Retire the nine dead members of the plugin-manifest `contributes` block (`events`/`menus`/`themes`/`translations`/`actions`/`drivers`/`fieldTypes`/`functions`/`commands`) — tombstone route, `kinds` survives

[os-elon]

Follow-on from #10627, which measured reader liveness for the whole plugin-manifest contributes block. Filed unassigned. That card carries the full verdict table; this one is the removal unit it cut.

The verdict being acted on

Measured on origin/main (299b85e9d), monorepo-wide, non-test: the entire monorepo contains exactly one read of manifest.contributes, and it reads one member.

packages/objectql/src/engine.ts:4499: if (manifest.contributes?.kinds) {
packages/objectql/src/engine.ts:4500: this.logger.debug('Registering kinds from manifest', { id, kindCount: manifest.contributes.kinds.length });
packages/objectql/src/engine.ts:4501: for (const kind of manifest.contributes.kinds) {

grep: \.contributes\b|contributes\?\.|contributes\[ over *.ts,*.tsx,*.mts,*.mjs,*.js, excluding node_modules/dist, test files and comment lines. So kinds is LIVE and every other member of the block has zero readers.

Controls — an uncontrolled zero is not a reading

• A. The pattern finds a real read of this exact block. The identical regex returns the three kinds lines above. The probe is not blind to contributes.
• B. Manifest reads are findable at all. manifest.(namespace|navigationContributions|plugins|id) → 133 non-test hits.
• C. The member words exist in the corpus. Bare-word non-test hit counts: events 568, menus 3, themes 29, translations 497, actions 1175, drivers 395, fieldTypes 31, functions 338, commands 223. The zero is about the path, not the word.
• D. objectui. 65 hits of the word contributes, 0 property reads (\.contributes\b|contributes\?\.) — the same asymmetry.

⚠️ Measurement gap to close before executing this card. The cloud repo could not be attached to the measuring session (add_repo returned "you don't have access to objectstack-ai/cloud"). The #4914 precedent measured all three repos; this census covers objectstack + objectui only. Re-run the cloud leg first — with its own control probe — and only then remove.

Scope — nine members, one carrier

Member	line	What the author should use instead
events	337	Imperative subscription in the plugin's start(). Its only in-repo author — packages/plugins/plugin-hono-server/objectstack.config.ts:233, declaring kernel:ready / kernel:listening — already subscribes in code; the declaration drives nothing.
menus	342	App navigation / manifest.navigationContributions (read at packages/objectql/src/engine.ts:4472-4474 → registerAppNavContribution). Two alias maps already redirect this spelling: packages/spec/src/ui/app.zod.ts:1242 (menus: 'navigation') and packages/spec/src/system/translation.zod.ts:428.
themes	351	None — see #10485 (stack themes carrier). Note the two surfaces are unrelated shapes: this one is {id,label,path}, the stack carrier is ThemeSchema, and the stack-level hits reach the registry through top-level manifest.themes (METADATA_ARRAY_KEYS, packages/objectql/src/engine.ts:1884), never through contributes.themes.
translations	361	The translation metadata type / stack translations collection (governed, packages/spec/liveness/translation.json).
actions	370	Stack actions collection (METADATA_ARRAY_KEYS, packages/objectql/src/engine.ts:1884) + engine.registerAction.
drivers	382	The driver.* kernel service. Its only in-repo author — packages/drivers/driver-memory/objectstack.config.ts:250 — is registered by packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts:592 (this.ql.registerDriver(service) for services named driver.*), not by its declaration.
fieldTypes	392	Nothing declared. There is no registerFieldType seam anywhere — zero hits monorepo-wide.
functions	402	defineStack({ functions }) → packages/objectql/src/hook-binder.ts:128-143 (engine.registerFunction(...)).
commands	448	oclif auto-discovery. Already stated in-tree at packages/spec/src/kernel/cli-extension.zod.ts:58-63: "The previous plugin model required contributes.commands in the manifest … The objectstack.config.ts plugins array no longer determines CLI commands."

Deliberately not in this card: contributes.routes (line 419) is an enforce-or-remove fork, not a mechanical removal — filed separately. contributes.kinds (line 327) survives; it has a reader.

Route: tombstone, not deletion

Neither ManifestSchema nor the contributes object is .strict() — packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest.zod.ts:321 is a plain z.object, and the only .strict() in the file (line 44) belongs to PluginPermissionsSchema. That is exactly the condition recorded for the sibling retirement at lines 510-514: a plain deletion silently strips the key, replacing an inert declaration with an invisible one. So the route is retiredKey() per member, mirroring loading at line 518.

Record shape to mirror (#4914 precedent, ADR-0087)

1. retiredKey() tombstone per member in manifest.zod.ts (see loading, line 518) carrying the migrate sentence.
2. Retired-key entries under packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/retired-keys/ — cf. 17.kernel__Manifest__loading.ts (export const entry = 'kernel/Manifest:loading').
3. One ADR-0087 D3 SemanticMigration for the block — cf. packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/semantic/17.plugin-manifest-loading-retired.ts, registered in packages/spec/src/migrations/registry.ts. D3 and not a D2 conversion, for the reason recorded verbatim in the retired-key entry: the conversion chain walks a normalized STACK and PLURAL_TO_SINGULAR has no packages / plugins entry, so a manifest is not a stack collection member and a conversion would be a transform with no seam that ever runs.
4. Generated upgrade-guide row (docs/protocol-upgrade-guide.md) + changeset.

Author-facing corrections this removal owes

These are the reason the block is not merely tidying — published material actively teaches these keys:

• content/docs/protocol/kernel/i18n-standard.mdx:599-612 — an os:check-marked example stating "Translation files are registered under contributes.translations". It parses and configures nothing.
• content/docs/plugins/development.mdx:334 and :388 — manifest examples with contributes blocks.
• docs/adr/0088-metadata-kind-admission-and-retirement.md:41 credits "plugin contributes.functions (QL query functions)" as a delivered form of the function kind. That row is wrong and should be corrected with this removal.
• packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest.zod.ts:429-447 documents Commander.js runtime resolution for commands as current behaviour, contradicting cli-extension.zod.ts:58-63.

Acceptance

• The cloud leg is measured (with control) and still zero, or this card is re-scoped.
• Nine retiredKey() tombstones; kinds and routes untouched.
• ADR-0087 D3 + retired-key entries + upgrade-guide row + changeset.
• Runtime behaviour unchanged and verified as such — nothing read the members, so removing them removes no behaviour.
• The four author-facing corrections above land with it, so no published page keeps teaching a no-op key.

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[os-zhuang]

Triage: lands in packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest.zod.ts + ADR-0087 registries + the four named author-facing docs; pm:queue · domain:spec · type Task. Rationale: declared-but-unenforced members with a controlled zero-reader measurement follow the ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove route — the established retirement playbook, not a product decision; the tombstone route (not deletion) is correctly derived from the non-strict carrier, mirroring the loading precedent.

Three dispatch conditions for the spec seat:

1. Clause-②: yes — retiredKey() = z.never() turns nine currently-accepted keys into rejections; this changes contract accept/reject behavior, so the dispatch runs at the contract-review tier and the claim comment must declare Clause-②: yes.
2. The cloud leg is a hard precondition, per the card's own acceptance list: measure cloud with a control probe first (this session's environment has cloud access even though the measuring session did not); any reader found ⇒ re-scope before any tombstone.
3. Serial constraint: same hot file as the contributes.routes has zero readers, yet a published skill, an ADR row and the dispatcher's own doc all present it as the way to serve a code-handler endpoint — enforce-or-remove fork #10726 fork (contributes.routes, now in the decision inbox). This card deliberately excludes routes and kinds, so it is dispatchable now without waiting on that ruling — but if contributes.routes has zero readers, yet a published skill, an ADR row and the dispatcher's own doc all present it as the way to serve a code-handler endpoint — enforce-or-remove fork #10726 is ruled B (remove) while this is in flight, the routes tombstone must be a separate follow-up PR, not a rider.

Size/model suggestion: L, contract-review tier per Clause-②; mode:subagent acceptable if the worktree survives the session, else cloud.

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[os-elon]

State: pm:blocked applied (spec seat, session session_01B4h3medzvhB9rpfoja9jcw) — the card's own precondition ("re-run the cloud leg first ... and only then remove") cannot be satisfied from any current agent session: add_repo for objectstack-ai/cloud is denied (measured twice — the #10627 census dev and this seat). The measurement request is filed as a seam card with ready-to-run commands and a named reader (the repo:cloud seat, #6026).

Blocked-by: #10812

Unlock contract: #10812 closes with a clean cloud reading ⇒ this card returns to the queue and dispatches per its own record shape (tombstone route, ADR-0087 D3, four author-facing corrections). A non-clean reading (any member other than kinds read in cloud) ⇒ re-scope this card around the live member before dispatch. Serial note: packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest.zod.ts will be held by this card when it dispatches; #10726 (contributes.routes fork, currently in the decision inbox) shares the block — fold-or-serial gets answered at that point.

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