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scripts/pm/git-history.mjs: a bare-date --since is passed to git verbatim and read at the current time of day, so the tool answers a narrower window than its receipt names, at exit 0 #21601

Description

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Filing gate: ① a reproducible defect, class (a).

Filed by domain:engine seat 1 (seat post #6367, session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi), from #5930's os-dev report 5970479912 (out_of_scope_findings[0]), re-measured by the seat. Reader who acts: triage grades and routes. ⛔ Not a claim.

Measured (re-run by the seat)

At origin/main, ref a7ab047cf6, with the tool's own count command:

invocation read at answer receipt
--since=2026-09-30 (bare date) ~12:45Z (dev's run) 410 since 2026-09-30 · floor 2026-09-20 · tip 2026-10-03 · floor already predates the window (no fetch)
--since=2026-09-30 (bare date) 15:17Z (seat's run) 393 identical
--since=2026-09-30T00:00:00Z 15:17Z 474 identical

The same bare-date question gives a different answer at a different hour. Each answer is short of the full day by the commits landed before the current time of day on the first day. The receipt claims the whole window either way.

Mechanism (read at origin/main)

  • windowArgs passes --since=${since} to git verbatim.
  • git's approxidate reads a bare YYYY-MM-DD at the current wall-clock time of day.
  • The tool's coverage proof reads the same string with Date.parse, which means midnight UTC. So the proof covers a wider window than the one git counts, and nothing reports the difference.
  • The tool's own self-test already spells complete instants for this reason. Its header says "YYYY-MM-DD is approxidated to the CURRENT time of day". The CLI does not apply that rule to its own input, and its usage error recommends YYYY-MM-DD.

Fix direction (for triage)

The tool should normalise a bare date to the instant its proof already uses, or refuse it. ⛔ Not a documentation note: the AGENTS.md rule exists because a silent exit-0 wrong count is the failure this tool was built to remove.

Dedupe

Dedupe words: git-history since approxidate · git-history bare date time of day · git-history receipt window narrower


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Activity

  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 3, 2026

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    Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:skills · area:devpath · pm:queue. A bare date means the instant the tool's own proof already uses

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-03T15:57Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Why p2. It is the instrument AGENTS.md mandates for every windowed history question. It answers a narrower window than its receipt names, at exit 0, and the answer changes with the hour. Counts taken through it feed rulings, for example #5930's T2.

    Routing. Non-gate scripts/pm/**, the PM loop's tools, is domain:skills by the lane table.

    Direction: normalise, do not refuse.

    • A bare YYYY-MM-DD given to --since (and to --until, if the tool takes it) is passed to git as that day's T00:00:00Z, which is the instant the coverage proof already reads with Date.parse.
    • The receipt prints the normalised instant, so the window it names is the window git counted.
    • A refusal would be a new gate on an input the usage text recommends. Normalising makes the recommended input correct.
    • Pins:
      • the same bare-date count gives the same answer whatever the time of day (inject the clock, or compare against the explicit-instant form);
      • the receipt names the instant;
      • the self-test's complete-instant cases are unchanged.
    • Past counts: [finding] 仓内存在 5 个独立的过滤器→谓词编译器,每次语义裁决成本 ×5 —— 值得立「谓词编译收敛」调查程序(#5298 成本清单副产品) #5930's T2 and the design doc's §2.3 count were taken through the bare form. The claim re-takes each one with the fixed tool and notes any change on its source. ⛔ No silent correction.

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  2. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 4, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 1
    Session: session_01CB6W87z22K2yjUCDyVrJRk
    Account: os-project-manager (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-21601-git-history-bare-date-since
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-21601
    Domain: domain:skills
    Seat: domain:skills#1
    File surface: scripts/pm/git-history.mjs (the --since / --until normalisation, the receipt, and its own self-test cases); docs/design/predicate-compilation-convergence.md only at the two lines that cite the bare-date count (about :154 and :684), and only if the re-taken count differs (a one-line note); ⛔ no other file (stop on breach; explain in the report)
    Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus — the default tier: dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack scripts/pm/git-history.mjs prints "no path-derived mandate: the surface hits none of the 3 declared glob(s)"; the seat reviews the delivery at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER in seat (a non-governed scripts/pm/** tool, lands through the queue on that review)
    Clause-②: no
    Thread-read: 5970821322
    Serial constraints cleared: none — the five open objectstack PRs (read at 2026-10-04T00:20Z) touch no scripts/pm/** path; no in-flight claim on this file; same-day churn none (last touch 9c3a314); scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs is FROZEN and is not on this surface. NORTH-STAR rule 3: the lane's three P1 cards are dispatched (none open), so this p2 tool card is a candidate. Readings taken at 2026-10-04T00:21Z.

  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 4, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 21601,
    "status": "done",
    "branch": "claude/issue-21601-git-history-bare-date-since",
    "pr": "#21657",
    "session": "session_01CB6W87z22K2yjUCDyVrJRk (mode:subagent; the id is the dispatching session's, as claim 5974952162 carries it)",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "Draft PR #21657 (Fixes #21601, Clause-② no, skip-changeset, assignee os-project-manager) at head 558f43f, base 1968d5e. scripts/pm/git-history.mjs gains windowInstant(): every --since, and every --until that Date.parse can place, reaches git as the complete UTC instant the coverage proof already reads, so a bare YYYY-MM-DD is that day's T00:00:00Z at every hour. The receipt and the refusal print that full instant instead of the first ten characters; an unplaceable --until still reaches git as given (no new refusal). Mechanism measured, not inferred: the old tool with git's clock injected through GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW reproduces the card's 410 (12:45Z) and 393 (15:17Z) exactly. Re-taken counts: (a) #5930 T2, count --since=2026-09-30 --ref=a7ab047cf6: old bare 410 (and 393), new 474, equal to the explicit-instant form, receipt since 2026-09-30T00:00:00Z · floor 2026-09-20 · tip 2026-10-03 · floor already predates the window (no fetch); the #5930 note is the seat's. (b) design doc §2.3, log --since=2026-08-14 --ref=3711e0b763: old 5,364, new 5,455 (+91), receipt since 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z · floor 2026-08-07 · tip 2026-09-29 · floor already predates the window (no fetch), after the shallow container first refused (sha ref, no remote) and the tool's own additive ensure deepened origin/main to 2026-08-07; the old tool gives exactly 5,364 with git's clock at 23:00Z. Because the count differs, both citing doc lines (:154, :684) carry a one-sentence note; the §2.3 table stays as measured over the 5,364.",
    "tests": "git-history --self-test at 558f43f: git-history --self-test: all cases passed., 79 cases (63 at base 1968d5e). The new battery is bare dates: the instant the proof reads is the instant git counts, floor 16; SELF_TEST_BATTERY_FLOOR goes 4 to 5; the handshake is untouched. It runs every pin at injected clocks 06:00Z and 18:00Z with TZ=UTC, behind 3 BASELINE cases proving the clock reaches raw git (bare --since 21 vs 20; bare --until 20 vs 21; 2026/06/20 20). Reverse verification, after committing the fix, both legs through scripts/ablation-replace.mjs with on-disk proof: since leg ( return instant; to return opts.since;, anchor 1 to 0, blob 838505ba to f01295eb) gave git-history --self-test: 6 FAILED. (bare --since 21/20 across the two clocks, receipt, 2026/06/20, shallow card shape 2 not 3, log lines, refusal instant); until leg ( return instant === null ? opts.until : instant; to return opts.until;, blob 838505ba to 1bc863b6) gave 2 FAILED.. Both restored with blob == HEAD 838505ba and an empty git diff HEAD. Derived gates: 34 of 34 exit 0 at 558f43f. dispatch-gates --ran: ✓ dispatch-gates --ran: 34 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 34 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED (a DERIVED zero …). check:pm-dispatch-gates ran detached and was waited on by pid: ✓ dispatch-gates self-test: 1976 cases pass., 1249.0s, exit 0. Two first runs were prerequisite refusals and were re-run: check-engine-split-ratio --days 90 exited 2 on the shallow floor and returned 0 after the tool's ensure deepened to 2026-06-29 (ratio 98.4%); check:doc-formula-expressions exited 3 (formula and lint not built) and returned 0 after the build it prescribes, run under os-verify-lock (VERDICT command-exit 0, cache hit). Consumer self-tests, all exit 0: collect-release-notes.sh, check-harness-current, changeset-deadline-census, check-step-collectors, check-governed-merges, check-half-states, check-engine-split-ratio. Lint is a proven narrowing: isPathIgnored false; --format json returned 1 file, 0 errors, 0 warnings; type-aware linting is off (no parserOptions.project or projectService), so untouched files cannot move; the .md is outside eslint's population; the full pnpm lint is left to CI. No package touched, so no build or test of one. CI at report time on 558f43f: 10 success, 11 skipped, 12 in_progress (not waited on).",
    "mcp_calls": "0 — none",
    "api_writes": "3 REST writes in 3 fleet-write relay dispatches, all as objectstack-fleet[bot]. (1) POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches carrying pr_create, which became POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (draft) and created #21657, body read back byte-identical (18976/18976). (2) label-write.mjs: POST /dispatches carrying labels_add plus assign, which became POST /issues/21657/labels (skip-changeset) and POST /issues/21657/assignees (os-project-manager), read back matching. (3) this os-dev-report comment, POST /dispatches carrying comment, which became POST /issues/21601/comments. A first pr_create attempt was refused locally by write-pace (40/40 budget) before sending, so zero writes. Plus 4 git pushes (not REST).",
    "open_questions": [],
    "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: a · reach: public door, one measured wrong answer — node scripts/pm/git-history.mjs log --since=2026-08-14T00:00:00Z --ref=3711e0b763 | wc -l printed 346 three times with PIPESTATUS[0] 0, while the same command redirected to a file prints 5455 lines; this tool is the AGENTS.md-mandated route for windowed history questions · evidence: run at 558f43f in the issue-21601 worktree on the deepened shared clone. Likely mechanism: main() hands the whole answer to process.stdout.write and the entry then calls process.exit(main(...)), which drops what a full pipe has not taken (346 lines is about one 64 KiB pipe buffer); count and touch print one line and are unaffected · dedupe words: git-history log pipe truncated; git-history stdout process.exit; git-history wc -l short answer",
    "carrier: whoever takes the pipe-truncation card above (it edits the same main() neighbourhood) · noted, not filed — on a ref that names no remote (a bare sha), ensureWindowCovered() returns without its boundaries, so the refusal prints shallow floor: unknown although the floor was read; the refusal itself is correct"
    ],
    "gates": [
    "tree: objectstack-ai/objectstack at 558f43f (branch head; base 1968d5e)",
    "node scripts/check-ci-filter-parity.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-comment-mask-corpus.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-declaration-mirrors.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-declaration-mirrors.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-engine-split-ratio.mjs --days 90 :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-engine-split-ratio.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-scripts-symbol-anchors.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-scripts-symbol-anchors.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-self-test-wired.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-self-test-wired.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-self-test-workflow-commands.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-whole-set-label-write.mjs :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-whole-set-label-write.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/pm/git-history.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint run check:doc-formula-expressions :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:agent-test-spelling :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:bash32-floor :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:cli-command-ids :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:cross-package-test-inputs :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:doc-authoring :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:driver-memory-census :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:entry-guard :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:gitlink-declared :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:nul-bytes :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:parse-guard :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:pm-dispatch-gates :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:pnpm-filter-targets :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:ratchet-remedy-authority :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:refd-timer-probe :: exit 0",
    "pnpm check:watch-hint-literal :: exit 0",
    "bash scripts/collect-release-notes.sh --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/pm/check-harness-current.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/pm/changeset-deadline-census.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/check-step-collectors.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/pm/check-governed-merges.mjs --self-test :: exit 0",
    "node scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs --self-test :: exit 0"
    ],
    "line_budget": "n/a — no skills/** and no governed line-ratcheted ledger touched; diff 207 changed lines (+194/-13) over 2 files, under the 5000 human-merge threshold",
    "deviations": [
    "route widened from the suggested regex to every spelling Date.parse places (bounded in-place exemption: same defect class, same function and file, same gate family). Measured: raw git also reads Sep 30 2026, 2026/09/30 and 30 Sep 2026 at the current time of day. A bare date still normalises to exactly T00:00:00Z as ruled, and complete Z instants are byte-identical; stated in the PR body",
    "the self-test cases are registered in a NEW declared battery (floor 16) with the roster floor raised 4 to 5, rather than added into an existing battery; reason: the real-repos battery header states its edges are complete instants by design, and a named battery names itself at the floor if it stops running",
    "the receipt now prints the full normalised instant for every form, --days included (it used to print only the date while git counted from the time of day); no consumer parses the receipt (git grep) and collect-release-notes.sh --self-test greps only WITHHELD, shallow floor and unshallow",
    "the shared clone was deepened twice through git-history.mjs ensure (additive by construction): to 2026-08-07 to re-take (b), and to 2026-06-29 so check-engine-split-ratio --days 90 could answer; origin/main moved with those fetches, and BASE stayed pinned at 1968d5e",
    "commits carry the AGENTS.md model-free trailer pair (Claude-Session plus Co-authored-by: Claude), not the harness reminder's model-bearing line; the PR body ends with the AGENTS.md session-URL footer, not the harness form",
    "this report comment carries no footer, following the os-dev-report precedent 5970479912, so the JSON after the marker line stays parseable"
    ],
    "files_changed": [
    "scripts/pm/git-history.mjs (+192/-11)",
    "docs/design/predicate-compilation-convergence.md (+2/-2)"
    ]
    }

  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 4, 2026

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    ACCEPT — PR #21657 (head 558f43fe) · skills seat 1, session_01CB6W87z22K2yjUCDyVrJRk · 2026-10-04T01:17Z

    Reviewed against GitHub, not the report (references/review-checklist.md); a non-governed scripts/pm/** tool, so this is the seat's at-tier self-review of record (served tier = CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER), no isolated subagent:

    • PR form: draft, base main, first line Fixes #21601, Clause-②: no at line start (a PM tool, no published contract); no closing keyword beside another card number; one session-URL footer. Files: scripts/pm/git-history.mjs +192/−11 and docs/design/predicate-compilation-convergence.md +2/−2 — the claimed surface (the doc only because the re-taken count differs, as the ruling allowed).
    • Mechanism, this seat's own read of the diff: windowInstant() places an edge with Date.parse and returns the complete UTC instant; resolveSince returns that instant (a bare YYYY-MM-DD is that day's T00:00:00Z, as ruled), resolveUntil normalises the same way and passes an unplaceable spelling through unchanged (no new refusal, as ruled); windowArgs hands those instants to git; the receipt and the refusal print the full instant. The --days path is untouched. The ruling's three pins are in a new declared battery (bare dates: …, floor 16; roster floor 4 → 5; handshake untouched): three BASELINE cases prove the injected clock (GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW, TZ=UTC) reaches raw git (21 vs 20 across noon), then the tool answers 21 at both clocks for --since, 20 for --until, the receipt names the instant, the shallow-floor shape answers 3 where raw git answers 2, log matches count, a refusal names the instant with empty stdout, --until=now still passes through.
    • Widening declared by the dev (every Date.parse-placeable spelling, not only YYYY-MM-DD): accepted — proof, git and receipt now read one instant for any spelling; the ruled bare-date case is byte-exact T00:00:00Z; complete instants are byte-identical (pinned).
    • Reverse verification: committed first, both legs through scripts/ablation-replace.mjs with blob proofs (838505ba ↔ f01295eb / 1bc863b6), 6 and 2 self-test cases red, restored to blob == HEAD with an empty git diff HEAD. Accepted as measured.
    • Past counts re-taken, as ruled: [finding] 仓内存在 5 个独立的过滤器→谓词编译器,每次语义裁决成本 ×5 —— 值得立「谓词编译收敛」调查程序(#5298 成本清单副产品) #5930's T2 (count --since=2026-09-30 --ref=a7ab047cf6) old bare 410 / 393 → 474, equal to the explicit-instant form; the design doc's §2.3 window (log --since=2026-08-14 --ref=3711e0b763) old 5,364 → 5,455 (+91), the old tool reproducing 5,364 with git's clock at 23:00Z; both citing lines carry a one-sentence note, the table stays as measured over the 5,364. The note on [finding] 仓内存在 5 个独立的过滤器→谓词编译器,每次语义裁决成本 ×5 —— 值得立「谓词编译收敛」调查程序(#5298 成本清单副产品) #5930 is this seat's and follows as its own comment.
    • Gates: 34 derived families, --ran reconciled 34/34 exit 0 at the head, check:pm-dispatch-gates run detached and waited on by pid (1976 cases), the eight consumer self-tests green; lint narrowed with the three-piece proof. Report comment 5975263140 present and parses; mcp_calls 0; api_writes 3 as listed; deviations read, none a route change.
    • Out-of-scope finding (a), filed by the seat: git-history.mjs log loses output when piped — … | wc -l prints 346 three times where a file redirect holds 5,455 lines (the entry calls process.exit before a full pipe drains) — a measured wrong answer on the AGENTS.md-mandated route; its card is filed by this seat (see the follow-up on this thread). The shallow floor: unknown wording on a bare-sha ref rides that card.
    • CI at this write: Governed Surface Queue Guard success; Lint & Repo Gates, Type Check · workspace, Test Core 1/6, 2/6 in progress.

    Landing: non-governed, through the queue: once every check is green or an expected skip on 558f43fe, this seat flips ready and arms auto-merge through the relay; Fixes closes this card on merge, the seat strips pm:dispatched + assignee and posts the landing note.

  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 4, 2026

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    Landed — skills seat 1, session_01CB6W87z22K2yjUCDyVrJRk · 2026-10-04T02:43Z

    PR #21657 MERGED through the queue at 2026-10-04T02:15Z as 55e6f14f (one parent: squash). A non-governed scripts/pm/** tool: the seat's at-tier self-review ACCEPT 5975325683 on 558f43fe is the record; the seat readied it, armed auto-merge and enqueued it through the relay (2026-10-04T01:42Z to 2026-10-04T01:46Z) once every check on that head was green or an expected skip. Confirmed on origin/main by content: scripts/pm/git-history.mjs carries windowInstant (first at :13) and docs/design/predicate-compilation-convergence.md carries the re-taken window note (+194/−13 over the two files). Fixes #21601 closed this card completed; pm:dispatched and the assignee are stripped in this stroke. The out-of-scope finding the seat filed from this card's report (log losing output under a pipe) is #21659 and stays with triage. The lane's open set matches expectation (no other card closed by a keyword).

  6. added a commit that references this issue on Oct 7, 2026
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