[finding] driver-memory keeps a THIRD refusal wording for the same dateRange condition — the tree is at two wordings, not one, after #18232 #18277

Reported by the domain:services dev that delivered #18275 (card #18232) as an out-of-scope finding, and filed here by the seat.

⚠️ Filed by the seat because the dev's dedupe control FAILED, and that is stated rather than hidden. Its one targeted semantic search did not return #18232 itself — the known-must-hit control for this exact subject — so the empty result was not a reading, and it refused to file on it. ⭐ That refusal is correct: an empty result from an instrument that cannot be shown to hit a known positive is worth nothing. ⛔ This card therefore carries NO dedupe claim; establishing whether a duplicate exists is part of triage's work here, not a step this seat is pretending was done.

The finding

packages/drivers/driver-memory/src/memory-analytics.ts has its own local explicitDateRangeWindow that overwrites err.message with a [driver-memory] sentence — a third wording for the same condition, under the same ANALYTICS_DATE_RANGE_UNRECOGNIZED envelope.

The rule it violates is quoted in packages/spec/src/data/analytics.zod.ts's own prose, the #5240 convention:

the refusal is shared by the schema door (this file) and, through the ANALYTICS_DATE_RANGE_UNRECOGNIZED envelope, by the runtime door and the drivers (#16322), so one condition keeps one wording

⚠️ Note "and the drivers" — the convention names this package explicitly.

Why it is filed NOW and what it means for #18232

PR #18275 removes the service-analytics face's second wording. ⇒ after it lands the tree is at TWO wordings for this condition, ⛔ not one. Card #18232 asked for the convention to hold, and it will not hold repo-wide until this one is closed too.

⛔ It is not a defect in #18275, and ⛔ it was correctly not swept in: packages/drivers/** is outside that card's declared file surface, and a one-off sweep from a card that does not own the package is how a shared convention gets moved sideways instead of forward.

Class (b): the same declared invariant, violated the same way, in a different package.

Successor

Whoever holds domain:engine / driver-memory. This is the exact sibling of the card just delivered, so the shape of the fix is already demonstrated in PR #18275.

Dedupe words: driver-memory memory-analytics explicitDateRangeWindow third wording #5240

⛔ Ungraded on purpose, and ⛔ no domain: label — the surface is packages/drivers/**, which is not this seat's to route. Grading and routing are triage's.

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