RSR anti-pattern scanning: the gate called a reusable that was never written #46

.github/workflows/rsr-antipattern.yml declared 🔴 Gate: RSR anti-pattern scan and called:

hyperpolymath/standards/.github/workflows/rsr-antipattern-reusable.yml@bd0df9ea

That file does not exist in standards — not at that SHA, not at main, not in any form. The reusable was never written.

The result was a red-badged gate that failed 20 times out of 20, with zero jobs each time, because a caller referencing a non-existent reusable fails before any job is created. It has never performed a single check.

Removed in #45 rather than left red. This issue exists so the intent is not lost with the noise: RSR anti-pattern scanning was wanted here, and this repo is the only one in the estate that carries the caller, so nothing else regresses.

To restore it properly, either write rsr-antipattern-reusable.yml in standards (the other eleven *-reusable.yml files there are the pattern to follow), or fold the checks into hypatia's existing RSR-conformance oracle, which already does related work.

Worth noting for the wider CI campaign: this is a third distinct way a check can carry a 🔴 Gate: badge while checking nothing — alongside a gate with no failure path, and a gate whose detections only warn. A gate pointing at a reusable that does not exist looks identical to a working one on the board until you read its run history and find zero successes.

Found during the 2026-08-05 estate CI/CD census.