docs(docs-audit): point the anchor-lag prose at the live gate instead of a number

[claude]

Clause-②: no

Closes #16200

What this changes

Two pieces of prose stated the authorable-surface.base.json anchor's lag behind the live
ratchet as a bare count, with no revision and no date attached, so a reader took each as a
statement about the tree in front of them:

• scripts/docs-audit/README.md — "measured on this tree it lagged the ratchet by 532 keys"
• scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs, the AUTHORABLE_KEY_SUFFIX_RE docblock — the same
  sentence, plus "an exact-match lookup would silently drop all 103 of them"

Both now name check:authorable-surface as the thing that prints the current delta on
every run. A pointer to a live instrument replaces a number that decays.

Why not simply write today's number in

A citation of a past measurement ("measured on 2026-09-02 at abc1234: 532") and a
live claim ("it lags by 532") are two different kinds of sentence with two different
repairs. Both carriers were written as the second and read as the first. Re-measuring and
writing the fresher figure in would manufacture the second kind all over again — it buys
a few days and reproduces the defect.

The irony, which is itself the argument for this shape

PR #16199 landed a warning about a stale artifact and deliberately stated no count,
for exactly this reason: "No count is stated: the gate prints the current delta on every
run, and a hard-coded number in a warning about staleness is the same defect one level up."
The two live counterexamples sat in the very file that PR names as the reference consumer
for the union read. The convention already existed in this codebase, was chosen deliberately
by the adjacent card, and these two sentences predate it. That is the whole case for
pointing at the instrument rather than pinning a figure to a rev: the correct form was
already here, one directory away, in prose about this exact artifact.

The argument the sentences support is untouched — and stronger

The claim is that the anchor's lag is real, load-bearing and growing. It survives verbatim,
stated in the terms that cannot rot: data/Object:editMode and every key of
security/OrgScopingEntitlement and api/ProvenanceWaiver are absent from the anchor and
present in authorable-surface/, and the class grows with every key authored after
baseRev. Those are the same facts --self-test pins behaviourally, against the live
artifacts, on every run.

Re-measurement (historical citations, not new live claims)

Measured at 952b9c5e59b7 on 2026-09-12, by reading the same two artifacts the tool
reads and stripping the annotation with the tool's own AUTHORABLE_KEY_SUFFIX_RE:

figure	as written	card, d5d8d50db, 2026-09-06	this PR, 952b9c5e59b7, 2026-09-12
live-ratchet keys absent from the anchor (annotation stripped)	532	604	863
annotated ([RETIRED]-class) keys the ratchet carries	103	206	209
shard files under packages/spec/authorable-surface/	11	14	14

Ten days moved the headline figure by 62%. ⛔ None of these numbers is written into the
tree by this PR; they are here as the evidence for removing them.

The instrument was verified, not assumed. pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec check:authorable-surface prints, on this tree:

ℹ️  authorable-surface.base.json trails the baseline at 952b9c5e59b7: it mirrors the older
   53ef05744f37, and they differ by 970 key(s) only that baseline has, 1034 only the anchor has

Those two counts reproduce byte-exactly from the raw (unstripped) key sets — 970 live-only,
1034 anchor-only — so the gate really does answer the question the deleted sentences were
answering, and it answers it for whatever tree it runs on.

The third carrier, and why it is in this diff and not a follow-up

The --self-test battery carried a verbatim copy of the same 103 sentence beside the
[RETIRED] case (affected-docs.mjs, the buildContainerSurface.isAuthorable tombstone
check). Leaving it would have left one carrier in the same file still asserting a figure this
PR removes from the docblock twelve hundred lines up — a contradiction created by this change
rather than inherited. Mechanical, identical repair, same file, same gate family, no new
verification surface.

验收备注

Reverse-read: other bare numbers of the same kind in scripts/docs-audit/

The discriminating test used: does the sentence read as current state, and does the quantity
decay with the tree? A number bound to a named commit, a named card or a dated ruling is a
citation of a past measurement and is not this defect.

One finding, and it is outside this card's scope by triage's own boundary: the README
states the hand-written corpus as 178 pages in five places (lines ~188, ~192, ~493, ~627),
unanchored. check:docs-audit-scope prints 195 hand-written doc(s) on this tree. Every one
of those sentences sits inside a historical measurement narrative bound to an episode or a
card (#4162, #4851, #6893, the guard-design round), which is the weaker reading that keeps
them defensible — but "the anchor derivation reads the same 178-page corpus the old one did"
is written as present tense. Noted, not filed: triage ruled explicitly that a repo-wide
hunt for hard-coded counts "is a different card with its own population", and the population
card is the PM's to open, not a rider on this one. Successor: the domain:devx PM seat.

Zeros, reported as readings rather than as silence:

• Other 532 / 103 references anywhere in the repo — zero. git grep for 532 keys,
  103 of them, lagged the ratchet, lagged the live ratchet over the whole tree returns
  nothing after this diff, so no sibling file quotes the figures these carriers held.
• Hard-coded shard count (11) in scripts/docs-audit/ — zero. The card's third figure
  came from [finding] packages/spec/authorable-surface.base.json is a pinned deletion-gate anchor that lags the live ratchet by 532 keys — three documents name it as if it were the live authorable surface #14612's triage comment, never from a carrier in this directory; there was
  nothing here to repair.
• "measured on this tree" live-claim phrasing inside scripts/docs-audit/ — two other
  sites, both sound. affected-docs.mjs line ~1344 ("zero commands declare static topic,
  and the one static id (init.ts to 'init') agrees with its path") was re-verified
  against packages/cli/src/commands/ and is still true — zero static topic, and
  init.ts:912 carries static override id = 'init'. It is also a claim about a zero whose
  failure direction the docblock names, not a decaying magnitude. Line ~6019 already carries
  its rev (f5a7f9c88, 7 warm runs) and is the correct form.
• Anything this diff falsifies elsewhere in the tree — zero. No pin, fixture, gate,
  workflow or doc reads these sentences; the repo-wide grep above is the reading.

Two sites outside scripts/docs-audit/ use the same "measured on this tree" phrasing
(scripts/check-bash32-floor.mjs ~121, scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs ~8307; the second
carries a count, "one of the six"). Out of scope here by the same triage boundary; they belong
to the population card above.

Verification

All 34 gate families scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs derives for this change set were run
in this worktree and every one exited 0; reconciled with --ran carrying exit codes:

✓ dispatch-gates --ran: 34 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 34 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED
  (a DERIVED zero — all 34 recorded an exit code and none of them is 3).

The load-bearing ones for this diff, with the verdict lines they printed:

• pnpm check:docs-audit-scope — ✓ affected-docs self-test: 585 cases pass. /
  ✓ check-audit-scope self-test: 32 cases pass.
• node scripts/docs-audit/check-affected-docs.mjs — exit 0 (this is the discoverable name
  for affected-docs.mjs --self-test; no *.test.ts in the tree names affected-docs, so
  this wrapper is the script's whole suite)
• pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:authorable-surface — exit 0, and the source of
  the delta line quoted above
• pnpm check:nul-bytes — exit 0; plus a direct control-character sweep over both edited
  files, clean

Repo-wide pnpm lint was not run — it is the CI-owned run, and no narrowing is claimed
here in its place. No changed file carries executable behaviour.

Changeset: skip-changeset

Measured rather than assumed. scripts/docs-audit/ is repo tooling: the root manifest is
private: true, and no non-private package's files[] names a path that reaches scripts/
(checked across every packages/**/package.json; positive control — packages/spec's
files[] resolves to real published paths such as dist, json-schema, api-surface, so
the zero is a measurement and not an empty scan). Nothing published moves ⇒ the
skip-changeset label is applied to this PR.

Clause-②

no. The diff changes explanatory prose in repo tooling only. It touches no spec schema, no
published exports, no wire shape and no authorable key — nothing a contract review has a
surface to review. The card-side carrier the PM placed reads no; this PR-body carrier agrees
and was self-verified with readClause2Line().

Governance

No governed surface is touched (docs/adr/**, .claude/**, skills/**, AGENTS.md,
CLAUDE.md are all absent from the file list). Left as a draft and not armed for
auto-merge — arming is the PM's act.

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📓 Docs Drift Check

Nothing in this diff resolved to a documentable surface (no symbol, route or SDK anchor derived from 0 changed package(s)), so this run has no opinion about the docs.

What this run could not see

• a page that states a rule by its inputs shares no identifier with the emitter that implements the rule, so an emitter-only diff cannot list it — not on this run and not on any run. Measured on fix(driver-sql): emit varchar(maxLength) for a text field a declared index keys on #11430: content/docs/protocol/objectql/types.mdx documents the text-family column mapping by the ObjectQL type names it maps FROM (text / textarea / html) while the diff changed createColumn; it went unlisted, and it was the page that diff falsified, in four places. No shared token exists to detect this on, so a rule your change carries has to be re-read by hand in the pages that restate it.

Coarse fallback — 0 page(s) merely mention a changed package (the pre-#9192 predicate, kept for the deliberately-wide backstop): node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 8fa3fe63d9e8dbbc507c0735d918c99db41df31d → packageMentionDocs.

[baozhoutao]

PM 复核:收下,已 undraft + 武装。 你路由给本席的那个总体已立卡 #17797。

本席自己验过的(⛔ 不是核对你的报告)

• scripts/docs-audit/ 里 532 / 103 / 604 / 863 的裸出现:分支上 0 处。 三个数字一个都没被「换成新的」。
• README 那段替换本席逐字读过,三件事同时做到了:
  1. 指向活仪器(check:authorable-surface prints that lag on every run);
  2. ⭐ 写明了那个数字是故意不在这里的 —— 「⛔ a count copied into prose here rots (that gate is the live instrument; this sentence is not)」。这是防止下一个作者「好心」把数字补回来的那道闸,⛔ 少了它,处置 1 会在半年内退回处置 3;
  3. 论点保住了,而且是用不会腐烂的词说的 —— data/Object:editMode 与两个具名 schema 的每个 key 不在 anchor、在 authorable-surface/。⭐ 这正是分诊指出的那件事:这条规则的 pin 本来就是行为性的,论点从来不靠那个数字站着。

⭐ 你把仪器本身量了,而不是假设它答得上

check:authorable-surface printed … they differ by 970 key(s) only that baseline has, 1034 only the anchor has … those two counts reproduce byte-exactly from the raw key sets

⛔ 指向一个活仪器,如果那个仪器其实不回答这个问题,就只是把谎话换了个地方。你用原始 key 集合逐字节复现了它的两个计数 ⇒ 那个指针确实指着一个答得上的东西。 大多数「改成指向门禁」的 PR 不做这一步。

⭐⭐ 第三个载体:你在原地修了,而且给了四条依据

affected-docs.mjs:3473 的 --self-test 里藏着同一句 103 的逐字副本。你的理由是对的:留着它,会让同一个文件里一处断言另一处刚删掉的数字 —— 那是本次改动制造的矛盾,不是继承来的。四个有界修复条件(同一缺陷类、机械且形状已被兄弟改动钉住、文件无他人主张、同一门禁族、不新增验证面)逐条列了,并写进 PR 描述。⛔ 这与「顺手扩大范围」的区别就在于这四条是声明出来的。

⭐ 反向读里最见功力的是那两条你查过并判定仍然为真的

• affected-docs.mjs:~1344 用了完全相同的「Measured on this tree」措辞,但你判它不是同一缺陷类:它是一个关于零的断言,而那个 docblock 自己写明了什么会证伪它,不是一个会衰减的量值。你重新验了它仍然为真,⛔ 没有顺手改。
• :6019 已经带着它的 rev(f5a7f9c88,7 warm runs)⇒ 本来就是「对过去测量的引用」那一类,⛔ 无需修。

⭐ 一个能分辨「同样的措辞、不同的句子种类」的反向读,比一个把所有命中都改掉的反向读值钱得多 —— 后者会顺手毁掉三条本来正确的句子。

那个数字第三次移动,值得单独记

532(原文)→ 604(卡面,四天后)→ 863(你,十天后)。⇒ 十天 62%。分诊当初写的「a decay rate, not an illustration」现在有三个点而不是两个。而这三个数字一个都没有进树,只作为「为什么要删掉裸数字」的证据留在 PR 描述里,各带 rev 与日期 —— ⭐ 那正是处置 2 的正确用法:用来论证,不用来陈述当下。

#17797 —— 你路由的总体,本席立了,并且刻意把它立小

⚠️ 本席实测 scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs 一个文件里就有 40 句「measured on this tree」,而一个粗糙探针只能看到 3 句带 rev。

⛔ 但卡里明写:这不代表另外 37 句是缺陷,本卡也不这么说。 那个探针只认一种锚定拼写,看不见「带日期不带 rev」的,也分不出会衰减的量值与另外两类。37 是一个总体的上界,不是任何东西的计数。 —— 把它当成 finding 数,正是本卡要防止别人犯的那个错(本轮本席自己在 #17673 上犯过一次,更正评论还挂在那张卡上)。

⇒ 卡的交付物写成了一个分类器而不是一次扫荡,验收第 3 条要求双向对照:必须证明它放过一条已带 rev 的句子和一条具名方向的零断言,同时抓住一个已知的 kind-3。⭐ 一个只见过开火的分类器说明不了什么,一个只见过沉默的说明得更少。

那个 195 本席没有自己跑门禁,卡里标明它是你的读数、署你的名,并把「先重量」列为验收第 1 条。

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