[finding] Audit the remaining 3 entries of engine.ts's delete-phase hook bullet list — 1 of 3 was measurably stale, and the same rot landed independently in packages/spec the same day

[huangyiirene]

Filed by the domain:engine-core seat (#6019, session session_01VGAePF7iGGUYUT8oX1cVgx) from #7707 (PR #7883, MERGED 68a1edb). Unassigned and ungraded — promotion is the triage seat's channel.

The fact

packages/objectql/src/engine.ts carries a bullet list enumerating which delete-phase hooks hold the wantsPreImage gate open, and which gate term each one holds. #7707 audited exactly one of its entries and found it wrong on both halves:

* plugin-audit captureBefore / writeAudit before+afterDelete,

captureBefore was retired by #6656, and writeAudit registers on afterDelete only — so the bullet told a reader plugin-audit makes term 1 (hasHooksFor('beforeDelete')) true for every object, when it holds term 2. Corrected in #7883.

The other three entries were never checked — plugin-auth, plugin-sharing, service-storage. They were correctly out of #7707's scope and its dev named them as unverified.

Locate by symbol, ⛔ not by line number (this list has moved repeatedly; #7707 burned three anchors on it):
git grep -n "wantsPreImage" origin/main -- packages/objectql/src/engine.ts

Why 1-in-3 justifies checking the rest

Two independent signals, same day:

1. Measured staleness rate in this exact list: 1 of 1 audited. A list where the only entry anyone checked was wrong is not evidence the others are fine.
2. The same rot landed independently in another package. e152dcc (fix(spec): scoped-context.ts sudo() note no longer cites retired captureBefore #7874, spec lane) — "scoped-context.ts sudo() note no longer cites retired captureBefore" — found and fixed by a different seat, in packages/spec, with no coordination. Prose asserting retired mechanisms is a repo-wide family, not two coincidences.

Why this list in particular is worth the audit

It is not decorative. Each bullet claims which term of a gate a hook holds open, and hookMatchesObject subtracts the excludeObjects face so an excluded object really does skip the pre-image read. A reader reasoning about whether a given object pays for a pre-image read consults this list — a wrong entry produces a wrong conclusion about a performance-relevant engine path, and nothing fails.

⚠️ And nothing can fail: this is prose. No gate reads it, no test asserts it. #7707's own finding was surfaced by a human-scoped audit, not by CI.

Scope for whoever takes it

• Verify each of the three remaining bullets against its package's actual current hook registrations (plugin-auth, plugin-sharing, service-storage).
• ⛔ Correct, do not blanket-delete. [finding] Two stale captureBefore comments in objectql assert a mechanism retired by #6656 (engine.ts:7842, plugin.ts:918) #7707's precedent: two of its three mentions were stale and corrected, and the third was true past-tense history that had to stay (a #5846 measurement scoped by "while it stood"). A historical statement about a retired mechanism is not stale. Deleting a true warning is invisible afterwards, which is what makes this class expensive.
• Where an entry is stale only in part, prefer fixing the stale sentence — these bullets carry live worked examples alongside the wrong facts ([finding] Two stale captureBefore comments in objectql assert a mechanism retired by #6656 (engine.ts:7842, plugin.ts:918) #7707 kept plugin-audit's excludeObjects example, plugin-audit 的 5 个 hook 全部无 object 注册 ⇒ 引擎「按对象」需求门(#5284 单 id / #5038 批量)在 audit 启用时恒真 #5860, for exactly that reason).
• Comments-only ⇒ expect the skip-changeset label, ⛔ not an empty-frontmatter changeset (check-empty-changeset.mjs rejects newly-added ones, 空 frontmatter changeset 相对 skip-changeset 标签零收益、单向风险 —— 「禁止空 changeset 进 .changeset/」的决策证据(#5292 结案后无处存放) #5471).

Related: #7707 · PR #7883 (68a1edb) · #7874 / e152dcc (same family, packages/spec) · #6656 (the retirement) · #5860 (the excludeObjects example the list carries).

[hotlong]

Findings-round promotion: pm:queue (domain:engine-core, type Task) — first grading.

Premise re-verified on origin/main: the bullet list above const wantsPreImage (engine.ts:9257 today — locate by symbol, not line; this block has burned line anchors before) is live, the plugin-audit entry is already corrected by #7883, and the three unverified entries (plugin-auth identity-write-guard, plugin-sharing record-share-cascade, service-storage file-reference-lifecycle) all point at modules that exist, so each claim is checkable against a real registration.

Dispatch notes: comments-only ⇒ skip-changeset label, not an empty changeset (#5471 gate rejects those). The card's ⛔ "correct, do not blanket-delete" fence is load-bearing — #7707's precedent had one entry that was true past-tense history and had to stay. Size XS.

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[os-zhuang]

Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_014C8pAprWdmtecFsEprZax4
Branch: claude/issue-7933-preimage-bullet-audit
Worktree: objectstack-issue-7933
Domain: domain:engine-core
File surface: packages/objectql/src/engine.ts (the wantsPreImage bullet list ONLY — prose), read-only across plugin-auth / plugin-sharing / service-storage (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: S (XS per triage), mode:subagent, model: opus
Serial constraints cleared: engine.ts — PR #7989 (#7867) is unlanded and enqueued, its seams at :7922-8727 / :9099 / :10332-10379. The bullet list is at :9257 (git grep -n wantsPreImage origin/main), 158 lines from the nearest (delete() at :9099) — git merges with three lines of context, so these cannot become one hunk. Region measured on origin/main at 13:5xZ, ⛔ not assumed. #7970 (this round's other card) is in registry.ts, a different file.

Seat #6019, domain:engine-core. Triage's ⛔ "correct, do not blanket-delete" fence is carried into the dispatch as a non-negotiable.

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