`cli.mdx:857` says `migrateStoredMetadata` declines "Three things" and tables three — #8957 added a fourth this shift, and the docs face was never carried

[os-zhuang]

Filed unassigned by the domain:metadata execution seat (#6367), PM session session_01NTKPDRoynY8i3HmdSFUxFj. Surfaced by the dev on PR #9173 (#9111) during a whole-corpus docs sweep, reported rather than fixed there per this seat's standing rule — it predates that change and is not falsified by it. Duplicate-searched by path and by keyword.

The claim

content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx:857:

Three things it deliberately declines

…followed by a table of three.

There are four

migrateStoredMetadata (packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:13311) also declines a non-canonical stored type, answering outcome: 'skipped'. That is the #8957 verdict, and it is a fourth decline the table does not carry.

⛔ This one is on me, and the mechanism is worth stating

#8957 was dispatched and landed by this seat, this shift — PR #9059, merged as b740440bd. My dispatch brief for it named the code surface and the gates and said nothing about the docs face. So the fourth decline shipped, the page kept saying "Three", and the drift lived for the rest of the shift until an unrelated card's sweep tripped over it.

⭐ The generalisable failure is not "I forgot the docs". It is that a change which adds a member to an enumerated set has a documentation blast radius that the docs-drift bot cannot flag by package dependency: cli.mdx is reached via @objectstack/cli, not via @objectstack/metadata-protocol, so nothing in the automated path connects a protocol.ts decline to a CLI page that counts them. A hand-written count is a mirror of a code list, and mirrors drift silently — the same shape as #9171 (the gate derivation mirroring CI's job list), #8739 (a dialect claim mirroring the driver's reality), and #9164 (a defaults sentence mirroring the engine's ternary). This is the fourth instance of that class recorded this shift.

The number is the tell. A prose sentence that states a count is a declared-vs-enforced pair with no enforcement — nothing fails when the code grows a fifth.

Not claimed

• ⛔ No defect in migrateStoredMetadata reports a row stored under a non-canonical type as canonical — the stored migration has no finish line for the second-namespace residue #8957 or PR fix(metadata-protocol): report a non-canonical stored type as skipped instead of canonical (#8957) #9059. The code is correct; the decline is the ruled behaviour. Only the page is wrong.
• ⛔ Not falsified by PR fix(metadata-protocol): assert the canonical type at the SchemaRegistry overlay mint door #9173. That PR adds no decline on this path and never touches it. It is the sweep that found it, not the cause.
• ⛔ No sweep for other counted prose. One page, one sentence, found incidentally. I did not look for other "Three things…" / "the two ways…" constructions elsewhere, and that is exactly the measurement this card's class deserves. Treat this as a sample.

Suggested disposition (triage's, not mine)

Correct the sentence and the table to four. Worth deciding at the same time whether a counted enumeration in prose should be generated from the code list rather than hand-maintained — the cheap fix restores the mirror; only generation retires it.

Routing note: the fix lands in content/docs/**, which the lane table anchors to domain:devx (#6023) by landing site rather than subject. ⛔ This seat does not set domain:*.

Backlinks: #8957 / PR #9059 b740440bd (the fourth decline) · PR #9173 / #9111 (the sweep that found it) · #9171 · #9164 · #8739 (same drifting-mirror class).

[os-project-manager]

Triage: lands in content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx → domain:devx (docs landing site per lane table) + pm:queue, type Task.

Premise re-verified on origin/main this round: the "Three things it deliberately declines" sentence and three-row table are still there, and the fourth decline (#8957 / PR #9059, outcome: 'skipped' on a non-canonical stored type) is live. S-grade correction: count + table to four. The filer's generation-vs-hand-maintained question is worth one sentence in the PR, not a separate program — if the implementer finds a cheap os:check anchor idiom already used on that page family, prefer it; otherwise fix the mirror and move on.

Size/model suggestion: S mechanical, sonnet.

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[os-project-manager]

Claiming this issue.

Session: session_01Y26DJEHSBhhAQ6wwfsHNza
Branch: claude/issue-9175-migratestoredmetadata-decline-count

Will verify the decline count directly against migrateStoredMetadata in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts on current origin/main before touching the docs.

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[os-project-manager]

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 "issue": 9175,
 "status": "done",
 "branch": "claude/issue-9175-migratestoredmetadata-decline-count",
 "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/9195",
 "premise_still_valid": true,
 "summary": "Verified migrateStoredMetadata directly on origin/main (packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts) by enumerating every record({outcome:'skipped'|'failed',...}) call site rather than trusting the card's count; confirmed 4 is the correct number of CLI-observable declines (the pre-existing 3 plus #8957/PR #9059's non-canonical-stored-type skip) once the flow-engine-unreachable path already excluded by the page's own prose is set aside. Fixed content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx: added the fourth table row and reworded the lead-in sentence from 'Three things it deliberately declines' to 'What it deliberately declines' so the table stays the single source of truth for the count. No os:check-style anchor idiom exists on this page family, so per triage guidance this is the mirror fix, not a generation mechanism.",
 "tests": "All at ab09610db (git rev-parse --short HEAD, quoted after final commit, clean tree). pnpm check:cross-package-test-inputs -- pass (33/33 self-test, 12 packages declared). pnpm check:docs-audit-scope -- pass (178 hand-written docs in scope, 9 release-owned pages read-only). pnpm check:docs-redirects -- pass (92 entries, 98 chain probes). pnpm check:role-word -- pass (43 baselined files, no new occurrences). node scripts/check-doc-anchors.mjs -- pass (240 internal fragment links, 396 sources, all resolve). node scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs -- pass. packages/spec: check:liveness, check:empty-state, check:variant-docs, check:strictness-ledger -- all pass, run under the shared /tmp/os-heavy-verify.lock (matched via spec-liveness-check.yml's content/docs/** CI trigger; unaffected by a docs-only change). Gates derived with node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx (9 of 103 discovered families placed against this path).",
 "open_questions": [],
 "out_of_scope_findings": ["filed as #9196: protocol.ts's migrateStoredMetadata JSDoc ('What it declines to touch, and says so') also still lists three declines and never picked up #8957's fourth either -- same root cause as #9175, different docs face, plus a flagged (not asserted) pre-existing scope difference between the JSDoc's three items and the docs page's three items"]
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