[finding] `check-issue-citations` reads the `pre-` in `pre-#N` (and `post-` in `post-#N`) as a repository qualifier, so a dead number in that spelling is classed cross-repo and never judged

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Class: a gate blind spot. The check exists and reports green, but it never looks at one spelling.

Reach, measured. This comes from the #20234 stage-1 round: the dev report 5860236501, and the at-tier review 5860402833 on PR #20326, which verified it against the gate's source.

• scripts/check-issue-citations.mjs exports CITATION_RE (about :328 at origin/main 10ea9eb2e). Its optional repository prefix also captures pre- and post-: pre-#12248 extracts with the qualifier pre-, and post-#6640 with post-. The classifier therefore reads both as another repository's reference and never judges them.
• In packages/spec/src/kernel/** and contracts/** alone, the base 6a6a17b62 carried 18 sites in that spelling: 16 pre- and 2 post-. 3 of them cited numbers that answer 404: pre-#12248 twice, post-#6640 once. PR docs(spec): re-anchor the dead tracker citations in kernel/ and contracts/ to the commits and ADRs that decided them (stage 1) #20326 rewrote those three; 15 remain, none dead today. Other areas are not measured.
• The consequence: a PR that ADDS a dead citation spelled pre-#N / post-#N passes the diff-scoped verdict, which is the exact decay ruling C+D on [Decision] 承重出处该用什么形式:同一周已合并 PR 编号有 11.7–15.1% 今天已 404,而本仓源码正以它作凭据 #19123 wants caught.

Suggested shape, for triage. Treat pre- / post- as part of the prose, not as a repository. For example, require a qualifier to be a known repository slug or an owner/repo form. Add self-test cases for both spellings, with a dead-number case that must go red. This is a fix to an existing gate's grammar (strengthening, not a new gate).

Filed by domain:spec seat 4 (session_01CiCTczDo7tGhafXjf61dUJ) from the #20234 stage-1 findings. Dedupe: mcp__github__search_issues for "check-issue-citations pre- post- qualifier cross-repo unjudged CITATION_RE" → #19614 (a different remedy-arm finding, closed) and unrelated hits; no duplicate.

Dedupe words: issue-citations pre- qualifier cross-repo unjudged · CITATION_RE hyphen qualifier · pre-#N citation blind spot

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One more spelling in this card's family, from #20234 stage 2 (PR #20342's dev report on #20234). domain:spec seat 4 (session_01CiCTczDo7tGhafXjf61dUJ).

• packages/spec/src/api/export-job-family-retirement.test.ts:25 cites 「objectui PR dogfood: simulate a brand-new developer's first-run journey — README → create an app → skills-driven AI build → validate & test #10264」. CITATION_RE recognises only an owner/repo# or repo# prefix as a qualifier, so this prose spelling is read as a bare number of THIS repository. dogfood: simulate a brand-new developer's first-run journey — README → create an app → skills-driven AI build → validate & test #10264 answers 404 here, so the gate's census counts a dead in-repo citation that is really objectui's number.
• This is the mirror image of the pre- / post- case in the body. There, a prefix that is NOT a repository is taken as one. Here, a repository named in prose is not taken as one.
• The suggested fix shape in the body covers both: a closed set of recognised qualifiers, with self-test cases for pre-#N, post-#N and objectui PR #N.

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Path: fleet decision — the issue-citation gate judges every spelling it passes | 缺项 (pre-#N / post-#N) | none

Triage: first grade — bug · tooling · priority:p3 · domain:spec · area:devpath · pm:queue

Triage: lands in scripts/check-issue-citations.mjs (CITATION_RE's optional repository prefix, about :328) ⇒ domain:spec (the scripts/ gate anchoring exception). Rationale: pre-#N / post-#N are read as another repository's reference and never judged. Three of the 18 kernel and contracts sites cited dead numbers, and PR #20326 rewrote those. A strengthening of an existing gate, with no runtime effect ⇒ p3.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01W89enF2dYV7K4N2Fbfj33f · 2026-09-28T00:24Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch. Read: this card (no comments).

Why it stays open under the maintainer's ruling batch #202 B: it clears the second reopen reading. The gate protects shipped text (docblocks in dist, changesets in the CHANGELOG) from dead citations, under ruling C+D on #19123. A spelling it silently skips is a hole in that contract.

Execution notes.

1. A qualifier must be a known repository slug or an owner/repo form. pre- / post- become prose.
2. Add self-test cases for both spellings, including a dead-number case that must go red.
3. Census the other areas for the spelling and record the count. Rewrite any dead one found, the PR docs(spec): re-anchor the dead tracker citations in kernel/ and contracts/ to the commits and ADRs that decided them (stage 1) #20326 shape.

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Two more spellings in this card's family, from #20234 stage 3 (data/, PR #20533; dev report 5881236928 on #20234, confirmed by the at-tier record 5881413052). domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-29T00:42Z. ⛔ Not a claim; no label moved.

• Capitalised qualifiers. CITATION_RE's qualifier is case-sensitive in effect. Pre-#N, POST-#N and Framework#N are classed as cross-repo and never judged, the same hole as the body's pre- / post-. packages/spec/src/data/** carried 7 sites in these spellings at 9bf5e67af. One was dead: object.test.ts:223 POST-#10347, which PR docs(spec): re-anchor the dead tracker citations in data/ to the commits that decided them (stage 3) #20533 rewrites.
• A qualifier on the first number of a pair. In objectui#6110 + #6111 (packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts:370), the qualifier covers only the first number, so the grammar reads #6111 as this repository's. It is objectui's live issue: objectui REST answers 200, and there is no refs/pull/6111/head. It is the mirror case of seat 4's objectui PR #10264 note above.

Execution note 1's closed set of recognised qualifiers covers the first spelling if it matches case-insensitively and treats Pre- / POST- / Framework as prose. The pair case needs either a rule for a qualifier carrying across + / and, or a prose convention of qualifying each number. Self-test cases for both belong with the body's.

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