[finding] After #10629 the `@objectstack/runtime` log still carries 6 expected `ERROR Find operation failed` frames from one green test — same defect class, different feature (cross-field filter refusal)

[os-elon]

Filed unassigned by the seat implementing #10629. Observation class — no fix proposed here, and no pm:queue.

What was measured

#10629 removed the whole refused a read on population from the @objectstack/runtime log. Measured on claude/issue-10629-runtime-test-noise-remainder at ef25e4a341, one full run (179 files, 2679 tests, all PASS), reporter forced the way CI effectively gets it:

pnpm --filter @objectstack/runtime exec vitest run --reporter=default --maxWorkers=2

feature	before #10629	after #10629
[sql-driver] DATABASE_ERROR — the backend refused a read on '...'	134	0
ERROR Find operation failed	140	6

The 6 survivors are not residue of that card's population — they are a different feature that happens to share the engine's frame. All 6 come from one passing file:

lines	file	object
6	packages/runtime/src/cross-field-refusal-operand-withhold.test.ts	cross_field_deal

Their payload is the #7929 cross-field refusal, not a missing table:

ERROR Find operation failed {"object":"cross_field_deal","error":{"message":"A cross-field
comparison in this filter cannot be compiled here. ... The columns, the operator this filter
used and the specific reason are withheld from the message (#7929); the full diagnostic is in
the server log.", ...}}

The suite is [#7929] a cross-field refusal keeps its envelope and stops disclosing the predicate, 11 tests, all PASS. The refusals are the subject of the file — it drives filters the SQL push-down must refuse — so each frame is expected in exactly the sense #10380 and #10629 use the word.

Why this is recorded rather than fixed

It is the same defect class both of those cards close — expected-failure noise from a green test, in a shard log turbo interleaves without attribution, which is how the #10293 p1 flake signature was assembled — but it is a different feature string and a different file, outside the enumerated population #10629 claims. #10629's scope was the refused a read on census; widening it at implementation time would have been the scope creep Prime Directive #10 forbids.

The tooling to close it already exists and is generic in the right dimension for tables but not for this: packages/runtime/src/expected-read-refusal-noise.ts (landed by #10629) withholds a driver refusal by table-plus-reason and the engine frame directly above it. A cross-field refusal has no table to key on — it never reaches the driver's backendStatementFault at all, so there is no pending driver refusal for the engine gate to sit above. Closing this one needs either a second predicate keyed on the refusal's own message, or a decision that the engine's Find operation failed frame is the wrong altitude for a refusal the driver deliberately produced. That choice is a judgement, not a mechanical edit, which is why no fix is proposed here.

One neighbour worth naming, deliberately not counted above

The same run also prints 4 [Protocol] Withheld a caught error's text from a batch row (#8502) lines, from the two batch-row-*-real-driver files #10629 touched. They were left alone on purpose: unlike the two features above they are warn-shaped rather than ERROR-shaped, and they report a production withholding decision actually being taken — the thing those suites exist to prove. Quieting them is a separate judgement and is not implied by anything here.

How to reproduce

The noise is invisible to an ordinary piped local run — vitest 4 picks MinimalReporter off a TTY and drops console.* from passing tests, while turbo gives each task a pty and gets DefaultReporter. --reporter=default is what makes a local measurement match CI. Note this particular feature is written straight to stdout and bypasses the reporter, so it reaches the log under both — but the refused a read on half of the comparison above does not, and a measurement without the flag reports a false zero for it.

Related

• [finding] 15 more PASSING @objectstack/runtime tests print the same refused a read on feature — 134 lines after #10380 quiets its two, led by notifications.hono.integration.test.ts (52) #10629 — the card this was found under; removed 268 lines of the sibling feature
• test(runtime): withhold and assert the expected error noise in two passing pins #10630 / [finding] Two PASSING @objectstack/runtime tests print Acquire connection error and ~150 ERROR-level sql-driver DATABASE_ERROR lines into the shared Test Core log — they were adopted verbatim as a p1 flake signature #10380 — where the withhold-and-assert shape was ruled
• CI flake: @objectstack/example-showcase#test fails on mass sys_* Find operation failed + Acquire connection error: operation timed out — hit a merge-queue build and a PR run within 2h on unrelated prose-only diffs #10293 — the p1 flake signature that adopted green-test noise verbatim

[huangyiirene]

Concentration-round first-touch: promoted finding → pm:queue, Task, domain:cli (lands in packages/runtime).

Queued because the class has a measured cost history: green-test noise in interleaved shard logs is exactly what assembled the #10293 p1 flake signature — recurring pain, not polish. Scope ruled at triage: extend the #10629 withhold-and-assert shape with a second predicate keyed on the cross-field refusal's own message (mirroring expected-read-refusal-noise.ts, which can't key on a table here because the refusal never reaches the driver), covering the 6 frames in cross-field-refusal-operand-withhold.test.ts. ⛔ Not a blanket mute — the capture must assert the withheld line and keep unexpected errors loud, same discipline as #10630/#10629. If implementation measurement instead favours the altitude change (the engine's Find operation failed frame being wrong for a deliberate driver refusal), stop and report the fork — that reshapes production logging, not test noise. The 4 warn-shaped #8502 lines stay untouched, as the card already settled. Size S.

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[os-elon]

Claim:

• Session: session_019bmVFqoQPq63zhKrxdYG1r (domain:cli lane execution seat, post [PM seat] domain:cli — 🟢 os-elon (session_019bmVFqoQPq63zhKrxdYG1r) · 轮次 30 开轮 · 在飞 0 · 队列复核中 #6024)
• Branch: claude/issue-10983-cross-field-refusal-noise
• Worktree: ../objectstack-10983-cross-field-noise (dedicated, per Prime Directive Migrate documentation site to Fumadocs with monorepo structure and shared content #11)
• Domain: domain:cli — lands in packages/runtime, as triage named alongside the label. Deliberate; nothing to report.
• File surface: packages/runtime/src/expected-read-refusal-noise.ts, packages/runtime/src/cross-field-refusal-operand-withhold.test.ts
• Container & model: remote CCR container, os-dev subagent
• Clause-②: no — no packages/spec/src/** in the diff surface; none declared
• Serial constraints: none known over either file; CI's single-writer-path gate is the authority.

Direction ruled by triage, with an explicit fork to stop on

Triage (comment 5380559336) settled what would otherwise be the card's own stated judgement call: extend #10629's withhold-and-assert shape with a second predicate keyed on the cross-field refusal's own message, covering the 6 frames in cross-field-refusal-operand-withhold.test.ts. The existing helper keys on a table; a cross-field refusal never reaches the driver, so there is no table and no pending driver refusal for the engine gate to sit above.

Two fences carried forward verbatim:

• ⛔ Not a blanket mute. The capture asserts the withheld line and keeps unexpected errors loud — same discipline as test(runtime): withhold and assert the expected error noise in two passing pins #10630/[finding] 15 more PASSING @objectstack/runtime tests print the same refused a read on feature — 134 lines after #10380 quiets its two, led by notifications.hono.integration.test.ts (52) #10629.
• ⛔ The 4 warn-shaped deleteManyData's row errors carry raw driver text in errors[].message — the data-batch producer #8136/#8333 never reached #8502 lines stay untouched, as the card already settled.
• If implementation measurement instead favours the altitude change — the engine's Find operation failed frame being the wrong altitude for a refusal the driver deliberately produced — stop and report the fork. That reshapes production logging rather than test noise, and is not this dispatch's to decide.

Landing points confirmed at origin/main

Both files present: packages/runtime/src/expected-read-refusal-noise.ts (the #10629 helper) and packages/runtime/src/cross-field-refusal-operand-withhold.test.ts (the 6 frames, object cross_field_deal, suite [#7929] a cross-field refusal keeps its envelope and stops disclosing the predicate, 11 tests all passing).

⭐ The non-trivial part, from reading the existing helper

Its docblock states the shape precisely, and it is not "suppress noise" — it is: withhold only an exact match (the caller's declared table and that same table's no such table reason; any other table, reason, or level stays loud), count what was withheld per table and per channel, and let the caller assert on those counts. The reason is stated there too: otherwise "the log would go quiet and NOTHING would notice."

The new predicate has no table to count by. So the counting dimension has to change — and the counting property itself must not be lost, because that is exactly what lets the caller prove the withheld line actually happened rather than prove nothing at all. A predicate that withholds without counting, or a caller that stops asserting the count, converts a proven-expected suppression into a silent one and reproduces the defect the helper was built against.

⚠️ Reproduction detail from the card, worth not rediscovering the hard way: --reporter=default is required for a local measurement to match CI (vitest 4 picks MinimalReporter off a TTY and drops console.* from passing tests; turbo gives each task a pty and gets DefaultReporter). This particular feature writes straight to stdout and bypasses the reporter, so it appears under both — but a measurement taken without the flag reports a false zero for the sibling refused a read on half.

Dispatching now.

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