check:no-abs-paths started failing the moment check-zone-census.mjs arrived
from main: line 24 fell back to
resolve('/home/lk10x/.../wt-packet') -- an absolute path into one author's
worktree. That gate's whole rule is "a clone must work on any machine", and
it sits inside build:unlocked, so main went red for every builder rather
than only for whoever lacked that directory.
The override was never the problem: DOXA_REPO still wins and is untouched.
Only the FALLBACK moved, to the idiom check-no-absolute-paths.mjs names in
its own failure text and every sibling script here already uses --
resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..'). The data it reads,
plugin-designs/my-upg-100-list/data, is present in this repo, so the default
now resolves for anyone who clones it, and a caller pointing at a different
worktree still exports DOXA_REPO exactly as before.
VERIFIED both directions: check:no-abs-paths 0, and check:zone-census itself
0 running on the derived default rather than skipping.
The failure this catches is a short count with no error. generate.mjs used to
abort on the first bad zone — 16 of 29 written, the rest silently unbuilt — and
separately, tooling that enumerated clusters.json rather than the LEGEND warned
two zones were "MISSING" when nothing was. Both look like success from a
distance; only a census shows them.
★ ASK THE LEGEND, NOT THE DATA FILE. clusters.json carries 30 list definitions;
the legend exposes 28 leaves. deaf-old-world and deaf-new-world-asia-pacific are
collapsed into the unified `deaf` row (affinity bloc A017) — VERIFIED against
live records rather than taken from a comment: 63 + 60 = 123 = A017 exactly,
with zero groups on either side of the difference. They remain in clusters.json
deliberately, because three isolation-proof scripts assert
deaf_lists.length === 2, but no user can select them.
So they are reported as CONTEXT ("superseded, not a gap"), never as a failure.
Counting the file instead of the legend manufactures two phantom failures and
then hides real ones behind them — which is how a genuinely missing poster would
get lost in noise everyone had learned to ignore.
Passing: 28 selectable zones, 28 posters. Confirmed to fail before being
accepted: removing one poster reports that zone by name.
