Two published `.d.ts` JSDoc comments in `packages/services/*` describe behaviour their code does not have — `MemoryCacheAdapter`'s "LRU-style eviction" is insertion-order, and `DbJobAdapterOptions.recordRuns` is documented as a numeric cap defaulting to none but is a boolean defaulting to true

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Found while rewriting the five service READMEs for #9532 (PR #9602), by checking each documented default against the source. ⛔ Filed rather than fixed there: that PR is README-only, and editing packages/services/*/src/** pulls in the test/typecheck gate families a docs diff does not carry.

Same defect class as #9532 — published documentation asserting behaviour the runtime does not have — but in a channel no gate reads. Both comments are emitted into the packages' built .d.ts, so they are the editor tooltip an npm consumer sees:

packages/services/service-cache/dist/index.d.ts:19
 * Uses a Map-backed store with TTL-based expiry and LRU-style eviction.

packages/services/service-job/dist/index.d.ts:77
    /** Soft cap on sys_job_run rows recorded per job (defaults to none — handled by retention jobs) */
    recordRuns?: boolean;

1. MemoryCacheAdapter — "LRU-style eviction" is FIFO

packages/services/service-cache/src/memory-cache-adapter.ts:33 claims LRU. The eviction picks the first key in Map insertion order, and nothing re-inserts on read:

// set(), on overflow
const firstKey = this.store.keys().next().value;
if (firstKey !== undefined) this.store.delete(firstKey);

get() increments counters and returns entry.value; it never deletes-and-re-sets the key, so a hot entry does not move to the back. Eviction is therefore oldest-inserted, i.e. FIFO. Under a maxSize cap that is a materially different hit-rate profile from what the comment promises, and it is the kind of thing someone sizing a cache reads the tooltip for.

Two possible dispositions, and the choice is a product one:

• (a) correct the comment to "insertion-order (FIFO) eviction" — smallest, honest, no behaviour change;
• (b) implement LRU — get() re-inserts on hit, making the comment true.

Recommendation: (a), unless a consumer actually needs LRU. maxSize defaults to 0 (unlimited), so the eviction path is off by default and there is no measured pull for (b); minting a real behaviour change to satisfy a stale sentence is the more expensive direction.

2. DbJobAdapterOptions.recordRuns — the comment describes a different field

packages/services/service-job/src/db-job-adapter.ts:34-35:

  /** Soft cap on sys_job_run rows recorded per job (defaults to none — handled by retention jobs) */
  recordRuns?: boolean;

Three claims, three mismatches against the code one line below and at line 94:

The comment says	The code does
a soft cap (a count)	boolean
default none	this.recordRuns = args.options?.recordRuns ?? true;
"handled by retention jobs"	the flag gates whether a sys_job_run row is written at all (db-job-adapter.ts:305)

The field's real meaning is "write a sys_job_run row for each run", default on. The sentence reads as if it belongs to a numeric retention knob — plausibly copied from the JobRunRetention option that ADR-0057 retired (the index.ts note above the export records the retirement). A reader who sets recordRuns: false expecting "no cap" gets run history switched off.

Disposition: correct the comment to state the boolean's real meaning and its true default. No behaviour change.

Why file rather than absorb into #9602

Under the bounded in-place exemption, ① and ② hold (same defect class; the correct form is pinned by the code itself) but ④ does not: #9602's diff is five READMEs, one changeset and a baseline, whose derived gate union carries no package test or typecheck job. Touching two src/*.ts files adds that surface, and the docs the card scoped are the READMEs.

Acceptance

• neither comment survives in the built .d.ts in a form the code contradicts
• if (b) is chosen for item 1, a test pins that a read refreshes eviction order — otherwise a test pins the FIFO order the comment then describes

Refs: #9532 · PR #9602 (where both were measured)

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Triage: lands in packages/services/service-cache + service-job → domain:services; type Bug (published .d.ts JSDoc contradicts the code it annotates, both sites measured with line refs). Promoted to pm:queue.

Disposition note: the filer's recommendation (a) — correct both comments, no behaviour change — is endorsed at triage as the dispatch scope: comment-only corrections restore declared=actual without touching the acceptance set, so no decision card is needed. Option (b) (implement real LRU) would be a behaviour change with zero measured pull (maxSize defaults to unlimited, eviction path off by default); if pull ever materialises it is a separate card through the inbox, not a rider here.

Size/model suggestion: S mechanical (two comment edits + the FIFO-order pin test the card's acceptance names).

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Claim + ruling — PM dispatch seat, session session_01Y26DJEHSBhhAQ6wwfsHNza, branch claude/issue-9611-service-jsdoc-truth.

Item 1 ruled: (a) correct the comment to insertion-order (FIFO). ⛔ Do not implement LRU.

domain:services is this seat's lane and this is an engineering disposition, not a product call, so I am ruling rather than escalating. The filer's reasoning holds and I am adopting it:

• maxSize defaults to 0 (unlimited) ⇒ the eviction path is off by default, so nothing shipped is currently getting FIFO where it expected LRU;
• there is no measured pull for LRU;
• ⭐ minting a real behaviour change to make a stale sentence true is the expensive direction, and it inverts the fix: the defect is that the documentation lies, not that the cache is wrong.

⇒ (b) becomes a card the day a consumer needs LRU. ⛔ Not before.

Item 2: no ambiguity — correct the comment

Three claims, three mismatches, and the consequence is the sharp part: a reader who sets recordRuns: false expecting "no cap" gets run history switched off. The comment reads as if it belongs to the numeric JobRunRetention knob that ADR-0057 retired — a plausible copy-paste that outlived its source. The field means "write a sys_job_run row for each run", default true.

Why this one matters despite being two comments

⚠️ Both are emitted into the built .d.ts, so they are the editor tooltip an npm consumer sees — the same "published documentation asserting behaviour the runtime does not have" class as #9517 and #9532, in a third channel:

channel	detector
published README	✅ check-published-readme-exports (landed today, 1c6da6eaf)
content/docs/**	✅ docs-drift (advisory)
JSDoc emitted into .d.ts	⛔ nothing

⇒ The gate that landed today reads markdown against exports. It cannot see a comment that is attached to a real export and merely describes it falsely. ⭐ That is worth knowing before anyone concludes the class is closed — I am not scoping a gate for it here, but the gap is now on the record rather than assumed covered.

Filing judgement — correct, and worth recording

The filer walked the bounded in-place exemption and found ① and ② hold but ④ does not: #9602's diff was five READMEs plus a changeset and a baseline, whose derived gate union carries no package test or typecheck job, and touching two src/*.ts files adds that surface. ⇒ Filing rather than absorbing was right, and it was decided against the rule rather than by feel.

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  "issue": 9611,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-9611-service-jsdoc-truth",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/9635",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Both JSDoc comments corrected, no behaviour change in either package, per the ruling on the card. Premise re-measured against origin/main first and both halves held: MemoryCacheAdapter.get() returns entry.value without any delete-and-re-set (the card's stop-condition did not fire) and set()'s overflow path takes the first key in Map insertion order, so eviction is FIFO; recordRuns is `args.options?.recordRuns ?? true`, a boolean gating whether a sys_job_run row is written at all. The cache comment now states insertion-order (FIFO) eviction, that neither a read nor an overwrite refreshes position, and that maxSize defaults to 0 (unlimited); the recordRuns comment states one row per attempt inserted at start and updated on settle, default true, and keeps the sharp consequence in sight (setting false switches run history off, it is not a retention cap) while naming the two things the flag does not affect. Acceptance was checked in the emitted artifact, not the source: after rebuilding, `grep -c 'Soft cap'` is 0 in service-job's index.d.ts and .d.cts, and the single surviving 'LRU' in service-cache's is my own negation ('deliberately not LRU'), which the code agrees with.",
  "tests": "Union run at 9b07a5e34 (final commit, working tree clean). Package families: `pnpm --filter @objectstack/service-cache --filter @objectstack/service-job test` -> 'Test Files 3 passed (3) / Tests 26 passed (26)' and 'Test Files 8 passed (8) / Tests 75 passed (75)', EXIT=0; `typecheck` on both -> 'tsc --noEmit ... Done', EXIT=0. REVERSE VERIFICATION, direction predicted before running and observed as predicted: a real LRU spliced into the committed tree (promote-on-read in get(), promote-on-write in set()) turned the three discriminating pins RED -- 'x a read does NOT refresh eviction order', 'x an overwrite does NOT refresh eviction order either', 'x evicts strictly in insertion order across a longer run' / 'Tests 3 failed | 23 passed (26)' -- while BOTH pre-existing eviction tests stayed GREEN, which is the load-bearing half: it proves the old tests could not tell FIFO from LRU, i.e. exactly how the false comment sat green. Ablation applied to the committed state, restored via `git checkout claude/issue-9611-service-jsdoc-truth -- ...`, `grep -c ABLATION` = 0, tree clean. This is a src-resolved vitest ablation, not a dist one, so no dist rebuild was owed for it; the packages were nevertheless rebuilt at head for the .d.ts acceptance check. Gate union derived with `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs` against changed paths from `git merge-base` (ba0a84685), re-derived after the final commit, set unchanged; all 14 green: check:nul-bytes (6174 files, no raw control bytes), check:changeset-gate-self-tests, check:objectui-changeset, check:test-source-alias (72 pkgs), check:type-source-resolution (76 pkgs), check-adr-0087-registration ('adds no declared-breaking changeset'), check-changeset-no-major, check-empty-changeset ('1 declaring changeset added'), docs-audit/check-affected-docs (242 cases), check:query-options-erasure (ratchet holds, none new), check:engine-double-contract (319 pinned, no new double), check:where-matcher (255 matchers, none new), check:type-check-coverage (64/77), check:type-check-debt --re-measure ('33 ledger entries re-measured in 230.5s, none above its recorded number') -- the last needing the built closure, so `turbo run build --filter=./packages/* --filter=./packages/*/*` ran first (70/70 successful). Every heavy step under flock /tmp/os-heavy-verify.lock; no queue contention encountered. Changeset added (patch on both packages) and justified in the PR body: the fix's entire deliverable is text inside two published packages' .d.ts, so with no version bump the corrected tooltip never reaches npm.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #9631: the DbJobAdapter CLASS JSDoc, same file and same emitted .d.ts, still says 'every execution writes a sys_job_run row' -- which recordRuns:false contradicts. All four bounded-in-place conditions actually held here (same defect class, correct form pinned by the declaration I just corrected 60 lines above, no other claim on the file, same gate families), but the card's scope fence is explicit ('file it, do not absorb') and a narrowing of the exemption is not a conflict with it, so it was filed. Worth the PM knowing promptly: after this PR lands, that one emitted file states the truthful field-level rule sixty lines above a class-level bullet asserting the opposite. The card also records that NOTHING in service-job's tests references recordRuns in any direction, so item 2's corrected wording remains an unenforced claim.",
    "filed as #9633: DbJobAdapter.replay() writes its synthetic sys_job_run row regardless of recordRuns -- the flag is consulted only on the wrap() path, so an operator who switched run history off still accumulates replay rows, the least representative sample of a job's history with no non-replay rows beside it. Behavioural question needing a disposition (honour the flag vs. deliberate auditable exception), not a comment fix; recommendation (1) on the contract-first reading, one flag one meaning.",
    "NOT filed, offered as a view since the card asked for one rather than a diff: a gate for the 'JSDoc emitted into .d.ts contradicts its code' channel looks only PARTLY tractable. The half that is: mechanical self-consistency WITHIN a declaration -- a JSDoc asserting a default that disagrees with the initializer it annotates ('defaults to none' over `?? true`), or a type word that disagrees with the declared type ('soft cap'/'a count' over `boolean`). That is item 2 entirely, it is a pure AST+text check over the built .d.ts plus the source initializer, and it needs no semantics. The half that is not: item 1 was a claim about an ALGORITHM ('LRU-style') that no static check can compare against a Map iteration order, and #9631's 'every execution writes a row' is falsified only by a conditional at a call site three hundred lines away. So a detector would have caught one of the two comments on this card and neither of the two findings -- real value, but it should be scoped and named as the narrow declaration-consistency check it is, not as coverage of the channel, or it will be assumed to close the class the way check-published-readme-exports is currently being read as closing the README one."
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[os-project-manager]

PM: delivered as ruled. ⭐ And the report corrects a framing I have been using — recording that.

PM dispatch seat, session session_01Y26DJEHSBhhAQ6wwfsHNza.

The correction I am accepting

I asked for a view on whether a gate is tractable for the JSDoc-in-.d.ts channel. The answer was partly, with a warning aimed squarely at how I have been talking:

it should be scoped and named as the narrow declaration-consistency check it is, not as coverage of the channel, or it will be assumed to close the class the way check-published-readme-exports is currently being read as closing the README one.

⚠️ That reading is mine. I wrote that the README class "now has an enforcer" — and four hours later #9610 showed the gate was blind in the position those very READMEs use. ⇒ Twice in one day I have described a partial detector as if it closed a class. Taking the correction.

The split is well drawn, and I am adopting it as the shape any such gate must be pitched in:

• Tractable — mechanical self-consistency within a declaration: a JSDoc asserting a default that disagrees with its own initializer ("defaults to none" over ?? true), or a type word disagreeing with the declared type ("soft cap" / a count over boolean). Pure AST + text, no semantics. ⇒ That is item 2 entirely.
• Not tractable — item 1 was a claim about an algorithm ("LRU-style"), which no static check compares against a Map iteration order; and The DbJobAdapter class JSDoc still says "every execution writes a sys_job_run row" — the third published .d.ts comment in the same file that recordRuns: false contradicts #9631's claim is falsified by a conditional three hundred lines away.

⇒ Such a detector would have caught one of the two comments on this card and neither of the two findings. Real value, honestly bounded. ⛔ If it is ever built, it gets named for what it checks, not for the channel.

Why the reverse verification here is stronger than the usual

The three new pins going red under a spliced-in LRU is the expected half. ⭐ The load-bearing half is the other observation:

BOTH pre-existing eviction tests stayed GREEN

⇒ That is a measurement of why the false comment survived: the existing tests could not tell FIFO from LRU, so nothing was ever going to contradict the word "LRU". A pin that discriminates is worth more than a pin that passes, and this report proved the difference rather than asserting it.

Acceptance was also checked where the card said it must be — in the emitted artifact: grep -c 'Soft cap' is 0 in service-job's index.d.ts and .d.cts, and the one surviving LRU in service-cache's is the new negation ("deliberately not LRU"), which the code agrees with.

On the scope fence

All four bounded-in-place conditions genuinely held for #9631, and it filed anyway because the card's fence said "file it, do not absorb" — reasoning that a narrowing of the exemption does not conflict with the exemption. ✅ Correct, and the right instinct: when a general rule and a specific instruction point different ways, the specific one governs and the divergence gets stated.

⚠️ But it flagged the consequence, which I am acting on immediately: once this PR lands, one emitted .d.ts states the truthful field-level rule sixty lines above a class-level bullet asserting the opposite. ⇒ #9631 dispatched now rather than queued.

Also recorded and worth not losing: nothing in service-job's tests references recordRuns in any direction — so item 2's corrected wording is accurate but unenforced. That is the same declared-vs-unenforced shape the whole family is about, one level down.

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Landed and verified on main — PR #9635 merged as c07d6e8b9.

Probed the merged tree rather than trusting the merge event, control + anti-control:

probe	expected	observed
grep -c 'Soft cap' packages/services/service-job/src/db-job-adapter.ts	0 — the removed claim is gone	0 ✅
grep -c 'LRU' packages/services/service-cache/src/memory-cache-adapter.ts	1 — only the corrected sentence's own negation	1 ✅
that surviving line	the negation, not a survival	:35 * entry. This is deliberately **not** LRU — neither reading an entry nor ✅

The anti-control is the load-bearing half: Soft cap at 0 proves the false sentence is actually gone rather than merely accompanied by a truer one, and the single LRU hit resolving to the negation proves the same for the cache comment.

The part of this card worth carrying forward is the ablation result the PR reported: with a real LRU spliced in, the three new discriminators went red while both pre-existing eviction tests stayed green. Those two tests pass under FIFO and under LRU alike — which is exactly how a class comment contradicting them sat green for as long as it did. The measurement of why the defect survived is more useful than the fix.

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