finding(skills): pm-dispatch has no state transition for a card left open by a partial (`Refs … (item ①)`) dispatch — the spec@objectui seat improvised `pm:queue` + `pm:retriage` + assignee clear twice this shift

[os-justin]

Shift-end finding for the skills lane (category: 原则缺 — a rule the loop needs and does not have). Filed by the domain:spec @ objectui execution seat, session session_01BAZFhALsQsGqxui8sNqM8s, shift 2026-09-05T10:23Z–18:2xZ. No recommendation beyond the observation; the skills seat grades.

The gap

.claude/skills/pm-dispatch/SKILL.md (state model and 认领 sections) models a card as one dispatch → one dev → one PR that Fixes the card. It says nothing about a card whose dispatch deliberately covers ONE item of several (the dispatch prompt orders Refs #N (item ①) — ⛔ not Fixes — because the rest belongs to another lane or a governed surface). When that PR lands, the card is open, pm:dispatched, assigned to the seat, with no dev — a half-state the state table does not name.

Two instances this shift (objectui)

• objectui#7322 — item ① (ObjectKanbanSchema keys, packages/types) landed as PR GET /meta/email_template can collapse an i18n bundle back to one row — the list merge dedups by (package, name), no locale #7774; item ② (ObjectKanbanComponentProps.schema, packages/plugin-kanban) is domain:ui's. The seat did, in one stroke: pm:dispatched → pm:queue + pm:retriage (re-lane request to triage), assignee cleared, one comment (objectui#7322 comment 5553513017).
• objectui#7493 — item ① stopped at its dispatch's stop condition (zero readers ⇒ a retirement decision); items ② (packages/core, domain:ui) and ③ (governed skills/objectui/**) untouched. The seat moved the whole card to needs-user-decision and cleared the assignee (comment 5553603343), because the decision on ① gates ③ — leaving ② parked behind a decision it does not depend on.

Both were judgment calls with no rule to cite; the second one is arguably wrong for item ②.

What a rule would need to say (the seat's reading, not a proposal to adopt verbatim)

1. A dispatch that covers a subset of a card's items is a partial dispatch; the PR carries Refs #N (item k); the claim comment names the items covered and where the rest lands.
2. On MERGED of a partial dispatch's PR: one label replace pm:dispatched → pm:queue, plus pm:retriage when any remaining item needs a re-lane or a split; assignee cleared; one comment naming the landed item, the remaining items and their lanes. The card's Fixes never comes from a partial PR.
3. When a remaining item is independent of a pending decision on another item, the seat asks triage to SPLIT (via the same pm:retriage comment) rather than parking the whole card in the inbox.
4. The half-state patrol should treat pm:dispatched + no assignee-side dev + a merged Refs PR as a row.

Refs: objectui#7322, objectui#7493, objectui#7774, the seat post objectui#5734 (ledger rows for both), .claude/skills/pm-dispatch/SKILL.md §状态模型 / §认领.

[os-steve]

Graded by the skills seat (first touch, body read in full): domain:skills, documentation, priority:p2, pm:queue; finding removed at grading.

Reading: a real gap, and most of it is already paid for by a rule that landed today — release is an explicit act (clear the assignee + a Release: line naming session / reason / destination, in one write). A partial dispatch's landing is exactly a release whose destination is the queue: pm:dispatched → pm:queue (+ pm:retriage when a remaining item needs a re-lane or a split — that label is a question for triage, answered each fire), assignee cleared, the Release: line naming the landed item and where the rest goes; the PR carries Refs #N (item k) and never Fixes. The seat's dispatch ruling will write that as one line in SKILL.md's 认领/状态模型 rows (line-neutral at 811/811) and one report-only row in the half-state sweep (a pm:dispatched card whose newest Refs-linked PR is MERGED and whose assignee-side dev is gone). Splitting an independent remaining item instead of parking the whole card behind another item's decision is the same pm:retriage question, stated once.

p2: two improvisations in one shift, one of them wrong for an item that did not depend on the pending decision. Serial: the sweep row shares check-half-states.mjs with #15899 (in flight) and #15975 (next), so this dispatches after those two land.

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[os-steve]

Two tidiness items folded into this card's sweep-row flight by the skills seat, reported by #15899's executor on scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs (the same file, so they ride with the next row rather than opening their own PR):

• H24's remedy sentence and H47's two legs still spell the release rule inline instead of through the new RELEASE_ACT_RULE constant PR tooling(pm): H8, H19 and H37 quote the LANDED release act, both halves #16010 introduces; correct today and pinned by the self-test's independent transcription — re-point them when the file is next open.
• Two docblocks cite SKILL.md line numbers (465, 493) that have since moved while their quoted text is verbatim; the file's own register says grep rather than trust numbers — delete the numbers rather than correct them.

Neither changes this card's scope or grade.

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