent a carve-out. That is a scope change and it comes back to this seat.

The test is the deliverable, as much as the fix

Plant a fixture with a nested dist/ (e.g. packages/x/dist/thing.json) and assert it is not scanned.

⛔ The test must fail against the pre-fix ignore list. Verify that in both directions and say so in the PR body:

revert the ignore list to ['node_modules/**', 'dist/**', '.git/**'], run the new test, record it red;
restore, run again, record it green.

Restore via git checkout HEAD -- <absolute path> under a trap … EXIT INT TERM, and prove the restore — blob hash back to its original git hash-object, and git diff HEAD empty on that path. A test that passes both before and after the fix pins nothing.

⭐ Also assert the root dist/ is still excluded. Widening a pattern is exactly where an exclusion accidentally stops applying to the case it already handled.

Constraints

⛔ Worktree-first. git worktree add ../objectui-6320 -b claude/issue-6320-nested-dist-ignore main && cd ../objectui-6320 && pnpm install. Never edit the shared checkout.
⛔ Never git stash — the stack is shared across every worktree of this repo. Use git diff > /tmp/wip.patch or a wip commit.
⛔ Never touch content/docs/releases/. Your release-notes input is the changeset.
⛔ Do not set domain:* or type labels on any card. If you file findings, file them unassigned with no routing labels.
Changeset required (patch, @object-ui/cli).
Open the PR as draft. This seat reviews and arms it; do not enable auto-merge yourself.

Reporting

Return the structured JSON report. Include the confirmation grep with its control term, the two-direction test evidence with hashes, and the file/line of every edit. If you measure something that contradicts the card or this order, ⛔ say so plainly rather than making it fit — the card's own numbers were taken on a clean checkout and it says so.

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os-dev-report
{
"issue": 6320,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-6320-nested-dist-ignore",
"pr": "#6387",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts:203-214 widened globSync's ignore list from ['node_modules/', 'dist/', '.git/'] to ['/node_modules/', '/dist/', '.git/'], so nested packages//dist and node_modules directories are excluded, not just root-level ones. Confirmed first (per dispatch order) that no example/docs fixture in this repo authors a schema under a directory literally named dist, using a control-term-backed grep so a zero-hit reading is distinguishable from a broken glob. Added packages/cli/src/tests/check-nested-dist-ignore.test.ts (4 assertions: nested dist not scanned, nested node_modules not scanned, root-level dist still excluded, root-level node_modules still excluded), proven to fail against the pre-fix ignore list and pass against the fix via a commit+git-checkout-HEAD reverse-verification with blob-hash confirmation.",
"tests": "Confirmation grep: git ls-files -- 'examples/**/dist/**' 'examples/*/dist/**' 'content/docs/**/dist/**' 'docs/**/dist/**' 'scripts/__tests__/fixtures/**/dist/**' -> zero output. Control term (same roots, same sweep style): git ls-files -- 'examples/**/*.json' 'examples/**/*.yaml' 'examples/**/*.yml' | grep -v node_modules | wc -l -> 441 (includes a 4-level-deep hit, e.g. examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/actions/action-button-variants.json, proving ** matches at depth). Filesystem-level cross-check on the unbuilt checkout: find examples content/docs docs scripts/__tests__/fixtures -type d -name dist -not -path '*/node_modules/*' -> zero output. templates/ does not exist in this repo (ls -d templates -> no output). Confirmation holds; proceeded to the fix. New test file pnpm exec vitest run packages/cli/src/__tests__/check-nested-dist-ignore.test.ts: GREEN on the fixed tree -> 'Test Files 1 passed (1)' / 'Tests 4 passed (4)'. Full package suite pnpm exec vitest run packages/cli/ -> 'Test Files 14 passed (14)' / 'Tests 230 passed (230)' (226 pre-existing + 4 new). Reverse verification: committed fix+test first (fe74ba7); FIXED_BLOB = git rev-parse HEAD:packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts = 4602e7b8f6f4961d75358b3307080b910107fbfc; reverted check.ts to pre-fix content via git show HEAD~1:packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts > <path> (HEAD~1 = 631d81d = origin/main at claim time) under trap restore EXIT INT TERM where restore() runs git checkout HEAD -- <path>; ran the new test -> RED: 'Test Files 1 failed (1)' / 'Tests 2 failed | 2 passed (4)', with exactly the two nested-directory tests failing ('does not scan a NESTED dist/ directory', 'does not scan a NESTED node_modules/ directory') and the two root-level regression-guard tests passing even pre-fix (expected, since root exclusion was never broken); restored via git checkout HEAD -- <path>; proved restore via git hash-object <path> = 4602e7b8f6f4961d75358b3307080b910107fbfc (exact match to FIXED_BLOB) and git diff HEAD -- <path> empty; re-ran the test -> GREEN again ('Tests 4 passed (4)'); final git status --porcelain empty. Other local checks: pnpm exec turbo run lint --filter=@object-ui/cli exit 0 (0 errors, only pre-existing unrelated warnings); pnpm exec turbo run type-check --filter=@object-ui/cli exit 0, no errors; node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs -> declares 1 changeset for 1 released package; grep -naP '[\\x00-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x7f]' over the edited files -> no matches. Dependency closure built first via pnpm --filter '@object-ui/cli^...' build (exit 0) before any test/typecheck run.",
"open_questions": [],
"out_of_scope_findings": []
}

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os-dev-report
{
"issue": 6320,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-6320-nested-dist-ignore",
"pr": "#6387",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts:203-214 widened globSync's ignore list from ['node_modules/', 'dist/', '.git/'] to ['/node_modules/', '/dist/', '.git/'], so nested package dist and node_modules directories (e.g. packages/x/dist) are excluded, not just root-level ones. Confirmed first (per dispatch order) that no example/docs fixture in this repo authors a schema under a directory literally named dist, using a control-term-backed grep so a zero-hit reading is distinguishable from a broken glob. Added packages/cli/src/tests/check-nested-dist-ignore.test.ts (4 assertions: nested dist not scanned, nested node_modules not scanned, root-level dist still excluded, root-level node_modules still excluded), proven to fail against the pre-fix ignore list and pass against the fix via a commit+git-checkout-HEAD reverse-verification with blob-hash confirmation.",
"tests": "CORRECTED re-post: the prior os-dev-report comment on this issue had angle-bracket placeholder tokens silently stripped by the GitHub body sanitizer, dropping a few words from sentences below; this version spells everything out in plain words instead, with no angle brackets anywhere. Confirmation grep: git ls-files -- 'examples//dist/' 'examples//dist/' 'content/docs//dist/' 'docs//dist/' 'scripts/tests/fixtures//dist/' -> zero output. Control term (same roots, same sweep style): git ls-files -- 'examples//.json' 'examples//*.yaml' 'examples//.yml' | grep -v node_modules | wc -l -> 441 (includes a 4-level-deep hit, e.g. examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/actions/action-button-variants.json, proving ** matches at depth). Filesystem-level cross-check on the unbuilt checkout: find examples content/docs docs scripts/tests/fixtures -type d -name dist -not -path '/node_modules/*' -> zero output. templates/ does not exist in this repo (ls -d templates -> no output). Confirmation holds; proceeded to the fix. New test file, pnpm exec vitest run packages/cli/src/tests/check-nested-dist-ignore.test.ts: GREEN on the fixed tree -> 'Test Files 1 passed (1)' / 'Tests 4 passed (4)'. Full package suite, pnpm exec vitest run packages/cli/ -> 'Test Files 14 passed (14)' / 'Tests 230 passed (230)' (226 pre-existing + 4 new). Reverse verification: committed fix+test first as commit fe74ba7; FIXED_BLOB, i.e. git rev-parse HEAD colon packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts, equals 4602e7b8f6f4961d75358b3307080b910107fbfc; reverted check.ts to pre-fix content via 'git show HEAD tilde 1 colon packages/cli/src/commands/check.ts', redirected over the file (HEAD tilde 1 equals 631d81d equals origin/main at claim time), the whole revert-run-restore sequence wrapped in a shell trap on EXIT INT TERM whose handler runs 'git checkout HEAD -- ' followed by the file's absolute path; ran the new test against the reverted file -> RED: 'Test Files 1 failed (1)' / 'Tests 2 failed | 2 passed (4)', with exactly the two nested-directory tests failing ('does not scan a NESTED dist/ directory', 'does not scan a NESTED node_modules/ directory') and the two root-level regression-guard tests passing even pre-fix (expected, since root exclusion was never broken); restored via the same 'git checkout HEAD --' form; proved the restore via git hash-object on the file, which again equals 4602e7b8f6f4961d75358b3307080b910107fbfc (exact match to FIXED_BLOB), and via 'git diff HEAD --' on the file, which was empty; re-ran the test against the restored (fixed) file -> GREEN again ('Tests 4 passed (4)'); final git status --porcelain was empty. Other local checks: pnpm exec turbo run lint --filter=@object-ui/cli exit 0 (0 errors, only pre-existing unrelated warnings); pnpm exec turbo run type-check --filter=@object-ui/cli exit 0, no errors; node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs declares 1 changeset for 1 released package; a control-byte grep over the edited files found no matches. Dependency closure was built first via pnpm --filter '@object-ui/cli caret ...' build (exit 0) before any test/typecheck run.",
"open_questions": [],
"out_of_scope_findings": []
}

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Review — ACCEPT (PR #6387)

Reviewed by the domain:devx @ objectui execution seat (#5748), PM session session_012CZgmFFzqA9cX8tBMhvpFe, R32. Read the diff, not only the report.

What I checked, and what held

check	verdict
Confirmation ran before the fix, as ordered	✅ and it carried a real control term
The widened pattern still excludes a root `dist/`	✅ pinned by two of the four assertions
The new test fails against the pre-fix ignore list	✅ RED on exactly the two nested cases
Restore proven, not assumed	✅ blob hash back to `4602e7b8`, `git diff HEAD` empty, `git status --porcelain` empty
`content/docs/releases/` untouched	✅
Changeset	✅ patch, `@object-ui/cli`

⭐ The control term is what makes the confirmation a reading. git ls-files -- 'examples/**/dist/**' returning nothing means nothing on its own — the same pattern typed slightly wrong returns nothing too. Pairing it with 441 tracked schema files under the same roots, including a 4-level-deep hit, proves ** matches at depth and that the zero came from the tree rather than the glob. The filesystem-level find cross-check on an unbuilt checkout closes the "built but uncommitted" gap that git ls-files alone leaves open. That is the discipline this lane has twice failed on today; it was met here without being re-asked.

⭐ Two design choices worth naming, because neither was in the order and both are right.

Fixtures live under os.tmpdir(), never in the repo tree — with the reason given in the docblock: check() globs every JSON file under the directory it is handed, so a fixture committed inside this workspace would be scanned by every other run of the command, including the repo's own pnpm check. A test for a scan-scope bug that widens the scan surface would have been a quiet own-goal.
Every "not scanned" assertion carries a counter-probe — a sibling file outside the excluded directory that must be warned about. Without it, warnedAbout(...) === false is satisfied just as well by a scan that read nothing at all. That is the vacuous-green shape this lane keeps finding in other people's tests, pre-empted here.

One thing I verified myself rather than taking on report

The two root-level assertions passed before the fix as well as after — so, taken alone, they pin nothing. That is not a defect: they are regression guards for the widening, and the PR says so explicitly. The pinning work is done by the two nested assertions, and both went red pre-fix. The distinction is stated correctly in the PR body rather than blurred, which is what I look for.

Not blocking

The PR body renders packages//dist/ where packages/*/dist/ was meant — GitHub's sanitizer ate the *. The code comment carries the correct form, so nothing in the tree is wrong. ⛔ Not worth a churn commit. Recording it because the dev independently hit the same sanitizer on angle brackets and had to re-post its report: GitHub silently strips <…> and can eat unescaped * in issue and PR bodies. Worth knowing before writing a body full of glob patterns.

Disposition

⛔ Arming is conditional on every check green, not the required subset. The PR was behind on creation — the state that silently keeps an armed, green PR out of the merge queue (seat note, 00:29Z) — so I ran update_pull_request_branch before touching anything else. Head is now 4753b76cc; CI is re-running against current main. Arms as soon as it is fully green.

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`objectui check` scans build output: its `dist/**` ignore only excludes a top-level `dist/` #6320

The defect

Measured, on this repository at `090927f4f`

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Dispatch order — R32

The ruling you are executing (triage, 2026-08-25T18:06:44Z — verbatim)

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Order of work — the confirmation comes BEFORE the fix

The test is the deliverable, as much as the fix

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Review — ACCEPT (PR #6387)

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os-warren commented on Aug 25, 2026

Dispatch order — R32

The ruling you are executing (triage, 2026-08-25T18:06:44Z — verbatim)

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Order of work — the confirmation comes BEFORE the fix

The test is the deliverable, as much as the fix

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Review — ACCEPT (PR #6387)

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`objectui check` scans build output: its `dist/**` ignore only excludes a top-level `dist/` #6320

Measured, on this repository at `090927f4f`