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"@objectstack/spec": minor
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feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
`unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
`FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

<!-- adr-0087: registered autonumber-default-unique-organization -->
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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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"@objectstack/spec": minor
---

feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
 `unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
 drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
 tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
 organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
 organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
 key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
 parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
 `FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
 the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
 therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
 description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
 move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

<!-- adr-0087: registered autonumber-default-unique-organization -->

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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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"@objectstack/spec": minor
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feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
 `unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
 drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
 tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
 organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
 organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
 key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
 parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
 `FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
 the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
 therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
 description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
 move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

<!-- adr-0087: registered autonumber-default-unique-organization -->

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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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"@objectstack/spec": minor
---

feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
 `unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
 drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
 tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
 organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
 organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
 key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
 parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
 `FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
 the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
 therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
 description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
 move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

<!-- adr-0087: registered autonumber-default-unique-organization -->

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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
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| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
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| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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"@objectstack/spec": minor
---

feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
 `unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
 drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
 tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
 organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
 organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
 key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
 parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
 `FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
 the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
 therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
 description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
 move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

<!-- adr-0087: registered autonumber-default-unique-organization -->

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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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"@objectstack/spec": minor
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feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
 `unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
 drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
 tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
 organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
 organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
 key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
 parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
 `FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
 the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
 therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
 description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
 move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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"@objectstack/spec": minor
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feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
 `unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
 drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
 tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
 organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
 organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
 key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
 parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
 `FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
 the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
 therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
 description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
 move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

<!-- adr-0087: registered autonumber-default-unique-organization -->

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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
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| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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feat(spec): an `autonumber` field is `unique: 'organization'` by default; explicit `unique: false` opts out (#13894)

**BREAKING** emitted-shape change on `FieldSchema` (the accept set is unchanged),
shipped as `minor` under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes.

An auto-number is a business identifier — a contract number, a quote number, a
case number — and an identifier that may repeat is not one. Yet the platform
only ever materialized a unique index where the author had written `unique`
by hand: of hotcrm's nine auto-numbered identifiers, exactly one
(`crm_case.case_number`, `unique: true`) carried the tenant-composite unique
index, and the other eight could mint the same number twice (measured:
objectstack#12394 re-issued `ACC-000009`). Maintainer ruling 2026-08-31
(hotcrm#1301): the default flips.

- An `autonumber` field that **omits** `unique` now parses to
 `unique: 'organization'` — one holder per organization, materialized by the
 drivers exactly as `case_number`'s hand-written declaration was: the NULL-safe
 tenant-composite index `(COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), <field>)` on an
 organization-scoped object, a plain unique index on an object with no
 organization key.
- Every **other** field type keeps `unique: false` as its default, at the same
 key position — parse output for non-autonumber fields is byte-identical.
- Every **authored** spelling (`true`, `'organization'`, `'global'`, `false`)
 parses exactly as before, on every type.
- The default is materialized at parse time (the `.overwrite()` tail of
 `FieldSchema`, the type-conditional precedent `deleteBehavior` set), because
 the drivers read the parsed `unique` value-only; the published JSON Schema
 therefore no longer carries `default: false` on `Field.unique` — the
 description states the rule, and the authorable-defaults ratchet records the
 move as `data/Field:unique = false → (none)`.

**Opting out.** Write `unique: false` explicitly on the autonumber field. That
is the whole opt-out surface — no second key. It is legitimate only for a
display-only sequence that nothing uses to identify the record; note that the
platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) keeps treating every
autonumber field as an identifier regardless.

**Migration — what an operator with existing duplicates sees.** A table that
already holds duplicate auto-numbers cannot take the index. On SQLite/Postgres/
MySQL the SQL driver does not fail the boot and does not skip silently: it logs
on the `error` channel —

```
[sql-driver] cannot create NULL-safe unique index 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' on "crm_quote" — existing rows violate it (duplicates the previous NULL-distinct index admitted, #5030). The constraint 'organization_id, quote_number' is NOT enforced until the data is deduplicated: run "os migrate plan" for the conflicting rows (ADR-0120 D4).
```

— and the same boot's drift pass names the conflicting key groups with their
row counts:

```
[schema-drift] crm_quote: cannot create 'uniq_crm_quote_organization_id_quote_number' as UNIQUE (COALESCE(organization_id, '__global__'), quote_number) — existing rows already violate the NULL-safe unique constraint (duplicates the old index wrongly admitted, #5030): (organization_id="__global__", quote_number="QUO-00009") × 2 rows; (organization_id="org_x", quote_number="QUO-00010") × 2 rows. The op is BLOCKED: apply re-probes and refuses, and the existing index stays in place (ADR-0120 D4). Deduplicate the listed rows, then re-run "os migrate plan".
```

`os migrate plan` reports the same blocked `create_index` with the same groups
until the rows are deduplicated; `os migrate duplicates` lists the holder row
ids of any value minted across organization partitions (the seed/API split).
Deduplicate — which duplicate keeps its number is a business decision — then
re-run `os migrate plan` / restart, and the index materializes. An object with
`tenancy.enabled: false` takes a plain unique index instead, and there the
driver raises the database's own unique-violation error at boot (it names the
index, not the rows) — run `os migrate duplicates` / a `GROUP BY <field> HAVING
COUNT(*) > 1` to find them.

Two landed defects change shape on purpose under the default: a counter that
re-issues a number after a burned reservation (#12394) and two counters minting
for one object (#8686) used to produce a *silent* duplicate; they now produce a
loud unique-violation refusal at the write.

<!-- adr-0087: registered autonumber-default-unique-organization -->

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| "It suppresses triggers / record-change automation" | **No.** Only `skipTriggers` does. A bare `{ isSystem: true }` on a seed write re-fired automation on freshly seeded rows and wedged first boot | `metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts:1971` (rationale at `:1881`–`1883`, #3760), `flow.zod.ts:685` |
| "It skips the state machine" | **No.** That is `skipStateMachine`, carried by seed replay and by `treatAsHistorical` imports | `objectql/src/engine.ts` FSM gate; see [State Machine](/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine) |
| "It skips validation rules" | **No.** Field shape, `format`, `script` and the rest still run. The `readonly` strip runs *before* validation precisely so a discarded value is not judged | `objectql/src/engine.ts:10007`–`10024` |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1516` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It preserves a supplied `updated_at` / `updated_by`" | **No.** That is `preserveAudit`, a separate opt-in — and an UPDATE-path exemption only | `field.zod.ts:1537` (#3493 / #6640) |
| "It stamps `created_by`" | **No.** Audit stamping reads `userId` from the context. A user-less system write stamps nothing — that is today's behaviour, not an error | `runtime-identity.ts:280`–`281` |
| "It bypasses every guard" | **No.** The last-admin guard applies to **every** context, `isSystem` included — the deprovision path that actually locks an org out is the system one | `last-admin-guard.ts:299` |
| "A client can request it" | **No.** Never settable from inbound HTTP or from an action body | `rest-server.ts:1522`, `:1551`; `domains/actions.ts:404` |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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| **storage** | `{ notNull?: boolean }` | optional | Physical storage constraints (ADR-0113). Owns the DDL the write contract deliberately does not imply. Absent = no storage-level constraint requested. |
| **searchable** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Is searchable |
| **multiple** | `boolean` | optional (default: `false`) | Allow multiple values (Stores as Array/JSON). Applicable for select, lookup, file, image. An emptied multi-value lookup reads back as `[]`, never `null` — the rule binds every writer (cascade repair, form clears, API writes), not just cascade repair (maintainer ruling 2026-08-18). |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional (default: `false`) | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization' |
| **unique** | `boolean \| 'global' \| 'organization'` | optional | Unique constraint and its scope (ADR-0120). 'organization' = one holder per organization (NULL-safe composite with the organization key part on organization-scoped objects) — prefer this explicit spelling in new code; true = same per-organization scope (positional synonym, stays valid); 'global' = one holder across the whole installation. 'tenant'/'org' are rejected — the word is 'organization'. Omitted ⇒ false, EXCEPT on an `autonumber` field, where omitted ⇒ 'organization' (an auto-number is a business identifier, so the platform makes it unique per organization by default — the same tenant-composite shape an explicit `unique: true` produces). To opt an autonumber field out, write `unique: false` explicitly — legitimate only for a display-only sequence that is not used to identify the record; the platform's duplicate scan (`os migrate duplicates`) still treats every autonumber field as an identifier. |
| **defaultValue** | `any` | optional | Default applied on INSERT when the field is omitted or null (`''` is a real value, not absence). Three legal shapes, discriminated in the engine's own order: a CEL Expression envelope `{ dialect: 'cel', source: 'today()' }` (accepted structurally; result type is a runtime concern); a runtime TOKEN — `NOW()` on `datetime`/`date`/`time` only, `current_user` on `user` or `lookup` with `reference: 'sys_user'` only, neither on a multi-value field; or a LITERAL, which must satisfy this field's own stored value contract (ADR-0104 D1 `valueSchemaFor`). Anything else is refused at parse time with a prescriptive message. |
| **maxLength** | `integer` | optional | Max character length (positive integer). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
| **minLength** | `integer` | optional | Min character length (positive integer; `minLength: 0` is refused — express "no minimum" by omitting the key). Only authorable on types that store a bounded string: text, textarea, email, url, phone, password, markdown, html, richtext, code, signature, qrcode. |
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