docs(api): stop pinning a discovery version literal at four sites

[claude]

Fixes#11295

The discovery version field names the serving artifact, not a constant. Four
hand-written samples asserted a literal for it. Each now says what the field means, so
none goes stale on the next release. Docs-only: zero package source touched.

The card named one site. Four were measured; all four are fixed.

#	site	pinned	in scope via	failure history
1	content/docs/api/client-sdk.mdx:90	"1.0.0"	the card	a value no producer ever served
2	content/docs/api/index.mdx:117	"v1"	PM scope call	accurate until #11548, wrong now
3	content/docs/protocol/kernel/http-protocol.mdx:46	"v1"	PM scope call	accurate until #11548, wrong now
4	content/docs/protocol/kernel/http-protocol.mdx:129	"1.0.0"	measured here	the exact literal #10993 removed

Row 4 was the open question, and it is closed by measurement

The measuring seat named :129 and correctly refused to assert it: different route
(GET /.well-known/objectstack), different producer, untouched by #11292/#11548. It is
not the same producer, but it is the same defect, and the call chain settles it by
content rather than by analogy:

dispatcher-plugin.ts:839 server.get('/.well-known/objectstack', …)
└─ dispatcher.getDiscoveryInfo(prefix)
└─ http-dispatcher.ts:1428 version: this.runtimeVersion
└─ http-dispatcher.ts:318 resolveRuntimeVersion()
└─ runtime-version.ts:80
getEnv('OS_RUNTIME_VERSION') || resolvePackageVersion() || 'unknown'

The producer's own comment at http-dispatcher.ts:1421 names the literal the doc still
carried: "[#10993] Was a hardcoded '1.0.0' literal — the identical defect as /health's
version … fixed the same way." So :129 is stale for exactly the reason the sweep
suspected. Verdict: same defect, folded in.

Two prose claims were false in the same way

These explain the very literals above, so fixing the JSON while leaving them would have
made the page contradict itself.

• http-protocol.mdx:79 asserted "version is the configured API version … The handler
  overwrites the protocol's value with api.version … never a semantic version like
  2.1.0." Every clause is now wrong. rest-server.ts:3220 states the removal in place:
  "This line used to read discovery.version = this.config.api.version."
• http-protocol.mdx:161 called name and version"fixed strings." True of name
  ('ObjectOS'), false of version since [finding] /api/v1/health reports a hardcoded version: '1.0.0' — a field that exists and lies, so no consumer can use it for artifact identity #10993. The sentence is split so each half is
  accurate.

The API-version fact is not lost, and both pages now say where it went: every routes
entry is prefixed with the mounted base path, which is still built from api.version.

No value replaced a value

Per the dispatch ruling, a doc that now pins "v2" instead of "v1" has re-armed the
same trap. The JSON samples carry "<the serving artifact's version>" — a placeholder,
not an assertion — and the SDK comment carries the card's own bare wording. Post-#11548
one sentence covers every producer, exactly as the card predicted it would.

discovery.environment is deliberately left as "development": it is a member of a
closed enum, not a version string — the card's own carve-out.

Verification

Before → after, with the control that makes the zeros mean something. The zeros below
are not "the line was deleted": leg C shows the touched lines still match the probe, so
the value changed and nothing was removed.

A) pinned literals at the touched sites BEFORE AFTER
api/client-sdk.mdx "1.0.0" ×1 0
api/index.mdx "v1" ×1 0
protocol/kernel/http-protocol.mdx "v1" ×1 0
protocol/kernel/http-protocol.mdx "1.0.0" ×1 0
B) CONTROL — same probe, rest of content/docs (must still fire): 5 hits, unchanged
permissions/access-matrix.mdx:53 "version": 1 AccessMatrixSchema format ver
references/api/plugin-rest-api.mdx:35 "version": "1.0.0" plugin manifest (AUTO-GEN tree)
protocol/kernel/lifecycle.mdx:646 "version": "2.0.0" health-monitor model sample
protocol/kernel/plugin-spec.mdx:677 "version": "1.5.0" package.json
plugins/index.mdx:338 "version": "1.0.0" package.json
C) the touched lines STILL MATCH the probe (placeholder, not deletion)
api/client-sdk.mdx:90 // the serving artifact's version
api/index.mdx:117 "version": "<the serving artifact's version>"
http-protocol.mdx:46 "version": "<the serving artifact's version>"
http-protocol.mdx:134 "version": "<the serving artifact's version>"

None of the five control hits is a discovery manifest — each was read, not counted.

MDX compile, with its own control. The placeholder introduces < into .mdx, so the
fence protection was measured rather than assumed:

bare <…> outside a fence → FAIL "Expected a closing tag for `<the>`" ← probe fires
same <…> inside a ```json fence → ok
the three real files → ok

Gates — union derived by node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack
(17 families + nul-bytes), re-run at 53929ecae on a clean tree. Exit codes captured
before any pipe; all 18 exit 0:

cross-package-test-inputs 0 doc-anchors 0 doc-authoring 0
doc-formula-expressions 0 doc-security-posture 0 docs-audit-scope 0
docs-redirects 0 spec-empty-state 0 spec-liveness 0
published-readme-links 0 react-page-adapter-contract 0 role-word 0
spec-strictness-ledger 0 spec-variant-docs 0 ci-cross-package-inputs 0
doc-frontmatter 0 section-landing-index 0 nul-bytes 0

Verdict lines the gates printed themselves:

✓ doc authoring guard: 389 files clean — no bare metadata literals.
✓ check-doc-frontmatter: 403 page(s) under content/docs parse with yaml@2.9.0 …
✓ docs-accuracy-audit scope is in sync with content/docs/: 189 hand-written doc(s).
✓ release-owned pages are in scope and read-only: 9 page(s) … review-only

The six --filter gates were checked for the zero-match trap — each echoed its script
name and produced real output, so none passed by matching nothing.

content/docs/releases/implementation-status.mdx was not touched, per the dispatch
ruling — the last verdict line above is the independent confirmation.

No changeset, matching #11750's precedent: a documentation correction touching zero
package source publishes nothing. skip-changeset applied.

Notes for the reviewer

• Two corrections to the record, both minor. The prior sweep reported the probe firing
  in six other content/docs pages; on 2a6122bd9 it fires in five, listed above.
  No commit touched those pages between the sweep and this branch, so the population did
  not move under it. And the card's Zone 2 warning that client-sdk.mdx:90 may already
  have been swept by fix(rest): serve the producer's derived discovery version, not config.api.version (#11292) #11548 did not hold — the line was untouched and still pinned
  "1.0.0".
• One finding filed, not fixed — lifecycle.mdx "Health Status Response" shows the internal health-monitor model under a heading that reads as the GET /health wire body #11760, surfaced by this PR's own control population:
  lifecycle.mdx's "Health Status Response" sample shows the internal PluginHealthMonitor
  model (status: "healthy", a checks map, bare envelope) under a heading that reads as
  the GET /health wire body, which actually serves an enveloped status: "ok" with no
  checks. A different defect from this card's, so it is not folded in here.

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[os-steve]

ACCEPT. Verified by content on origin/main, not by reading the report back.

The premise, and my Zone 2 worry that did not hold

#11548 landed — rest-server.ts:3220 carries // [#11292] \version` is the PRODUCER's, and is deliberately`, so the override really is gone. And all four sites were still pinned when you measured, including the one I warned might have been swept:

content/docs/api/index.mdx:117 "version": "v1",
content/docs/protocol/kernel/http-protocol.mdx:46 "version": "v1",
content/docs/protocol/kernel/http-protocol.mdx:129 "version": "1.0.0",
content/docs/api/client-sdk.mdx "1.0.0" ×1

So the same-day-churn worry I raised was wrong — client-sdk.mdx:90 was not swept by #11548 and still pinned "1.0.0" verbatim. Worth checking, wrong as stated; reporting that plainly is the right outcome.

:129 — you measured it instead of assuming, and that is the whole value

This was the open question I most wanted closed, and you closed it by tracing the producer rather than by pattern-matching the defect:

GET /.well-known/objectstack → dispatcher-plugin.ts:839 → getDiscoveryInfo
→ http-dispatcher.ts:1428 version: this.runtimeVersion
→ :318 this.runtimeVersion = resolveRuntimeVersion()
→ OS_RUNTIME_VERSION || @objectstack/runtime pkg version || 'unknown'

Verified on main, at those lines. And the decisive evidence is the producer's own comment at :1421:

[#10993] Was a hardcoded '1.0.0' literal — the identical defect as /health's version … fixed the same way

So the doc pins the literal the producer removed, named as such by the code that removed it. Same defect, folded in — correct. The prior seat was right to refuse to assert it unmeasured, and you were right to measure it rather than inherit their caution.

The two prose corrections nobody asked for

Neither was in the card. Both are on main and both are now false:

• http-protocol.mdx:83 — "It is never a semantic version like 2.1.0"
• http-protocol.mdx:164 — "are fixed strings, so do not display them as the deployment's title"

These are the sentences that explained the old literals. Correcting a JSON sample and leaving the prose that justifies it is how a page ends up contradicting itself with every gate green — and a reader trusts the sentence more than the sample. Catching the explanation alongside the value is the difference between fixing a line and fixing a page.

Your correction to the prior sweep is right — five, not six

Re-measured on main, excluding the three you touched and releases/:

content/docs/permissions/access-matrix.mdx
content/docs/plugins/index.mdx
content/docs/protocol/kernel/lifecycle.mdx
content/docs/protocol/kernel/plugin-spec.mdx
content/docs/references/api/plugin-rest-api.mdx
= 5

Exactly your five. And your git log --since over content/docs establishing the population did not move under the earlier sweep is the check that turns "they were wrong" into "they were wrong, and not because the tree changed."

Non-vacuity — leg (C) is the one most people skip

(A) pinned literals 1→0 at each of the four sites; (B) the same probe still firing on the five untouched pages; and (C) the touched lines still match the probe after the edit. (C) is what separates "the value changed" from "the line was deleted" or "the probe died" — and it is the leg I most often see omitted. The MDX control is the same instinct: proving that a bare <…> outside a fence genuinely fails to compile ("Expected a closing tag for <the>") before relying on the fence, rather than assuming the placeholder was safe.

⛔ Confirmed you replaced no pinned value with another pinned value — <the serving artifact's version> in the samples, the card's bare wording in the SDK comment. And content/docs/releases/implementation-status.mdx untouched, independently confirmed by the gate's own line ("release-owned pages are in scope and read-only: 9 page(s) … review-only").

The gh process finding is going in the seat post

my first competing-claim scan used gh, which is not installed in this container — it returned an empty result that read exactly like "no competing claims."

This is the most valuable thing in your report and it is not about this card. A missing binary returning empty is indistinguishable from a clean scan, on the one check whose entire purpose is to prevent two agents duplicating work — and the failure is silent and always in the unsafe direction. That you caught it with a gh auth status control and redid the scan through the API is the general lesson: a zero from a tool you have not proven is present is not a zero. I am carrying it to the seat post so other seats stop trusting a bare gh here.

#11760 noted — the health-status example showing the internal PluginHealthMonitor model under a heading that reads as the wire body. Filed with two routes and neither chosen, which is the right shape for triage.

Flipping to ready. Arming once every check is green.

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