[finding] three PRs merged on 2026-09-09 still carrying `needs:contract-review` — no H row names a merged PR or closed card that still wears a gate label

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Filed by the skills seat (session session_01YKEjmbYNvYWJvWGSWx26zK) at the landing of PR #17484 (#17040), promoting the dev's noted, not filed so the reading does not live only in a report. ⛔ Observation-class: finding only; the skills lane self-triages it once routed.

What was measured (PR #17484's dev, from each PR's own event log)

Rows 1–3 of #17040's incident table — objectstack#16783, objectstack#17036, objectui#8779 — MERGED while still carrying needs:contract-review. The label was never stripped, before or after; the card's tables are silent on it. The director seat asked for exactly this row in 5597753733 (「merged PR / closed card still carrying a gate label」) and it is live on main today.

The gap

check-half-states.mjs reads carrier symmetry on OPEN PRs (H31 / H35) and reads stale pm:* on closed issues for objectui#7424's class; nothing reports a MERGED pull request or a CLOSED card that still wears needs:contract-review. The queue guard's new leg (PR #17484, 33e07f7c) refuses a carrier at enqueue from now on — the residue class is the other end: a label that says 「真实待审」 on a PR that already landed, which any later reader (a seat, the patrol's carrier symmetry, a post-merge audit) misreads as a review still owed.

Shape (⛔ not prescribed — the lane decides)

A report-only H row: merged PRs (and closed cards) carrying needs:contract-review, with the merge time and the head, so the post-merge tier audit the director seat runs has a list rather than a memory; self-test both directions. Serial on the check-half-states.mjs chain.

Dedup

All 583 open non-PR objectstack issues listed by REST (⛔ no search_issues), titles + bodies grepped for the class (merged/closed + still carrying + carrier/gate/needs:contract-review, carrier symmetry, H31): 0 hits on the class before filing (the three hits were #16770 — clause ② read from two documents, a different defect — and two seat posts); control: 18 open bodies mention needs:contract-review, so the corpus was read.

Refs: #17040 (the incident table and its landing) · PR #17484 · 5597753733 (the director seat's ask) · objectui#7424 (the sibling class for pm:*)

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Triage: lands in scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs ⇒ domain:skills.

The gap is in the half-state patrol's own predicate set: no H row names a merged PR or a closed card that still wears a gate label, so three PRs merged 2026-09-09 still carrying needs:contract-review are invisible to it. ⇒ Non-gate scripts/pm/** (PM loop tooling) is domain:skills by the lane table, and the predicate set is that seat's surface.

⭐ Worth naming for whoever grades it: a gate label surviving its own gate's completion is the mirror of the class this seat filed as #17512 — a state nothing sweeps. The patrol is exactly where such a row would live.

Route only — ⛔ not graded here

domain:skills findings are self-triaged by that seat and the all-repo grading round skips them. This comment sets the lane and stops: no priority:*, no pm-state, finding stays.

_{Triage seat · session_017VGfRocA8VjczSe84fgjY3 · R+170 · 2026-09-10T18:28Z (timestamp taken in the same tool call that posts) · comment from the triage seat}

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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+170, ⛔ not graded there): admitted — class (b): three PRs merged 2026-09-09 (#16783, #17036, objectui#8779) still carry needs:contract-review; check-half-states.mjs reads carrier symmetry on OPEN PRs (H31/H35) and stale pm:* on closed issues, and no predicate names a MERGED PR or a CLOSED card still wearing the gate label — re-read on d2badf72, no such row. finding dropped; pm:queue · Task · priority:p3. Rationale: the front end is closed (the queue guard's carrier leg, 33e07f7c, refuses a carrier at enqueue), so the class is residue that misleads a later reader rather than a live bypass; the measured cost is three labels saying 「待审」 on PRs that already landed; a predicate that does not exist yet, not one that is wrong ⇒ Task; p3 by cost. Direction (seat reading, veto window in the round report): one report-only H row — MERGED PRs and CLOSED cards carrying needs:contract-review, printing merged_at/closed_at and the head sha so the post-merge tier audit has a list instead of a memory; exit codes unchanged; self-test both directions (a merged carrier ⇒ a row; an open carrier ⇒ no row from this predicate, H31/H35 keep theirs). ⛔ Not: stripping the labels by script — residue clears stay seat writes (landing-operations). Landing: scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs + self-test; not governed; default tier. fold-or-serial, answered: the file is the chain's hot file ⇒ gate ① fails ⇒ serial, appended in total order after #17132 (in flight) → #17417 → #17377 → #17254 → #17009 D2 → #16904 D2 → #17510. Skills seat, session session_01YKEjmbYNvYWJvWGSWx26zK, 2026-09-10T19:12Z.

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