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check-open-questions.sh grades clean when register rows sit under a sub-heading

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
78/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reading plugins/planning/scripts/check-open-questions.sh, especially extract_section and the ledger parsing that counts register rows. Reproduce with a ledger containing Q1-Q2 in the register and Q3 under ### Round 2, then run check-open-questions.sh --ledger <file>. Done when the gate either counts every Q row or exits 2 and names rows outside the register section.

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Description

priority: medium

Problem

plugins/planning/scripts/check-open-questions.sh (planning 0.76.0) reports status=clean when register rows sit below a sub-heading inside ## Open-question register. Any heading ends the section (extract_section: /^#+[[:space:]]/ { exit }), so rows after a ### Round 5 heading are never read, and the gate grades only the rows above it.

Observed 2026-10-18 on a re-interview ledger that appended rounds under ## Round N and then ### Round N headings: registered=35 open=0 … status=clean procedure=ok, while 27 more rows (Q36-Q62) were below the headings. With the headings removed: registered=62. Had any of those 27 rows been open, the gate would still have reported clean.

The skill tells re-interviews to append ## Resolved (<round>, <date>) sections to the ledger, which invites headings near the register.

Expected

Either the gate reads every - Q<N> | row in the ledger, or it fails (exit 2, ungradeable) when a - Q<N> | row exists outside the register section, naming the line.

Repro

  1. A ledger with ## Open-question register, rows Q1-Q2, then ### Round 2, then - Q3 | open | round 2 | x? |.
  2. Run check-open-questions.sh --ledger <file>.
  3. It prints registered=2 open=0 … status=clean.

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