fix(scripts,cli): a mask that desyncs on one emoji, and a rule spelled by name

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Three guards that read source text, each enforcing less than it claimed. Same family as #365 — a check that silently stopped checking — and the half of it that is not the test-file sweep.

blankRegions desynced on one astral character — and eight rules read that mask

packages/cli/src/ts-scan.ts built its mask with [...text], which yields one element per code point, while every index below it runs over UTF-16 units (text.length, text[i]). One emoji in a fixture — piñata 🎉 — and out is shorter than text, so every write past it lands a slot early and the returned mask no longer aligns with its input.

Measured: 22 files in this tree desynced, shipped source included. Eight rules read this mask (node-imports, finite-bounds, catch-render, error-render, secret-compare, proto-index, index-of-order, sql-literal-copies) — a desynced mask makes each of them report the wrong offset, or read a string literal as code, or read code as a literal.

split('') is the one form. Three offset-alignment tests ship with it, each red under the old body.

finite-bounds recognised a screen by the callee's NAME

REPAIR_CALL was /(?:Number\.is(?:Finite|SafeInteger|Integer)|\b[\w$]*[Ff]inite[\w$]*)\s*\(/g — a screen counted as a screen only while somebody kept the substring Finite in its identifier. Exactly the trap a rule spelled RenderMode fell into with PwaRenderMode, and it had already leaked: three files carried comments instructing authors not to rename, so the coupling was documented as a feature.

The set is declared now — SCREENING_CALLEES in scripts/lib/finite-screens.ts, 21 rows, each naming what its callee screens. Adding a screen is adding a row.

Deriving it by shape was tried and refused: a call whose argument reaches a comparison closes over 4,062 names in this tree, which is not a rule, it is an allow-list of everything.

The three stale comments in packages/jobs/src/clock.ts, packages/auth/src/policy-numbers.ts and packages/cache/src/tiers.ts are corrected to point at the table.

test-bare-error reported the comment explaining it

THROWN matched against raw source, so throw new Error( quoted inside a comment to explain the rule was reported as a violation of it — which is how it fired on the comment written for #379. It matches stripComments(source) now.

Two pins shrink with no code change, because those sites were never violations: auth: 7 → 6, entity: 18 → 17.

Verified

• bun run verify — 14 of 20 passed, 6 skipped (drift, contract-diff, budgets, seo, i18n, policy), the documented root baseline
• bun run scripts/reference-app-gate.ts — every pin holds: examples/dummy 18/20 (2 pinned), dummy/social-media-clone 18/20 (2 pinned)

Refs #365 — the test-file half of that issue follows in its own PR.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved source analysis for accented characters and emojis, preserving accurate locations and token detection.
  • Prevented comments and documentation examples from being incorrectly reported as bare error throws.
  • Improved finite-duration checks to recognize only explicitly supported screening calls and provide clearer guidance for unsupported cases.

• Documentation

  • Clarified finite-duration screening requirements and naming behavior.

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The change centralizes finite-screening callees, preserves UTF-16 offsets for Unicode scans, and removes commented examples from bare-error results. Documentation and regression tests describe and validate these scanner rules.

Changes

Scanner contracts and diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Finite-screening registry and detector scripts/lib/finite-screens.ts, scripts/finite-bounds.ts, scripts/finite-bounds.test.ts, packages/auth/src/policy-numbers.ts, packages/cache/src/tiers.ts, packages/jobs/src/clock.ts	Finite-bounds detection now uses SCREENING_CALLEES and SCREENING_CALL. Tests validate declared, undeclared, multiline, and table-integrity cases. Documentation points to the registry.
UTF-16 offset preservation packages/cli/src/ts-scan.ts, packages/cli/src/ts-scan.test.ts	blankRegions preserves UTF-16 index alignment. Tests cover accented and astral Unicode characters.
Comment-aware bare-error scanning scripts/test-bare-error.ts, scripts/test-bare-error.test.ts, scripts/lib/test-bare-error-pins.ts	Bare-error scanning ignores comments and JSDoc while retaining real throws, source strings, and line offsets. Expected package counts decrease for auth and entity.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0e2cc

The updated finite-bounds checker can treat undeclared qualified calls as approved screens and silently miss real violations. This is a concrete correctness risk in the current change and should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant scanFiniteBounds
  participant SCREENING_CALLEES
  participant SCREENING_CALL
  participant repairSpans
  scanFiniteBounds->>SCREENING_CALLEES: read registered screening callees
  SCREENING_CALLEES->>SCREENING_CALL: generate call pattern
  scanFiniteBounds->>repairSpans: pass configured screening pattern
  repairSpans->>SCREENING_CALL: identify registered screening calls

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In `@scripts/lib/finite-screens.ts`:
- Around line 157-161: Update screeningCallPattern to escape every registered
callee and require a left boundary that prevents matches within
property-qualified expressions, while preserving valid standalone callee
matching. Add regression coverage for other.finiteOption(...) and
OtherNumber.isFinite(...) to ensure undeclared qualified calls are not matched
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• packages/auth/src/policy-numbers.ts
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• packages/cli/src/ts-scan.test.ts
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• packages/jobs/src/clock.ts
• scripts/finite-bounds.test.ts
• scripts/finite-bounds.ts
• scripts/lib/finite-screens.ts
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