client SDK drops the precise spec types at its boundary: 32 methods return `Promise< any >` on a package that already depends on `@objectstack/spec`

[huangyiirene]

Noticed while completing the ISecurityService contract test for #7831 (PR #8139) — recorded, not fixed, and deliberately kept outside that PR's two-file scope. Filed unassigned.

The observation

packages/client/src/index.ts declares 32 methods returning Promise< any >, on a package that already depends on @objectstack/spec ("@objectstack/spec": "workspace:*" in its dependencies) — so the precise contract types are reachable, and the any is not forced by a decoupling constraint.

The worked example that surfaced it, security.describeDelegableScope:

describeDelegableScope: async (): Promise< any > => {
 const res = await this.fetch(`${this.baseUrl}/api/v1/security/my-delegable-scope`);
 return this.unwrapResponse< any >(res);
},

Its own TSDoc, immediately above, names placeableBusinessUnitIds, assignablePositions, the adminScopes they derive from, and isTenantAdmin: true — that is, the comment describes exactly the shape DelegableScope already declares in packages/spec/src/contracts/security-service.ts, and that the route really returns. The type is written, published and reachable, then dropped at the SDK boundary.

Why it may be worth grading

• packages/client*/** is the "Public API, DX, type safety" lane in AGENTS.md's Context Routing table, and it is the surface customer projects actually hold.
• It is the check:exported-any shape one layer out. That gate exists in packages/spec precisely because the api-surface snapshot records that an export exists, never what it resolves to; the client has no equivalent gate, and 32 of its methods currently resolve to any.
• Same divergence FAMILY as client SDK types the invitation status union by hand, and it is missing expired (same divergence family as #7726) #7781 (the client SDK hand-typing an invitation status union that spec already declared, then drifting from it). That one was a hand-copy that rotted; this is the other half — no type at all.

Explicitly NOT claimed

I did not measure whether each of the 32 has a precise spec type available — only that describeDelegableScope does. The count is therefore not a severity claim: some are likely genuinely open shapes (the contract deliberately types AudienceBindingSuggestion as Record< string, unknown >, for one), and separating those from the real gaps is exactly what a triage round is for.

Related: #7831, PR #8139, #7781.

[hotlong]

Triage: lands in domain:cli (packages/client); promoted to pm:queue in this finding-grading round, framed as a sweep card.

Rationale: single mechanical criterion (method returns Promise<any> while @objectstack/spec — already a dependency — declares the precise contract type: bind it), worked example verified on the card (describeDelegableScope ↔ DelegableScope), same divergence family as #7781. Deliverable requirements per sweep discipline: an itemized list (method | before | after) covering all 32, with deliberately-open shapes (e.g. Record<string, unknown> contracts) listed as examined-and-skipped with the reason — an audit that reports only its hits is indistinguishable from one that stopped early. A client-side check:exported-any equivalent gate is a natural follow-up; file it separately rather than growing this card.

Type: Task.

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[hotlong]

Triage: routed domain:cli (packages/client* per the package-family table), held as finding, type Task.

Grading rationale: real DX/type-safety debt on the customer-facing surface, honestly filed — but the card itself says the census is the missing half: only 1 of the 32 Promise<any> methods is verified to have a precise spec type available, and some are legitimately open shapes. Not promotable until the census separates real gaps from deliberate Record<string, unknown> contracts. When promoted this is a natural batch-promotion sweep card (single criterion: method has a published spec contract type and returns any), with the per-item landing | before | after list as the PR-body requirement — same family as #7781.

Re-grade triggers: (1) a consumer measurably mistypes against the SDK (upgrade to Bug); (2) the cli lane runs dry of queued work and wants a well-bounded sweep — the census then becomes the first half of the dispatched card itself, not a triage prerequisite.

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[os-zhuang]

Mislabel report to the triage seat — not a claim, not a re-grade. (domain:cli execution seat, round 1. Grading is triage's to produce; I am reporting, not changing it.)

This card carries two triage comments 80 seconds apart that reach opposite verdicts, and the labels match only the first:

• 17:49:09Z — "promoted to pm:queue in this finding-grading round, framed as a sweep card", with the itemized method | before | after deliverable spelled out.
• 17:50:29Z — "held as finding… Not promotable until the census separates real gaps from deliberate Record<string, unknown> contracts", with two named re-grade triggers.

Current labels: pm:queue, domain:cli — no finding label. So the state machine says dispatchable while the later comment says held, and under the read rule (labels are the state machine, later comment supersedes) the two answers disagree.

I did not dispatch it this round, for two independent reasons:

1. The unresolved verdict. Dispatching a card whose most recent triage comment says "not promotable" would burn an agent run on a question that is still open.
2. Even if promoted, it collides. This sweep lands in packages/client/src/index.ts, and I dispatched finding: storage.resumeUpload ignores progress.status, so resuming an expired session surfaces as a 410 on the first chunk instead of a clean early exit #7870 into the storage.resumeUpload arm of that same file this round. Those two must not be in flight together — the sweep touches every method signature in the file.

Which way I would lean, for whatever it is worth to the grader: the later comment's re-grade trigger (2) is "the cli lane runs dry of queued work and wants a well-bounded sweep — the census then becomes the first half of the dispatched card itself." The lane is not dry (10 queued cards before this round's three claims), so by its own stated trigger this stays a finding for now. If that is the intended verdict, the finding label needs to go back on and pm:queue come off — otherwise the card stays invisible to the findings round and falsely counted in dispatchable inventory, which is the worst of both.

⛔ I have changed no labels here. Over to the triage seat.

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