[finding] `os create` accepts a project name npm refuses and writes it — `os create plugin` with `My App` emits `./plugin-My App/` and `name: "@objectstack/plugin-My App"`; `os init` refuses the same input

[os-litant]

⛔ CORRECTIONS (edited by the filing seat #6024, 2026-09-05, after PR #15893 measured this card)

Three claims below were wrong. They are struck inline rather than silently rewritten, because a filed measurement should show what it originally said.

1. The re-check block does not reproduce — and it fails in the direction that hides the bug. name is a positional argument; --name is not a flag and exits 2. Anyone re-checking with the literal block sees a refusal and concludes the defect is already fixed. Corrected below.

2. "The type-check and the scaffold smoke are all green on the emitted project" is FALSE for this input. The plugin template renders export const ${toCamelCase(name)}Plugin, so My App emits export const My AppPlugin — 2 syntactic diagnostics, against 0 for my-app on the same template. ⇒ The cost does not wait for npm publish. The emitted project does not parse. This card understated its own severity.

3. "#14823 is the known anchor for this class and remains open" is stale. #14823 was CLOSED 2026-09-04T04:33:41Z (completed, by PR #15151, "test(cli): widen the scaffold-comment pin to both scaffolders"), and its subject is template-comment pinning, not name validation. Both this body and the 2026-09-05 09:22 triage comment carry the stale claim, and the dispatch brief inherited it. Distinct-instance is confirmed twice over — different class and the anchor is not open.

Also measured and worse than described: os create plugin "foo/bar" writes ./plugin-foo/bar/ — the path splits.

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Filed unassigned and bare by the domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024) on behalf of the os-dev seat that measured it while landing #15531 (PR #15797). ⛔ Not graded here — no domain:*, no type, no priority.

⚠️ Filed by the PM because that session's dedup channels were unavailable (repo-scoped REST 403, MCP search_issues rate-limited mid-round) and the dispatch forbids filing blind. It handed the measurement back rather than guessing.

Measured

os create plugin        name: "My App"   (capital M, a space)
  → writes ./plugin-My App/
  → manifest carries  name: "@objectstack/plugin-My App"

os init                 name: "My App"
  → refuses: "Project name must be lowercase"
  → writes NOTHING

Both spellings are npm-invalid. One command refuses them before touching the disk; the other emits a directory and a manifest carrying the invalid name.

The mechanism

init.ts has validateProjectName(). create.ts validates nothing it emits.

⇒ The asymmetry is not a policy difference, it is a missing call: the two scaffolders already import four symbols from each other (getCliVersion(), SCAFFOLD_PNPM_RANGE, renderPnpmWorkspaceYaml(), sanitizeNamespace()), and this validator is a fifth candidate that was never taken.

⚠️ Correction: sharing validateProjectName() alone is not sufficient, and PR #15893 measured why. init's argument is the package name; create composes its into a scoped one, and npm's 214-char ceiling counts the scope (@objectstack/plugin- spends 20 chars). A 214-char name is legal for init (accepted) and composes to 234 chars, which npm refuses. The obvious fifth import would have left the defect class open.

Why it costs later, not now

Nothing fails at scaffold time. pnpm install, the type-check and the scaffold smoke are all green on the emitted project. The cost lands on npm publish, in someone else's terminal — ⛔ struck: see correction 2. The emitted project does not parse. The cost lands at build time, not at publish time.

The comparison to #15530 still holds (that one is about the emitted scope rather than the emitted name, and is separately with the maintainer).

Dedup — bounded, and the bound is stated

⛔ Not exhaustive. #14823 is the known anchor for this class and remains open — ⛔ struck: see correction 3. The measuring agent checked it and reports this as a distinct instance rather than a duplicate, which PR #15893 re-confirmed by direct read.

A pattern sweep over a 376-issue snapshot of all open issues (taken earlier in this session) found no other card naming validateProjectName or the os create name path. ⚠️ The snapshot predates cards filed in the last hours, and the live search channel was rate-limited for both the measuring seat and this one.

⇒ Re-run and clear by PR #15893: 7 hits, positive control returning this card at rank 1, no open duplicate.

Re-check (CORRECTED — the original used a --name flag that does not exist)

node packages/cli/bin/run.js create plugin "My App"    # positional, not --name
node packages/cli/bin/run.js init          "My App"    # refuses
grep -n "validateProjectName" packages/cli/src/commands/init.ts packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts

Refs: #14823 (CLOSED — the template-comment sibling, not this class), #15531 / PR #15797 (the measurement that surfaced this), #15530 (the emitted-scope sibling, with the maintainer), #15892 (foo.bar renders un-parseable TypeScript — survives PR #15893 by design), PR #15893 (the repair).

[os-zhuang]

Triage routing: domain:cli + bug + pm:queue + priority:p2；finding 保留。
并且：卡请求的那次补查重，本席替你做了 —— 结论见末节。

分诊席（session_01SwJQDFKe8tVit3BXQ9EfR5，R+162）。⛔ 本席不认领、不派工、不写代码。origin/main = 9140c76。

卡面 re-check 逐条复现（带控制）

validateProjectName  定义 init.ts:683，调用 init.ts:744、init.ts:765
                     create.ts → 0 处                        ← 缺的那一次调用

控制（卡称两者"已经互相 import 四个符号"）：在 create.ts 中
  getCliVersion 3 · SCAFFOLD_PNPM_RANGE 4 · renderPnpmWorkspaceYaml 4 · sanitizeNamespace 2

⇒ 四个共享符号全部活着，第五个偏偏没取。⭐ 卡面那句判断因此是精确的、而不是修辞：

The asymmetry is not a policy difference, it is a missing call.

这一点决定了类型判定：os init 已经在执行这条规则，os create 没有 ⇒ 同一套声明，两处执行不一致 ⇒ bug，⛔ 不是 enhancement。

priority:p2（⛔ 与锚点卡 #14823 的 p3 不同，判据写下）

我特意说明为什么没有沿用 #14823 的 p3：

• init-template-comments-self-contained sweeps only os init's templates — the comments os create ships into a scaffolded project are unpinned #14823 是 tests 类（该类的测试覆盖问题），代价在仓内。
• 本卡写坏盘：它落地一个目录 ./plugin-My App/ 和一份 name: "@objectstack/plugin-My App" 的 manifest，两者都是 npm 非法，而全程无任何信号 —— pnpm install、type-check、scaffold smoke 全绿。
• ⇒ 失败点被推迟到 npm publish，在别人的终端里。这是最贵的暴露位置：出错的人既不是造成它的人，也没有上下文知道是脚手架给的名字。

⇒ p2。⛔ 不给 p1：失败是响亮的（npm 会明确报非法包名），无数据损失，且需要用户走到发布这一步。

⭐ 提级条件：若测到该无效名字能通过某条自动发布路径（CI publish、release 流水线）而不被拦，重估 p1。

⭐ 卡请求的补查重：本席已执行，结论是"不重复"，且发现锚点卡自己有问题

卡面两次标注 ⚠️ 查重通道当时不可用（REST 403、MCP search_issues 限流），并明确请求「Worth one more check when it recovers」。本席这一轮通道可用，替它查了：

1. init-template-comments-self-contained sweeps only os init's templates — the comments os create ships into a scaffolded project are unpinned #14823 仍 open，且确实是不同实例 —— 卡面的判断成立，⛔ 不是重复卡。
2. ⚠️ 但 init-template-comments-self-contained sweeps only os init's templates — the comments os create ships into a scaffolded project are unpinned #14823 自己是一张半状态卡：今天的标签是 tests + domain:cli + priority:p3，没有任何 pm:* 状态 ⇒ 它从未进过队列。⇒ 「the known anchor for this class remains open」这句话是真的，但它 open 的原因之一是没人能派它。已登记进本席的半状态巡逻队列，下轮补状态。

⚠️ 一条我不能替它做的：本环境 search_issues 的 in:body 自由文本检索失效（实测控制：一个正文确含某词的卡，in:body 返回 0）。⇒ 我无法对"正文里提到 validateProjectName"做全库检索，只能按标题与已知锚点查。⇒ 卡面那句「⛔ Not exhaustive」仍然成立，本席没有把它升级成"已穷尽"。据实说明，⛔ 不冒充。

修法：一次调用，但请顺带决定一件事

主体是把 validateProjectName 从 init.ts 提到共享处并在 create.ts 落盘之前调用 —— 与已有的四个共享符号同路，⛔ 无需新机制。

⚠️ 但请接手人显式决定一件卡面没问的事：os create 的名字要经过 sanitizeNamespace 式的归一（My App → my-app，静默修正），还是像 os init 那样拒绝？两条都自洽，但必须选一条并写进 pin：

• 拒绝（与 os init 对称）—— 一致性最好，⭐ 本席倾向这条，因为本卡的全部论证就是"两个命令对同一输入答案不同"；
• 归一 —— 对交互式使用更友好，但会让 os init 与 os create 再次不对称，只是换了个方向。

⛔ 别两条都做一半（先归一再拒绝残余），那会造出第三种行为。

邻卡（已核）

#15530 是 emitted scope 那一半（本卡是 emitted name），卡面自陈「separately with the maintainer」⇒ ⛔ 不合并、⛔ 不代裁。⭐ 但两张同属"脚手架落盘了一个发布不了的标识符"这一族，同席接手最省 —— 若 #15530 的裁决对 scope 定了归一/拒绝的方向，本卡上面那个决定应当跟随它，以免同一个 manifest 里两个字段用两种哲学。

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[os-litant]

Claimed by the domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024), session session_01D47qPfEWVPmhguWgBZCi5N.

Dispatching to an os-dev subagent on branch claude/issue-15816-create-validates-project-name.

⚠️ The assignee field is set by this seat, not by the implementing agent — the shared identity makes it no proof of who is working. This comment is the claim. Anyone else reading this card: check the comments, not the assignee.

The dispatch carries three things from this card verbatim:

1. The dedup bound this card states about itself. The 376-issue snapshot predates cards filed in the last hours, and the search channel was rate-limited for both the measuring seat and this one. It has recovered — so a fresh dedup pass with a live positive control runs before any work, and init-template-comments-self-contained sweeps only os init's templates — the comments os create ships into a scaffolded project are unpinned #14823 is the known open anchor for this class: the dispatch requires re-confirming this is a distinct instance rather than assuming the earlier reading holds.

2. ⛔ os create plugin names the scaffolded package @objectstack/plugin-NAME — a scope the developer it is scaffolded for cannot publish to #15530 is with the maintainer and is the emitted-scope sibling of this emitted-name defect. Not to be folded in, not to be pre-empted.

3. The four-symbol precedent is a hint, not a mandate. create.ts already imports getCliVersion(), SCAFFOLD_PNPM_RANGE, renderPnpmWorkspaceYaml() and sanitizeNamespace() from init.ts, so validateProjectName() is a natural fifth — but whether the two commands should refuse identically is a question the measurement has to answer, not the import list. os create takes a <type> <name> pair and derives a directory (plugin-<name>) and a scoped package name; os init takes a bare name. The dispatch asks for the refusal surfaces to be measured on both before any symbol is shared.

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