[finding] `new ObjectKernel({ logLevel: 'silent' })` silences nothing — `logLevel` is not a key of `ObjectKernelConfig`, and 12 call sites across 7 files believe it is

[os-elon]

Filed unassigned by the seat implementing #10629. Observation class — no pm:queue. ⚠️ The domain:cli label is this seat's guess by #10629's anchoring rule (the repairs land in test files); the affected files span three packages, so triage should re-route rather than inherit it.

What was measured

ObjectKernelConfig (packages/core/src/kernel.ts) declares a logger key holding a partial LoggerConfig. It declares no logLevel key at any level. So this spelling, which appears 12 times across 7 files:

kernel = new ObjectKernel({ logLevel: 'silent' });

sets an unknown property. ObjectLogger is then constructed from config.logger, which is undefined, and its level falls to the default:

level: config.level ?? 'info', // packages/core/src/logger.ts

The kernel therefore logs at info — every warn, error and fatal included — in a fixture whose author wrote the word "silent".

⛔ The level vocabulary itself is fine, and this finding does not claim otherwise. LEVEL_ORDER in the same file does carry silent: 5, and isEnabled compares against it correctly (probed both directions: error and debug are both disabled at silent). The correct spelling works. The defect is key placement only:

new ObjectKernel({ logLevel: 'silent' }) // accepted, ignored
new ObjectKernel({ logger: { level: 'silent' } }) // what the author meant

Why nothing catches it

tsc does catch it — measured, not assumed. Running the runtime package's tsc --noEmit with the test exclusion lifted reports:

src/notifications.hono.integration.test.ts(115,33): error TS2353: Object literal may only
specify known properties, and 'logLevel' does not exist in type 'ObjectKernelConfig'.

But packages/runtime/tsconfig.json excludes **/*.test.ts, so the package's own typecheck script never reads the file, and the error is one of the 227 that the @objectstack/runtime TEST_DEBT ledger entry holds frozen. It is real, it is counted, and no gate is red for it — which is exactly the state that entry exists to describe.

The consequence that made this visible

#10629 quieted expected read-failure noise in 16 passing @objectstack/runtime fixtures. Two of them — notifications.hono.integration.test.ts and its sibling notification-schema-conformance.integration.test.ts (quieted earlier by #10630) — pass logLevel: 'silent' and still printed ERROR-level engine frames into the shared shard log. That is not a logger bug; it is this key never having been read. Had the option landed where the kernel looks, those two files would have needed no capture on the engine channel at all.

⛔ Not a suggestion to fix them that way. A blanket silent would suppress the expected line and every unexpected one, which is precisely the mute #10630 and #10629 refused; the captures they landed are strictly better and should stay. This matters for the other 10 call sites, which are not about noise at all.

The 12 call sites

packages/runtime/src/notifications.hono.integration.test.ts · packages/runtime/src/notification-schema-conformance.integration.test.ts · packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/multilookup-context.test.ts · packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/bulk-write-per-row-context.test.ts · packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/record-change-integration.test.ts · packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/formula-context.test.ts · packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/status-mirror-cascade.integration.test.ts

Counted with grep -rn "logLevel:" packages --include=*.ts filtered to ObjectKernel construction; the file list is grep -rl "new ObjectKernel({ logLevel".

What a disposition has to decide

⛔ No recommendation offered — the two framings have different owners and different blast radii.

1. Repair the call sites (mechanical, 7 files, and each one changes what that fixture prints — so each needs its output re-read, not just its spelling fixed). Cheap, local, leaves the class open for the next author to re-enter.
2. Make the shape unable to be written wrong — the Prime Directive Add comprehensive test suite for Zod schema validation #12 direction. Whether that is a logLevel convenience key the kernel actually reads, or making the excess-property error reachable by a gate rather than only by a ledgered tsc run, is the real question. Note the second half generalises well beyond this key: any accepted-and-ignored option in a test-excluded file has the same invisibility.

Not claimed

• ⛔ No production call site is shown to be affected. All 12 are test files; this was not swept beyond packages/.
• ⛔ No test is shown to be wrong because of it. Every one of the 7 files passes; the cost measured here is log noise and a misleading fixture, not a false assertion.

[huangyiirene]

Concentration-round first-touch: promoted finding → pm:queue, Task — routing question the card asked triage answered as follows: kept domain:cli via the cross-domain single-PR exception (the file surface spans packages/runtime (cli), packages/triggers/* and plugin-approvals (services), but the fix is one mechanical shape — 12 call sites, 7 test files — and splitting it three ways buys nothing). Per that exception's protocol: the claiming cli seat declares the full file surface in its claim comment and runs the targeted in-flight check against the services lane's claims before dispatch.

Disposition between the card's two framings, ruled at triage: framing 1 (repair the call sites), bounded. logger: { level: 'silent' } at all 12 sites, with each fixture's output re-read (the card is right that each spelling fix changes what that file prints — the #10629/#10630 captures stay, and any newly-silenced unexpected output is a finding, not a win). Framing 2 splits into two non-starters today: a logLevel convenience key is a public-API addition with no pull beyond test files (Feature, not opened — the scope-discipline axis), and the excluded-tests tsc visibility class is already the TEST_DEBT ledger's territory (its entry holds this exact error frozen and counted). If the sweep finds a production call site after all, stop and report. Size S.

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[os-elon]

Claim:

• Session: session_019bmVFqoQPq63zhKrxdYG1r (domain:cli lane execution seat, 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-10984-kernel-loglevel-call-sites
• Worktree: ../objectstack-10984 (dedicated, per-task)
• Domain: domain:cli, held via the cross-domain single-PR exception triage ruled at 13:04Z.
• Container & model: this container, default tier (opus). Not Clause-①.
• Clause-②: no. The surface is seven test files; no packages/spec/src/** path, and triage ruled framing 2 (the public-API logLevel convenience key) explicitly not opened — so no contract surface is touched. The dev re-measures the path limb and declares it in the PR.

Full file surface, as the cross-domain exception's protocol requires — measured, not restated

Re-derived against origin/main before dispatch. Triage's count reproduces exactly: 12 new ObjectKernel({ logLevel: … }) call sites across 7 files.

file	lane	sites
packages/runtime/src/notification-schema-conformance.integration.test.ts	cli	1 (:212)
packages/runtime/src/notifications.hono.integration.test.ts	cli	1 (:112)
packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/record-change-integration.test.ts	services	6 (:230, :275, :303, :354, :379, :413)
packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/bulk-write-per-row-context.test.ts	services	1 (:116)
packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/formula-context.test.ts	services	1 (:70)
packages/triggers/trigger-record-change/src/multilookup-context.test.ts	services	1 (:59)
packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/status-mirror-cascade.integration.test.ts	services	1 (:126)

All seven are test files. No production call site — so triage's stop-and-report condition ("if the sweep finds a production call site after all, stop and report") does not fire on the measurement I can take now. The dev re-measures at its own head anyway.

Serial constraints cleared. Checked against every card this seat has in flight: #10988 is in packages/runtime/src/http-dispatcher.ts + packages/rest/** — same package as two rows above, different files, no overlap. #10991 is a mode bit on packages/create-objectstack's bin. #11054/#11057 are in packages/cli/src/commands + packages/create-objectstack/src. All disjoint. No open card claims the packages/triggers/** or plugin-approvals files above; the nearest services-lane work, claude/issue-10749-approval-payload-read-masking, is in plugin-approvals but on the approval-payload read path, not status-mirror-cascade.

⚠️ Two traps in this surface, recorded so the dispatch cannot lose them

1. logLevel is NOT uniformly wrong — it is a real, live option one class over. SchemaRegistry genuinely declares it: packages/objectql/src/registry.ts:286 (logLevel?: RegistryLogLevel), with a getter/setter at :1305-1306, a constructor read at :1298, and the OS_REGISTRY_LOG env var behind it. So the ~40 registry.logLevel = 'silent' and new SchemaRegistry({ logLevel: 'silent' }) sites across packages/objectql and packages/runtime/src/domains/packages-readonly-gate.test.ts are correct usage and must not be swept. Only ObjectKernel construction is the defect. A grep for logLevel is the wrong instrument here; the population is new ObjectKernel({ logLevel.

2. The fix invalidates comments that narrate the split. record-change-integration.test.ts:458 and :617 each say, of a nearby correct site, that it is { logger: { level: 'silent' } } — "NOT this file's OTHER { logLevel:". Once the sweep lands there is no other logLevel in that file, so both comments become false in the same commit that makes them obsolete. They must be re-read and corrected, not left standing. (Conversely packages/objectql/src/plugin.integration.test.ts:13 and plugin.step2.test.ts:23 carry comments saying logger.level — "NOT logLevel, which ObjectKernelConfig never had" — and those stay true; leave them.)

Triage's own condition is carried through unchanged: logger: { level: 'silent' } at all 12 sites with each fixture's output re-read, since each spelling fix changes what that file prints — the #10629/#10630 captures stay, and any newly-silenced unexpected output is a finding to file, not a win to bank.

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