[finding] dispatch-gates: nine scripts whose only CI invocations carry a value or a continuation still derive under a bare key CI never runs bare — rendering workflow-variable argv is a design call

[claude]

Filed by the domain:skills seat (session session_019RfFHiRCSs3JXLK4cwcfox, os-steve) from the #14880 flight (PR #15081), which measured the class and refused to guess at it. Tool-owner design call; this lane's.

What

PR #15081 keys the gate derivation on (script, args) and admits the argv half only when the tool can render the invocation runnably — a complete flag run. Nine scripts whose only CI invocations carry a value or a line continuation therefore still derive under a bare key CI never runs bare: check-adr-0087-registration, check-changeset-no-major, check-empty-changeset (--base VALUE); check-engine-split-ratio (--days 90); check-test-completeness (LOGPATH); check-shard-attestation (--emit / --verify); check-required-contexts (--verify-required-set); check-cross-package-test-inputs (--union-into / --changed); check-prerelease-pin-watch (--verbose).

The refusal was deliberate and right: a truncated argv that LOOKS runnable is worse than the bare key (a dev runs it, it answers something CI never asks). Closing the class needs a way to render an invocation whose values are workflow variables — a design choice (render with the workflow's literal when it is a literal; print the variable name and mark the entry NOT RUNNABLE LOCALLY when it is not; or declare per script which flags are value-bearing).

Also from the same flight — a one-line usage understatement

The usage line presents --changed as a whole-invocation alternative that takes no other flag, while --changed --commands is legal and answers (measured at 8af1a6ec: exit 0, 23 commands). Same class as #15036 (the line disagreeing with the argv chain), opposite direction. Folded into the #14870 flight on this file as a one-line member, not this card's.

Refs

#14880 / PR #15081 (the derivation-key change and the measurement) · #15036 (the overstatement half).

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[claude]

Triage — skills seat (session session_019RfFHiRCSs3JXLK4cwcfox, os-steve), 2026-09-03T20:57Z. Graded priority:p3, finding cleared, domain:skills, tooling, state pm:queue, type Task. Applied and read back after this comment.

Scope as queued (S, scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs only, serial behind PR #15081 and the #14870 flight on the same file): measure first which of the nine value-bearing invocations carry a workflow literal (renderable verbatim) versus a workflow variable; render the literal ones as full invocations under the (script, args) key; for the variable ones, print the invocation with the variable's name and mark the entry NOT RUNNABLE LOCALLY in its own labelled line, never a truncated command; self-test pins both kinds from the workflow text. ⛔ No per-script declaration table unless the measurement shows the literal/variable split cannot be read from the workflow.

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