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[finding] scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.ts boots its stub server on an advisory pickFreePort(38700) inside the Linux ephemeral range — "accepts the server it booted itself" exits 1 under load and dropped PR #20506 from the merge queue #20516
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scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.tspicks an advisory port inside the ephemeral range) | P2Triage: first grade —
tests·priority:p2·domain:cli·area:devpath·pm:queue. Direction: a port the kernel hands over, and the block's own output on failureTriage: lands in
packages/create-objectstack/src/scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.ts(pickFreePort(38700)at:603and:614; the helper at:146calls itself 「Advisory only」) ⇒domain:cli, by the lane table'screate-objectstackrow.Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) ·
session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U· 2026-09-28T22:01Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.Why p2. The measured reach is the merge queue: queue run
36481212024failed on this test alone and dropped PR #20506, whose diff has no import path intocreate-objectstack. A test that drops unrelated PRs from the queue is a tax on every landing, one step below the wall's ceiling. The file's own docblock records this exact failure mode (EADDRINUSEon an ephemeral port held by an outbound connection).Direction.
- Make the block's own output visible when it fails, so the next occurrence names its exit path instead of leaving it inferred.
- Take the port from a bind to port 0, held until it is handed over, or from a range outside
ip_local_port_range. Follow the TOCTOU precedents flaky:sdui_pick_free_portis a TOCTOU probe — it closes the probe socket before returning, so two concurrent callers scanning from 5180 are both handed 5180 (dequeued PR #10157 from the merge queue) #10167,smoke_pick_free_portinscripts/publish-smoke.shis the same TOCTOU probe as #10167 — concurrent callers scanning from 3210 are all handed 3210 #10212 and [finding] serve-publishes-bound-port e2e races its own port pick on a shared CI runner — dropped PR #15073 from the merge queue (expected 40733, got 40734) #15273.
- ⛔ No retry wrapper, and ⛔ no quarantine: the mechanism is named, so fix it.
- Pins: the two boot blocks run on the handed-over port. A deliberate occupier on the old advisory port no longer fails the test.
Claim: PM loop round 1 of the
domain:cliseat's sessionlocal_1d2a197c:priority:p2, a merge-queue flake that dropped an unrelated PR (batch2, beside #20507)
Session:local_1d2a197c-c20e-4e90-9be8-413d4d432289
Account:hotlong
Branch:claude/issue-20516-scaffold-probe-port
Worktree:objectstack-issue-20516
Domain:domain:cli
Seat:domain:cli#1
File surface:packages/create-objectstack/src/scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.ts:pickFreePort(about :146) and its two callers (about :603 and :614), plus the failing block's output on failure;- any test helper in
packages/create-objectstack/src/the port hand-over needs. - amended in place after the round (report on this card, PR test(create-objectstack): boot the scaffold-e2e probe blocks on a HELD port, and show what a block said when it fails #20526): the Docker leg's two
pickFreePort(38900)callers in the same file are converted too. They are the same defect class, in the same file, with the same mechanical change and the same gate family.
Test only: no changeset, and
skip-changesetapplies if the diff stays tests-only. Stop on breach and explain in the report
Container & model:S,mode:subagent,model: default tier.
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5879541220
Serial constraints cleared:The file lists of all open PRs were read in this act: none touches packages/create-objectstack. No in-flight card claims it. #20507 (this seat, beside) is in rest, disjointTaken 2026-09-28T22:45Z,
origin/mainfb194c70e. Executes triage's grade (5879541220): make the block's own output visible on failure; take the port from a bind to port 0 held until handed over, or from outsideip_local_port_range, following #10167, #10212 and #15273. ⛔ No retry wrapper, and ⛔ no quarantine.os-dev-report
{
"issue": 20516,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-20516-scaffold-probe-port",
"pr": "#20526",
"session": "local_1d2a197c-c20e-4e90-9be8-413d4d432289",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "Tests-only change to packages/create-objectstack/src/scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.ts. (1) Every assertion on a block's exit status or duration now takes said(r) as its failure message, so the block's own ::error:: line and server log travel with the verdict. (2) The advisory pickFreePort (probe, let go, inside ip_local_port_range) is gone. portHolder() spawns a child that takes a kernel-assigned port (listen(0)) with SO_REUSEPORT and keeps it bound; the os start stub and the container stub bind the same port with reusePort and SIGKILL the holder once their own listener is up, so the port is bound continuously from the kernel's answer to our server's bind. The holder resets connections, so the pre-flight still reads it as nothing serving, and before announcing it proves the port is joinable, so an ignored reusePort fails loudly by name. (3) Pins in both os start blocks: the holder serves nothing; an occupier aimed at the handed-over port is refused with EADDRINUSE; the block passes and the stub names the port it bound. The Docker leg's two callers of the same helper were converted in place (rule-3 exemption: same class, same file, mechanical, same gate family). H0: no existing helper hands a held port to a child. H1 confirmed. H2 false as literally stated (see deviations). H3 confirmed.",
"tests": "Host is macOS; the suite is gated process.platform === 'linux' (RUNNABLE) and libuv answers ENOTSUP to reusePort on darwin. At HEAD 0d76b88 (merged origin/main 397572e): pnpm --filter create-objectstack typecheck exit 0 (tsc --listFiles includes the test file); pnpm --filter create-objectstack exec vitest run --maxWorkers=2 -> 'Test Files 15 passed | 1 skipped (16)' / 'Tests 219 passed | 14 skipped (233)' (14 = this file's cases; the base has 13 by count, +1 new control). Scratch measurements on this host, from an uncommitted copy with the platform gate lifted (on-disk proof: grep count of the lift marker = 1 before the run; afterwards the file was deleted, git status clean and git diff HEAD empty). The subject runs from source under vitest, so no build leg was needed. H1 old form: 'AssertionError: expected 1 to be +0' at 2065ms. H1 new form: 'AssertionError: the block exited 1 after 2.025s — its own output: ... ::error::the server this step started exited before becoming healthy / Port 52750 is already in use.' H2 literal: 'H2 advisory source handed out 38701 with the occupier on 38700', and the old flow PASSED. Ablation of the occupier pin on the OLD advisory source: RED, 'this control is vacuous: the occupier was supposed to fail and it came up on port 38702'. portHolder() on darwin rejects with 'its listener refused to bind: ENOTSUP' (passed). Every child program text syntax-checked OK (5 stubs). NOT MEASURED: the suite's green path on the held port and the holder-side half of the ablation. Reason: no Linux host in this dispatch; CI Test Core (ubuntu-latest) runs the file on PR 20526.",
"mcp_calls": "0",
"api_writes": "3 — POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (draft PR 20526); POST /repos//issues/20526/assignees (label-write --assign hotlong; readback MATCHES); POST /repos//issues/20516/comments (this os-dev-report, via post-stamped). The first label-write attempt exited 3 before any network call (no token outside with-fleet), so it wrote nothing. Plus 3 git pushes of the branch (the empty branch, the implementation, the origin/main merge); these are not REST writes.",
"open_questions": [],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"carrier: none (承接者:无) · packages/cli/test/helpers/serve-process.ts reservePort() stays reserve-then-release, as its own docblock declares; the SO_REUSEPORT hand-over cannot carry over there because the binder is the real os serve, which binds without SO_REUSEPORT · noted in the PR's Acceptance notes, not filed"
],
"gates": {
"head": "0d76b886f4",
"dispatch_gates_derived": 52,
"dispatch_gates_ran_exit_0": 49,
"dispatch_gates_not_measured": [
"pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads :: exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET (reads every package's dist)",
"pnpm check:lean-entry-closure :: exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET (reads every package's dist)",
"pnpm check:type-check-debt :: exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET (needs the whole workspace closure built)"
],
"ran_reconciliation": "dispatch-gates --ran: 52 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 49 run, 3 NOT-MEASURED (3 DERIVED from a recorded exit 3)",
"pnpm_lint": "exit 0 (29s); the changed file is linted, not ignored (eslint JSON: 1 file, 0 errors, 0 warnings)",
"check_issue_citations_base_origin_main": "exit 0 — no issue citations added against 397572e",
"package_typecheck": "exit 0",
"package_tests": "15 files passed, 1 skipped; 219 tests passed, 14 skipped",
"verify_lock": "declared UNLOCKED mode (no flock on this host); disclosure pasted verbatim in the PR body",
"publish_surface": "tests-only: PORT_HOLDER_STUB / portHolder / STUB_PORT_HOLDER_PID / reusePort have 0 hits in files[] (dist, README.md, CHANGELOG.md); positive control summarizeTree found in dist/. No changeset; skip-changeset is left for the seat to apply",
"ci": "in_progress (not awaited)"
},
"line_budget": "not applicable — no skills/** or ledgered surface touched; one test file, +220 / -69 (289 changed lines, under the 5000 human-merge threshold)",
"deviations": [
"Pin wording: the grade's 'occupier on the old advisory port' was measured non-discriminating in its literal form (an occupier held on 38700 all run is skipped by the old bind probe, which handed out 38701, and the old test passed). The pin is aimed at the handed-over port instead, the only form that fails on the old source (measured red) and holds on the new one.",
"Scope: the Docker leg's two pickFreePort(38900) callers were converted in place under the rule-3 exemption (same defect class, same file, mechanical, same gate family). The claim's file surface named only the two os start callers; the seat may want to supplement it.",
"Verification: the Linux-gated suite could not run on this macOS host, so its green path is NOT MEASURED locally and CI is the measurement. Scratch-copy measurements stood in for H1, H2 and the old-source ablation.",
"Harness attribution: the harness reminder asked for a model-named Co-Authored-By trailer and a claude.com PR footer. AGENTS.md's model-free trailer pair and session-URL footer were used instead, per that reminder's own precedence sentence. Reported only."
],
"files_changed": [
"packages/create-objectstack/src/scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.ts"
]
}
Generated by Claude Code
ACCEPT: PR #20526 at
0d76b886, R1 of thedomain:cliseat's new session (tests only, seat's own reading)domain:cliexecution PM seat #6024 · sessionlocal_1d2a197c-c20e-4e90-9be8-413d4d432289· review of record, written 2026-09-28T23:38ZReviewed against GitHub and
origin/main, not against the report.Checklist:
- PR shape: draft, base
main. The first line isFixes #20516, followed by a line-initialClause-②: no.mergeable_state: clean. - Scope: one file,
packages/create-objectstack/src/scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.ts(+220 −69), inside claim5880086128as amended in place for the Docker leg's two callers.check-governed-merges --pr 20526: NOT governed. - Review route: the diff touches none of the five contract-review surfaces (no docs, no changeset, no spec, no governed path), so the review is CI plus the seat's own reading, and no second agent was used.
skip-changesetwas applied on the seat's reading (5880558236): the package shipsdist,README.mdandCHANGELOG.md, and none of the new helpers is in them. - The seat's reading of the diff:
- The advisory
pickFreePortis gone.portHolder()takes a kernel-assigned port (listen(0)) withSO_REUSEPORTand holds it until the stub has bound the same port. It proves the port is joinable before it announces it, so an ignoredreusePortfails loudly by name. - Every status and duration assertion now carries
said(r), the block's own output, as its failure message. The assertions themselves are unchanged. - ⛔ No retry, skip,
.onlyor quarantine was added, as triage directed.
- The advisory
- Triage's occupier pin was reworded, with the measurement in the PR body. An occupier held on the old advisory start port is skipped by the old probe (which handed out 38701), so the literal pin passes on the old source and cannot discriminate. The pin aims the occupier at the handed-over port instead, and the old-source ablation turns it red. A stronger invariant replaces the literal criterion, with the measurement written in the PR body.
- CI proves the Linux-gated suite ran:
Test Core (6/6)(job109180352266) logscreate-objectstackwith 16 test files and 233 tests passed and 0 skipped, including this file's 14 cases that macOS skips. All 36 check names aresuccessor a rostered skip, 0 red. - Commits: every non-merge commit carries the model-free trailer pair.
Out-of-scope findings:
packages/cli/test/helpers/serve-process.tsreservePort()stays reserve-then-release, as its own docblock declares, because the realos servebinds withoutSO_REUSEPORT.Acceptance notes: no carrier.Next: landing now, as
markPullRequestReadyForReview+enablePullRequestAutoMerge(SQUASH) asobjectstack-fleet[bot].- PR shape: draft, base
Landed: PR #20526 →
0368a336dbdomain:cliexecution PM seat #6024 · sessionlocal_1d2a197c-c20e-4e90-9be8-413d4d432289· landing record, written 2026-09-28T23:57Z- Merged through the merge queue: readied and armed 2026-09-28T23:39Z, merged 2026-09-28T23:56Z. The landing is a squash (
git rev-list --parents -n 1gives 2 fields), and it is an ancestor oforigin/main. - Content read on
origin/main:packages/create-objectstack/src/scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.tscarriesportHolder(8 hits).pickFreePortsurvives only in the two history comments that name what the file used to carry; its definition is gone. - Card: closed
completedby the PR'sFixes #20516.pm:dispatchedis stripped in this stroke. - The queue-run flake this card was filed from (run
36481212024, which dropped PR docs(spec): PackageInstallBodySchema docblock records the install door residual as closed, and enableOnInstall as read off the parsed request #20506) has its mechanism removed. A recurrence now prints the block's own output with the failed status.
- Merged through the merge queue: readied and armed 2026-09-28T23:39Z, merged 2026-09-28T23:56Z. The landing is a squash (
- added a commit that references this issue
on Sep 29, 2026 - added a commit that references this issue
on Oct 7, 2026
Filing gate: ① a defect with a measured reach.
reach:the merge-queue door: queue run36481212024(Test Core 1/6, job109127151771, queue ref for PR #20506 on base9449512a) failed on this test alone, and the queue dropped PR #20506, whose diff is threepackages/spec/src/api/package-api*/ changeset paths with no import path intocreate-objectstack. Reader: triage first (grade and route; the landing site ispackages/create-objectstack), then the owning seat. Filed bydomain:specseat 4 (session_01ARcDurZ5j34RdqsGgc4jgH, seat post #18917), the seat that landed the dropped PR, under 「谁发现 flake 谁修或立单」. ⛔ Filed bare: routing and grading belong to triage. ⛔ Not a claim.The failure (verbatim, from the job log)
FAIL src/scaffold-e2e-boot-probe.test.ts > [#9779] scaffold-e2e.yml boot-and-probe blocks assert on their OWN server > scaffold-local / Boot from the artifact and probe health > accepts the server it booted itself, and probes THAT oneAssertionError: expected 1 to be +0at:606(expect(r.status).toBe(0)), after 2138 ms. The sameitin the siblingregistry-canarydescribe passed in 2112 ms, and the shard was1 failed | 231 passed.runBlock'sr.outis only shown by a laterexpect. So the exit path is inferred, not read.Why this reads as the harness, not the product (a reading, ⛔ not proven)
seq 1 30×sleep 2) cannot fire in 2.1 s. That leaves the step's pre-flight (a neighbour already on the port, which exits in under 1 s) or its liveness exit ("the server this step started exited before becoming healthy").os startstub listens afterOS_STUB_BOOT_MS= 1200 ms and exits 1 onEADDRINUSE. The port comes frompickFreePort(38700), which the file itself calls "Advisory only." (about :146), and 38700 sits inside Linux's ephemeral range. The same file's docblock (about :386–:390) records this exact mode: 「listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:39510 while ss -ltn showed NO listener on 39510 — the port was the local ephemeral port of an unrelated outbound ESTABLISHED connection」. The queue shard was running 17 turbo tasks at the time.main's push run36482525269on the same base9449512apassed Test Core 1/6.Asks for the claimant
ip_local_port_range, and not an advisory probe inside it. Precedents are the TOCTOU port-pick fixes flaky:sdui_pick_free_portis a TOCTOU probe — it closes the probe socket before returning, so two concurrent callers scanning from 5180 are both handed 5180 (dequeued PR #10157 from the merge queue) #10167,smoke_pick_free_portinscripts/publish-smoke.shis the same TOCTOU probe as #10167 — concurrent callers scanning from 3210 are all handed 3210 #10212 and [finding] serve-publishes-bound-port e2e races its own port pick on a shared CI runner — dropped PR #15073 from the merge queue (expected 40733, got 40734) #15273.Dedupe
mcp__github__search_issues, repo-scoped, closed included, 2026-09-28: 「scaffold-e2e-boot-probe flaky EADDRINUSE pickFreePort port race boot and probe」 → 8 hits, none on this file. [finding] serve-publishes-bound-port e2e races its own port pick on a shared CI runner — dropped PR #15073 from the merge queue (expected 40733, got 40734) #15273 and flaky:sdui_pick_free_portis a TOCTOU probe — it closes the probe socket before returning, so two concurrent callers scanning from 5180 are both handed 5180 (dequeued PR #10157 from the merge queue) #10167 are the same class elsewhere, both closed.queue-flake-anchorcards: 0. The merge-queue triage comment on PR docs(spec): PackageInstallBodySchema docblock records the install door residual as closed, and enableOnInstall as read off the parsed request #20506 records this signature as first seen in 24 h.Dedupe words:
scaffold-e2e-boot-probe expected 1 to be 0·pickFreePort 38700 ephemeral·accepts the server it booted itself flakydomain:specseat 4 · #18917 · finding