#!/usr/bin/env node /** * check-no-orphan-gates.mjs — a gate that nothing can run is not a gate. * * THE DEFECT THIS CATCHES. `internal/verify-shell-scroll.mjs` was written, negative-tested, and * proved a real reported bug with hard numbers (2586px of mounted grid, a real wheel gesture * moving 0px). Then it sat unreachable: no `package.json` entry, no importer. It would never have * run again. The repo has already carded this once — * BUILD-BROWSER-GATES-WERE-ALL-ORPHANS-ONE-COMMAND-RUNS-THEM — and it recurred anyway, because * writing a gate and REGISTERING a gate are two separate acts and only the first feels like work. * * ★ THE DISTINCTION THIS GATE HAS TO GET RIGHT, or it becomes noise nobody reads: not every * unreferenced file in internal/ is a lost gate. * - `vite-plugin-strip-shadow-css-comments.mjs` is imported by vite.config.js — it runs on every * build. Reachable. * - `long-frames-probe.mjs` is imported by two library composables. Reachable. * - `mobile-sheet-probe.mjs`, `theme-flash-probe.mjs`, `readme-shots-fix.mjs` are DATED ONE-SHOT * DIAGNOSTICS (Sept 17/21) written to answer one question about a bug that is now fixed. They * are history, not decay — deleting them would throw away a reproduction recipe, and wiring them * up would add three checks nobody wants run. * So the rule is not "everything must be wired". The rule is: a file that PRESENTS ITSELF as a gate * must be runnable, and a file that is a one-shot probe must SAY SO. Anything else is ambiguous, and * ambiguity is exactly how a real gate hides among abandoned scripts. * * HOW A FILE DECLARES ITS INTENT (either is enough): * - be referenced from package.json scripts, or imported by something that is; or * - carry `@one-shot` in its header comment, naming it a diagnostic that is not expected to run * again. The tag is cheap to add and makes the author state which kind of thing they wrote. * * WHAT IT ASSERTS: every internal/*.mjs whose name or header marks it as a gate (check-*, verify-*, * smoke-*, or a header containing "GATE") is either reachable or explicitly tagged @one-shot; and every * check:/verify:/smoke: SCRIPT is run by a standing chain (by exact name), declared on demand with a * reason, or in the shrink-only baseline of 2026-09-29's orphans (the second arm, below); and every * gate-shaped FILE under plugin-designs/ or library/ is run by path from a script or another file's code * (comments stripped), tagged @one-shot, or in that baseline's `files` list. * * node internal/check-no-orphan-gates.mjs check (the chain arm's self-test runs first, every time) * node internal/check-no-orphan-gates.mjs --shrink drop baselined scripts since chained, declared or deleted * node internal/check-no-orphan-gates.mjs --init write the orphan baseline, only if none exists * node internal/check-no-orphan-gates.mjs --init-files add the `files` list, only if the baseline has none * * NEGATIVE-TESTED: removing the check:shell-scroll entry from package.json makes this fail by name. */ import { readFileSync, readdirSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs' import { resolve, dirname, join } from 'node:path' import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url' import { execSync } from 'node:child_process' const ROOT = resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..') const pkgRaw = readFileSync(join(ROOT, 'package.json'), 'utf8') const files = readdirSync(join(ROOT, 'internal')).filter((f) => f.endsWith('.mjs')) const SELF = 'check-no-orphan-gates.mjs' /** * A file is reachable if package.json names it, or if some OTHER source file imports it. * * ★ THE EXCLUSION OF THIS FILE IS LOad-BEARING, not tidiness. First version of this gate listed * `theme-flash-probe.mjs` in its own header as an example of a dated diagnostic — then grepped for * importers, found ITSELF, and declared the file reachable. The gate written to catch orphans made * an orphan pass, by citing it. A gate must never be its own witness. * * Same family as the `@one-shot` bug found in the same run: the tag-detection matched this file's * own prose explaining what the tag means, so the gate reported "1 tagged @one-shot" when no file * had ever been tagged. Both defects come from reading EVIDENCE out of DOCUMENTATION. Where a gate * must describe the thing it checks, it has to exclude its own text from the check. */ function reachable(base) { if (pkgRaw.includes(base)) return 'package.json' try { const hits = execSync( `grep -rl -- ${JSON.stringify(base.replace(/\.mjs$/, ''))} --include=*.mjs --include=*.js --include=*.ts . 2>/dev/null | grep -v node_modules | grep -v "internal/${base}" | grep -v "internal/${SELF}" || true`, { cwd: ROOT, encoding: 'utf8' } ).trim() if (hits) return hits.split('\n')[0] } catch {} return null } const orphans = [] let checked = 0 let tagged = 0 for (const f of files) { const src = readFileSync(join(ROOT, 'internal', f), 'utf8') const header = src.slice(0, 2600) // Does this file present itself as a GATE (something meant to run repeatedly)? const looksLikeGate = /^(check|verify|smoke)-/.test(f) || /\bGATE\b|\bgate for\b/i.test(header) if (!looksLikeGate) continue checked++ // The tag must be a MARKER on its own line (` * @one-shot `), not the string appearing // anywhere in prose. This gate's own header discusses `@one-shot` at length, and a loose test // counted that discussion as a tag — reporting "1 tagged" when nothing had ever been tagged. // Requiring line-start-plus-comment-prefix makes the tag a deliberate act instead of a word. if (/^\s*(?:\*|\/\/)\s*@one-shot\b/m.test(header) && f !== SELF) { tagged++; continue } const via = reachable(f) if (!via) orphans.push(f) } if (orphans.length) { console.error(`NO-ORPHAN-GATES: FAIL — ${orphans.length} gate(s) exist but nothing can run them.\n`) for (const f of orphans) { console.error(` internal/${f}`) } console.error('\n A gate nobody can invoke is a file, not a check. Pick one:') console.error(' 1. add a package.json script (and, if it needs a browser, an entry in the GATES') console.error(' array of internal/verify-browser-all.mjs so the one-command suite runs it);') console.error(' 2. or add `@one-shot` to its header if it was a diagnostic for a single bug and') console.error(' is kept only as a reproduction recipe.') console.error('\n This already happened once (card BUILD-BROWSER-GATES-WERE-ALL-ORPHANS). It recurs') console.error(' because writing a gate and registering it are separate acts, and only the first') console.error(' one feels like the work.') process.exit(1) } // ── THE SAME QUESTION FOR GATE FILES OUTSIDE internal/ (2026-09-29) ───────────────────────── // The walk above reads internal/ only, so a plugin's own gate that nobody registered was invisible: // on 2026-09-29 six plugin-local check-*.mjs files were referenced by nothing. Every TRACKED file under // plugin-designs/ or library/ named check-/verify-/smoke-*.mjs must be run by PATH from a package.json // script, or referenced from another file's CODE, or carry @one-shot, or sit in the shrink-only baseline // (orphan-checks-baseline.json `files`) for its owner. // ⚠ PATHS, AND CODE ONLY. A basename counts only where no other gate file shares it: // library/scripts/research/verify-map-paint.mjs shares its name with internal/verify-map-paint.mjs, which // is what verify:map-paint runs, so a name match let one registration vouch for a different file. And // comments are stripped first: a file mentioned in prose is not run by it (the lesson recorded above). export function outerOrphans({ gateFiles, scriptCmds, codeByFile, oneShot = new Set(), baseline = [] }) { const base = (p) => p.slice(p.lastIndexOf('/') + 1) const count = new Map() for (const p of gateFiles) count.set(base(p), (count.get(base(p)) || 0) + 1) const out = [] for (const p of gateFiles) { if (!/^(plugin-designs|library)\//.test(p) || oneShot.has(p)) continue const unique = count.get(base(p)) === 1 const hit = (text) => text.includes(p) || (unique && text.includes(base(p))) if (hit(scriptCmds)) continue if ([...codeByFile].some(([f, code]) => f !== p && hit(code))) continue out.push(p) } const bl = new Set(baseline) return { unreached: out, fresh: out.filter((p) => !bl.has(p)), gone: [...bl].filter((p) => !out.includes(p)) } } const stripComments = (s) => s.replace(/\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\//g, ' ').replace(/(^|[^:'"`\\])\/\/[^\n]*/g, '$1') { // Self-test on planted cases: each rule must be able to fail. const files = ['plugin-designs/a/scripts/check-x.mjs', 'plugin-designs/b/scripts/check-y.mjs', 'internal/verify-z.mjs', 'library/s/verify-z.mjs'] const run = (scripts, code) => outerOrphans({ gateFiles: files, scriptCmds: scripts, codeByFile: new Map(code) }).fresh const allWired = 'node plugin-designs/a/scripts/check-x.mjs && node plugin-designs/b/scripts/check-y.mjs && node library/s/verify-z.mjs' const cases = [ ['everything registered by path passes', run(allWired, []), 0], ['a plugin gate nobody runs fails', run('node plugin-designs/a/scripts/check-x.mjs && node library/s/verify-z.mjs', []), 1], ['a gate run from another file\'s code passes', run('node plugin-designs/a/scripts/check-x.mjs && node library/s/verify-z.mjs', [['internal/all.mjs', "spawn('node', ['plugin-designs/b/scripts/check-y.mjs'])"]]), 0], ['a gate only MENTIONED in a comment fails', run('node plugin-designs/a/scripts/check-x.mjs && node library/s/verify-z.mjs', [['internal/all.mjs', stripComments('// see check-y.mjs')]]), 1], ['a shared basename cannot vouch for the other file', run('node plugin-designs/a/scripts/check-x.mjs && node plugin-designs/b/scripts/check-y.mjs && node internal/verify-z.mjs', []), 1], ] const bad = cases.filter(([, got, want]) => (want === 0) !== (got.length === 0)) if (bad.length) { for (const [n, got] of bad) console.error(` ✗ self-test: ${n} -> ${JSON.stringify(got)}`); console.error('NO-ORPHAN-GATES: SELF-TEST FAILED — the file arm cannot be trusted'); process.exit(1) } } { const gateFiles = execSync('git ls-files -- internal plugin-designs library', { cwd: ROOT, encoding: 'utf8' }).split('\n') .filter((p) => /\/(check|verify|smoke)-[^/]*\.mjs$/.test(p) && !p.includes('/data/')) const scriptCmds = Object.values(JSON.parse(pkgRaw).scripts || {}).join('\n') const codeFiles = execSync('git ls-files -- "*.mjs" "*.js" "*.vue"', { cwd: ROOT, encoding: 'utf8' }).split('\n').filter((p) => p && !p.includes('node_modules')) const codeByFile = new Map(codeFiles.map((p) => { try { return [p, stripComments(readFileSync(join(ROOT, p), 'utf8'))] } catch { return [p, ''] } })) const oneShot = new Set(gateFiles.filter((p) => { try { return /^\s*(?:\*|\/\/)\s*@one-shot\b/m.test(readFileSync(join(ROOT, p), 'utf8').slice(0, 2600)) } catch { return false } })) const ORPHANS_REL_F = 'internal/fixtures/orphan-checks-baseline.json' const bl = (() => { try { return JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(ROOT, ORPHANS_REL_F), 'utf8')) } catch { return null } })() const v = outerOrphans({ gateFiles, scriptCmds, codeByFile, oneShot, baseline: bl?.files || [] }) if (process.argv.includes('--init-files') || process.argv.includes('--shrink')) { if (bl && (process.argv.includes('--shrink') || !bl.files)) { const files = process.argv.includes('--init-files') && !bl.files ? v.unreached : (bl.files || []).filter((p) => !v.gone.includes(p)) writeFileSync(join(ROOT, ORPHANS_REL_F), JSON.stringify({ ...bl, files: files.sort() }, null, 1) + '\n') console.log(`NO-ORPHAN-GATES: file baseline ${process.argv.includes('--init-files') ? 'written' : 'shrunk'}: ${files.length} file(s)`) } } console.log(` gate files : ${gateFiles.length} tracked; outside internal/, ${v.unreached.length} run by nothing (${(bl?.files || []).length - v.gone.length} baselined for their owners)`) if (v.fresh.length && !process.argv.includes('--init-files')) { console.error(`NO-ORPHAN-GATES: FAIL — ${v.fresh.length} gate file(s) outside internal/ that nothing runs:`) for (const p of v.fresh) console.error(` ✗ ${p}`) console.error(' Register it by PATH in a package.json script (and chain it), or tag @one-shot if it was a one-bug diagnostic.') process.exit(1) } } // ── SECOND, DISTINCT QUESTION: does it RUN? ──────────────────────────────── // Reachable and wired are not the same property, and conflating them is how 70 of // 100 check:* scripts came to sit outside every gate wave without anyone noticing — // including this gate itself. A script entry means a human CAN run it; membership in // gates:pre/gates:post means it runs on every build. // // This REPORTS rather than fails, deliberately. Most unwired gates are correctly // hand-run: they need a served tree (check:mobile, check:shots), a device, a token, // or an argument (check:packet-render takes a path). Failing the build on those // would be wrong and the gate would be disabled within a day. // // ⚠ AND SOME MUST NEVER BE WIRED, which "it passes when I run it" cannot tell you. // check:settled asserts the tree is QUIET — no builder running, no recent churn — so // it fails inside a build BY DESIGN. Measured 2026-09-24: it passed twice standalone, // was wired on that evidence, and failed the very next build (29/30). The test for // wave membership is not "does it pass" but "is its assertion compatible with running // mid-build". What it must not do is // stay silent — a gate that could run and does not is indistinguishable from one // that is broken, which is the exact failure verify-shell-scroll had. // // ★ SO IT IS A DECISION NOW, NOT A REPORT (2026-09-29). Reported, the list only grew: 87 check/verify/ // smoke scripts sat outside every chain, and that day two of them hid real defects. check:i18n-never- // translated was unchained while a dead key, identical in all 11 catalogues, stayed on development for // hours; check:auto-engine asserted a retired engine rule and nothing ran it. Every check:/verify:/smoke: // script must now be one of: // REACHED run by a standing chain: gates:pre, gates:post, the browser suite's GATES, the build, or // anything those `bun run` in turn; // ON DEMAND named in internal/fixtures/on-demand-checks.json WITH its reason (check:settled's is above); // BASELINED in internal/fixtures/orphan-checks-baseline.json, the orphans found that day, for their // owners to chain, declare or delete. That list only shrinks (--shrink). // A new script that is none of these FAILS, so "not chained" is something someone decided and wrote down. // // ⚠ REACHED MEANS BY EXACT NAME. This arm's first form, and the census that prompted the change, tested // `waves.includes(name)`, a substring: check:hardcoded-english read as run because // check:hardcoded-english:self-test is in gates:pre. A gate's self-test is not the gate. const ON_DEMAND_REL = 'internal/fixtures/on-demand-checks.json' const ORPHANS_REL = 'internal/fixtures/orphan-checks-baseline.json' const IS_CHECK = /^(check|verify|smoke):/ /** Script names a command runs: `bun run ` (or npm/pnpm/yarn), and run-parallel's list after ` -- `. */ function namesRunBy(cmd, scripts) { const out = new Set([...String(cmd).matchAll(/\b(?:bun|npm|pnpm|yarn)\s+run\s+([^\s;&|)"']+)/g)].map((m) => m[1])) if (/run-parallel/.test(cmd) && cmd.includes(' -- ')) for (const t of cmd.split(' -- ')[1].split(/\s+/)) out.add(t) return [...out].filter((n) => Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(scripts, n)) } /** The verdict, pure so the self-test can drive it: which checks are unreached and undeclared. */ export function unchainedChecks({ scripts, suite, onDemand = {}, baseline = [] }) { const roots = ['gates:pre', 'gates:post', ...suite, ...Object.keys(scripts).filter((k) => /^(pre|post)?build(:|$)/.test(k))] const reached = new Set() const queue = roots.filter((r) => Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(scripts, r)) for (const r of queue) reached.add(r) while (queue.length) for (const n of namesRunBy(scripts[queue.pop()], scripts)) if (!reached.has(n)) { reached.add(n); queue.push(n) } const checks = Object.keys(scripts).filter((k) => IS_CHECK.test(k)) const base = new Set(baseline) const unreached = checks.filter((k) => !reached.has(k)) return { checks, unreached, fresh: unreached.filter((k) => !(k in onDemand) && !base.has(k)), // An on-demand entry with no reason, or naming a script that no longer exists, is not a decision. badDeclared: Object.entries(onDemand).filter(([k, why]) => !String(why || '').trim() || !(k in scripts)).map(([k]) => k), // Baselined entries since chained, declared or deleted: fine, and --shrink tidies them. gone: [...base].filter((k) => reached.has(k) || k in onDemand || !(k in scripts)), } } // ── self-test, on every run: each rule proven able to fail on a planted case ── { const S = (extra = {}) => ({ 'gates:pre': 'node internal/run-parallel.mjs --label=pre -- check:a check:b:self-test', 'gates:post': 'node internal/run-parallel.mjs --label=post -- check:agg', 'check:a': 'node a', 'check:b': 'node b', 'check:b:self-test': 'node b --self-test', 'check:agg': 'bun run check:c && bun run check:d', 'check:c': 'node c', 'check:d': 'node d', ...extra }) const cases = [ ['a chained tree passes', { scripts: { ...S(), 'check:b': 'node b' }, suite: [], baseline: ['check:b'] }, 0], ['a new check in no chain fails', { scripts: S({ 'check:new': 'node n' }), suite: [], baseline: ['check:b'] }, 1], ['the same check in a chain passes', { scripts: S({ 'check:new': 'node n', 'gates:post': 'node internal/run-parallel.mjs --label=post -- check:agg check:new' }), suite: [], baseline: ['check:b'] }, 0], ['a gate chained only through its :self-test fails', { scripts: S(), suite: [], baseline: [] }, 1], ['a check the browser suite lists passes', { scripts: S({ 'check:e': 'node e' }), suite: ['check:e'], baseline: ['check:b'] }, 0], ['a declared on-demand check passes', { scripts: S({ 'check:f': 'node f' }), suite: [], onDemand: { 'check:f': 'needs a device' }, baseline: ['check:b'] }, 0], ] let ok = true for (const [name, input, want] of cases) { const got = unchainedChecks(input).fresh.length if ((want === 0) !== (got === 0)) { ok = false; console.error(` ✗ self-test: ${name} -> ${got} unchained`) } } if (unchainedChecks({ scripts: S({ 'check:f': 'node f' }), suite: [], onDemand: { 'check:f': ' ' }, baseline: ['check:b'] }).badDeclared.length !== 1) { ok = false; console.error(' ✗ self-test: an on-demand entry with no reason was accepted') } if (!ok) { console.error('NO-ORPHAN-GATES: SELF-TEST FAILED — the chain arm cannot be trusted'); process.exit(1) } } const pkg = JSON.parse(pkgRaw) const suiteSrc = readFileSync(join(ROOT, 'internal/verify-browser-all.mjs'), 'utf8') const suite = [...(suiteSrc.split('const GATES = [')[1] || '').split('\n]')[0].matchAll(/script:\s*'([^']+)'/g)].map((m) => m[1]) const readJson = (rel, d) => { try { return JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(ROOT, rel), 'utf8')) } catch { return d } } const onDemand = readJson(ON_DEMAND_REL, { checks: {} }).checks || {} const orphanBase = readJson(ORPHANS_REL, null) if (process.argv.includes('--init') || process.argv.includes('--shrink')) { const v = unchainedChecks({ scripts: pkg.scripts, suite, onDemand, baseline: orphanBase?.unreached || [] }) const init = process.argv.includes('--init') if (init && orphanBase) { console.error(`NO-ORPHAN-GATES: --init refused, ${ORPHANS_REL} exists (use --shrink)`); process.exit(1) } const keep = init ? v.unreached.filter((k) => !(k in onDemand)) : orphanBase.unreached.filter((k) => !v.gone.includes(k)) writeFileSync(join(ROOT, ORPHANS_REL), JSON.stringify({ ...(orphanBase || {}), about: 'check/verify/smoke scripts that no standing chain ran on 2026-09-29 and that nobody had declared on-demand. Each owner chains it, declares it in on-demand-checks.json with a reason, or deletes it. This list only shrinks (--shrink).', unreached: keep.sort() }, null, 1) + '\n') console.log(`NO-ORPHAN-GATES: orphan baseline ${init ? 'written' : 'shrunk'}: ${keep.length} script(s)`) process.exit(0) } const verdict = unchainedChecks({ scripts: pkg.scripts, suite, onDemand, baseline: orphanBase?.unreached || [] }) console.log(` chains : ${verdict.checks.length - verdict.unreached.length}/${verdict.checks.length} check/verify/smoke ` + `script(s) reached by exact name; ${Object.keys(onDemand).length} declared on demand; ` + `${(orphanBase?.unreached || []).length - verdict.gone.length} baselined for their owners` + (verdict.gone.length ? ` (${verdict.gone.length} since settled; tidy with --shrink)` : '')) if (verdict.fresh.length || verdict.badDeclared.length) { console.error(`NO-ORPHAN-GATES: FAIL — ${verdict.fresh.length} script(s) that no chain runs and nobody declared` + (verdict.badDeclared.length ? `, ${verdict.badDeclared.length} on-demand entr(y/ies) with no reason or no script` : '')) for (const k of verdict.fresh) console.error(` ✗ ${k}`) for (const k of verdict.badDeclared) console.error(` ✗ ${k} (in ${ON_DEMAND_REL})`) console.error(' Chain it (gates:pre / gates:post, or the browser suite once it has run), or declare it in') console.error(` ${ON_DEMAND_REL} with the reason it must run by hand.`) process.exit(1) } console.log(`NO-ORPHAN-GATES: PASS — ${checked} gate-shaped file(s); all reachable (${tagged} tagged @one-shot).`) console.log(' Reachable means named in package.json or imported by something that is. The @one-shot') console.log(' tag exists so a dated diagnostic can be KEPT as a reproduction recipe without either') console.log(' masquerading as a live check or being deleted for tidiness.')