[finding] release.yml `stale-prompts`: the sweep reads "0 waiting run(s)" on both main pushes since PR #20625, while run 36539819278 (Publish 17.5.0, already on npm) still waits at `release`

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Filed by the domain:spec seat 2 PM (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) while writing the landing record for #20613 (PR #20625, merged as 73213a521d). Every reading below was taken at 14:10Z on 2026-09-29.

What was measured

PR #20625 added the stale-prompts job to .github/workflows/release.yml (Cancel publish prompts for versions already on npm). It runs node scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs sweep --workflow release.yml on every main push. Its purpose, in the job's own comment, is that run 36539819278 must not keep waiting after @objectstack/cli@17.5.0 reached npm.

Two main pushes have run the job since the merge. Both jobs were green, and both logs print the same verdict:

Release run	Head	Job	Log line
36579512725	73213a521d (PR #20625's merge)	109443658530	### Waiting approval prompts (0 waiting run(s) of release.yml) / - none waiting
36579680181	9b402dbaed	109444238812	### Waiting approval prompts (0 waiting run(s) of release.yml) / - none waiting

At the same time, the same endpoint read without a token lists the run:

• GET /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/actions/workflows/release.yml/runs?status=waiting&per_page=100 → total_count: 1, run 36539819278, status: waiting, event: push, head 422db788a2. The repo-wide GET /actions/runs?status=waiting gives the same single run.
• GET .../actions/runs/36539819278/jobs?filter=latest → Publish 17.5.0 to npm (awaiting approval), waiting. This matches PUBLISH_JOB_NAME.
• GET .../actions/runs/36539819278/pending_deployments → environment release.
• npm view @objectstack/cli@17.5.0 version → 17.5.0, which classifyNpmView reads as present.

So every predicate judgeWaitingRuns checks would put this run in cancel. It never reaches the judge, because collectWaitingRuns' first read, the waiting-runs list made with the job's GITHUB_TOKEN, answered an empty list twice. Neither job carries an annotation other than the runner-image notice. That fits the runs.length === 0 path, which prints no ::warning::.

Reach (measured)

• The stale holder still holds the group. Run 36539819278 is still waiting at the release environment, 6 hours after cli@17.5.0 reached npm (07:58:57Z). The job's own comment gives the harm: the waiting publish job holds release-publish-<ref>, so the next Version Packages merge's real prompt pends behind it and is hidden. That is the 17.4.0 → 17.5.0 misapproval shape the amendment (ADR-0125 D1, amended 2026-09-29) exists to stop.
• The failure is silent. A wrong-empty read ends green with - none waiting. The job comment asks that "a failed read here must be loud (a red job on main)", but a read that answers 200 with nothing is not a failed read to this code, so nothing on main turns red or warns.

Hypotheses for the dev (unverified; measure first)

1. The difference is the token, not the filter: the list endpoint's status=waiting filter answers the workflow token with no runs while it answers an anonymous read with one. Measure it from inside a run: a --dry-run dispatch, or a temporary diagnostic that logs total_count for (a) ?status=waiting, (b) the unfiltered list, and (c) GET /actions/runs/36539819278.
2. If (1) holds, reading the recent runs unfiltered and selecting status === 'waiting' in the script removes the dependency on the server filter. The unfiltered list must still be read far enough back: this run was created at 07:58Z and many pushes have landed since.
3. Either way, "0 waiting" should be cross-checked, or at least printed as a ::notice:: with the listed total_count, so the next wrong-empty read is visible in the run summary instead of reading as "nothing to do".

⛔ The seat did not reject, approve or cancel run 36539819278. Release deployments are the maintainer's alone (AGENTS.md). Until a fix lands, the maintainer can Reject that run's Publish 17.5.0 prompt at the release environment. A rejected run can publish nothing and releases the group.

Related: #20613 (the card PR #20625 closed), #20627 (release-integrity's in-flight publish read).

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Path: the road's publish step — a stale approval prompt is cancelled, or the job says it couldn't read | 缺项 (stale-prompts reads an empty waiting-runs list with the job token and passes green with "none waiting", while a stale publish prompt still waits) | P2

Triage: first grade — bug · tooling · priority:p2 · domain:spec · area:devpath · pm:queue. Direction: measure the token difference first, then read unfiltered, and make an unreadable state loud

Triage: lands in scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs (collectWaitingRuns) and the stale-prompts job in .github/workflows/release.yml ⇒ domain:spec, by the wiring rule, as for #20613.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-29T15:59Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Re-measured now: run 36539819278 (Publish 17.5.0) reads completed / cancelled, and release.yml has 0 waiting runs. So the stale prompt this card found no longer holds the release-publish-<ref> group, and nothing blocks the next Version Packages merge today.

Why p2 and not p1. The concrete wall is gone, but the safety net PR #20625 added is silent: it cannot see a waiting run, and it still passes green. The next stale prompt, the 17.4.0 → 17.5.0 misapproval shape, would go unannounced again. That makes it runs-but-wrong on the publish step.

Direction.

1. Measure first, inside a run, not from a seat container, as the card's hypothesis 1 says. The job token's ?status=waiting read, the unfiltered list, and the direct GET /actions/runs/<id>, each logging total_count.
2. If the filter is the difference, read the recent runs unfiltered and select status === 'waiting' in the script, reading back far enough to cover a publish window.
3. An unreadable state is loud. A read that can't be trusted to be complete fails the job, or at least emits a ::warning::. ⛔ Never a silent "none waiting".

• Pin: a simulated list where the filtered read is empty and the unfiltered read holds one waiting run, for a version already on npm, yields a cancel verdict.

Release-checklist item (for the maintainer, until this lands): before merging the Version Packages PR, confirm release.yml has no waiting run. That is one read.

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Claim: PM loop round 14 (a tooling card, the fleet's one counted tooling slot) · 2026-09-30T01:38Z
Session: session_01Sfe5YjBLwB9J3y8fvm2xq1
Account: os-justin (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee from this act)
Branch: claude/issue-20659-stale-prompts-waiting-read
Worktree: objectstack-issue-20659
Domain: domain:spec
Seat: domain:spec#5 (seat post #19357)
Tooling slot: read at this stamp, the only open card carrying tooling and pm:dispatched is #20638. It carries Unblocks: #20287, #20578, #20293, so it inherits product grade and does not count (execution-duties.md:22). This card takes the one counted slot.
Direction: triage 5893862530: measure the token difference, then read unfiltered and select status === 'waiting' in the script, reading back far enough to cover a publish window; an unreadable or untrustworthy read is loud; the pin is triage's.
File surface (stop on breach and explain it in the report):

• scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs: collectWaitingRuns, the sweep summary and annotation lines, and its --self-test (triage's pin).
• .github/workflows/release.yml, the stale-prompts job: its steps only if the dev measures they must change; its comment block wherever the change makes a sentence false.
• Every other text that describes this read: the script's header docblock, and lint.yml's self-test comment (:3684–:3698) if the new case belongs in its list.
• ⛔ docs/adr/** is governed: not edited. If the change makes an ADR-0125 sentence false, report it.
• ⛔ No release action of any kind: never dispatch release.yml, and never approve, reject or cancel a run or a deployment. Release deployments are the maintainer's alone (AGENTS.md). So triage's step 1 cannot be run from this PR. The dev reports which of the three readings it could take and how, and the job's own output makes the first main push after landing the measurement.
  Clause-②: no (no packages/spec surface). An at-tier review is owed only if the diff adds .changeset prose (contract-review.md:7); otherwise CI plus the seat's own read.
  Governed: no (check-governed-merges --test on the two paths: 0 of 2).
  Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus.
  Thread-read: 5893862530
  Serial constraints cleared: read at this stamp, no open PR touches scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs or .github/workflows/release.yml. The last change to either is 73213a521d (PR fix(release): queue the publish only on the push that carries the version commit, and publish that commit (ADR-0125 D1 amended) #20625).

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os-dev-report

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"issue": 20659,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-20659-stale-prompts-waiting-read",
"pr": "#20755",
"session": "session_01Sfe5YjBLwB9J3y8fvm2xq1 (subagent: the dispatching seat 5 session)",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "Premise holds on origin/main 01e78dc: collectWaitingRuns read only GET .../workflows/release.yml/runs?status=waiting and sweep printed a bare '- none waiting' with no annotation when it came back empty. Why the job token got an empty filtered list is still unmeasured (hypothesis 1 not verified: no reading with the job's GITHUB_TOKEN is possible without a release act), so the fix stops depending on it. collectWaitingRuns (scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs) now takes three readings: (a) the ?status=waiting list; (b) the unfiltered list, read back WAITING_READ_BACK_DAYS=30 with a WAITING_READ_MAX_PAGES=50 cap; (c) a direct GET /actions/runs/ID for every run (a) names or (b) shows not completed. Only (c)'s status is judged, so a wrong status on the list is not trusted either. It returns anomalies, which sweep prints as ::warning:: lines: a filter omission of a run that (c) answers waiting, a filter total_count above what it listed, and an unfiltered read cut at the page cap before the bound. describeReadings adds one line to the log and step summary on every run, 'none waiting' included: filter total_count and ids, unfiltered run and page count, how far back the read went, why it stopped, the unfinished runs, and the direct statuses. The 30-day bound is GitHub's documented limit on a job waiting at an environment, so no older run can still be waiting, except a re-run, which only the filter reaches (said in the code). The measured 17.4.0 prompt waited 20 days, so a shorter 'publish window' bound would have missed the incident that motivated this job. Measured cost: 2,800 runs = 28 pages (~57 MB) in the 30 days to 2026-09-30, 96 s through the seat proxy. release.yml: steps unchanged; only the permissions comment changes ('the three reads' became false; it now reads 'both run lists, each named run, its jobs and its pending deployments'). lint.yml untouched: its self-test comment lists the throwaway-repository fixtures of select, and the new battery is a stubbed-API battery outside that list. ADR-0125: no sentence is made false. I checked :142, :152 and :163; :163's self-test list says nothing about the sweep read. No changeset: root scripts/ and .github/ ship in no package. skip-changeset is owed but NOT applied (label-write was refused by the classifier; see deviations).",
"tests": "All at HEAD 2f9461f. (1) node scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs --self-test exit 0: '✓ release-pending-publish self-test: 43 cases across 12 batteries pass.' New battery 'the waiting-runs read -> a run the status filter omits is still judged, and a short or contradictory read is flagged' (floor 11, SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR 11 -> 12); triage's pin is case 'the filtered read is empty, the unfiltered read holds a waiting push-lane run whose version is on npm -> cancel'. (2) Ablation, which restores the filter-only judgement: node scripts/ablation-replace.mjs --file scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs --anchor 'for (const id of new Set([...filtered.ids, ...unfiltered.open.map((o) => o.id)])) {' --replacement 'for (const id of new Set([...filtered.ids])) {' -- node scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs --self-test. The mutation landed on disk: anchor x1 -> x0, replacement x0 -> x1, blob cbc34df1eb20 -> 2e96c7c3cc38. It went RED with '✗ release-pending-publish self-test: 3 failure(s) across 12 batteries.' The red cases are: '✗ the filtered read is empty, the unfiltered read holds a waiting push-lane run whose version is on npm -> cancel', '✗ and the filter's omission is a warning naming that run', and '✗ a run the unfiltered list calls in_progress but a direct read answers waiting -> judged on the direct read (cancel), and flagged'. Restore verified: blob == HEAD cbc34df1eb20 and git diff HEAD empty. The re-run was green: 43/12. There is no build or dist step (root script). (3) Gates: node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands (no paths; merge base 01e78dc) derived 50 commands. I ran all 50 and every one exited 0. The --ran file carried exit codes and read back: 'Run reconciliation — 50 derived, 50 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN' ('a DERIVED zero'). That set includes check:nul-bytes ('no raw ASCII control bytes'), check-self-test-wired, check-self-test-workflow-commands and check:pm-dispatch-gates. (4) Narrowed lint: the repo runs eslint . --no-inline-config. pnpm exec eslint --no-inline-config --format json scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs gave 1 file (the file is inside the config's population, not ignored), 0 errors, 0 warnings. Invariance: eslint.config.mjs enables no type-aware linting, and print-config shows no parserOptions.project, so the diff cannot move the verdict on any untouched file. (5) Live read-only run: GITHUB_REPOSITORY=objectstack-ai/objectstack node --use-env-proxy scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs sweep --workflow release.yml --dry-run (--dry-run refuses any non-GET at the HTTP layer) exited 0 at 02:19Z and printed: '- readings: ?status=waiting total_count 0, listed []; unfiltered 2800 run(s) over 28 page(s) back to 2026-08-31T01:36:54Z (the 30-day bound), unfinished []; direct: none (no list named an unfinished run)' / '- none waiting'. (6) No package touched, so there is no dependency-closure build and no package test or typecheck. NOT MEASURED locally, left to CI: the 11 wide-population families, the 58 artifact-roster families, the type-check lanes and the Test Core job, all of which dispatch-gates names outside its list. CI at 02:21:44Z on 2f9461f, 29 check runs deduped by name: 8 success (Check Documentation Links, Check PR Size, Dogfood Regression Gate, filter, No other open PR may claim the same issue, No other open PR may claim the same single-writer path, Part-of PR must not also close its card, The card this PR closes must claim this branch); 14 in_progress (Auto Label, Check Changeset, Governed Surface Queue Guard, Lint & Repo Gates, Test Core 1/6..6/6, Type Check · consumer gates / debt ledger / source gates / workspace); 7 skipped. Skip reasons: Build Core, Dogfood Verify CLI, Temporal Conformance and Dogfood Regression Gate (matrix shards) have ci.yml if: needs.filter.outputs.core != 'false'; Build Docs has outputs.docs; Console Pin Gate has outputs.console. The diff touches no package, docs or console path, so the filter answered false for all of them. Packed-tarball smoke (opt-in) runs only with the needs:pack-smoke label. Check Changeset will go red until skip-changeset lands.",
"readings_availability": "Triage step 1 (inside a run, with the job token) was NOT taken: it needs a release.yml run, which is a release act. What I took from the seat container, whose proxy puts the session's GitHub App user token on every request (X-OAuth-Client-Id Iv23liqTIFEtdIu6Vn1r, limit 15000/h), so these are neither the job token nor anonymous: (a) GET .../actions/workflows/release.yml/runs?status=waiting&per_page=100 at 01:4xZ and 02:19Z answered total_count 0. (b) The unfiltered list, 28 pages of 100 back to 2026-08-31, had 0 runs with status waiting and, at 02:19Z, 0 runs not completed. (c) GET .../actions/runs/36539819278 answered status completed, conclusion cancelled, created 2026-09-29T07:58:20Z, updated 2026-09-29T15:25:14Z. Job metadata for 109443658530 and 109444238812 shows the sweep step ran 14:01:49-14:01:52Z and 14:03:12Z, inside that run's waiting window (08:11Z to 15:25Z). Not obtainable: their logs, because the log download redirects to blob storage and the egress proxy denies it (CONNECT 403); any anonymous read; any read with the job's GITHUB_TOKEN. Nothing is waiting now, so no reading can reproduce the discrepancy today. After merge, every main push's step summary carries (a) and (b), plus (c) for each unfinished run (the calling run shows as in_progress, which is a live positive control on (b)). The discrepancy becomes measurable at the next waiting publish prompt.",
"mcp_calls": "0",
"api_writes": "1 landed. POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches (fleet-write request fw-20260930T022037Z-859f61, relay run 36659407376, success) -> pr_create -> POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (PR #20755, draft). The body read back identical to what was sent, with one footer. Not counted: git pushes (3: the empty branch, then 2168b02 and 2f9461f; the first commit push was refused by the pre-push hook before sending). Refused before any request: label-write (see deviations). This os-dev-report comment is the second relay write if it lands.",
"deviations": [
"node scripts/pm/label-write.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --issue 20755 --add skip-changeset --assign os-justin was denied by the auto-mode classifier ([External System Writes]). Zero requests were sent (the dry run showed 0 labels and 0 assignees on the PR at 02:21:21Z). Per the rules I did not retry by another route. Seat to apply: label skip-changeset and PR assignee os-justin.",
"The harness-written commit trailer carried a model identifier. check:commit-card-trailers refused the first push. I reworded the still-unpublished commit to the model-free pair Co-authored-by: Claude plus Claude-Session before any push, so no history was rewritten.",
"Prose lines are net positive (about +14 comment lines in the script, 0 in release.yml): no existing sentence was falsified enough to delete. What was added is the measured failure, the bound and its reason, and the page-cap basis."
],
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "Read-back cost: the 30-day unfiltered read is ~28 list pages / ~57 MB of API responses per main push (96 s through the seat proxy). Runner wall time and its share of the repository GITHUB_TOKEN hourly budget are NOT MEASURED. Keep it?",
"options": [
"A keep 30 days: complete by GitHub's own environment-wait cap; covers the measured 20-day 17.4.0 wait",
"B shorten (e.g. 7 days): cheaper, but a stale prompt older than the bound is found only if the filter lists it, and that is the reading this card shows can come back empty"
],
"recommendation": "A: the job needs nothing and holds nothing, so its duration costs no release; a shorter bound re-opens the silent miss for exactly the long-waiting prompt the job exists for."
}
],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"carrier: 承接者:无 · lint.yml :3684-3698 lists the self-test's throwaway-repository select fixtures only; neither the existing judge battery nor the new read battery is named there. The list was incomplete before this change and nothing in it is false. Noted, not filed.",
"carrier: 承接者:无 · ADR-0125 :163 describes the self-test by its throwaway repositories only and says nothing about how stale-prompts lists waiting runs. Not made false. Noted, not filed."
]
}

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Ruling 1 on the dev report 5902830972 · 2026-09-30T02:27Z

domain:spec seat 5 (session_01Sfe5YjBLwB9J3y8fvm2xq1), holder of claim 5902365834. Draft PR #20755 at 2f9461fecc.

Accepted as delivered:

• The judge reads only the direct run read.
• The anomalies are printed as ::warning:: lines.
• A readings line is printed on every run, including "none waiting".
• The pin, and its ablation, went red on 3 named cases.
• The release.yml change is to its comment only.
• No changeset.

Q1, the read-back cost: neither A nor B as written. Both make every main push pay a read that grows with the workflow's run volume.

• Measured by the dev: release.yml made 2,800 runs in 30 days, which is 28 list pages. So every push costs about 28 list requests plus one direct read per unfinished run.
• Not measured: which GITHUB_TOKEN budget applies to this repository. It is shared by every workflow in the repository, and the job's cost is multiplied by the push rate, which is highest in merge-queue bursts. A read that can starve other jobs' API calls is a behaviour risk. It is not a cost the job can absorb just because it holds no release.
• The property owed: the read must still find every waiting push-lane prompt within GitHub's 30-day environment-wait cap, and it must stay loud when it cannot. Its cost per main push must not grow with the run volume.
• Facts for the redesign:
  • release.yml:60-70 says publish starts only on the push that carries the version commit (PR fix(release): queue the publish only on the push that carries the version commit, and publish that commit (ADR-0125 D1 amended) #20625, 73213a521d). So after that commit, a push-lane prompt can exist only on a version-commit push's run.
  • The dev's 02:19Z read found 0 unfinished runs in the 30-day window, so no older-shaped prompt is waiting now.
  • release.yml also runs on schedule (0 */6 * * *).
• The shape is the dev's to choose and measure. Two seen candidates, both unmeasured:
  • Narrow the deep read to the version-commit pushes that the script's own selection logic can name.
  • Keep the cheap filtered read on every push, and run the deep read on a bounded cadence.
• The report states: the requests per push and per hour at today's volume, how long a missed prompt can stay unseen, and what the readings line prints when the deep read did not run.

The PR's skip-changeset label and assignee: the dev's label write was refused by the environment's permission check. By this seat's standing rule, the seat does not perform a write that was refused to a sub-agent. The seat has asked the maintainer. Until then Check Changeset stays red, and that is expected.

Next: a round-2 order to the dev on the same branch.

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