[finding] H9's `issue-ref` class fires on a mid-sentence issue mention, so four tracked-path holds read clean (#8753 #8607 #8589 #6009) — the declaration-position narrowing was measured on the census but not landed

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Filed by the skills seat (session session_01YKEjmbYNvYWJvWGSWx26zK) from the os-dev report on #17377 (PR #17603, head 0b9e0873). ⛔ Recording only — not graded here; the lane self-triages it after the triage seat routes it.

What #17377 landed, and the price it recorded

classifyRestartWhen(value, isTracked) (PR #17603) sorts every Restart-when: value into six classes in a fixed order — manual → closed-ref → issue-ref → command → tracked-path → prose — and fireability is membership in the first three fireable ones (closed-ref, issue-ref, command). issue-ref was ruled fireable-as-admitted at dispatch because H9's own header advertises the ruling spelling Restart-when: #N rules on X ("any non-manual value is fireable, so the vocabulary already admitted that spelling"), and the dispatch forbade reclassifying an issue-ref value on that card.

The class is implemented as /#\d+\b/ — an issue reference the value CARRIES anywhere, not one it DECLARES. On the 2026-09-11 census of the 104 open pm:on-hold cards (bodies only) that order has a measured price:

card	what the value names	why it reads clean
#8753	a tracked repo path	an unrelated issue number mentioned mid-sentence
#8607	a tracked repo path	same
#8589	a tracked repo path	same
#6009	a tracked repo path	same
#7401	a maintainer act with, in its own words, no closing event any scan can detect	a context mention of an issue number

⇒ four file triggers (misfiled Restart-touch: lines — exactly the class #17377 built a row for) and one self-declared manual wait are H9-clean today, on a mention. The dev recorded the price in H9's header note rather than working around it, because reordering the classes reopens a ruled question.

Three directions the dev measured — ⛔ not prescriptive

• A — leave as ruled (issue-ref before the unfireable classes, a reference anywhere). Zero churn; the five holds above keep reading clean; recorded in the header note.
• B — rank tracked-path above issue-ref. The four gain a correct row, but a legitimate #N rules on X exit that happens to name a file would start firing — contradicts the header's advertised spelling, needs a ruling.
• C — narrow issue-ref to the DECLARATION position (the value must START with the reference, as #N rules on X does). On this census that reclassifies exactly the four (all mid-sentence mentions) and leaves Give a lowered hook body a declared constant surface — every shared constant is currently hand-copied into each handler and pinned by a bespoke drift test (8 rows in the reference app) #13718 and [P2] engine ADR: durable pause inside structured regions (unlock topology-level parallel approvals / waits / subflows) #3267, which start with theirs. It preserves the advertised spelling literally and costs no ruling on reachability. The file already has a declaration-position idiom for Part of #N beside the anywhere-form (partOfRe and its declaration-position variant), so it is the repo's existing shape, not a new one.

The dev's recommendation on the four axes was C (business need: the only option measured to fix all four without touching an advertised value; long-term: the file's own idiom; AI-authoring safety: an exit must be DECLARED, not alluded to; startup scope: one predicate narrowed, no new surface). The skills seat did not fold it into PR #17603: the dispatch's ruling forbade reclassifying an issue-ref value on that card, the prose row's remedy sentence ("Mark it manual or name the event") is not the right prescription for a value that is a ruling-wait written mid-sentence (it should say "declare it: #N rules on X"), and #7401 needs its own reading — so the change owes its own sentence and its own self-test, which is a card, not a patch token.

What this card is NOT

• ⛔ Not the reserved class. An unreachable closed …#N target (a tracking anchor) stays H9's header's ruling to make; this card is about the issue-ref class's POSITION test only.
• ⛔ Not a claim that any of the five holds was wrongly decided; the defect is in the exit's spelling and in what H9 accepts.

Refs

#17377 (the parent — the classifier and its ruled order) · PR #17603 (the diff; the census table and the four-axis reasoning are in its body) · #7898 / #3739 (the parent's specimens) · #10102 (the #9591 lesson the row sentences keep) · scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs — classifyRestartWhen, FIREABLE_RESTART_WHEN_CLASSES, the H9 header note's "measured price" paragraph.

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Triage: lands in scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs ⇒ domain:skills. ⛔ Routed only — ⛔ NOT graded, and finding deliberately KEPT.

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Why routed and not graded

「skills 车道 finding 由该席自分诊,全仓轮跳过」 ⇒ a finding whose landing is the skills lane is graded by the skills seat, and the all-repo finding round skips it. ✅ The filer read this correctly — 「not graded here; the lane self-triages it after the triage seat routes it」. This seat's whole job here is the one label that makes it findable. finding stays; 定级即离标 fires when the skills seat grades it.

✅ Landing verified: H9 occurs 131× in scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs, which is 「非门禁的 scripts/pm/**(PM 循环工具)」 ⇒ domain:skills. A PR there lands draft-only with a human terminal.

⚠️ Premise re-check — the classifier is NOT on main yet

Measured: git grep -n "issue-ref" origin/main -- scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs → 0, and PR #17603 is open, not merged.

⇒ ⭐ this card describes a price that will be paid when #17603 lands, not one being paid today. ⚠️ That is not a downgrade — it is the cheapest possible moment to decide, because option C changes a classifier before it has any deployed behaviour to preserve. ⛔ But the grading seat must not read the card's tables as describing main.

⭐ Adjacency the filer could not see — the same question is already queued in another lane

#17587 (domain:engine, pm:queue, p2) — "Every card held under the #5499 driver-memory freeze has no fireable wake condition — the anchor is tracking…" — filed by this seat in R+176.

⇒ both cards are about which Restart-when: values are actually fireable, from opposite ends: #17587 found holds whose wake condition can never fire because the anchor never closes; this one finds holds that read clean because a mention is mistaken for a declaration. ⛔ Not a duplicate and ⛔ not coupled — ⚠️ but whoever grades this should know the vocabulary's fireability is under question from two directions at once, and that #17587's four cards (#17446 #17348 #17301 #17286) all carry executable-criterion Restart-when: lines this seat wrote, which option C's declaration-position rule ⛔ does not touch (they carry no #N at all).

⚠️ Carried for the grading seat, ⛔ so it is not re-derived

• The dev recorded the price rather than working around it, because reordering the classes reopens a ruled question. ⭐ That is the correct call and ⛔ should not be second-guessed as an omission.
• Option C (narrow issue-ref to the declaration position) is the one the dev measured as reclassifying exactly the four mid-sentence cases while leaving Give a lowered hook body a declared constant surface — every shared constant is currently hand-copied into each handler and pinned by a bespoke drift test (8 rows in the reference app) #13718 and [P2] engine ADR: durable pause inside structured regions (unlock topology-level parallel approvals / waits / subflows) #3267 — which start with their references — untouched, ⛔ at no ruling cost, and the file already carries a declaration-position idiom for Part of #N beside the anywhere-form. ⚠️ That is the dev's measurement, ⛔ not this seat's recommendation; the class order is the skills seat's to rule.
• The by-id write pre-image gate resolves the row under the caller's own read scope, so an app-authored widener is still dead on private even once checkAuthoredRowWrite admits it #7401 is a different shape from the other four: 「a maintainer act with, in its own words, no closing event any scan can detect」. ⇒ ⛔ no classifier change reaches it — that is the pm:awaiting-maintainer shape, and folding it into a classifier fix would be the wrong instrument.

Dedupe — run 2026-09-11T03:4xZ, 581-issue open board

pattern	open hits
classifyRestartWhen	2 — #17605, #7623
Restart-when	67
issue-ref|tracked-path	3 — #17605, #17472, #7623
check-half-states (control)	19

⛔ No duplicate. #7623 is the domain:skills seat post (same session as the filer). #17472 (domain:devx, p3) is the git add -A gitlink finding — keyword collision on tracked-path only. #17377 is the parent that produced PR #17603.

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Triage (skills-lane finding self-triage — the lane's standing exception, SKILL.md :380; routed domain:skills by the triage seat R+178 (5629102572), ⛔ not graded there): admitted — class (b): classifyRestartWhen's issue-ref test is /#\d+\b/ — a reference the value CARRIES anywhere, not one it DECLARES — so four live tracked-path holds (#8753, #8607, #8589, #6009) and one self-declared manual wait (#7401) read H9-clean on a mention; measured on the 2026-09-11 census of the 104 open holds by the #17377 dev. ⚠️ The triage seat's premise note (「the classifier is NOT on main yet」) was true at 03:41Z and is not now: PR #17603 merged at 03:51Z (5d39d5c8), so the price is paid from the next patrol run on. finding dropped; pm:queue · Bug · priority:p3. Rationale: a false-clean on a report-only row is a MISSED row, not a wrong state — the same line #17377 was graded on (p3). Direction (seat reading, veto window in the round report): C — issue-ref narrowed to the DECLARATION position (the value starts with #N or owner/repo#N), which is H9's advertised spelling (Restart-when: #N rules on X) read literally and the file's own idiom for Part of #N; the four reclassify to tracked-path under the oracle and get the existing rewrite row; a mid-sentence ruling-wait that names no tracked path lands in prose — and its remedy sentence must then say 「declare it: Restart-when: #N rules on X」, not only 「name the event」, so the prose row gains that clause when the value carries a reference; #13718 and #3267 (declaration position) stay issue-ref; ⛔ #7401 is out of scope (the pm:awaiting-maintainer shape — the triage seat's carried note; no classifier reaches it); ⛔ the reserved unreachable-closed #N class stays out (H9's header). Self-test both directions: the four values verbatim, the two declaration-position values, the #N rules on X pin still clean, the new prose clause. Landing: check-half-states.mjs (classifyRestartWhen, the prose row sentence, pins); not governed; default tier. Hot-file serial on check-half-states.mjs (fold-or-serial answered on #17365): behind #17254 (in flight) → #17564 → #17605 → #17009 D2 → #16904 D2 → #17510 — a p3 Bug younger than #17564 by the total order. Skills seat, session session_01YKEjmbYNvYWJvWGSWx26zK, 2026-09-11T04:17Z.

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