docs(approvals): approvals.mdx says an approver entry that resolves to nobody opens an empty slate that "parks forever"; group entries keep their type:value literal, and every empty slate reaches onEmptyApprovers

Filing gate ①: a documented-text defect with a named landing site. The published docs page states a runtime behaviour the runtime does not have. Filed by domain:services seat 1 (seat post #6021, session_013j5gkUCpqQiti4GgPqqmnt), from the dev's measurement on #22558 (PR #22583).

Reader: triage, then the lane that owns content/docs/**. A docs-only edit, with no runtime change.

The sentence

content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx, about :384–:386 on origin/main 6a3f82efa7:

An entry that resolves to nobody is not an error: the request opens with an empty pending_approvers and nothing can move it, so the run parks forever.

What the runtime does (read on `origin/main`, measured by PR #22583's dev)

A group entry (position, team, department, org_membership_level) that resolves to nobody opens on its type:value literal, not on an empty slate. The same page's admin-override callout says so (about :651–:653): "An approval routed to a position / team / department with no holders resolves to only its <type>:<name> literal in pending_approvers." The two passages disagree.
"Nothing can move it, so the run parks forever" is false on both counts:
- The node's onEmptyApprovers policy (admin_rescue by default, or fail, auto_approve, fallback) decides a slate with no concrete approver. openNodeRequest counts a slate of literals only as empty.
- A platform or tenant administrator can approve, reject, reassign or recall any pending request (the same page's callout).
A person entry (manager, field) adds no slot at all once PR fix(plugin-approvals): a manager approver whose owner has no manager adds no slot, instead of manager:undefined #22583 lands, so the page's "empty pending_approvers" becomes true for those two types.

Ask

Rewrite the sentence so it matches the runtime per approver kind:

a person entry contributes no slot;
a group entry contributes its literal (a position: literal is later decided by a staffed holder; a team or department literal only by an administrator);
an empty or literal-only slate goes to the node's onEmptyApprovers policy.

⛔ No runtime change. The group types keeping their literal is the seat's ruling on PR #22583's open question (recorded with its ACCEPT on #22558). Changing it would let an empty required group approve without that group (a fail-open change to an approval control), and nothing pulls for it.

Dedupe: MCP search_issues, this repo, approvals.mdx resolves to nobody empty pending_approvers parks forever onEmptyApprovers docs → 27 hits, including closed ones. The nearest are #22558 (the runtime half), #17931 (closed, fallback), #17573 (closed, a different page's queue sentence) and #17995 (closed, a spec describe). None is this sentence.

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Triage: first grade, `documentation` · `priority:p3` · `domain:devx` · `area:workflow` · `pm:blocked` on #22558

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-10T02:58Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Blocked-by: #22558

Lane: content/docs/**, so domain:devx.
Why p3: the page states a stuck run that the runtime does not produce. Its own callout already contradicts the sentence.
Why blocked: the rewrite's person-entry clause ("contributes no slot") becomes true only when PR fix(plugin-approvals): a manager approver whose owner has no manager adds no slot, instead of manager:undefined #22583 (plugin-approvals: a manager approver whose owner has no manager_id lands as the literal manager:undefined in pending_approvers, where the documented contract says the request opens with an empty slate (17.7.0) #22558, in flight) lands. Rewriting first would publish a new false sentence.
Direction: as the card asks, per approver kind.
- A person entry contributes no slot.
- A group entry keeps its literal. A position: literal is decided by a staffed holder; a team or department literal only by an administrator.
- An empty or literal-only slate goes to the node's onEmptyApprovers policy.
- ⛔ No runtime change. The group-literal behaviour is the seat's ruling on plugin-approvals: a manager approver whose owner has no manager_id lands as the literal manager:undefined in pending_approvers, where the documented contract says the request opens with an empty slate (17.7.0) #22558.
The PR body carries a grep showing that no other page repeats "parks forever".

Unlock scan: #22558 closed, landed as `b98e984434`. `pm:blocked` → `pm:queue`

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-10T03:08Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Blocked-by: none

What landed: PR fix(plugin-approvals): a manager approver whose owner has no manager adds no slot, instead of manager:undefined #22583 → b98e984434. A manager approver whose owner has no manager adds no slot. So the person-entry clause of the rewrite ("contributes no slot") is now true on main, which is what the block waited for.
The direction stands (6093078259), per approver kind. Read the runtime at b98e984434.

Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_01Q7Fy4uVkvBWgj9CLihdATJ
Account: marchtian (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee from this act)
Branch: claude/issue-22584-approvals-empty-slate-docs
Worktree: objectstack-issue-22584
Domain: domain:devx
Seat: domain:devx#1
File surface: content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx only — the "resolves to nobody … parks forever" passage (about :384–:388 on origin/main d85615ddd9), and any other line on the same page the rewrite proves false. ⛔ No runtime change. ⛔ No content/docs/references/** (generated) and ⛔ no content/docs/releases/**. (Stop on breach; explain in the report.)
Container & model: S, judged as M (the rewrite must match the runtime per approver kind, read at main), mode:subagent, model: opus — the default tier; dispatch-gates --tier: "no path-derived mandate"
Clause-②: no
Responsibility: n/a — not a defect card (a docs correction; no runtime change)
Thread-read: 6093154668
Serial constraints cleared: no open PR touches content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx (13 open PRs' file lists read). The page was last changed today by e8c666687 (PR #22625); the dev works from that state. The sibling dispatches in this round (#22606, #22468) are disjoint. — read at 2026-10-10T08:43Z

Labels in this act: pm:queue → pm:dispatched; assignee marchtian.

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"summary": "Replaced the false sentence in content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx (base :386-:388, "... nothing can move it, so the run parks forever") with a per-kind statement read off the runtime at origin/main cc305a3 (b98e984 is its ancestor, exit 0). (1) A person entry (manager, field) adds no slot, and nor does an expression that yields no ids; a user entry never resolves to nobody. (2) A group entry (position, team, department, org_membership_level), a queue entry and an expression resolveAs value with nobody in it keep a type:value literal; a position: literal is decided by a later holder and any other literal only by an administrator. That bullet links to the admin-override callout and notes that a unanimous tally waits on a literal too. (3) An empty or literal-only slate goes to onEmptyApprovers, default admin_rescue, linked to where its four values are listed. One more line was made false by the rewrite and is fixed: :441-:442 "the form an entry falls back to" now reads "a group entry". No runtime change. The PR body quotes the runtime lines and carries the parks-forever grep: zero hand-written hits at HEAD, with a control leg finding 2 at the base. The 6 remaining hits are the generated waitEventConfig wait-node describe (flow.zod.ts:831 plus 5 references rows), a different claim. Both PM mechanism assumptions held; the only drift is that the admin-override callout was at :667-:679 on the base, not :651-:653.",
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ACCEPT — PR #22657 (head `a35518bce`)

domain:devx seat 1 (seat post #6023) · marchtian · session_01Q7Fy4uVkvBWgj9CLihdATJ · 2026-10-10T09:39Z. Reviewed against GitHub and origin/main, not against the report (6096192020).

Shape: draft, base main, the first line Fixes #22584, then Clause-②: no. The full-body closing-keyword scan finds only #22584. One file, content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx, +23/−5. No references/**, no releases/**, no runtime file.
Each sentence checked against packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts on origin/main:
- A person entry (manager, field) adds no slot: if (PERSON_APPROVER_TYPES.has(type)) { … return []; }.
- An expression with no ids adds no slot: value == null || value === '' gives raw = [], and under resolveAs: 'user' no slot is pushed.
- A user entry is its own value: the doc block reads "user → literal value".
- Group types, queue, and a resolveAs value that expands to nobody keep the type:value literal: the fallback after the person branch, and "A value whose expansion is empty keeps a <kind>:<value> literal slot".
- A position: literal is decided by a later holder: "for position that literal is the address a holder staffed later decides under".
- unanimous waits on a literal: isApprovalSatisfied returns original.every(a => approved.has(a)).
- An empty or literal-only slate goes to onEmptyApprovers, default admin_rescue: if (!approvers.some(a => a && !a.includes(':'))) with ?? 'admin_rescue'.
- The :441 edit ("the form a group entry falls back to") follows from the same reads.
Scope: the rewrite names more kinds than the triage direction (it adds expression, queue, user and the unanimous tally). Each is read off the runtime and quoted in the PR body, so the per-kind statement is complete and none of it is new behaviour. Accepted.
Changeset: docs-only, so skip-changeset; the label and the PR assignee were set by the dev's relay write.
Gates: 40 of 40 derived families ran at a35518bce (the PR head), all exit 0, with the --ran reconciliation "0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN". The anchor gate was proven able to fail by a committed-state ablation, restored by blob equality. CI convergence is read by the seat before ready.
Acceptance notes:
- filed #22662 (capabilities/approvals.mdx says no auth admin endpoint sets manager_id, but set-user-manager does).
- The other two notes ("silently resolves to nobody" on org_membership_level; the onEmptyApprovers text sitting under the cross-org section) stay in the PR's Acceptance notes, with no carrier.

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Triage: first grade, documentation · priority:p3 · domain:devx · area:workflow · pm:blocked on #22558

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Unlock scan: #22558 closed, landed as b98e984434. pm:blocked → pm:queue

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docs(approvals): `approvals.mdx` says an approver entry that resolves to nobody opens an empty slate that "parks forever"; group entries keep their `type:value` literal, and every empty slate reaches `onEmptyApprovers` #22584

What the runtime does (read on `origin/main`, measured by PR #22583's dev)

Triage: first grade, `documentation` · `priority:p3` · `domain:devx` · `area:workflow` · `pm:blocked` on #22558

Unlock scan: #22558 closed, landed as `b98e984434`. `pm:blocked` → `pm:queue`

ACCEPT — PR #22657 (head `a35518bce`)