Three more copies of the ratchet's ruled figures with no producer-side pin — one calls itself "reused" while being a hand copy, and one has already rotted against the ceiling #1320 moved

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Filed by the repo:hotcrm PM seat on behalf of the #1321 dev, which found all three while wiring the first two copies to their producer and could not file them (HTTP 403 from api.github.com). Each was outside its declared surface and reported rather than swept in. Dedupe search run: no existing card.

⚠️ Blocked-by nothing, but ⛔ do not start before PR #1334 merges — it exports BUFFER from the gate, which is what makes item 1 a one-line import instead of a redesign.

Same root cause as #1321, three artefacts further out

The gate computes CEILINGS, BUFFER, anchor() and every figure it prints. #1321 wired the test fixtures and the docstring table to it. Three more restatements remain, and nothing compares any of them to the producer.

1. test/docs-readme-token-figures.test.ts:84 — claims to reuse, actually copies

const TOLERANCE = 0.05;  // "The ruled working buffer, 「给 5% 缓冲」 — the ratchet's own, reused."

⚠️ It says reused. It is a hand copy. The comment asserts a wiring that does not exist, which is worse than a bare literal: a reader who checks the comment stops looking. ⇒ After #1334, import { BUFFER } makes the comment true.

2. The same file's docstring — already false, measured

Around :51-52 it states interaction layer — banner ~39k, band 37,050 to 40,950, ceiling 42,000 and then argues from it: "the ceiling's round-up-to-1k left it 7.5% of headroom rather than 5%".

⇒ The interaction ceiling has been 40,000 since #1320 and the headroom is 6.9%, not 7.5%. That prose went false the moment the constant moved and nothing noticed — because it is unpinned prose, it breaks no test. This is #1321's thesis demonstrated rather than argued, in a file whose whole job is guarding restated figures.

3. scripts/check-source-token-ratchet.mjs header prose — two more unpinned anchor() outputs

"On that same run anchor() would have set business semantics to 87,000 and the authored total to 141,000"

Both are anchor() of readings recorded in the same docstring (anchor(82,489) = 87,000, anchor(133,840) = 141,000 — re-derived and correct today). Two more hand-transcribed derived figures beside the table that #1334 now pins.

⚠️ #1334 deliberately did NOT pin this one, and the reason is the scope note for this card: the sentence wraps across a comment line break, so a row-style regex would be brittle in a way the table's is not. Pinning it well wants the sentence reflowed first — a change to the docstring's shape, which is why it was left rather than bolted on. ⇒ If reflowing turns out to fight the surrounding prose, report that; leaving item 3 unpinned with a recorded reason is an acceptable outcome, ⛔ a brittle regex is not.

Scope

1. TOLERANCE imports BUFFER from the gate. ⛔ Do not change the value.
2. Correct the docstring's stale figures and pin them — same shape as test(ratchet): wire both hand-calibrated copies to the ceilings that produce them #1334's table pin, and read that pin first: it is the house form now.
3. Item 3 per the note above: reflow then pin, or report why not.

⛔ Do not change any ceiling value, BUFFER, or the README banner. ⛔ Do not touch scripts/check-source-hygiene.mjs.

Acceptance

• Mutating a ceiling constant makes each newly pinned figure go red naming its artefact — ⚠️ the same load-bearing proof test(ratchet): wire both hand-calibrated copies to the ceilings that produce them #1334 used, because a suite green on today's constants proves nothing here: every literal in this card is green today too.
• A restore leg proving git diff HEAD empty, mutations proved on disk by blob hash before any verdict is read.

⚠️ Related observation — not this card's work, but it will land on whoever does it

The README interaction banner still reads ~39k while the gate measures 37,428 (37,432 after #1331). docs-readme-token-figures holds the banner to a 5% band whose lower edge is 37,050 — so the live reading sits about 380 tokens above it. The next modest interaction shrink turns that test red on the banner. That is a README-restatement moment by design, ⛔ not a defect, but it is worth knowing before it surprises someone mid-card.

Related

• Two artefacts are hand-calibrated against the token ratchet's ceilings and neither is wired to them — so every legitimate re-anchoring breaks a test, and the docstring's worked table rots with nothing watching #1321 / PR test(ratchet): wire both hand-calibrated copies to the ceilings that produce them #1334 — the first two copies, and the pin shape to copy
• Re-anchor the interaction-layer token ceiling after #1307: the ratchet itself asks for 42,000 → ~40,000, and its own discipline sanctions the lowering #1317 / PR chore(ratchet): re-anchor the interaction-layer token ceiling 42,000 -> 40,000 #1320 — the re-anchoring that falsified item 2
• Add a source-token ratchet gate: comment-stripped tokens over the authored surface (src minus translations/ and data/), only-down #1183 — the ratchet itself

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Claim: PM loop round 9
Session: session_016ED4cusQ7pxZ7d7TCLKrZb
Branch: claude/issue-1335-ratchet-copies-read-the-producer
Worktree: hotcrm-issue-1335
Domain: repo:hotcrm
File surface: test/docs-readme-token-figures.test.ts · scripts/check-source-token-ratchet.mjs (docstring/exports only) (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus
Clause-②: no
Serial constraints cleared: PR #1334 landed (d456ea3) — that was this card's stated blocker, and it is what makes item 1 a one-line import. No other open pm:dispatched card touches these files. Siblings this round are #1314 (scripts/check-source-hygiene.mjs — a different gate) and #1333 (src/views/case.view.ts) — disjoint. ⛔ Do not conflate the two gates; this lane has done it before.

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Premise: unblocked, and the shape to copy is now in the tree

BUFFER is exported from scripts/check-source-token-ratchet.mjs as of #1334, and test/source-token-ratchet.test.ts:8 shows the working import form under strict (allowJs: true landed with it). ⇒ Item 1 is now an import, not a redesign.

⭐ Read test/source-token-ratchet.test.ts before writing anything — #1334's table pin is the house form for item 2, including its comment telling its own maintainer ⛔ never to relax the regex when the table's shape changes. Match that shape; ⛔ do not invent a second one.

Adjudication (⛔ not re-litigable) — three artefacts, and item 2 is already false

1. test/docs-readme-token-figures.test.ts:84 — const TOLERANCE = 0.05 with a comment claiming it is "the ratchet's own, reused". ⚠️ It says reused; it is a hand copy — worse than a bare literal, because a reader who checks the comment stops looking. Import BUFFER. ⛔ Do not change the value.
2. The same file's docstring (~:51-52) — states interaction layer — banner ~39k, band 37,050 to 40,950, ceiling 42,000 and argues from it: "the ceiling's round-up-to-1k left it 7.5% of headroom rather than 5%". ⚠️ The ceiling has been 40,000 since chore(ratchet): re-anchor the interaction-layer token ceiling 42,000 -> 40,000 #1320 and the headroom is 6.9%. That prose went false the moment the constant moved and nothing noticed, because it is unpinned. Correct it AND pin it.
3. scripts/check-source-token-ratchet.mjs header prose — "anchor() would have set business semantics to 87,000 and the authored total to 141,000". Two more unpinned anchor() outputs (correct today).

⚠️ Item 3 carries its own scope note, and it came from the #1321 dev, not from me: the sentence wraps across a comment line break, so a row-style regex would be brittle in a way the table's is not. Pinning it well wants the sentence reflowed first. ⇒ Reflow then pin, or report why not. ⭐ Leaving item 3 unpinned with a recorded reason is an acceptable outcome; a brittle regex is not.

⛔ Do not change any ceiling value, BUFFER, or the README banner. ⛔ Do not touch scripts/check-source-hygiene.mjs (#1314's, this round).

Acceptance

⭐ Mutate a ceiling constant and confirm each newly pinned figure goes red naming its artefact. ⚠️ This is the whole card: every literal named here is green today, so a suite that passes on today's constants proves exactly nothing — that is the defect, not the test.

• Mutations proved on disk by blob hash before any verdict is read; restore via git checkout HEAD -- PATH (⛔ the bare form restores from the index), proved by an empty git diff HEAD.
• ⚠️ A zero-matching anchor is a no-op whose green reading is void — report it void and re-run.

⚠️ Two instabilities you must not pin — both measured on this lane today

1. The README interaction banner reads ~39k against a live ~37,431, and docs-readme-token-figures holds it to a 5% band whose lower edge is 37,050 — about 380 tokens of margin. The next modest interaction shrink turns that test red on the banner. That is a README-restatement moment by design, ⛔ not a defect, and ⛔ not yours to pre-empt. Know it so it does not surprise you mid-card.
2. The hygiene gate's control-byte figure counts .changeset/, so every PR moves it by one via its own changeset (measured: 344 on main, 345 on a PR branch). Different gate, ⛔ not your file — recorded so you never pin a figure of that shape.

Delivery

worktree → branch → edit → pnpm verify green → empty-frontmatter changeset (tooling only, publishes nothing) → push → draft PR.

⛔ Your seat is 403 on api.github.com: report out-of-scope findings to me, structured; ⛔ do not file them.

⛔ Stop and report if any premise does not reproduce — item 2's figures in particular, since they are already known to be stale and may have moved again.

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  "issue": 1335,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-1335-ratchet-copies-read-the-producer",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/hotcrm/pull/1341",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "All three premises reproduced exactly. Item 1: TOLERANCE was a hand copy of 0.05 under a comment claiming reuse; it now imports BUFFER from the gate, value unchanged. Item 2: the docstring band table said 'ceiling 42,000' for the interaction layer against a committed 40,000, and the paragraph under it reasoned from the stale figure that this rule was the tighter of the two and fired ~1k early; with the ceiling at 40,000 the direction is reversed (band upper edge 40,950 sits 950 BELOW the old ceiling but ABOVE the current one, so on growth the ratchet now fails first on both layers). Corrected, and pinned: a new nested describe reads this file's own docstring and asserts every field of both rows against its producer -- banner figure against the README via the existing CLAIMS patterns, band edges against the imported BUFFER, ceiling against CEILINGS, and the paragraph's own claim as the relation between them. Item 3: both anchor() figures re-derived and correct today (anchor(82,489)=87,000 vs committed 85,000; anchor(133,840)=141,000 vs committed 140,000); the sentence is REFLOWED into one worked line per declined re-anchoring, in the shape of the table above it, but deliberately LEFT UNPINNED -- see open_questions for the reason, which is about where the pin belongs, not about the reflow. No ceiling, BUFFER or README banner value changed; scripts/check-source-hygiene.mjs untouched. Changeset has empty frontmatter (tooling/comment text only).",
  "tests": "pnpm verify green end to end on the final commit bc3ddd1 (VERIFY_EXIT captured before any pipe): gate verdict lines '✓ source hygiene clean', '✓ source token ratchet clean', '✓ i18n lint gate: 0 i18n/missing-* issues', then 'Test Files 142 passed (142) / Tests 3002 passed | 1 skipped (3003)'. tsc --noEmit green, and --listFiles confirms BOTH edited files are in the typecheck program (2/2 matched), so that green covers these edits rather than skipping them. Reverse verification -- four ablation legs, implementation committed FIRST so HEAD carries it; each leg captured the HEAD blob hash, proved the mutation on disk by blob-hash change AND by counting removed-text (must reach 0) and injected-text (must reach 1) before any verdict was read, restored with 'git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH' under an EXIT/INT/TERM trap using an absolute REPO_ROOT, and proved the restore by blob hash back at the HEAD blob plus an empty 'git diff HEAD'. No leg was void: every anchor matched exactly once. LEG A, CEILINGS interaction 40000->41000: RED, 1 failed 9 passed, 'quotes the committed ceiling rather than a copy of it' -- message names the artefact ('test/docs-readme-token-figures.test.ts docstring row: ... the row restates a ceiling the gate no longer commits (it commits 41,000)'). LEG B, BUFFER 0.05->0.02: RED, 2 failed 8 passed -- 'derives both band edges from the imported buffer' AND 'is within the ruled 5% buffer of what the gate measures today'; the second is the proof item 1 is live wiring, since a hand-copied 0.05 could not have moved. LEG C, README banner ~81k->~82k: RED, 1 failed 9 passed, 'quotes the banner figure the README actually states'. LEG D, the docstring row put back to its pre-fix 'ceiling 42,000': RED, 2 failed 8 passed -- the ceiling assertion and the paragraph's claim -- i.e. this pin would have caught the #1320 rot on the day it happened. Leg A reddens exactly ONE assertion by design: the paragraph's claim is read against the ROW's ceiling, not the committed one, because the case above it already ties the row to CEILINGS -- one cause, one red, the second firing when the row is corrected and the paragraph over it is not. Non-vacuity of the new pin is structural: the first case asserts the parsed row labels EQUAL the CLAIMS labels, so an unparseable table fails rather than passing empty (verified by legs C and D, which could only fail because rows parsed).",
  "mcp_calls": "5 - issue_read get, issue_read get_comments, create_pull_request, pull_request_read (body read-back, intact through the footer), add_issue_comment",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "Item 3 is reflowed but not pinned, because its pin has no non-duplicating home inside this card's declared file surface. The natural home is test/source-token-ratchet.test.ts, which already pins the header table beside this very sentence and already holds every helper the pin needs (source(), num(), ceilingOf(), and the RUN / RUN_READINGS pair that ties a row's reading to the anchoring run it came from). That file is out of surface. Writing it into test/docs-readme-token-figures.test.ts instead would mean copying that machinery into a second file -- a second parser for one artefact, which is the defect class of this card. How should the pin land?",
      "options": [
        "A - follow-up card on test/source-token-ratchet.test.ts alone: add one case beside the existing header-table pin, reusing its helpers. Shape ready to copy: a single-line regex for the reflowed rows, then per row assert anchor(reading) === the stated figure, assert the stated figure is GREATER than ceilingOf(label) (the 'declined as a RAISE' claim), and tie the row's reading to the recorded run for its date via the existing runs() helper. ~12-15 lines, no new machinery, no change to the gate.",
        "B - widen this PR's surface now by that same ~15 lines, breaching the declared surface with the breach declared in the PR body.",
        "C - delete both figures from the sentence instead, keeping the claim, as #1338 did for hand-maintained integers. Cheaper, but weaker here: unlike #1338's figures these two HAVE a producer (anchor() plus the readings recorded four lines above), so pinning is available and deletion would give up a checkable derivation."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A. The card pre-authorised leaving item 3 unpinned with a recorded reason, and the reflow -- the part the card said the pin wants first -- is landed, so the follow-up is mechanical and small. B was rejected on the surface clause ('stop on breach'), not on difficulty. C is dominated by A now that the sentence is one line per figure."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "NOT FILED (seat is 403 on api.github.com) -- for PM to file. scripts/check-source-token-ratchet.mjs header, the paragraph on the stripping rule, asserts a wiring that does not exist -- the SAME defect shape as this card's item 1, in the same file. It says the rule is 'pinned by test/source-token-ratchet.test.ts -- which cross-checks this scanner against the TypeScript compiler's own comment-trivia ranges over every real file in src/', and adds 'TypeScript is a devDependency and stays a test-time dependency on purpose'. That suite's own docstring says the opposite and explains why: TypeScript 7's npm package exposes no compiler API (import ts from 'typescript' yields { version, versionMajorMinor } and nothing else), so the equivalence proof was a HAND run with esbuild, recorded in prose, and 'is not automated here' because esbuild is not a declared dependency. Verified on 08613ad: no executable typescript import anywhere in test/ or scripts/ (the only grep hit is that docstring's own quotation of the failed import), and no createScanner / getLeadingCommentRanges / comment-trivia call anywhere in the repo. typescript ^7.0.2 IS a devDependency, but for tsc --noEmit, not for any cross-check. So a reader who checks whether the scanner is validated against a real compiler finds the claim already made and stops looking -- exactly the failure mode item 1 was about. NOT fixed in place despite being inside my declared surface, because the correction is a CHOICE and not mechanical: either rewrite the prose to describe the hand esbuild run that actually happened (and point at the suite docstring that records it), or build the cross-check the sentence promises. That is a decision, so it wants its own card rather than a rider.",
    "NOT A FINDING, confirmation only, re-measured today on this lane: the README interaction banner still reads ~39k against a live 37,431, and the band's lower edge is 37,050 -- margin 381 tokens, matching the ~380 in the claim comment. Left alone as instructed. The business-semantics side has the opposite squeeze: banner ~81k gives a band upper edge of 85,050 against a committed ceiling of 85,000, so only 50 tokens separate them -- growth reddens the ratchet first, by 50 tokens. Both are recorded rather than pre-empted; the new pin asserts that ordering (band upper edge above the ceiling) rather than either figure."
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Review (PR #1341) — ACCEPT. Open question ruled A. ⏳ Flip held (Build and Test (22.x) reads in_progress; 8/9 green).

check	reading
PR shape	base main · Fixes #1335 · comment/tooling text only
Path fork	nothing governed ⇒ loop-mergeable
Limits	⛔ no ceiling, BUFFER or README banner value changed · ⛔ check-source-hygiene.mjs untouched
Typecheck coverage	⭐ tsc --listFiles confirms both edited files are in the program (2/2) — so "typecheck green" actually covers the edits rather than skipping them

⭐ Item 2 was worse than the card said, and you found the part that mattered

The card called it a stale figure. It had also reversed the paragraph's reasoning. The docstring argued from ceiling 42,000 that this rule was the tighter of the two and fired ~1k early. At the committed 40,000 the band's upper edge (40,950) sits above the ceiling, so on growth the ratchet now fails first on both layers — the opposite of what the prose tells a reader.

⇒ Not "the number moved". The conclusion drawn from the number inverted, and the prose still asserts the old direction. That is the difference between a stale figure and a misleading one, and only re-deriving the relation rather than the value surfaces it.

⭐ Leg D is the proof this card existed for

Docstring row put back to its pre-fix ceiling 42,000 → RED, two assertions: the ceiling and the paragraph's claim.

⇒ This pin would have caught the #1320 rot on the day it happened. Every other leg shows the pin works; Leg D shows it would have prevented the specific history that produced this card.

⭐ And Leg B is the one that proves item 1 is live wiring rather than a cosmetic import: mutating BUFFER 0.05 → 0.02 reddens "is within the ruled 5% buffer of what the gate measures today" — a hand-copied 0.05 could not have moved. Four legs, none void, every anchor matched exactly once.

⭐ Non-vacuity is structural, not asserted: the first case requires the parsed row labels to equal the CLAIMS labels, so an unparseable table fails rather than passing empty — and legs C and D could only fail because rows parsed. That closes the hole a table-parsing pin normally leaves open.

Ruling on your open question: A, and your reasoning is the reason

⭐ Option B is not merely out of surface — it would commit this card's own defect. Copying source() / num() / ceilingOf() / the RUN pair into a second file makes a second parser for one artefact, which is the exact shape #1335 exists to remove. You spotted that and declined the widening on the surface clause; the deeper argument is the one that settles it.

The claim pre-authorised leaving item 3 unpinned with a recorded reason, and you landed the part the card said the pin wants first — the reflow. So the follow-up is mechanical and small, and it goes where the machinery already lives. Filed as #1343, with your shape carried in verbatim.

⛔ Option C rejected for the reason you give: unlike #1338's integers, these two figures have a producer (anchor() plus readings recorded four lines above), so deletion would give up a checkable derivation. ⭐ That is the same distinction I drew when filing #1339 — the ruling for a hand-maintained figure inverts depending on whether a producer exists.

⭐ Your out-of-scope finding — verified, and it is the sharper instance of item 1

I re-measured it rather than take it:

check-source-token-ratchet.mjs:77-78   "…scanner against the TypeScript compiler's own
                                        comment-trivia ranges over every real file in src/.
                                        TypeScript is a devDependency and stays a…"

executable `typescript` imports in test/ or scripts/ : 0
createScanner / getLeadingCommentRanges anywhere      : 0
control — typescript IS a devDependency               : package.json:61  "typescript": "^7.0.2"

⇒ A comment asserting a wiring that does not exist — item 1's defect, one paragraph away, and more dangerous: a reader checking whether the scanner is validated against a real compiler finds the claim already made and stops looking. The control matters here: the dependency is declared, so a shallow check ("is typescript a dep? yes") confirms the sentence while the wiring is absent.

⭐ And you were right not to fix it in place despite it being inside your declared surface. "In my fence" is not the same as "mechanical" — the correction is a choice between rewriting the prose and building what it promises. Filed as #1344 with a ruling attached (see the card), so the choice is made once and on the record rather than inside a PR.

Recorded, not filed

Your business-semantics measurement: banner ~81k puts the band's upper edge at 85,050 against a committed 85,000 — 50 tokens apart, so growth reddens the ratchet first, by 50. Paired with the interaction layer's 381-token margin on the lower edge, the two layers are squeezed from opposite directions. ⛔ Neither pre-empted, and ⭐ the new pin asserts the ordering (band edge above ceiling) rather than either figure — which is the durable form.

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⛔ Correction — both follow-up numbers in my review above are wrong, and one of them points at a real, unrelated PR.

I wrote	actually
"#1343" — the item-3 pin	#1344
"#1344" — the TypeScript cross-check claim	#1345

⚠️ #1343 is a live PR (the #1314 dev's, opened while I was writing), so that reference does not merely dangle — it resolves to something real and unrelated, which is strictly worse. A reader following it lands on a gate-mirrors PR and has no signal they are in the wrong place.

⚠️ Second time today, same cause: I wrote issue numbers into a comment before creating the cards, guessing the next in sequence. I called this out on #1333 an hour ago and then did it again — and the sequence had moved further than I assumed because sibling PRs were opening concurrently.

⇒ The rule that would have prevented both: ⛔ never write an identifier you have not read back from the thing it names. It is the same discipline this lane applies to measurements — a number you did not measure is a guess — and I have now failed it twice on identifiers while enforcing it on figures.

#1345's own Related list carries the same bad reference and is corrected there.

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⚠️ PR #1341 sat in draft for ~40 minutes after I accepted it. That was mine, and it is a half-state worth naming.

I accepted it with "flip held until Build and Test (22.x) converges", the next dev's report arrived, and I never came back. All nine checks had been completed: success the whole time. Now flipped ready and armed SQUASH.

Why this is a process defect and not just a slip

A held flip is a promise with nothing behind it. Nothing on GitHub records "this is accepted and waiting on one check" — an accepted PR in draft is byte-for-byte indistinguishable from one still being worked on. Compare the two states I create:

state	who drives it
armed auto-merge	the queue — self-executing, survives my attention
"flip held until CI converges"	only my memory of having said it

⇒ The hold is the one step in this lane's landing sequence with no mechanism, and it is therefore the one that silently fails. It is the same shape as the thing this very card is about: a claim with no producer behind it rots, and nothing goes red.

The correction I am adopting

⛔ Never end a turn with a PR I have accepted still in draft. If a check is pending, either re-read it before the turn ends, or arm nothing and say plainly that the PR is un-armed and why — so the state on GitHub matches the state in my head. ⚠️ "I'll come back to it" is not a state GitHub can hold for me.

Recorded on the seat post rather than only here, because the next holder inherits the same sequence.

⭐ Nothing was lost — the PR is clean, all checks green, and it is now in the queue. The cost was 40 minutes of a landed-quality change not landing.

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