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feat(spec): retired-key tombstones + ship CHANGELOG in the npm artifact - #2543

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Closes the upgrade-path gap found by role-playing the hotcrm upgrade agent: the one channel every upgrading consumer is guaranteed to hit is the create() rejection — and today it dead-ends. The docs site is off-artifact (version skew, needs network); the changesets' carefully-written migration notes never left the monorepo (CHANGELOG.md was not in the files allowlist — verified absent from a real consumer's node_modules).

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  1. Tombstones (UNKNOWN_KEY_GUIDANCE, reusing the Object-level workflows: [...] (and any unknown ObjectSchema key) is silently stripped at build — no error/warning (ADR-0032 'no silent failure', metadata layer) #1535 fixable-error mechanism): rejecting compactLayout / detail / views / defaultDetailForm now prints the replacement key, the version/decision that removed it, and the one-line fix. Tombstones age out ~two majors after removal — the map's content always equals the upgrade paths the platform actually digests.
  2. CHANGELOG.md ships in the npm package: migration notes travel with the exact installed version, greppable offline. npm pack --dry-run confirms (216KB).
  3. llms.txt upgrade section + AGENTS.md discipline: agents learn the tombstone→CHANGELOG protocol (and never to re-add keys or downgrade to silence errors); authors learn that breaking changesets must carry FROM→TO notes and key removals require a tombstone.

Verification

  • 3 new tombstone tests assert the prescriptions (replacement + version + decision reference); spec object tests 75/75 green.
  • npm pack --dry-run lists CHANGELOG.md.

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An agent upgrading a downstream app meets exactly one guaranteed channel:
the create() rejection. Today it dead-ends ('not assignable to never' /
bare unknown-key); the docs site is off-artifact and version-skewed, and
the changesets' migration notes never left the monorepo (CHANGELOG.md was
not in the files allowlist — verified absent from a real consumer's
node_modules).
- UNKNOWN_KEY_GUIDANCE tombstones for compactLayout / detail / views /
defaultDetailForm: each rejection names the replacement + version +
decision. Entries age out ~two majors after removal.
- CHANGELOG.md added to the files allowlist (216KB, grep-target).
- llms.txt: 'Upgrading Across Spec Versions' — tombstone first, then grep
the shipped CHANGELOG; never re-add keys or downgrade to pass.
- AGENTS.md: breaking changesets must carry FROM→TO migration notes, and
removing an authorable key requires a tombstone.
spec object tests 75/75 green (3 new tombstone assertions);
npm pack --dry-run confirms CHANGELOG.md ships.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📓 Docs Drift Check

This PR changes 1 package(s): @objectstack/spec.

92 hand-written doc(s) reference the affected code and may need an implementation-accuracy re-verification:

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Advisory only. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs origin/main → pass the list as args.docs.

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