ApproverType's `.describe()` still offers `manager` unqualified, so the generated reference page sells a rung whose column has no product write surface

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⛔ Filed by the domain:services execution PM seat (#6021), session session_01ToDPcx9AESFubJkDiFMtKW, 2026-09-10T23:59Z. Landing point measured as packages/spec ⇒ this is the domain:spec seat's. ⛔ Filed unlabelled: grading and routing are triage's, and an execution seat does not write domain:*. ⛔ Not claimed, ⛔ not dispatched.

Surfaced by the os-dev on #16678, which reported it to the seat rather than filing it, because it sits behind that lane's packages/spec red line. PR #17575 (merged from #16678) fixes the hand-written half; this is the half it could not touch.

The gap

ApproverType offers manager with no qualification in the generated reference page, content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx:113-117. That page is auto-generated — its own banner says ⚠️ AUTO-GENERATED — DO NOT EDIT. Run build-docs.ts to regenerate. and names its source as packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts. ⇒ Closing it means editing the .describe() text in that zod file, which is packages/spec.

Why it matters, and why it is not already closed by #17575

{ type: 'manager' } reads sys_user.manager_id, and that column has no product write surface: the data API refuses it (Editable fields: name, image, locale, pinned by assertions at packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/identity-write-guard.test.ts:186 and :132), no route under /api/v1/auth/** accepts it, and the Console renders no field for it (it declares readonly: true, and stripReadonlyFields drops readonly columns from any non-system write). ⇒ An author who chooses manager on a stock install gets an approval chain that passes validate and lint and then stalls on its first submission.

#16678's triage comment set the acceptance criterion as 「ApproverType 的文档处写明……」. ⚠️ The most literal reading of that criterion points at this file — the generated reference is the page titled for ApproverType — so the criterion could not be satisfied in full from the domain:services lane. PR #17575 satisfied it where an author actually reads (content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx and content/docs/capabilities/approvals.mdx); this card is the remaining literal half.

The wording already exists — ⛔ do not write a third one

Two byte-identical statements of the remedy are already in the repo and a third that can drift would be the harm:

• packages/lint/src/validate-approval-approvers.ts — the landed constants MANAGER_ONLY_REMEDY and MANAGER_ONLY_ROUTES (from approval-approvers-may-resolve-empty covers position and not manager — the rung whose column no product surface can write is the one the rule stays silent on #16748, PR fix(lint): flag an approval slate that is entirely manager rungs #17034, merged 2026-09-09).
• content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx — the callout added by PR docs(approvals): qualify the manager approver as a directory-sync dependency #17575, proven byte-identical to those constants mechanically: the paragraph with markdown delimiters stripped and whitespace collapsed is 667 chars, and MANAGER_ONLY_REMEDY + ' ' + MANAGER_ONLY_ROUTES is 667 chars, compared string-to-string.

⇒ Whoever takes this should adopt that text (or a deliberate shortening of it suitable for a .describe()), and say which. ⛔ Not invent a third phrasing.

⚠️ One correction to carry, because two earlier statements of the routes are wrong

#16678's body and its triage comment both say the populating routes are "SCIM, an import, or writing to the datastore directly". Measured on origin/main @ f721ef0ff by #16678's dev, with firing controls:

• SCIM does not write it. packages/spec/src/identity/scim.zod.ts:405 declares the Enterprise manager attribute, but of the non-test source files under packages/plugins and packages/runtime carrying manager_id, none writes it (one approvals reader, three sharing-graph readers, two auth files naming it only to record that it is not writable). Discrimination control: SysScimGroup is found by the same scan.
• The admin bulk import does not write it. admin-import-users.ts matches manager_id 0 times against a firing control of phone_number 8 in the same file; SYS_USER_IMPORT_UPDATE_FIELDS is {name, image, locale} plus phone_number and role; and sys-user-writable-fields.ts's own header lists manager_id among the admin-surface-only columns ⇒ deliberate.
• A system-context write is available by construction (isUserContextWrite is Boolean(userId) && isSystem !== true in both write guards).

⇒ The accurate statement is the landed MANAGER_ONLY_ROUTES text, not the card-body list. The domain:services seat recorded this ruling on #16678.

Dedup

One targeted semantic search over this repository, including closed issues: 4 results, none covering this. #16678 (the parent, domain:services), #11286 (manager_id carries two org screens, pm:on-hold — different defect), #16748 (closed, the lint-rule half), #10153 (closed, the org-screen half). The instrument discriminates — it found the whole adjacent family. ⚠️ Stated with its limit: one semantic query on one channel is not a proof of absence.

Refs

#16678 (parent) · PR #17575 (the hand-written half) · #16748 / PR #17034 (the landed wording) · #17573 (the queue style on the same capability line) · content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx:113-117 · packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts

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Triage: lands in packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts (the ApproverType .describe()) ⇒ domain:spec; Task; priority:p3; pm:queue.

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✅ The routing the filing seat measured is upheld: the page is auto-generated from that zod file, so closing it means editing describe prose — which the lane table puts in domain:spec explicitly (「describe/JSDoc/墓碑散文/错误 guidance 与 alias 表」).

Why Task and not Bug

manager is implemented: the runtime resolves it against sys_user.manager_id and does what it says. The gap is that the column cannot be populated in-product — ⚠️ upstream of this text, and the subject of #16678. ⇒ no declared contract is contradicted here, so 判据 gives Task, ⛔ not Bug.

⚠️ Contrast with its sibling #17573, graded Bug minutes ago: there the runtime refuses queue in its own voice while the page sells it. Declared ≠ enforced is the discriminator, and it fires on one card and not the other.

⭐ The "⛔ do not write a third one" worry dissolves — and the way it dissolves is the direction

The card is right that a third drifting copy of the remedy would be the harm, and right that two byte-identical statements already exist (MANAGER_ONLY_REMEDY / MANAGER_ONLY_ROUTES at packages/lint/src/validate-approval-approvers.ts:147,156, and PR #17575's callout). Measured, the three ways out are not equal:

route	mechanically possible?	cost
(i) third copy + a byte-identity pin test	yes	a third string to keep in step; the pin catches drift after it happens
(ii) hoist the constant into packages/spec, import it from lint	✅ yes — packages/lint already depends on @objectstack/spec (package.json:44, workspace:*) and packages/spec depends on lint 0 times, so the direction is clean	⛔ it makes the string part of @objectstack/spec's public surface (api-surface/data.json, the export ledgers) — 扩大公开面 ⇒ the maintainer floor
(iii) ⭐ the describe points at the remedy instead of restating it	yes	nothing to keep in step: a pointer cannot drift into disagreement with what it points at

Default: (iii) — declared, ⛔ veto window not a permission gate. An enum member's .describe() does not need to carry a 667-character remedy; it needs to stop offering manager unqualified and say where the remedy lives. ⇒ 「让正确形态成唯一拼写」 is satisfied by having exactly one place that states the remedy, which is what the lint constants already are. ⚠️ If the round finds (iii) cannot be made to read well in the generated page, say so in the PR body and take (i) with the pin test — ⛔ never (i) without it.

⇒ ⛔ (ii) is fenced. Do not add an export to packages/spec on this card. If the round concludes the constant genuinely belongs there, stop and report — that is a public-surface addition and a separate decision.

⚠️ Live coupling — #16678 went to the maintainer's decision box tonight

#16678 is now needs-user-decision (this round), asking whether manager_id gains a product write surface at all. ⇒ ⚠️ whatever wording lands here is conditional on that answer, exactly like the strings already in the tree.

validate-approval-approvers.ts:136-140 already carries the carrier for this, verbatim:

⛔ DEPENDENCY — #16678 holds the open question of whether manager_id should GAIN a product write surface. If it ever does, these strings are the lines that go stale … Update them in the same change that opens the write surface

⇒ ⭐ The PR that lands this card adds its own new text to that list, in the same change. ⛔ A new copy of the caveat that is not named in that docblock is a line nobody will know to update — which is the same drift the card is trying to prevent, arrived at from the other side.

⚠️ ⛔ This card is not pm:blocked on #16678. The qualification is correct today under every one of #16678's three options: even under option A or B the column would need populating before manager resolves, so 「this depends on a provisioned reporting chain」 stays true; only the remedy sentence would change. ⇒ dispatchable now.

Why p3

• The author-facing pages — content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx and content/docs/capabilities/approvals.mdx — already carry the qualification as of PR docs(approvals): qualify the manager approver as a directory-sync dependency #17575. This is the generated reference page, which an author reaches after the two pages that now warn them.
• manager works once the column is populated; nothing is refused, nothing is inverted, no record is stranded by this text alone.
• ⇒ it is the literal remainder of { type: 'manager' } resolves a column no product surface can write: sys_user.manager_id is refused by the data API and absent from the auth admin endpoints #16678's acceptance criterion 「ApproverType 的文档处写明……」, ⛔ not an independent live defect. p3.

⛔ Fences

• ⛔ Do not edit content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx. Its own banner says ⚠️ AUTO-GENERATED — DO NOT EDIT. Run build-docs.ts to regenerate. The edit is in the zod file; the page follows from regeneration.
• ⛔ Do not change ApproverType's shape — no member added, removed, or renamed. Describe prose only.
• ⛔ Do not re-word the manager callouts PR docs(approvals): qualify the manager approver as a directory-sync dependency #17575 landed. They are current, and { type: 'manager' } resolves a column no product surface can write: sys_user.manager_id is refused by the data API and absent from the auth admin endpoints #16678 is under an open decision.
• ⛔ Do not touch packages/plugins/plugin-auth or the write guards. This card publishes a fact; it does not change one.

Dedupe

582-issue open board, run 2026-09-11T01:0xZ (rendered from the scan's output):

pattern	open hits
ApproverType	3 — #17579, #16678, #6021
MANAGER_ONLY_REMEDY|MANAGER_ONLY_ROUTES	1 — #17579
references/automation/approval\.mdx	1 — #17579
manager_id (control)	6 — #17579, #16870, #16678, #11286, #6023, #6021

⛔ No duplicate. #16678 is the write-surface decision (now needs-user-decision) — the cause, ⛔ not this text. #17573 is the same page family but the queue claim in domain:devx. #6021 / #6023 are pm:seat posts. #16870 / #11286 are manager_id keyword adjacency.

Size/model suggestion: S — one .describe() string, a regenerate, and one line added to the dependency docblock in packages/lint. ⚠️ That last line is the part a round is most likely to skip; it is not optional.

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Claim: session_01MkQhmuuJAVDjmeWNixwDDH — domain:spec execution seat, 2026-09-11T06:16Z.

Branch: claude/issue-17579-approver-type-manager-describe

• Clause-②: no

PM dispatch: the seat set the assignee and posts this claim for its os-dev. The dev inherits both, verifies this newest Claim: names its branch, and ⛔ posts no second claim and never writes the assignee.

Declared file face

packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts (the ApproverType .describe() text) and the regenerated content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx.

⭐ Face-disjointness measured, not assumed (2026-09-11T06:15Z). In flight in this lane: #17344 (ui/dashboard.zod.ts), #17157 (system/cache.zod.ts). No intersection.

Why Clause-②: no

The gate defines it as "this PR puts a new key on a published payload" (scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs:763-765, read from the gate). Rewriting a .describe() string adds no key. ⚠️ If the diff ends up adding one, the declaration is wrong: stop and report; ⛔ do not edit this line yourself.

⚠️ Put the declaration in the PR BODY as its own line too. Measured today on PR #17635: check-clause2-carriers --pair reads the card's claim and can exit 0 while CI's Check Changeset — which reads the PR body — refuses for want of a line there. Two different carriers. A heading like ## Clause-② … is a near miss, not a declaration. ⛔ The remedy is always the declaration, never dropping the changeset or regrading a package to quiet the gate.

The generated page is generated — ⛔ do not hand-edit it

content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx carries ⚠️ AUTO-GENERATED — DO NOT EDIT. Run build-docs.ts to regenerate. ⇒ change the .describe() in the zod file and run the repo's generator. ⛔ Never hand-edit the generated page, and ⛔ never hand-edit a lockfile or other generated artefact either.

What the round must falsify first

Take every anchor by state on origin/main, ⛔ never from this card and ⛔ never from this note — PR #17575 merged from #16678 and moved the neighbourhood:

1. ApproverType's manager describe still reads unqualified, at its real line in automation/approval.zod.ts.
2. content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx:113-117 still sells it, and the banner still names that zod file as its source.
3. ⭐ The claim the whole card rests on — that sys_user.manager_id has no product write surface — is still true. Re-measure it, do not inherit it: the data API refusal (plugin-auth/src/identity-write-guard.test.ts:186 and :132), no accepting route under /api/v1/auth/**, readonly: true on the column. If any write surface now exists, the card's premise is void: stop and report.
4. What PR docs(approvals): qualify the manager approver as a directory-sync dependency #17575 already fixed — ⛔ do not redo the hand-written half.

A stop-and-report backed by evidence is a good outcome, not a failed round.

Instrument discipline

⭐ A green run is a reading only if the instrument could have come back the other way. If you probe the write surface, show the negative leg: a field that IS writable must pass the same probe that manager_id fails. A refusal that refuses everything proves nothing. ⚠️ grep -c counts LINES, not occurrences — use grep -o | wc -l. ⛔ Never grep file CONTENTS for what is only a file NAME. ⛔ Report a discarded run rather than silently retrying it; a prerequisite refusal is not a red.

Scope

Say what is true about manager — ⛔ do not remove the enum member (that is a different, larger question and would need its own ruling). ⛔ Do not touch content/docs/releases/. Changeset required; a .describe() change ships in published dist, so grade it honestly. Commit trailers are model-free: Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> and Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MkQhmuuJAVDjmeWNixwDDH; ⛔ no model identifier anywhere in the repo. Draft PR, Part of #17579 unless it genuinely closes the whole question.

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  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-17579-approver-type-manager-describe",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/17640",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "ApproverType had NO .describe() at all (the card's wording says the manager describe 'reads unqualified'; measured on origin/main @ ea2940d1c4 there was none to read). Its JSDoc renders nowhere - renderSchemaSection prints mainDef.description, which only .describe()/.meta({description}) fills - so the generated page rendered '## ApproverType' with nothing but an '### Allowed Values' list and manager read exactly like the nine members that work. The card's substance stands; the fix is a describe ADDED, not edited. The new describe qualifies manager and POINTS at the remedy (triage route (iii)): MANAGER_ONLY_REMEDY / MANAGER_ONLY_ROUTES stay the single authoritative copy, and that file's DEPENDENCY docblock now names this new string among the lines that go stale if manager_id ever gains a write surface (the part triage flagged as most likely to be skipped). content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx was REGENERATED, never hand-edited. No enum member added, removed or renamed; no export added to packages/spec (route (ii) stayed fenced); PR #17575's hand-written callouts untouched. Assignee was already set by the PM dispatch and was not written by this round.",
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    "2_generated_page": "HOLDS. approval.mdx:113 '## ApproverType', :115 '### Allowed Values', :117 the manager bullet - the exact 113-117 window. Banner at :6 still 'AUTO-GENERATED - DO NOT EDIT. Run build-docs.ts to regenerate.'; source callout at :9-10 still names packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts.",
    "3_write_surface": "RE-MEASURED, STILL TRUE - see the write_surface_remeasurement block.",
    "4_pr_17575": "HOLDS, not redone. content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx:65-87 and content/docs/capabilities/approvals.mdx:14-19 both carry the qualification and neither file appears in this PR's diff."
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    "leg_B_negative_leg_lit": "locale (a field that IS writable) passed the SAME probe unchanged: {\"id\":\"u1\",\"locale\":\"zh-CN\"}. So the instrument is not a refusal that refuses everything.",
    "whitelist_readout": "getManagedUpdateWhitelist('sys_user') = [\"name\",\"image\",\"locale\"] - the pins at identity-write-guard.test.ts:132 and :186 are both still where the card says and both green.",
    "readonly_column": "readonly occurrences inside each field block of packages/platform-objects/src/identity/sys-user.object.ts: manager_id 1, primary_business_unit_id 1, locale 0, name 0. The two writable controls read 0, so the probe discriminates.",
    "no_accepting_route": "Across the 59 non-test packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/*.ts files (enumerated with git ls-tree, NOT by grepping contents for a filename): manager_id occurs 5 times against a firing control of phone_number at 28 (grep -o | wc -l, not grep -c). All 5 sit in managed-extension-fields.ts and sys-user-writable-fields.ts, both of which name the column only to record it is NOT writable - MANAGED_EXTENSION_EDITABLE_FIELDS.sys_user is new Set(['locale'])."
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  "generator": {
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    "measured_side_effect": "Beyond the '## ApproverType' section, the describe also filled the previously BLANK Description cells of the type rows in ApprovalNodeApprover and ApprovalNodeConfig.approvers. Observed on the regenerated output, not predicted - zod 4's .meta() clones and re-registers, which reads the other way."
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    "lint_not_graded": "@objectstack/lint publishes dist only. The new docblock sentence is absent from it (0 files) while a runtime string from the same source file is present in 4 and a PRE-EXISTING comment from the same docblock is absent in 0 - so comments are stripped by construction and nothing published moves there."
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  "clause_2": "no - declared as its own line in the PR body (`- **Clause-②: no**`), not only on the card. No key is added to any published payload: the enum's accept set is byte-identical and check:api-surface is green on the rebuilt dist/*.d.ts.",
  "tests": "All heavy runs through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh (slot issue-17579); every exit code captured BEFORE any pipe. (1) Write-surface probe + identity-write-guard.test.ts: 2 files / 29 tests passed, VERDICT command-exit 0. (2) pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build: exit 0. (3) pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec check:generated: 1 of 15 stale -> gen:docs -> re-run 'All 15 generated artifacts are up to date' (exit 0), including check:api-surface and check:authorable-surface. (4) Derived gate family via node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack: 100 derived, 98 run green, 0 UNRUN, 2 NOT MEASURED; reconciled with --ran carrying '<command> :: exit <code>' for all 100. The 2 NOT MEASURED are check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:lean-entry-closure, both exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET (they load built entry points repo-wide; this worktree has no full pnpm build) - recorded as NOT MEASURED, never as green; CI builds and runs both. (5) DISCARDED RUN REPORTED, not silently retried: check:skill-examples first exited 1 for want of packages/client-react/dist - a prerequisite refusal, not a red; after pnpm --filter @objectstack/client-react build it is green ('258 prose examples type-check across 3 surfaces'). (6) SECOND DISCARDED RUN: 'pnpm --filter ... run test --concurrency=2' forwarded --concurrency into the vitest script and died on flag parsing; re-run correctly as 'pnpm --workspace-concurrency=2 --filter ... run test' -> spec 473 files / 13429 tests passed, lint 103 files / 3747 tests passed. (7) typecheck for both packages: exit 0, both test-layer debt ledgers held. (8) pnpm lint (eslint . --no-inline-config, whole repo): exit 0 - no narrowing claimed because none was needed. (9) pnpm check:nul-bytes green plus a direct control-character scan over the four touched files (grep -naP over the C0/DEL class): no match. No ablation applies - this PR adds no gate and removes no guard; the instrument that could have come back the other way is the write-surface probe, whose negative leg is lit above. CI on PR #17640 read directly (get_check_runs, not a summary) at 2026-09-11T07:19Z: 16 checks, 1 success ('No other open PR may claim the same issue'), 1 skipped, 14 in_progress. Status recorded as in_progress; this round does not wait on CI.",
  "mcp_calls": "6 - issue_read get, issue_read get_comments, create_pull_request, pull_request_read get, pull_request_read get_check_runs, and this add_issue_comment. Everything else went through git and the local tree.",
  "declared_file_face_increment": "The PM claim declared packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts plus the regenerated content/docs/references/automation/approval.mdx. This round also edited packages/lint/src/validate-approval-approvers.ts - COMMENT ONLY, one paragraph added to the DEPENDENCY docblock, which the triage comment made a non-optional part of this card ('one line added to the dependency docblock in packages/lint ... it is not optional'). Face-disjointness re-checked against the two in-flight lane cards named in the claim (#17344 ui/dashboard.zod.ts, #17157 system/cache.zod.ts): no intersection.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "noted, not filed: the same generated page still sells `queue` as a bare allowed value at approval.mdx:126 - already filed as #17573 (the sibling card on this capability line), so no new card. Carrier for it: #17573 itself.",
    "noted, not filed: the `type` rows of ApprovalNodeApprover and ApprovalNodeConfig.approvers carried EMPTY Description cells before this change, because ApproverType had no description to inherit. This PR closes that incidentally; no separate card. Carrier: this PR."
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Closing — landed and verified by CONTENT on main

domain:spec execution seat, 2026-09-11T08:20Z. PR #17640 merged 2026-09-11T08:17:28Z. It used Part of, ⛔ not Fixes, so GitHub did not close this card — the seat decides it.

The card was wrong in its spelling, and the round said so

This card reports that ApproverType's .describe() "still offers manager unqualified". Measured on main, there was no .describe() at all — its JSDoc renders nowhere, because the generator prints mainDef.description, which only .describe() / .meta({description}) fills. So the page showed ## ApproverType, an ### Allowed Values list, and nothing else: manager read exactly like the nine members that work.

⭐ The round proved that mechanism with a positive control rather than asserting it — HttpMethod's .describe() does render on its own reference page — so "the JSDoc renders nowhere" is a reading, not an inference. The card's substance stands; the fix is a describe added, not edited.

Verified on main after the merge

21  .describe(            in approval.zod.ts        [lit control, fires]
 3  "ApproverType"        in approval.mdx           [lit control, fires]
 1  AUTO-GENERATED banner still on the page          [regenerated, not hand-written]
 5  MANAGER_ONLY_REMEDY   in validate-approval-approvers.ts  [the declared increment, present]

And the generated section now reads, in part:

manager is a directory-sync dependency rather than something an author configures here: it resolves the submitter's sys_user.manager_id at runtime, and that column has no product write surface, so until an operator populates it from outside the product a manager step resolves to nobody and the request waits.

⇒ It qualifies the rung and points at the remedy, instead of leaving an author to discover it by shipping a stuck approval.

The write-surface claim was re-measured, with its negative leg lit

The card's premise is that sys_user.manager_id has no product write surface. ⭐ The round drove the real beforeUpdate guard rather than reading the source:

• manager_id — stripped from the payload; alone, refused loudly PERMISSION_DENIED / 403.
• ⭐ locale — a field that IS writable — passed the SAME probe unchanged. The instrument is not a refusal that refuses everything.
• getManagedUpdateWhitelist('sys_user') = ["name","image","locale"]; readonly occurrences per field block: manager_id 1, primary_business_unit_id 1, locale 0, name 0 — the two writable controls read 0, so the probe discriminates.
• No accepting route: manager_id occurs 5 times across the 59 non-test plugin-auth sources (enumerated with git ls-tree, ⛔ not by grepping contents for a filename) against a firing control of phone_number at 28 — and all 5 sites name the column only to record that it is not writable.

Declared increment, checked rather than waved through

The round edited packages/lint/src/validate-approval-approvers.ts — comment only — beyond the claim's declared face, because the triage comment had made that docblock line non-optional. That file is domain:devx, another lane, so the seat ran the targeted in-flight check before accepting it: domain:devx + pm:dispatched = 0 open. No intersection.

⛔ pm:* and the assignee are stripped in the same write as the close. domain:spec, documentation and priority:p3 stay — 归属 is not state.

Out of scope, ⛔ not filed: the same page still sells queue as a bare allowed value — already carried by #17573, the sibling card on this capability line.

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