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+# ADR-0133: Organization management — the open basics; a mirror of cloud ADR-0081 D1/D3/D4 in the repository whose code enforces them
+
+- **Status**: Proposed (2026-09-06) — awaiting the maintainer's hand-merge, which is the acceptance act for a governed surface (Prime Directive #14). ⛔ Nothing in this file is a new decision; see [Provenance](#provenance--read-this-before-citing-this-file).
+- **Mirrors**: `objectstack-ai/cloud` **ADR-0081** (Status: Accepted, founder-decided in session, 2026-07-09) — **D1, D3 and D4 only**, the half whose mechanism is open code in this repository.
+- **Deliberately not mirrored**: cloud ADR-0081 **D2**, its non-goals, and its commercial consequences — cited as `cloud ADR-0081`, never restated here. ⚠️ D2 is absent for a stronger reason than the other two: it has been **reversed** by [ADR-0132](./0132-multi-organization-runtime-is-open-core.md), and the multi-organization machinery it packaged now ships in this repository (`packages/plugins/organizations`). What stays in cloud is that *record* — together with the non-goals and the commercial consequences, which the reversal leaves untouched. See [Relationship to the D2 reversal](#relationship-to-the-d2-reversal-adr-0132).
+- **Cross-checked against** (cite, do not duplicate): [ADR-0093](./0093-tenancy-mode-and-membership-lifecycle.md) (tenancy mode; the membership lifecycle; D9 already anchors the active-organization resolution), [ADR-0105](./0105-group-tenancy-posture-and-first-class-org-scope.md) (group tenancy posture; D12 anchors the multi-org entitlement), [ADR-0131](./0131-total-organization-ownership-no-null-organization-id.md) (total organization ownership; D1/D7/D9)
+- **Filed by**: [#14508](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/14508), a sub-issue of [#14496](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/14496) (maintainer ruling 2026-09-02, option 2: mirror the open half, do not move files)
+- **Consumers**: `@objectstack/platform-objects` (the identity surface and the Setup navigation contributions), `@objectstack/plugin-auth` (better-auth's organization plugin and the default-organization bootstrap), `@objectstack/spec` (the public auth-feature roster), and the objectui console that renders the surface
+
+---
+
+## Provenance — read this before citing this file
+
+**The decisions restated below were taken in the sibling `objectstack-ai/cloud`
+repository, as cloud ADR-0081, on 2026-07-09.** They were founder-decided in
+session and accepted there. This file decides nothing. It is a mirror, written
+on 2026-09-06 from the cloud record plus the code in this repository that
+implements it.
+
+Three facts make that disclosure load-bearing rather than decorative:
+
+1. **Only the mechanism half is here.** Cloud ADR-0081 covers both what the
+   platform does and what a subscription buys. A decision about commercial
+   packaging belongs in the commercial repository; a decision about open code
+   belongs where the code is (Prime Directive #13). This file therefore carries
+   **D1, D3 and D4** and stops. Where this document and the cloud record
+   disagree, **the cloud record is the decision and this file is the bug** —
+   file an issue and this file gets corrected.
+
+2. ⚠️ **`ADR-0081` written bare resolves to the wrong document in this
+   repository.** This repo's [ADR-0081](./0081-trusted-react-page-tier.md) is
+   the trusted `kind:'react'` page tier, an unrelated record whose Decision
+   section is not even D-numbered. Every reference to the organization-
+   management record must be spelled `cloud ADR-0081`. This is the third local
+   record to say so — ADR-0093 D9 and ADR-0105's citation note say it for the
+   labels `ADR-0081 D1` and `ADR-0081 D2` respectively — and it is repeated
+   here because this file is the one a reader following those citations now
+   lands on.
+
+3. **The code still carries the pre-repo labels.** Several files in
+   `packages/platform-objects` and `packages/plugins/plugin-auth` cite
+   `ADR-0081 D1` in comments today. Re-pointing those citations is
+   [#14361](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/14361)'s work
+   and is ⛔ **not** done by the change that lands this file — so until that
+   card lands, a reader may arrive here from a citation that names a different
+   number.
+
+**What is restated vs. what is measured.** Every clause under
+[Decision](#decision) is either a restatement of the cloud record or a fact
+measured on this repository's `origin/main` at `77781151d` and cited by symbol
+anchor. Where the two disagree, or where the cloud record is silent about
+something this repo's code decides, it is recorded under
+[What this record does not decide](#what-this-record-does-not-decide) rather
+than resolved.
+
+---
+
+## Relationship to the D2 reversal (ADR-0132)
+
+**A separate local record — "The multi-organization runtime is open core" —
+reverses cloud ADR-0081 D2.** It is
+[ADR-0132](./0132-multi-organization-runtime-is-open-core.md), and it is **on
+`main`** (landed 2026-09-07): a record, not a proposal.
+
+⛔ **It is cited here by ADR number and relative link, and nothing about that
+reversal is re-derived, restated or evaluated below.** This file previously
+cited it by PR number, which was a gate requirement rather than a style choice:
+`pnpm check:adr-anchors` fails any citation of an ADR number that names no
+record under `docs/adr/`, so while the record was unmerged its number was a
+squat and a citation of it would have been retroactively falsified had it landed
+under a different number. That constraint is discharged — the number resolves,
+so it is the citable form and the PR reference is retired from this file.
+
+The division of labour between the two records is exact and neither restates
+the other:
+
+| cloud ADR-0081 | who carries it locally |
+|---|---|
+| **D1** — the "add a teammate" basics stay open | **this record** |
+| **D2** — the multi-organization machinery is enterprise | **reversed** by [ADR-0132](./0132-multi-organization-runtime-is-open-core.md), which is on `main`. ⛔ Not re-derived, restated or evaluated here |
+| **D3** — the in-shell organization surface | **this record** |
+| **D4** — org-scoped roster reads | **this record** |
+| the non-goals and the commercial consequences | stay in cloud, cited as `cloud ADR-0081` |
+
+⚠️ **A note for the hand-merge, stated rather than decided.** ADR-0132 says in
+its own "What this record does not decide" section that D1/D3/D4 "are mirrored
+into this repository by #14508", and asks that writer to cite its decisions
+rather than open a *competing* record — which this file does: it decides nothing
+that record decides. A later comment on #14508 goes further and proposes folding
+D1/D3/D4 into that file instead of writing a second one. When this file was
+drafted that option was not available: ADR-0132 did not exist on `main`, so
+"extending" it would have meant building on an unmerged governed PR and coupling
+two hand-merges into one. That obstacle is gone — the record has landed — so the
+choice now stands on its merits alone. ⚠️ One of those merits is structural and
+survived the merge: that record carries **its own D1 through D6**, which are
+different decisions from cloud ADR-0081's D1/D3/D4, so folding this file into it
+would put two unrelated `D1`s in one document — the property the unrenumbered
+mirror above exists to keep checkable. This change takes the option neither way.
+**If the maintainer prefers one combined record, that is still a merge-time
+call** — the two files are disjoint, so folding them is a move, not a rewrite.
+
+---
+
+## Context
+
+The open framework has always shipped member-management basics: better-auth's
+organization plugin mounted in `plugin-auth`, the organization and invitation
+objects in `platform-objects`, and the Setup surface over them. What was
+enterprise was the *multi-organization runtime*, not the ability to add a
+colleague to the organization you already have.
+
+That boundary is easy to get wrong in exactly one direction — quietly treating
+"organization" as an enterprise word and gating a basic affordance on the
+multi-org service. Cloud ADR-0081 D1 is the decision that forbids it, and the
+code says so at each gate: the invite affordance is gated on the org
+**capability**, never on multi-org. This record exists so that gate has a local
+number to cite.
+
+---
+
+## Decision
+
+⛔ **Nothing here is decided by this file.** The D-numbers are cloud ADR-0081's
+own, deliberately **not** renumbered: a mirror that renumbers is a mirror a
+reader cannot check against its original. D2 is absent for the reason given
+above, so the sequence reads D1, D3, D4.
+
+### D1 — Adding a teammate is open, and always goes through better-auth invitations
+
+Basic member management is not an entitlement. The better-auth organization
+plugin is mounted unconditionally
+(`packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/auth-schema-config.ts#buildOrganizationPluginSchema`),
+and single-organization deployments get a Default Organization from the
+bootstrap helper
+(`packages/plugins/plugin-auth/src/ensure-default-organization.ts#ensureDefaultOrganization`,
+`#isDefaultOrganizationBootstrapTrigger`) so that the endpoint's active-organization
+resolution has something to resolve.
+
+Two consequences this repository enforces:
+
+- **The gate is the organization capability, never multi-org.** The invite
+  action declares `requiresFeature: 'organization'`
+  (`packages/platform-objects/src/identity/sys-user.object.ts#requiresFeature`),
+  and the spec's public roster keeps the two features apart: the member-management
+  inputs sit under the organization capability while organization *lifecycle*
+  actions sit under `packages/spec/src/kernel/public-auth-features.ts#multiOrgEnabled`
+  (`#gatedInputs`). ADR-0093 D8 already records that this split is deliberate;
+  it is cited, not re-argued.
+- **Every add flows through an invitation.** There is no bespoke user-CRUD path
+  into membership. `invite_user` targets better-auth's invite-member endpoint and
+  is declared on three objects, so it is reachable from wherever an admin
+  happens to be looking:
+  `packages/platform-objects/src/identity/sys-user.object.ts#invite_user`,
+  `packages/platform-objects/src/identity/sys-invitation.object.ts#invite_user`,
+  and `packages/platform-objects/src/identity/sys-member.object.ts#invite_user`.
+  The three copies are held equal to each other — not to hand-copied literals —
+  by `packages/platform-objects/src/identity/invite-entry-toolbar.test.ts#INVITE_ENDPOINT`
+  and `#OBJECTS_BY_NAME`.
+
+⚠️ Membership rows are **read-only over the API**: `sys_member` declares
+`packages/platform-objects/src/identity/sys-member.object.ts#apiMethods` as reads
+only, and writes are owned by better-auth behind the identity write guard
+(ADR-0092 D2). "Open" here means *the affordance is not gated*, not *the table
+is writable*.
+
+### D3 — The in-shell surface is the organization RECORD page, reached by a templated nav deep-link
+
+What **this repository declares** is a navigation contribution: an `object`-typed
+Setup entry naming `sys_organization` with a templated `recordId` of
+`{current_org_id}`, in the People & Org group
+(`packages/platform-objects/src/apps/setup-nav.contributions.ts#nav_organization`).
+Its siblings — `#nav_teams`, `#nav_invitations` — carry **no** service gate, while
+the organization *list* keeps one (`#nav_organizations`, `requiresService: 'org-scoping'`):
+browsing organizations is meaningful only when more than one can exist. That
+asymmetry is D1 expressed in navigation.
+
+**The rendering half is objectui's, and this repository does not enforce it.**
+The console pinned by `.objectui-sha` substitutes the token and, when it cannot
+resolve, falls through to the list view rather than emitting a dead link
+(`objectui:packages/layout/src/NavigationRenderer.tsx#applyNavTemplate`,
+`#NavTemplateContext`, `#resolveHref`); related-list toolbars are bridged in
+declaration order by
+`objectui:packages/app-shell/src/views/RelatedRecordActionsBridge.tsx#deriveActions`.
+Those are objectui's behaviours, cited here so a reader can find them — ⛔ this
+record does not make them contracts of this repository, and a change to them is
+not a violation of this record.
+
+⚠️ **The tab set and its ordering are NOT declared by this repository, and this
+record does not decide them.** See
+[What this record does not decide](#what-this-record-does-not-decide).
+
+### D4 — Control-plane roster reads are organization-scoped
+
+`sys_member` is organization-scoped: it carries
+`packages/platform-objects/src/identity/sys-member.object.ts#organization_id` as a
+lookup to `sys_organization`, is uniquely indexed on the organization/user pair
+(`#indexes`), and pairs that column with `#user_id` and `#role`. The
+organization-capability gate on the identity surface is the same one D1 names.
+
+⛔ **This record does not restate what "org-scoped" now means — ADR-0131 owns it.**
+Since cloud ADR-0081 was accepted, [ADR-0131](./0131-total-organization-ownership-no-null-organization-id.md)
+(merged 2026-09-04) decided organization ownership for every row in the system,
+and it supersedes any reading of D4 as an opt-in property:
+
+- **D1/D9** — a row with an organization column was written by an organization,
+  the column is `NOT NULL`, and a missing stamp is a refused write in every
+  posture. Org-scoping is the default; the exception is a table with **no**
+  column.
+- **D7** — whether a given object *keeps* the column at all is a **writer-facts**
+  question decided per object by the C7 inventory, not by the object's name.
+
+⚠️ Consequently, **whether `sys_member` keeps its column is not decided here.**
+Today the field is declared optional and its own comment describes a null
+organization under single-tenancy — a reading ADR-0131 D1 does not permit going
+forward. That reconciliation belongs to ADR-0131's C6 census
+([#15207](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/15207)), and this
+record cites it rather than pre-empting it, exactly as it cites ADR-0093 rather
+than restating the membership lifecycle.
+
+---
+
+## What this record does not decide
+
+This section is the honest residue: places where the cloud record is silent, or
+where this repository's code and its own comments do not agree. ⛔ None of it is
+resolved here.
+
+1. ⭐ **"Opens on tab-0 Members" is asserted in this repository's comments but
+   declared by none of its metadata.** Two source comments and a QA checklist
+   item describe the organization record page as opening on a Members tab with
+   Invitations and Teams beside it. Measured on `origin/main` at `77781151d`,
+   **no object in `packages/platform-objects/src/identity/` declares the
+   `relatedList` prominence key** (`packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts#relatedList`)
+   — the key objectui reads to promote a child list to its own tab — and no
+   `relatedLayout` override exists anywhere in this repository. Under the
+   documented default, with no primary list declared, related lists collapse
+   into a single stacked tab. So the tab ordering is either an emergent property
+   of the renderer or a claim that has gone stale; **this record states the
+   deep-link contract, which is declared, and does not assert a tab order, which
+   is not.** Filed separately rather than repaired here.
+
+2. **Whether `sys_member` keeps `organization_id`** — ADR-0131 D7's writer-facts
+   question, answered by the C6 census (#15207). See D4.
+
+3. **The reconciliation of the optional column with ADR-0131 D1.** The field is
+   declared optional today and ADR-0131 D1 says no nullable tenant column exists
+   anywhere. That is a migration question on ADR-0131's own v18 line (its D10
+   and D14), not a mirror's to settle.
+
+4. **What an enterprise subscription buys, and where the multi-organization
+   machinery lives.** Cloud ADR-0081 D2 and
+   [ADR-0132](./0132-multi-organization-runtime-is-open-core.md), respectively.
+   ⛔ Not evaluated here.
+
+---
+
+## Consequences
+
+**Good.** The three local records that already carry pieces of this decision —
+ADR-0093 D9, ADR-0105 D12, ADR-0131 D1/D7/D9 — stop being the only local anchors
+for a decision none of them owns. A reader who follows an `ADR-0081 D1` citation
+out of the identity surface can now be sent somewhere that answers, which is the
+precondition for #14361's re-pointing work.
+
+**Costs, stated plainly.** One decision is now recorded in two repositories, and
+mirrors drift: this file has to be corrected when cloud ADR-0081 changes, and
+nothing mechanical will notice. The mitigation is the Provenance section's
+precedence rule (the cloud record decides) rather than a gate. The cloud record
+also owes a one-line pointer back to this number; that edit belongs to the cloud
+repository and is not made by the change that lands this file.
+
+**Reversibility.** Total — this file decides nothing, so deleting it costs only
+the citations that point at it.