# X_SCAFFOLD_GATE_RED

## Means

the freshly scaffolded app's own `bun run verify` went red — or printed a step table this gate cannot match against the declared steps, or reported `budgets` as `skipped` rather than green

## Typical cause

**No waiver and no fix-follow**, `As of 2026-11`: `scaffold-smoke` runs the app's own `bun run setup && bun run verify` once (`SETUP_COMMAND`, `GATE_COMMAND` in `scripts/scaffold-gate.ts`), and the FIRST `bun run verify` is the one that has to be green, because that is all a box gets. The `--allow-red budgets` allowance is gone and nothing replaced it — `x verify`'s `budgets` step builds when `.x/build-stats.json` is missing or stale, so the allowance has nothing left to excuse. `budgets` is asserted **green**, never merely not-red: a skip would mean the static build bought nothing and no one would see it

## Fix

`bun run scripts/scaffold-gate.ts <the scaffolded app> --json`, which runs that app's own two scripts; the finding also prints the in-app form to paste

[CLI and verify](/error-codes#cli-and-verify)