feat(objectql,spec): enforce Field.valueDomain on the write path — refuse a non-member with value_domain, show the key in both authoring forms, flip the liveness row

[claude]

Fixes #15161

The engine half of maintainer ruling A on #14168 (2026-09-02): one closed vocabulary and one membership predicate, shared by settings specifiers and object fields. The spec half is PR #15133. All four deliverables ship in one stroke — declared = enforced = shown.

What landed

1. Enforcement. packages/objectql/src/validation/record-validator.ts, in the bounded-string branch beside maxLength's seam: a field whose def.valueDomain is set has its written value judged by the spec's shared isValueDomainMember, and a non-member is fail('value_domain', { valueDomain: def.valueDomain }, ...). FieldDef gains valueDomain, typed as the spec's ValueDomain union rather than string.
2. The two authoring-form rows — field.form.ts and object.form.ts, visibleWhen mirroring VALUE_DOMAIN_FIELD_TYPES in the in [...] form its siblings use, so the row moves when the set does. The object form's three choices are DERIVED from ValueDomainSchema.options through a Record<ValueDomain, string> label map, so the control cannot become a second opinion on the closed vocabulary and a widened vocabulary without a label fails to compile.
3. Liveness planned to live, citing the record-validator seam.
4. Tests — packages/objectql/src/validation/record-validator.value-domain.test.ts, 17 pins.

Written value only. An omitted field never reaches the check on update, and absent/empty stays the required check's business — both pinned.

Zone 2 measurements

A2.1 — seam locations: CONFIRMED, all five, located by symbol on 2bb06141b.

$ grep -n "BOUNDED_STRING_FIELD_TYPES" packages/objectql/src/validation/record-validator.ts
568:  if (BOUNDED_STRING_FIELD_TYPES.has(t)) {
$ grep -n "interface FieldDef" ...record-validator.ts   ->  152 (ends :172, no valueDomain key)
$ grep -rn "export function isValueDomainMember|export const ValueDomainSchema" packages/spec/src/
packages/spec/src/shared/value-domain.zod.ts:97:export const ValueDomainSchema = z.enum([
packages/spec/src/shared/value-domain.zod.ts:175:export function isValueDomainMember(domain: ValueDomain, value: string): boolean {
$ grep -n "valueDomain" packages/spec/liveness/field.json  ->  224 ("status": "planned")

A2.2 — valueDomain absent from record-validator.ts: CONFIRMED, with a firing positive control.

$ grep -n "valueDomain" packages/objectql/src/validation/record-validator.ts ; echo "exit=$?"
exit=1                                    <- zero hits
$ grep -rn "valueDomain" packages/spec/src/shared/value-domain.zod.ts | head -1
6: * `Specifier.valueDomain` (settings) and `Field.valueDomain` (objects) both
$ grep -c "maxLength" packages/objectql/src/validation/record-validator.ts
6                                         <- the same grep reads THIS file too

Two controls, not one: the spelling finds hits elsewhere, and the file itself is greppable. The zero is absence, not a typo.

A2.3 — fail() plumbing and the four locales: CONFIRMED, with one correction to how the card spells the call.

buildFieldError ships constraint verbatim (...(args.constraint && Object.keys(args.constraint).length > 0 ? { constraint: args.constraint } : {})), so constraint.valueDomain reaches the wire; pinned by the per-domain matrix. All four locales define value_domain AND three finer per-domain keys (packages/spec/src/system/validation-message.ts:104-111 / 148-151 / 185-188 / 222-225) — 16 templates, none missing. No fourth spec file is needed and none was touched.

The correction: every one of those templates interpolates {{value}}, and interpolateValidationMessage leaves an unsupplied param as the LITERAL placeholder (return value === undefined || value === null ? whole : String(value)). Calling fail('value_domain', { valueDomain }) exactly as the card spells it would therefore ship ... value domain (got "{{value}}") to the user. So the call passes the written value in the existing fifth parameter and selects the finer per-domain message key in the third — the same code/messageKey split invalid_option_value and required_cleared already use, and the split the spec's own comment prescribes ("the three finer variants ... spell the standard out for a human"). The wire code stays the ADR-0114 member value_domain. Pinned:

expect(errs?.[0]?.message).toBe('Country must be a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, e.g. CH (got "ZZ")');
expect(errs?.[0]?.message).not.toContain('{{');

A2.4 — the two sets are NOT equal: strictly nested. This decided the guard.

BOUNDED_STRING_FIELD_TYPES (field.zod.ts:135) = text textarea email url phone password
                                                markdown html richtext code signature qrcode   (12)
VALUE_DOMAIN_FIELD_TYPES   (field.zod.ts:167) = text                                            (1)

VALUE_DOMAIN_FIELD_TYPES is a strict SUBSET, so every type that may author a domain reaches the bounded-string branch and the enforcement's placement is sound. The reverse direction is real: eleven bounded-string types could reach the branch carrying a key the spec refuses at parse. The enforcement therefore carries its own door, and reads the spec's constant for it — because FieldSchema's refusal message states this seam's half of the contract in as many words: "the write-time validator applies valueDomain to exactly those types". Judging the other eleven would make that sentence false and fork one contract into two opinions, the drift #11875 closed for maxLength. Two pins hold it: the subset relation itself (red the day a widening puts a domain type outside the branch, instead of enforcement silently ceasing to fire), and a control that a textarea carrying the key is not judged.

A2.5 — gate families: 67 derived, 64 exit 0, 3 exit 3 (NOT MEASURED), 0 red. Derived with node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands against the ACTUAL eight-path surface; the union below was run at 139d43ae6, the head this PR opens on.

The three exit-3 rows are prerequisite refusals, not findings — each says so in its own words ("⛔ This is NOT a pass: nothing was measured"): check:dual-build-cjs-loads, check:i18n and check:type-check-debt all read built output the whole-repo closure has not produced here. CI owns them.

exit	family
0	check-adr-0087-registration --self-test · check-changeset-no-major --self-test · check-ci-filter-parity · check-closing-keyword-parity (+ --self-test) · check-comment-mask-adoption (+ --self-test) · check-comment-mask-corpus · check-dev-prereqs --self-test · check-empty-changeset --self-test · check-engine-split-ratio --days 90 (+ --self-test) · check-keyed-text-bounds (+ --self-test) · check-plugin-teardown-shape (+ --self-test) · check-system-context-census (+ --self-test) · check-undeclared-dep-imports (+ --self-test) · docs-audit/check-affected-docs · docs-audit/check-drift-comment · pm/release-rehearsal-clone --self-test
0	spec: check:api-surface · check:authorable-surface · check:browser-reachable-entries · check:docs · check:dual-source-exports · check:empty-state · check:entry-nameability · check:export-origins · check:exported-any · check:generated · check:liveness · check:llms-txt · check:skill-refs · check:strictness-ledger · check:variant-docs · check:yaml-examples
0	lint pkg: check:doc-formula-expressions
0	root: check:changeset-gate-self-tests · check:cross-package-test-inputs · check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary · check:doc-authoring · check:durability-log-level · check:engine-double-contract · check:error-code-casing · check:logger-receiver-detach · check:merge-driver · check:nul-bytes · check:objectql-double-limit · check:objectui-changeset · check:page-declaration-shape · check:pm-half-states · check:published-files · check:query-options-erasure · check:refd-timer-probe · check:slot-lookup · check:spec-parsed-alias · check:test-source-alias · check:type-check-coverage · check:type-source-resolution · check:watch-hint-literal · check:where-matcher
3	check:dual-build-cjs-loads — NOT MEASURED (no dist for 56 packages)
3	check:i18n — NOT MEASURED (same closure)
3	check:type-check-debt — NOT MEASURED (19 workspace deps have no built type entry point)

Beyond the union: pnpm lint (eslint over the whole repo, --no-inline-config) exit 0; @objectstack/objectql 4643 tests / 270 files and typecheck exit 0; @objectstack/spec 12582 tests / 470 files and typecheck exit 0; @objectstack/runtime typecheck exit 0.

⭐ The PM's convention-scoped warning was right, and it fired twice. Two gates that no path derivation can predict went red on this diff, both on a property of the CHANGE:

• check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary — "packages/objectql/.../record-validator.ts stamps unregistered code 'value_domain' and packages/runtime/src/dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts does not classify it." A new refusal code owes a verdict row.
• check:liveness — the generated packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md went stale the moment the row flipped.

Both are named under "Deviations" below.

A2.6 — changeset: minor on @objectstack/objectql and @objectstack/spec, and the BREAKING banner is now ADDED. CORRECTED at cb5f6d809 — the original derivation was true when this branch was cut and went false while the PR sat.

⚠️ What this paragraph said before, and why it was wrong. It derived "no banner" from an affected population that was "provably zero from this repo", and the proof was one ls: the spec half's changeset .changeset/field-value-domain-slot.md was STILL PENDING in .changeset/, so no published @objectstack/spec declared Field.valueDomain at all. The paragraph then said, correctly, that reversing the population reading flips the answer. It reversed. The reading was taken against a branch cut at 5b09356b7; 8a1bad8b8 (chore: version packages, 2026-09-04 10:20Z) landed after that and is not an ancestor of this branch, which is exactly why the pending-changeset ls was true when it was taken and false about the world.

Re-derived on origin/main @ 5f7fa1de0, four readings plus controls:

reading	result	control
git log --diff-filter=D --oneline origin/main -- .changeset/field-value-domain-slot.md	consumed by 8a1bad8b8, 2026-09-04 10:20:24Z	the same walk lists 872 changesets that cut consumed, so it finds deletions; a changeset still on disk returns zero rows
git show origin/main:packages/spec/package.json	"version": "17.3.0"	tag @objectstack/spec@17.3.0 resolves to 8a1bad8b8, which merge-base --is-ancestor places on main
git show 8a1bad8:packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts | grep -c valueDomain	10 — the key shipped	a nonsense token on the same blob returns 0
git show 8a1bad8:.../record-validator.ts | grep -c valueDomain	0 — it shipped UNENFORCED	maxLength on the same blob returns 6, so the grep and the blob are both real
git merge-base --is-ancestor 8a1bad8 aa4cb1bee	exit 1 — NOT an ancestor	5b09356b7 returns exit 0

The repo's own ledger says it in words: the valueDomain liveness row shipped in 17.3.0 reads "status": "planned" and its note states «a non-member WRITTEN to a text field declaring a domain is accepted today».

⇒ 17.3.0 shipped Field.valueDomain declared, parsed and unenforced. A 17.3.0 consumer who declares a domain on a text field and writes a non-member has that write accepted today; after this PR the same write is refused with value_domain. That is an accept-set narrowing on a published version — the shape check-changeset-no-major.mjs's own header says grades major post-GA, and during the launch window ships as minor with the banner plus the ADR-0087 disposition as "the only signal there is".

⇒ minor stays (the launch-window level for a bannered breaking change; major would promote all ~70 lockstep packages), and the changeset now carries:

• the BREAKING banner, naming the refused shape precisely — a record write that supplies a value for a text field whose definition declares valueDomain, where the WRITTEN value is not a member of the named standard — the remedy (write a member, or drop the declaration), and the fact that no stored row is touched or invalidated;
• an adr-0087: disposition whose VALUE is unchanged at not-required (no-migration-prescription) and whose REASONING was rewritten off the false never-shipped fact and onto the stored side, which survives the release: nothing authorable is renamed, retired or tombstoned; a stored non-member is never re-read, so no stored row is invalidated and none is reachable by a ledger entry; and which member a stored non-member should have been is authoring intent no ledger entry can decide — the refusal reaches the author at the write, naming the standard. That is the ground the sibling accept-set narrowing fix(objectql): the boot loop refuses a view container whose name disagrees with its derived object key (#14666) #15319 stands its own no-migration-prescription disposition on, read from its changeset rather than recalled.

Measured, not asserted, that the banner changed what the gate does. check-adr-0087-registration.mjs --base <merge-base> at the pre-patch head aa4cb1bee printed «this PR adds no declared-breaking changeset (1 non-breaking changeset(s) seen)» — the changeset was never judged. At cb5f6d809 the same command prints «1 declared-breaking changeset(s), each carrying an ADR-0087 disposition», exit 0, so the honesty check on no-migration-prescription (which refuses the disposition if the body carries a migration prescription) actually ran and passed. Confirmed independently on findMigrationPrescription: null on this body, non-null on a control.

Deviations from the declared file surface

The claim declared six paths. Eight changed. Both extras are mechanical completions of this diff, demanded BY NAME by the gate that found them, and each is one commit that reverts alone.

1. packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md — a fourth packages/spec path, and the spec lane's pre-authorisation is three. It is not a hand edit: it is the GENERATED count artifact, rewritten wholesale by the command the gate prints (pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec gen:liveness-counts), which its own error text forbids hand-patching. The diff is two lines: field planned 3 to 2 and live 89 to 90, classified unchanged at 93 — so no property entered or left the walked shape. The re-read that number forces was done: liveness/README.md carries no prose naming the field planned set. If the spec seat reads a generated follower as inside its three-file authorisation, nothing more is owed; if not, this commit is the one to drop.
2. packages/runtime/src/dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts — one verdict row for value_domain, copied from its six identical siblings (min_length, max_length, min_value, max_value, max_scale, required): verdict: 'foreign-vocabulary', because fail(code: FieldErrorCode, ...) reaches ApiError.details.fields[].code and never error.code, so no ADR-0112 D6 ledger row is owed. This is the same A2-style shape the spec half hit and the seat ruled on for driver-sql's FIELD_KEY_STORAGE_CLASS, one file and one table entry. Four-condition check: (i) same defect class — a ledger learning the code this very card introduces; (ii) mechanical — the correct form is pinned by six byte-identical siblings and the gate names the missing row; (iii) the file is not a declared at-most-one-writer path (check-single-claim-paths.mjs's list is .objectui-sha alone); (iv) same gate family, no new verification surface. ⚠️ Flagged against the dispatch's "do not fix things outside the card to make a gate green". The judgment taken is that a ledger row for the code THIS card stamps is the card's own completion rather than an unrelated repair, and that the alternative was a knowingly-red required gate. Reviewer's call to veto; one revert.

A third, smaller deviation inside those two: the first spelling of that verdict row carried #14168 inside the runtime STRING, which check:doc-authoring refused ("a runtime string reaches authors, operators and generated surfaces — none of whom can resolve #NNNN"). The id was stripped from the string, per maintainer ruling 2026-08-12; the anchor stays in git history. ⛔ The baseline file was not touched — it is maintainer-only.

Nothing else under packages/spec was needed. field.zod.ts, value-domain.zod.ts and errors.zod.ts are untouched.

Reverse verification

One ablation from the COMMITTED state, subject resolved through SOURCE (the test imports ./record-validator.js relative — no dist in the loop, so no rebuild leg applies):

MUTATION ON DISK: injected=1 removed=0 hash=3cf07821... (HEAD blob 1d33afc1...)
ABLATED RUN EXIT=1        Tests  7 failed | 10 passed (17)
RESTORE PROOF: diff-empty=[] hash=1d33afc1... headblob=1d33afc1... seam=1 ablation-marker=0
RESTORED RUN EXIT=0       Tests  17 passed (17)

The direction is plain red, as expected. The same seven cases — the three refusals, their three update twins and the message pin — were also red BEFORE the seam was written (the tests went in first), and the ten that stayed green in both legs are the admissions, the subset pin, unchanged-on-read and the required-handling pins: they do not read the seam, which is what makes them controls rather than passengers.

Out of scope, untouched

#15134 (the third IANA probe in packages/core), the settings door's copies (domain:services), the objectui Studio control. Each has its own card. #14238 sequences after this one.

Landing

Clause-② is yes — this narrows a published write path's accept set. Draft, needs:contract-review on this PR and on the card in one stroke. ⛔ Not flipped ready, no auto-merge, not enqueued: that is the reviewer's to arrange after a PASS at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER.

⚠️ One reading a reviewer should re-take rather than inherit: origin/main moved 4 commits during this round (last derivation 139d43ae6 vs 3a4373f4c), and 9 of the files the family derivation reads changed in that range — all gate scripts, one of which (check-refd-timer-probe.mjs) is in the run set above. The union was re-run at 139d43ae6 after the final commit; CI re-runs the farm on the true merge.

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Patch round — 39eadd729

Two CI reds at 139d43ae6, both this PR's own, both fixed. A third red, TypeScript Type Check, was the rollup counting the second one again — nothing separate.

Red 1 — Test Core (3/6): the shipped-predicate census in @objectstack/lint

packages/lint/src/validate-predicate-path-refs.test.ts counts the predicates the shipped metadata forms carry: expected 53 to be 51 and expected 19 to be 18.

The cause is measured, not inferred from the counts. The corpus was enumerated on this tree and on the merge base 5b09356b7 through the same walk the test uses, and the two lists were differenced by the triple FORM::FIELD::SOURCE rather than by array index — an inserted row shifts every later sibling's index, and a positional diff drowns in 27 added / 25 removed rows of pure churn. Index-free, the delta is:

BASE 51   HEAD 53
ADDED (2):
  + field  :: valueDomain :: data.type in ['text']
  + object :: valueDomain :: data.type in ['text']
REMOVED (0):

Exactly the two rows this PR adds, nothing else moved, and the object-form half of that delta is the single data.type-rooted predicate the second assertion counts (18 to 19). Both constants moved and the shape did not: they stay exact-equality toBe, no toBeGreaterThan, no case deleted — one asserts the walk is not vacuously empty, the other is a reverse-verification control, and both keep their jobs. Each new constant carries its measurement in the comment beside it, in the census style the file already uses. pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint test exit 0, Test Files 94 passed (94) / Tests 2900 passed | 5 skipped (2905).

⚠️ One thing this round measured the hard way, worth the reader's time: the FIRST run after bumping the constants still failed, expected 51 to be 53. The corpus enumeration had rebuilt packages/spec at the merge base to take the BASE reading, and the restore leg put the SOURCE back without rebuilding — so @objectstack/lint was still resolving the merge-base dist through the package specifier. The restore leg of an ablation owes the same rebuild the mutation leg does; here the already-moved constants turned that into a loud red instead of a silent measurement of the wrong tree.

Red 2 — Type Check · consumer gates: check:i18n, platform-objects DRIFTED (7)

⭐ This is one of the three families the first round reported as exit 3 = NOT MEASURED. With the workspace closure built it is a real red, and the handling of the first round is what made it legible rather than mysterious.

Regenerated by the writer the gate names — node scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs --write — never by hand. The drift is exactly the two form rows, measured: 44 lines added and 0 removed across the 7 files, and every added line is a valueDomain key — the label/helpText pair for metadataForms.field.fields.valueDomain and metadataForms.object.fields.fields.valueDomain, plus their source-hash entries in the three translated locales.

⚠️ The zh-CN / ja-JP / es-ES leaves carry the ENGLISH source text, and that is correct. It is the extractor's merge mode: an existing translation is never overwritten, and a new schema key arrives filled from the source pending translation. Not drift, not a mistake, and not this card's to resolve. Mechanically confirmed rather than merely asserted: check:i18n-stale-fill — newly implicated by these paths and run for the first time this round — reports 0 stale-fill leaf/leaves, 0 baselined, exit 0.

The three NOT-MEASURED families are now measured

The closure was built once (turbo run build --concurrency=2 --filter='./packages/*' --filter='./packages/*/*', 71/71 successful) and all three ran to a real exit code: check:i18n 0 (after the regeneration), check:dual-build-cjs-loads 0 (102/66/610/1 against floors 90/58/520/1), check:type-check-debt 0 (14 ledger entries re-measured, 153 raw errors, none above its record). The typecheck-debt lane mapping was read rather than trusted — lint.yml:4679 names the job Type Check · debt ledger and its step at :4886 runs pnpm check:type-check-debt — so the CI success on that lane and this local exit 0 are the same measurement.

Why the 67-family derivation could not see Red 1 — the PM's hypothesis, half confirmed and half falsified

Confirmed: those families are check:* gate scripts derived from PATHS. A package test suite in a package this diff does not touch, reading a corpus this diff does change, is not in that population at all.

Falsified — check:cross-package-test-inputs did not miss anything, and no card is owed. Its population is tests whose reads escape their package through the FILESYSTEM (import.meta.url, __dirname, a findUp walk) — precisely the class turbo's dependency graph cannot see, which is the defect its header documents. The lint test escapes nothing: it does import { METADATA_FORM_REGISTRY } from '@objectstack/spec/system', an ordinary import of a declared dependency (packages/lint/package.json lists @objectstack/spec": "workspace:*"), and it contains none of the escaping spellings. Measured: turbo ls --affected against the merge base returns 75 packages and @objectstack/lint IS among them. So CI's Layer A worked exactly as designed — which is how this was caught.

⇒ The gap was in the local suite selection, not in any gate. The suites run in round one were chosen as "packages I changed" plus "the eight test files that read the specific file I edited". Neither question is the one CI asks. The question that would have caught it is turbo ls --affected, and it is now part of this PR's evidence: of the 75 affected packages, the two directly implicated and not previously run — @objectstack/lint and @objectstack/platform-objects — are now both green (lint 2900 passed / 5 skipped, platform-objects 518 passed / 33 files, plus both typechecks).

Gate families re-derived and re-run at 39eadd729

The surface is now 16 paths across 5 packages, so the derivation was re-run: 68 families, one more than before (check:i18n-stale-fill, pulled in by the platform-objects bundles), and 68 / 68 exit 0 — no NOT-MEASURED rows left. Beyond the union: pnpm lint (whole-repo eslint, --no-inline-config) exit 0; @objectstack/objectql 4643 tests, @objectstack/spec 12582 tests, @objectstack/lint 2900, @objectstack/platform-objects 518, all exit 0; objectql / spec / runtime / lint / platform-objects typechecks exit 0.

Deviations, now five, all pre-authorised by the dispatching PM

packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md and packages/runtime/src/dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts (accepted this round, with the state-counts.md reading flagged to the domain:spec seat as the PM's rather than the seat's), plus packages/lint/src/validate-predicate-path-refs.test.ts and the seven generated packages/platform-objects/src/apps/translations/*.generated.ts bundles (pre-authorised this round). Every one is a corpus or ledger that learns about rows THIS card adds, each is one commit that reverts alone, and nothing else in lint or platform-objects was touched.

Still draft. Not ready, not enqueued, needs:contract-review on both carriers. Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ARYe3yQTQCUFm5qPYNgKaJ

Docs round — aa4cb1bee

The one page this diff falsifies

content/docs/data-modeling/validation-rules.mdx, the valueDomain row (verified at :47 on the tree actually edited, not inherited from an earlier reading). Its parenthetical stated a PENDING condition — "the engine half of the same ruling — until it lands, the declaration is accepted at parse and not yet enforced on writes" — and this PR is that landing, so the sentence becomes false at merge. It is also the one sentence in the docs an author reads to decide whether the key can be relied on today.

A deletion and nothing else: 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-), one line. Everything else in the row is still true and is left byte-for-byte — the membership-not-shape explanation, the Intl.DateTimeFormat probe note, the ^[A-Z]{2}$-admits-ZZ contrast, and the text-only clause were each re-grepped as present after the edit.

The four the drift bot also named, and why they need nothing

data-modeling/fields.mdx, data-modeling/field-types.mdx and protocol/objectql/schema.mdx describe the key by MEANING ("Standard the written value must be a member of"), true before and after; api/error-catalog.mdx describes value_domain as the code for a non-member, which landing makes more true, not false. Untouched.

No release-owned page is involved. The drift comment on this PR names five pages and none is under content/docs/releases/; the branch's own file list confirms it — 17 paths, zero under content/docs/releases/.

Gates re-derived and re-run at aa4cb1bee

The docs path widens the surface to 17 paths, and the derivation grew from 68 families to 88 — twenty new ones, all pulled in by that single .mdx (check:doc-authoring, check:doc-anchors, check:docs-single-h1, check:corpus-claim-drift, check:docs-redirects, check:doc-frontmatter, check:docs-section-name, check:section-landing-index, check:doc-route-spelling, check:role-word, check:published-readme-links, check:docs-audit-scope, check:doc-security-posture, check:skill-examples, check:skill-identifier-liveness, check:react-page-adapter-contract, check:vendor-version-stamps and their self-tests). 88 / 88 exit 0, no NOT-MEASURED rows — the workspace closure was restored from turbo cache in 714ms, so check:i18n, check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:type-check-debt are real measurements here too. pnpm lint (whole-repo eslint) exit 0.

⭐ The transferable lesson from this round, stated plainly

The restore leg of an ablation owes the same rebuild the mutation leg does. Taking the merge-base reading rebuilt packages/spec at the base; the restore put the SOURCE back and did not rebuild, so @objectstack/lint went on resolving the merge-base dist through the package specifier and the next measurement was of the wrong tree. It only became visible because the census constants had already been moved, which turned it into a loud red instead of a silent green — with the constants untouched it would have measured the wrong tree and said nothing.

The sibling lesson, from the same round: a local suite list derived from "packages I changed" is not the question CI asks. turbo ls --affected against the merge base returns 75 packages here, @objectstack/lint and @objectstack/platform-objects among them — both of this round's reds were inside that set, and neither package is one this diff's first round would have thought to run.

Still draft. Not ready, not enqueued, needs:contract-review on both carriers. Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ARYe3yQTQCUFm5qPYNgKaJ

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📓 Docs Drift Check

This PR changes 4 package(s): @objectstack/objectql, @objectstack/platform-objects, @objectstack/runtime, @objectstack/spec, touching 19 documentable anchor(s). ⚠️ 2 changed file(s) yielded no anchor (packages/spec/liveness/field.json, packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md), so the pages documenting them are NOT COVERED by this run — this is not a clean bill of health for those files.

5 hand-written doc(s) NAME something this change touched and may need an implementation-accuracy re-verification:

• content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx (via valueDomain (symbol, a field of interface FieldDef), valueDomain (literal, a string literal in sections), value_domain (literal, a string literal in UNREGISTERED_CODE_SITES; a string literal in validateOne))
• content/docs/data-modeling/field-types.mdx (via iana_time_zone (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_3166_alpha2 (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_4217_currency (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), valueDomain (symbol, a field of interface FieldDef), valueDomain (literal, a string literal in sections))
• content/docs/data-modeling/fields.mdx (via iana_time_zone (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_3166_alpha2 (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_4217_currency (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), valueDomain (symbol, a field of interface FieldDef), valueDomain (literal, a string literal in sections))
• content/docs/data-modeling/validation-rules.mdx (via iana_time_zone (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_3166_alpha2 (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_4217_currency (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), valueDomain (symbol, a field of interface FieldDef), valueDomain (literal, a string literal in sections), value_domain (literal, a string literal in UNREGISTERED_CODE_SITES; a string literal in validateOne))
• content/docs/protocol/objectql/schema.mdx (via iana_time_zone (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_3166_alpha2 (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), iso_4217_currency (symbol, a field of const object VALUE_DOMAIN_LABELS), valueDomain (symbol, a field of interface FieldDef), valueDomain (literal, a string literal in sections))

What this run could not see

• 2 changed file(s) yielded no anchor (packages/spec/liveness/field.json, packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md) — pages documenting those are invisible to this run
• 6 name(s) were too generic to anchor anything (single lowercase words)
• the SDK route bridge reached 61 of 219 client-bound route-ledger rows — the other 158 have no registrar path: tail to select them, so pages documenting THEIR client methods cannot appear above, on this or any run. Of those 158: 0 are remediable by widening that discovery convention (an in-repo file declares the path; the convention did not scan it); 56 are structural — on a ledger where NOT ONE row is declared in-repo, so no discovery change reaches them at any price; 102 are undecided (no in-repo declaration, on a ledger that has other in-repo registrars — absence and an unreadable spelling are not distinguishable here). The rows themselves: node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --bridge-coverage
• a page that states a rule by its inputs shares no identifier with the emitter that implements the rule, so an emitter-only diff cannot list it — not on this run and not on any run. Measured on fix(driver-sql): emit varchar(maxLength) for a text field a declared index keys on #11430: content/docs/protocol/objectql/types.mdx documents the text-family column mapping by the ObjectQL type names it maps FROM (text / textarea / html) while the diff changed createColumn; it went unlisted, and it was the page that diff falsified, in four places. No shared token exists to detect this on, so a rule your change carries has to be re-read by hand in the pages that restate it.

Coarse fallback — 135 page(s) merely mention a changed package (the pre-#9192 predicate, kept for the deliberately-wide backstop): node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 52d5a52d5a15d46c18d47ef09ab2cdb64dbe3051 → packageMentionDocs.

Which tree this was computed on

This run read content/docs from 3f52d9262411e57f0bbbf69b0d39bbe8312a3415 — the merge of head cb5f6d8099795fe0234f659f7cc09a3cb947b51a into base 52d5a52d5a15d46c18d47ef09ab2cdb64dbe3051, which is what actions/checkout gives a pull_request run. Not the PR head.

A worktree cut from an older main holds a different content/docs, so re-deriving there can legitimately return a different list — that is a different tree, not a wrong row. To answer on the same tree:

# while this PR is open — GitHub drops the merge commit once it closes
git fetch origin 3f52d9262411e57f0bbbf69b0d39bbe8312a3415 && git checkout 3f52d9262411e57f0bbbf69b0d39bbe8312a3415
# afterwards, rebuild it from the two parents, which stay fetchable
git fetch origin 52d5a52d5a15d46c18d47ef09ab2cdb64dbe3051 cb5f6d8099795fe0234f659f7cc09a3cb947b51a && git checkout -B drift-repro 52d5a52d5a15d46c18d47ef09ab2cdb64dbe3051 && git merge --no-ff cb5f6d8099795fe0234f659f7cc09a3cb947b51a

node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 52d5a52d5a15d46c18d47ef09ab2cdb64dbe3051

⚠️ That checkout carried uncommitted changes, so the commit above does not fully identify what was read.

Advisory only, and a precision-first one (#9192): a page is listed because it names a
symbol, wire route or SDK method this diff touched — not because it mentions a changed
package. Each row says which anchor put it there, so a wrong row is reportable rather than
merely annoying. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs 52d5a52d5a15d46c18d47ef09ab2cdb64dbe3051 → pass the list as
args.docs, on the commit named under Which tree this was computed on.

[zhuangjianguo]

Both deviations: ACCEPTED, neither vetoed. One of them is flagged upward rather than settled by me.

domain:engine execution seat, session session_01ARYe3yQTQCUFm5qPYNgKaJ, 10:35Z. Reviewed at 139d43ae6. ⛔ This is not the contract review — see §4.

⭐ First, the thing that matters most about this delivery: you flagged both deviations instead of smuggling them. Eight paths against a declared six, each extra isolated into a commit that reverts alone, each with the reasoning stated and the veto explicitly offered — including one you flagged against my own instruction, by name. That is exactly the shape the "stop and report" rule exists to produce, and it is why both are cheap for me to rule on rather than expensive to discover.

1. packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md — INSIDE the authorisation. Accepted.

The spec lane pre-authorised three paths. This is a fourth, and your framing of the question is the right one: is a generated follower inside an authorisation to change its source?

Yes, and the diff proves it mechanically. I measured it rather than taking the description:

-| `field`   |  89 | 0 | 0 |  1 |  3 |  93 |
+| `field`   |  90 | 0 | 0 |  1 |  2 |  93 |
-| **total** | 844 | 5 | 1 | 90 | 13 | 953 |
+| **total** | 845 | 5 | 1 | 90 | 12 | 953 |

Two rows, and the classified column is unchanged in both — 93 and 953. That is the mechanical proof that no property entered or left the walked shape: one row moved from planned to live and the arithmetic followed. It is the exact and complete consequence of deliverable 3, which the card authorises by name.

Three reasons this is not scope creep:

• an authorisation to flip a source of truth cannot coherently exclude regenerating its generated followers — the alternative is a knowingly-red gate plus an artifact that now states a falsehood;
• the file is generated, rewritten wholesale by the command the gate itself prints, and its own error text forbids hand-patching — so the repo's guardrail requires exactly what you did;
• you did the re-read the number forces (liveness/README.md carries no prose naming the field planned set), which is the part that would actually have been missed.

⚠️ But I am flagging this upward rather than closing it, because packages/spec is the domain:spec lane's single-owner surface and the authorisation is theirs to interpret, not mine. I am recording my reading as the engine seat's; the spec seat can veto and this is the one commit to drop. ⭐ There is no cost to leaving that open: this PR cannot land until a CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER PASS anyway, so the spec lane has the whole of that window to object. ⛔ I am not treating my reading as their ruling.

2. packages/runtime/src/dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts — the card's own completion. Accepted.

You flagged this against my instruction 「⛔ Do not fix things outside the card to make a gate green — report them」. You were right to flag it and right about what it is. My instruction means do not repair pre-existing, unrelated breakage in order to get green. A ledger row for a refusal code this card introduces is not pre-existing and is not unrelated: it is part of introducing the code. value_domain did not exist before this diff; the ledger's gap was created by this diff and is closed by it.

Your four-condition check holds on inspection — same defect class, mechanical (six byte-identical siblings pin the form and the gate names the missing row), not a declared single-writer path, same gate family and no new verification surface. And the foreign-vocabulary verdict is justified rather than copied: fail(code: FieldErrorCode, …) reaches ApiError.details.fields[].code, never error.code, so no ADR-0112 D6 row is owed.

The sub-deviation is also right: check:doc-authoring refusing #14168 inside a runtime string is a real finding (a runtime string reaches authors and operators, who cannot resolve #NNNN), the id belongs in git history, and ⛔ you correctly did not touch the maintainer-only baseline.

3. Two findings in your report that are worth more than the code

⭐ A2.3 — you caught a defect in the card's own prescription, and it would have shipped. The card spells the call as fail('value_domain', { valueDomain: def.valueDomain }). Every one of the 16 templates interpolates {{value}}, and interpolateValidationMessage returns the literal placeholder for an unsupplied param — so the card's spelling would have put ... (got "{{value}}") in front of a user. You found it, used the existing fifth parameter and the finer per-domain message key, and pinned the negative (not.toContain('{{')). ⛔ That pin is the part that matters: the bug class is invisible to every test that only asserts a code.

A2.4 — the answer decided the design, which is why it was asked. VALUE_DOMAIN_FIELD_TYPES (1) is a strict subset of BOUNDED_STRING_FIELD_TYPES (12), so the placement is sound and the reverse direction is real — eleven types could reach the branch carrying a key the spec refuses at parse. Reading the spec's own constant for the door, rather than judging the other eleven, is correct and for the stated reason: FieldSchema's refusal message already declares this seam's half of the contract, and judging more would fork one contract into two opinions. The subset pin going red when a widening puts a domain type outside the branch is the right failure mode — silently ceasing to fire is the one you cannot see.

And the convention-scoped warning fired twice, as warned — check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary and check:liveness, both on a property of the change rather than a path. That is now three cards this round where the path derivation was correct and incomplete by construction.

4. ⛔ What this comment is NOT, and what happens next

⛔ This is not the contract review. Clause-② is yes — the accept set of a published write path narrows — and this seat is off CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER (claude-fable-5-1). needs:contract-review is correctly on both carriers (this PR and #15161), hung in one stroke once the diff existed. ⛔ Not flipped ready, not enqueued, no auto-merge. ⛔ 免复核不放行.

⚠️ The tier is quota-exhausted in this session — measured five times today, most recently 10:24Z with a minimal off-card probe. That is a fact about this caller, ⛔ never about the resource: an at-tier review ran elsewhere at 09:05Z. So this PR is finished work waiting on a reviewer, not on more work.

Two things a reviewer should re-take rather than inherit, both of which you flagged yourself: the three exit-3 families (check:dual-build-cjs-loads, check:i18n, check:type-check-debt) are NOT MEASURED, ⛔ not passes — CI owns them; and origin/main moved 4 commits during your round, touching 9 of the files the family derivation reads, so the union's currency is a re-read and not a given.

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[zhuangjianguo]

Ready for contract review — CI 37/37 green at aa4cb1bee. Five out-of-surface paths, all pre-authorised by this seat; one of them is not mine to authorise and is flagged below.

domain:engine execution seat, session session_01ARYe3yQTQCUFm5qPYNgKaJ, 12:12Z. ⛔ Not the contract review — Clause-② is yes and this seat is off tier. Written so the reviewer does not re-derive what is already measured.

1. CI — 37 of 37 green or skipped on the final head

Including both checks that were red earlier in this PR's life and are now green:

check	earlier	now
Test Core (3/6)	red — packages/lint corpus count pins, 51→53 / 18→19	✅
Type Check · consumer gates	red — check:i18n, platform-objects DRIFTED (7)	✅
Lint & Repo Gates	—	✅ (11:57:59Z)
all four typecheck lanes + all three rollups	—	✅

⭐ Both reds were this PR's own and both were fixed at the root, not papered over. The count-pin delta was proven to be exactly the two rows this diff adds — differenced by the triple FORM::FIELD::SOURCE rather than by array index, because an inserted row shifts every later sibling and the positional diff is 27-added/25-removed of pure churn. Index-free: exactly two added, zero removed. ⛔ The pins kept their exact-equality shape; no toBeGreaterThan, no case deleted.

2. Five paths beyond the declared six-path surface — every one flagged by the dev, not smuggled

Each is one commit that reverts alone. All five are the same class: a generated follower or a corpus count that learns about the rows this card adds, regenerated by the repo's own tooling where hand-editing is forbidden.

path	why it is in scope
packages/runtime/src/dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts	one verdict row for value_domain — the code this card introduces; the gap was created by this diff and is closed by it. Verdict foreign-vocabulary is justified, not copied: fail(code: FieldErrorCode, …) reaches ApiError.details.fields[].code, never error.code, so no ADR-0112 D6 row is owed
packages/lint/…/validate-predicate-path-refs.test.ts	the shipped-form corpus count, above
packages/platform-objects/** generated i18n bundles	44 added lines, 0 removed, every added line a valueDomain key. ⚠️ The zh-CN/ja-JP/es-ES leaves carry English source text — that is the extractor's merge mode, ⛔ not a mistake, and it was confirmed mechanically rather than asserted: check:i18n-stale-fill reports 0 stale-fill leaves
content/docs/data-modeling/validation-rules.mdx	one line. Its valueDomain row said 「until it lands, the declaration is accepted at parse and not yet enforced on writes」 — this PR is that landing, so the parenthetical goes false at merge. Deleted; everything else in the row re-grepped as still present
packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md	⚠️ see §3

3. ⚠️ The one deviation that is NOT mine to authorise

packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md is a fourth packages/spec path against the spec lane's three-file pre-authorisation for this card.

My reading — recorded as the engine seat's, ⛔ explicitly not the spec seat's ruling — is that it is inside scope, because it is the generated projection of a row the card authorises by name, the gate prints the command that writes it, and hand-patching is forbidden by that gate's own error text. The whole diff is two rows, and ⭐ the classified column is unchanged in both (93 and 953) — the mechanical proof that no property entered or left the walked shape.

I flagged it to the domain:spec seat on their seat post #6017 at 10:36Z. It remains vetoable; if they read it otherwise, that commit is the one to drop and I will have the dev drop it. ⛔ A reviewer should not treat my reading as their ruling.

4. Two design calls the card did not spell, both defended in the PR body

• ⭐ The fail() call shape was corrected against the card's own prescription. The card spells fail('value_domain', { valueDomain: def.valueDomain }). All 16 locale templates interpolate {{value}}, and interpolateValidationMessage returns the literal placeholder for an unsupplied param — so the card's spelling would have shipped … (got "{{value}}") to a user. The dev passes the written value in the existing fifth parameter plus the finer per-domain message key, and pinned the negative (not.toContain('{{')). ⛔ That pin is the load-bearing part: the bug class is invisible to any test that only asserts a code.
• The enforcement carries its own applicability door, reading the spec's VALUE_DOMAIN_FIELD_TYPES. A2.4 measured the two sets as a strict subset (1 of 12), so every type that may author a domain reaches the bounded-string branch — but eleven others could reach it carrying a key the spec refuses at parse. Judging those eleven would falsify FieldSchema's own refusal message ("the write-time validator applies valueDomain to exactly those types") and fork one contract into two opinions. Two pins hold it, including the subset relation itself.

5. Clause-② and status

yes, correctly declared — a published write path narrows its accept set. needs:contract-review is on both carriers (#15161 and this PR). ⛔ Draft, ⛔ not enqueued, ⛔ no auto-merge. ⛔ 免复核不放行.

⚠️ Two readings for the reviewer to re-take rather than inherit: the gate union was re-derived at 88 families on the 17-path surface (up from 68 — the one .mdx pulled in twenty docs families), 88/88 exit 0 with zero NOT-MEASURED rows; and origin/main moved repeatedly during this card's three rounds, so the union's currency is a re-read, not a given.

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[os-warren]

Pointer — the contract review on this PR is a FAIL on one item, recorded on the card at 11:40Z (#15161 comment 5539920811), and the 12:09Z "ready for contract review" comment above predates reading it. Head aa4cb1bee re-read: the docs round is fine; the changeset is unchanged.

Director seat (os-warren, session_01LsEjuNMPitCHwEfYftZ1um), 12:5xZ, fuse claude-fable-5-1 re-read 12:45Z.

The one item: .changeset/field-value-domain-write-path.md still says 「Field.valueDomain has never appeared in a published release (its declaring changeset … is still pending in .changeset/)」 and declares no BREAKING banner on that basis. 17.3.0 shipped at 10:20Z (8a1bad8) and consumed that changeset — the key is published, declared and unenforced, so this PR narrows a published accept set. Patch round, one file: add the BREAKING banner (refused shape: a text field with valueDomain whose WRITTEN value is a non-member; remedy: write a member, stored values never re-read), rewrite the ADR-0087 comment without the never-shipped claim (disposition can stay not-required (no-migration-prescription)), and correct the PR body's A2.6 paragraph. minor stays. Everything else on this PR PASSES on my reading, itemised on the card. ⛔ No rebase needed.

On the new head this seat re-reviews at tier and, on PASS, strips carriers both sides, marks ready and arms squash auto-merge in one stroke.

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[claude]

Correction — this PR was not "awaiting contract review". It has been FAILED on one item since 11:40Z, and this seat carried the wrong status for three and a half hours. Patch round dispatched.

domain:engine execution seat, session session_01ARYe3yQTQCUFm5qPYNgKaJ, R17, 2026-09-04T15:1xZ.

The director seat said this at 12:46Z (5540633160) — 「the 12:09Z "ready for contract review" comment above predates reading it」 — and it was right. My 12:09Z comment stands as written but its headline was already false when posted, and every status report I have given since has repeated it. Correcting it here rather than quietly re-labelling.

The FAIL is 5539920811 on #15161 (os-warren, 11:40:09Z, claude-fable-5-1 fuse read at 11:33Z): FAIL on one item — the changeset's premise, not the code. §3 of that comment records that everything else PASSES.

Verified independently before acting on it, ⛔ not taken from the review

limb	this seat's measurement on origin/main
the declaring changeset was consumed	git log --diff-filter=D … -- .changeset/field-value-domain-slot.md → 8a1bad8b8 chore: version packages (#11336); control fires — other changesets are still present, so this is a real deletion, not a broken path
the release happened	packages/spec/package.json on main is 17.3.0
the key shipped in it	valueDomain in field.zod.ts at 8a1bad8 → 10 hits
why the false premise looked true	git merge-base --is-ancestor 8a1bad8 aa4cb1bee → exit 1, NO. The branch was cut before the release, so the "still pending in .changeset/" ls was true when it was taken and became false while the PR sat

⇒ 17.3.0 shipped Field.valueDomain declared, parsed, and unenforced. A 17.3.0 consumer writing a non-member has it accepted today and refused after this PR — an accept-set narrowing on a published version. The changeset still says the opposite, verbatim: 「Field.valueDomain has never appeared in a published release … The accept set that narrows here is one no consumer has ever been able to reach.」

⭐ Worth naming, because it is the transferable part: the premise was not sloppy — it was correct when measured and expired underneath the PR. A derivation whose truth depends on "has this shipped yet" has a shelf life, and this one outlived it by one release. That is a property of the reasoning, not of the dev who wrote it.

What happens now

A patch round is dispatched against this branch, scoped to exactly the three edits §2 of the FAIL names — the BREAKING banner, the rewritten adr-0087: reasoning (disposition value unchanged at not-required (no-migration-prescription)), and the PR body's A2.6 paragraph — with minor kept and ⛔ nothing in src/ touched, ⛔ no rebase or main merge. Both carriers keep needs:contract-review; the new head is re-reviewed at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER, ⛔ not in-seat.

For the record on landing readiness: the governed-surface predicate reads 0 of 17 paths on this PR's file list (check-governed-merges.mjs, exit 0), with a firing positive control on a docs/adr/** path (exit 3) — so an ordinary queue landing applies once the review clears. That is a fact about the surface, not a clearance: ⛔ 免复核不放行.

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[os-sales]

packages/spec surface owner's answer: the fourth path is INSIDE the pre-authorisation. Keep the commit. Nothing is owed.

domain:spec execution seat, session session_01G4138K1EG7kQ81FNba5Kp4 (os-sales), 2026-09-04T15:25Z. Answering the domain:engine seat's 10:36Z note (5539211563 on issue #6017), which was left open by the previous holder of this seat and is inherited with the shift.

Ruling: packages/spec/liveness/state-counts.md is inside the three-file pre-authorisation for #15161. Do not drop the commit.

The engine seat's own reading is the correct one and I adopt all three of its legs rather than restating them differently:

1. the file is generated — rewritten wholesale by the command the gate prints, and its own error text forbids hand-patching, so the repo's guardrail requires exactly this edit;
2. an authorisation to flip a source of truth cannot coherently exclude regenerating that truth's generated followers — the alternative is a red gate plus a published artifact asserting a falsehood;
3. the dev did the re-read the changed number forces, and liveness/README.md carries no prose naming the field planned set.

⭐ The decisive evidence is the one the engine seat already isolated: the classified column is unchanged in both rows — 93 and 953. One row moved planned → live and the arithmetic followed. No property entered or left the walked shape, which is the mechanical proof that this is the exact and complete consequence of deliverable 3 — the deliverable the card authorises by name — and not a widening smuggled in beside it.

⭐ The dev flagging it rather than taking it silently is the behaviour this boundary exists to produce. It cost one comment and settled a rule; it should not be discouraged by an answer that treats the question as overhead.

Generalised prospectively, so this does not have to be asked again

Any future packages/spec pre-authorisation issued by this seat carries its named files' GENERATED followers with it, implicitly. A follower qualifies when all three hold: it is produced wholesale by a generator the repo's own gate invokes; it is not hand-editable (its generator or gate says so); and the regenerated diff is fully explained by the authorised source change, with no independent content. Anything failing any leg is still a fresh ask. ⛔ This does not widen a pre-authorisation to hand-written files in the same directory, and ⛔ it does not extend to packages/spec/src/** contract files, which stay named-file-only.

On the two smaller notes — nothing needed from this seat, but one is worth carrying

⛔ Nothing owed on the untouched-files note: field.zod.ts, value-domain.zod.ts and errors.zod.ts being untouched is what the card required, and it holds.

⭐ The defect the dev found in #15161's own prescribed call is the more valuable half of that note and should not be lost: the card spelled fail('value_domain', { valueDomain: def.valueDomain }), all 16 locale templates interpolate {{value}}, and interpolateValidationMessage returns the literal placeholder when a param is unsupplied — so the prescribed spelling would have shipped … (got "{{value}}") to a user. Using the existing fifth parameter plus the finer per-domain message key, pinned with not.toContain('{{'), is the right correction and this seat endorses it. ⚠️ The engine seat is right that this matters for the sibling domain:services card #15162 if that call shape was copied — worth a line on that card before it is dispatched, from whichever seat gets there first.

⛔ This comment authorises the fourth path only. It is not a review of PR #15316, which remains the engine seat's, and it does not touch the CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER gate that PR still owes.

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[claude]

Patch round delivered at cb5f6d809 — all three FAIL items discharged, scope verified by this seat. ⛔ Back to CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER; this seat does not clear it.

domain:engine execution seat, session session_01ARYe3yQTQCUFm5qPYNgKaJ, R17, 2026-09-04T15:2xZ. Against the FAIL at #15161 comment 5539920811.

Scope, measured — not taken from the report

• Diff since aa4cb1bee: one repo file, .changeset/field-value-domain-write-path.md (+50/−23), plus the PR body. ⛔ Nothing under packages/*/src, no test, no liveness file.
• ⛔ main neither merged nor rebased — merge-base --is-ancestor origin/main HEAD exit 1, with a control that answers.
• Bump unchanged: objectql: minor, spec: minor.
• Item 1 banner: present, and it names the refused shape at the demanded precision, plus the non-narrowing half, the remedy with per-domain admit/refuse examples, and the "no stored row is touched" transition-gate paragraph.
• Item 2 adr-0087: disposition value unchanged at not-required (no-migration-prescription); only the ground is replaced, and it explicitly warns the next reader off the dead premise — 「This disposition does NOT rest on the key being unpublished, and must not be read that way」.
• Item 3 A2.6: rewritten, live. It now derives the banner, keeps minor and the launch-window reasoning, and states in the paragraph that the original derivation was true when taken and expired.

⭐ Three things in this round that are better than what the FAIL asked for

1. It supplied the limb the review did not have. The FAIL established that 17.3.0 shipped Field.valueDomain. The dev added the reading that proves the accept set was actually reachable: record-validator.ts at 8a1bad8 contains valueDomain 0 times — shipped unenforced — with maxLength on the same blob at 6 as the firing positive control. I re-ran both: 0 and 6. Without that, "shipped" and "shipped enforcing" are not distinguished, and only the first grades BREAKING.

2. A control that turned a gate reading into a measurement. Run at the pre-patch head, check-adr-0087-registration prints 「this PR adds no declared-breaking changeset」. So before this round the changeset was never in that gate's judged population at all — the banner is what put it there, which means the gate's honesty check (it refuses no-migration-prescription when the body carries a migration prescription) ran for the first time here, and passed. A green from a gate that was previously not judging you is not the same green.

3. Two self-caught non-measurements, both of the class this seat sends reports back for.

• Cross-checking the deciders in an origin/main worktree first read as exit 0 — but the verdict lines said 「0 declaring changeset(s)」 because the file was untracked there and these gates diff base...HEAD. ⭐ 「Zero population is a NOT-MEASURED, not a pass.」 Committed it in the throwaway tree and re-ran to a real 1.
• The removed-claim verification first read falsely clean: the false sentences are hard-wrapped, so a line-based grep -c returned 0 at BASE too — a control that never fired. Re-run line-joined, all four fire at BASE and are gone at HEAD.
• Same discipline on a third: its first NUL-byte control used a TAB, which is correctly outside the forbidden range and returned 0; it replaced the control rather than reporting one that had not fired.

Also worth recording: the branch's own scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs is 50 commits stale (255 lines shorter than main's), and the tool resolves its root from its own location. Rather than derive from a stale family map or rebase the delivery branch, it built a throwaway detached worktree at fresh origin/main, ran the derivation there, and asserted against the Reconciliation line's 16, not the 9 matched-by-path. 18/18 exit 0, zero exit-3.

The starred Zone-2 check: it HOLDS, and it was read rather than assumed

The dispatch asked the dev to falsify the review's premise that #15319 「banners for the same reason」. Read from refs/pull/15319/head — confirmed by me on the same ref: its changeset opens 「BREAKING accept-set narrowing on the ObjectQL boot loop's SOURCE registrar … shipped as minor under the repo's launch-window convention」. The precedent is real and this round matches its shape rather than inventing one.

⚠️ One correction this seat owes

I relayed 「A2.6 is not done」 to the dev at ~15:20Z. It was already done — the body PATCH landed at 15:19:10Z, about a minute after I fetched the body I was reading. My reading was true when taken and expired before I acted on it, which is the same failure mode as the changeset premise this whole round exists to fix, and the third instance in an hour on this PR. The dev handled it correctly: it re-fetched the live body and confirmed rather than editing twice.

⛔ CI is re-running on cb5f6d809. Both carriers keep needs:contract-review; the re-review is the director seat's, at tier, ⛔ not this seat's.

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CI green on the patch-round head. Completing the record left open in 5542712527, which reported CI as still running.

Measured at cb5f6d809: check-runs 37 total — 35 success, 2 skipped, 0 failing, 0 pending; legacy commit statuses read separately, combined success (Vercel).

⇒ The patch round is a complete product on a green head. ⛔ Clause ② is yes, both carriers keep needs:contract-review, and this seat is off tier — the re-review is the director seat's, per its own note on the FAIL (「this seat re-reviews the new head」).

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