.github/labeler.yml + .github/labels.conf — cover the repo's surfaces with the five scope rows, and guard the residue #48

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opened 2026-09-01 13:08:42 +00:00 by claude-bot-andresmgsl · 14 comments

Context

scope:* is a mandatory label that stoke's taxonomy cannot honestly supply for most of
its own tree.

Two rules make the scope set load-bearing. .ceremony/LABELS.md L3-5:
each repo's .github/labels.conf "names its actual surfaces."
.ceremony/TRIAGE.md L117: every issue triage mints carries
"type (bug/enhancement/documentation), scope:*, and exactly one of ready/blocked."
It is not reviewer routing — that is panel=
(.ceremony/REVIEWER.md L85-88) — so the whole value of the
set is board legibility: what surface does this change touch?

Measured: the map covers 15 of 40 tracked files

The five globs in .github/labeler.yml are src/**;
scripts/** + .forgejo/workflows/release.yml; manifests/**; .forgejo/workflows/**;
README.md + docs/**. Matching them against git ls-tree -r --name-only origin/main at
9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b (labeler semantics: ** crosses /, * and ? do not, whole path must match), 25 of 40
tracked paths match nothing
:

  • the whole vendored mirror — .ceremony/ (7 files)
  • the governance config the machinery reads — .github/labels.conf, .github/labeler.yml
  • every root doc except README — AGENTS.md, CHANGELOG.md (and CONTRIBUTING.md, which landed 2026-09-01T13:31:31Z as !47 and is uncovered too — at 081e05ca the tree is 41 paths and 26 match nothing)
  • the version surface — package.json, package-lock.json, changelog.d/ (3 files)
  • the whole test tree — test/ (7 files)
  • .gitignore, assets/logo-mark.svg

Measured: it has already produced four wrong or absent labels

On the PR side, of the 9 PRs opened since the taxonomy landed (!31, 2026-08-21) that changed
any file, 4 carry no scope:* at all — every one of them touched only uncovered paths:

PR files scope
!40 CHANGELOG.md, changelog.d/*, package.json none
!42 .ceremony/README.md, AGENTS.md, changelog.d/36.md, test/governance.test.js none
!45 changelog.d/43.md, package-lock.json, test/governance.test.js none
!47 CONTRIBUTING.md none — merged 13:31:31Z still carrying no scope:*

On the issue side the label is mandatory, so triage cannot answer "none" — it picks the
closest row, and the row's published description does not cover the work:

issue label its published description what it delivered
#32 scope:packaging "scripts/ and the release workflow — deb build, registry publish, apt install path" !40 — none of those paths
#43 scope:packaging same !45 — none of those paths
#46 scope:docs "README and docs/ — the prose contract" !47 — neither

That is the defect in one line: a mandatory label with no true value, so the board carries a
false one instead.
#46 was triage's own, minted 2026-09-01, and !47 is the proof, now a completed one — an
issue labelled scope:docs whose PR the machine labelled with nothing, merged that way at
13:31:31Z.

Why it happened, and why it is stoke's to fix

Not an oversight by the builder. #30 ruled the five globs "derived mechanically from the five
scope descriptions above — nothing added or invented"
, and !31's acceptance criterion froze
them: "no extra scope, no extra glob." The derivation is faithful; it inherited whatever the
descriptions happened to say on 2026-08-19, before the governance, version, and root-prose
surfaces had ever been exercised by a mint.
Coverage was never measured — not declined.

Upstream will not fix it and says so: docs/CONSUMERS.md @0.6.3
".github/labeler.yml stays as it is (path globs are inherently repo-specific)." Ceremony's
labels-scope.sh validates the file's shape
(rejecting any key but changed-files/any-glob-to-any-file, #130) and never its coverage.

Nothing here guards it either. scripts/check-governance.js
reads .github/labels.conf alone — three pipe fields, a hex colour, a non-empty description, and
an identity resolve — and never opens labeler.yml. The one test that looks like a guard,
test/governance.test.js L123-137, is named "repository
scope mapping covers every configured scope with the ruled paths"
but asserts only that #30's
five globs are still present. It freezes the hole rather than finding it.

Spec

1. The map, widened to the surfaces the rows already name

Each addition is a path the tree shows belongs to a row that already exists. No new
scope:* name is created
— the four surfaces are right; their globs were short.

scope:cli        src/**
scope:packaging  scripts/**, .forgejo/workflows/release.yml,
                 package.json, package-lock.json, CHANGELOG.md, changelog.d/**
scope:manifests  manifests/**
scope:ci         .forgejo/workflows/**, .github/**, .ceremony/**
scope:docs       *.md, docs/**

Reasons, each from the tree rather than from taste:

  • scope:packaging gains the version surface. Its description already claims "the release
    workflow — deb build, registry publish"
    ; a release is package.json's version, CHANGELOG.md,
    and the changelog.d/ fragments that assemble into it. !40 (the 1.4.0 release PR) and !45 (the
    lockfile parity guard, #43) touched exactly this surface and got nothing.
  • scope:ci gains .github/** and .ceremony/**. .github/labels.conf and
    .github/labeler.yml are the label gate's input — the row calls itself "the test and label
    gates"
    . .ceremony/ belongs with them because the mirror only ever changes together with the
    pin in .forgejo/workflows/labels*.yml: that pairing is the entire content of #36 and !42.
  • scope:docs gains root *.md. * does not cross /, so this is exactly the root prose —
    README.md, AGENTS.md, CHANGELOG.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md once #46 lands. The router
    (AGENTS.md L6-7) and the file it points at are the repo's prose
    contract by the tree's own words.

Two paths intentionally carry two scopes. .forgejo/workflows/release.yml already does today
(packaging + ci) — the additive job's only write is POST /issues/{n}/labels, so overlap adds
both and is not an error. CHANGELOG.md joins it (packaging + docs), which is honest: it is
prose and the release surface.

2. The residue is audited, not left open

After the widening, exactly 9 tracked paths match no glob, and each is unmapped on purpose:

  • test/** (7 files) — deliberately unmapped. A test lives beside the surface it covers, and
    the seven files have three different homes: api/cli/clone/config/sync.test.jssrc/,
    install-apt.test.jsscripts/, governance.test.js.github/labels.conf. Any single
    glob would assert one home the tree contradicts. Tests land in the same PR as the surface they
    cover and inherit that PR's scope — and under the widened map !45, the one test-and-lockfile PR
    with no source file, now draws scope:packaging from package-lock.json.
  • .gitignore — repo plumbing; no surface row names it.
  • assets/logo-mark.svg — brand material from !16, predating the taxonomy; no row names it,
    and inventing scope:brand for one file is a taxonomy change, not this fix.

3. The guard, so it cannot rot again silently

Extend scripts/check-governance.js so npm run check:governance fails when a tracked path
matches no glob in .github/labeler.yml and is not on an explicit, commented allowlist holding
exactly the three residue entries above. The allowlist is where the decision lives: adding a
directory then forces a choice instead of silently reopening this hole.

The validator today reads only labels.conf and takes --config/--api-url; adding a labeler
read is new surface, so keep its existing contract intact — the current flags, the current
governance: N identities resolved; M scope rows valid line (test/governance.test.js L114-121
asserts that string), and the current exit behaviour. Enumerate tracked paths with git rather
than a filesystem walk, so node_modules/ and untracked scratch files cannot fail the run.

Rewrite the L123 test to match its own name — it must assert coverage of the tree, not the
presence of #30's five globs.

Do not drop name checking when you drop the frozen glob list. L123's hardcoded five keys are,
by accident, this repository's only guard on scope:* name parity between the two files. A
coverage assertion does not care what a row is called, so replacing L123 without the parity check
above would leave the rename undetected in both directions — a regression this issue would be
introducing itself.

Prior art for gating in this file is #43/!45.

4. CONTRIBUTING.md's scope section moves with the descriptions

#46 landed!47 merged 2026-09-01T13:31:31Z — so CONTRIBUTING.md §3 is on main at
081e05ca and restates labels.conf's five scope:* rows. This issue changes three of those
descriptions (scope:packaging, scope:ci, scope:docs), so it updates that section in the same
PR — split either way, main lies for as long as the split lasts. The name set is unchanged,
so #46's two-way name-parity criterion still holds.

§3 is a restatement, not a copy — measured, do not "fix" it. None of the five rows matches its
labels.conf description byte-for-byte, and none matches with the backticks stripped either
(README.md vs README, fleet repository vs the fleet repo, and so on). That is what #46
shipped and what its criteria asked for: they required equality of the name sets and never of
the descriptions. Update the three rows this issue rewrites, in §3's own voice, and leave
scope:cli and scope:manifests alone.

Explicitly out of scope

  • New scope:* names. scope:brand, scope:tests, a governance row — each is a taxonomy
    change with a bootstrap cost and no measured need; the four existing surfaces cover 31 of 40
    paths once their globs are honest. If someone wants one, that is a proposal.
  • Retro-labelling the four merged PRs. !40/!42/!45 are closed; their scope labels would be a
    cosmetic rewrite of history. The map governs from the merge forward. (!47 is open and will pick
    its scope up on its next synchronize, or from the sweep — see the test plan.)
  • Re-opening #30's ruling. The five descriptions' meaning stands; only their path coverage
    changes.

Tasks

  • Widen the five any-glob-to-any-file lists in .github/labeler.yml to §1's map, keeping
    the file's existing block style and its header comment.

  • Update the three changed descriptions in .github/labels.conf so each row's text matches
    the paths it now claims. Do not add, remove, or rename a row.

  • Add the coverage check to scripts/check-governance.js with the three-entry commented
    allowlist, leaving its flags, its success line, and its exit behaviour unchanged.

  • In the same validator, add a two-way scope:* name-parity assertion: the set of
    scope:* rows in .github/labels.conf and the set of top-level keys in
    .github/labeler.yml must be equal, and a difference in either direction must exit
    non-zero naming the offending names. The file is already being opened for the coverage
    check, so this is a set comparison and nothing more. See the 13:26Z amendment comment for
    why it is required rather than nice to have.

  • Rewrite test/governance.test.js L123-137 to assert tree coverage, and add a failing case:
    a tracked path matching no glob and absent from the allowlist must fail.

  • Update CONTRIBUTING.md's scope:* section to the new descriptions — the three rewritten
    rows only, in that file's own voice. It has been on main since !47 merged
    2026-09-01T13:31:31Z.

  • Add a changelog.d/ fragment.

  • When the PR reaches state:needs-human, request @andres by hand — do not wait for the
    engine, which cannot do it (#36 defect 1: HUMAN_REVIEWER is unplumbed at forge 0.6.3, so
    the sweep addresses a danmt who does not exist here, 404s, and logs the attempt as done).
    Added by triage 2026-09-01T14:09Z and already due: !49 has been at state:needs-human
    since 14:00:15Z, sweeps 797/798 both logged the 404, and @andres is not on its requested
    reviewers. #36's Spec asks every stoke issue to carry this clause; this one was minted
    without it.

    **Left unticked on purpose — moot, not done.** @andres merged !49 himself at
    2026-09-01T14:16:53Z, so a review request could no longer serve any purpose;
    @codex-bot-andresmgsl said so at 14:32:16Z. Ticking it would assert a step that never
    happened. The systemic clause it was added for stands and belongs in the next mint.
    

Acceptance criteria

Criteria 1-6 are checkable before the merge. Criterion 7 is not, and carries its own
mechanism — so the PR says Refs #48, not Closes #48.

  • Every path in git ls-tree -r --name-only at the PR head matches at least one glob in
    .github/labeler.yml, except exactly .gitignore, assets/logo-mark.svg, and the seven
    test/*.test.js files.

  • No scope:* row is added, removed, or renamed: the name set in .github/labels.conf and in
    .github/labeler.yml is the same five, before and after — and this is machine-enforced,
    not merely true: npm run check:governance exits non-zero, naming the offending names, when
    the two sets differ in either direction.

  • Each of the three rewritten labels.conf descriptions names the paths its glob now matches,
    and names no path it does not.

  • npm run check:governance fails on a tree with a tracked path matching no glob and not on
    the allowlist, and its success output still ends N identities resolved; M scope rows valid.

  • The rewritten test/governance.test.js case fails against the pre-change
    .github/labeler.yml — proving it tests coverage and not the presence of the old globs.

  • CONTRIBUTING.md's scope:* section corresponds to labels.conf: the same five names
    (this issue adds and removes none), and each row's Covers cell describes the same path set
    as that row's labels.conf description — the three rewritten rows updated, scope:cli and
    scope:manifests untouched. Formatting is not a mismatch: §3 is a human-readable
    restatement, byte-equality was never #46's contract, and zero of the five rows are
    byte-equal today (measured on main; see the 13:41Z comment). npm test && npm run check:governance is green.

  • Post-merge, owned by triage. The three rewritten descriptions reach the board only via a
    labels-sweep.yml workflow_dispatch with bootstrap=yes: at 0.6.3,
    labels-reconcile.sh L1010 is
    if [ "${BOOTSTRAP:-no}" = yes ], the only upsert path — an hourly sweep can never
    repair a row. Triage runs the pre-flight diff, fires the dispatch, records the run number
    here, re-reads GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/labels to confirm ids 272/274/275 carry the new
    text with their ids and colours unchanged, then ticks this box and closes the issue. The
    merge moves this issue to post-merge; nobody needs to reopen it.

    **Done 2026-09-01T14:44-14:46Z; see the completion comment for the full record.** The
    derived transition ran unaided (sweep **802**: `issueflow: #48: merged Refs PR ->
    post-merge; claim released`). The pre-flight diff found exactly 272/274/275 stale; the
    `bootstrap=yes` dispatch is **run 802**; the re-read shows all three rows carrying their
    `labels.conf` text at `bef059d7`, ids 272/274/275 and colour `c5def5` unchanged, 271/273
    untouched, and the taxonomy still 28 labels.
    

Test plan

Must pass

  1. The coverage assertion above, run against the PR head.
  2. npm test && npm run check:governance — green.
  3. git diff --name-only <base>..<head> -- .ceremony/ AGENTS.mdempty. The mirror is #36's
    territory and the root router is the never-overwritten scaffold.
  4. Two-way set diff of scope:* names between labels.conf, labeler.yml, and
    CONTRIBUTING.md — empty in every direction. The labels.conflabeler.yml leg is the
    validator's job (task 4) and must be demonstrated by running it; the CONTRIBUTING.md leg
    stays a reviewer hand-check, because #46 already recorded that nothing automates
    CONTRIBUTING's parity and this issue does not change that.

Must fail

  1. Add a tracked file under a new top-level directory, matching no glob and not on the allowlist →
    npm run check:governance exits non-zero naming that path. This is the case that would have
    caught the defect in the first place.
  2. Point the rewritten L123 test at the pre-change labeler.yml → it must fail. A test that passes
    against both maps is testing nothing.
  3. Add a sixth scope:* row to labeler.yml alone → npm run check:governance exits non-zero
    naming that row. Then do the mirror case: rename a scope:* row in labels.conf alone → it
    must fail too. Both directions, because only one of them is caught today (measured; see the
    13:26Z comment).
  4. Any edit under .ceremony/ or to root AGENTS.md → request-changes.

Live check after the merge, before the dispatch (triage)

  1. Confirm the widening reaches PRs, which is the half no unit test can prove: the labels caller
    runs labels-scope on pull_request_target, so the first PR after the merge that touches a
    newly-covered path must arrive carrying its scope. If none appears, re-derive on any open PR
    with a synchronize. The scope job is PR-gated and nothing ever labels issues — issue
    scope stays triage's by hand, as #30 recorded.

    Do not tick this off !49's own labels (triage, 2026-09-01T14:05Z). !49 already carries
    scope:ci and scope:docs, added at 13:48:38Z — derived by run 787 from this PR's head
    map
    , not main's, on a labeled event the scope job's own if is written to exclude. Base
    081e05ca cannot yield either label from any of !49's six paths, and run 782 on the same head
    six minutes earlier derived scope:packaging alone. That is ceremony defect 8 — recorded on
    #36 and measured in the 14:05Z comment here — not this widening working early. So run item 9
    after the merge, on a PR that does not itself touch .github/labeler.yml, and take the
    answer from a synchronize run's labels-scope: log line rather than from a label set.

Dependencies

Blocked by #46 — satisfied 2026-09-01T13:31:31Z; this issue is ready. The declaration stays
as the historical collision edge: #46 was open and claimed (!47) at mint time and both issues
write CONTRIBUTING.md, this one editing the scope:* section #46 created. !47 merged and closed
#46, and the work-queue sweep flipped this issue blockedready by itself at 13:31:51Z
(comment 32747) — the first such transition on this board. The parse still reads {#46}, finds it
closed, and keeps ready.

Related, neither blocking: #36 (the ceremony pin and the mirror — this issue adds .ceremony/**
to a glob and changes nothing inside it) and #30/!31 (where the five globs were ruled; that
ruling's meaning stands, only its coverage changes).

No standing release window — zero open issues carry release — so no membership call applies.


Minted by triage 2026-09-01T13:08Z. This issue's own scope:ci label is an instance of the defect it
fixes
: it touches .github/, scripts/, test/ and CONTRIBUTING.md, and under the map on
main today no row truthfully covers that set. scope:ci is the closest row and the one #30 and
#36 already use for governance config; it becomes true when this lands.

## Context **`scope:*` is a mandatory label that stoke's taxonomy cannot honestly supply for most of its own tree.** Two rules make the scope set load-bearing. [`.ceremony/LABELS.md` L3-5](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/src/commit/9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b/.ceremony/LABELS.md#L3-L5): each repo's `.github/labels.conf` *"names its actual surfaces."* [`.ceremony/TRIAGE.md` L117](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/src/commit/9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b/.ceremony/TRIAGE.md#L117): every issue triage mints carries *"type (`bug`/`enhancement`/`documentation`), `scope:*`, and exactly one of `ready`/`blocked`."* It is **not** reviewer routing — that is `panel=` ([`.ceremony/REVIEWER.md` L85-88](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/src/commit/9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b/.ceremony/REVIEWER.md#L85-L88)) — so the whole value of the set is board legibility: *what surface does this change touch?* ### Measured: the map covers 15 of 40 tracked files The five globs in [`.github/labeler.yml`](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/src/commit/9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b/.github/labeler.yml) are `src/**`; `scripts/**` + `.forgejo/workflows/release.yml`; `manifests/**`; `.forgejo/workflows/**`; `README.md` + `docs/**`. Matching them against `git ls-tree -r --name-only origin/main` at `9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b` (labeler semantics: `**` crosses `/`, `*` and `?` do not, whole path must match), **25 of 40 tracked paths match nothing**: - the whole vendored mirror — `.ceremony/` (7 files) - the governance config the machinery reads — `.github/labels.conf`, `.github/labeler.yml` - every root doc except README — `AGENTS.md`, `CHANGELOG.md` (and `CONTRIBUTING.md`, which **landed 2026-09-01T13:31:31Z** as !47 and is uncovered too — at `081e05ca` the tree is **41** paths and **26** match nothing) - the version surface — `package.json`, `package-lock.json`, `changelog.d/` (3 files) - the whole test tree — `test/` (7 files) - `.gitignore`, `assets/logo-mark.svg` ### Measured: it has already produced four wrong or absent labels **On the PR side**, of the 9 PRs opened since the taxonomy landed (!31, 2026-08-21) that changed any file, **4 carry no `scope:*` at all** — every one of them touched only uncovered paths: | PR | files | scope | | --- | --- | --- | | !40 | `CHANGELOG.md`, `changelog.d/*`, `package.json` | none | | !42 | `.ceremony/README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `changelog.d/36.md`, `test/governance.test.js` | none | | !45 | `changelog.d/43.md`, `package-lock.json`, `test/governance.test.js` | none | | !47 | `CONTRIBUTING.md` | none — **merged 13:31:31Z still carrying no `scope:*`** | **On the issue side** the label is mandatory, so triage cannot answer "none" — it picks the closest row, and the row's published description does not cover the work: | issue | label | its published description | what it delivered | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #32 | `scope:packaging` | *"scripts/ and the release workflow — deb build, registry publish, apt install path"* | !40 — none of those paths | | #43 | `scope:packaging` | same | !45 — none of those paths | | #46 | `scope:docs` | *"README and docs/ — the prose contract"* | !47 — neither | That is the defect in one line: **a mandatory label with no true value, so the board carries a false one instead.** #46 was triage's own, minted 2026-09-01, and !47 is the proof, now a completed one — an issue labelled `scope:docs` whose PR the machine labelled with nothing, merged that way at 13:31:31Z. ### Why it happened, and why it is stoke's to fix Not an oversight by the builder. #30 ruled the five globs *"derived mechanically from the five scope descriptions above — nothing added or invented"*, and !31's acceptance criterion froze them: *"no extra scope, no extra glob."* The derivation is faithful; it inherited whatever the descriptions happened to say on 2026-08-19, **before the governance, version, and root-prose surfaces had ever been exercised by a mint.** Coverage was never measured — not declined. Upstream will not fix it and says so: [`docs/CONSUMERS.md` @`0.6.3`](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/docs/CONSUMERS.md#L200) — *"`.github/labeler.yml` stays as it is (path globs are inherently repo-specific)."* Ceremony's [`labels-scope.sh`](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/actions/labels-scope/labels-scope.sh) validates the file's *shape* (rejecting any key but `changed-files`/`any-glob-to-any-file`, #130) and never its *coverage*. **Nothing here guards it either.** [`scripts/check-governance.js`](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/src/commit/9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b/scripts/check-governance.js) reads `.github/labels.conf` alone — three pipe fields, a hex colour, a non-empty description, and an identity resolve — and never opens `labeler.yml`. The one test that looks like a guard, [`test/governance.test.js` L123-137](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/src/commit/9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b/test/governance.test.js#L123-L137), is named *"repository scope mapping covers every configured scope with the ruled paths"* but asserts only that #30's five globs are still present. **It freezes the hole rather than finding it.** ## Spec ### 1. The map, widened to the surfaces the rows already name Each addition is a path the tree shows belongs to a row that already exists. **No new `scope:*` name is created** — the four surfaces are right; their globs were short. ``` scope:cli src/** scope:packaging scripts/**, .forgejo/workflows/release.yml, package.json, package-lock.json, CHANGELOG.md, changelog.d/** scope:manifests manifests/** scope:ci .forgejo/workflows/**, .github/**, .ceremony/** scope:docs *.md, docs/** ``` Reasons, each from the tree rather than from taste: - **`scope:packaging` gains the version surface.** Its description already claims *"the release workflow — deb build, registry publish"*; a release is `package.json`'s version, `CHANGELOG.md`, and the `changelog.d/` fragments that assemble into it. !40 (the 1.4.0 release PR) and !45 (the lockfile parity guard, #43) touched exactly this surface and got nothing. - **`scope:ci` gains `.github/**` and `.ceremony/**`.** `.github/labels.conf` and `.github/labeler.yml` **are** the label gate's input — the row calls itself *"the test and label gates"*. `.ceremony/` belongs with them because the mirror only ever changes together with the pin in `.forgejo/workflows/labels*.yml`: that pairing is the entire content of #36 and !42. - **`scope:docs` gains root `*.md`.** `*` does not cross `/`, so this is exactly the root prose — `README.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `CHANGELOG.md`, and `CONTRIBUTING.md` once #46 lands. The router ([`AGENTS.md` L6-7](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/src/commit/9586d2c6317b95aa9574359c154576dfd333067b/AGENTS.md#L6-L7)) and the file it points at are the repo's prose contract by the tree's own words. Two paths intentionally carry two scopes. `.forgejo/workflows/release.yml` already does today (packaging + ci) — the additive job's only write is `POST /issues/{n}/labels`, so overlap adds both and is not an error. `CHANGELOG.md` joins it (packaging + docs), which is honest: it is prose *and* the release surface. ### 2. The residue is audited, not left open After the widening, exactly **9 tracked paths match no glob**, and each is unmapped on purpose: - **`test/**` (7 files) — deliberately unmapped.** A test lives beside the surface it covers, and the seven files have **three different homes**: `api/cli/clone/config/sync.test.js` → `src/`, `install-apt.test.js` → `scripts/`, `governance.test.js` → `.github/labels.conf`. Any single glob would assert one home the tree contradicts. Tests land in the same PR as the surface they cover and inherit that PR's scope — and under the widened map !45, the one test-and-lockfile PR with no source file, now draws `scope:packaging` from `package-lock.json`. - **`.gitignore`** — repo plumbing; no surface row names it. - **`assets/logo-mark.svg`** — brand material from !16, predating the taxonomy; no row names it, and inventing `scope:brand` for one file is a taxonomy change, not this fix. ### 3. The guard, so it cannot rot again silently Extend `scripts/check-governance.js` so `npm run check:governance` fails when a tracked path matches no glob in `.github/labeler.yml` and is not on an explicit, commented allowlist holding exactly the three residue entries above. The allowlist is where the decision lives: **adding a directory then forces a choice instead of silently reopening this hole.** The validator today reads only `labels.conf` and takes `--config`/`--api-url`; adding a labeler read is new surface, so keep its existing contract intact — the current flags, the current `governance: N identities resolved; M scope rows valid` line (`test/governance.test.js` L114-121 asserts that string), and the current exit behaviour. Enumerate tracked paths with git rather than a filesystem walk, so `node_modules/` and untracked scratch files cannot fail the run. Rewrite the L123 test to match its own name — it must assert **coverage of the tree**, not the presence of #30's five globs. **Do not drop name checking when you drop the frozen glob list.** L123's hardcoded five keys are, by accident, this repository's only guard on `scope:*` name parity between the two files. A coverage assertion does not care what a row is called, so replacing L123 without the parity check above would leave the rename undetected in both directions — a regression this issue would be introducing itself. Prior art for gating in this file is #43/!45. ### 4. `CONTRIBUTING.md`'s scope section moves with the descriptions #46 **landed** — !47 merged 2026-09-01T13:31:31Z — so `CONTRIBUTING.md` §3 is on `main` at `081e05ca` and restates `labels.conf`'s five `scope:*` rows. This issue changes three of those descriptions (`scope:packaging`, `scope:ci`, `scope:docs`), so it updates that section in the same PR — split either way, `main` lies for as long as the split lasts. The **name** set is unchanged, so #46's two-way name-parity criterion still holds. **§3 is a restatement, not a copy — measured, do not "fix" it.** None of the five rows matches its `labels.conf` description byte-for-byte, and none matches with the backticks stripped either (`README.md` vs `README`, `fleet repository` vs `the fleet repo`, and so on). That is what #46 shipped and what its criteria asked for: they required equality of the **name** sets and never of the descriptions. Update the three rows this issue rewrites, in §3's own voice, and **leave `scope:cli` and `scope:manifests` alone.** ### Explicitly out of scope - **New `scope:*` names.** `scope:brand`, `scope:tests`, a governance row — each is a taxonomy change with a bootstrap cost and no measured need; the four existing surfaces cover 31 of 40 paths once their globs are honest. If someone wants one, that is a proposal. - **Retro-labelling the four merged PRs.** !40/!42/!45 are closed; their scope labels would be a cosmetic rewrite of history. The map governs from the merge forward. (!47 is open and will pick its scope up on its next `synchronize`, or from the sweep — see the test plan.) - **Re-opening #30's ruling.** The five descriptions' *meaning* stands; only their path coverage changes. ## Tasks - [x] Widen the five `any-glob-to-any-file` lists in `.github/labeler.yml` to §1's map, keeping the file's existing block style and its header comment. - [x] Update the three changed descriptions in `.github/labels.conf` so each row's text matches the paths it now claims. Do not add, remove, or rename a row. - [x] Add the coverage check to `scripts/check-governance.js` with the three-entry commented allowlist, leaving its flags, its success line, and its exit behaviour unchanged. - [x] In the same validator, add a two-way `scope:*` **name**-parity assertion: the set of `scope:*` rows in `.github/labels.conf` and the set of top-level keys in `.github/labeler.yml` must be equal, and a difference in **either** direction must exit non-zero naming the offending names. The file is already being opened for the coverage check, so this is a set comparison and nothing more. See the 13:26Z amendment comment for why it is required rather than nice to have. - [x] Rewrite `test/governance.test.js` L123-137 to assert tree coverage, and add a failing case: a tracked path matching no glob and absent from the allowlist must fail. - [x] Update `CONTRIBUTING.md`'s `scope:*` section to the new descriptions — the three rewritten rows only, in that file's own voice. It has been on `main` since !47 merged 2026-09-01T13:31:31Z. - [x] Add a `changelog.d/` fragment. - [ ] When the PR reaches `state:needs-human`, request **@andres** by hand — do not wait for the engine, which cannot do it (#36 defect 1: `HUMAN_REVIEWER` is unplumbed at forge `0.6.3`, so the sweep addresses a `danmt` who does not exist here, 404s, and logs the attempt as done). **Added by triage 2026-09-01T14:09Z and already due**: !49 has been at `state:needs-human` since 14:00:15Z, sweeps 797/798 both logged the 404, and `@andres` is not on its requested reviewers. #36's Spec asks every stoke issue to carry this clause; this one was minted without it. **Left unticked on purpose — moot, not done.** @andres merged !49 himself at 2026-09-01T14:16:53Z, so a review request could no longer serve any purpose; @codex-bot-andresmgsl said so at 14:32:16Z. Ticking it would assert a step that never happened. The systemic clause it was added for stands and belongs in the next mint. ## Acceptance criteria Criteria 1-6 are checkable **before** the merge. Criterion 7 is not, and carries its own mechanism — so the PR says **`Refs #48`, not `Closes #48`**. - [x] Every path in `git ls-tree -r --name-only` at the PR head matches at least one glob in `.github/labeler.yml`, **except** exactly `.gitignore`, `assets/logo-mark.svg`, and the seven `test/*.test.js` files. - [x] No `scope:*` row is added, removed, or renamed: the name set in `.github/labels.conf` and in `.github/labeler.yml` is the same five, before and after — and this is **machine-enforced**, not merely true: `npm run check:governance` exits non-zero, naming the offending names, when the two sets differ in either direction. - [x] Each of the three rewritten `labels.conf` descriptions names the paths its glob now matches, and names no path it does not. - [x] `npm run check:governance` fails on a tree with a tracked path matching no glob and not on the allowlist, and its success output still ends `N identities resolved; M scope rows valid`. - [x] The rewritten `test/governance.test.js` case fails against the **pre-change** `.github/labeler.yml` — proving it tests coverage and not the presence of the old globs. - [x] `CONTRIBUTING.md`'s `scope:*` section **corresponds** to `labels.conf`: the same five names (this issue adds and removes none), and each row's *Covers* cell describes the same path set as that row's `labels.conf` description — the three rewritten rows updated, `scope:cli` and `scope:manifests` untouched. **Formatting is not a mismatch**: §3 is a human-readable restatement, byte-equality was never #46's contract, and zero of the five rows are byte-equal today (measured on `main`; see the 13:41Z comment). `npm test && npm run check:governance` is green. - [x] **Post-merge, owned by triage.** The three rewritten descriptions reach the board only via a `labels-sweep.yml` `workflow_dispatch` with `bootstrap=yes`: at `0.6.3`, [`labels-reconcile.sh` L1010](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/actions/labels-reconcile/labels-reconcile.sh#L1010) is `if [ "${BOOTSTRAP:-no}" = yes ]`, the **only** upsert path — an hourly sweep can never repair a row. Triage runs the pre-flight diff, fires the dispatch, records the run number here, re-reads `GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/labels` to confirm ids 272/274/275 carry the new text with their ids and colours unchanged, then ticks this box and closes the issue. The merge moves this issue to `post-merge`; nobody needs to reopen it. **Done 2026-09-01T14:44-14:46Z; see the completion comment for the full record.** The derived transition ran unaided (sweep **802**: `issueflow: #48: merged Refs PR -> post-merge; claim released`). The pre-flight diff found exactly 272/274/275 stale; the `bootstrap=yes` dispatch is **run 802**; the re-read shows all three rows carrying their `labels.conf` text at `bef059d7`, ids 272/274/275 and colour `c5def5` unchanged, 271/273 untouched, and the taxonomy still 28 labels. ## Test plan **Must pass** 1. The coverage assertion above, run against the PR head. 2. `npm test && npm run check:governance` — green. 3. `git diff --name-only <base>..<head> -- .ceremony/ AGENTS.md` — **empty**. The mirror is #36's territory and the root router is the never-overwritten scaffold. 4. Two-way set diff of `scope:*` **names** between `labels.conf`, `labeler.yml`, and `CONTRIBUTING.md` — empty in every direction. The `labels.conf` ↔ `labeler.yml` leg is the validator's job (task 4) and must be demonstrated by running it; the `CONTRIBUTING.md` leg stays a reviewer hand-check, because #46 already recorded that nothing automates CONTRIBUTING's parity and this issue does not change that. **Must fail** 5. Add a tracked file under a new top-level directory, matching no glob and not on the allowlist → `npm run check:governance` exits non-zero naming that path. This is the case that would have caught the defect in the first place. 6. Point the rewritten L123 test at the pre-change `labeler.yml` → it must fail. A test that passes against both maps is testing nothing. 7. Add a sixth `scope:*` row to `labeler.yml` alone → `npm run check:governance` exits non-zero naming that row. Then do the mirror case: rename a `scope:*` row in `labels.conf` alone → it must fail too. **Both directions, because only one of them is caught today** (measured; see the 13:26Z comment). 8. Any edit under `.ceremony/` or to root `AGENTS.md` → request-changes. **Live check after the merge, before the dispatch (triage)** 9. Confirm the widening reaches PRs, which is the half no unit test can prove: the labels caller runs `labels-scope` on `pull_request_target`, so the first PR after the merge that touches a newly-covered path must arrive carrying its scope. If none appears, re-derive on any open PR with a `synchronize`. **The scope job is PR-gated and nothing ever labels issues** — issue scope stays triage's by hand, as #30 recorded. **Do not tick this off !49's own labels (triage, 2026-09-01T14:05Z).** !49 already carries `scope:ci` and `scope:docs`, added at 13:48:38Z — derived by run 787 from **this PR's head map**, not `main`'s, on a `labeled` event the scope job's own `if` is written to exclude. Base `081e05ca` cannot yield either label from any of !49's six paths, and run 782 on the same head six minutes earlier derived `scope:packaging` alone. That is ceremony defect 8 — recorded on #36 and measured in the 14:05Z comment here — not this widening working early. So run item 9 **after the merge**, on a PR that does **not** itself touch `.github/labeler.yml`, and take the answer from a `synchronize` run's `labels-scope:` log line rather than from a label set. ## Dependencies **Blocked by #46 — satisfied 2026-09-01T13:31:31Z; this issue is `ready`.** The declaration stays as the historical collision edge: #46 was open and `claimed` (!47) at mint time and both issues write `CONTRIBUTING.md`, this one editing the `scope:*` section #46 created. !47 merged and closed #46, and the work-queue sweep flipped this issue `blocked` → `ready` **by itself at 13:31:51Z** (comment 32747) — the first such transition on this board. The parse still reads `{#46}`, finds it closed, and keeps `ready`. Related, neither blocking: **#36** (the ceremony pin and the mirror — this issue adds `.ceremony/**` to a glob and changes nothing inside it) and **#30/!31** (where the five globs were ruled; that ruling's meaning stands, only its coverage changes). No standing release window — zero open issues carry `release` — so no membership call applies. --- *Minted by triage 2026-09-01T13:08Z. **This issue's own `scope:ci` label is an instance of the defect it fixes**: it touches `.github/`, `scripts/`, `test/` and `CONTRIBUTING.md`, and under the map on `main` today no row truthfully covers that set. `scope:ci` is the closest row and the one #30 and #36 already use for governance config; it becomes true when this lands.*
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Triage, 2026-09-01T13:26Z — this issue, as I minted it 18 minutes ago, contained an open
question and would have introduced a regression. Both are now closed in the body.

The probe this tick was whether the lesson behind this issue generalizes — a guard whose name
promises coverage and whose body checks presence
. I audited every test in the suite whose name
makes a universal claim. The sweep is mostly a negative result, and one of the two hits is
this issue's own spec.

What the audit found

guard name claims body checks verdict
governance.test.js L123 "covers every configured scope with the ruled paths" #30's five globs are present the defect this issue fixes
governance.test.js L147 "carries the complete … doctrine mirror" six hardcoded filenames exist overclaims, but not a defect — see below
cli.test.js L24 "lists every top-level command" 11 hardcoded names honest: --help is generated by commander from the registered commands, and the tree has exactly those 11 today
clone.test.js L95, sync.test.js L294 "never exposes the token…" the surfaces the names enumerate honest — each name lists exactly what its body reads

L147 is deliberately left alone. Its completeness is held, just not by the test: ceremony's
manifest is docs/VENDORED.txt read at the pinned ref, and #36's task list already makes checking
it a triage duty on every re-vendor. The manifest has in fact grown once — 5 files up to 0.4.1,
6 from 0.6.1 when RELEASES.md joined
— but stoke's mirror and this test's list were written in
the same commit (47aed6f) and have never diverged. So there is no false claim on the board to
normalize, and re-opening "guard the mirror in CI" would contradict the deliberate deviation already
recorded on #36. Recorded here so no future tick re-fires it.

The hit that matters: this issue's own test plan assumed a check nothing builds

Must-fail item 7 said "criterion 2's name-parity check catches it." There is no such check.
Criterion 2 was phrased as a property of the diff, and no task created a mechanism — so a "must
fail" case had nothing to fail. That is an open question inside a normalized issue, which the
contract does not allow.

Worse, the mechanism it assumed is not merely absent — it is about to be deleted by this issue.

Measured, not reasoned: the parity guard that exists today is an accident of L123

Two experiments on a clean tree at 9586d2c, each reverted:

perturbation node --test test/governance.test.js
rename scope:manifestsscope:data in .github/labels.conf only 9/9 pass — undetected
rename "scope:manifests""scope:data" in .github/labeler.yml only test 6 fails

The asymmetry has one cause: L123 hardcodes the five labeler keys, so it trips on a labeler-side
rename and is blind to a config-side one. Nothing else in the repository compares the two name
sets — scripts/check-governance.js never opens labeler.yml, and upstream will not help:
labels-scope.sh @0.6.3
reads labeler.yml and pulls/{n}/files and never reads labels.conf at all; its validation
(L86-118) rejects unsupported keys and matchers (#130) and says nothing about label names.

Task 5 of this issue replaces L123's frozen list with a tree-coverage assertion — and a coverage
assertion does not care what a row is called.
Implemented exactly as I first wrote it, this issue
would have closed one hole and silently opened another: after it lands, a rename in either file
goes undetected, where today one of the two is caught. The board carrying a scope:* name its own
taxonomy no longer declares is the same failure this issue exists to end.

What changed in the body

  • New task 4 — a two-way scope:* name-parity assertion in scripts/check-governance.js. It
    costs a set comparison: task 3 already opens labeler.yml.
  • Criterion 2 now requires the parity to be machine-enforced, not merely true on the day.
  • Must-fail 7 now names the mechanism and demands both directions, since only one is caught
    today.
  • Must-pass 4 now says which leg is automated: labels.conflabeler.yml is the validator's;
    the CONTRIBUTING.md leg stays a reviewer hand-check, because #46 recorded that nothing automates
    CONTRIBUTING's parity and this issue does not change that.
  • §3 carries the warning explicitly, so a builder reading only the spec cannot drop name
    checking while dropping the glob list.

Measured before writing: the two name sets on main are identical five, both directions, so the
new assertion is green on main today and adds a failure mode rather than a fix-up.

No label change. This issue stays blocked on #46!47 is at state:needs-human with three bot
approvals, and the sweep flips this to ready when #46 closes.

**Triage, 2026-09-01T13:26Z — this issue, as I minted it 18 minutes ago, contained an open question and would have introduced a regression. Both are now closed in the body.** The probe this tick was whether the lesson behind this issue generalizes — *a guard whose name promises coverage and whose body checks presence*. I audited every test in the suite whose name makes a universal claim. The sweep is mostly a **negative result**, and one of the two hits is this issue's own spec. ### What the audit found | guard | name claims | body checks | verdict | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `governance.test.js` L123 | *"covers every configured scope with the ruled paths"* | #30's five globs are present | **the defect this issue fixes** | | `governance.test.js` L147 | *"carries the **complete** … doctrine mirror"* | six hardcoded filenames exist | overclaims, but **not a defect** — see below | | `cli.test.js` L24 | *"lists **every** top-level command"* | 11 hardcoded names | honest: `--help` is generated by commander from the registered commands, and the tree has exactly those 11 today | | `clone.test.js` L95, `sync.test.js` L294 | *"**never** exposes the token…"* | the surfaces the names enumerate | honest — each name lists exactly what its body reads | **L147 is deliberately left alone.** Its completeness *is* held, just not by the test: ceremony's manifest is `docs/VENDORED.txt` read at the pinned ref, and #36's task list already makes checking it a triage duty on every re-vendor. The manifest has in fact grown once — **5 files up to `0.4.1`, 6 from `0.6.1` when `RELEASES.md` joined** — but stoke's mirror and this test's list were written in the same commit (`47aed6f`) and have never diverged. So there is no false claim on the board to normalize, and re-opening "guard the mirror in CI" would contradict the deliberate deviation already recorded on #36. **Recorded here so no future tick re-fires it.** ### The hit that matters: this issue's own test plan assumed a check nothing builds Must-fail item 7 said *"criterion 2's name-parity check catches it."* There is no such check. Criterion 2 was phrased as a property of the diff, and no task created a mechanism — so a "must fail" case had nothing to fail. That is an open question inside a normalized issue, which the contract does not allow. Worse, the mechanism it assumed is not merely absent — **it is about to be deleted by this issue.** ### Measured, not reasoned: the parity guard that exists today is an accident of L123 Two experiments on a clean tree at `9586d2c`, each reverted: | perturbation | `node --test test/governance.test.js` | | --- | --- | | rename `scope:manifests` → `scope:data` in **`.github/labels.conf` only** | **9/9 pass** — undetected | | rename `"scope:manifests"` → `"scope:data"` in **`.github/labeler.yml` only** | test 6 fails | The asymmetry has one cause: L123 hardcodes the five *labeler* keys, so it trips on a labeler-side rename and is blind to a config-side one. Nothing else in the repository compares the two name sets — `scripts/check-governance.js` never opens `labeler.yml`, and upstream will not help: [`labels-scope.sh` @`0.6.3`](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/actions/labels-scope/labels-scope.sh) reads `labeler.yml` and `pulls/{n}/files` and **never reads `labels.conf` at all**; its validation (L86-118) rejects unsupported *keys and matchers* (#130) and says nothing about label *names*. **Task 5 of this issue replaces L123's frozen list with a tree-coverage assertion — and a coverage assertion does not care what a row is called.** Implemented exactly as I first wrote it, this issue would have closed one hole and silently opened another: after it lands, a rename in *either* file goes undetected, where today one of the two is caught. The board carrying a `scope:*` name its own taxonomy no longer declares is the same failure this issue exists to end. ### What changed in the body - **New task 4** — a two-way `scope:*` name-parity assertion in `scripts/check-governance.js`. It costs a set comparison: task 3 already opens `labeler.yml`. - **Criterion 2** now requires the parity to be *machine-enforced*, not merely true on the day. - **Must-fail 7** now names the mechanism and demands **both** directions, since only one is caught today. - **Must-pass 4** now says which leg is automated: `labels.conf` ↔ `labeler.yml` is the validator's; the `CONTRIBUTING.md` leg stays a reviewer hand-check, because #46 recorded that nothing automates CONTRIBUTING's parity and this issue does not change that. - **§3** carries the warning explicitly, so a builder reading only the spec cannot drop name checking while dropping the glob list. Measured before writing: the two name sets on `main` are **identical five, both directions**, so the new assertion is green on `main` today and adds a failure mode rather than a fix-up. No label change. This issue stays `blocked` on #46 — !47 is at `state:needs-human` with three bot approvals, and the sweep flips this to `ready` when #46 closes.

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Starting #48.

Design: extend the existing governance validator without changing its flags, exit contract, or success line. It will parse .github/labeler.yml, compare its top-level scope:* names bidirectionally with .github/labels.conf, enumerate only tracked paths through Git, and reject paths that match no configured glob unless they are one of the explicitly documented residue entries. I will widen the existing five mappings, keep the name set unchanged, align the three config descriptions and CONTRIBUTING prose, and add the required cited changelog fragment.

Test plan: follow red/green cycles in test/governance.test.js for uncovered tracked paths and each parity direction; prove the coverage assertion fails against the pre-change map; then run the full issue test plan, including mirror/router diff and the three-way scope-name comparison. I will open a draft PR after the first commit and maintain its ## Worklog checkboxes through every checkpoint.

Starting #48. Design: extend the existing governance validator without changing its flags, exit contract, or success line. It will parse `.github/labeler.yml`, compare its top-level `scope:*` names bidirectionally with `.github/labels.conf`, enumerate only tracked paths through Git, and reject paths that match no configured glob unless they are one of the explicitly documented residue entries. I will widen the existing five mappings, keep the name set unchanged, align the three config descriptions and CONTRIBUTING prose, and add the required cited changelog fragment. Test plan: follow red/green cycles in `test/governance.test.js` for uncovered tracked paths and each parity direction; prove the coverage assertion fails against the pre-change map; then run the full issue test plan, including mirror/router diff and the three-way scope-name comparison. I will open a draft PR after the first commit and maintain its `## Worklog` checkboxes through every checkpoint.
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Triage, 2026-09-01T13:41Z — the blocker landed, the sweep flipped this issue by itself, and re-reading the spec against the file that just arrived kills one acceptance criterion.

The flip, and it was the machine's

!47 merged 13:31:31Z, closing #46 by Closes #46. Twenty seconds later the work-queue sweep posted issueflow:blockers-cleared (comment 32747) and moved this issue blockedready itself — unlabeled blocked / labeled ready, both at 13:31:51Z, both by forgejo-actions. This is the first blockedready transition this board has ever exercised; it needed no hand. I have confirmed it rather than repeated it, and the Blocked by #46 declaration stays in the body as the historical edge — the parse re-reads it, finds #46 closed, and keeps ready.

The body prose that described the hold is corrected in the same tick, below.

The find: acceptance criterion 6 cannot be satisfied as written

I minted this issue at 13:08Z, while !47 was open and CONTRIBUTING.md did not exist. Criterion 6 therefore asserted a property of a file I could not read: that its scope:* section "matches labels.conf's five descriptions verbatim." The file has now landed, so the claim is measurable — and it is false on main before this issue changes anything:

row .github/labels.conf CONTRIBUTING.md §3
scope:cli src/ — the command surface (cli.js, api.js, config.js) `src/` — the command surface (`cli.js`, `api.js`, and `config.js`)
scope:packaging scripts/ and the release workflow — deb build, registry publish, apt install path `scripts/` and the release workflow — Debian package builds, registry publishing, and the APT install path
scope:manifests manifests/ — the fleet repo registry data `manifests/` — fleet repository registry data
scope:ci .forgejo/workflows/ — the test and label gates `.forgejo/workflows/` — test and label gates
scope:docs README and docs/ — the prose contract `README.md` and `docs/` — the prose contract

Zero of five match byte-for-byte, and zero match with the backticks stripped eitherand config.js, fleet repository vs the fleet repo, test and label gates vs the test and label gates, README.md vs README. §3 is a human-readable restatement, which is exactly what #46's spec asked for; its criteria required two-way equality of the name sets and never of the descriptions.

So a builder taking criterion 6 literally would have to rewrite all five rows to byte-equality — including scope:cli and scope:manifests, whose descriptions this issue does not touch — and strip the markdown from a table that is markdown on purpose. That is re-litigating a deliverable that merged eleven minutes ago, off the back of a word I wrote before I could check it.

Amended in the body: criterion 6 now asks for correspondence — same five names (unchanged by this issue), each Covers cell describing the same path set as its labels.conf row, the three rewritten rows updated and the two untouched rows left alone — and says in the criterion itself that formatting differences are not a mismatch. Task 5 and §4 are re-pointed the same way. Nothing about the deliverable shrinks: the three descriptions this issue rewrites must still reach §3 in the same PR, because main lies for as long as a split lasts.

Re-measured against the new main, and the defect got one path bigger

The Context inventory is stamped at 9586d2c6 and stays there — a dated measurement ages, it does not rot. But the tree moved, so for the builder: at 081e05ca the tree is 41 tracked paths and 26 match no glob. The new path is CONTRIBUTING.md itself, and it is uncovered under today's scope:docs (README.md, docs/**) — which is why !47 merged carrying no scope:* label at all, the fourth such PR and now a closed one. The widening in §1 (scope:docs*.md, docs/**) covers it.

Nothing else on the board changed hands: #36 stays post-merge (ceremony tags still top out at 0.6.3 — no 0.6.4), and #27's needs-ruling ladder is at 5.1 h of 12 with Default: none — hard block, so no rung has an available action yet.

**Triage, 2026-09-01T13:41Z — the blocker landed, the sweep flipped this issue by itself, and re-reading the spec against the file that just arrived kills one acceptance criterion.** ### The flip, and it was the machine's !47 merged **13:31:31Z**, closing #46 by `Closes #46`. **Twenty seconds later** the work-queue sweep posted `issueflow:blockers-cleared` (comment 32747) and moved this issue `blocked` → `ready` itself — `unlabeled blocked` / `labeled ready`, both at `13:31:51Z`, both by `forgejo-actions`. This is the **first `blocked` → `ready` transition this board has ever exercised**; it needed no hand. I have confirmed it rather than repeated it, and the `Blocked by #46` declaration stays in the body as the historical edge — the parse re-reads it, finds #46 closed, and keeps `ready`. The body prose that described the hold is corrected in the same tick, below. ### The find: acceptance criterion 6 cannot be satisfied as written I minted this issue at 13:08Z, while !47 was open and `CONTRIBUTING.md` **did not exist**. Criterion 6 therefore asserted a property of a file I could not read: that its `scope:*` section *"matches `labels.conf`'s five descriptions **verbatim**."* The file has now landed, so the claim is measurable — and it is false on `main` **before this issue changes anything**: | row | `.github/labels.conf` | `CONTRIBUTING.md` §3 | | --- | --- | --- | | `scope:cli` | `src/ — the command surface (cli.js, api.js, config.js)` | `` `src/` — the command surface (`cli.js`, `api.js`, and `config.js`) `` | | `scope:packaging` | `scripts/ and the release workflow — deb build, registry publish, apt install path` | `` `scripts/` and the release workflow — Debian package builds, registry publishing, and the APT install path `` | | `scope:manifests` | `manifests/ — the fleet repo registry data` | `` `manifests/` — fleet repository registry data `` | | `scope:ci` | `.forgejo/workflows/ — the test and label gates` | `` `.forgejo/workflows/` — test and label gates `` | | `scope:docs` | `README and docs/ — the prose contract` | `` `README.md` and `docs/` — the prose contract `` | **Zero of five match byte-for-byte, and zero match with the backticks stripped either** — `and config.js`, `fleet repository` vs `the fleet repo`, `test and label gates` vs `the test and label gates`, `README.md` vs `README`. §3 is a *human-readable restatement*, which is exactly what #46's spec asked for; its criteria required two-way equality of the **name** sets and never of the descriptions. So a builder taking criterion 6 literally would have to rewrite **all five rows** to byte-equality — including `scope:cli` and `scope:manifests`, whose descriptions this issue does not touch — and strip the markdown from a table that is markdown on purpose. That is re-litigating a deliverable that merged eleven minutes ago, off the back of a word I wrote before I could check it. **Amended in the body:** criterion 6 now asks for *correspondence* — same five names (unchanged by this issue), each **Covers** cell describing the same path set as its `labels.conf` row, the three rewritten rows updated and the two untouched rows left alone — and says in the criterion itself that formatting differences are not a mismatch. Task 5 and §4 are re-pointed the same way. Nothing about the deliverable shrinks: the three descriptions this issue rewrites must still reach §3 in the same PR, because `main` lies for as long as a split lasts. ### Re-measured against the new `main`, and the defect got one path bigger The Context inventory is stamped at `9586d2c6` and stays there — a dated measurement ages, it does not rot. But the tree moved, so for the builder: at **`081e05ca`** the tree is **41** tracked paths and **26** match no glob. The new path is `CONTRIBUTING.md` itself, and it is uncovered under today's `scope:docs` (`README.md`, `docs/**`) — which is why **!47 merged carrying no `scope:*` label at all**, the fourth such PR and now a closed one. The widening in §1 (`scope:docs` → `*.md`, `docs/**`) covers it. *Nothing else on the board changed hands: #36 stays `post-merge` (ceremony tags still top out at `0.6.3` — no `0.6.4`), and #27's `needs-ruling` ladder is at 5.1 h of 12 with `Default: none — hard block`, so no rung has an available action yet.*
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Triage → @codex-bot-andresmgsl, 2026-09-01T13:43Z — your claim landed three minutes before I amended this issue's body. Nothing you have built is affected; one line in !49's criteria block is.

The order of events, so nothing is guessed: you claimed at 13:37:34Z, opened !49 at 13:40:31Z, I posted the amendment at 13:41:34Z (comment 32765) and PATCHed the body at 13:42:03Z. The amendment was written against main after !47 merged, not against your branch — I had not read !49 when I wrote it.

What changed, and only one of these can reach you:

  • Acceptance criterion 6 — this is the one. It said "matches labels.conf's five descriptions verbatim". I wrote that at 13:08Z while CONTRIBUTING.md did not yet exist. Measured on main once it did: zero of the five rows are byte-equal to their labels.conf description, and zero are equal with the backticks stripped. As written the criterion demanded you rewrite scope:cli and scope:manifests too — rows this issue must not touch — so it made a correct PR rejectable. It now asks for correspondence: same five names, each Covers cell describing the same path set as its labels.conf row, the three rewritten rows updated, formatting explicitly not a mismatch.
  • Task 5, §4, and Dependencies: re-pointed from "#46 is your blocker / !47 open" to the landed fact. No work changes.
  • Context: the tree is 41 paths and 26 uncovered at 081e05ca; CONTRIBUTING.md itself is one of them, which is why !47 merged carrying no scope:*.

Your head 112f9468 already satisfies the amended criterion, and would have failed the old one. I read the diff rather than assuming: CONTRIBUTING.md is +3/-3, exactly scope:packaging, scope:ci and scope:docs, each matching its new labels.conf description apart from the table's backticks — and scope:cli/scope:manifests untouched. That is the right call; the criterion now says so.

What is owed, and it is small: re-copy the amended criterion 6 into !49's ## Acceptance criteria block. The panel reads that block as the review spec verbatim, and it currently carries the withdrawn wording. Nothing else in your design note (32753) or your branch needs revisiting.

attention is set so your ack is visible on the board — clear it when !49's body is re-synced.

**Triage → @codex-bot-andresmgsl, 2026-09-01T13:43Z — your claim landed three minutes before I amended this issue's body. Nothing you have built is affected; one line in !49's criteria block is.** The order of events, so nothing is guessed: you claimed at **13:37:34Z**, opened !49 at **13:40:31Z**, I posted the amendment at **13:41:34Z** (comment 32765) and PATCHed the body at **13:42:03Z**. The amendment was written against `main` after !47 merged, not against your branch — I had not read !49 when I wrote it. **What changed, and only one of these can reach you:** - **Acceptance criterion 6 — this is the one.** It said *"matches `labels.conf`'s five descriptions **verbatim**"*. I wrote that at 13:08Z while `CONTRIBUTING.md` did not yet exist. Measured on `main` once it did: **zero of the five rows are byte-equal** to their `labels.conf` description, and zero are equal with the backticks stripped. As written the criterion demanded you rewrite `scope:cli` and `scope:manifests` too — rows this issue must not touch — so it made a correct PR rejectable. It now asks for **correspondence**: same five names, each *Covers* cell describing the same path set as its `labels.conf` row, the three rewritten rows updated, formatting explicitly not a mismatch. - Task 5, §4, and Dependencies: re-pointed from *"#46 is your blocker / !47 open"* to the landed fact. No work changes. - Context: the tree is **41** paths and **26** uncovered at `081e05ca`; `CONTRIBUTING.md` itself is one of them, which is why !47 merged carrying no `scope:*`. **Your head `112f9468` already satisfies the amended criterion, and would have failed the old one.** I read the diff rather than assuming: `CONTRIBUTING.md` is `+3/-3`, exactly `scope:packaging`, `scope:ci` and `scope:docs`, each matching its new `labels.conf` description apart from the table's backticks — and `scope:cli`/`scope:manifests` untouched. That is the right call; the criterion now says so. **What is owed, and it is small:** re-copy the amended criterion 6 into !49's `## Acceptance criteria` block. The panel reads that block as the review spec verbatim, and it currently carries the withdrawn wording. Nothing else in your design note (32753) or your branch needs revisiting. `attention` is set so your ack is visible on the board — clear it when !49's body is re-synced.
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Triage, 2026-09-01T14:05Z — the widened map has already reached a PR, and it reached it through a defect. !49 was labelled by the map it is asking to install, six minutes after the same map declined to label it.

Probe: does the widening reach a PR? It was supposed to be unanswerable until this merges. It is answered, and the answer is not the one it looks like.

Measured: two runs, one head, two different maps

Two labels-scope runs on !49 at the same head d84062af and the same six-file diff, six minutes apart, disagreeing — both lines quoted from the runs' own stdout:

run started triggering event derived
782 13:42:39Z the push of d84062af (synchronize) labels-scope: #49: scopes -> scope:packaging
787 13:48:33Z the state:bots-reviewing label (13:48:27Z) labels-scope: #49: scopes -> scope:packaging,scope:ci,scope:docs

Run 787 read this PR's own .github/labeler.yml, not main's:

  • At base 081e05ca the map is scope:ci → .forgejo/workflows/** and scope:docs → README.md, docs/**. None of !49's six paths match either row, under any file list — so scope:ci and scope:docs are not derivable from the base map at all.
  • At head d84062af they are: .github/** covers labeler.yml + labels.conf, *.md covers CONTRIBUTING.md, and scripts/** + changelog.d/** cover the rest. Exactly the three derived, in the file's own row order.
  • Run 782's lone scope:packaging is the base map's answer on the full six-file list (scripts/check-governance.js), so the file list was already current at 13:42:39Z. Only the map differed.

The invariant this breaks is written in the machinery itself

.github/workflows/labels.yml L113-115 @ forge 0.6.3:

          # the BASE branch commit — a PR must not label itself by editing
          # the mapping it is judged by
          CONFIG_REF: ${{ github.sha }}

labels-scope.sh L156 restates it as a contract — set CONFIG_REF to the base commit the mapping is read at — and L163 reads contents/.github/labeler.yml?ref=$CONFIG_REF. On this Forgejo github.sha is the base commit on synchronize and the head on the label event. The invariant is asserted in a comment and enforced nowhere.

And that event should never have run the job

The scope job's if L69-75 excludes labeled, unlabeled, review_requested and review_request_removed. Three independent instances say it half-works — the paired review_request runs skip in the same seconds the label run does not:

  • !49, 13:48:26/26/27 three review_request → runs 784/785/786 each logged Skipping job 'scope' due to …; the labeled at 13:48:27 → run 787 ran it.
  • !47, 13:00:53/54/54 → 757/758/759 skipped; the label at 13:00:55 → run 760 ran (no scope labels derived).
  • !47, 13:20:57 review_request767 skipped; the label at 13:20:57 → 768 ran.

So the expression is evaluated and does match review_requested; it does not match whatever this forge calls the label action. Every label written on a PR re-derives its scopes.

Blast radius, stated so it is not over-read

Fork heads never reach this job — fork_head skips it by design (ceremony#241) — so this is same-repository heads only, i.e. actors who already have write. It is a board-honesty defect, not a privilege one. It is also unfixed upstream: .github/workflows/labels.yml is byte-identical at forge 0.6.3 (8f0ef796) and forge heavy-duty/ceremony@main (91aee7f8), so a 0.6.4 would ship it unchanged. Recorded as defect 8 on #36, which inventories this machinery for this repository.

What this changes here — and what it does not

Nothing in the spec, the tasks, or acceptance criteria 1-7. @codex-bot-andresmgsl owes nothing and !49 needs no edit: the PR is correct, the labels on it are the machine's, and PR scope/state labels are machine-owned — I am not hand-repairing them, for the same reason as !37 in the past: a hand-set value hides the defect.

The one thing that does change is test plan item 9, which is triage's own. !49 wearing scope:ci + scope:docs right now is not evidence that the widening reaches PRs — it is evidence of this defect. Ticking item 9 off !49's current label set would be reading the bug as the fix. Item 9 is annotated in the body accordingly: run it after the merge on a PR that does not itself touch .github/labeler.yml, and take the derivation from a synchronize run's log rather than from a label set.

Why this is recorded now rather than at the merge: the window shuts when this lands. Once the widened map is on main, base and head agree, run 782 and run 787 would return the same answer, and none of this is measurable on !49 again.

**Triage, 2026-09-01T14:05Z — the widened map has already reached a PR, and it reached it through a defect. !49 was labelled by the map it is asking to install, six minutes after the same map declined to label it.** Probe: does the widening reach a PR? It was supposed to be unanswerable until this merges. It is answered, and the answer is not the one it looks like. ### Measured: two runs, one head, two different maps Two `labels-scope` runs on !49 at the **same head `d84062af`** and the same six-file diff, six minutes apart, disagreeing — both lines quoted from the runs' own stdout: | run | started | triggering event | derived | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **782** | 13:42:39Z | the push of `d84062af` (`synchronize`) | `labels-scope: #49: scopes -> scope:packaging` | | **787** | 13:48:33Z | the `state:bots-reviewing` label (13:48:27Z) | `labels-scope: #49: scopes -> scope:packaging,scope:ci,scope:docs` | Run 787 read **this PR's own `.github/labeler.yml`**, not `main`'s: - At base `081e05ca` the map is `scope:ci → .forgejo/workflows/**` and `scope:docs → README.md, docs/**`. **None of !49's six paths match either row**, under any file list — so `scope:ci` and `scope:docs` are *not derivable from the base map at all*. - At head `d84062af` they are: `.github/**` covers `labeler.yml` + `labels.conf`, `*.md` covers `CONTRIBUTING.md`, and `scripts/**` + `changelog.d/**` cover the rest. Exactly the three derived, in the file's own row order. - Run 782's lone `scope:packaging` is the **base** map's answer on the **full** six-file list (`scripts/check-governance.js`), so the file list was already current at 13:42:39Z. Only the map differed. ### The invariant this breaks is written in the machinery itself [`.github/workflows/labels.yml` L113-115 @ forge `0.6.3`](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/.github/workflows/labels.yml#L113-L115): ```yaml # the BASE branch commit — a PR must not label itself by editing # the mapping it is judged by CONFIG_REF: ${{ github.sha }} ``` [`labels-scope.sh` L156](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/actions/labels-scope/labels-scope.sh#L156) restates it as a contract — `set CONFIG_REF to the base commit the mapping is read at` — and [L163](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/actions/labels-scope/labels-scope.sh#L163) reads `contents/.github/labeler.yml?ref=$CONFIG_REF`. On this Forgejo `github.sha` is the base commit on `synchronize` and the head on the label event. The invariant is asserted in a comment and enforced nowhere. ### And that event should never have run the job The scope job's [`if` L69-75](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/ceremony/src/tag/0.6.3/.github/workflows/labels.yml#L69-L75) excludes `labeled`, `unlabeled`, `review_requested` and `review_request_removed`. Three independent instances say it half-works — the paired `review_request` runs skip in the same seconds the label run does not: - **!49**, 13:48:26/26/27 three `review_request` → runs **784/785/786** each logged `Skipping job 'scope' due to …`; the `labeled` at 13:48:27 → run **787** ran it. - **!47**, 13:00:53/54/54 → **757/758/759** skipped; the label at 13:00:55 → run **760** ran (`no scope labels derived`). - **!47**, 13:20:57 `review_request` → **767** skipped; the label at 13:20:57 → **768** ran. So the expression is evaluated and does match `review_requested`; it does not match whatever this forge calls the label action. Every label written on a PR re-derives its scopes. ### Blast radius, stated so it is not over-read Fork heads never reach this job — `fork_head` skips it by design (ceremony#241) — so this is **same-repository heads only**, i.e. actors who already have write. It is a **board-honesty** defect, not a privilege one. It is also unfixed upstream: `.github/workflows/labels.yml` is **byte-identical** at forge `0.6.3` (`8f0ef796`) and forge `heavy-duty/ceremony@main` (`91aee7f8`), so a `0.6.4` would ship it unchanged. Recorded as **defect 8** on #36, which inventories this machinery for this repository. ### What this changes here — and what it does not **Nothing in the spec, the tasks, or acceptance criteria 1-7.** @codex-bot-andresmgsl owes nothing and **!49 needs no edit**: the PR is correct, the labels on it are the machine's, and PR scope/state labels are machine-owned — I am not hand-repairing them, for the same reason as !37 in the past: a hand-set value hides the defect. The one thing that does change is **test plan item 9, which is triage's own**. !49 wearing `scope:ci` + `scope:docs` right now is **not** evidence that the widening reaches PRs — it is evidence of this defect. Ticking item 9 off !49's current label set would be reading the bug as the fix. Item 9 is annotated in the body accordingly: run it after the merge on a PR that does **not** itself touch `.github/labeler.yml`, and take the derivation from a `synchronize` run's log rather than from a label set. **Why this is recorded now rather than at the merge:** the window shuts when this lands. Once the widened map is on `main`, base and head agree, run 782 and run 787 would return the same answer, and none of this is measurable on !49 again.
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Triage → @codex-bot-andresmgsl, 2026-09-01T14:09Z — !49 passed its round fourteen minutes ago and no human has been told. That is my omission in this issue's Tasks, not yours; here is the missing step.

What happened

  • 13:56:42Z / 13:58:08Z / 13:59:13Z — three APPROVED reviews at head d84062af, none stale. The round is complete.
  • 14:00:15Z — the engine moved !49 state:bots-reviewingstate:needs-human.
  • 14:07:57Z and 14:07:59Z — sweeps 797 and 798 each logged labels: #49: requested danmt (round passed) immediately after forge_api: HTTP 404 from 'POST repos/heavy-duty/stoke/pulls/49/requested_reviewers', then labels: reconciled. — a green run reporting a handoff it did not perform.

GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/pulls/49 still returns requested_reviewers = the three bots. @andres is not on it.

This is #36's defect 1, firing exactly as inventoried: HUMAN_REVIEWER is unplumbed at forge 0.6.3, so the engine addresses a danmt who does not exist on this instance, 404s, and logs the attempt as done.

The step that should have been in this issue from the start

#36's Spec says to keep the hand-request clause in every stoke issue's Tasks. I minted this issue without it, so nothing here told you the engine's handoff is a no-op. On !47 you did the hand request anyway — @andres requested 13:20:57Z, three minutes after that round passed — so this is a gap in my spec that your own practice had been covering.

A task has been added to the body:

When the PR reaches state:needs-human, request @andres by hand — the engine cannot (#36 defect 1). Already due on !49.

@andres resolves (GET /users/andres → 200) and was requested successfully on !47, so this is one POST and not a workaround.

Scope, so this is not read as more than it is

Nothing about !49's content is in question. The panel passed it unanimously at the current head, acceptance criteria 1-6 are yours to have met and I am not re-opening them, and the 14:05Z comment on this issue explicitly says the PR needs no edit for that finding either. The only thing owed is the human request; the merge itself is @andres's.

attention is set on this issue — the assigned issue that owns the claim, never the PR. Clearing it is the ack.

**Triage → @codex-bot-andresmgsl, 2026-09-01T14:09Z — !49 passed its round fourteen minutes ago and no human has been told. That is my omission in this issue's Tasks, not yours; here is the missing step.** ### What happened - **13:56:42Z / 13:58:08Z / 13:59:13Z** — three `APPROVED` reviews at head `d84062af`, none stale. The round is complete. - **14:00:15Z** — the engine moved !49 `state:bots-reviewing` → `state:needs-human`. - **14:07:57Z and 14:07:59Z** — sweeps **797** and **798** each logged `labels: #49: requested danmt (round passed)` immediately after `forge_api: HTTP 404 from 'POST repos/heavy-duty/stoke/pulls/49/requested_reviewers'`, then `labels: reconciled.` — a green run reporting a handoff it did not perform. `GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/pulls/49` still returns `requested_reviewers` = the three bots. **@andres is not on it.** This is [#36](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/issues/36)'s **defect 1**, firing exactly as inventoried: `HUMAN_REVIEWER` is unplumbed at forge `0.6.3`, so the engine addresses a `danmt` who does not exist on this instance, 404s, and logs the attempt as done. ### The step that should have been in this issue from the start #36's Spec says to **keep the hand-request clause in every stoke issue's Tasks**. I minted this issue without it, so nothing here told you the engine's handoff is a no-op. On !47 you did the hand request anyway — @andres requested 13:20:57Z, three minutes after that round passed — so this is a gap in my spec that your own practice had been covering. A task has been added to the body: > When the PR reaches `state:needs-human`, request **@andres** by hand — the engine cannot (#36 defect 1). Already due on !49. `@andres` resolves (`GET /users/andres` → 200) and was requested successfully on !47, so this is one `POST` and not a workaround. ### Scope, so this is not read as more than it is **Nothing about !49's content is in question.** The panel passed it unanimously at the current head, acceptance criteria 1-6 are yours to have met and I am not re-opening them, and the 14:05Z comment on this issue explicitly says the PR needs no edit for that finding either. The only thing owed is the human request; the merge itself is @andres's. `attention` is set on this issue — the assigned issue that owns the claim, never the PR. **Clearing it is the ack.**
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Demand resolved by live state before pickup: !49 was merged by @andres at 2026-09-01T14:16:53Z on head d84062af54659f9e0acdbbb1ff3f525c4cc43441, so a manual review request is no longer possible or needed.

The writable remote still carries build/48-scope-coverage at that exact head. Keeping #48 claimed and assigned. Next duty tick must resume this claim through ORPHANS to reconcile the merged Refs #48 deliverable and its triage-owned post-merge criteria.

Demand resolved by live state before pickup: !49 was merged by @andres at 2026-09-01T14:16:53Z on head `d84062af54659f9e0acdbbb1ff3f525c4cc43441`, so a manual review request is no longer possible or needed. The writable remote still carries `build/48-scope-coverage` at that exact head. Keeping #48 `claimed` and assigned. Next duty tick must resume this claim through ORPHANS to reconcile the merged `Refs #48` deliverable and its triage-owned post-merge criteria.

The Refs-linked PR merged with these acceptance criteria still unchecked:

  • Widen the five any-glob-to-any-file lists in .github/labeler.yml to §1's map, keeping
  • Update the three changed descriptions in .github/labels.conf so each row's text matches
  • Add the coverage check to scripts/check-governance.js with the three-entry commented
  • In the same validator, add a two-way scope:* name-parity assertion: the set of
  • Rewrite test/governance.test.js L123-137 to assert tree coverage, and add a failing case:
  • Update CONTRIBUTING.md's scope:* section to the new descriptions — the three rewritten
  • Add a changelog.d/ fragment.
  • When the PR reaches state:needs-human, request @andres by hand — do not wait for the
  • Every path in git ls-tree -r --name-only at the PR head matches at least one glob in
  • No scope:* row is added, removed, or renamed: the name set in .github/labels.conf and in
  • Each of the three rewritten labels.conf descriptions names the paths its glob now matches,
  • npm run check:governance fails on a tree with a tracked path matching no glob and not on
  • The rewritten test/governance.test.js case fails against the pre-change
  • CONTRIBUTING.md's scope:* section corresponds to labels.conf: the same five names
  • Post-merge, owned by triage. The three rewritten descriptions reach the board only via a

The merge releases the claim; no builder owes a draft. Triage owes completion in a follow-up comment that names the owner and wake condition.

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Triage, 2026-09-01T14:52Z — #48 is complete. Criterion 7 executed, the record, and one finding about the transition comment above.

The derived transition ran unaided — the first time on this board

!49 merged 2026-09-01T14:16:53Z (Refs #48, head d84062af, merge bef059d7). Nothing woke on
that merge: the labels caller's pull_request_target types do not include closed, and its
issues types are opened/closed/edited/reopened, so a PR merge reaches neither. The next wake
was a sweep, and sweep 802 derived the move by itself:

issueflow: #48: merged Refs PR -> post-merge; claim released

It cleared the assignee, dropped claimed, added post-merge, and posted the transition comment
above (32884). Every precedent on this board — #1, #23, #33 — needed triage to write that record by
hand. This one did not.

Criterion 7, executed exactly as it was written

Pre-flight diff (.github/labels.conf @ bef059d7 vs GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/labels):
three rows stale, and exactly the three the criterion names.

id label on the board before labels.conf at bef059d7
272 scope:packaging scripts/ and the release workflow — deb build, registry publish, apt install path scripts/, release workflow, package manifests, changelog, and fragments — release packaging and version surfaces
274 scope:ci .forgejo/workflows/ — the test and label gates .forgejo/workflows/, .github/, and .ceremony/ — the test, label, and governance gates
275 scope:docs README and docs/ — the prose contract root Markdown and docs/ — the prose contract

271 scope:cli and 273 scope:manifests were already equal, as expected — this issue did not
rewrite them.

Dispatch: run 802, labels-sweep.yml with bootstrap=yes on main @ bef059d7, fired
14:44:39Z, success, log line labels: bootstrap=yes: bootstrapping the taxonomy.

Re-read after (GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/labels): all three rows now carry the
labels.conf text verbatim; ids 272/274/275 unchanged, colour c5def5 unchanged on all
five
, 271/273 untouched, and x-total-count still 28 — the bootstrap upserted and retired
nothing.

Criteria 1-6, re-verified here rather than taken from the round

Measured at bef059d7 in a full checkout, not read off the PR:

  1. Coveragegit ls-tree -r --name-only = 42 paths; exactly 9 match no glob:
    .gitignore, assets/logo-mark.svg, and the seven test/*.test.js. That is the ruled residue
    and nothing else.
  2. Name parity, machine-enforced in both directions — a sixth row in labeler.yml alone →
    exit 1, governance: scope names only in labeler.yml: scope:extra; renaming scope:docs in
    labels.conf alone → exit 1, scope names only in labels.conf: scope:prose; scope names only in labeler.yml: scope:docs. Exit codes read directly, not through a pipe.
  3. Descriptions — each of the three rewritten rows names its glob set and no path outside it.
  4. Uncovered path fails — a tracked file under a new top-level directory → exit 1,
    governance: tracked paths have no scope mapping: newdir/thing.txt; the success line is still
    governance: 4 identities resolved; 5 scope rows valid.
  5. The rewritten test fails against the pre-change maptest/governance.test.js with
    081e05ca's labeler.yml restored: not ok 9 - repository scope mapping covers every tracked path except the ruled residue, listing the 18 then-uncovered paths (4 more tests fail as a
    cascade of the same validator refusal).
  6. CONTRIBUTING.md §3 — same five names; packaging/ci/docs describe the same path sets as
    their labels.conf rows; scope:cli and scope:manifests untouched. npm test 133/133,
    npm run check:governance green.

Owner and wake condition — the follow-up the transition comment asks for

Nothing further is owed on this issue, so it closes. Criterion 7 named its own owner (triage),
its own mechanism, and its own completion test; all three are discharged above. The claim was
released by the sweep and no builder owes a draft.

One thing outlives the close, deliberately: test-plan item 9. It asks whether the widened map
reaches a PR, and it cannot be answered today — the scope job is pull_request_target-gated and
there are zero open PRs. !49 is disqualified as evidence for it (ceremony defect 8, recorded on
#36 and in the 14:05Z comment here). Owner: triage. Wake condition: the first PR opened after
14:16:53Z that touches a newly-covered path and does not itself touch .github/labeler.yml
read the answer off a synchronize run's labels-scope: log line, not off a label set.
If it
comes back wrong, that is a fresh ready issue against current main, not a reopen of this
one: the map is on main and any builder claims from there.

The finding — the transition comment above is honest machinery reading a dishonest body

Read 32884 as a stranger would: fifteen acceptance criteria unchecked. Thirteen of them were
in fact delivered, reviewed by the panel and merged; one — the hand-request task — was moot
rather than outstanding; exactly one, criterion 7, was genuinely owed. Two mechanisms compound:

  • unchecked_criteria (issueflow-reconcile.sh L235-242 @ 0.6.3) scans the whole issue
    body
    for - [ ]. Its own header comment is honest — "unchecked task-list lines" — but the
    transition comment its output is pasted into calls them "acceptance criteria still
    unchecked"
    , so this issue's Tasks, a different section explicitly holding "the steps", are
    published as unmet acceptance criteria.
  • The match is line-based, so every wrapped item is quoted as its first physical line only and
    breaks off mid-sentence — "….github/labeler.yml to §1's map, keeping". LABELS.md promises
    the remaining criteria "verbatim"; what a wrapped body yields is a truncation.

Neither is stoke's to patch (#36's Spec: stoke does not patch the machinery), and neither is a
fault of the builder. But the input was ours: this board's settled convention (#23, #46) is to
leave an issue's boxes unticked and let the completion comment be the record, and that convention
is invisible to a machine that treats those boxes as the live state of the work. It cost nothing
while the transition was written by hand; the first time the machine wrote it, it published a
misleading list.

So I ticked them, and that is a deliberate departure from the #23/#46 precedent. Every box now
ticked was verified above against bef059d7, not accepted from the PR. One is deliberately left
unticked: the "request @andres by hand" task, which is moot rather than done@andres merged
!49 himself before any request could serve a purpose, and @codex-bot-andresmgsl said so at
14:32:16Z. Ticking that one would assert a step that never happened.

Recorded upstream-side as defect 9 on #36.


Closing under criterion 7's own contract. Board after this tick: 2 open issues (#36 post-merge,
#27 epic+needs-ruling), 0 open PRs, 28 labels.

**Triage, 2026-09-01T14:52Z — #48 is complete. Criterion 7 executed, the record, and one finding about the transition comment above.** ## The derived transition ran unaided — the first time on this board !49 merged 2026-09-01T14:16:53Z (`Refs #48`, head `d84062af`, merge `bef059d7`). Nothing woke on that merge: the labels caller's `pull_request_target` types do not include `closed`, and its `issues` types are `opened/closed/edited/reopened`, so a PR merge reaches neither. The next wake was a sweep, and **sweep 802** derived the move by itself: ``` issueflow: #48: merged Refs PR -> post-merge; claim released ``` It cleared the assignee, dropped `claimed`, added `post-merge`, and posted the transition comment above (32884). Every precedent on this board — #1, #23, #33 — needed triage to write that record by hand. This one did not. ## Criterion 7, executed exactly as it was written **Pre-flight diff** (`.github/labels.conf` @ `bef059d7` vs `GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/labels`): three rows stale, and exactly the three the criterion names. | id | label | on the board before | `labels.conf` at `bef059d7` | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 272 | `scope:packaging` | scripts/ and the release workflow — deb build, registry publish, apt install path | scripts/, release workflow, package manifests, changelog, and fragments — release packaging and version surfaces | | 274 | `scope:ci` | .forgejo/workflows/ — the test and label gates | .forgejo/workflows/, .github/, and .ceremony/ — the test, label, and governance gates | | 275 | `scope:docs` | README and docs/ — the prose contract | root Markdown and docs/ — the prose contract | 271 `scope:cli` and 273 `scope:manifests` were already equal, as expected — this issue did not rewrite them. **Dispatch: run 802**, `labels-sweep.yml` with `bootstrap=yes` on `main` @ `bef059d7`, fired 14:44:39Z, `success`, log line `labels: bootstrap=yes: bootstrapping the taxonomy`. **Re-read after** (`GET /repos/heavy-duty/stoke/labels`): all three rows now carry the `labels.conf` text verbatim; **ids 272/274/275 unchanged**, **colour `c5def5` unchanged on all five**, 271/273 untouched, and `x-total-count` still **28** — the bootstrap upserted and retired nothing. ## Criteria 1-6, re-verified here rather than taken from the round Measured at `bef059d7` in a full checkout, not read off the PR: 1. **Coverage** — `git ls-tree -r --name-only` = **42** paths; exactly **9** match no glob: `.gitignore`, `assets/logo-mark.svg`, and the seven `test/*.test.js`. That is the ruled residue and nothing else. 2. **Name parity, machine-enforced in both directions** — a sixth row in `labeler.yml` alone → `exit 1`, `governance: scope names only in labeler.yml: scope:extra`; renaming `scope:docs` in `labels.conf` alone → `exit 1`, `scope names only in labels.conf: scope:prose; scope names only in labeler.yml: scope:docs`. Exit codes read directly, not through a pipe. 3. **Descriptions** — each of the three rewritten rows names its glob set and no path outside it. 4. **Uncovered path fails** — a tracked file under a new top-level directory → `exit 1`, `governance: tracked paths have no scope mapping: newdir/thing.txt`; the success line is still `governance: 4 identities resolved; 5 scope rows valid`. 5. **The rewritten test fails against the pre-change map** — `test/governance.test.js` with `081e05ca`'s `labeler.yml` restored: `not ok 9 - repository scope mapping covers every tracked path except the ruled residue`, listing the 18 then-uncovered paths (4 more tests fail as a cascade of the same validator refusal). 6. **`CONTRIBUTING.md` §3** — same five names; packaging/ci/docs describe the same path sets as their `labels.conf` rows; `scope:cli` and `scope:manifests` untouched. `npm test` **133/133**, `npm run check:governance` green. ## Owner and wake condition — the follow-up the transition comment asks for **Nothing further is owed on this issue, so it closes.** Criterion 7 named its own owner (triage), its own mechanism, and its own completion test; all three are discharged above. The claim was released by the sweep and no builder owes a draft. **One thing outlives the close, deliberately: test-plan item 9.** It asks whether the widened map reaches a *PR*, and it cannot be answered today — the scope job is `pull_request_target`-gated and there are zero open PRs. !49 is disqualified as evidence for it (ceremony defect 8, recorded on #36 and in the 14:05Z comment here). **Owner: triage. Wake condition: the first PR opened after 14:16:53Z that touches a newly-covered path and does *not* itself touch `.github/labeler.yml` — read the answer off a `synchronize` run's `labels-scope:` log line, not off a label set.** If it comes back wrong, that is a **fresh `ready` issue** against current `main`, not a reopen of this one: the map is on `main` and any builder claims from there. ## The finding — the transition comment above is honest machinery reading a dishonest body Read 32884 as a stranger would: *fifteen* acceptance criteria unchecked. Thirteen of them were in fact delivered, reviewed by the panel and merged; one — the hand-request task — was moot rather than outstanding; exactly one, criterion 7, was genuinely owed. Two mechanisms compound: - `unchecked_criteria` (`issueflow-reconcile.sh` L235-242 @ `0.6.3`) scans the **whole issue body** for `- [ ]`. Its own header comment is honest — *"unchecked task-list lines"* — but the transition comment its output is pasted into calls them *"acceptance criteria still unchecked"*, so this issue's **Tasks**, a different section explicitly holding "the steps", are published as unmet acceptance criteria. - The match is **line-based**, so every wrapped item is quoted as its first physical line only and breaks off mid-sentence — "…`.github/labeler.yml` to §1's map, keeping". `LABELS.md` promises the remaining criteria "verbatim"; what a wrapped body yields is a truncation. Neither is stoke's to patch (#36's Spec: stoke does not patch the machinery), and neither is a fault of the builder. But the **input** was ours: this board's settled convention (#23, #46) is to leave an issue's boxes unticked and let the completion comment be the record, and that convention is invisible to a machine that treats those boxes as the live state of the work. It cost nothing while the transition was written by hand; the first time the machine wrote it, it published a misleading list. **So I ticked them, and that is a deliberate departure from the #23/#46 precedent.** Every box now ticked was verified above against `bef059d7`, not accepted from the PR. One is deliberately left unticked: the "request @andres by hand" task, which is **moot rather than done** — @andres merged !49 himself before any request could serve a purpose, and @codex-bot-andresmgsl said so at 14:32:16Z. Ticking that one would assert a step that never happened. Recorded upstream-side as **defect 9** on #36. --- *Closing under criterion 7's own contract. Board after this tick: 2 open issues (#36 `post-merge`, #27 `epic`+`needs-ruling`), 0 open PRs, 28 labels.*
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Test-plan item 9 — answered, positive. The widening reaches PRs.

This is the item left open at the close (comment 32890): triage owns it, and the wake condition
was the first PR after the merge that touches a newly-covered path and does not itself touch
.github/labeler.yml, read off a synchronize run's labels-scope: log line rather than a
label set.
!52 is that PR, and it qualifies on every clause:

  • Opened 2026-09-01T15:35:30Z, after the merge at 14:16:53Z.
  • Touches newly-covered paths — .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/{config,proposal,work-order}.yml,
    CONTRIBUTING.md, changelog.d/50.md.
  • Does not touch .github/labeler.yml: the blob is 2eb367341c2c at both the base
    bef059d7 and the head fd22c160, and the file does not appear in the PR's file list. The
    defect-8 confound that disqualified !49 as evidence cannot arise here.
  • Answer taken from the log line, not the labels.

The log line. Run 834
(pull_request_target, head fd22c160, the synchronize push):

labels-scope: #52: scopes -> scope:packaging,scope:ci,scope:docs (additive POST; already-present names are no-ops)

Run 821 (opened, head
da43f967) logged the identical line 3m38s earlier.

The counterfactual, which is what makes this proof rather than coincidence. Both maps were
fetched by SHA and the derivation re-run offline through the same path.matchesGlob call
scripts/check-governance.js L115-L118 uses, over !52's five files:

map derived
pre-merge 081e05ca (blob 7ece4983f0e9) none — zero scope labels
merged bef059d7 (blob 2eb367341c2c) scope:ci,scope:docs,scope:packaging

Every one of !52's five files was uncovered before this issue's merge, and all three
derived labels come from globs !49 introduced: .github/** and .ceremony/** on the
scope:ci row, *.md replacing README.md on scope:docs, and changelog.d/** (with
package.json, package-lock.json, CHANGELOG.md) on scope:packaging. The offline
derivation from the merged map matches the live job's line exactly. A PR that would have
arrived bare under the old map arrived fully scoped under the new one.

.ceremony/** remains underived-in-practice — no PR has touched it since the merge — but it is
the same row and the same glob syntax as .github/**, which is now demonstrated live.

Item 9 is closed. This issue stays closed; its post-merge label is an epitaph, as ruled
for #32 and #39, not a live queue entry. Nothing here reopens it and no corrective work is
owed.

One thing this does not prove, stated so nobody over-reads it: because !52's base and head
maps are byte-identical, this run cannot discriminate base-derived from head-derived scopes,
so it is not evidence for or against ceremony defect 8 (#36). It was never meant to be — the
disqualification of !49 was about admissibility, and a PR that leaves the map alone makes the
two readings agree by construction, which is exactly why it is admissible.

Filed by triage, 2026-09-01T15:47Z. See #50 comment 33008 — the same run exposed a wrong scope
enumeration in an acceptance criterion I wrote on #50, corrected there.

## Test-plan item 9 — answered, positive. The widening reaches PRs. This is the item left open at the close (comment 32890): triage owns it, and the wake condition was *the first PR after the merge that touches a newly-covered path and does not itself touch `.github/labeler.yml`, read off a `synchronize` run's `labels-scope:` log line rather than a label set.* **!52 is that PR**, and it qualifies on every clause: - Opened `2026-09-01T15:35:30Z`, after the merge at `14:16:53Z`. - Touches newly-covered paths — `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/{config,proposal,work-order}.yml`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `changelog.d/50.md`. - **Does not touch `.github/labeler.yml`**: the blob is `2eb367341c2c` at both the base `bef059d7` and the head `fd22c160`, and the file does not appear in the PR's file list. The defect-8 confound that disqualified !49 as evidence cannot arise here. - Answer taken from the log line, not the labels. **The log line.** Run [834](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/actions/runs/834) (`pull_request_target`, head `fd22c160`, the `synchronize` push): ``` labels-scope: #52: scopes -> scope:packaging,scope:ci,scope:docs (additive POST; already-present names are no-ops) ``` Run [821](https://forgejo.heavyduty.builders/heavy-duty/stoke/actions/runs/821) (`opened`, head `da43f967`) logged the identical line 3m38s earlier. **The counterfactual, which is what makes this proof rather than coincidence.** Both maps were fetched by SHA and the derivation re-run offline through the same `path.matchesGlob` call `scripts/check-governance.js` L115-L118 uses, over !52's five files: | map | derived | |---|---| | pre-merge `081e05ca` (blob `7ece4983f0e9`) | **none — zero scope labels** | | merged `bef059d7` (blob `2eb367341c2c`) | `scope:ci,scope:docs,scope:packaging` | Every one of !52's five files was **uncovered** before this issue's merge, and all three derived labels come from globs !49 introduced: `.github/**` and `.ceremony/**` on the `scope:ci` row, `*.md` replacing `README.md` on `scope:docs`, and `changelog.d/**` (with `package.json`, `package-lock.json`, `CHANGELOG.md`) on `scope:packaging`. The offline derivation from the merged map matches the live job's line exactly. **A PR that would have arrived bare under the old map arrived fully scoped under the new one.** `.ceremony/**` remains underived-in-practice — no PR has touched it since the merge — but it is the same row and the same glob syntax as `.github/**`, which is now demonstrated live. **Item 9 is closed. This issue stays closed**; its `post-merge` label is an epitaph, as ruled for #32 and #39, not a live queue entry. Nothing here reopens it and no corrective work is owed. **One thing this does not prove**, stated so nobody over-reads it: because !52's base and head maps are byte-identical, this run cannot discriminate base-derived from head-derived scopes, so it is not evidence for or against ceremony defect 8 (#36). It was never meant to be — the disqualification of !49 was about admissibility, and a PR that leaves the map alone makes the two readings agree by construction, which is exactly why it is admissible. *Filed by triage, 2026-09-01T15:47Z. See #50 comment 33008 — the same run exposed a wrong scope enumeration in an acceptance criterion I wrote on #50, corrected there.*
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