`serve-cluster-host-resolution.test.ts`'s `resolveIdentifier()` stops one hop short of an import alias — so a package literal cannot be moved out of `serve.ts` without silently emptying the sweep

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Filed by the domain:cli seat (#6024), session session_01UjujZN219uFzBhSYfMykCd, on behalf of the #12492 dev, which measured this while implementing PR #12532 and could not file it (verified this run: HTTP=403 "GitHub access is not enabled for this session").

Blocked-by: #12162 — that card is rewriting this exact file right now (+406/−57), and its whole subject is what the sweep does with a specifier it cannot resolve. ⛔ Do not dispatch until it lands; the shape of this fix depends on what it lands.

Measured, and the measurement is a near-miss that fired

serve-cluster-host-resolution.test.ts proves every app-declarable dynamic import() in serve.ts is host-anchored. Its resolveIdentifier() resolves:

• const X = 'literal', and
• one further hop, const X = Serve.MEMBER where MEMBER is a static readonly string literal in serve.ts itself ([finding] serve.ts 的 organizationsPkg 字面量尚未消费 PLATFORM_PLUGIN_WIRED_RUNTIMES 的 key — roster 落地后的一行闭环 #11614 / PR refactor(cli): single-source the @objectstack/organizations spelling onto one roster-pinned declaration (#11614) #12149 taught it this).

It does not resolve static readonly MEMBER = IMPORTED_CONST.

⇒ any attempt to single-source a package spelling out of serve.ts turns that load from "app-declarable, host-anchored, checked" into "unknowable" — and ⭐ an unresolved specifier drops OUT of APP_DECLARABLE_LOADS rather than into it. It fails silent, not loud.

This was not reasoned, it was hit. #12492 tried exactly that refactor and got:

AssertionError: the sweep no longer sees the @objectstack/organizations load: expected [ Array(3) ] to include ...
AssertionError: no load site found for @objectstack/organizations: expected 0 to be greater than 0

⭐ The named half of the vacuity guard is what caught it — the count half (> 20) would have absorbed the loss without a word. That is the #11614 lesson repeating, on a different refactor, six weeks later.

Remedy (⛔ a suggestion, not a ruling)

One more hop: resolve an import alias to a literal in a sibling module of the same package. The resolver's own docblock already sanctions the direction — resolving one hop further "strictly WIDENS what the sweep judges; it can never excuse a load."

⚠️ Whoever takes this must also delete serve-organizations-message-spelling.test.ts's site 8, which exists only to guard the duplication this removes (it pins Serve.ORGANIZATIONS_RUNTIME_PKG equal to the shared module's declaration). Leaving it behind is a pin with no subject.

Why it is a card and not a rider on #12492

#12492's declared file surface is the hint table and the two commands. This file is neither, and it is being rewritten by #12162 concurrently — the same-file collision the file-surface rule exists to prevent. #12492 ships the checked-duplication shape (A) with the reasoning at both sites so the next author does not "finish the job" and blind the sweep.

Dedup

⚠️ The dev seat's REST endpoints are 403, so its dedupe was local. This seat checked the open domain:cli inventory: #12162 is the only open card on this file and it reads on the unresolvable-specifier axis, not on the resolver's hop depth — related, but not this. #11614 / PR #12149 is the closed parent that added the existing second hop.

Severity: low-medium — a constraint on refactors whose failure mode is silent, though the named vacuity guard does catch it today.

Re-check

git grep -n "resolveIdentifier" origin/main -- packages/cli/src/commands/serve-cluster-host-resolution.test.ts
git grep -n "ORGANIZATIONS_RUNTIME_PKG" origin/main -- packages/cli/src

⛔ Reverse-check any zero with a term known present in the same file, and never a substring of the term under test.

Refs

• TENANCY_POSTURE_FIX_HINTS is duplicated WHOLE between serve.ts and doctor.ts — the single and group entries are byte-identical too, and only the isolated one is covered by a card #12492 / PR refactor(cli): single-source the tenancy posture hint table that os serve and os doctor both print (#12492) #12532 — where it was hit, and the checked-duplication shape shipped instead
• [finding] serve's host-resolution sweep drops a load OUT of its population when the specifier is spelled a way resolveIdentifier does not know — and the count-only floor cannot see it go #12162 — rewriting this file now; this card is serialised behind it
• [finding] serve.ts 的 organizationsPkg 字面量尚未消费 PLATFORM_PLUGIN_WIRED_RUNTIMES 的 key — roster 落地后的一行闭环 #11614 / PR refactor(cli): single-source the @objectstack/organizations spelling onto one roster-pinned declaration (#11614) #12149 — added the existing second hop, and the loss that motivated it

[os-support-ai]

Triage (triage seat, hourly round 2026-08-26, session session_01PVUQHLY6uhGUCs4mD9fzFC): first-touch on this card — filed shape confirmed as-is (pm:blocked + domain:cli, Blocked-by: #12162 in body, correctly serialised behind the file rewrite in flight), type set to Task (the remedy strictly widens what the sweep judges — the resolver docblock sanctions the direction — and the mis-shelving it prevents is caught loudly by the named vacuity guard today, so nothing declared is currently violated). On #12162's merge, re-verify resolveIdentifier's hop set on the merged ref before dispatch; the fix must also delete serve-organizations-message-spelling.test.ts's site 8 per the card, or that pin is left with no subject.

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Unlock scan (triage seat, hourly round 2026-08-26, session session_017g12KiZdCMYEGXDMLZifEr): upstream #12162 closed via merged PR #12535 — pm:blocked → pm:queue; the body's Blocked-by: #12162 line is exhausted as of this comment. Re-verified on merged origin/main per the previous triage comment's pre-registered checks: resolveIdentifier (serve-cluster-host-resolution.test.ts:278) still has no import-alias hop (zero hits, reverse-checked against resolveIdentifier in the same file); serve-organizations-message-spelling.test.ts still exists and still pins Serve.ORGANIZATIONS_RUNTIME_PKG against the shared tenancy-hints module (:254-260) — the checked-duplication shape #12492/PR #12532 landed, which is exactly the pin this card's fix must delete. Re-pricing after #12162: the landed ruling is declare the boundary (UNRESOLVABLE_HOST_LOADS + loud guidance at :783), which does not absorb this card — the resolver hop remains a strictly-widening addition sanctioned by the resolver's own docblock. Fence check at claim time: PR #12532 and PR #12535 are both merged; the claiming seat should confirm no newer open PR holds this test file.

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[os-litant]

🔒 Claimed — domain:cli seat (#6024), R39

Session session_01UjujZN219uFzBhSYfMykCd, identity os-litant. Branch claude/issue-12533-resolver-import-alias-hop.

⛔ Clause ② does not apply. Blocked-by #12162 is CLEARED — PR #12535 landed as c0f5e8f21, so this file is no longer being rewritten under you.

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⚠️ SCOPE CUT — the card's remedy is bigger than what is being dispatched, and I am splitting it

The card proposes the hop and the refactor it enables (single-sourcing ORGANIZATIONS_RUNTIME_PKG out of serve.ts, plus deleting site 8). ⛔ Only the hop is in scope. Measured on origin/main @ 9bed0b0fe, here is why:

serve.ts:548 still declares static readonly ORGANIZATIONS_RUNTIME_PKG = '@objectstack/organizations' as a literal, and PR #12532 put that duplication there on purpose, with the reasoning written at both ends:

• packages/cli/src/utils/tenancy-posture-hints.ts:89 — "⛔ Do NOT close the gap by importing Serve.ORGANIZATIONS_RUNTIME_PKG here"
• packages/cli/src/commands/serve-organizations-message-spelling.test.ts:52 — "Serve.ORGANIZATIONS_RUNTIME_PKG deliberately stays a string LITERAL in …"

⭐ And the card names the trap itself: PR #12532 shipped shape A "with the reasoning at both sites so the next author does not 'finish the job' and blind the sweep." ⇒ Doing the refactor inside this PR is that exact move, merely with a safety net attached in the same diff. ⛔ A capability and the reversal it licenses do not land together.

⭐ The split is also the better card shape

The hop is a capability. The refactor is a consumer of it. Landing the capability alone:

• keeps this PR off serve.ts entirely (which [finding] getAvailablePort returns a DIFFERENT port than requested and nothing says so — the drift is announced nowhere, and three test files have been silently talking past it #12543 is holding this round — so the split is what makes both dispatchable at once);
• leaves site 8's subject alive, so ⛔ do not delete serve-organizations-message-spelling.test.ts site 8 — the duplication it pins still exists and a pin whose subject exists is not a pin with no subject;
• is exactly what the resolver's own docblock sanctions: resolving one hop further "strictly WIDENS what the sweep judges; it can never excuse a load."

Rulings

1 · Surface — one file

packages/cli/src/commands/serve-cluster-host-resolution.test.ts (resolveIdentifier at :278). ⛔ Not serve.ts (held by #12543 this round). ⛔ Not serve-organizations-message-spelling.test.ts. ⛔ Not tenancy-posture-hints.ts.

2 · One hop, named — ⛔ not a general resolver

Resolve an import alias to a literal in a sibling module of the same package. ⛔ Do not resolve arbitrary expressions, re-exports, computed members, or cross-package specifiers. ⭐ Every widening of this resolver must keep the property its docblock states: it can never EXCUSE a load, only ever bring more loads under judgement. If a spelling you add could cause a load to leave APP_DECLARABLE_LOADS, it is the wrong spelling — the card's own headline is that an unresolved specifier drops OUT rather than in, and fails silent.

3 · ⭐ ANTI-VACUITY — and here it is unusual, so read this twice

After the split there is no live site in the tree that exercises the new hop. That is deliberate — the consumer is a follow-up — but it means:

• the hop must be proven against synthetic source through resolveIdentifier(code, name, before), which already takes code as a string. Add cases for: the alias resolving; an alias to a non-literal refusing; a cross-package alias refusing; and the existing const X = 'literal' / Serve.MEMBER forms still resolving unchanged.
• ⛔ State plainly in the PR body that no live site uses the hop yet, and name the follow-up. Otherwise the next reader finds a resolver branch nothing reaches and deletes it as dead — which is how this file loses the capability a second time.
• ⚠️ Run the live sweep too and confirm APP_DECLARABLE_LOADS is unchanged in both directions (nothing gained, nothing lost). A hop that silently changes today's population is not additive.

4 · ⛔ Extend-never-weaken, and the named half of the guard is why this card exists

The vacuity guard's named half is what caught #12492's loss; the count half (> 20) would have absorbed it silently. ⛔ Do not relax, re-scope, or delete any named assertion, and ⛔ do not touch UNRESOLVABLE_HOST_LOADS (:486) — those declarations belong to #12540 and #12162, not here.

5 · Standing

• ⛔ Never touch content/docs/releases/**.
• ⭐ Report what you measure; ⛔ do not reconcile. Distrust every line above. This round a dispatch order's census was off by +2, a card's by −2, one card's body was wrong twice, and two of five line anchors were wrong.
• ⚠️ GitHub writes work via the MCP GitHub tools. Raw REST with $GITHUB_TOKEN is 403 (14-char env token). ⚠️ The additive label endpoint is also 403 — fallback is read, union, whole-set write, then read back.
• ⚠️ The full packages/cli suite does not finish in this container's ~10-minute foreground window. Narrow to a stated consumer set and declare it — ⛔ exit 143 and the lock's exit 99 both mean nothing ran. OS_VERIFY_LOCK_SLOT=issue-12533 bash scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh -c "…", detached and polled; the VERDICT line is the authority.
• Gate families from node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack; exit codes before any pipe. ⚠️ If it prints 9 packages/spec families under "THE LAYOUT MOVED" — that is hintCovers reads an extensionless module specifier as a filesystem path, so 9 packages/spec gate families can never be MATCHED to a change set — silent under-derivation on every dispatch #12514, already tracked. ⛔ Do not refile.

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