refactor(plugin-security): delete the position write-through and the row-only position backfill (C3 stage 7b)

.changeset/15204-7b-position-write-through-retired.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/plugin-security': patch
+---
+
+fix(plugin-security): the position write-through and the row-only position backfill are deleted, and the boot reference report stops reading position rows (ADR-0131 D3, C3 stage 7b)
+
+Clause-②: no
+
+Stage 8 stopped registering the `sys_position` row object, the `sys_position` data-door write-through and the row-only position backfill. This change deletes the modules behind them, `position-write-through` and `position-environment-backfill`. A position is written through the metadata door alone (`PUT /api/v1/meta/position/:name`). No export of the package's entry changes.
+
+What a deployment observes:
+
+- **The boot reference report reads no `sys_position` row.** It still lists, per organization, every position assignment and permission-set grant whose name the security catalog does not resolve, and every grant that names no permission set. It no longer has the two position-row lines ("position(s) … have sys_position rows and no definition" and "position name(s) are carried by more than one sys_position row"). No composition provisions that table any more, so those lines could not fire. Legacy position rows are converted and reported by the upgrade ceremony (ADR-0131 D10).
+- The Setup-create refusal for a position name the catalog already holds (`409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION`, raised by the deleted write-through) goes with its module. A `sys_position` data-door create cannot reach the engine any more, so nothing raised it.

content/docs/permissions/system-context.mdx

@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ that silently does not happen.
 | 9b | The master-detail write check the `security` service serves (`checkControlledByParentWrite`, ADR-0055) answers `allow` | plugin-security | Get: `allow` for any record, with no master judged — the write path's own first exit, so a gate composing it admits exactly what the record's own system-context update would. Lose: nothing a caller reaches today: its two consumers, the `sys_attachment` and `sys_comment` parent gates, return before they ask for a system session | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.ts#checkControlledByParentWrite` |
 | 10 | Anonymous-deny treats the caller as authenticated | core | Get: passes the 401 seam with no `userId` | `packages/core/src/security/anonymous-deny.ts#shouldDenyAnonymous` |
 | 11 | Permission-set projection middleware skipped | plugin-security | Lose: projection of permission-set-derived columns | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/permission-set-projection.ts#createPermissionSetWriteThrough` |
-| 11b | Position write-through skipped — a `sys_position` write is not mirrored into the environment ledger | plugin-security | Get: the package door writes rows for definitions that already have their home, untouched (no boot seeder writes a `sys_position` row, ADR-0131 D2). Lose: a system-written row has no environment definition, so the security catalog read does not resolve it until a data-door edit, or the one-time row-only position backfill, gives it one | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/position-write-through.ts#createPositionWriteThrough` |
 | 12 | Session-resolution middleware skipped | plugin-auth | Get: no session lookup attempted | `packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/auth-plugin.ts#start` |
 | 13 | Per-request performance timings disclosed | observability | Get: timing headers a normal caller cannot pull | `packages/observability/src/perf-timing.ts#isPerfDisclosurePrincipal` |
 | 15 | MCP stdio bridge skips the object API-exposure gate | mcp | Get: the bridge reaches objects whose `apiEnabled` / `apiMethods` would refuse an external caller | `packages/mcp/src/stdio-data-bridge.ts#enforceApiExposure` |

content/docs/permissions/tenant-audit-census.mdx

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ what moved this page's population from 225 to 227; nothing about the two sites
 changed, only whether this instrument could see them.
 
 **The expensive failure direction is a keyword.** Sites whose receiver the author
-typed `any` have no type to read, and there are 42 of them — just under a fifth
+typed `any` have no type to read, and there are 40 of them — just under a fifth
 of the population, concentrated in exactly the seed and bootstrap paths this
 control exists for. Scoring an unreadable receiver as "not an engine" would have
 dropped every one of them silently, with a clean exit and a smaller number that
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ are reported as `undecidable` rather than assumed either way.
 
 The same holds twice over for the context. An options argument spelled as a
 literal can be read; one spelled `options`, `{ ...opts }`, or handed through a
-forwarding shim cannot, and **53 of the 228 sites are spelled that way**. A
+forwarding shim cannot, and **53 of the 225 sites are spelled that way**. A
 context resolved from an inline literal or a local `const` can be tested for
 `isSystem`; one arriving from a helper call cannot.
 
@@ -187,10 +187,10 @@ reproduce them. Where it disagrees, it disagrees on the page:
 
 | carried figure | where it survives | this census |
 | :--- | :--- | ---: |
-| 175 write call sites | quoted in the merged changeset | **228** |
+| 175 write call sites | quoted in the merged changeset | **225** |
 | 24 carrying no tenant context | quoted in the merged changeset | **2** provable and tenancy-enabled; **32** more whose options argument is unreadable |
-| 127 of 175 statically decidable, 48 runtime-parameter-name sites | restated on the `isSystem`-scoping card | **155 of 228** decidable, **73** undecidable |
-| 135 (77%) silenced by the `isSystem` guard before the posture gate | the lost issue body — **no surviving corroboration** | **not reproduced**: 123 decidably elevated, 0 decidably not, 97 undecidable |
+| 127 of 175 statically decidable, 48 runtime-parameter-name sites | restated on the `isSystem`-scoping card | **153 of 225** decidable, **72** undecidable |
+| 135 (77%) silenced by the `isSystem` guard before the posture gate | the lost issue body — **no surviving corroboration** | **not reproduced**: 120 decidably elevated, 0 decidably not, 97 undecidable |
 | 141 and 132, two independent re-derivations | the card that filed this work | — |
 
 **The differences are not reconciled, and deliberately so.** The old census's
@@ -200,18 +200,18 @@ be stated is what this instrument counts, which is written above and re-runnable
 at any commit.
 
 Two structural facts do plausibly widen this reading against any hand or regex
-one, and both are counted in the generated tables below: the 42 sites reached
-through an erased (`any`) receiver, and the 52 that name their object through a
+one, and both are counted in the generated tables below: the 40 sites reached
+through an erased (`any`) receiver, and the 50 that name their object through a
 `const` rather than inline. An instrument that read either the way a person does
 would report a smaller number and would not say so.
 
 The fourth row is the one worth flagging to anyone citing it. **The 135 / 77%
 figure has no surviving corroboration anywhere in the tree.** This census reads
-123 of 228 (54%) as decidably elevated, with 97 more whose elevation is a
+120 of 225 (53%) as decidably elevated, with 97 more whose elevation is a
 run-time fact — so the claim is neither confirmed nor refuted, and the honest
 answer is that a static reading cannot settle it.
 
-⇒ **Cite `2 / 228`, and say what it is**: the sites whose options argument was
+⇒ **Cite `2 / 225`, and say what it is**: the sites whose options argument was
 READ and holds no tenant context, against a decidably tenancy-enabled object.
 That is the control's provable yield surface. ⛔ Do not cite it as "the sites
 without tenant context" — **32 further sites** have an options argument this
@@ -223,31 +223,31 @@ cannot read, and they are neither in nor out.
 
 | what | count |
 | :--- | ---: |
-| write call sites on the application surface | **228** |
-| …whose object name is statically decidable | 155 |
-| …whose object name is chosen at run time | 73 |
+| write call sites on the application surface | **225** |
+| …whose object name is statically decidable | 153 |
+| …whose object name is chosen at run time | 72 |
 | …against an object with tenancy ENABLED | 151 |
 | …against an object that declares tenancy off | 1 |
-| threading a tenant context | 167 |
+| threading a tenant context | 164 |
 | PROVABLY carrying none (options read, no context key) | **8** |
 | …of those, against a decidably tenancy-enabled object | **2** |
 | options argument UNREADABLE — may or may not carry one | 53 |
 | …of those, against a decidably tenancy-enabled object | 32 |
-| threading a decidably ELEVATED (`isSystem`) context | 123 |
+| threading a decidably ELEVATED (`isSystem`) context | 120 |
 | threading a context that is decidably NOT elevated | 0 |
 | threading a context whose elevation is a run-time fact | 97 |
 
 | how the instrument reached the site | count |
 | :--- | ---: |
-| receiver carried a readable engine type | 186 |
+| receiver carried a readable engine type | 185 |
 | receiver erased, placed by the object NAME | 27 |
 | receiver erased, placed by an `object: string` PARAMETER | 7 |
-| receiver erased, placed by an `UNTYPED_RECEIVERS` row | 8 |
+| receiver erased, placed by an `UNTYPED_RECEIVERS` row | 6 |
 
 | object name spelled inline | 103 |
-| object name spelled through a `const` | 52 |
+| object name spelled through a `const` | 50 |
 | object name is an `object: string` parameter | 9 |
-| object name is some other run-time expression | 64 |
+| object name is some other run-time expression | 63 |
 
 ### Subtractions the census could NOT defend — enforced
 
@@ -297,12 +297,12 @@ holds still. They are required to be HERE and to say WHEN they were true;
 their values are not compared. The reasoning, and the measurement behind it,
 are in `scripts/check-tenant-audit-census.mjs`.
 
-Measured on 2026-10-13 at `7c01d30c9`.
+Measured on 2026-10-13 at `66949b772`.
 
 | corpus scale (not enforced) | count |
 | :--- | ---: |
-| tracked non-test sources scanned | 650 |
-| engine-shaped types recognised | 73 |
+| tracked non-test sources scanned | 648 |
+| engine-shaped types recognised | 72 |
 | declared objects in the registry | 116 |
 | same-named calls subtracted as non-engine | 160 |
 

docs/audits/2026-08-tenant-audit-write-call-sites.counts.md

@@ -33,17 +33,17 @@ silent, and `node scripts/tenant-audit-census.mjs --write` is the resolution.
 
 | Measure | Value |
 |---|---:|
-| Write call sites | 228 |
-| Object name statically decidable | 155 |
-| Object name chosen at run time | 73 |
+| Write call sites | 225 |
+| Object name statically decidable | 153 |
+| Object name chosen at run time | 72 |
 | Against a tenancy-enabled object | 151 |
 | Against an object declaring tenancy off | 1 |
-| Threading a tenant context | 167 |
+| Threading a tenant context | 164 |
 | Provably carrying none | 8 |
 | …and decidably tenancy-enabled | 2 |
 | Options argument unreadable | 53 |
 | …and decidably tenancy-enabled | 32 |
-| Threading a decidably elevated context | 123 |
+| Threading a decidably elevated context | 120 |
 | Threading a decidably non-elevated context | 0 |
 | Threading a context of undecidable elevation | 97 |
 
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ holds still. They are required to be HERE and to say WHEN they were true;
 their values are not compared. The reasoning, and the measurement behind it,
 are in `scripts/check-tenant-audit-census.mjs`.
 
-Measured on 2026-10-13 at `7c01d30c9`.
+Measured on 2026-10-13 at `66949b772`.
 
 | corpus scale (not enforced) | count |
 | :--- | ---: |
-| tracked non-test sources scanned | 650 |
-| engine-shaped types recognised | 73 |
+| tracked non-test sources scanned | 648 |
+| engine-shaped types recognised | 72 |
 | declared objects in the registry | 116 |
 | same-named calls subtracted as non-engine | 160 |
 
@@ -164,9 +164,6 @@ Measured on 2026-10-13 at `7c01d30c9`.
 | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/permission-set-projection.ts` | `insert` | `object` | undecidable | context, elevation undecidable | 1 |
 | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/permission-set-projection.ts` | `update` | `object` | undecidable | context, elevation undecidable | 1 |
 | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/permission-set-projection.ts` | `delete` | `sys_permission_set` | undeclared-name | elevated | 1 |
-| `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/position-environment-backfill.ts` | `insert` | `DATA_MIGRATION_FLAG_OBJECT` | undecidable | elevated | 1 |
-| `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/position-write-through.ts` | `delete` | `sys_position` | undeclared-name | elevated | 1 |
-| `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/position-write-through.ts` | `update` | `sys_position` | undeclared-name | elevated | 1 |
 | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/suggested-audience-bindings.ts` | `delete` | `sys_audience_binding_suggestion` | enabled | context, elevation undecidable | 1 |
 | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/suggested-audience-bindings.ts` | `insert` | `sys_audience_binding_suggestion` | enabled | context, elevation undecidable | 1 |
 | `packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/suggested-audience-bindings.ts` | `update` | `sys_audience_binding_suggestion` | enabled | context, elevation undecidable | 3 |