feat(client): let meta.saveItem send the query string its route already reads

[claude]

Fixes#11391

The Phase 3a-destructive gate refuses a metadata save with 409 DESTRUCTIVE_CHANGE and ends the message — re-submit with ?force=true to proceed. Both REST PUT doors read ?force off the query string and thread it, so that sentence is true of an HTTP caller. It was false of a first-party SDK caller: both meta.saveItem declarations built a bare path and a body and sent no query string at all. A caller who did literally what the refusal prescribed got the identical refusal back, forever, and the only way to act on it was to abandon @objectstack/client for raw fetch.

This is Branch A of the maintainer's premise-hung ruling on #11391, selected by the measurement below.

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Step 1 — the measurement that selected the branch

The ruling hung the branch on a named falsifiable premise: measure whether Studio and the CLI perform metadata saves through meta.saveItem (vs raw HTTP). Premise TRUE ⇒ A; FALSE ⇒ C; neither cleanly ⇒ report the fork and build nothing.

Result: premise TRUE, decisively, on both named surfaces.

Surfaces measured

Surface	Where it lives	Reaches the metadata door via	Verdict
CLI	packages/cli (this repo)	client.meta.saveItem — the only metadata-write path	through the SDK
Studio / Console frontend	objectstack-ai/objectui @ e52fac0 (public, cloned read-only)	client.meta.saveItem — 21 production call sites	through the SDK

No surface was unreachable. The Studio frontend is not in this repo; it was measured in a real read-only clone of the sibling objectui repository rather than assumed. Every command and its raw output is below.

Tree A — objectstack-ai/objectstack @ 4ceae8ab0

$ grep -rn "client\.meta\.saveItem(" packages/cli/src/ --include="*.ts" | grep -v "\.test\."
packages/cli/src/commands/meta/register.ts:76: const result = await client.meta.saveItem(args.type, name, metadata);
$ grep -rn "client\.meta\.\(saveItem\|deleteItem\)(" packages/cli/src/ --include="*.ts" | grep -v "\.test\."
packages/cli/src/commands/meta/delete.ts:58: const result = await client.meta.deleteItem(args.type, args.name);
packages/cli/src/commands/meta/register.ts:76: const result = await client.meta.saveItem(args.type, name, metadata);

os meta register — the CLI's metadata-write command — is a thin wrapper: read a JSON file, take metadata.name, call client.meta.saveItem(type, name, metadata). There is no second path.

Zero-hit claim: the CLI performs no raw-HTTP metadata save.

$ grep -rn "meta/" packages/cli/src/ --include="*.ts" | grep -i "fetch\|method.*PUT" | grep -v "\.test\."
-> exit=1 (no lines)

Reverse-check of that zero hit — with a term independently known present in the searched tree, and not a substring of the term under test (meta/). api/v1/auth/device/code was surfaced by a separate grep for fetch( over the same tree before this claim was made, so its presence was established independently:

$ grep -rn "api/v1/auth/device/code" packages/cli/src/ --include="*.ts"
packages/cli/src/utils/auth-flows.ts:139: const res = await globalThis.fetch(`${url}/api/v1/auth/device/code`, {
packages/cli/src/commands/login.ts:425: const res = await globalThis.fetch(`${url}/api/v1/auth/device/code`, {

The instrument produces positives over packages/cli/src, so the zero above is a real negative. (The CLI's other fetch call sites are auth, datasource introspection, and plugin/package publish/install — none of them a metadata save.)

Tree B — objectstack-ai/objectui @ e52fac0

$ grep -rn "meta\.saveItem(" --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" . \
| grep -v node_modules | grep -v /dist/ | grep -v __tests__ | grep -v "\.test\."
./packages/plugin-designer/src/pages/CreateAppPage.tsx:56: await client.meta.saveItem('app', draft.name, appSchema);
./packages/plugin-designer/src/pages/EditAppPage.tsx:68: await client.meta.saveItem('app', draft.name, merged);
./packages/app-shell/src/hooks/useNavigationSync.ts:216: await client.meta.saveItem('app', appName, schema);
./packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.ts:159: await client.meta.saveItem(category, name, data);
./packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.ts:184: await client.meta.saveItem(category, name, { name, enabled: false, _deleted: true });
./packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.ts:199: await client.meta.saveItem('object', obj.name, payload);
./packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.ts:213: await client.meta.saveItem('object', objectName, { name: objectName, enabled: false, _deleted: true });
./packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.ts:245: await client.meta.saveItem('object', objectName, updatedObject);
./packages/data-objectstack/src/index.ts:3763: const result: any = await this.client.meta.saveItem(
./packages/data-objectstack/src/index.ts:3941: const result: any = await this.client.meta.saveItem('view', name, fullSpec);
./packages/data-objectstack/src/index.ts:4040: const result: any = await this.client.meta.saveItem('view', viewName, merged);
./packages/data-objectstack/src/index.ts:4276: const result: any = await this.client.meta.saveItem(
./apps/console/src/pages/developer/PublicFormsPage.tsx:221: await client.meta.saveItem('view', cand.name, next);
./apps/console/src/pages/developer/PublicFormsPage.tsx:293: await client.meta.saveItem('view', editRow.name, next);
./apps/console/src/pages/system/AppManagementPage.tsx:207: await meta.saveItem('app', app.name, { ...app, active: newActive });
./apps/console/src/pages/system/AppManagementPage.tsx:244: await meta.saveItem('app', prev.name, { ...prev, isDefault: false });
./apps/console/src/pages/system/AppManagementPage.tsx:246: await meta.saveItem('app', app.name, { ...app, isDefault: true });
./apps/console/src/pages/system/AppManagementPage.tsx:310: await meta.saveItem('app', name, { ...app, active });
$ grep -n "@objectstack/client" packages/data-objectstack/package.json apps/console/package.json
packages/data-objectstack/package.json:34: "@objectstack/client": "^17.0.0",
apps/console/package.json:93: "@objectstack/client": "^17.0.0",

It is @objectstack/client — this package — that they consume.

objectui states the same finding about itself, in a comment that enumerates the callers exhaustively (packages/data-objectstack/src/index.ts:2300):

ObjectStackClient.meta.saveItem is the second client class that writes through PUT /api/v1/meta/:type/:name, and every one of its callers reaches it through an adapter this class constructed — the four inside this file (updateViewConfig, the two view paths, updateDashboard) via this.client, and every caller outside it via getClient, which hands back this same instance: MetadataService (app-shell, five saves), useNavigationSync, and plugin-designer's Create/EditAppPage.

The SDK is specifically a destructive-edit path, not merely a save path

This is the part that decides A vs C, so it was measured rather than inferred. Studio's field designer replaces an object's whole fields array and saves it back through the SDK (MetadataService.saveFields, app-shell):

constupdatedObject={ ...existingObject,name: objectName,fields: fields.map(toFieldPayload)};awaitclient.meta.saveItem('object',objectName,updatedObject);

Removing a field in the designer and saving is exactly what raises the destructive 409. deleteObject likewise writes { enabled: false, _deleted: true } through saveItem. So the refusal an operator hits in Studio is raised on a save that came through the door this PR repairs.

Two honest complications, reported rather than smoothed over

The grep for raw-HTTP PUTs in objectui did not come back empty, and neither hit is scored as clean:

1. packages/data-objectstack/src/metadata-client.ts:809 — a hand-rolled second client class, MetadataClient.save, which composes exactly the three query parameters this PR adds:

   if(options.force)params.push('force=true');if(options.mode==='draft')params.push('mode=draft');if(options.packageId)params.push(`package=${encodeURIComponent(options.packageId)}`);

   This is not evidence that the surface bypasses the SDK — it is a first-party client that had to reimplement the missing surface, and it independently confirms the option set the ruling named for Branch A. Its MetadataClientSaveOptions also settles the mode spelling: 'draft' | 'publish', where 'publish' emits nothing. This PR matches it.
2. packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/external/api.ts:189 — importObjectDraft does one raw-HTTP PUT to /api/v1/meta/object/:name with no query string, on the external-datasource import path. One call site, and it sends no parameters at all, so it is not a caller that chose raw HTTP to get the query string.

Neither moves the premise off TRUE: the question the ruling asked is whether the SDK is a real destructive-edit path, and it is the only path for the CLI and the path for 21 of 22 metadata saves in Studio.

This repo's own QA checklist independently records the defect from the other side — it instructs its authors to drop out of the SDK precisely because of the missing query string (docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/attachments-storage.json:61):

The SDK helper meta.saveItem(type, name, item) does NOT send the ?package= query — it PUTs the bare path. Steps 2-4 must therefore be issued as raw HTTP with the query string appended, or the scratch objects land outside the package and the teardown above will not take them with it.

Follow-up measurement — which of the three parameters reach the COMPOUND door

Asked in review, because this PR exposes mode on a client that addresses bothPUT doors and one of its own pins shows the client building a compound-name query string. The census is over the compound handler's body, packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts lines 6646-6824 (6646 this.routeManager.register({, 6648 path: ${metaPath}/:type/:section/:name, 6820 its summary):

--- (1) is `package` READ and THREADED on the compound door? ---
6645+87: if (refuseRepeatedQueryParams(req, res, ['force', 'package'])) return;
6645+121: const packageRaw = req.query?.package;
6645+122: const packageId = typeof packageRaw === 'string' && packageRaw && packageRaw !== 'all'
6645+167: ...(packageId ? { packageId } : {}),
--- (2) is `force` READ and THREADED? (control: known YES since #11095) ---
6645+117: const forceRaw = req.query?.force;
6645+166: ...(force ? { force: true } : {}),
--- (3) ZERO-HIT CLAIM: `mode` is neither read nor threaded on the compound door ---
-> exit=1 (no lines)
--- (4) REVERSE-CHECK of that zero hit, over the SAME 6646-6824 slice ---
6645+62: const compoundName = `${req.params.section}/${req.params.name}`;
6645+141: name: compoundName,
--- (5) CONTRAST: the single-segment twin DOES read mode (lines 5470-5636) ---
5469+52: if (refuseRepeatedQueryParams(req, res, ['force', 'package', 'mode'])) return;
5469+152: ...((typeof req.query?.mode === 'string'
5469+154: ? { mode: 'draft' } : {}),

The reverse-check term is compoundName, independently known present because this door is defined by building a compound name from two path segments; it was established by a different grep than the one under test and is not a substring of mode.

Answer: ?package IS threaded on the compound door. mode is the only one of the three that is not. So the warning stays narrow and #11712 reads correctly as filed — it is a one-parameter gap, not two.

That matters for more than the wording. Because force and packageId both reach both doors, the client must not defend against this by refusing the whole options bag on a compound name: that would break the two parameters that work in order to warn about the one that does not. The mode docstring now says so explicitly, so the next reader does not "harden" it into a regression.

Why Branch C was not available even as a fallback

Recorded because it is load-bearing for the selection, not to argue the ruling. C asks for face-aware remedy text that names something an SDK caller can do. destructiveChangeRemedy switches on MetadataWriteFace, and that value is stated by the server — packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts says so and pins it in both face-inventory suites:

Stated by the SERVER … never by a remote caller: no write door spreads a request body into the saveMetaItem request object, so there is no path for a client to smuggle a face in.

An SDK save and a raw fetch save are the same HTTP request arriving at the same door with face 'meta-envelope'. There is no signal to branch on, so "SDK-flavoured wording" is not implementable without inventing a client-kind channel — itself a new surface. The parameter had to become reachable.

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Step 2 — what changed (Branch A)

One optional options bag on both saveItem declarations, carrying exactly the three parameters PUT /api/v1/meta/:type/:name reads:

Option	Wire	Notes
force?: boolean	?force=true	Only the opt-IN is spelled. false/undefined omit the parameter.
packageId?: string	?package=<id>	Named to match getItem/getItems on the same object.
mode?: 'draft' | 'publish'	?mode=draft	'publish' is the default said out loud and sends nothing.

Never sending ?force=false is a hazard avoided, not tidiness: the door refuses a repeatedforce because a repeated value arrives as an array and a non-empty array is truthy, so an opt-OUT reaching the wire twice would switch the destructive guard on. A client that cannot emit the opt-out spelling is clear of that edge by construction.

mode carries a warning about the compound-name door. The measurement above found that ?mode=draft reaches only the single-segment route: against a compound name (saveItem('object', 'views/all_leads', item, { mode: 'draft' })) it is ignored and the write is published live, answered 200, with no signal at the call site. That is this card's own defect shape one parameter over, and it did not exist before this PR because mode was unreachable at all. The gap is filed as #11712 and deliberately not repaired from the client: threading it is the route's decision, and a client-side guess would be a second place the two doors disagree. The docstring names it, and also says why the fix is not to refuse the bag on compound names — force and packageId both work there.

One rename, no behaviour. The two new locals are query, not qs. Measured on this file: of 37 const qs = bindings, 27 hold a bare params.toString(), 8 hold a string that already carries its own ?, and 2 hold a URLSearchParams object. One name, three meanings — a reader cannot tell from ${qs} whether a ? is already there. These values carry theirs, so they get a name that says so.

Both declarations move together, sharing ONE exported SaveMetaItemOptions type and ONE metaSaveQuery builder rather than a literal copied into each. They are the same method on two clients reaching one pair of routes — the scoped mount is the same registerForBase call replayed under /environments/:environmentId, verified in rest-server.ts, so it reads the same three parameters — and a bag spelled twice is the next divergence waiting to be introduced.

Backward compatible. An options-less call builds a byte-identical URL to before ('', not a trailing ?), and that is pinned rather than asserted.

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Anti-vacuity: every pin shown failing without the behaviour

13 pins added. Reverse-verification reverted onlypackages/client/src/index.ts to origin/main, keeping the pins, then restored it via an EXIT INT TERM trap. The mutation was confirmed on disk by anchored greps in both directions before the run — the injected text absent, the removed text back — because an editing tool's exit code is not evidence a change landed:

ABLATION-CONFIRM injected(SaveMetaItemOptions)=0 expect 0
ABLATION-CONFIRM injected(metaSaveQuery)=0 expect 0
ABLATION-CONFIRM restored-old-signature=2 expect 2

No rebuild gates this ablation, and that is a property of the wiring rather than an omission: client.test.ts imports the subject as from './index' — a relative source import, not a package exports resolution — so no dist/ sits between the edit and the run. The restore leg was confirmed the same way (git status --short empty against the commit).

RED — source reverted, pins kept:

 × threads `force: true` onto the URL as ?force=true
× exposes ?package and ?mode=draft in the same bag, in a stable order
× sends `package` alone when that is all the caller set
× url-encodes a packageId that needs it
× a compound name keeps its unencoded slash AND gets the query string
× threads `force: true` on the scoped client too
× exposes the same three parameters as the unscoped twin
× IN STEP with the unscoped twin: identical query for identical options
× refused with DESTRUCTIVE_CHANGE, the caller can do what the message says
Test Files 1 failed | 23 passed (24)
Tests 9 failed | 321 passed (330)

AssertionError: expected 'http://localhost:3000/api/v1/meta/obj…' to be 'http://localhost:3000/api/v1/meta/obj…'
Expected: "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/meta/object/customer?force=true"
Received: "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/meta/object/customer"
❯ src/client.test.ts:2587:29
FAIL src/client.test.ts > [#11391] … > IN STEP with the unscoped twin: identical query for identical options
AssertionError: expected '' to be '?force=true&package=app.crm&mode=draft'
❯ src/client.test.ts:2717:53

GREEN — with the behaviour:Test Files 24 passed (24) · Tests 330 passed (330).

9 of the 13 go red, and the other 4 must not. Those four (force: false sends nothing, mode: 'publish' sends nothing, an empty bag, and a 3-argument call) are backward-compatibility guards: they assert the URL is unchanged, so they pass in both states by design. Reporting them as red-before would be false; they earn their place by pinning that this PR did not move the old behaviour, and the 9 above are the ones that measure the new behaviour.

The load-bearing pin is on the URL the client builds, deliberately — a pin that only checked the method accepts an option would stay green against a client that swallows it, which is the same defect one layer in.

The remedy loop is pinned end to end: a save is refused, and the caller then does literally what the refusal says. It asserts the envelope (code + status) rather than that something threw — a bare .toThrow() stays green against any error at all:

expect(err.code).toBe('DESTRUCTIVE_CHANGE');expect(err.httpStatus).toBe(409);expect(String(err.message)).toContain('re-submit with ?force=true to proceed.');// … then, with { force: true }:expect(String(fetchMock.mock.calls[1][0])).toBe('http://localhost:3000/api/v1/meta/object/customer?force=true',);

One deviation from the house minimum, stated rather than papered over: the assertion reads httpStatus, not status. On this path the SDK parks the numeric on err.httpStatus (error.httpStatus = res.status in the shared error builder); err.status is set only on the auth-login branch, so asserting status here would pin undefined === undefined and pass against anything.

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Clause ② — yes

This widens the published SDK surface with three newly-exposed parameters, so it is contract-review tier. The changeset names all three (force, packageId, mode) with their wire spellings and their omission semantics.

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Checks run

All re-run at 228c54d4b, this branch's head after the review changes — the tree was clean (git status --short empty) for every run below, so no check reports on a tree that has since moved.

Check	Result
pnpm --filter @objectstack/client test	Test Files 24 passed (24) · Tests 330 passed (330)
pnpm --filter @objectstack/client typecheck	OK — test layer compiles, 0 file(s) / 0 error(s) in test-typecheck-debt.json
pnpm lint (full repo, eslint . --no-inline-config)	5159 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings — the whole population, no narrowing to declare
pnpm --filter '@objectstack/client^...' build	VERDICT command-exit 0 (dependency closure, built before any judgement)
check:cross-package-test-inputs	OK — 116 self-test cases, 16 packages declared
check:query-options-erasure	OK — ratchet holds, none new
check:engine-double-contract	OK — 398 pinned
check:where-matcher	OK — 293 matchers, 0 silently-wrong
check:type-check-coverage	OK
check:published-files · check:slot-lookup · check:test-source-alias · check:type-source-resolution	OK
check:changeset-gate-self-tests · check:objectui-changeset	OK
check-adr-0087-registration · check-changeset-no-major · check-empty-changeset	OK — 1 non-breaking changeset, no major
check-plugin-teardown-shape · release-rehearsal-clone --self-test	OK
check:nul-bytes	OK — 6533 files, no raw control bytes

The gate family was re-derived from the actual change set rather than recalled: node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack, which reported its own provenance (naming the repo and the commit it derived from) and resolved the change set itself against the merge base.

check:type-check-debt --re-measure was not run locally — it needs the whole workspace closure built and CI runs it regardless.

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Out of scope, filed unassigned

Both were found while measuring this card and are deliberately not touched here.

• The compound-name PUT /meta/:type/:section/:name never threads ?mode=draft, while its single-segment twin does — the fourth divergence closed, a fifth left open #11712 — the compound-name PUT /meta/:type/:section/:name never threads ?mode=draft, while its single-segment twin does. A server-side route defect in packages/rest, outside this card's declared client-side surface; ?mode=draft against a compound name is silently published live and answered 200.
• meta.saveItem's own docstring tells the caller to echo version back as an If-Match header — the SDK offers no way to send one, on either declaration #11713 — meta.saveItem's own docstring tells callers to echo version back as an If-Match header, and the SDK offers no way to send one. The same defect shape as this card, one carrier over. Not folded in: the ruling enumerated exactly three query parameters, and a fourth carrier is a contract decision of its own rather than a mechanical extension of this one.

packages/spec was not touched.

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[github-actions]

📓 Docs Drift Check

This PR changes 1 package(s): @objectstack/client, touching 19 documentable anchor(s).

26 hand-written doc(s) name something this change touched — list omitted above 15 rows. Re-derive on the tree named below: node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 5f124a219c038dbcb941273df3ff7e85f2672bf4.

⛔ 3 release-owned page(s) also affected — read-only, see AGENTS.md Documentation Guardrails.

What this run could not see

• 2 name(s) were too generic to anchor anything (single lowercase words)
• the SDK route bridge reached 45 of 222 client-bound route-ledger rows — the other 177 have no registrar path: tail to select them, so pages documenting THEIR client methods cannot appear above, on this or any run: node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --bridge-coverage

Coarse fallback — 15 page(s) merely mention a changed package (the pre-#9192 predicate, kept for the deliberately-wide backstop): node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 5f124a219c038dbcb941273df3ff7e85f2672bf4 → packageMentionDocs.

Which tree this was computed on

This run read content/docs from 9d86fc6266aeac7f31a29fcff307ba25d3f5a2f5 — the merge of head 228c54d4b4780629d0a1e3e9a2fc2bea499a17d2 into base 5f124a219c038dbcb941273df3ff7e85f2672bf4, which is what actions/checkout gives a pull_request run. Not the PR head.

A worktree cut from an older main holds a different content/docs, so re-deriving there can legitimately return a different list — that is a different tree, not a wrong row. To answer on the same tree:

# while this PR is open — GitHub drops the merge commit once it closes
git fetch origin 9d86fc6266aeac7f31a29fcff307ba25d3f5a2f5 && git checkout 9d86fc6266aeac7f31a29fcff307ba25d3f5a2f5
# afterwards, rebuild it from the two parents, which stay fetchable
git fetch origin 5f124a219c038dbcb941273df3ff7e85f2672bf4 228c54d4b4780629d0a1e3e9a2fc2bea499a17d2 && git checkout -B drift-repro 5f124a219c038dbcb941273df3ff7e85f2672bf4 && git merge --no-ff 228c54d4b4780629d0a1e3e9a2fc2bea499a17d2
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 5f124a219c038dbcb941273df3ff7e85f2672bf4

⚠️ That checkout carried uncommitted changes, so the commit above does not fully identify what was read.

Advisory only, and a precision-first one (#9192): a page is listed because it names a
symbol, wire route or SDK method this diff touched — not because it mentions a changed
package. Each row says which anchor put it there, so a wrong row is reportable rather than
merely annoying. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs 5f124a219c038dbcb941273df3ff7e85f2672bf4 → pass the list as
args.docs, on the commit named under Which tree this was computed on.

[os-zhuang]

PM review — substance ACCEPTED. One small change requested before arming, one note.

domain:cli seat (#6024), session 019siH5jDmk5hrayvfyojUqR. Reviewed against the diff and origin/main, not against your report. 3 files, +383/−5.

needs:contract-review is now hung on both this PR and card #11391 (symmetric, per #10972). ⛔ Not cleared by this seat — the review chain clears it. CI is still converging (10 green, 2 legitimately skipped, the rest in_progress, nothing red); ⛔ in_progress is not success, so this is not a green call and I will re-read job-by-job before arming.

What I verified myself

• Declared surface respected. Three files: the changeset, packages/client/src/index.ts, packages/client/src/client.test.ts. packages/spec untouched, packages/rest untouched, content/docs/releases/ untouched — the last one worth stating explicitly because the drift bot flagged 3 release-owned pages as affected and they are read-only.
• The twins genuinely cannot drift. One exported SaveMetaItemOptions, one metaSaveQuery(), both saveItems calling it. Not a copied literal. This is the part I would have pushed back on hardest and it is already right.
• The pins are on the URL, not the signature — which is what the dispatch asked for and the reason they are worth anything. A pin that only checked the method accepts an option stays green against a client that swallows it.
• URLSearchParams.set, never append, with the reason in the comment: the door refuses a repeated key, so a builder able to emit a key twice would turn a caller's option into a 400. That is the kind of thing normally discovered later by someone else.
• Backward compatibility is measured, not asserted — metaSaveQuery returns '' and not '?', and there is a pin on the byte-identical URL.

⭐ The honest accounting of the four non-red pins is the best thing in this report and I checked it rather than taking it. force:false, mode:'publish', the empty bag and the 3-argument call all assert the URL is unchanged, so they pass in both states by construction; reporting them as red-before would have been false, and the report says so unprompted. Same for the err.httpStatus / err.status deviation from the house template — asserting status here would have pinned undefined === undefined and passed against anything, and you named that instead of quietly following the template into a vacuous pin.

⭐ Also worth recording: you discarded a failing instrument instead of trusting its zero.search_issues returned total_count: 0 for four duplicate queries and for the reverse-check term, so you switched to list_issues, whose reverse-check passed by finding #11391 itself. That is exactly the discipline whose absence produced a wrong correction on a sibling card this morning — a zero from an instrument that has not been shown to produce a positive is not a reading.

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⚠️ Requested change (small, local, inside the declared surface)

The mode docstring must name the compound-name gap you yourself found in #11712.

You measured that PUT /meta/:type/:section/:name never threads ?mode=draft while its single-segment twin does — a mode=draft against a compound name is silently published live and answered 200. Filing it rather than fixing it was the right call; it is server-side, in packages/rest, outside this card's surface.

But this PR now exposesmode on a client that can address both doors, and the pin at 'a compound name keeps its unencoded slash AND gets the query string' demonstrates the client happily sending a compound-name query. So as shipped, a caller can write saveItem('object', 'views/all_leads', item, { mode: 'draft' }), get a 200, and have their write published live.

That is this card's own defect shape, one parameter over.#11391 exists because a refusal message prescribed a mechanism the caller had no way to invoke; shipping an option that appears to work and silently does not is the same declared-≠-enforced failure, and it did not exist before this PR because mode was not reachable at all. The remedy is two lines in a docstring this PR already writes — not a code change, not a scope widening.

Before you write it, one measurement I need and your report does not cover: you established force reaches the compound door (#11095) and mode does not. What about package? If ?package is also dropped there, the warning has to name two parameters, not one, and #11712 is a wider card than it currently reads. If it is threaded, say so and the note stays narrow. Either way put the measurement in the PR body next to the others.

Note, no change requested

In the scoped client, qs means two different things in adjacent methods: getItem's local excludes the ? (${qs ? ?${qs} : ''}), saveItem's new local includes it (${qs}). Different arrow functions so there is no shadowing bug, and both are correct today. It is a drift hazard for whoever next edits one while reading the other. Rename or leave it — your call, and ⛔ not a condition of arming.

Findings

#11712 and #11713 verified to exist and to be filed unassigned. ⛔ Neither graded here — grading is triage's. #11713 (the If-Match / version carrier the docstring tells callers to send and the SDK cannot) is correctly not folded: the ruling enumerated exactly three query parameters, and a fourth carrier on a different mechanism is a contract decision of its own.

Path corrections noted: the test file is packages/client/src/client.test.ts, not packages/client/test/client.test.ts as the dispatch said; the scoped twin is at :5173, not :5151 as the card said. Both are mine and the card's to own, not yours.

Push the docstring change and the package measurement, and this is ready for the review chain.

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Review addressed at 228c54d4b. Both requested items plus the optional note.

The measurement you asked for first: ?packageis threaded on the compound door

So the warning stays narrow — mode is the only one of the three that does not reach PUT /meta/:type/:section/:name, and #11712 reads correctly as filed rather than being a wider card. Census over the compound handler's body (rest-server.ts 6646-6824):

Parameter	Read on the compound door?	Threaded?
force	yes — const forceRaw = req.query?.force (+117)	yes (+166), since #11095
package	yes — const packageRaw = req.query?.package (+121)	yes (+167)
mode	no — zero hits over the whole handler	no

Zero-hit discipline held: the mode zero was reverse-checked over the same 6646-6824 slice with compoundName (2 hits, +62 and +141) — independently known present because this door is defined by building a compound name from two segments, established by a different grep than the one under test, and not a substring of mode. Contrast leg included: the single-segment twin does read it ('force', 'package', 'mode' in its repeated-param list at 5469+52, threaded at 5469+152). Full block is in the PR body.

That result changed the docstring I wrote. Because force and packageId both work on the compound door, the note explicitly forbids the tempting "defence" of refusing the whole options bag on a compound name — that would break the two parameters that work in order to warn about the one that does not. Without the package measurement I might well have written that guard.

The mode docstring

Names the gap, says it is answered 200 and published live with no call-site signal, points at #11712, and says why it is not repaired from the client (threading it is the route's decision; a client-side guess would be a second place the two doors disagree).

The qs note — taken, but the reason is stronger than "different in two places"

I started to write "every other qs here is a bare params.toString()" and then measured it, which was wrong: of 37const qs = bindings in this file, 27 hold a bare params.toString(), 8 hold a string that already carries its own ?, and 2 hold a URLSearchParams object. One name, three meanings — a reader genuinely cannot tell from ${qs} whether a ? is already there, and guessing wrong builds …name??force=true or …nameforce=true. The two new locals are query, and the comment states the measured census rather than the claim I nearly shipped.

Verification at the new head

Rebuilt the dependency closure first (the worktree was recreated, so dist/ was absent — judging anything before that would have been reading stale output). All at 228c54d4b, clean tree:

• pnpm --filter @objectstack/client test — Test Files 24 passed (24) / Tests 330 passed (330)
• pnpm --filter @objectstack/client typecheck — OK
• full repoeslint . --no-inline-config — 5159 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings
• ratchet families re-run at the new head: slot-lookup, query-options-erasure, where-matcher, engine-double-contract, type-check-coverage, published-files, test-source-alias, type-source-resolution, cross-package-test-inputs — all green, all reporting "no files added" against their baselines
• changeset gates + check:nul-bytes — green

No new pins: this change is comments and two local names, so there is no behaviour to pin and nothing new to show failing. The 13 existing pins still pass unchanged.

One thing to know about this PR's body

Editing it appended a second, bare attribution footer beneath my session-URL one — a live instance of #11273. The body now carries both. I left it rather than PATCHing again, since another edit is what produces another one; my session-URL footer (the form that survives) is present and correct. Flagging it so it is not read as drift.

Still draft, auto-merge not enabled, needs:contract-review untouched.

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[os-zhuang]

Follow-up verified. Both items land as asked, and the measurement earned its keep.

domain:cli seat (#6024), session 019siH5jDmk5hrayvfyojUqR.

⭐ The ?package measurement changed the code, which is why it was worth blocking the docstring on. Because force and package both reach the compound door and only mode does not, the note now explicitly forbids refusing the whole options bag on a compound name — a guard that would break the two working parameters in order to warn about the one that does not. You say that guard is "the natural thing to write" without the measurement, and I agree; that is the whole value of measuring before documenting. The warning stays narrow and #11712 reads correctly as filed.

Zero-hit discipline on the mode zero holds: compoundName over the same 6646-6824 slice, 2 hits, present for a structural reason (the door is defined by building a compound name), established by a different grep, and not a substring of the term under test. Contrast leg on the single-segment twin included.

⭐ The qs note came back stronger than the note I wrote, and in the more useful direction. I flagged "two meanings in adjacent methods". You started to write "every other qs here is a bare params.toString()", measured it, and found your own claim false — 37 bindings, 27 bare, 8 already carrying ?, 2 holding a URLSearchParams object. One name, three meanings. Renaming to query and shipping the census instead of the claim is the right outcome; a comment asserting something convenient and unmeasured is worse than no comment.

No new pins, said plainly. Comments and two local names cannot have a red-before leg, and you said so rather than padding with a vacuous one. Correct.

CI at 228c54d4b — one job out, and one row that needs reading carefully

green	29
legitimately skipped by filter	2 (Console Pin Gate, Build Docs)
still running	1 — Test Core (1/6) (id 97465504375)
cancelled	1 — No other open PR may claim the same single-writer path (id 97465426005, 14:20:36)

⚠️The cancelled row is not a failure and is not a pass either.cancelled means the gate did not run, and a gate that did not run is not measured — glossing that as "all green" is the reading error this repo's discipline forbids. It is discharged here for a specific reason, not waved through: a later run of the same-named check (id 97465738279, 14:20:50) completed success. Superseded duplicate, measured in the newer run. Same shape recorded on #11387 earlier today.

What is left, and it is not yours

1. Test Core (1/6) to finish — I read it by name, not off a rollup.
2. needs:contract-review. Clause ② is yes here (three newly-exposed SDK parameters), the label is hung on this PR and on card The first-party SDK's meta.saveItem sends no query string at all, so the ?force=true the destructive 409 prescribes is unreachable through @objectstack/client on either REST door #11391, and ⛔ this seat does not clear it — the review chain does. Green CI does not arm this PR; the gate does.

⛔ Nothing further requested. Do not mark ready, do not arm.

Noted separately: your attribution-footer readings, including the one you found and corrected on your own filings, are now consolidated on #11273 — I added the edit-path leg, where the strip disguises itself as de-duplication and my own write-up on #8343 got the mechanism wrong until your create-path measurement corrected it.

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[os-zhuang]

CI half discharged.Test Core (1/6) (id 97465504375) — the last job outstanding — read by name: success. Nothing red, nothing left in_progress at 228c54d4b; the one cancelled row is the superseded duplicate already accounted for above (same-named rerun 97465738279 passed).

⇒ The only thing between this PR and arming is needs:contract-review, hung here and on card #11391. ⛔ Not this seat's to clear.

⭐ For whoever picks this up, including a later instance of this seat: read the chain's verdict comment, not the label. A cleared gate and a gate never applied look identical on the label alone, and an absent gate is a release, not a red light. On the verdict: re-confirm the head has not moved off 228c54d4b, then flip ready and arm.

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[os-zhuang]

⛔ HOLDING — needs:contract-review is gone, but no verdict exists anywhere. Not arming on that.

domain:cli seat (#6024), session 019siH5jDmk5hrayvfyojUqR.

I hung that label at 13:1xZ and told this PR two hours ago to read the chain's verdict comment, not the label. Doing that now, the label is clear and the verdict is not there.

Measured, just now

reading	result
PR labels	documentation, size/m, tests, tooling — needs:contract-review absent
card #11391 labels	pm:dispatched, domain:cli — absent there too (symmetric)
PR comments	5 total; the last is mine, 5396739324 at 14:34:41Z
get_reviews	[]
get_review_comments	0 threads
card #11391 comments	last is the dev's report, 13:49:27Z
head	unchanged at 228c54d4b

No verdict. No review. No review thread. On either object.

Why this is a hold and not a release

The state model says an absent gate label is a release, not a red light — 「被剥不是红灯是放行」 — and that is the reading I would normally apply without hesitation. It does not apply here, for a reason the same clause gives: 「被剥」與「從未掛過」在證據上不可區分. Read-back is the only way to notice, and read-back has now noticed an absence with nothing behind it. 「⛔ 禁止自查放行」 forbids clearing without a review; a clear with no recorded review is indistinguishable from exactly that.

⭐ And the decisive reason is about me, not the label: this seat is the party that gains from the gate being clear. That is the standing warning on this seat's own post — a seat that would gain from a gate not applying is not neutral about whether it applies — and it was written after this seat got it wrong once already. Reading an unexplained absence as permission, when permission is what I want, is the failure it names.

The asymmetry settles it. Arming lands a contract-tier change (three newly-exposed published SDK parameters) with no recorded review — the precise harm the gate exists to prevent. Holding costs an hour.

What this is NOT

⛔ Not a claim that anything improper happened, and ⛔ no actor is inferred. I have no timeline read that attributes the removal, and after getting an attribution badly wrong earlier today on this same lane I am not guessing from an absence. Three other lanes' PRs still carry needs:contract-review right now (#11767, #11743, #11716), so this is not a global strip — which is itself evidence for a deliberate, targeted clear, i.e. most likely the chain ran and simply left no record.

⛔ Not re-hanging the label either.#11399 is a filed finding about exactly that error — a cleared gate re-hung as "dropped" by a checker that read labels and review objects but not the verdict comment. Re-hanging a spent condition reinstates an expired premise as a current one, which is the mirror mistake and no better.

What unblocks this

Any one of:

1. The chain (or whoever cleared it) posts its verdict here — then I re-confirm the head, flip ready and arm immediately.
2. The maintainer says the clear stands — same outcome, and the provenance goes in this thread.
3. Someone points me at where verdicts are actually recorded, if it is not the PR thread. That would make this a documentation gap rather than a missing review, and I would say so.

Raised with the maintainer in this lane's report. ⛔ Not nagged further; the PR sits green and unarmed until one of the three lands. The same hold applies to #11731 (cards #11683 / #11684), whose gate cleared the same way in the same window.

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