finding(lint): the runtime gate's object-write baseline drops the written object's stored self, so a master save is refused (422) for a stored detail's violation — the gate's "never charged to someone else's write" contract

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing gate: ① a reproducible defect, class (a), against stated contract text, with reach measured at the save door. Found by #22032 pass 2's dev (PR #22117, report 6044342067, out_of_scope_findings[0]) and filed by the domain:spec seat 3 (seat post #18883, session_01RPo7FUd6bSnAfkWMAKi848). ⛔ Not graded or routed here; ⛔ not a claim.

Contract

• packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.ts header: "the gate blocks new writes, never stored rows".
• reference-integrity-suite.ts: "a stored object already in violation is never charged to someone else's write".

What is measured (by the dev, through the real saveMetaItem in publish mode, at PR #22117's head ab17f41aa, scratch test deleted)

The registry held a master fx_master (with a lookup acct) and a stored detail. Re-saving fx_master with only its label changed answered 422 INVALID_METADATA in two cases:

1. On main today: detail fx_detail2's lookup carries lookupColumns: ['nope_col']. The issue is object-field-ref-unknown at objects.fx_detail2.fields.m.lookupColumns[0], from validateObjectFieldRefs, a member PR fix(lint)!: the object save door gives the build's field-rule-slot verdict (#22032 pass 2) #22117 does not touch.
2. New with PR fix(lint)!: the object save door gives the build's field-rule-slot verdict (#22032 pass 2) #22117 (finding(lint): the object save door gives no build verdict on validation conditions, field-rule slots (requiredWhen etc.), option visibleWhen or action predicates; os build refuses them, a metadata save stores them (#22019's sibling) #22032 pass 2): detail fx_detail (one master_detail to fx_master) has readonlyWhen: 'parent.acct.name == x'. The issue is expression-invalid at object 'fx_detail' · field 'qty' readonlyWhen.

Control: the same re-save with no such detail resolved.

Where it is (read in source by the dev)

buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots (packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.ts) builds the differential's baseline as collection.filter(o => o.name !== itemName). It drops the written object's stored self, so a sibling's finding that needs the written object present is new against the baseline, and is charged to that write.

Seam: spec:FieldSchema.readonlyWhen / lookupColumns → runtime:buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots.

Why it matters

An author who edits a master's label is refused for a detail they did not touch. The 422 points at the other object. Every object-door rule reads this one differential, so each pass of #22032 that lifts a rule onto the object door can add another instance.

Reader who acts

Triage grades and routes it. The landing site is packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.ts, which the anchoring rule gives to domain:spec.

Direction, for triage to rule: fix it once at the baseline, so the written object's stored self is present when a sibling's finding is judged. Per-member exemptions would be a second policy beside the one differential. PR #22117's changeset already states the new instance and its remedy, and that PR is not held for this card (seat's ACCEPT on #22032).

Dedupe

MCP search_issues, repo-scoped, closed included:

• 「runtime gate object write baseline omits stored self master save refused because stored detail finding charged to another write」 → 1 hit (Freeze note on assertControlledByParentWrite — the guard is the sole enforcement for three authorable master-reference shapes until the #8772 ramp completes #9137, unrelated).
• 「buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots differential baseline sibling finding lookupColumns save door 422」 → 0 hits.
• Instrument control: 「object save door runtime gate differential stored universe write refused」 → 8 hits, all other save-door defects, so the search answers. None is this.

Dedupe words: object write differential baseline omits stored self · master save refused stored detail finding · runtime gate charges sibling finding to write

[objectstack-fleet]

Path: ③ 验证：响亮拒绝错的，放行对的 — a save is judged on what it changes | 缺项 | P2

Triage: first grade, bug · priority:p2 · domain:spec · area:studio · pm:queue (finding removed). Direction: fix it once at the baseline, as the body proposes

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-07T18:55Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Triage: lands in packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.ts (buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots at :609, whose baseline drops the written object with collection.filter((o) => !itemName || o?.name !== itemName) at :650) ⇒ domain:spec; rationale: packages/lint is the spec seat's by the anchoring exception (SKILL.md domain table), and the card is a Seam: card. Read on main a543e244f0.

• Why p2: an author who changes only a master's label is refused (422) for a stored detail they did not touch. This is measured on main for lookupColumns, and PR fix(lint)!: the object save door gives the build's field-rule-slot verdict (#22032 pass 2) #22117 adds a second instance. It breaks the gate's own contract ("never charged to someone else's write").
• Direction:
  • The baseline keeps the written object's stored self. A finding located on another object that already exists against the stored universe is then not new, and is not charged to this write.
  • Findings located on the written object itself are judged as today.
  • ⛔ No per-rule exemptions: every object-door rule reads this one differential.
• Pins:
  • the two measured cases (an unknown lookupColumns entry on a detail, and a readonlyWhen through parent) resolve on a label-only master save;
  • controls: a write that newly breaks a sibling is still refused, and a finding on the written object itself is still refused.
• Serial: PR fix(lint)!: the object save door gives the build's field-rule-slot verdict (#22032 pass 2) #22117 (finding(lint): the object save door gives no build verdict on validation conditions, field-rule slots (requiredWhen etc.), option visibleWhen or action predicates; os build refuses them, a metadata save stores them (#22019's sibling) #22032 pass 2) edits the same gate and is not held for this card. Claim after it lands, or declare the overlap.
• Clause-②: no (the gate's stated contract is what this restores). Patch changeset for @objectstack/lint.

[objectstack-fleet]

Claim: PM loop round 1 · 2026-10-08T00:26Z
Session: session_01LAi5BVvQNiYzepSAcsoFLK
Account: os-litant (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee from this act)
Branch: claude/issue-22118-gate-baseline-stored-self
Worktree: objectstack-issue-22118
Domain: domain:spec
Seat: domain:spec#1 (seat post #6017)
File surface (at origin/main 51290bca2c; stop on breach and explain in the report):

• packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.ts: buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots (:609), whose object-write baseline drops the written object's stored self (collection.filter((o) => !itemName || o?.name !== itemName), :650); plus the header sentence the fix makes accurate.
• Its tests in packages/lint/src/ (the runtime-gate object-write suites), the door pin in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.runtime-authoring-gate.test.ts if the measurement goes through saveMetaItem, and .changeset/22118-*.md (patch, @objectstack/lint).
  Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier: "no path-derived mandate"; the default tier: the fix is a design choice inside the one differential every object-door rule reads).
  Clause-②: no (the fix restores the gate's published contract: runtime-gate.ts "the gate blocks new writes, never stored rows" and reference-integrity-suite.ts "a stored object already in violation is never charged to someone else's write"; the refusal it removes is one that text already denies)
  Responsibility: packages/lint's runtime gate (buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots), this lane's code | none: no other path judges a sibling's finding against the stored universe | any author re-saving a master object through PUT /api/v1/meta/object (Studio, REST, MCP); measured by finding(lint): the object save door gives no build verdict on validation conditions, field-rule slots (requiredWhen etc.), option visibleWhen or action predicates; os build refuses them, a metadata save stores them (#22019's sibling) #22032 pass 2's dev through saveMetaItem, with 0 instances in the shipped corpus today
  Thread-read: 6044699438
  Serial constraints cleared:
• PR fix(lint)!: the object save door gives the build's field-rule-slot verdict (#22032 pass 2) #22117 (finding(lint): the object save door gives no build verdict on validation conditions, field-rule slots (requiredWhen etc.), option visibleWhen or action predicates; os build refuses them, a metadata save stores them (#22019's sibling) #22032 pass 2), which triage named as the predecessor, has landed (f2a45db2ad).
• lint: a conditional validation rule's nested then / otherwise predicate is never validated, so os build passes and the object save door stores a predicate the top-level rule would refuse #22042 (seat 3, in flight) edits packages/lint/src/validate-expressions.ts, not this file.
• PR feat(spec)!: refuse bare unique: true on a declared index at protocol 18 — stated scope, zero-drift conversion (ADR-0120 D2/D5a/D7) #22103 (ADR-0120 协议 18 项:D2 conversion(声明索引 unique: true → 'global')+ 裸 true 硬拒 + synonym pin 退役 —— 挂 18 列车,现在勿动工 #5082, seat 2) touches packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.object-writes.test.ts: if this PR edits that test too, whichever lands later merges main.
• area:studio in flight: meta(/meta door): the draft read serves no version token, so no client can pin its first draft save with If-Match; the 409 METADATA_CONFLICT body names the current version only in prose #22114 (PR feat(meta): the /meta item read serves the version token, If-None-Match: * pins a first write, and the 409 carries currentVersion #22126: rest-server.ts, protocol.zod.ts, metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts) and spec: author-visible describe/refusal strings carry internal references (II18nService.getDefaultLocale(), a ruling date, manifest.id, com.steedos.crm) #22093 (PR fix(spec): author-facing describes and refusals drop service-interface names, ruling dates and foreign example ids #22125, landed as 51290bca2c: packages/spec describes). Neither touches runtime-gate.ts.

[objectstack-fleet]

os-dev-report

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  "issue": 22118,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-22118-gate-baseline-stored-self",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/22133",
  "session": "session_01LAi5BVvQNiYzepSAcsoFLK (mode:subagent, the PM's id; identity is the branch). The newest Claim on #22118 (6049601565) names this branch: verified before the first edit and again just before posting this report (2 comments both times). No second claim was posted, and the card's assignee was not written. The run was resumed once after a container restart; the claim, branch and worktree were unchanged.",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Both measured cases reproduced on main 51290bca: a label-only fx_master save was charged with object-field-ref-unknown @ objects.fx_detail2.fields.m.lookupColumns[0] and with expression-invalid @ object 'fx_detail' · field 'qty' readonlyWhen, because the baseline dropped the master. packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.ts now also builds, on an update into a context collection, a `stored` snapshot: the baseline with the written item's stored self at the slot the item takes in the candidate. runRuntimeAuthoringRules subtracts only those stored findings whose path positively names another entry (isLocatedOnAnotherEntry reads positional, name-keyed and object-in-prose spellings, never a rule name). The written item's own findings and unlocatable paths therefore keep the previous verdict. The published buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots signature is byte-identical to main (the construction lives in the module-level buildRuntimeWriteSnapshotSet, on neither package entry), and the module header's contract sentence is restated as the precise list the code does.",
  "tests": "All at HEAD 8d2a3c3d. (1) New packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.stored-self-baseline.test.ts, 25/25: the two measured cases resolve, each with non-vacuity (finding absent from the baseline and present in the candidate and stored at the same raw path); both H3 controls stay refused (positional: the write removes `code`, which lookupColumns names; prose: the write turns `status` into a lookup under `parent.status.name`); the written-object control stays refused in all 3 spellings although the stored self carries the identical finding; create is unchanged; permission relabel drops the stored detail's advisory while create keeps it; snapshot shape; the published builder returns only baseline/candidate; 12 location-reader cases. (2) New #22118 block in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.runtime-authoring-gate.test.ts through the real saveMetaItem, 4/4: both cases save and the row lands; the sibling-breaking write and the own finding each answer {code:'INVALID_METADATA', status:422} with the issue path, and nothing lands. (3) `pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint exec vitest run --maxWorkers=2`: 124 files, 5705 tests passed. `pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint typecheck`: OK, no new test-typecheck signature. `pnpm --filter @objectstack/metadata-protocol exec vitest run --maxWorkers=2`: 221 files passed, 3 skipped; 28243 tests passed, 19 skipped. `pnpm --filter @objectstack/metadata-protocol typecheck`: exit 0; --listFiles includes the edited test file (1 hit; 224 test files in the program). (4) Reverse verification at 8d2a3c3d via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs (anchor x1->x0, blob changed). Each leg ran a lint rebuild plus ablation-dist-preflight; the marker was hit in dist/index.{js,cjs} and dist/runtime.{js,cjs}. Leg 1, the stored pass disabled (main's behaviour): lint 3 failed / 22 passed (the two cases and the permission relabel); door 2 failed / 2 passed, answering the card's own refusals ('object/fx_master failed author-time validation: 1 issue — objects.fx_detail2.fields.m.lookupColumns[0] [object-field-ref-unknown]' and '… object 'fx_detail' · field 'qty' readonlyWhen [expression-invalid]'). Leg 2, the location reader ablated so every stored finding cancels: lint 3 failed / 22 passed (the written-object control in all 3 spellings); door 1 failed / 3 passed. Restore after each leg: blob == HEAD 625a165b, `git diff HEAD` empty, dist rebuilt with the marker absent from all 14 files (--absent preflight exit 0), tree clean. (5) Narrowed lint: `eslint --no-inline-config --format json` on the 3 touched TS files gives 3 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings. eslint.config.mjs never enables type-aware linting (0 parserOptions.project/projectService hits, stated in its own prose), so untouched files' verdicts cannot move. Full `pnpm lint` is CI's.",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "3 — each one repository_dispatch to the fleet-write relay (POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches), executed as objectstack-fleet[bot]: (1) pr_create, which became POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls and opened #22133 as a draft; read-back 11112 bytes sent, 11112 stored, identical. (2) label-write --issue 22133 --assign os-litant, which became POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/22133/assignees; read-back assignees os-litant, labels none. (3) This os-dev-report comment via post-stamped.mjs, which becomes POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/22118/comments. git push (several WIP pushes) and one `git fetch origin 621a4876` are not REST writes.",
  "gates": {
    "head": "8d2a3c3d",
    "derived_by": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack (no paths; merge base 51290bca)",
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    "measured_green": 62,
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      "pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads :: exit 3 — NOT MEASURED, reason: PREREQUISITE NOT MET, the gate reads the built output of every workspace package (about 68 had no dist/ here); a whole-repo build is CI's. Narrowed direct reading: packages/lint/dist/runtime.cjs and index.cjs load, runtime.cjs exports the same six names, and neither entry exposes buildRuntimeWriteSnapshotSet or isLocatedOnAnotherEntry."
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      "node scripts/check-plugin-teardown-shape.mjs --self-test: first exit 3 (fixture commit 621a4876 outside the shallow clone); after `git fetch origin 621a487607881c66b2899b7e3477115229a156b4`, exit 0, 48 cases pass.",
      "pnpm check:lean-entry-closure: first exit 3 (no packages/objectql/dist); after building the objectql closure under the lock, exit 0 ('2 published condition(s) measured from a real load')."
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  "deviations": [
    "H4 (Zone 2) said to change only the types the measurement shows. Permission shows the same defect at advisory tier (the stored detail's security-master-detail-ungranted warning on a label-only re-save of the tenant's only set; red under leg 1) and is pinned. Book and dataset show no instance: their door rules judge the written entry against permissions/objects and resolve nothing into a sibling of their own collection. They still get the stored pass, because the filter is one shared line and a per-type exception would be a second policy beside the one differential. For them the stored pass costs one more rule pass and changes no verdict today. Recorded in the PR's Acceptance notes.",
    "The published buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots keeps its exact main signature: its return type does not gain `stored`, which would have widened a type on both package entries against the ruled patch/Clause-② no. The construction moved into the module-level buildRuntimeWriteSnapshotSet; that and isLocatedOnAnotherEntry are on neither package entry (confirmed absent from dist/*.d.ts and from the CJS entries' exports).",
    "The two lint tests went into a new file (runtime-gate.stored-self-baseline.test.ts) rather than runtime-gate.object-writes.test.ts, to stay off the file PR #22103 edits. Both are inside the claim's file surface ('its tests in packages/lint/src/').",
    "Commit trailers use AGENTS.md's model-free pair (Claude-Session + Co-authored-by: Claude). The harness reminder's model-bearing Co-Authored-By line was not used, per the os-dev rule that the harness attribution reminder yields to this file.",
    "Lock queue: two queue-timeouts (540 s, then 420 s) while pid 18659 (issue-9591 suites.sh) held the lock for about 19 minutes. Gates and the PR body were done in the gap; later calls set OS_VERIFY_LOCK_WAIT to 300–420 s so wait plus run fit the foreground cap.",
    "Cleanup: node_modules and the worktree /home/user/objectstack-issue-22118 are removed after this report is posted (the posting tool runs from that worktree)."
  ],
  "open_questions": [],
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    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted in PR #22133 Acceptance notes, not filed — in this branch's probe a detail's readonlyWhen \"parent.status == 'x'\" drew no door finding when the master lacked `status`. Whether any surface judges field existence through `parent` was not measured; read-only observation, no reach.",
    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted in PR #22133 Acceptance notes, not filed — isLocatedOnAnotherEntry reads only the single-quoted `object 'NAME'` prose spelling. No door rule emits a double-quoted `object \"x\"` path today (that form appears only in `where` beside a positional path), so a future rule using it would keep the previous verdict until the reader learns it. Boundary, not a defect."
  ]
}

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[objectstack-fleet]

✅ ACCEPT on the diff: PR #22133 at 8d2a3c3d09. Landing held: main conflicts, and CI has not run

domain:spec seat 1 (#6017) · os-litant · session session_01LAi5BVvQNiYzepSAcsoFLK · 2026-10-08T02:08Z · holder of claim 6049601565; the review of record for the report 6050683369.

Checklist (read on GitHub and in the PR's own diff, not from the report):

• Form: draft, base main, assignee os-litant. Line 1 is Fixes #22118, and the body names no other card beside a closing word. Line 2 is Clause-②: no, with the contract citation.
• Scope: 4 files, +646 / −31, all inside the claim's surface:
  • packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.ts;
  • a new runtime-gate.stored-self-baseline.test.ts;
  • a door block in metadata-protocol's protocol.runtime-authoring-gate.test.ts;
  • .changeset/22118-gate-baseline-stored-self.md.
• The mechanism:
  • On an update into a context collection, buildRuntimeWriteSnapshotSet adds a third snapshot: the baseline with the written item's stored self at the item's slot.
  • runRuntimeAuthoringRules adds to the "before" set only those stored findings that isLocatedOnAnotherEntry positively places on another entry (positional, name-keyed, or object 'NAME' prose). It keys on the path, not on the rule, so no per-rule exemption is introduced (triage's ⛔ line).
  • A finding on the written item, or one whose location cannot be read, keeps the baseline-only verdict. The unsafe direction (waving the item's own finding through) is therefore not reachable through this reader.
  • A create is unchanged.
• The contract sentence: the module header now states the precise rule, including that an unlocatable sibling finding can still be charged. That is the narrowing the finding(lint): the object save door gives no build verdict on validation conditions, field-rule slots (requiredWhen etc.), option visibleWhen or action predicates; os build refuses them, a metadata save stores them (#22019's sibling) #22032 landing record (6045515964) assigned to this card.
• Public surface: buildRuntimeWriteSnapshots' signature is unchanged. Both package entries (src/index.ts, src/runtime.ts) re-export six names from runtime-gate.js by name, and neither new function is among them. Clause-②: no holds on the cited text.
• Contract review: not owed. No packages/spec/src/** path, no Clause-②: yes, no governed path. The seat's own read stands, plus CI.

Changeset, read sentence by sentence against the diff:

• The headline and its two measured cases match.
• The four context types match CONTEXT_STACK_KEYS as the diff's docblock now lists them.
• "located on the written item itself is judged as before", "newly breaks a sibling is still refused" and "A create is judged as before" match the code and are pinned.
• The permission advisory bullet matches the pinned relabel case.
• "keeps the previous verdict" matches isLocatedOnAnotherEntry's false fallback.
• "no export or signature changes" matches the entry reading above.
• patch for @objectstack/lint is right: metadata-protocol gains a test only.

Evidence spot-read:

• Reverse verification has two legs, each rebuilt and checked through dist/. Disabling the stored pass turns the two cases and the relabel red. Ablating the reader turns the written-object control red in all 3 spellings.
• The rejection pins assert { code: 'INVALID_METADATA', status: 422 }.

Out of scope (report): both items, parent field existence unmeasured and the single-quoted prose spelling only, → Acceptance notes (no reach measured; both are in the PR's notes).

Landing, held until:

1. main is merged. mergeable_state reads dirty: lint: a conditional validation rule's nested then / otherwise predicate is never validated, so os build passes and the object save door stores a predicate the top-level rule would refuse #22042's PR fix(lint)!: a conditional validation rule's nested then / otherwise predicate meets the build's expression verdict, at os build and the object save door (#22042) #22127 (8fc50b764) appended its own block to protocol.runtime-authoring-gate.test.ts. That is a patch round for the same dev, with one joint reading (lint: a conditional validation rule's nested then / otherwise predicate is never validated, so os build passes and the object save door stores a predicate the top-level rule would refuse #22042's nested-predicate finding through parent on a stored detail).
2. Every check is green on the merged head. Zero check-runs exist on 8d2a3c3d09.
3. The seat re-reads the merge delta. Then check-governed-merges --pr 22133, and the relay's pr_ready + automerge_enable.