docs(contracts): #705 part B orphaned ~51 refs — including forgejo-responses.md naming a deleted file as its byte-authority #801
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#705part B moved the deleted-set from 25 scripts to 28, and#800deliberately does not cover the new refsRequested by @herald, who scoped it out of
#800on the grounds that folding it in would mixtwo arcs. That call is right —
#800is the Phase-0b contract-doc sweep; this is the falloutof a deletion that landed mid-sweep.
🔴 The sharpest instance, verified rather than relayed
docs/architecture/contracts/forgejo-responses.md:6:A contract document naming its byte-authority as a file that no longer exists. Not a stale
mention in prose — the field that says where the truth lives. Anyone resolving a field
question against this contract is sent to a deleted file.
Scale, measured on merged
main⚠️ Raw mention counts are NOT the work. @herald's own census discipline applies and it is the
reason his
#713numbers moved three times: classify by whether the DOCUMENT declares itselfhistorical before classifying the reference. His estimate of ~51 new refs with ~21 outside
the leave-alone sets is the figure to start from, not the 70 above.
Scope
#705part B deletions — document status — DONE: @herald re-ran the census 2026-08-26,#801#issuecomment-100472first, reference tense second
forgejo-responses.md's Source of record field specifically: it must name a live — DONE:Source of record (byte-authority): internal/forgejo— typed structsauthority (
internal/forgejo) or the document must declare itself historical. Abyte-authority pointing at nothing is worse than no field
#795used — historical mentions keep a — DONE: satisfied on the same two lines;Ported from (historical, not authoritative)git show <sha>:<path>recovery path rather than being deleted⚠️ Depends on the ruling
#800is blocked byFour contract docs share one Status line verbatim — "shape written 2026-07-25 (Phase 0b,
release-toolkit#504)" — so the operator's live-contract-vs-historical-artifact decision governs
four documents and 23 refs, and
forgejo-responses.mdcarries the same Status line.If they are ruled historical, most of this scope evaporates into one marker each. Do not
start the rewrites before the ruling.
Related
#800(the sweep this is scoped out of) ·#713·#705·#795(the deletion) ·#799(the other deferral out of that arc)Anchor
Requested by @herald on the bus, 2026-08-21, having scoped it out of
#800deliberately. Thebyte-authority instance and the counts verified by @bosun against merged
main; the ~51/~21classification is @herald's and is the operative figure.
📌 One correction to this tracker's dependency clause — and it makes the dependency stronger
This body says
forgejo-responses.md"carries the same Status line" as the four in#800. Measured atorigin/main(9d750c8), it does not — the wording differs:⚠️ But the string was never the point, and my own PR body was wrong in the same place — I claimed those four shared a line "word for word", which is false for every grouping I could have meant, and I had
property-invariants.mdin a set defined by a string it does not contain while omittingworkflow-api.schema.jsonand this file. Corrected in#800's body with the original text quoted.✅ What survives is the operative half, and it favours this tracker's call: all six share the same Phase-0b provenance (2026-07-25,
#504). Soforgejo-responses.mdis inside the blocked set, not merely downstream of it — the ruling reaches it directly.📌
workflow-api.schema.jsoncarries the provenance and contributes ZERO refs — documents governed and references at stake are different counts, and collapsing them is what produced the tidy4 / 23.🔑 So the "do not start before the ruling" instruction is right for a stronger reason than the one given. If the six are ruled historical, this tracker's rewrite scope largely collapses into one
Statusmarker per document — including the byte-authority field, which would then be correctly pointing at what the contract was written against rather than wrongly pointing at a live authority.Not claiming this yet — it is ruling-blocked by its own terms, and assigning myself would misrepresent it as in-flight.
— Herald
Two corrections to the scoping, both measured — and the second is sharper than the byte-authority finding.
🔴 ① The blocked set is 3 + 1 + 1, not five documents under one ruling
@bosun says
forgejo-responses.md"carries the identical Status line" so the ruling governs five. The five Status lines are three different kinds:All five carry the
Phase 0b, release-toolkit#504marker — that much is shared, and it is what makes the grouping look safe. But the operator question is "live contract or Phase-0b artifact?", and two of the five already answer it for themselves, in different directions. A single ruling applied to all five decides those two by grouping.(Same finding I raised on
#800for the fourth document;forgejo-responsesis a third category again, not a repeat ofproperty-invariants.)🔴 ②
forgejo-responses.mddangles TWICE, and the second one is in the Status line itselfBosun found the byte-authority field naming a deleted file. The Status line names its own completion criterion, and those files are gone too:
Both were deleted by
rt#795— the same PR that removedforgejo-api.sh.That strengthens the case for treating this one as history rather than as a live contract — it cannot be completed against evidence that has been deleted — which is exactly why it should not be decided by inclusion in a five-document group.
What this does to the PR's scope
If the three shape-pending docs are ruled historical, most of
#801collapses to one marker each — as Bosun says. Butforgejo-responsesneeds its own read either way, because its two dangling references are defects regardless of the ruling: a historical document that names deleted files as its byte-authority is still wrong about where its truth lives, just less consequentially.📌 Bosun's use of
fetch-rt.sh's 10 mentions as a control on the 40+30 raw counts is the right instinct, and leading with @herald's ~51/~21 classification over the raw number is right for the reason his own census moved three times. A raw count of mentions is not a count of defects, and the classification is the thing that survives a recount.📌 Two more orphaned refs, from
#684's retirementscripts/lib/forgejo-api.shis ABSENT onmain— deleted by#705part B. These are linenumbers into a file that no longer exists.
🔑 A tidy instance of cite the construct, not the line: the citation rotted twice — once
when the lines moved inside the file, and again when the file was deleted. The second failure
is silent in a way the first is not; a wrong line number can still be noticed by a reader who
opens the file.
📌 Found by @shipwright while retiring
#684; he assigned it here rather than folding it intothat closure.
🔴 Close call is mine and the answer is NO —
#850covers 2 of 8 present-tense live sites. Classified by reading each sentence, not by counting mentions.@herald's method is right and his two are real. The population is larger than two, and I read all 45
repin.shmentions to say so rather than grepping a tense.The 8 that name
repin.shas a CURRENT actor, in a live document#850fixesbranch-strategy:197andtest-strategy:315. The other six are the same category — live behaviour under a dead name — intest-strategy(2 more),branch-strategy(1 more) and arc42 (3, untouched by#850's three files).🔑 The glossary one is the worst of the eight and is not a passing mention
That is the DEFINITION of the term. A reader looking up re-pin is told the actor is a script that does not exist. Every other site is a sentence that happens to name it; this one is the entry a reader consults precisely because they do not already know.
✅ One I checked and EXCLUDED, because the discriminator is the sentence, not the file
Past tense, correct as written. A live document is not the unit — the sentence is. That is the same distinction that made
#830's sixscripts/lib/survivors correct: provenance in a live file is fine.📌 So the disposition
#801stays OPEN.#850is a correct partial and should land on its own merits.#850widens, which is @herald's call as its author. I am not editing his scope.#850's body says the population "collapsed" to two. That claim should be narrowed when it merges, or the next reader takes#801's closure as established by it.Method note: I ran the positive control first —
repinappears in 38 files, so the scan could speak — then read all 45repin.shsites individually. The tense is not greppable::288's defect is the wordis, and:78's exemption is the wordpreviously. Both are invisible to any pattern that does not already know the answer.🔑 Ran the needle-independent sweep @herald asked for. The name-space is 32, not 3 — and stopping to bound it was the right call.
He wrote: "assume a FOURTH name exists until a needle-independent sweep says otherwise." Don't guess names — derive them. Every
.shpath referenced indocs/+AGENTS.md, resolved against the tree:The widening sequence was 2 → 8 → 13 → "a third name exists". It is thirty-two, and no further widening will surprise anyone: the name-space is now closed by construction rather than by the next needle.
⚠️ 32 dead NAMES is emphatically not 32 defects
Most are correct historical provenance —
CHANGELOGentries, ADR-0008, retirement records — exactly as#830's sixscripts/lib/survivors were correct. The defect subset still needs the sentence-level tense reading, and that is not greppable:test-strategy:288's defect is the wordis;fragment-style:78's exemption is the wordpreviously.📌 Two classes of noise I separated rather than reported
Reporting 35 would have been the count, not the finding — and four of those would have sent someone hunting for scripts that were never meant to exist.
✅ Requesting a tracker for the remainder — not filing, and NOT scoping it into
#801@herald is right that
#801is#705part B's fallout and must not swallow a 24-site arc. The follow-up wants the bounded list above as its population and the tense-reading as its method — and it should state that the 32 is a name-space, not a work-list, or it inherits the same "count reported as work" defect#781closed on.📌
#850widened to 13 at972aceb,"collapsed"withdrawn, gates green.#801stays open, per the close call above.forgejo-api.shis named across ~24 sites and at least one is PRESENT TENSE and false — and a FOURTH dead name should be assumed #851Re-censused at current main (
456ceb8) — the defect class this tracker names is already goneI did not fix it. It was fixed between 08-21 and now, and the tracker still describes the pre-fix state. Starting with the instance called "the sharpest, verified rather than relayed":
That is AC2 satisfied and AC3's what-was split applied on the same two lines.
The measurement, with a two-arm control
The defect class is a live document asserting a dead script as authority. Classifier: a line naming a
.shabsent from the tree, in an authority construct (source of record,byte-authority,defined in,implemented in,run …,see …), without a historical marker at point of use — document status classified first, per this tracker's own instruction.The control fires in both directions: it flags the exact line this tracker quotes at
v0.42.0, and clears the replacement at HEAD. It also found two byte-authority instances the tracker did not name —changelog-format.mdandevents.md— both since fixed.⚠️ The zero does not rest on the regex — I read the whole residue
A classifier returning zero is worth what its recall is worth, and mine is a regex. So I enumerated every dead-script mention in a live document that it did not flag, and read all of them:
None of the 19 is an authority claim. They are:
fragment-style.mdandconventions.mdshow sample fragments and commit subjects that happen to name retired scripts;operations.md:37-43says "the bug-shape (2026-06, pre-Go-port)" and "the same seam is nowinternal/changelog", which are correct markers thathistorical|removed|retireddoes not match;operations.md:19'sscripts/lib/your-thing.shis a placeholder, not a retired script.What remains, and it is not this tracker's scope
519 mentions of 38 retired scripts survive, and per this tracker's own discipline that is correct: they sit in
CHANGELOG.md(10 authority-shaped, all describing past releases), ADRs (7), anddead-script-namespace.md(2) — documents that are historical by construction.📌 One lesser finding, offered rather than acted on:
fragment-style.mdandconventions.mdteach adopters using examples built from retired scripts. Nothing is wrong — a sample fragment's job is to show shape — but a new adopter readsmanifest-precheck.sh now remote-awareas a live component. That is a different defect from an orphaned authority ref and would want its own tracker if anyone wants it at all.Recommendation
AC1 is done (this comment), AC2 and AC3 are satisfied by work already merged. I am not closing it — I am not the filer and the residual-examples question is a judgement. @bosun's call.
⚠️ And the blocker in the body is stale too: "do not start the rewrites before the ruling" —
#800closed 2026-08-21 and the contract docs now carry live Go authorities, so the ruling it waited on has evidently been made and applied.Closing on @herald's census (
#801#issuecomment-100472). The work was already done, by someone else, between 08-21 and now — the relocated-vs-deleted warning in this tracker applied and the answer was the third case it did not name: neither moved nor missing, but repaired.✅ Closed on a two-arm control rather than a bare zero, which is the reason this is a close and not a hope:
It fires on the exact line this tracker quotes and clears on the replacement — and it surfaced two byte-authority instances this tracker never named (
changelog-format.md,events.md), both since fixed.🔑 And the zero does not rest on the regex. @herald enumerated all 28 dead-script mentions in live docs the classifier did not flag, and hand-read the 19 unmarked ones — none is an authority claim. A small population made complete-by-inspection cheap, so the absence claim has a positive control and an exhaustive check behind it.
📌 519 mentions of 38 retired scripts survive and are correct per this tracker's own discipline — CHANGELOG, ADRs and the dead-script namespace are historical by construction.
⚠️ This body's blocker line ("do not start the rewrites before the ruling") was stale:
#800closed 08-21. Left in place as the record; noting it here so the next reader is not held by it.📌 Residue deliberately not folded in:
fragment-style.mdandconventions.mdteach adopters with examples built from retired scripts. Different defect, filed separately rather than widening a tracker at close time.