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Closes #3347 and #3362. Two gates that could not say no.

#3347 — an unreadable package left the audit silently

check-test-wiring.mjs discovered packages with existsSync(pkgJsonPath), which returns false for every failure, not just ENOENT. So a package whose manifest could not be read was dropped from the audit and the gate reported OK.

That gate is what fails when a package has test files but no test script, so turbo test skips it. Which means: a package whose tests never run read exactly like a healthy package.

Measured on a synthetic tree, and this is the damage rather than the mechanism:

E. package `gamma` has test files, no `test` script, readable
   EXIT=1  ❌ Packages with test files but no `test` script … gamma
F. the same package, chmod 000
   EXIT=0  ✅ OK (1 packages, ...)

Becoming unreadable was all it took to turn the finding off.

The refusal is now shared at scripts/lib/exists-or-throw.mjs, with fail injected so each gate keeps its own prefix and error type. check-test-glob-coverage.mjs moved onto it too.

#3362 — the repository treated as a package

node scripts/typecheck-tests.mjs run bare from the repo root wrote a 1520-line, 1505-file program to /tsconfig.tests.json in about half a second, silently. That is the #2664 misuse the script's own header documents, and parseCliMode already refused the argument form of it but not the cwd form.

PR #3363 had just added that path to .gitignore — correct for diff-noise reasons, but it removed the last visible symptom. Now it refuses, naming --audit / --all / cd <package>.

The walk is shared too, not just the refusal

Extracting existsOrThrow alone shared 15 lines and left 32 duplicated: listPackages became byte-identical in both gates. /simplify caught that, and the first commit's own docstring had already made the argument — two walks kept in agreement by whoever remembers to edit both "is not a property, it is a habit, and #3347 is what it costs."

scripts/lib/list-workspace-packages.mjs now owns the walk. It also states the invariant the review distilled, which is narrower and more useful than "be loud everywhere":

unreadable must never shrink a population a gate reports a count of

That is why a refusal and a calibrated floor are alternatives, not a hierarchyverify-npm-publish.js and lib/rust-major-offset.mjs are right to warn-and-floor instead.

Two things deliberately not done

scripts/docs/check-package-readmes.mjs keeps its own copy of the refusal. Two reviews ranked folding it in as their top finding, both noting the repo already documents it as a duplicate. Neither checked why. Its harness copyFileSyncs that one file into a synthetic tree, so it must stay import-free beyond node builtins — migrating it turned all 9 of its tests red while the gate still passed against the real repo. The constraint is now written in the file.

Each gate keeps its own PACKAGE_PARENTS literal. Hoisting it shrank CI path coverage, because deriveInputs reads a gate's own source and does not follow imports:

before hoist  check-test-wiring.mjs:  .github apps node_modules package.json packages scripts
after hoist   check-test-wiring.mjs:  .github node_modules package.json scripts

The allowlist row that then stopped matching had not become unnecessary — the coverage it exempted had disappeared. scripts/ci-path-coverage-allowlist.txt is byte-identical to main (0 diff lines), and the census reads 288 derived paths against main's 287.

Verification

Every wrong fix breaks a test, checked explicitly:

wrong fix result
existsOrThrow catches ENOTDIR and continues 6 tests fail, from both sides of the shared helper
adopt the refusal, omit the dotfile skip reproduces #3350's trap live: packages/.DS_Store/package.json: ENOTDIR
#3362 guard on the argument form only 1 of 37 fails — only the spawned case, which is why it exists

1056 script tests, check-test-wiring, check-test-glob-coverage, check-package-readmes, check-ci-path-coverage, typecheck-tests --audit and pnpm lint: all green.

No changeset: scripts/ only, no workspace member. Read from check-changesets.mjs's own doctrine rather than assumed.

Follow-ups filed

#3362's sibling observation is already recorded there. The review also named three enumerators with neither a refusal nor a floor — release-version-changed.mjs first, then check-api-surface.mjs and verify-esm-entrypoints.mjs — under the invariant above. Worth their own PRs rather than widening this one.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved workspace package discovery across application and package directories.
    • Added fail-closed handling for missing, unreadable, malformed, or invalid package metadata.
    • Prevented type-check commands from running against the repository root without a specific package.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for filesystem errors, symlinks, hidden files, package discovery, and command-line validation.
    • Added safeguards confirming correct exit codes and preventing unintended configuration generation.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified documentation for standalone package README checks and workspace package listing behavior.

…ng it from the audit (#3347)

check-test-wiring.mjs discovered packages with `existsSync`, which answers
false for every failure and not only ENOENT. A package whose manifest could
not be opened therefore left the audit with no error at all, and the gate
printed OK with a smaller count.

Measured on a two-package fixture before the change:

  healthy:                 OK (2 packages, ...)  EXIT=0
  packages/beta chmod 000: OK (1 packages, ...)  EXIT=0

and the same hole hid the offender the gate exists for. A `gamma` carrying
test files and no `test` script went from EXIT=1 naming it to EXIT=0 saying
nothing, purely by becoming unreadable. That package's tests never run under
`turbo test`, which is the failure this gate is the only thing watching for.

The sibling gate check-test-glob-coverage.mjs was hardened against exactly
this and grew a local `existsOrThrow`. That refusal is now shared, at
scripts/lib/exists-or-throw.mjs, on the same footing as `stripYamlComments`
in scripts/lib/server-bin-targets-parse.mjs which both check-test-wiring.mjs
and check-server-bin-targets.mjs already import from one place. `fail` is
injected so each gate keeps its own prefix and its own FailError; nothing
about the refusal is softened to make it shareable. Copying it instead would
leave one sentence of load-bearing prose in two files with nothing but habit
holding them together.

The dotfile skip ships in the same change, because adopting the refusal
without it reintroduces the crash PR #3350 just fixed in the two sibling
gates: macOS drops a `.DS_Store` FILE into any Finder-opened directory, and
statting `.DS_Store/package.json` raises ENOTDIR, which the refusal correctly
rejects. Verified by applying the refusal alone and touching
packages/.DS_Store in this worktree, which failed the Lint lane.

check-test-wiring.mjs also had TWO package-discovery loops, `auditPackages`'s
and `readWorkspaceScripts`'s, kept in agreement only by whoever edited one
remembering the other. They are one walk with two readers now, so a future
hardening cannot land in one and miss the other.

Tests, in the pair shape PR #3350 established: a dotfile is ignored, and a
non-dotfile ENOTDIR candidate in the SAME tree is still refused. Under the
tempting wrong fix (catch ENOTDIR in existsOrThrow and continue) the second
one fails, along with two cases in check-test-glob-coverage.test.mjs. Under
the other wrong fix (adopt the refusal, skip the dotfile skip) the first one
fails. scripts/lib/exists-or-throw.test.mjs additionally pins the branch
neither gate can reach: a `fail` that returns must still not yield a false.

Counts on the real repo are unchanged: 48 packages before and after.
`node scripts/typecheck-tests.mjs` run bare with cwd = the repo root treated
the repository as a package. parseCliMode accepts zero arguments as `package`
mode, so it fell into `checkOnePackage(process.cwd())` and wrote a 1,520-line
/tsconfig.tests.json naming 1,505 test files, then handed the lot to one tsc
invocation. It printed nothing at all while doing so.

That is the #2664 misuse this script's own header documents, and parseCliMode
already refuses the ARGUMENT form of it: `node scripts/typecheck-tests.mjs
packages/clash` from the root used to ignore its argument and fall through to
the same cwd branch. The cwd form is the same substitution with the argument
left off, and it was still open.

PR #3363 added /tsconfig.tests.json to .gitignore, which was right for diff
noise and which also removed the last visible symptom. An untracked file
someone would eventually notice became a silent run whose only output was an
OK line naming the repo directory as if it were a package. A guard is what is
left.

`repoRootRefusal` is the sibling of the guard parseCliMode already has, and
it names the three real ways to run this so the message says what the caller
probably meant. Paths are compared through realpath as well as resolve, for
the reason scripts/check-changesets.mjs already compares `rootReal`: cwd
reports the realpath while REPO_ROOT comes from this file's own URL, so a
symlinked checkout spells one directory two ways.

Before: a 1,520-line file at the repo root, no output, tsc running for
minutes. After: exit 2, the refusal, and nothing written.

Unit tests pin the path arithmetic including the symlink spelling; one
spawned case pins that checkOnePackage actually consults the guard. That last
one is the only test that fails under a guard placed on the argument form
alone, which is the fix this issue invites. Verified by removing the
checkOnePackage call: 36 of 37 cases still passed and only the spawned one
caught it, reporting that the repository had been treated as a package.

`--all`, `--audit` and the real per-package run are unaffected: audit reports
1,502 files across 47 packages as before, and packages/embed-protocol still
checks OK from its own directory.
…contains

/simplify, four angles. Two agents independently found the same structural
miss: extracting existsOrThrow shared 15 lines and left 32 duplicated, because
listPackages then became byte-identical in check-test-wiring and
check-test-glob-coverage - differing only in a constant's name, 'utf-8' vs
'utf8', and the wording of a 12-line comment that was itself duplicated. The
first commit's own docstring argues that two walks kept in agreement by whoever
edited one remembering the other "is not a property, it is a habit, and #3347 is
what it costs". That argument is exactly as true across two files.

scripts/lib/list-workspace-packages.mjs now owns the walk and the parents
constant. 58 lines out of one gate, 32 out of the other.

It also states the invariant the altitude pass distilled, which is narrower and
more useful than "be loud everywhere":

    unreadable must never shrink a population a gate reports a count of.

That explains why a refusal and a calibrated floor are alternatives rather than
a hierarchy, and why verify-npm-publish and rust-major-offset are right to
warn-and-floor instead.

NOT migrated, and the reason is load-bearing: scripts/docs/check-package-readmes.mjs
keeps its own copy. Two reviewers ranked folding it in as the top finding, both
citing that the repo already documents it as a duplicate. Neither checked why.
Its regression harness copyFileSync's THAT ONE FILE into a synthetic tree, so it
must stay import-free beyond node builtins; migrating it turned all 9 of its
tests red while the gate still passed against the real repo, because the failure
only exists in the synthetic tree where ../lib/ does not. The constraint is now
written in the file.

Three claims of mine that were false:

- "A PROJECTION of listPackages, not a second walk" was true of the source and
  false of the run: it is called once per reader, so there are still two walks.
  Measured at 0.96 ms of a 100 ms gate, which is why it stays two.
- "#3350 fixed exactly this in two sibling gates" - it fixed three.
- samePath's realpath half was justified by a symlinked-checkout divergence.
  Measured on four invocations - through a symlink, with --preserve-symlinks,
  invoking through the link, and both - and path.resolve matched every time,
  because getcwd(3) returns the resolved path and Node's ESM loader realpaths
  the module URL. Kept as defence for unmeasured platforms, but it no longer
  claims to catch a case that occurs here.

check-ci-path-coverage then caught a consequence I had not thought about: moving
the apps/ walk into the lib made the allowlist row exempting check-test-wiring
from apps/landing stale. Deleted, per that gate's own advice that a stale
exemption hides the next hole. 36 reasoned exemptions now, down from 37.

1056 script tests pass, lint clean, all four gates green on the real repo.
…het still sees it

/code-review caught that the previous commit silently shrank CI path coverage,
and that I then deleted the evidence instead of the gap.

deriveInputs (scripts/lib/ci-path-coverage.mjs) reads only a gate's OWN source
text and does not follow imports. Moving the ['packages','apps'] literal into
the shared walk therefore removed those paths from the census. Measured with the
repo's own deriveInputs across both revisions:

  MAIN  check-test-wiring.mjs:        .github apps node_modules package.json packages scripts
  HEAD  check-test-wiring.mjs:        .github node_modules package.json scripts
  MAIN  check-test-glob-coverage.mjs: apps node_modules package.json packages
  HEAD  check-test-glob-coverage.mjs: node_modules

The allowlist row I deleted last commit had not gone stale because the coverage
became unnecessary. It went stale because the coverage DISAPPEARED. Deleting it
removed the symptom and kept the hole: drop apps/landing from the node-tests
path filter and check-test-wiring would stop running on apps/landing changes,
with check-ci-path-coverage - whose entire purpose is "a gate may not read a path
that cannot trigger it" - saying nothing.

Each gate keeps its own PACKAGE_PARENTS literal now, with a comment saying why
it must not be hoisted. The WALK stays shared, which was the point. The
allowlist is restored byte-identical to main: git diff reports 0 lines. The
census reads 288 derived input paths against main's 287, so coverage is slightly
wider than before rather than narrower.

Also from that review:

- existsOrThrow was imported and unused in both gates after the hoist, since
  both now reach it through the walk. Nothing in the repo would have caught it:
  check-unused-locals only scans workspace packages with a tsconfig, and no
  lint config covers scripts/*.mjs.
- In exists-or-throw.mjs the import sat BETWEEN the JSDoc block and the function
  it documents, so the @PARAM annotations attached to nothing.
- check-package-readmes.mjs pointed at "check-test-glob-coverage.mjs's
  listPackages()", which the previous commit deleted. That pointer sits directly
  under the paragraph explaining why this file deliberately does NOT share the
  lib, so a reader following it landed on nothing.

1056 script tests, all four gates, check-ci-path-coverage and lint: green.
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The change centralizes workspace package discovery, makes filesystem failures fail closed, adds audit coverage for unreadable and dotfile candidates, and prevents repository-root execution in per-package typecheck mode.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared discovery and filesystem contracts
scripts/lib/exists-or-throw.mjs, scripts/lib/list-workspace-packages.mjs, scripts/lib/*.test.mjs
Shared helpers distinguish missing paths from unreadable paths and enumerate workspace packages with validated manifests.
Audit integration and failure-closed tests
scripts/check-test-glob-coverage.mjs, scripts/check-test-wiring.mjs, scripts/check-test-wiring.test.mjs, scripts/docs/check-package-readmes.mjs
Both audit scripts use shared discovery. Tests cover unreadable manifests, dotfiles, invalid candidates, and cleanup state. Documentation records the standalone helper constraint.
Repository-root typecheck refusal
scripts/typecheck-tests.mjs, scripts/typecheck-tests.test.mjs
Per-package mode refuses repository-root paths, including equivalent symlink paths, and exits with code 2 without generating a test configuration.

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  participant AuditScript
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  participant existsOrThrow
  participant PackageManifest
  AuditScript->>listWorkspacePackages: request workspace packages
  listWorkspacePackages->>existsOrThrow: validate package manifest
  existsOrThrow->>PackageManifest: stat package.json
  PackageManifest-->>existsOrThrow: result or filesystem error
  existsOrThrow-->>listWorkspacePackages: presence or failure
  listWorkspacePackages-->>AuditScript: package metadata
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