adopt-project.py plan writes leg: spec with no question for a source path that execute will refuse (-notes.md), so the answer check or execute then rejects is one plan chose for the person, and root or drop is offered for that entry nowhere #319

Lane: openreposhape-3 (openRepoShape-3)

What happens. A source with four tracked files, -notes.md, README.md, docs/guide.md, src/main.py, one commit. On main be2790e:

plan     -notes.md   spec   medium   extension-majority      (review_required: false, no `question:`)
check    exit 0      plan ok
execute  exit 2      REFUSED unsafe-value: a plan path is '-notes.md', which is not a value this tool will put on a `git` or `gh` command line

execute was run with a no-op git-filter-repo stub on PATH (none is installed here). Its refusal comes before any leg exists; no remote directory was created.

PR #231 (open) changes the last two lines: check exits 1 with FINDING plan-unsafe-path, and execute refuses it before any leg exists. Its table measures the same shape for a tab or another control character, ==>, and a byte that is not UTF-8. In every case plan has already written the entry's leg: itself and asked nothing. The ways out are renaming the file in the source or hand-editing the plan to root or drop, and no message offers either for this entry.

Where. adopt-project.py:cmd_plan (entries come from walk and ask_about_submodules, then render_plan); scripts/path_classify.py (the verdict's question and review_required). On main the refusing test is checked_value in _leg_paths (SAFE_ARG_RE); after #231 it is entry_path_problem(path), which plan does not ask.

Why it matters. plan is the step whose output a person reads to decide. For a path of this kind it hands over a plan that cannot be carried out, chosen by plan, and the first notice is a later command. Lane 2's review rated it P3, and main had the same gap (it refused such a path only at execute). Direction: plan asks entry_path_problem of each entry it writes and, where it refuses, writes leg: null, review_required: true and a question: that names the reason and offers root or drop. That needs #231's helper, so the fix lands after #231.

Source. PR #231, ## Left out, first bullet ("plan should ask entry_path_problem of each entry it writes", lane 2's review, P3, not filed); the coordinator ruled it out of #231. Related: #196 (open) is the check side.